A more (re)current example is Duel at De Anza.
Throughput there leaves much to be desired. It takes
all day to give ~275 cars one run, vs. the 3-4 runs
that SFR can get through for a similar number of cars.
Craig
--- Jim Ochi <jochi@ricochet.net> wrote:
> Problem is, it's hard to get a lot of cars through
> the course when you do a
> two-lapper. Minimum overlap becomes 1.5 laps, and
> half the time you will
> have only one car on course at a time. If one lap
> is 35 seconds, you end
> up with a 53 second overlap, instead of the 25
> seconds that we try
> for. So, it takes at least twice as long to get the
> same number of cars
> through the course.
>
> I remember a slush event about 3 years ago at
> Stockton where we did this -
> there were only 122 people, but we still ran out of
> time and had to reduce
> some of the afternoon groups to a single lap. Major
> bummer for those of us
> who watched the other groups get 3 80 second runs
> while we ended up with 3
> 40 second runs.
>
> Jim
>
>
> At 10:47 PM 3/29/2001 -0800, Patrick Jones wrote:
> >--- kirk <kmeline@fastpointcom.com> wrote:
> > > A TWO LAP RUN!!!! The would be fun. Almost
> like the Duel at DeAnza
> > > which is
> > > comming up soon. I'm all for that. How about a
> two lap run with a
> > > loop?
> > >
> > > Kirk
> >
> >I seem to remember a two lapper some time ago,
> awesome idea. I suppose
> >it could cause more reruns on a short cours with
> downed cones, but no
> >reason to be paranoid about what could happen.
> Would definitely make
> >for a memorable event.
> >
> >patrick
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