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If the regs when they appear are based on the old Tuscan Challenge regs (which they were last year) then you will need them.
Most series based on road/sports cars rather than single seaters require you to have them. They are useful for indicating to following drivers that you are pulling off or into the pits, particularly if you are in a closed top car.
Most series based on road/sports cars rather than single seaters require you to have them. They are useful for indicating to following drivers that you are pulling off or into the pits, particularly if you are in a closed top car.
Mike, if you have them don't take them out. Two good reasons, some GT Classes like them, I noticed in the races I did last year that all the cars had them, you can indicate into pits etc on endurance racing. Also you will find that testing at some tracks gets thin in the summer because of the money they make on track days, so you will need to abide to the track day code, so you will need them then in the event that a Mosler or Mclaren is out!!!!!
ceejay said:
Never ever been asked by a scrutineer to put the indicators on. Front lights, yes, rear lights, yes, brake lights, yes. Can't ever recall seeing a requirement in the TVRCC regs or last season. Clear hand signals seem to be wideley accepted.
Other than the regs bit (and admittedly I only have the 2006 ones to hand) I agree. I just wonder how you make clear hand signals, visible to a following driver, from inside a closed car with fixed windows, with a rear window obstructed by a wing? In a single seater or open topped car you indicate you have a problem or are pulling off by raising your hand. In a closed top car you put an indicator on.
Jonny W's advice is absolutely sound, whatever the content of the Blue Book or what is checked by the scrutineers.
If you have them I personally wouldn't use a stalk on the column, to me that's potentially far more dangerous than not having them at all. If fitted should also be a clear indication on the dash, nothing worse than coming across a car at full chat with effin indicators flashing on the racing line ( a very common track day occurence)
ceejay
ceejay
Tuscan Challenge regs of old, and current British GT, Dutch Supercar and Britcar regs all require you to have working indicators - in most people's books indicators flash on and off.
Make sensible precautions to ensure you don't trigger them accidentally, but don't hide the switch amongst a load of similar switches on the dash that you have to look to find it.
Its unlikely to be the most technically challenging bit of car prep you'll do but it might just stop someone smacking into the back of you as you limp back to the pits, or making a lunge up the inside as you pull into the pit lane.
A fire exinguisher is pain in the @rse if it is triggered when not needed, but I wouldn't use that as a reason not to fit one.
Ceejay, sorry I didn't say hello on Friday, but everytime I looked across you seemed to be in deep conversation. GT Cup will expect you to have working indicators, even if the scrutes don't check them.
Make sensible precautions to ensure you don't trigger them accidentally, but don't hide the switch amongst a load of similar switches on the dash that you have to look to find it.
Its unlikely to be the most technically challenging bit of car prep you'll do but it might just stop someone smacking into the back of you as you limp back to the pits, or making a lunge up the inside as you pull into the pit lane.
A fire exinguisher is pain in the @rse if it is triggered when not needed, but I wouldn't use that as a reason not to fit one.
Ceejay, sorry I didn't say hello on Friday, but everytime I looked across you seemed to be in deep conversation. GT Cup will expect you to have working indicators, even if the scrutes don't check them.
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