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SCCA ProRally, SCCA ClubRally Progress Bulletin ?B?
Success of New Operational Measures,
Recertification of ClubRally
Bulletin #: PRCB 052103 - B
To: All Competitors, Organizers
From: Kurt Spitzner ? SCCA Performance Rally Department Director
The SCCA Performance Rally Board & Series Managers, Scrutineer
cc: SCCA ProRally Manufacturers Council
Subject: Performance Rally Administrative & Operational Adjustments
Entrants Affected: All
Overview:
As reported in Progress Bulletin ?A? of 21 May, the Performance Rally Board, working with the
Performance Rally Department, and Risk Management, put in place a number of operational
and administrative adjustments focused on enhancing the overall safety of SCCA Performance
Rally events. The adjustments that were put in motion at The Susquehannock Trail Rally were
successful, and did not substantively alter the competitiveness of the sport.
The success of these measures is owed in no small part to the exceptional cooperation and
support of the Susquehannock Trail?s organizing committee and their event staff.
The Department is able to start the ClubRally re-certification process with the underwriters as a
result of the success and repeatability of these measures, (detailed below). As soon as the
underwriters have reviewed our documentation and processes, and have presented their
conclusions to the SCCA Board of Directors, we will be able request from the BoD approval to
bring existing ClubRally events back onto the schedule. This ramp-up will be on a case-by-case
basis; each event must be able to demonstrate compliance with the new procedures.
The new operational and administrative adjustments that have been presented to the
underwriters include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. National Safety Steward now the final authority for overall event operations: In
the past, the Series Manager (Club or Pro) or his/her designate was the final authority.
This change allows the Series Managers to focus solely on issues that affect their
respective championships, and enables the National Safety Steward to focus solely on
the overall safe conduct of the event in conjunction with the event organizer.
2. Restricted access to non-spectator designated areas: As detailed in Performance
Rally Organizer Bulletin #051903, any area that has not been designated by an event
organizer as a spectator area is now off limits to anyone except event essential
personnel, SCCA National Office staff, and registered, SCCA ProRally hard-carded
(national) press.
3. Enhanced on-stage communication capability for marshals and competitors:
Marshals at critical locations on a stage will be able to contact either net control or the
stage captain directly. Competitors who are licensed amateur radio operators will be
furnished with radio net frequencies to be able to contact net control when faced with a
life-safety issue on stage.
4. Marshals enabled to stop a stage: Stage marshals, regardless of their role, are able
to stop any stage immediately when faced with a non-solvable by other means
spectator life safety issue.
5. Improved signage at restricted areas: in addition to improved manning of spectator
areas, the perimeters of these areas, plus the entrances and exits to stages, will now
have signage that clearly and concisely communicates to the reader that they cannot go
beyond that point.
6. Substantially revised Spectator Area setup guidelines: These guidelines will limit
the closeness to the stage road that spectators can get to, and prevent spectator areas
from being setup in potential impact areas.
7. Mandatory Driver?s & Worker?s Meetings: At all events, the respective Series
Manager and Safety Stewards, in conjunction with the organizers when appropriate, will
conduct a mandatory attendance Drivers Meeting to review or announce special
operational issues that affect that specific event.
8. Extensive pre-event and event-day inspection of the route: These inspections will
be managed by the National Safety Steward(s) to determine and confirm that adequate
spectator controls (marshals, banners, signage, etc) are in place.
Implementation Date/Event: Not applicable ? for information only
Notes: None.
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