08-01-2006, 04:04 PM
Dragon Wrote: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.This I don't really agree with. I don't feel that someone who's been racing with another sanctioning body for years should be forced to go through the comp school. If they have a race license from another sanctioning body and wish to race with us they should be given a "rookie/provisional" license and their behavior and performance are observed just as any other rookie's is. Every race organization does stuff slightly differently so you evaluate them, see if they are behaving properly within the NASA way of things while they have a rookie/provisional NASA license, and if they are good boys and girls then allow them to stay, otherwise, don't grant them a NASA race license and send them back to whichever sanctioning body they came from.
Ok, maybe not a full comp school 1 day, because we know how hard that can be :roll: but they need to sit down in a classroom for 30 min to 1hr and be told how NASA works, flags, starts, etc. This might help people understand that we do Standing starts (so they won't keep rolling past the cone and have to come all the way around the track again) or maybe prevent someone from blowing 5 red flags, I could go on...Personally I don't think showing another groups license and $60 the morning of a race is enough, but that's just me, I spent a few years in HPDE and went to comp school and probably have more experience on track than some SCCA 'racers'.