On event scrutineering.

[Simon Hadfield]

This coming weekend at Oulton Park we have the reappearance of on-event scrutineering.
Was nothing learnt during the COVID fun and games experience?
It seemed to me that the self declaration scrutineering concept was far more grown up and elegant than the previous regime.
When in many places such as in the USA - the most litigious society known - they can scrutineer once and that is accepted for an entire season what makes our way necessary?
With the self declared concept were there more failures? Were cars less safe? Did accidents due to poor preparation increase?
As compliance scrutineering is done in or after parc ferme I can’t believe that cars have become less correct in a way that they are going to be spotted in the shed in the morning, in fact I was told by a senior MSUK scrutineer that this is not what was being looked for in any case.
It also appeared that the ability of the scrutineers to roam around the paddock looking at cars “undressed” was just as useful and productive, if not more so, than a brief look over a car in a shed.
Would MSUK like to tell us what was so bad about the way we scratched that itch during COVID?