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41. course design (score: 1): Author: RacerRay52@aol.com; Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:39:31 EST; ...NOT MEMORY! Has that been changed? I hope not. I like to go around the course trying to figure out the quickest way to do it, not just puzzling over WHERE to go. Ray Elliott; /html/autox/1999-03/msg00333.html (7,357 bytes)
42. Re: course design (score: 1): Author: RacerRay52@aol.com; Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 19:43:21 EST; << By "not memory" I take it to mean the course should be designed in such a way as to be reasoanbly easy to find your way through it. However... I also subscribe to the premise that EVERY course is; /html/autox/1999-03/msg00375.html (9,121 bytes)
43. Re: course memorizing (score: 1): Author: RacerRay52@aol.com; Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 09:08:19 EST; << People often jump to the conclusion when they hear me talking about memorizing that it means that part of the contest is remembering a complex set of directions. To demonstrate what I mean by this; /html/autox/1999-03/msg00411.html (8,581 bytes)
44. Re: Course Designs (score: 1): Author: RacerRay52@aol.com; Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 09:35:53 EST; << though I accept that there may be no "right" answer here, only opinion. Somewhere in the rule book it says something to the effect that course navigation should not require superhuman capabilities; /html/autox/1999-03/msg00413.html (7,668 bytes)
45. Re: More course design (score: 1): Author: RacerRay52@aol.com; Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 11:46:03 EST; I find nothing to argue with in the following letter. Excellent course design principles. Courses designed with these ideas in mind would entice an entry fee out of my pocket every time. May I forwar; /html/autox/1999-03/msg00455.html (8,759 bytes)
46. Re: course design (score: 1): Author: RacerRay52@aol.com; Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 19:17:07 EST; << Ray-- I absolutely agree that a course should not be a confusing maze. The challenge should not be finding your way. My point is that, beyond that, if you want to drive WELL, you'd better memorize; /html/autox/1999-03/msg00475.html (9,922 bytes)
47. Re: course design (score: 1): Author: RacerRay52@aol.com; Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 10:04:23 EST; << If I were in your shoes, I would saying pretty much the same thing as you. I know sometimes it is necessary due to small lot size. Either that or have a 20 second course. Hopefully not around here; /html/autox/1999-03/msg00498.html (8,171 bytes)
48. Re: course design (score: 1): Author: RacerRay52@aol.com; Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 02:18:08 EST; << While I sympathize with your feelings, you should realize that many places in the country don't have space to design a course in any other fashion. For us in Oregon, it's at least a 6 hour round-t; /html/autox/1999-03/msg00563.html (8,407 bytes)
49. Re: course design (score: 1): Author: RacerRay52@aol.com; Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 02:28:33 EST; << I've designed courses in parking lots which seemed smaller than my back yard without making them Mickey Mouse -- which is what Ray (and I) have such heartburn about. That often meant a couple of l; /html/autox/1999-03/msg00564.html (7,683 bytes)
50. Re: Racing Cadillacs!!! (score: 1): Author: RacerRay52@aol.com; Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 03:23:39 EST; << Anybody ever seen a Caddy on an autocross course ... >> No, but the amazing John Sheally once ran a friend's Rolls Royce in an autocross at Fentress Airfield. A Rolls Royce!; /html/autox/1999-03/msg00809.html (8,070 bytes)
51. tires...AGAIN?! (score: 1): Author: RacerRay52@aol.com; Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:24:23 EST; << Why do folks persist with the totally misguided thinking that street tires will save money? Sticky street tires typically cost more than Kumho's, come in more restricted sizes, and get eaten up ju; /html/autox/1999-03/msg01040.html (9,351 bytes)
52. tires? SO SO SO sorry (not) (score: 1): Author: RacerRay52@aol.com; Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 05:29:15 EST; The Street Touring rule(with, possibly, a higher treadwear number) with the addition of durometer testing (with a very radical number, a number that leaves no room for doubt) would handle the tire pr; /html/autox/1999-03/msg01162.html (7,062 bytes)
53. Re: Course design/speed limits (score: 1): Author: RacerRay52@aol.com; Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 16:29:21 EST; I like fast, open, simple courses. It isn't so much raw speed that causes most of the trouble. It is those sudden, very tight offsets, those left-right-left maneuvers at the end of a reasonably moder; /html/autox/1999-03/msg01633.html (9,123 bytes)
54. Re: Course design/speed limits II (score: 1): Author: RacerRay52@aol.com; Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:26:42 EST; << I'm with you there, although I can say from experience that it IS possible to destroy a car in Solo II. Not exactly an everyday occurrence, but possible nonetheless. >> It sure is possible. Experi; /html/autox/1999-03/msg01643.html (7,099 bytes)
55. Re: Course design/speed limits (long) (score: 1): Author: RacerRay52@aol.com; Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 13:14:44 EST; << We live in an overly letigious society. It sucks, but that's what it is. If, god forbid, someone were to injure themselves in an incedent on course, and someone feels like pointing a finger of bla; /html/autox/1999-03/msg01692.html (7,514 bytes)
56. Re: Course Safety? (score: 1): Author: RacerRay52@aol.com; Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 10:31:09 EST; << Front wheel drive cars are unsafe under hard braking while attempting to negotiate a sharp turn, especially on "sticky" tires. There is no place for them in Autocross. NOW THAT'S AN EXTREME VIEW.; /html/autox/1999-03/msg01723.html (8,073 bytes)
57. Re: Autocross Speed and Safety (score: 1): Author: RacerRay52@aol.com; Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 13:16:10 EST; << A BMW 320is with R1s got loose in a 7 cone slalom (speed about 35 mph), didn't give up the run, tried to get back to the cone and flipped (driver received a minor scratch).>> (Yep, those sticky ti; /html/autox/1999-03/msg01738.html (7,825 bytes)
58. Re: Street Touring rules evolution question (score: 1): Author: RacerRay52@aol.com; Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 03:32:44 EST; << do the ST rules prohibit using the OEM tires if that tire has a treadwear rating less than 160? >> Interesting question. The answer would appear to be "yes". But can a sanctioning body not be as a; /html/autox/1999-02/msg00198.html (7,599 bytes)
59. Re: Image Awareness (aww, how cute) (score: 1): Author: RacerRay52@aol.com; Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:58:32 EST; << This past Sunday, I don't remember if it was a re-broadcast or not, there was a race in which a woman took 2nd place at the checkered flag behind a first time ever winner. >> Actually, females hav; /html/autox/1999-02/msg00509.html (8,259 bytes)
60. Re: When's it gonna get warm? (score: 1): Author: RacerRay52@aol.com; Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 09:21:12 EST; << I gotta move to where the weather permits racing all year long >> The weather doesn't always cooperate but the Tidewater Sports Car Club runs all winter. TSCC's Winter Four autox series is in prog; /html/autox/1999-02/msg01058.html (8,419 bytes)

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