RE: USAC?
>Agreed that 2.1.E.1 says you can get an FIA license through
>the SCCA.
>
>However, 2.1.A.2.c says you can compete with an FIA license
>in lieu of holding an SCCA ProRally license. You
>must still be an SCCA member though.
Speaking only as a co-driver, and not as a representative of SCCA.
John, 2.1.A.2.a is clear that any US citizen or resident must hold an SCCA ProRally license to compete in a ProRally. The FIA exemption only holds for non-US, non-Canadian, non-Mexican nationals or residents.
Regardless, the FIA license you will be issued by SCCA, or other FIA affiliated ASN is an FIA International License. This license allows you to compete on an FIA event listed on the FIA International Calendar. If you use it to compete on an event not listed on the International calendar, and FIA finds out (or the organizer is on the ball), your entry will be immediately revoked.
The FIA licenses issued by US ASNs are not for competition in the US or on any North American event not listed on the FIA International calendar.
For this reason, if you plan to compete abroad on non-international events, you will need to rescind or suspend your US SCCA license and file for a similar license in the country of competition.
In my instance, to compete in a Swedish non-International, I suspend my SCCA license, apply for an SBF license (National B) and run on that. In the case I want to run in a Swedish International, I can retain my SCCA license, run on my FIA International license, BUT I still have to pay the FIA International licensing fee due to the Swedish ASN (SBF). So they get you coming and going!
But the short answer is, using a FIA International license to compete in a non-International listed, US event is a violation of your FIA license agreement, and violates the spirit of the SCCA rules.
Speaking only as a co-driver, and not as a representative of SCCA.
- Christian
Bjorn Christian Edstrom
Co-Driver