At 09:58 AM 6/3/2002 -0700, John J. Stimson-III wrote:
>I seem to recall that SFR has always gotten the lot swept the day
>before, but it seems to revert quickly to its normal (sandy) state. I
>heard that the surface was improving towards the end of last year.
>Maybe not...?
Sand I could deal with, but marble-sized gravel all over is too much.
Joe
>On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 09:25:45AM -0700, Joe wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I just ran in an all-day autocross with the PCA at Golden Gate Fields
> > yesterday and it was very irritating, almost to the point that I would
> > skip events there. There is so much loose gravel all over the lot that
> > the first group must have bead-blasted their undercarriages to clean
> > a line. The 'line' was essentially point-to-point because with no traction
> > that's the shortest way around. Even in the afternoon, this was a
> > 'drive-a-stupid-line-as-fast-as-you-can' event because any
> > attempt to vary put you into the drifts of displaced marbles. There was
> > a typical thirty-paces slalom where the cleared 'line' was precisely
> > straight from one side of one cone to the other side of the next cone.
> >
> > Have we ever paid someone to sweep a lot? I would gladly chip in
> > for this, rather than be chipped away by the gravel.
> > Joe Weinstein
>
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