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New website; Liverpool motor club; Closed road campaign
Briefing
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COUNCIL ACTS ON SINGLE-SEATERS AND LIFING
GO MOTORSPORT GETS A FACELIFT GO MOTORSPORT
New and improved website is launched
It is now easier than ever to find out how to get involved in all areas of motor sport, thanks to the launch of a new Go Motorsport website featuring a slick new look, easy-tonavigate format and updated content. The revamped GoMotorsport.net features new pages about the cost of competing, how to get a competition licence, how motor sport can engage with schools and the ways in which Go Motorsport can help local motor clubs. This adds to information on all of the major motor sport disciplines and volunteer roles, as well as FAQs, contacts, and the unique club and events search function.
“Go Motorsport is about encouraging new people into our sport, and this new site will help us to do that by providing a much clearer message to people looking to get started for the first time,” said Ben Taylor, MSA Director of Development and Communications. “The site will support the valuable work of the Regional Development Officers who are spreading the word on the ground and helping our clubs to attract new members.” MSA clubs are reminded that they can improve the accuracy of the club search function by logging on to the MSA website and inputting a secondary post code.
35,489 metres The combined length of all 33 MSA-licensed kart circuits in the UK. That’s 25.5km or 22 miles
MSC A higher age limit for singleseater racing and the extension of a reprieve on rally seat ‘lifing’ were among the rule changes approved during the latest Motor Sports Council meeting. From January 2013 the MSA will stop granting waivers allowing 15-year-old drivers in singleseater championships. This will align MSA and FIA regulations so that no driver under the age of 16 will be able to race single-seaters in the UK. Additionally, all junior formulas will be required to run on treaded, rather than slick, tyres. Meanwhile regulation (R)48.10.6.1. has been extended for a further 12 months. This means that until the end of 2013 the seats in any rally car issued with an MSA Competition Car Log Book prior to 1 January 2009 do not need to be currently FIA-homologated, provided that they have previously been homologated and have been mounted appropriately in accordance with R48.10.6. This extension is to allow for further testing and research of lifing, and to help competitors to finalise their plans for 2013. These rule changes and all others recently approved by Council can be found on this magazine’s carrier sheet.
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