At 10:17 PM 6/13/2001 -0700, Kevin Stevens wrote:
> > Pete,
> > I'm so proud of Jake and Elyse for their great runs. I had a F1 party
> > at Spencer's Motorsports in the morning which finished at noon. Then we got
> > stuck in traffic in Oakland because of the A's game. We got to GGF ten
> > minutes late, and the event chair wouldn't let Christopher run. He was very
> > disappointed, and wish AAS would run Karts.
> >
> > My question is why do Reg close at 12 or 1pm?. The event has plenty of
> > workings to keep reg open longer. AAS has reg open all day, and would never
> > turn down a ten year old because he was ten minute late.
> >
> > Barry Spencer
>
> >OL - First you say that AAS wouldn't let a ten year old run at all, and then
> >at they wouldn't turn him down for being late! Now I know why you're so
> >fast, Barry, I wish I could shift gears like that!
Kevin, I just needed to find out if you were keeping up with the story
:>))). You are da man!!!!!!!!!!!
>You make a reasonable point that it may not make sense for registration to
>close at a fixed time. Properly, it should close at the end of the morning
>run groups. The reason for that is that all drivers need to be present for
>the drivers' meeting (and realistically, course walk).
>
>The reason it was set to close instead at a fixed time was, I recall, to give
>people a solid time that they could expect registration to close, instead of
>whenever the morning groups happened to finish. Make sense?
>
>KeS
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