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bar plugs are mandatory, depends who you speak to regarding tape/grips but obviously it's sensible to have a grip on your bars.
if shiny bars are more important than grip then you should be questioning whether you ought to be track racing at all IMO.
some of the new carbon track bars have a grippy surface built into them, so you don't have to worry about grips, but I don't expect novices will be showing up with those