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Originally Posted by Injuneer
Competition license + NHRA certification sticker on the cage + fire pants + plus gloves + neck brace + they'll start asking you for the expiration dates on things like flywheel or flexplate, damper, bell housing or trans shields, etc.
I know when I used to work with George Baxter on his car, even at tracks like Island, where he went often, they would come over in the pits after a 9-second pass and look at the cage, etc. They would stop him at the timeslip booth at Englishtown and warn him for not wearing gloves.
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All tracks now do a thing called Extended tech (ETI) where it's a once a year inspection, long as you don't change anything on the car, you fill out the form once and fly through tech with no hassles every week. I dont remember if it costs anything or not, but well worth it IMO.
I think neck braces aren't needed in door cars until 8.99 (really not positive on that one, I don't usually run door cars), and they ask for the SFI on all those things, which is easily memorized, or you can write them down in a log book before you put them on so you dont have to go fishing. It's REALLY not that big of a hassle, and its all for our own safety. I've seen some wrecks where people shouldn't have come out in one piece, and not only did they come out alive, but usually come out walking on their own.