From: JonesMB <jonesmb@ziplink.net>
>how did it get the name Chicago box?
It was used at the Nationals in Chicago. No, I don't remember what year.
The idea was that by disguising a slalom as something else, they could get
away with measurements smaller than the rule-book minimums. They got away
with it there, but a subsequent ruling says that if it works like a slalom,
it's a slalom, regardless of the fact that it looks like a box.
Now that the box has been made to follow the dimensional requirements of a
slalom, it's essentially a waste of pylons. Only three of the pylons are
really needed to define the course.
Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Chev Suburban
LOON, MAC
pethier@isd.net http://www.visi.com/mac/
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