The results that are posted include car number, class, and times? On a run
per run basis. To know which one of the four-five runs is the fastest, you
have to look through all the printouts from that run group, I think that's
how it works.
If you were at last week's SFR event, you would have noted the preprinted
posting sheets, showing the current point standings and all who have run so
far in the Slush Series, with spaces for the day's times left blank, to be
filled in later. That's thanks to Jerry Mouton. Apparently, anyone who has a
compatible system can download the posting sheets for the upcoming event,
print them out and bring them to the event.
It's still on a trial basis, but it's very neat.
--Pat Kelly
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>From: "John J. Stimson-III" <john@idsfa.net>
>To: Randy Noll <rnoll98@yahoo.com>
>Cc: craig boyle <craig_autox@yahoo.com>, Pat Kelly <lollipop487@home.com>,
toy4speed@aol.com, ba-autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Informal Poll on "sort of" pre-reg. for autox !
>Date: Wed, Oct 31, 2001, 12:18 PM
>
>> Here's the kicker, with the software you can get instantaneous results,
>> including PAX times, printed immediately after the run group (shoot at
>> nats they were posting times between runs--but that's not necessary).
>> You can electronically post the results to the web THAT DAY, no
>> transcribing times from each card to the results table. Any errors or
>> incorrect cones, etc. can be handled and corrected on site at the reg
>> table (remember, computers are linked).
>
>Sacramento chapter has taken a step towards this in allowing the timer
>to enter the car number and class in the timing computer so that it
>gets printed out with the times on the printer. It's difficult to get
>things straightened out if the run order somehow gets screwed up --
>say someone pulls in line for a re-run, or someone sneaks out of line
>for some reason. Good software would make it easy to edit the list of
>cars that are lined up, or correct recording errors. You just have to
>make sure that the software is *good* rather than just software that
>works.
>
>
>--
>
>john@idsfa.net John Stimson
>http://www.idsfa.net/~john/ HMC Physics '94
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