Thanks again for all of you that attended. I'm not sure how we keep getting the great weather, for the last 3 years you couldn't ask for much nicer conditions. Each year it gets bigger and it is an evolving event. Track time is a big part of it and the making it a "3 Driving Disciplines" event poses challenges. The autocross is a fun piece, but it will kill the track time for a half day. Stretching it by a day may be the answer, run the autocross Thursday afternoon for those that want to come early and take a shot at it?? Keep tossing out suggestions and George and the guys will try their best to make it the best it can be for everyone.
Sunday's breakthrough was gridding the cars by lap times and sending them out organized in order of ascending time....everyone had a quick rabbit in front of them and the track team sent them out in a hurry to keep the gaps nice and you had the best opportunity to make several consistent clean fast laps. That's normally quite hard to do with 20 cars on the track.
The big challenge in an event like this.....Car Classes, pretty much the problem in almost any motorsport. We tried something a little different to spread out competition....still not perfect, but better than dumping them all in one group like the first year.
How about this for a twist: If you won your class this year and come back next year...you get bumped up, regardless of the class definition :'( I'll have the only "Race" Car with carpet and doorpanels, but maybe that makes sense to keep spreading out the competition.
Sunday's breakthrough was gridding the cars by lap times and sending them out organized in order of ascending time....everyone had a quick rabbit in front of them and the track team sent them out in a hurry to keep the gaps nice and you had the best opportunity to make several consistent clean fast laps. That's normally quite hard to do with 20 cars on the track.
The big challenge in an event like this.....Car Classes, pretty much the problem in almost any motorsport. We tried something a little different to spread out competition....still not perfect, but better than dumping them all in one group like the first year.
How about this for a twist: If you won your class this year and come back next year...you get bumped up, regardless of the class definition :'( I'll have the only "Race" Car with carpet and doorpanels, but maybe that makes sense to keep spreading out the competition.
