Actually, the fall is one of the nicest times of the year, warmer than
summer, much like San Francisco itself. I'm sure the next time we run at
GGF, the course itself won't create a "flow" problem, as well as we'll
have real card stock entry forms, all legibly filled out, both of which
were contributing factors to the loss of fun runs at the end of Sunday's event.
--Pat Kelly
"Steven J. Sherwood" wrote:
>
> Since I was in the trailer in run group #1 this past weekend I
> have a few comments. First, the lack of card, replacement paper,
> issue created significant delays IMHO in the quick running of the
> event. This fact made it hard to sort initially and hard to maintain
> while working that group. I felt we really held up the event, but
> in actuality it might have only been 10 minute extra..sure did feel
> like we were holding everyone up. Extra time also had to be done to
> put everyone's number (if they had a sheet) on the upper right hand
> corner of the page. As announcer (if you can call it that at GGF)
> I was trying to help wherever I could...but probably didn't do much
> due to the lack of a PA system.
>
> I am also concerned about how we are gonna run GGF as the days
> get shorter...with the current volume of people it will probably
> get harder and harder...but it will be colder and colder..so, maybe,
> less people will show up.
>
> Lastly, the NorCal Audi club is co-chairing a NASA autox on October
> 22nd at Marina (kinda like what Ben did at Marina this past weekend).
> We also know that John has scheduled a SCCA autox on the same
> day at GGF. We hope that some of you decide that Marina really
> isn't that far away, and that you might want to come visit us
> down there this time. We think we will get about 150-200 Audis in
> attendance, with at least 40-50 competing in the NASA autox.
> Pls come watch a bunch of newcomers try to get their 4dr sedan's
> around a course without embarassing themselves too much. We plan
> to design a 75 second course. We also will have a number of
> vendors on hand to talk about performance parts (list developing
> as you read this).
>
> Thanks.
>
> Steve S.
> #47 CSP
> 00 Audi S4
> NorCal Audi Club
> http://www.norcalaudiclub.org
>
> CCoxx@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 8/29/00 9:53:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time, kkelly@spss.com
> > writes:
> >
> > << Card sorters need to look for more information than just the car number.
> > You
> > have to look at the class, the car make, the car color, the name of the
> > driver, etc. I say this, because the OTHER thing that just made me
> > completely loopy was the amount of duplicate numbers... in ONE CLASS. We
> > were writing down all the right times on all the wrong cards. Then all
>these
> > people came screaming at us.
> > >>
> >
> > Card sorting is the most important and most difficult thing to do in the
> > trailer.
> > It is most often the one reason why you hear "hold the start". John Kelly
> > and I recently had the challenge of having to announce (that was John's job)
> > , do pilon count, timing, and scoring. The only other job was card sorting.
> > The guy who was chosen to do card sorting had never done it before.
> > I thought, oh man this is gonna suck. As luck would have it though just
> > before
> > we were going to get started on this disaster one guy came up and said he
> > needed to sign in to work. He said he wanted to work course because he had
> > no experience in the trailer. That was when it hit me. I will have this
> > guy help
> > the other guy do card sorting. What they did was have one of them watch
> > the cars as they were coming to the line and feed all that information to
>the
> > person that was doing the sorting. The guy that sorted kept his head down
> > and only looked at the cards he had to sort. When he found the card he was
> > looking for the other guy would take the card and give it to John. John
>would
> > read off the info and hand it to me. I would take the cards and put them in
> > my
> > buffer zone on the table and write down the times and hand them back to the
> > guy that was doing the "coaching". He would put them back into the hands
> > of the other guy who would put them back into his pile to sort. It worked
> > great!
> > By having a coach the card sorter never got behind or had to think to much
> > about which #7 card to choose because his helper would keep him advised
> > as to what to do. We ran cars every 20-25 seconds and never had to hold the
> > start or give reruns.
> >
> > I think in the future we should always have two card sorters per group. It
> > works
> > great.
> >
> > I had another idea to help deal with the lack of PA at GGF. So that
>everyone
> > knows what is going on with the run groups and gridding and so fourth I
>would
> > propose that we have some 2'x3" cards made up that are numbered 1 thru 8.
> > We could hang them on the motorhome to show what groups are running at
> > that moment. That way people would know when to get ready to run because
> > they would be able to see what group was running. What do you think.?
> >
> > That's it for now.
> >
> > Chris
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