UIM first Award Giving ceremony thoughts

Lovely event! Shame that UIM do not had it earlier. Some champions made protest with not showing up on the ceremony specially organised for them. It is worth to learn to stop fighting at least for one evening. We have another way to make changes.

We have to stop thank people who are getting salary to be involved in organising event. We have to stop thank parties who had problems and then solved them. Is it really so, that first we have to start war to get “prize of the peace”. Nobody thanks nations to not start up war in last 200 years.

We have to thank people, who really are trying to make our sport better. Nobody thanks South Africa for the great job done with young drivers. We have to respect comments and experience of NA of the Republic of South Africa, when we are handling rules of class P-750 or making decisions. We have to!

We have to stop making 1-2 persons decisions in UIM. UIM General Assembly adopts rules, but an only limited number of persons are “killing classes” and makes much more important decisions. These are so called "grey cardinals" and they not ask permission or agreement from members of our Union. They not ask from others, they just “make decisions”.

But event in Monaco was nice and we really hope it is just beginning. But as I learned, there are a lot of national authorities, which even never had thought about thanking organisers of the races, who are doing it on voluntarily bases. Shame!

Boat classes naming

We have O-125 and F-125. We have O-250 and F-250. It makes a lot of confusion in Olympic Commitees, media etc. We have to change it. Also we are moving towards of green engines and new boat classes. It is good time to revise classes names.

One suggestion is to forget O-klasses. Just use names F-125 (Formula 125) etc. for both - continental and World championship. Another way is use new type of naming. For example H-125 or Hydro 1 (H-1) for hydroplane type of boats with engine capacity up to 128 ccm or even four stroke engines with capacity up to 250. Then Hydro 1 or H-1 is good solution. There is no need to explain even type of engine or ccm for public in first step. U.I.M. can set rules for class H-1 and change them, when it needed. For catamaran boats we can use naming C-1, C-2 etc. For offshore OFF-1, OFF-2 etc.
Endurance E-1, E-2. For S-classes S-1, S-2 or G-1. G-2 as "green". For T-classes T-1, T-2 or even M-1, M-2 as "monohull". Junior classes can have naming J-1, J-2.

Let's keep F-1, F-2, P-1, Class 1 and some others as they are now.

So, we can minimize number of boat classes even now (immediately) to putting them together for short period of time and for example from the season 2013 introduce totally new system.

Why not?