Problem is, it's hard to get a lot of cars through the course when you do a
two-lapper. Minimum overlap becomes 1.5 laps, and half the time you will
have only one car on course at a time. If one lap is 35 seconds, you end
up with a 53 second overlap, instead of the 25 seconds that we try
for. So, it takes at least twice as long to get the same number of cars
through the course.
I remember a slush event about 3 years ago at Stockton where we did this -
there were only 122 people, but we still ran out of time and had to reduce
some of the afternoon groups to a single lap. Major bummer for those of us
who watched the other groups get 3 80 second runs while we ended up with 3
40 second runs.
Jim
At 10:47 PM 3/29/2001 -0800, Patrick Jones wrote:
>--- kirk <kmeline@fastpointcom.com> wrote:
> > A TWO LAP RUN!!!! The would be fun. Almost like the Duel at DeAnza
> > which is
> > comming up soon. I'm all for that. How about a two lap run with a
> > loop?
> >
> > Kirk
>
>I seem to remember a two lapper some time ago, awesome idea. I suppose
>it could cause more reruns on a short cours with downed cones, but no
>reason to be paranoid about what could happen. Would definitely make
>for a memorable event.
>
>patrick
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