>Your position is ultimately untenable because, if the course design truly
>can't accommodate/compensate for reasonable driver error, autocross as a
>sport would quickly cease to exist as site and insurance availability
>became prohibitively expensive.
Or unavailable at virtually any cost.
I did a marque-club national design on a smallish lot with 20 light standards.
I designed it so that when a car's vector was pointing at a light standard,
that light standard was 100 feet away. I said at the driver's meeting that
essentially three things could go wrong to get a car into a light standard:
1. Total brake failure.
2. Total steering failure.
3. Total brain failure.
I believed that two out the three would probably be required to allow contact.
I think that's the kind of course you need.
I was not in Florida, so I can't speak to the specifics of this case. But I
suggest that folks who were there apply this standard and see what they think.
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