You get used to it. I'm surprised thought that they don't put the really
fast open wheel cars into the sports racer group, as they do here in Oregon.
At least the speeds are somewhat similar and the results of a touch are not
so rasty. It's not pointing them by that the problem, when some FA cuts
across your brow at the entrance to a corner when you're already full on the
brakes, and then climbs on his, you're likely to roll right up on him. In
the Radical that just means a new splitter.
Don't ask me why I know that.
Bill Babcock
Babcock & Jenkins
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From: owner-fot@Autox.Team.Net [mailto:owner-fot@Autox.Team.Net] On Behalf
Of Dave Riddle
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 10:42 AM
To: wheeltowheel@wheeltowheel.com; f500@f500.org; fot@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Orange Gloves
Anyone know if any of the manufacturers make a bright orange (international
orange) glove? I just heard that the Arizona Region is lumping ALL the
open-wheel cars into a single run group (due to decreased car counts - in
all classes - and I am hearing grumbling from drivers about the Region not
being as "friendly" as it has been in the past) and I want to get a pair of
bright orange gloves so that when I point an FA, FC or FM car by they can
clearly see my glove and what side I want it passing me on.
Other local Sanctions do not appear to be having these issues of decreased
fields. I helped up in the starters stand at ASRA this past weekend. They
had what looked like 50+ cars on the grid for a 30-minute sprint race and
had over 40 cars run the 2 hour Enduro at the end of the day. One of the
drivers said the ASRA sprint field had more cars then showed up for the last
SCCA Regional.
I'm not running the SCCA Regional this weekend, but I am going to go out and
see how it looks. Hopefully the doomsayers are wrong.
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