08-01-2006, 03:35 PM
white_2kgt Wrote:and I think NASA needs to stop the practice of honoring SCCA/BMW/PCA licenses, if you want a NASA license, goto comp school. I'm sure it would hut the ego's of some long time SCCAer's, but boo fucking hoo. Not that I expect that to happen anytime soon.
I agree that there is probably a need to demonstrate the basic skills required for racing but sending people who have been racing for 10 years to a comp school is a bit ridiculous. That would be like saying a Virginia driver's license is only good in Virginia because other states don't trust the testing practices.
Instructors make sense because they're "teaching the future" but you are absolutely not going to promote cross organizational membership (read: growing NASA from the outside) if you make racers go to comp school.
I think we can all agree that more people tend to slip through the cracks (in every form) than should.
This is where I disclose I'm biased because I got my license with PCA.
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