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Re: Confirmation of kerbing rules from msa
Posted by 'SimonS' on 20 Apr 2012 @ 12:32

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"At one point it says "Where a driver Consistently drives with a wheel off the track..." and at another it says "A driver will be judged to have left the track if no part of the car remains in contact with the track". It can't be both."

Read the full clauses.

There are two different offences.

One is leaving the track, the other is driving driving in a manner incompatible with general safety.

Leaving the track is defined as "no part of the car remains in contact with the track"

So, you cannot short cut the track by ignoring a corner even if your whole journey is on tarmac. Hamilton famously did it because he would have lost more ground staying on the track than cutting the corner. I've also seen overtakes done on the grass, at Clay Pigeon and Llandow, both on the 'inside' of the track.

The other offence refers particularly to karts which are more affected by obstructions. We have all at some time bounced off the edge of a kerb or had a wheel hook on the edge of the tarmac, and some of us have caused major incidents as a result. So driving deliberately into the 'danger area' (the meaning of the 'consistently' because it is a repeated offence) is clearly driving dangerously.

Two different offences, two different descriptions. It is only that we persist in seeing the 'one wheel over the line' as 'leaving the track' which causes the problem.

You might also notice the slightly different treatments between the two infractions.

Some one leaving the track more than twice may be excluded but someone consistently driving "IGS" may be excluded at the CoC's discretion.

There can be little doubt if one leaves the track though one may have been helped on one's way, but the CoC has the right to exclude anyone he thinks 'IGS' and this includes the driver who is too slow, drivers trying to intimidate others, drivers blocking and so on and these are matters of opinion, the CoC's opinion being the only one that counts.

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