Interesting thread.
If you want to be extra cautious don't stage near a
similar car with a similar number or color. (tough if
you have a miata). Check any posted times. Save your
timeslips (or better still bring your own pen and
sticky-pad :-) and give yourself the break you
deserve).
I've had a couple of times get misreported to my
detriment recently and seen some weird stuff happen.
Initially furious, I eventually chilled out and
figured "What can I do?" ' it's really just the luck
of the game and the nature of any amateur sport. What
goes around comes around
No-one in the trailer is trying to do a bad job, but
times I've been in there it can be kinda rough, mostly
because of re-runs, vague cone-calls due to bad
numbering and insufficient staging.
Stuff happens.
If you get a bad break, just remember all we're doing
is driving round little orange cones in a parking lot.
Craig
--- "Grantz, Sherry" <Sherry.Grantz@Aspect.com> wrote:
..> I don't think my time for the first run was right
> either; but the only run I
> cared about - the good one - was right - so I' m not
> complaining.
>
> The times on the results are only as good as the
> timing crew in the trailer.
> Everyone we had in T&S last Sunday was good. The
> problem was, often there
> were only two people inside and at the most three.
> This is with no announcer
> confirming times for anyone listening, no backup for
> the timing slip person
> (he can only see the display - not get a
> confirmation from inside on every
> run), and often the person writing times is on the
> radio talking to the
> timing slip person, starter, and getting cone counts
> from the course. With a
> car finishing every 20 seconds.
>
> Why are we so short staffed? Is there a lack of
> workers? No, it's because
> 90% of the people who sign up to work flip to the
> back of the page and sign
> up for course. They want to watch cars run before
> they go out, they think
> T&S is too difficult, or whatever. Several times I
> had to twist arms and
> browbeat people to get them to work inside (not that
> I really mind that
> part).
>
> We need more people to take on the responsibility of
> working in T&S.
> Remember - your times will only be as accurate as
> the crew inside - and if
> they all act like your work group, don't expect
> accuracy.
>
> We are willing to train T&S workers - remember it's
> out of the wind and
> you're sitting down, not chasing cones.
>
> And if you can't get the numbers on your car right -
> don't even expect T&S
> to try and fix the problem for you. The people
> inside don't have the time to
> solve problems while running cars every 20 seconds.
> Don't come to the motor
> home during a run group and ask someone to spend 5
> minutes sorting out your
> times and timing cards. After the run group someone
> may be available to
> help. . . or not.
>
> Sherry
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