I feel about charging volunteers for a 'temporary' membership the same way I feel about National announcing that they were going to make it easier for friends of the driver/team to get in to spectate by creating a new kind of pass that costs $15.00 rather than the $10 overcrew that the regions I race with do now. WUWT!!!!!!!

It is either a way to subsidize the cost of insurance, or some sort of legal manuvering to avoid legal action if a new volunteer gets hurt 'But you paid money to work, so you must have known there was some danger!'

Scott: Man, I wish I could work some of the events you have been to. I started working in 1966 and the most expensive thing I ever got was a golf umbrella! But then my wife got one and a friend that I brought along got one two. Now when I drive and pay $300 or so, I get only one tee shirt (which ends up in the same place that yours do!). Not knocking the volunteers. "Let's hear it for Sound Control!!!!!!"