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Thanks for all the work required to have yesterday's event running. It was a fun night!
Lots of good comments here - thanks!Just as a note for you all to consider:I thought we might have had more runs than we did and the biggest factors were people lining up at the slalom course instead of the sweeper course resulting in no one at the sweeper course a number of times. Maybe having a choice wasn't so good?The BIGGEST factor in how many runs you get is how fast (how small an interval) you send out cars. Therefore the starter HAS to be sending them out at 20 sec. (or less) intervals. This requires a certain level of expertise, help, and consistency for the starter. There also have to be cars present to start. This is one of the issues we were dealing with in grid. It was a bit of an adjustment with 2 courses going and only one grid supplying the cars! The cars had to go out very, very quickly ... plus tell drivers that there was a line up of so many cars on the slalom course and that they might consider going to the sweeper course instead.....or something like that. But the grid people did a great job and adjusted as we went so that things were flowing pretty well toward the end of the first 3 heats. It will only get better.Now having said that, even with the limited cars on-course and around 42 competitors (2/3 in grid), some cars were coming in (2-driver cars) and then heading out without stopping! In other words that was about as many as you could physically send out with such a "small" group! Hence, it might be an idea to actually allow more people in to allow some time between runs for adjustments, water tires, etc. etc.! Think about that for a moment or two. Maybe a month and a half ago I did a calculation and discovered in order to have a 5 minute gap between runs for 2-driver cars, we needed to have an absolute minimum of 27 competitors in a heat, sending them out 20 sec. apart! That is why I suggested for some 2-driver cars that they might consider separating into 2 heats just to get a break between runs.Something else I could have done is to have 2 (almost - they would never be identical twins) identical slalom courses and that way there is no cross-over. I'll get back to other comments and plans later on ... enough for now ... have other stuff to do.R
I did hear more than a few comments about the disparity in runs available. Not sure how/why this happened, but we should look into the issue.
JCS - I don't know how you could get 15runs with 2-3 ride along? I was sitting at the grid the whole time, and no lineup when I pull up to the course, and I could only barely got 6. Maybe the grid guys really like you! LoL