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Originally Posted by Dean
Again, I am playing devil's advocate, and all you keep doing is throwing out your opinion that drifting is somehow inherently unsafe.
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Never have I stated that drifting is inherently unsafe. I said a driver driving unsafely is unsafe. If someone is drifting, and I as a SSS deem it's unsafe, then by definition,
it's unsafe, since that's the SSS's judgment call. At no time does the label of "drifting" need to be applied, nor do National or Supplemental rules need to have any language regarding someone's "style" of driving. If it doesn't look safe, that's enough, that's what's in the rules.
So once again, apply just the tiniest drop of common sense to this situation: if someone is out there hot-dogging around; be it burnouts, drifting, sticking his hands out the window, drinking a Coke, driving the course in reverse gear, stopping and running around the car, etc, the SSS has every right and the authority to take whatever actions necessary to keep the event safe. I'd *love* to see someone call up the National office to file a "the SSS is unfair and wouldn't let me drift the course" complaint.
I see what you're trying to get at with the Devil's advocacy regarding the lack of specifics towards determining what is and isn't allowed, but the simple fact is that the rules are written such that it doesn't matter. They're intentionally vague specifically to give the SSS whatever leverage he/she needs to keep things safe. If a SSS doesn't like what's going on, they put the event on pause until the event chair sorts it out. If that means changing the course, moving a worker station, or kicking out a competitor, that's what it means, or the SSS has the duty to shitcan the event.