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Originally Posted by TheReferee
if i understand darren correctly you wish to re run the regional?
put simply no you can't. the meeting went over two rounds and was threfor a "meeting" for scoring purposes.
can you use the reserve date for an "extra" regional?
not sure, the rules currently in force assume a meeting gets abandoned before two rounds and is null, if you have no reserve date you cannot add one, you simply drop from 3 from 4 to 2 from 3.
if you run all the regionals and then use the reserve date as an extra would you go from 3 from 4 to a 4 from 5? or go 3 from 5?.
having had a look at the rules i cannot see one that says you can't or what you do about the 3 from etc.
however should a driver who is lets say in a regional f3 position on the 3 from 4 having scored well at the silverstone meeting drop down to f4 with the inclusion of the extra meeting would he have grounds to protest? as he has probably lost his guaranteed national entry for the following season.
best bet would be to run it past paul worsley and then i really think you need to ask the drivers, you have plenty of time to get it right. worst case scenario is you run a meeting which you should not have done and all the mid south results are discounted for national ratings!!.
john
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John,
From my own point of view, not fussed if it runs again or not (I cannot make the August date regardless), my undertsanding is now that it "has run" and survived the three rounds it stands end of (but it did not "have" to be that way yesterday) and I understand the club wanted to re-run also but was informed they could not.
My interpretation of the rules that you posted is that if you "add" another date, it then becomes 5 rounds (so the wet one still counts) but it is still the same number of rounds to count - ie 3, just 3 from 5 instead of 3 from 4. Any driver who was doing 3 from 4 still could, those who got taken out by the weather yesterday get another chance to get a good score with 3 from 5. The "extra" date in question is already set and in place for this reason....
Throughout all these posts I am 100% behind the club they did a sterling job yesterday and the conditions were tough. They had very little choice to cancel with the conditons getting worse and worse as time went on. For most of us it is juts our hobby, hobbies are there to be enjoyed and I dont know of too many people who were "enjoying" themselves that much yesterday as a result of the weather. I also stated that shop keepers often get pointed at when they DO run in adverse weather because people assume all our racing is FREE (which it is not) and that is why I decided NOT to run