You may not have considered :
A Nat A licence allows you to compete in Nat A events, open to any driver with a Nat'A' licence. You are therefore expected to be able to cope with drivers of differing, unknown standards and behavours.
A Nat B event is closed, only registered members of the club organising the event and a (limited) number of clubs named in the SR's are allowed to compete.
Although the standard of driving at either event may appear to be the same, one gets used to driving with known entities while someone new (and, particularly, aggressive) may upset driver who limit their activities to "B" events.
So, theoretically, if a member of a club (eg: Whilton Mill) wanted to race at another, distant club (eg: Dunkeswell) and his own club was not mentioned in the SRs, then the driver has to get membership of a club mentioned in the SRs or have his entry declined.
Perhaps not very driver-friendly from one point of view, on the other hand it is clearly a safety measure for the less experienced clubbie driver who isn't expecting a 'push to pass' manoeuvre from a visiting driver eager to experiment with a track "under race conditions" and used to increased levels of contact.
Other Nat'A' events used to be things like '0' plates, which led to confusion that the "Oh" meant Open and not Zero.
And it was that, the right to participate in events like '0' plates, the acknowledgement that one was something a bit more than a 'clubbie' that attracted the premium price.
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Licence Logic? by 'BanzaiBoy' (16 Apr 2014 @ 19:02)
