my friend stuart came up from southern california and proceeded to pax #1 at
one or two events up here. i think they do pretty good.
-james c
"True Street" forum http://thevenom.net/forum/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Stevens" <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>
To: "Hung-Jen Hung" <ospfd@yahoo.com>
Cc: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 3:52 PM
Subject: RE: practice session
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Hung-Jen Hung wrote:
>
> > I don't know if people here kick butt over LA drivers
> > or no. However I do not agree we get more practices
> > here. LA has already scheduled 10 pratice days for
> > this year besides the regular events. For me, that's
> > how I learned how to drive. I was in Utah when I first
> > joined autocross in '93. The 2 years in Utah I
> > attended to every single event but still didn't know
> > how to drive. I know I am suck, so don't laugh. In LA,
> > from '97-'99, I also attented to every event including
> > many of the pratice sessions, I did find myself learn
> > alot by taking so many runs at the same course and I
> > finally found some clue on how to drive a car. So my
> > point is the practice events will speed up the
> > learning curve. Surely, every run is a practice, but
> > 10 runs at the same course I could learn alot more
> > than just 3 runs. For you expert drivers, you guys
> > know how to take the line at the 1st or 2nd run, but
> > for me I may not find it till the 5th or later runs.
> > That is why I said it would benefit intermediate
> > drivers a lot. Well, just my 2 cents thought.
>
> Hung, I just moved down to SD from the Bay Area last fall, so I'm seeing
> it from the other way 'round.
>
> I've been to two practice events - the first was limited to 75 entries and
> I got more runs than I could effectively use - 10-12 or more.
>
> The second was limited to 100 entries and I got 4 "official" runs, plus
> two more fun runs, and I could have had maybe another two.
>
> The other thing I'm seeing, though, is that the groups here don't seem to
> schedule as many "championship" events, because of the practices.
>
> The tradeoff, as I see it, is twofold:
>
> 1) How many people you are supporting. Limited entry practice events are
> always oversubscribed; to get that number of runs you are excluding others
> who might wish to participate. SFR is already getting grief for requiring
> SCCA membership as a population-control mechanism.
>
> 2) The value of practice runs vs "competition" runs. As you point out,
> multiple runs assists with car control and, to some degree, setup issues.
> Competition runs assist with mental preparation and course analysis.
>
> SFR leans towards maximum participation count, and more emphasis on
> competition runs. SD seems to lean towards more runs per participant and
> more emphasis on practice runs. I don't think either is necessarily
> better (or more to the point I don't know how to determine which is
> better), but there are points to be made for both cases.
>
> What I think is a red herring is this whole "member club" issue. There's
> no functional reason why practice events can't be staged and run as normal
> events, using the existing SFR structure for obtaining and staffing
> events. It's simply not the direction we/they have chosen at this time.
>
> KeS
>
> > I will find some time attending to the meeting and
> > back to the course. Just my schedule conficts the
> > first a few events so I may not be able to show up
> > till April or so.
> >
> > Hung-Jen Hung
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