My off the top of my head thoughts ....
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"Representative Tymniak,
It has been brought to my attention that Rep. Zalaski, 81st Dist. has proposed a bill to require that each motor vehicle racetrack and exhibition center shall be assigned an inspector to inspect the race cars, with the expense to be borne by the race track.
As a gentleman who races sportscars as an ametuer, I find this to be in extremely poor judgement.
I can not think of any benefit this would provide, but several major disadvantages come immediately to mind.
1- The race track will, of course, pass the expense, (along with related mangment overages) to the sanctioning bodies, which will of course, in turn, pass it on to the individual entrant.
2- Such inspections, which are not detatiled in the proposed bill in any way, are completely redundant. Each sanctioning body inspects the race vehicles on an individual basis to ensure safety, and is held accountable to it's insurance carrier.
3- The DMV is not equiped to perfom inspections on the specialized chassis and equipment that modern racing cars are constructed with. To to so would require an intensive and expensive educational program.
4- Tracks in CT operate under very strict timelines in an effort to be "good neighbors". Adding mandatory inspections of over 200 race cars per day would be a logistal nightmare from both a spece and time consideration.
Finaly, the skeptic in me has a hard time accepting that this is truly in the publics best interest. Part of me sees this as another example of goverment meddling, and adding uneccesary costs to the general public.
In the years that I have been attending races as both a spectator, an instructor, and a race official, at Lime Rock Park in CT, I can think of no incident that resulted in major injury or death that such a program could have prevented.
Sincerely,
Jake Gulick"
sent this evening...
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Jake Gulick
CarriageHouse Motorsports
ITA 57 RX-7
New England Region
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