(24-01-2011, 09:53 AM)David Taylor Wrote: This sounds about right... I suspect Irish Ago is correct. I had to do something similar in Australia a few years back for a race at Bathurst. I handed over my ACU license in exchange for an Oz race license and swapped it back at the end.
I think there's some sort of FIM rule that says you can only hold one FMN license at any time and, if it's the Mountain Course, that would probably need to be an ACU license (- correct me if I'm wrong, MCUI riders).
As long as the ACU recognises the organising body for the rider's nation, it should just be a straight swap for the duration of the MGP. Some FMNs don't allow their license holders to compete on the Mountain Circuit (- Spain, I think) so I've heard of Spanish racers presenting Mexican(?) licenses!
It's all very confusing...;-)

Over the last few years I have assisted riders from Italy, and France with their paperwork for racing in the MGP, and as long as their qualifications for the ACU Mountain Course were ok, they got issued with the ACU Mountain Course Licence, and still rode on their countries race licence. One of the problems for a rider if he surrenders his own countries licence, and takes out an UK ACU Race licence, is that in the event of an accident, the ACU only repatriate him to the UK, and not to their 'own' country. I have to say that I always find the staff at the ACU, and the MGP offices extremely helpful.