i will drive all the candlestick events you can schedule. and chair some
too!
-james c
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From: "John F. Kelly Jr." <76067.1750@compuserve.com>
To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>; "matthew rehrer" <mrehrer@rehrer.com>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 5:45 PM
Subject: One SFR event at Atwater would be great! Was: Gravel at Golden Gate
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> Message text written by matthew rehrer
>
> "
> For those of us newbies that are scared of the national tour I think that
> one "regular SFR" event would be fun at Atwater. Any space larger than
> Candlestick would be cool. I would love to see a place big enough to make
> TTOD ~ 1.5-2 minutes. Is this possible at any of our current venues?"
>
>
> -------------------- End Original Message --------------------
>
> Candlestick is pretty big. It's fully capable of supporting a longer
> course. And we don't even rent all of it.
> However, longer courses bring on other problems, mostly administrative.
> Our timing gear can hadle eight cars. Our people, however, are an unknown
> in that area.
> In a previous event at a very large site, we had course that measured
> somewhere between
> 1.25-miles to 1.4 miles from start to finish. The event chairs figured
four
> cars were easy and our timing gear--a previous model--could handle it.
> In the above situiation when somebody screws up, and several
> out-of-town visitors did just that while working in timing and scoring,
> suddenly we were having re-runs four at a time. Didn't think we'd get
> through that day.
> The optimum course length is between .6 and .8 of a mile with
> appropriate twisty turns. And optimum minimum gap between cars is 24
> seconds. And not all timing crews can handle 24 seconds! You have to
> proceed at whatwever is the best rate for the volunteers doing the job.
> Recent Candlestick events have come pretty close to the goal of a
> 60-second course.
>
> --John Kelly
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