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Originally Posted by DCM
Right, lets get a couple of matters cleared up here....
High Vis vests... - as a nitro racer, you should have, as part of your equipement, a high vis vest, this is a must due to H&S, BRCA Insurance, and also, for the race director to determine who is who in the pit lane. Same goes for the 'no-smoking' too.
Right, difference between a 'national' run eveny, and our 'regionals', which, comared to how the bigger regions are run, is very lax. If we were to run to FULL regional rules (electric quoting now), on top of what we are doing....
Motor scrutineering
Battery scrutineering
transmitter pound
car scrutineering
track width
rostrum height (Talywain and Saundersfoot comply)
Rostrum length (Talywain and Saundersfoot comply)
Referee's
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A vis vest isnt going to save you from injury, education and common sense IS going to reduce the chance of an accident. Irresponsible marshalling should be punished just as much as bad driving. Again, I do not see vis vests in the pit lane at every event we do and it is not enforced, yet with 120 drivers in a decent well run series I have yet to see a serious accident because a pit man wasnt wearing a vis vest. I'm all for health and safety as I work in a manufacturing industry and I have certain responsibilities towards H&S myself. I repeat, a vis vest isnt going to save you if you jump out infront of a moving train...
Granted we dont do scrutineering but if the WRCA want to keep quoting BRCA rules then ignore half of them why do a half arsed job?
We keep our track at 4M width to comply with BRCA Nitro rules and only bring it down to 3M for the electric nationals.