Motor Sports Council report
At the recent meeting of the Motor Sports Council (Wednesday
14 June), a number of initiatives were approved for implementation.
The definitions of careless, reckless and dangerous driving
will be removed from the regulations from 1 January 2007.
In their place will come a new clause 'Driving in a manner
incompatible with general safety, or departing from the standard
of a reasonably competent driver.' This will remove the current
confusion and potentially overlapping offences, while allowing
stewards to vary the penalty according to the severity of
the infringement.
With immediate effect the Off Road Committee will be renamed
the Cross-Country Committee, bringing it in line with current
FIA terminology. This is in preparation for the UK's first
ever Baja GB, being held on August 19-20.
The classification of timekeepers as National A and National
B will cease at the end of this year. Henceforth all timekeepers
will be classified as National and categorised according to
their discipline - Speed, Race, Kart and Rally.
Also presented to Council were Recommended Guidelines for
the operation of Local Authority/Charitable Touring Assemblies,
often referred to as Static Cruises.
An editor has now been appointed to begin the process of
rewriting the Blue Book. The first stage of this will come
online in 2007, with a view to a full revision being completed
for the 2008 season.
The full and official wordings from all regulation changes
will be published in Motorsports Now! and the 2007 Blue Book.
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