Horrors!
A two lap course would be a potential disaster with even a 200 turn-out.
Even if each lap were only 30 seconds and workers could respond to only a 15
second gap between the car on second lap and the next car, the interval
would be 45 seconds. A perfect event, with no re-runs and not counting
change-overs and a walk-through would take 600 runs @ 45 seconds, or 7.5
hours run-time. Add in a minimum of an hour for change-overs and a
walk-through and you start at 9:00AM and finish at 5:30PM. Increase the lap
length to 35 seconds and use a safer 20 seconds separation between cars and
the resultant 55 second start interval finishes those 200 entrants, with an
optimistic one hour for change-over/walk-through, at about 8PM. Through in a
larger entry, a later start, some red flags, a timer problem---- and I think
the message is obvious.
No two lap SFR events!
Don
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>From: "Kevin Stevens" <Kevin_Stevens@Bigfoot.com>
>To: "Patrick Jones" <axng4me@yahoo.com>, <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: 1999 Solo 2 Nationals South Course
>Date: Thu, Mar 29, 2001, 11:02 PM
>
>Two lap runs play hell with your event time because you can't keep your
>overlap times down to 25 seconds or so.
>
>KeS
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Patrick Jones" <axng4me@yahoo.com>
>To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 22:47
>Subject: Re: 1999 Solo 2 Nationals South Course
>
>
>> --- kirk <kmeline@fastpointcom.com> wrote:
>> > A TWO LAP RUN!!!! The would be fun. Almost like the Duel at DeAnza
>> > which is
>> > comming up soon. I'm all for that. How about a two lap run with a
>> > loop?
>> >
>> > Kirk
>>
>> I seem to remember a two lapper some time ago, awesome idea. I suppose
>> it could cause more reruns on a short cours with downed cones, but no
>> reason to be paranoid about what could happen. Would definitely make
>> for a memorable event.
>>
>> patrick
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