Since I was in the trailer in run group #1 this past weekend I
have a few comments. First, the lack of card, replacement paper,
issue created significant delays IMHO in the quick running of the
event. This fact made it hard to sort initially and hard to maintain
while working that group. I felt we really held up the event, but
in actuality it might have only been 10 minute extra..sure did feel
like we were holding everyone up. Extra time also had to be done to
put everyone's number (if they had a sheet) on the upper right hand
corner of the page. As announcer (if you can call it that at GGF)
I was trying to help wherever I could...but probably didn't do much
due to the lack of a PA system.
I am also concerned about how we are gonna run GGF as the days
get shorter...with the current volume of people it will probably
get harder and harder...but it will be colder and colder..so, maybe,
less people will show up.
Lastly, the NorCal Audi club is co-chairing a NASA autox on October
22nd at Marina (kinda like what Ben did at Marina this past weekend).
We also know that John has scheduled a SCCA autox on the same
day at GGF. We hope that some of you decide that Marina really
isn't that far away, and that you might want to come visit us
down there this time. We think we will get about 150-200 Audis in
attendance, with at least 40-50 competing in the NASA autox.
Pls come watch a bunch of newcomers try to get their 4dr sedan's
around a course without embarassing themselves too much. We plan
to design a 75 second course. We also will have a number of
vendors on hand to talk about performance parts (list developing
as you read this).
Thanks.
Steve S.
#47 CSP
00 Audi S4
NorCal Audi Club
http://www.norcalaudiclub.org
CCoxx@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 8/29/00 9:53:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time, kkelly@spss.com
> writes:
>
> << Card sorters need to look for more information than just the car number.
> You
> have to look at the class, the car make, the car color, the name of the
> driver, etc. I say this, because the OTHER thing that just made me
> completely loopy was the amount of duplicate numbers... in ONE CLASS. We
> were writing down all the right times on all the wrong cards. Then all these
> people came screaming at us.
> >>
>
> Card sorting is the most important and most difficult thing to do in the
> trailer.
> It is most often the one reason why you hear "hold the start". John Kelly
> and I recently had the challenge of having to announce (that was John's job)
> , do pilon count, timing, and scoring. The only other job was card sorting.
> The guy who was chosen to do card sorting had never done it before.
> I thought, oh man this is gonna suck. As luck would have it though just
> before
> we were going to get started on this disaster one guy came up and said he
> needed to sign in to work. He said he wanted to work course because he had
> no experience in the trailer. That was when it hit me. I will have this
> guy help
> the other guy do card sorting. What they did was have one of them watch
> the cars as they were coming to the line and feed all that information to the
> person that was doing the sorting. The guy that sorted kept his head down
> and only looked at the cards he had to sort. When he found the card he was
> looking for the other guy would take the card and give it to John. John would
> read off the info and hand it to me. I would take the cards and put them in
> my
> buffer zone on the table and write down the times and hand them back to the
> guy that was doing the "coaching". He would put them back into the hands
> of the other guy who would put them back into his pile to sort. It worked
> great!
> By having a coach the card sorter never got behind or had to think to much
> about which #7 card to choose because his helper would keep him advised
> as to what to do. We ran cars every 20-25 seconds and never had to hold the
> start or give reruns.
>
> I think in the future we should always have two card sorters per group. It
> works
> great.
>
> I had another idea to help deal with the lack of PA at GGF. So that everyone
> knows what is going on with the run groups and gridding and so fourth I would
> propose that we have some 2'x3" cards made up that are numbered 1 thru 8.
> We could hang them on the motorhome to show what groups are running at
> that moment. That way people would know when to get ready to run because
> they would be able to see what group was running. What do you think.?
>
> That's it for now.
>
> Chris
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