So, if you truly think this is wrong, it is your responsibility to do the right thing, instead of bitching about it on the Internet...
Which is what? Tell them there memo is incorrect given the requirement in the GCR? Thank you, I've already tried that twice with fire bottles/fire systems in IT cars -- in an upshot, we aren't allowed to run either per the GCR.
re: systems
"All cars shall be equipped with an On-Board Fire System except Showroom Stock, Touring, Spec Miata, and Improved Touring."
re: bottles
"The following are acceptable for Showroom Stock, Touring, Spec Miata and Improved Touring cars:"
The first says fire systems are not required in IT cars. The second says fire bottles are not required in IT cars. The Category Specifications for SS, Touring and Spec Miata all specifically require either a fire system or a fire bottle. Guess what is missing from the IT specifications? A requirement or an allowance to run either and IT is ITDSYCTYC. One can argue that the allowance for a fire bottle is implicit in the wording, but there sure as shit is no allowance for fire systems. Pedantic? Perhaps, but since the felt an allowance to mount 2-way radios was needed, I'm going with ITDSYCTYC. If I run with SCCA next year (doubtful), I've got weight to strip from my car... guess what's coming out.
Do you think the Club is going to lay its Johnson out there, play the "Occupy Topeka" card, and actually try take a moral stand on this SFI stuff?
Ummmm... yes 1. Because, at this point, it hasn't been established that the club needed to adopt a H&N requirement at all. 2. as a member of SFI -- the club has the right to ask for a new standard. 3. They are no longer using the standard and so the proposals that the BoD rejected regarding devices that meet the minimum load levels offer as much CYA as what we have now.
The SFI Technical Committee initiates the specification process, typically at the request of the affected industry or race sanctioning body.
Yep, HANS will bitch but how many
sanctioning bodies belong to SFI?