On 09/09/2013, at 10:47 PM, Gary Stevenson wrote:
Here are a couple of questions to ponder:
· Does gliding need someone like Bernie?
· Do you think that there are (any) parallels between top
level gliding, and F1 motor racing as shaped by BE?
Looking in from the outside:
1. Terry Cubley is a driving force for Grand Prix which draws on such
traditions.
2. There is a place for the next layer to evolve from the FAI Worlds
traditions.
3. There is a CAMS-like national place for classes nationally.
4. There is a void available for the Targa style and type specific
local events which circulate regionally/nationally.
5. And outside the format we now recognise as 'gliding', there are
separate formats which cater to special interest groups who can't
operate within the structures that we have for gliding; ie where the
'racing' is not compatible with limited handicap ranges, current
taskings formats, etc. Vintage is an example - in South Australia the
motoring world has 'Bay to Birdwood' now in both Vintage and Classic
forms alternating even & odd years. At the other end of the spectrum
Global Green Challenge as a totally different sector similarly not
compatible with traditional racing. And so on.
6. There are inevitably street racers from Gone in 60 Secs to race
track open days.
So 3 and 4 encapsulate 'the GFA' as we know it, 1 & 2 the Bernies of
the gliding world, with some of the other categories being thought
about, followed and prototyped by others with or without connection to
the above.
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