Picture the scene: you're sitting comfortably somewhere with plenty of drinks and snacks, a television showing a Grand Prix and a set of Drink-A-Long-A-Grand-Prix rules from the appropriate year. Just as you're about to start playing, some officious FIA1 bureaucrat pops up and asks to see your superlicence.
Be prepared, that's all we're saying.
1Fédération Internationale de l'Alcosport
*The superlicence will be generated as a PDF document, which is a common but not universal file format. If you're having difficulty seeing or opening the superlicence, the following may help:
- If the problem occurs when you click the "Display superlicence in your browser" button, it's possible that your browser can't display PDF files. In this case, you'll need to install a browser add-on (sometimes called a "plug-in") that will let you use your browser to view PDF documents. See your browser's web site for more details (typically this will be something like Firefox, Safari, Camino, Opera, Netscape Navigator or, if you're just not trying very hard, Internet Explorer).
- If the problem occurs when you click the "Save superlicence to your computer" button and then try to open the document that you've saved, your computer probably doesn't have Acrobat Reader installed. To solve this, visit Adobe's web site, where you can find instructions for downloading a free copy of Acrobat Reader. This should let you view the superlicence.
- If the problem manifests itself in another way, then what's probably happened is that dotdotdotcomma's webbenmaster has royally screwed up something somewhere and is currently labouring (or, more likely, idling) under the illusion that everything's hunky dory. Should this happen, shake him from his reverie by sending him as many details of the problem as you can.
NB: In English, as opposed to American, 'licence' with a 'c' is a noun and 'license' with an 's' is a verb. So, for example, having obtained a Drink-A-Long-A-Grand-Prix licence, a player is licensed to play Drink-A-Long-A-Grand-Prix. Similar rules apply to 'practice' and 'practise'. We mention this partly for didactic reasons but mostly to stop people pointing out to us that we seem to be unsure how to spell the damn word.