Originally Posted by
Steve Demeter
I thought that the Stewards "power" "went away" after the last checker of the day or at least after the results were final for the last session.
I'm not sure where the idea that the Club relinquishes either control or responsibility after the last checker of the day comes from, but . . . per the GCR . .
[FONT=Univers][FONT=Univers]For the purpose of this section, an event begins when registration opens and ends when the driver, entrant, and all crew members from that team have left the track property at the conclusion of the event.[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT=Univers]From my experience, most tracks exercise way less control over a race weekend than RA. There are RA officials in the tower and not all of them are Club officials. There are IMO several conflicts of interest in the way events are conducted. Be that as it may, at the end of the day it is their sandbox and the sanctioning bodies (including SCCA) seem to accept the amount of control required by RA.[/FONT]
[FONT=Univers]This situation has elicited comments regarding many aspects of both our systems and our society. Abuse of power; disregard of authority; using personal logic to combat a perceived flawed system; inabilities of several people to communicate; further inabilities of the same people to solve/settle issues honestly and factually; and, most of all, differing perspectives of actual events. Some want to blame RA, others Joel,and yet others the Stewards.[/FONT]
[FONT=Univers]In any event, control was lost at the very beginning and feathers were ruffled which always leads to chest puffing and a loss of logical communications. [/FONT]
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