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Greetings -
Most people have at least read about the One-Day Tour format being used on Saturday (and you might be happy to hear that Cary & Henry & friends have a very long course designed, as well), but I thought I ought to say a few words about the shoot-out on Sunday.
First, things will start an hour later, both to give you time to - cough - recover from banquet and to give me time to reset the course. (Keep in mind that you don't have to retech.) The gates will open and the course will be ready for walking at 8 am, with the driver's meeting at 9:30, grid Group 1 at 9:45, and first car off at 10:00. So actually we'll catch up to being about a half-hour late.
The course will start with a launch into a longish straight. (Think SCCA ProSolo.) The design can be nick-named "Great Walls of Fire" since it has no gates, only offset walls and should be very very fast. It ends with a 6-cone slalom.
Everyone will get four runs. (Maybe five.) We will keep a top-twelve PAX list updated at all times. These people qualify for the shoot-out. Eight other people will be selected at random to also move on. These twenty people go to Round 1 and take a run. The top ten PAX from this move on to Round 2. The top three PAX from this move on to the Finals. These 33 runs at the end shouldn't take very long; maybe an hour total.
The twist: for each round, I will pick up a cone from the beginning of the finishing slalom and put in down next to the next-to-last cone, making it faster-in and harder to end. By the final round (three cones moved), we all - as in the spectators, too - should be in for a real treat.
It's called "spin or win."
- Jtoby
[ June 08, 2003, 09:54 PM: Message edited by: jtmcinder ]
Most people have at least read about the One-Day Tour format being used on Saturday (and you might be happy to hear that Cary & Henry & friends have a very long course designed, as well), but I thought I ought to say a few words about the shoot-out on Sunday.
First, things will start an hour later, both to give you time to - cough - recover from banquet and to give me time to reset the course. (Keep in mind that you don't have to retech.) The gates will open and the course will be ready for walking at 8 am, with the driver's meeting at 9:30, grid Group 1 at 9:45, and first car off at 10:00. So actually we'll catch up to being about a half-hour late.
The course will start with a launch into a longish straight. (Think SCCA ProSolo.) The design can be nick-named "Great Walls of Fire" since it has no gates, only offset walls and should be very very fast. It ends with a 6-cone slalom.
Everyone will get four runs. (Maybe five.) We will keep a top-twelve PAX list updated at all times. These people qualify for the shoot-out. Eight other people will be selected at random to also move on. These twenty people go to Round 1 and take a run. The top ten PAX from this move on to Round 2. The top three PAX from this move on to the Finals. These 33 runs at the end shouldn't take very long; maybe an hour total.
The twist: for each round, I will pick up a cone from the beginning of the finishing slalom and put in down next to the next-to-last cone, making it faster-in and harder to end. By the final round (three cones moved), we all - as in the spectators, too - should be in for a real treat.
It's called "spin or win."
- Jtoby
[ June 08, 2003, 09:54 PM: Message edited by: jtmcinder ]
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