MSA Licences

[TeamD]

I've just been filling out my licence renewal for my Rally licence, currently Rally National B Stage upgrading to include Rally National A Navigator.

I thought about getting myself elevated to International status because I've got enough previous, but it occurred to me that there is no Rally International Navigator licence, only Rally International...which is a rally drivers licence!

So it looks as though I could get to the position of being able to drive a car on an international status event without ever having driven a rally car in anger and without having done a BARS course!

A bit of an oversight by the MSA don't you think!

[bumpkin]

it's always been so, you just needed to have the required 6 (i think) finishes from Nat b. at one time you could upgrade by finishing road rallies

[TeamD]

Yeah, but wouldn't you think that I'd at least have to 'drive' the car on an event instead of navigating?

[Big_Dan]

Nope ... you can have a go at driving I have a Nat A so I could drive, but I can't even fit behind the wheel of the Pug

[TeamD]

I think it depends upon when you got your licence.

Nowadays to get a drivers licence you have to do a BARS test, but to get a navigators licence, you don't. But you can't drive with a Rally Navigator B or Rally Navigator A...but once you get to International there is no differentiation between the two roles with only one licence available...that was the point I was trying to make.