CART/SCCA Press Release

[JoeBob]

Interesting Press Release announcing that all marshalls at CART events will be required to have an SCCA License: http://www.cart.com/News/Article.asp?ID=5460

I thought CART had been using SCCA flaggers for quite a few years. I'm sure somebody closer to the situatoin can explain which part of this press release is "news." I'm very curious as to what (if anything) this really means.

[Napoleon]

There has never been a formal rule that a flagger at a CART event needed a SCCA license. Quite frankly I am not even sure that the SCCA requires that every corner worker at its events need be SCCA licensed.

For example (at least a few years ago) Watkins Glens required that you use hayseeds they had hired as flaggers, which lead to a situation where one of the hayseeds, not liking the response of drivers to a yellow, came out on the course with a baseball bat. At events at Mid-Ohio and Nelson Ledges there is a group called Lake Erie Communications which supplies workers. I am not sure if all of them are SCCA. Lake Erie Communications supplies a good number of the workers for MO and Clev.

Here is a thread going over on the SCCA forums on the subject and I posted a couple of questions in. If anyone wants me to post any additional questions just post them here.

http://www.sccaforums.com/ubb/Forum43/HTML/000049.html

[duh - edit to actually complete a thought]

[ChrisB]

This is good news! The point is that steps are being taken to bring CART & the SCCA closer together. As it should be.

Not to get OT, but I still think CART should try to get a few more SCCA Pro or (maybe) even some club formulae classes as part of it's weekends (assuming they wouldn't detract from coinciding Nationals weekends) to try to bring the 2 organizations closer together. (related to a post I made last month on 7G which flamed out)

And that's a good forum too... good tech section.

[cart7]

Hello, racermike are you out there? Fill us in.

[lone_groover]

wrong thread...never mind

[Napoleon]

Looking at the SCCA rule book (specifically Section 6.2.1 of the GCR) it appears that "only licensed members may be placed and/or work in hazardous areas" with certain exceptions, although I am sure that at least at the Glen this rule was being ignored.

[JoeBob]

There's a decent summary of Pook's speech to the scca convention over on 'birds board at TF: http://66.223.17.243/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=001880

There's some interesting tidbits in there.