The event was never billed as a Solo anything. SCCA as
John so gently indicates, is very proud of their
reinvention of these sports as Solo ones. It is just
so cool to have discovered the exact term that
describes the games so well.. 8-)
As a Solo event we would have been required to mandate
firesuits and rollcages and a bunch of other
prohibtive stuff. We tried to stage a "Solo Trials" at
the then new Thunderhill about 7 years ago and were
totally blocked by folks both locally and from Denver.
Plus we would have received a lot of "help" from folks
who usually mostly get in the way. Then again, maybe
we would have had a timing system that worked...
I think the feasibility of the activity was indicated.
53 folks got times, about 6 or 7 of us did not.
TTOD was Mike Bernstein in a Ralt Super Vee at 1:58.
Second was Mike Schlicht in the Europa at 1:59.
Navid was about 4th or 5th overall in his stocker,
just a bit behind Jeff Glorioso, .006 as I recall.
Jeff's daughter was not there to whup up on Navid. 8-)
I think the Super Falcon got in there ahead of them
too.
Peggy had the results entered into her computer by the
time we got home and we ought to see them in the mail
soon. The track will be sending them out.
Nobody hurt their car, no one augered into the
hillside, no one had their breath sucked away and
suffocated at 135mph.
The only casualty was my credibility at being able to
do this kind of thing.
We imported the timers from Idaho's hillclimb club and
they use the old reflector type senders. They worked
flawlessly Saturday in the sunshine and not at all
Sunday in the overcast. Our autocross system is
limited to 4 cars on the clocks and we thought that
would be to few. It would have been better than what
we had. Good old hindsight here!
I hope folks had fun.
There is another scheduled for next year at the same
time. Thunderhill has booked over 300 days for next
year already. It is likely too late to set up another
event at an acceptable time.
And who would do it?
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Dennis Hale
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