In a message dated 3/6/99 7:31:07 AM Pacific Standard Time, washburn@dwave.net
writes:
> When you are walking the course,
> pick out only the cones that matter to your line. Forget everything
> else, they don't exist. A right/left/right combination for instance
> basically be boiled down to three apex cones, or actually a slalom. I
> try to make slaloms out of everything. None of the other gimmick cones
> matter, and should be disregarded. For the most part, it's entrance
> cone, apex cone and exit cone for each corner. This technique has
> served me well, and I feel that it has helped others get past the "sea
> of cones" phenomonem. Most courses can be condensed into 20 or 30 key
> cones. Of course, there is still a certain amount of basic memorization
> that comes into play, but you get the idea. Again, it's a technique I
> like to use, and may not work for everyone.
All this talk about just the few cones that matters reminds me of a neat
course back a few years ago at the Milwaukee County Stadium. Some of you may
remember a series of gates offset just wide enough for a smalll car to fit
through as a straight. If the car was about 6 feet wide you had a small
wiggle between them like a slalom. It slowed down all the Camaros and wider
cars and gave the Civics and NX2000's (mine one of them) an easy acceleration
run to a right hand sweeper. This is one situation that made the course
significantly different to drive depending on what you drove.
Kinda gimmicky but effective.
Jim
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