Roll cages

[markec]

The cars I referred to as having to be recomplianced were Warren Goods Super Tourer, that ran in Europe comlpianced by the FIA, 2 cars brought in by Mike Delmont, they had to be recomlianced. Andrew Buist had to spend in the vicinity of $6,000.00 to finally get his car legal in NZ,the Listerine car also had to go through the recompliance process. Gary Wilkinson had to have his Opal go through the process as did Bruce Miles when he brought in his BMW from Hong Kong, which has loads of European history.
All these cars ran in FIA sanctioned Series in Europe and were compliant under FIA regulations in Europe, it was only when here in New Zealand that officialdom deemed them not to comply.
This is only a small number of examples that have had to have thousands of dollars spent unecessarally because of small minded officialdom going out of their way to make things as difficult as possible, ego's are very costly things when they are part of an idiots makeup. It is also a known fact that these type of people are attracted to positions within Government departments and organisations that have a controling influence over their captive participants. Like I said in an earlier posting,"little Hitlers"
Each and every person I have spoken to regarding the whole situation with MSNZ, all are of the opinion that the only thing Julian Leitch deserves, is a bullet.

[ERC]

Each and every person I have spoken to regarding the whole situation with MSNZ, all are of the opinion that the only thing Julian Leitch deserves, is a bullet.

It is Leach, not Leitch...

I'm afraid I do not join the personal abuse bandwagon, but any comments I make are regarding the position held, the authority, the power and the ability to either construct road blocks or remove them. At no time do I ever attack people personally, though I am now being accused of creating problems by raising the issues in public. (Shoot the messenger, never mind the message.)

What this (and other message boards) can do, is bring issues out into the public arena for information, for discussion, solutions and also for scrutiny of the processes. When it degenerates into personal attacks, I am not really interested.

I am highlighting my own issues as I am not satisfied that either the rules or the processes are robust nor do they stand public scrutiny, nor are they always based on common-sense, so if people want to get uptight about the processes that are being attacked, or short-comings of any sort, then so be it. It is not personal and if some people want to make it so, then I hope that I can stay above it.

Others have raised their issues and although to many, they can't see what the fuss is about, it is because it is the difference between driving a 2012 Toyota Corolla and a 1908 Itala. One, everyone understand, has no foibles and requires no thinking. The other requires specialist knowledge and a more mechanical aptitude to drive, own and maintain.

At the end of the day (and I sure hope that comes soon), I would hope that the various anomalies are ironed out and common-sense prevails, because all I am doing at the moment is getting shoved from pillar to post, with some people lobbying hard on my behalf and others hiding behind flawed rules and procedures and passing the buck.

The day I have to cut out a cage that was installed to the standards of the day, that is in all respects no weaker than most of its contempories, will not only be a sad day, but will also take this issue to another level as an example of where rule makers are flawed in either their decisions or their process or both. Reducing the strength or safety of a car that may or may not be used in serious competition has to be totally contrary to the laws of reason and common-sense, yet that seems to be what the rule makers want.

Sorry, but I just do not understand why that has to happen. I just wonder what would happen if I were to be killed or seriously injured as a result of an incident on road or track, that could have been prevented had the front cage been left in? Is everyone then going to run for cover? If the same thing were to happen with the cage left in, then no-one is to blame, so why the current attitude?