At 07:07 PM 9/16/2002 -0700, Sean Minehart wrote:
>The performance advantage side to this rule is
>ludicrous. It should be a 5 minute rule. It is not
>fair to the first driver or a one driver car to have
>cold tires on his first run if the second driver can.
>If we're going to have an enforced rule, maybe we
>should have the cars 'check-in' approximately 30
>minutes before the heat and then they could be given a
>definitive time of when to be in grid, somewhere
>around 5-10 minutes before the heat begins. That way,
>at the given time, a grid worker can go down grid and
>check off who had made it to grid on time or not.
Sean,
Nice try. As a "single driver car" with slicks I would love to have warm tires.
BUT,
Where at Nationals are even most of the stock class cars, let alone street
prepared, prepared, and mod class going to go to warm up their tires . . .
safely and legally . . . without creating all sorts of traffic problems on
site and/or through the gate? Can you just imagine a couple of BIG classes
trying to make it through the gate and then to the two (north and south
course) grids just before the deadline?
Dick Rasmussen
CM 85
85 Van Diemen FF
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