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Re: Course designs

To: <washburn@dwave.net>
Subject: Re: Course designs
From: "Jamie Sculerati" <jamies@mrj.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 23:09:55 -0500
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From: washburn <washburn@dwave.net>

>Anyway, autocrosses most certainly are a navigation and memory exercise,
IMHO.

Unfortunately, I don't have a rule book handy right now, but I seem to
recall a paragraph in there which says this isn't so.  Either way, IMO, this
is the fastest way to discourage new drivers -- it's hard to convince
someone to return when their results read "Off Course, Off Course, Off
Course."

>There is no way you are going to negotiate a course quickly if you do not
know where you are going before >you get there.

Quite true -- but there's a world of difference between negotiating a course
quickly and negotiating it at all!  The fast line doesn't have to be (and
probably shouldn't be) obvious, but the general path of the course better
be -- otherwise, the course workers are afraid to get too far away from the
light poles....

Jamie
'92 Prelude Si
Speed Demon Racing
http://www.mindspring.com/~jsculerati/sdr



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