--On 9/20/2001 11:35 AM -0500 Gill, Doug wrote:
> The idea is to weigh as you exit the course before you go back to your
> grid spot. You should be at race weight, you don't have you grid stuff
> packed in the car, if you weigh with driver you don't have to get out
> (maybe), etc.
Pros:
+ Ensures that nobody is adding fuel after their runs, or not carrying
their removable ballast.
+ No need to load up the car for the parade, then unload at impound.
Cons:
- No opportunity to jockey the order so that those of similar wheelbase and
track are weighed together. Therefore, if using the same scales we use
today, they'll have to be adjusted more often.
- You'd have to weigh everyone, not just the trophy winners, since you
don't know who the trophy winners are yet. That could take a lot more
total time. (Possible solution: weigh a third of the cars after the
first run, a third after the second, and the rest after the third -- but
see below.)
- The delay to weigh before returning to the grid spot is going to bother
someone. For example, if they need to plug into an external battery to
run cooling fans to prevent heat soak, that battery must be near the
scale area and then be moved to the grid spot.
- Some drivers like to sit in the car and replay the run rather than be
bothered with the scale procedure. Those that get weighed after the
final run would have an advantage there.
- The car is lighter due to fuel load on the third run. If someone *just*
made weight after the second run, would they get weighed again after the
third? Again, more time...
To make up for those, you'd probably have to weigh every car after every
run in order to be fair. And while that's probably optimal, I think you'd
need scales you could drive right onto and read quickly in order to make
it work, and those sorts of scales are generally not portable.
Mark
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