Well a condition for a supercar experience is to have a full driving licence but it is not clear why this would be necessary if it is not on the public road but only on a racetrack and it may not be true for all of these locations but for alot it is and is there a reason why this is? Also there may be issues to do with the speed that they may not want someone driving fast in a supercar if they have never driven a car before but apparently there are Junior experiences and children aged 10 - 17 can drive a car and the cars have an instructor and also dual controls and someone said they had taken their son to it and he drove a car around the racetrack at 110 mph and that confuses the issues with the driving licence because children can do the same thing and they don’t need a driving licence at all so it does bring about a situation that confuses why an adult would need it if they were driving a car at 120 mph and whether it has anything to do with speed at all and if there were rules to do with insurance or health and safety and I would like to know any more about what the main problems would be about insurance or health and safety and what the Straight Dope is on all this to do with cars like Lamborghini and Ferrari and things like this?
It probably has something to do with the company that insures the vehicles. A person who doesn’t even possess a basic driver’s license may have never even set foot in any type of car before, you can’t eliminate all risk as the insurer but that small factor probably eliminates a substantial amount of risk on their part.
That, and even more, the insurance company that does the liability insurance for the track owners almost certainly would require this.
Never mind the potential loss of the vehicles. That’s small change. The potential liability for the track owner could be theoretically very great, and any liability insurer would demand this.
An analogous case: I’ve engaged in a recreational activity where the wearing of a parachute was not legally required, but widely considered a very good idea. In my club, the club policy required parachutes all the time. It was a requirement by our insurance – as I understood it, we got a discount off our premium for having (and adhering to) that rule. Other safety rules, likewise, were not only a good idea, but mandated by the insurance policy.
I will add that organizations such as the FIA promote road safety, and that to enter super events you need a Super License (for which you need a Grade A license first, and so on down). You do need a valid and current road license— they changed the rules at some point; Verstappen participated in F1 for a few months when he was under 18 and therefore unable to qualify for a road driver’s license.
OP’s OPs remind me of “The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez – two and a half full pages of text, all one sentence.
Because before they allow someone to sit behind the wheel of a half million dollar car that travels 200 mph, they want to make sure the person has obtained the bare minimum credential required to prove you operated a car before?
I had to have a valid driver’s license to drive at a local short track. These were not supercars, just cars that had been driven on the street slightly modified for the track.
190 words without punctuation.
For reference, the entire Gettysburg address is 272 words.
I avoid this very issue by buying a track when I buy my supercar.
Not so.
There’s one embedded question mark, and one at the end.
Wonder what the road test is like for prospective professional race car drivers.
“Sorry, you flunked parallel parking.”
This account confirms that in order to get a local racing license, you merely need to complete such-and-such a racing curriculum, which establishes that you have “a base-level understanding of race car dynamics, how an event is organized, what the flags mean and how to be safe on-track”, but if you want an actual FIA driver’s license, Grade C and higher, what you need to be is an experienced race car driver (highest grade of national license, probation period, and satisfactory performance in a minimum of 5 national races). It’s going to be a little hard to fake all that if ultimately you can’t drive for shit.