I was one of those who ran when the change was made.
First, I'm having a difficult time understanding why the word "significant"
is used to describe moving a cone!!!!.
Between the paddock area and the course area we are using almost 4,000,000
square foot of pavement. For those of you who think in acres, that is
almost 100 acres of pavement. Unfortunately, there aren't very many sites
that have anywhere near that much space. So what do we do? Move to a
better, yet smaller site, and limit the number of entries? Not a palatable
idea at all.
As to running on the blacktop at Topeka, even if the airport would let us,
I don't think we would really want to. Yes, it is smooth. But, it has been
seal coated with a tar/sand mixture. It would be really slick.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Murray [SMTP:mattm@optonline.net]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 1:16 PM
To: Mark Sirota
Cc: autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Nationals on Asphalt? (Was: rolling cars in autocross)
It was changed in between the forth and fifth heat. An extra ten
minutes was allowed for competitors to re-walk the turn. I announced
the change, the extra time, and that the course would return to the
original design for the next day (Thursday).
Matt Murray
mailto:mattm@optonline.net
mailto:mdmurray@gwns.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sirota <msirota@isc.upenn.edu>
To: Kent Rafferty <gs96@sgi.net>
Cc: autox@autox.team.net <autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, September 24, 1999 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: Nationals on Asphalt? (Was: rolling cars in autocross)
>Kent Rafferty wrote:
>> I wonder about the future of Topeka as the Nationals site.
>> It struck me as way too rough and brittle for the BIG SHOW.
>> The South course had to be modified significantly during one
>> of the days to avoid a huge pothole that had developed
>> during the morning runs.
>
>Wow, I hadn't heard about that. When did that happen exactly, and
what
>was the nature of the change?
>
>Thanks...
>
>Mark
>
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