> Maybe we could tape a crepe paper streamer along the cones that mark
> the light beams? It'd stand out in a scrambling worker's mind a lot
> more than just the cones.
It's those cones that were most often getting whacked, and the resetting of
those cones that caused the most timing trips. I would think paper would
just complicate things. A chalk line however would be nice, as several
times I had to move to one end of the beam to see which side of the beam a
downed cone was before going to pick it up. Would an extraneous chalk line
like that confuse drivers too much?
At the beginning of group 6, when I was working the finish S, I started out
with more than 10 spare cones (I went and collected a big pile from the
timing slip guy). By the end of the run group, I had just one left!
Charlie's point is well taken, with the need to slow the cars down before
the finish because there just isn't proper shutdown room at Oakland. But
something about that finishing S was just brutally difficult for many
people, and I would say it was probably more difficult than necessary to
slow people down (In my humble back-seat-driver
never-designed-a-course-before opinion).
-Carl
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