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RE: CONE PENALTY

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Subject: RE: CONE PENALTY
From: "Navid Kahangi" <navid@interwoven.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 11:01:50 -0700
Bring it on James!  As far as I know, BMW events are open to all cars as
long as they are not full with BMWs first.  Just make sure we are all there.
We always get a bang out of beating cars with more power and less weight.

--Navid

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of James Creasy
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 7:06 PM
> To: Corey Smith; ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: CONE PENALTY
>
>
> surely they arent afraid of a kit car that someone made in the parking lot
> behind their apartment out of an old mustang?
>
> -james
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Corey Smith <smythe@abac.com>
> To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 6:44 PM
> Subject: RE: CONE PENALTY
>
>
> > I know they don't allow Audi's anymore.  Some dude got TTOD at that BMW
> club
> > autox in 11/99 in an Audi.  Banned for having quattro, now also
> banned for
> > beating BMW's.
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> > Corey
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > [mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of James Creasy
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 4:56 PM
> > To: Thana, Peter {High~Palo Alto}; 'John Kelly';
> > ba-autox@autox.team.net; Ryan, Neal G
> > Subject: Re: CONE PENALTY
> >
> >
> > do they allow brand-x cars at the BMW events?
> >
> > -james 'brand-x' creasy
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Thana, Peter {High~Palo Alto} <PETER.THANA@ROCHE.COM>
> > To: 'John Kelly' <76067.1750@compuserve.com>; <ba-autox@autox.team.net>;
> > Ryan, Neal G <neal.g.ryan@lmco.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 4:48 PM
> > Subject: RE: CONE PENALTY
> >
> >
> > > >What the BMW club charges is unknown to me.
> > >
> > > They charge 1 second, with the convenient exception of all the cones
> > before
> > > the start lights, which DON'T COUNT AT ALL.  Navid clarified
> this at one
> > > event and we all took advantage of it by repeatedly mowing down almost
> > every
> > > single cone before the lights in order to get a straight shot at the
> > start.
> > > They didn't seem to mind though, just kept putting them back up.
> > >
> > > Another thing about these events- you think it's great that a cone is
> > worth
> > > only 1 second, but they use these iddy biddy bite sized
> cones, and they
> > use
> > > lots of them.  Once you pop, you can't stop!  I find that if
> I hit one,
> I
> > > usually end up taking at least 5 more for the road.
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: John Kelly [mailto:76067.1750@compuserve.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 2:50 PM
> > > To: 'ba-autox@autox.team.net'; Ryan, Neal G
> > > Subject: CONE PENALTY
> > >
> > >
> > > -------------------- Begin Original Message --------------------
> > >
> > > Message text written by "Ryan, Neal G"
> > >
> > > "
> > >  Is a "downed" cone worth one or two seconds?"
> > > -------------------- End Original Message --------------------
> > >
> > > In SCCA-SFR it's worth two seconds. All other series in Northern
> > > California- PCA, NASA, AAS, Sacramento Cup, Competition SCC, Empire
> > > SCA,--charge one second.
> > > What the BMW club charges is unknown to me.
> > >
> > > --John Kelly

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