New Contact Rules
#29062 from SMAC Committee · Not recommended · Minutes (2021-04 Fastrack)
Thank you for your letter. Appendix P is a guideline, one that can reduce crashing and give race officials a reasonable standard
with which to judge contact. Vision is a requirement for a safe pass. The passing car must get into the peripheral vision of the
overtaken car in the braking zone, prior to the turn in point to be seen and thus allow for both cars to have racing room on the
track. The considered opinion of the primary authors, editors, and reviewers for Appendix P is that your proposal, i.e. front
wheel of passing car overlapping (at most) rear wheel of overtaken car, does not properly allow the overtaken car to establish
the presence of the passing car in the overtaken driver’s peripheral vision. If the passing car only gets to the overtaken driver’s
rear wheel before turn in, contact may result if the overtaken driver is not aware of the pass attempt and does not leave room at
the apex. Contact would be the fault of the overtaking car.