Paper Counterpart Driving Licences

[Elderly]

What's the situation with most TDOs and circuits regarding
the checking of driving licences since the paper counterpart
has been scrapped, will the plastic photo licence suffice?

[Wh00sher]

It`s all I needed at Croft on Monday.

[tsinc]

I just took my plastic to Anglesey last week and they didn't mention the paper counterpart.

[TOYNEG]

some are asking for an electronic license check to be done first, you basically log on to the below link, confirm your details and it gives you a code

https://www.gov.uk/view-driving-licence

[Elderly]

Thanks, generating the code to 'share' was simple,
so I reckon it's better to be safe than sorry and take the code along to a track day.

[Lorientfo]

Elderly said:

Thanks, generating the code to 'share' was simple,
so I reckon it's better to be safe than sorry and take the code along to a track day.

You only need the photo card to take part in a trackday now so there is no need to 'share' your licence unless you don't have access to that card i.e. you've lost it, sent it off. It's also probably only useful to verify your licence before the event as there is rarely any computer access at signing on so it's usually more practical to check over the phone on the day itself.

The only reason you needed the counterpart before was because the licence was in two parts so legally you needed to present both for it to be valid but all of the information relevant to a trackday is on the photo card. As far as I'm aware the only reason for keeping the paper counterpart now is if you plan on going across the channel and hiring a vehicle as the UK is way ahead of the rest of europe with this online licence so companies may still insist in a physical copy until they catch up with it.