----- Original Message -----
From: "David W. James" <vnend@adelphia.net>
To: "National Autocross Mailing List" <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 7:36 AM
Subject: Re: 2002 Top 10 Drivers
> On Friday, April 4, 2003, at 03:47 AM, Jeff Winchell wrote:
> > Looking at the cars and classes, it seems the fastest drivers drive
> > fast cars.
>
> Or that the index isn't as accurate as we would like. For example, if
> it is set by the classes performance at nationals, then the time of day
> becomes a factor. When AS ran last year it was still cool. By midday
> the pavement was warmer, which I'm sure helped the classes running then.
The number of events (in this case taking the top 5) with most of these
competitors competing in many more events, probably takes care of that
objection, by throwing out those events where the index was very
unrepresentative of their particular effort.
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