Funny you should list me...I have been almost nailed at that spot, both
times at Stockton which also can have a difficult finish, esp. when
folks get out of kilter. They missed both times and I gave them a timing
slip with a big frown, "You idiot! The lights were way back there!"
--Still agile Pat K
P.S. I like being card sorter or scorer these days. :-)
"Steven J. Sherwood" wrote:
> Hello everyone..new lister here...
>
> I got a question about the chair at the end of
> the course...you know ...the one that the time
> slip person is sitting in. I dunno...but everytime
> I see someone sitting in a chair at the end I
> get queazy. Well, you guys/gals saw what happened
> at the coliseum...many people gunned it after
> the lights...got out of whack...and almost hit
> this person...or at least got their sphinter muscle
> to pucker up.
>
> When at Mather last year I was sitting down giving
> out time slips when Sean Breeze's wife (I think)
> lost control of a corvette and drove into my
> direction (while I was sittin down). Well, good
> thing I was looking the right direction...because
> that corvette hit the chair I was sittin in and
> sent it 16 ft down the tarmac. I got yelled at
> by Sean, for sitting down I guess.
>
> Anyway, this has probably been hashed out before...
> but I just wanted to put in my 2 cents worth. Of
> course, a longer stretch of pavement after the
> lights could also make it more safe so that someone
> could sit down and give out time slips.
>
> Sorry for rambling
>
> Steve S
> 00 Audi S4
> (the other blue one)
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