I know when I was starting you guys at the start of the rain, I was trying
to get as many cars out, as quickly as possible, before the skies opened up.
It was a very short time between cars. Once the downpour hit, I returned
back to a normal sequence.
Matt Murray
Maybe it was the great starters, too. :^)
mattm@optonline.net
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> Strangely enough, while working the course at the harrisburg pro
> I noticed something. It was taking a total of about 25 seconds between
actual starts.
> o they had to use manual starts (I hate manual starts). The time between
cars which is normally about 30-35 seconds (total) was now 25 seconds.
> If you count 10 seconds per car x 1200 runs on a side (200 entrants x 6
runs) equates to 12000 seconds saved, which is 200 minutes or 3.3 hours. And
thats what basically happened. Each heat took about 1 hr less than it
normally did.
>
> Obviously for the above to happen the "effective" shot clock would be
around 20 seconds. Everything went without a hitch.
>
> I vote that the shot clock be changed to 20 seconds for subsequent events.
>
> Alex Tziortzis
> 70 Fstock
>
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