Should I talk about tradition? And numbers, all at once?
At the registration table is a small black book with tabs for all the
classes. Every member who wants to can sign up for a permanent number in
his/her class in that book, every year. The numbers do NOT carry over to
the next year because there is far too much "rollover" in the
membership. To reserve a number for 2001, you MUST sign up for the
number in the current year.
Then you make/purchase the number yourself from any source you desire.
Registration, if possible, may have paper numbers available at each
event, a set of two, for each side of the car. Literally speaking, those
paper numbers are not legal because their size is wrong, according to
the rules, but the are a heck of a lot easier to read than masking tape,
shoe polish, etc. numbers. They are also NOT your permanent number.
Also, when you make/purchase your permanent number, please get the
class designation, too. For instance, during the OSP group, it was hard
to tell if the drivers were in OSP or some other class.
The numbers (okay, you've seen this before) should be a contrasting
color to the paint on your car, dark/light; light/dark, so they can be
read easily.
The reason for numbers is so times can be accurately attributed to the
quick drivers who turned them...
Seeing as how Nationals allows numbers under 200, I think we should,
too. If you decide to go to Topeka some day, you'll be ready, at least
with your numbers. There's more to national numbering: When a car is
shared by two drivers, one can run 9, the second driver then uses 109;
if the first driver has 50, the second driver has 150; if the first
driver has 99, the second driver should used 199. We don't need to stick
to that, and don't, but that's the way it's done in Topeka.
So far, unless something has changed, numbers such as 300, 400, etc.
are not allowed at Topeka. Just a note, and if anyone knows some later
info, please pass it on.
--Pat Kelly
Patrick Jones wrote:
>
> 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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