I think if your not going to put a limit on the amount of entrants you need
to streamline the process .. no other way
----- Original Message -----
From: TONY OZZELLO P802 AWS <adozzell@sc9.intel.com>
To: <Kevin_Stevens@Bigfoot.com>; <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: 2000 Winter Slush Series-revised
> Kevin highlights one of my pet peeves with recent events.
> The trailer should be able to handle a 15 second overlap
> with no more than 3 people in the trailer if they know what
> they are doing and are paying attention. A solid trailer cew
> is essential to a smooth event and maybe we should restrict the
> trailer crew to those folks that can do the job.
> At the 8/13 GGF event Jim Ochi and I ran the trailer alone and
> we averaged 21s overlaps for our run group and we had time to
> hold the start and run out onto course to reset cones that had
> been knocked over and missed by the crew on course.
> I can buy the safety argument for overlap times and I can buy
> the argument that you have to wait for folks to finish their
> conversation before running to pick up a downed cone, but I
> don't agree that the trailer cannot keep up.
>
> I'm hoping that doesn't sound too harsh but the trailer hurts
> our events on a number of occasions.
>
> Tony
> (still in nomex)
>
> Kevin wrote:
>
> >> > In all seriousness, running cars closer together is the only > thing
I
> >>can think of.
> >
> >Running cars more closely than about 25 seconds is a net time loss
because
> >there isn't time to reset cones, and/or the timing trailer
> >can't keep up and has to hold the start occasionally.
> >
> >
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