For the wind correction wouldn't you have to have a least 50 sensors along the
track and then have to know what the wind was while the car was actually at that
point and also know that the car did not disturb the air as well? How do you
know if the apparent wind is from nature or the wake of the car.. In 1 hour the
wind can swing around from one end of the track to the other and be different at
half track in both cases as well. Might be smarter to do what we do now. Have a
max reading at whatever is the designated measuring point and just not race the
car unless it is under some safe reading. If the one hour turn around time is
supposed to allow for wind direction it seems like a fantasy. Obviously written
by someone who has never been sailing.. It might be more accurate to run the car
at the same time of the day if the weather fronts are stable in the area as
thermal effects create more wind than anything else. If you ever do any boating
at least in the northeast you become very aware of the weather and at what times
of the day the wind and water get churned up and at what times the wind dies
down and the water is calm. I suspect the same phenomena occurs everywhere. In
my opinion 'corrected time slips are a bag of worms I would not even want to get
started on as the correction can go either way and may or may not effect the
speed of the car.
As far as working on your car in 'Warnerville' I take great comfort in knowing
that all is equal there..
Dave
Russel Mack wrote:
>
> Malcolm:
>
> W/resp. to wind-- I suggest that we could record wind direction and velocity
> for each run (we already have the electronic weather stations), and solve
> the course centerline vector windspeed equivalent; add or subtract that from
> the actual timed speed on each run-- even before the timeslip is issued. It
> wouldn't take much more effort to do that as an (integral, w/time) average
> for the time the vehicle is in the traps. That procedure would
> automatically correct for any wind advantage (or disadvantage). And-- with
> respect to the idea of canceling wind advantage effects-- it would compare
> with the one-hour turnarounds that have been done traditionally.
>
> To limit the allowed "rebuild", all that is needed is a simple set of rules;
> the vehicles will stay in Impound, and Dan (and his crew) are not going to
> allow any hanky-panky. (You'd have better luck trying to "get a break" from
> the Fedayeen Saddam. LoL!)
> Russ, #1226B
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