Race numbers on road car

Race numbers on road car

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rev-erend

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21,404 posts

283 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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Does anyone know if race number have to be removed from the car after an event
when driving on the road or can you still just put a cross thru them with black tape?

Richair

1,021 posts

196 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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Must be covered over or removed, I had a firm talking to by a scrut for just taping mine over.

rev-erend

Original Poster:

21,404 posts

283 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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Fantastic - thanks.

Vocal Minority

8,582 posts

151 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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I've been given some mixed explanations for this.

Ranging from something about being accused of racing on the road(which makes a degree of sense I suppose) to just 'shut up and follow the rules' which seldom has the desired effect with anyone!

R8Steve

4,150 posts

174 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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I leave mine on when the cars on the road, never had any issues.

Truckosaurus

11,183 posts

283 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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It is an MSA Rule rather than a 'law of the land'. I believe it is so Members of the Public don't think there are races taking place on the road.

xjay1337

15,966 posts

117 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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I'm decalling my car up soon and the numbers will be staying on.
There's no official rule aside from MSA guidelines I believe.

fat80b

2,242 posts

220 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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Take them off - it may be technically ok but why would you want to risk damaging the club that has organised the event. Events and clubs are finding it hard enough without any bad publicity. ( not to say that you would do anything bad with numbers on but there is always a busybody out there looking for any reason)


Bob

Willhire89

1,327 posts

204 months

Friday 2nd September 2016
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If you want to have numbers on your car it is absolutely fine - it is no different to any other livery. This can extend to numbers with historical connections.

If you are competing in an MSA event (which is not road based) then the numbers you use at the circuit/hillclimb/sprint should not be visible if on the road.

If they become visible a day or week later after the event I imagine does not matter

steeviegeebies

196 posts

144 months

Saturday 3rd September 2016
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Yes - there a lots of cars with numbers displayed on the road. Number 53 on beetles being the most prevalent. Can't think why 😃

Richair

1,021 posts

196 months

Saturday 3rd September 2016
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Being as this is in the clubman forum guys we have to assume the OP is competing in MSA events. Yes this is an MSA rule and not related to road-traffic law, but they're very hot on it and it does you no favours to ps off a scrut!..

sx187

32 posts

91 months

Sunday 4th September 2016
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Generally its fine just as long as a tape of about 50mm width is used.Insulating tape width is unacceptable.

Oilchange

8,421 posts

259 months

Sunday 4th September 2016
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Tape it over, don't tape it over. No law rules it out as said but you might get a disapproving chat from a Scutineer, you might not.
You probably will, however, get some unwanted attention from the Fuzz. I did and it was tiresome. Cars pulling in to wait as you drove by, see if you were misbehaving.
Think I was mentioned in the morning brief and became the target of choice for a while, the amount of attention I got.
Took them off and it all went quiet...

Drumroll

3,738 posts

119 months

Monday 5th September 2016
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I will turn this around why would you want to use your car on the road with comp. numbers on it?


Allan L

779 posts

104 months

Monday 5th September 2016
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Drumroll said:
I will turn this around why would you want to use your car on the road with comp. numbers on it?
Quite so, and it is not a new rule and would have been in the GCRs or SSRs of the RAC well before most of us knew about using cars for competition.

rev-erend

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21,404 posts

283 months

Monday 5th September 2016
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It was an MSA event.

In the end - I peeled off the numbers as it was a 60 mile drive home. Only took 2 mins.

Took off the roundels the next Day .. took a bit longer as they use stickier adhesive.

Edited by rev-erend on Tuesday 6th September 18:13

GinG15

501 posts

170 months

Tuesday 6th September 2016
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rules outside UK:

if the race-number looks like a real race number (not the 53 vw beelte "i want to look like a race number" thing) it needs to be covered (at least ruled-out by a piece of black tape) when the car is used on public roads.

this has nothing to do with MSA or FIA regulations...its a request from the road trafic act.


R8Steve

4,150 posts

174 months

Tuesday 6th September 2016
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GinG15 said:
rules outside UK:

if the race-number looks like a real race number (not the 53 vw beelte "i want to look like a race number" thing) it needs to be covered (at least ruled-out by a piece of black tape) when the car is used on public roads.

this has nothing to do with MSA or FIA regulations...its a request from the road trafic act.
What road traffic act though? There is no road traffic act that i am aware of that says this is the case.

stevieturbo

17,229 posts

246 months

Wednesday 7th September 2016
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Drumroll said:
I will turn this around why would you want to use your car on the road with comp. numbers on it?
Depending how they're stuck on...they may not exactly be easy to remove.

binnerboy

486 posts

149 months

Wednesday 7th September 2016
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I have my numbers on magnetic roundels so they can be easily removed