> Chris -
>
> I understand your concern for having the course be the "legal specs" that
> are expected. However, when you are out there laying the course, there are
> MANY considerations besides exactly how wide the course is.
>
> As Sunday's Chair and course designer (and motorhome driver and registration
> chief), I had the freedom to design the course with the elements that I like
> to drive. In particular, I like 90 degree turns. You might be right, I
> might have gotten carried away and made the course alittle tight, but as Don
> McKenna pointed out in his post, I was right on and 15 feet is actually even
> TIGHTER than Sunday's course.
>
> - BEN
>
> Chris Tweney wrote:
>
> > Wow! Quite a fun little course we got at SFR round 7.
> > The downhill entry to the sweeper preceding the long
> > back straight was particularly fun (if terrifying). I
> > worked near that corner and got a kick out of watching
> > lots of tires lock up as the ground plunged away from
> > under the car..
> >
> > I wonder about the start, though. Was it *really* the
> > legal 15' wide? The course from the right-hander before
> > the lights up through the hard right after the chicane
> > seemed painfully and unnecessarily tight to me.
> > Oh well, the go-karts seemed to enjoy that one. ;)
> >
> > Good event all. Kudos to the stewards who booted car #888
> > after he plowed through something like 20 cones. What
> > was UP with that guy?
> >
> > -chris
> > #333 ES Hyundai Tiburon
> >
> > "look, that Hyundai's going 110 miles an hour!"
> >
> > ---
> > Chris Tweney
> > http://www.pobox.com/~cat
> >
>
> --
> BEN
>
> DSP #60
> Mercury Capri
> -- Racing islife...all the rest is just waiting
>
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