Rule Making
#33668 from Chad Cheshire · No action required · Minutes (2023-04 Fastrack)
Thank you for your letter. Individual members of the Advisory Committees and CRB are governed by their “Policy Guidelines and
Operations Manual” which provides for confidentiality of information and matters which come before them. This is done so as
to avoid the appearance that an individual member is speaking on behalf of their committee and to further protect the
confidentiality of other member’s data. Car performance data is an important input, one that we did not have until just a few
years ago. It has helped our Advisory Committees to make decisions on BOP matters in a far more quantitative fashion than in
years past but is not by itself a sole determinant. Permitting the release of such data which, as noted, is held in strict confidence,
would not only compromise the privacy and work product of the subject competitor(s), but likely lead to a continuing debate
over the data and the resulting decisions. This would not benefit the organization or its individual members. One must further
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be cognizant of the fact that much, if not all, of the work for which you seek public disclosure is performed by unpaid volunteers
who donate countless hours of their lives to our organization. Even if such disclosure would be of benefit there simply are not
the available resources to record and publish this information.