well...you can see it from different views....saying...the fastest is the fastest...this is one view...
let us look back to the beginning....
when the first world record was set in 1898....it was a small automobil club in Paris who tooks care....as the first record attempt was a little bit outside of Paris....so they also took care for the next couple of months....and when the next real attempt was on....a couple years later....they took again care as no one other was at the place....
so this small club became what we know today as FIA....the FIM needs a little bit longer to take care.....and both changed their names over the years before they became the today name....
especially in the beginning the "FIA" act sometimes very strange and to today the historians having no idea why....but the certification or not of a record attempt....it was more a lottery the driver has to play....
viewing now the role of the FIA and FIM in the today speed record world....what they really doing....?
the organisations like SCTA/(BNI)/USFRA......their rules, for myself, I see them as the American rules....especially here the safety requirements and the categories....and in fact....also the Australian meets using them....so it is actually a international rule.....as finally, since a couple years, the international copied this rules and using it for safety and inspections of the racers....
that the FIA and FIM runs the record attempts under a different rule.....well....it is impossible to use their rules on meets like the Speedweek.....so, the solution we run the records at the yearly salt meets isn't bad and it works for us....
and comparing the attempt rules....you can't do it....both have advantages and disadvantages.....when you run FIA....one hour return is maybe tough....but in the other hand you can check for a perfect weather window....you run, like at the Speedweek....well....you have to run under the weather and salt condition you got on the next morning....
this is one point to view
the other is the classes....
the FIA got no roadster or lakester classes........they got special constructions....this is normally that what be called....streamliner.......and they got production cars.....and some special sport categories which run under the flag of FIA.....
streamliners.....as the FIA records are very often from stone age.....a lot of records are a lot slower as the records in the SCTA/USFRA record book....
so.....here we are....if you run a roadster or lakester it is simple so that the FIA can't offer a matching category.....
who is now the world fastest......
the answer can be only.......the one who is the fastest in the class he run....doesn't matter under which organisation....especially as the organisation who means they have the rights to rule and says ours are the world or international records.....didn't offer the chance to run for all this class records.....
so, finally, what really counts, is....
that we all go over a flying kilo or mile...with a two way average....
and the one who does the best job is best......important is that the competitor in the class/category is matching to the rule and can be compared.....apple against apple....
wish you all a safe season
