Our rule here in Salina -- we've seen it happen -- is that if the car passes
and there is still *A* cone upright in the box, no penalty. Even if the cone
left standing was originally the pointer before the driver hit both of them.
--Rocky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce & Mary Wentzel" <greendot1@comcast.net>
Cc: <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Autox] Cones and timers
> And those of us who ran Corvettes with side pipes learned to turn the
> outlets
> down instead of to the side.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "JH" <jamesh220@comcast.net>
> To: "Brandon Fetch" <bfetch@tpg.com>
> Cc: autox@autox.team.net
> Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 12:54:09 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [Autox] Cones and timers
>
> Yes and I've seen a cone run over more than once by the same car at the
> same
> point get crushed flat and come back up still in the box...it was when I
> was
> working the starter for a Southbend Region event and Mike Zik uhr took his
> CP
> Camaro and had to turn hard left after the lights running directly over
> the
> inside cone 3 consequetive runs in a row.
>
>
>
> There was another time when I saw Rick Ruth obliterate a cone completely
> when
> it was sub 30 degrees and the cone was shattered but the base was still in
> the
> box.B B Cold cones do get brittle and when struck at +60 mph crumble into
> little pieces...B B I was working the corner and recording cones but since
> it
> was still in the box, we let it go.
>
>
>
> Then there was a day of high wind, Jim McKamey came through at speed past
> a
> narrow gate, the wind shear from his wings tipped over the cones on both
> sides
> and the cones fell in towards the course so we had to count them both even
> though there was no contact.
>
>
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brandon Fetch" <bfetch@tpg.com>
> To: "Mark J Bradakis" <mark@bradakis.com>, autox@autox.team.net
> Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 10:22:10 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [Autox] Cones and timers
>
> *prints this e-mail for being laminated & saved*
>
> See!!! B It DOES happen!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: autox-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:autox-bounces@autox.team.net]
> On
> Behalf Of Mark J Bradakis
> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 8:28 PM
> To: autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Autox] Cones and timers
>
> This seems like a good time to put on my old codger hat and relate
> my favorite cone story. B Boy, this list has been around for 20 years,
> what a surprise.
>
> Anyway, I managed to make it to Kansas for the 25th anniversary
> of the Solo Nationals, Killer Spit in tow. B '97 it was, back when this
> list would see hundreds of messages in August before the big event.
>
> I was working the course for ESP. B A red Mustang comes screaming
> through a gate and WALLOPS one of the cones, major hit. B The cone
> goes under the car, hits the rear tire and goes sailing maybe 25 - 30 feet
> into the air. B It hits the ground, bounces and jumps around a bit, and
> ends up *standing upright* within the outline of the original location.
>
> I've never ever seen a cone that was displaced so much end up not being
> displaced. B I couldn't call it in on the radio, I was laughing too hard!
>
> mjb.
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