For sure, it was the middle cone that I missed. In retrospect, I shouldn't
have slowed down when I saw that I missed the slalom; skipping that cone would
probably have given me a competitive time! But since all my timing slips said
"DNF", I figured that information made it to the trailer. . .
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of James Creasy
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 11:51
To: mrclem@telocity.com; Autocross
Subject: Re: Silly course question
hi michael,
sorry you got lost. its that big fender on your car; cant see around it?
<G> j/k
the slalom started at the end of the box. the first cone had a pointer cone
pointing to the right and didnt affect the line out of the box. the second
one you should have seen an upright cone with a pointer cone pointing to the
left. then there was one more slalom cone with a right pointing pointer
cone before you reenter the lined course. and looks like the workers missed
the DNF even though i specifically mentioned that in my drivers meeting.
ok, next slalom i see i am driving down the side and see if anybody catches
me!!!! hehe
now that was pretty silly of me to make such a tight course, but i was able
to wiggle my live axle, drum braked behemoth around ok. to all you
scoffers: as i said, EVERY course is a cobra course =) (er, at least when
you have warm tires, thanks sherry!!!)
-james creasy
OSP #74
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael R. Clements <mrclem@telocity.com>
To: Autocross <ba-autox@autox.team.net>; James Creasy
<black94pgt@pacbell.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 10:11 AM
Subject: Silly course question
> That was a fun course; I DNFed all three times but still went home
smiling. It
> seems I was driving right past the 2nd slalom coming out of the far side
of
> the course. I never even noticed that I was missing it until my last run,
> where I finally saw it next to me and said, "oh drat!" (or something like
> that). One would think that after spending over an hour sweeping the
course in
> the morning, it would have been ingrained in my mind. I guess the idea
never
> made it through my thick skull. Maybe I was looking too far ahead, to the
next
> section of the course and just didn't see the slalom that was right in
front
> of me.
>
> Anyway, my silly course question is the following: what direction was one
> supposed to drive around the first slalom cone? I wouldn't know; I never
even
> saw it.
>
> Thanks, and now I must return to picking all the gravel chunks out of my
car.
> Sweeping the asphalt at GGF seems about as effective as sweeping sand in
the
> desert.
>
> See ya next time,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of James Creasy
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 09:02
> To: Smokerbros@aol.com; Ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Chair Round 9 Thanks
>
>
> thanks everyone for a great event!
>
> special thanks to my co-chair, sherry, who got up at a very early hour and
> drove the motorhome up from san jose and then back again at the end of the
> day.
>
> thanks also to charlie, don, rob, durk and others i have forgotten for
> stepping up and taking care of the huge list of details that we need to
run
> an event.
>
> -james creasy
> OSP #74
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