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Originally Posted by RedAl
Any club who builds a new rostrum without making it fully accessible is leaving themselves wide open to a claim for disability discrimination as well as excluding a group of potential members.
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I'm concerned that this post will initiate unnecessary panic among club officials.
The law states that organisations need to ensure that disabled people can make use of a service that is provided, it doesn't state that they need to be able to make use of the service in the exact same way. The service in this case is being able to drive an RC car around a track.
Making a high-level rostrum fully accessible is not realistic for most clubs. However having a ramp and small, lower platform available to make sure that a disabled racer could have an unobstructed view of the track would surely be sufficient. Many tracks already have a natural "vantage point" that could be used.
I've raced at a number of clubs with disabled racers and I've never seen anything less than the maximum commitment from club officials to help the disabled racers take part, legislation or no legislation.