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Re: Maps of the Peru National Tour Courses

To: tmaycock@interaccess.com
Subject: Re: Maps of the Peru National Tour Courses
From: Lloyd.Wilson@Alcan.Com
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:33:43 -0500 (CDT)
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Tom, you are too late.  They already have a sport like that.  It's called Drag 
Racing.  

Some competitor make their own course instead of taking the direct and faster 
route to the finish line.

Nice try though.

Lloyd Wilson




1) Set up start cones and finish cones and associated timing lights.

2) That's it, you're done. Every driver gets to choose their own route
from start to finish.

Think about it, this solves three problems:

1) course map secrecy: There's no course, so every course is the same.
Nothing to know, nothing to not know. Or not not know. You know?

2) Big events taking too long and the whole issue of novices getting in
while experienced drivers are shut out:

a) Those of us just out to have fun could go out and doodle around for a
while on a course of our own invention, running phantom slaloms, drifting
through non-existent sweepers, and head for the finish when we're damn
good and ready.

b) The competitive guys, meanwhile, would want to get from S to F in the
shortest possible time. That could be as little as 5 or 6 seconds (4 in an
AM car). That should be enough to keep the average run time short enough.
Let in 500 people, still be done by 3pm.

3) Lack of skilled corner workers: Who needs corner workers???

Just an idea.

Tom





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