Alan,
It's just getting started as much as possible on time,
keeping separation between cars at about 25 secs or so, and
changing workers on the fly. Then mid-day course walks are
short, drivers meetings, too. The chiefs work hard to push
people to keep the pace going. Grid folks work pretty
efficiently, keep 2-3 cars lined up at all times. Not putting
up with grid guff from competitors, tossing them if they get too
balky in line (this does not happen too much any more)
If there are a few cars running late in a group, feeding them
into the following group instead of making everybody in that
group wait till they are done.
We always have two grids, so the current and next run group can
be getting ready at the same time.
It's funny, the whole thing is pretty disorganized if you watch it
from the point of view of cheifs and workers, pretty much
everyone pitches in and makes things work. There's an attitude of
keeping things mmoving that everyone shares, and everyone is ready
to pitch in when called.
Jerry
Jerry Mouton mailto:jerry@moutons.org Laissez les bons temps rouler!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Dahl" <adahl@eskimo.com>
To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 1:31 PM
Subject: So how do you do it?
> Saw from today's posts that SFR managed to get nearly 340 people though
> 3 runs at yesterday's autocross. Congratulations! As a Northwest Region
> member where we are struggling to deal with 260 entrants (in Seattle in
> February!!!) it would be helpful to know just how you guys manage to be
> so efficient? We're getting better and better but it's been a struggle
> keeping up since the numbers of entrants at our events have grown from
> 65-100 back in '95 to our current 200-250 range. Every time we think
> we're ready for the new level we get still more entries.
>
> Last weekend's event was the back-breaker. After bigger and bigger
> entries at each event this year (191 then 226) we were snowed with 256
> entrants of which a whopping 110 were novices! Unfortunately several
> problems resulted in not everyone being able to run which we want to
> prevent from ever happening again so anything NWR could learn from SFR
> would be great.
>
> I should point out that these early-season attendance problems were for
> our WWSCC series not the NWR/SCCA series which starts this upcoming
> weekend. We've discussed requiring SCCA membership as SFR does to limit
> entries at SCCA events but since WWSCC is not SCCA and has no membership
> per se (it is a council of several unrelated clubs) this solution is not
> available to us. What we need to do is be more efficient in event
> planning and execution which is where your help would be invaluable.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> - Alan Dahl
>
> P.S. Please CC me directly on your replies, I am on the digest version
> of the list and I'd like to be able to keep your separate responses to
> forward on to the folks on our local autox list.
>
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