I'm one who bypassed any sort of learners process (not that there is an actual process) and went straight to a serious racing class.
The main reason for that was that the Clubmans class scares me. It's full of guys who are over-gunned and under-skilled, they have no race-craft, have never been subjected to the pressures of a race start before and have only ever ridden track days. Having done lots of track days (I worked for a track day company) I got to see a hell of a lot of shit that'd score a punch in the face in the pits afterwards if it was a race. It was bad enough trying to dodgy people at a track day let alone in a race situation.
Not to mention how many of them don't see the flags at all.
I was way more comfortable being surrounded by people who knew what they were doing rather than a bunch of muppets with no idea.
There should definitely be a limit on what people can race. Start everyone off on a 250 proddy for their first ten race meetings or something.
Having said that, it's often hard enough to get the minimum numbers for many classes as it is, putting limits on newbies will make that more difficult.
Zen wisdom: No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously. - obviously had KB in mind when he came up with that gem
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity
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