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Originally Posted by Dean
Drop the opinions and emotions and RTFRB. You are talking about taking responsibility and actions you are not authorized to do. Go reread section 4.2 and Apendix E. A SSS is not an all powerful SAFETY GOD! They have very limited authority and responsibilities.
It is possible the chief steward may have some recourse with drivers not staying within course boundaries, but even that probably has to be be more than one instance.
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Okay, I'm reading the rule book, and I see where it says the SSS has a "prime responsibility and vested authority to ensure all necessary safety precautions are taken with respect to spectator, worker and driver (i.e., course layout) safety." But I can't find the part where it tells me I have to throw out all common sense in order to do that job.
And since you seem to want to throw around "reading the fucking rule book"... how about following your own advice:
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Originally Posted by The fucking rule book
2.1
M. Participants and non-participants must be kept at a safe distance
from the course, particularly at the outside of turns and at the
start and finish lines. Unless protected by substantial barriers,
non-participant areas must be roped off. SSS shall have the
authority to set minimum viewing distances from the course but
such minimum viewing distances may not be less than 75 feet
from the course edge in unprotected areas (areas without adequate
barrier protection such as concrete or tire walls). A Region
may request a waiver of this minimum distance requirement
from its DSSS.
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So, in my example, where I deemed that the minimum safe distance from the course due to the idiot driver is 600 feet (as the SSS I'm allowed to make that judgment call, read Appendix E), I have the authority to cancel the event because there would be no way to adjust the course to meet the safety requirement.
Or you could just apply common sense and kick out the unsafe driver.
Edit: On an aside... is there really a reason for the whole RTFRB attitude crap? What's the point you're proving? All you do is inflame what was a benign situation into yet another semantics only argument. Or do you really believe that if a driver decides to disregard the safety of others the SSS should just be like "oh well, there's nothing I can do, I read the rule book!". I can't believe that you truly believe there's an argument that the SSS's hands are tied to stop a drifting demonstration at an event. If someone's not playing nice, they're asked to leave, and that's the end of it. It's worked in the past, it'll work in the future, where's the problem?