If distributing numbers is easy, then it would be a nice service for
the region to provide. Since all the competitors are members, however,
everyone knows they need numbers and should come prepared. This is
just one of those things that are/is too easy to do at home before the
race.
patrick
--- "Talley, Brooks" <brooks@frnk.com> wrote:
> Katie-in-disguise wrote:
>
> > >4) For cars, when we have instances where we don't have
> > temporary numbers to
> > >hand out - let the card sorter do a sanity check on the
> > numbers before we
> > >start running the group. Given the circumstances I guess we
> > couldn't do
> > >much about the color of the masking tape, but on Sunday we
> > had a quite a few
> > >cars with some combination of 1's and 7's made out of
> > masking tape with no
> > >class indicated. Ferinstance, in the third run group I had
> > the number 117
> > >yellow Lotus without class letters - D-Mod or OSP or AP?
> > followed by the
> > >number 117 yellow Honda S2000 without class numbers -OSP or
> > A-Stock running
> > >out of group? At least the S2000 had silver duct-tape numbers :-)
>
> Another quick fix here might be to have the registration table
> "assign"
> numbers to these people. Like "Here's your tape, you're number 125."
> Otherwise everyone gets lazy and uses 1's and 7's, as you noted.
>
> In the fifth run group (ST/SM), there were at least 4 cars numbered
> "11" to
> start with (including my codriver). People thankfully changed to 1,
> 711,
> etc, for the most part, leaving only 2 11's.
>
> Still, it seems it would be easier to just have a "highest temp #
> assigned"
> piece of paper at registration and encourage people to use the next
> one.
>
> Just a thought
>
> -b
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