Originally Posted by Todd Covini
Like Clifton said, stand by with him or I in Control some day and watch/listen to all that goes on behind the scenes. There's a lot that goes into it and a lot of communication that goes on. (Even moreso if we could get the AI/CMC Info Broadcast fully implemented!)
Regarding the sharing of best practices, I think Adrian's got Texas pretty locked up. Her Dad heads up the Safety Crews for many of the events and a lot of the same folks crew for a lot of the different events. I think if there's an oopsy that goes on in Texas, RaceBrat is likely going to hear about it first.
NASA really has the official/primary role for safety at the events.
Series Directors communicate among the other AI/CMC regions, but only act as liasons between the racers and NASA based upon what we see/hear.
IMO, there might be some improvements we could all do in the area of best-practices or lessons learned in the racing/opentrack community. However (with a capital H), in today's legal beagle age, and the fact that all these organizations are typically competing with each other in one way or another....the sharing of information is typically limited. (I'm not explaining it away...just stating an observation.)
Routine Lessons learned and near-misses have to be in a blameless society before it'll catch on....and we're frankly just not there yet.
-=- Todd
