Craig,
More succinctly, for a timed event run over more than one day, the
competitor with the lowest total elapsed time takes first place.
Everyone on this list understood what Grandma Sam was saying.
Well, almost everyone, apparently.
Your taking issue with her use of language on a technical point
was not really necessary.
So what I wonder is: Are you an English Teacher? How about a
computer programmer? More to the point, was your response an
error in judgement, or are you having a bad (choose one) day, week,
month, year, decade, life?
Alan Sheidler
Been to Nationals a bunch of times.
(Reads to understand what people mean, which sometimes is
slightly at odds with the chosen word arrangements.)
In a message dated 8/16/2006 5:34:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
owner-ax-digest@autox.team.net writes:
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:17:29 -0700
From: Craig Naylor <magazine@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: Nature of autocross
Scott (and others who responded similarly),
Nobody spoke of run one, run two, rerun one, run three, day one, day
two et all.... The original statement was "I have seen the second place
or lower driver win the event!"
I haven't been to Nationals, I know they have there own sub
regs..... So please correct me if I'm wrong...... Do they award a 1st
place trophy to the fastest person each day, I doubt it? The winner
(i.e. 1st place) is the person with the fastest time (insert overall if
you must). The person with the fastest time would therefor be in 1st
place, 2nd place therefore does not win the event as stated.
Autocross is not so unique, The Tour de Fracias has many stages,
Rallies have many stages, the Baja 1000 has multiple stages..... but
second place does not win. They don't in Solo either.
The winner is the person with the fastest time, period.
Craig
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