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Originally Posted by c-m
You're working hard at this but I fear you're barking up the wrong tree.
It's not that the RAC are unwilling to let us use the RAC, but that if they do so without "good reason" (whatever that may be), then they will incur the wrath of the FIA.
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I'm not sure that is the case. FIA doesn't really care which organization you get your carnet from, they all need to pass through FIA anyway. So FIA sending out a reminder of the rules that were imposed to the different bodies in the various countries must have come from one of those bodies.
ADAC will not have been the one complaining. I'm sure they'll just as happily take money from a Brit same as they do from a German.
The only party in this story that actually benefits from the rules being strictly followed is RAC. I would wager some money that it was actually RAC that complained to FIA, after getting a number of requests from Brits to allow them to go with ADAC.
RAC got annoyed at ADAC telling normally monopoly-protected RAC customers they would gladly provide the carnet if they requested a waiver from RAC. So RAC complains to FIA that such was not part of the deal. FIA sends out a reminder to the various bodies about the anti-competetion clause in their contracts. RAC than uses that reminder to tell their customers: "see, it's not our fault, our hands are tied. Now gives us your money."
But that's probably just my own personal cynical interpretation of how the world works.
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