PiPPi
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It's a touchy subject for a lot of reasons but suffice it to say that some aspects of how things are run at large and small sanctioning bodies across the globe are not always according to the image they manage to project to the public.
How do you define "official" in this context? Yes, no doubt, the FIA has been doing real good over 106 years but it's still just a non-profit governing body. AFAIK, there is no national or international law that says that we have to abide by anything the FIA says.
Of course, if your choice is to race under a given sanction then you need to follow their rules, but that's like in any of a myriad of locally sanctioned series around the whole world of motor sports. Meself have been part of a project or two where we are looking not to run with anything connected to FIA or UEM (UEM is the European "branch" of FIM, i.e. bikes). It works because legally we can do whatever we want without the involvement of FIA/UEM, we can even run national championships here without the need to involve any "member clubs" (that's the phrase FIA uses for the local national sanctiong bodies in different countries) of either FIA or UEM. The biggest problem we face is a perception among the racing community, racers as well as track owners etc., that all motorsports are somewhat legally bound to go by FIA/UEM sanctioning, i.e. that FIA/UEM are somehow "official". Which, again, is not the case. The debate about the future of Formula 1 is interesting in the respect.
On another tack, please post a link to where on FIA.com you can find the current FIA drag racing records for ET and speed.
Hehe, could be that there's a load more to Alans post than he figured when he wrote it
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PiPPi
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