Thanks for the feedback ,Jason, I feel better about course design. Best I
remember, we kept the "staging queue" pretty much full all day, except for the
period of the afternoon course walk. We enjoyed a lot of cooperation from the
workers for on-the-fly changeovers including the grid bosses.
barry
Jason Liao wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Barry Chafin wrote:
>
> > As an Event Chair I'd love to of gotten another 15 seconds out of the
> > Oakland lot in order to have three cars on course @ a time
> > (theoretically more cars in less time).
>
> Actually the number of cars on course simultaneously has very little to do
> with how many cars can get through the event (obviously there are other
> factors such as how many cars get re-runs after a red flag). Think about
> the principle of "pipelining." It's the interval between car starts that
> determines how many cars you can get through.
>
> Hope that makes sense.
> Jason
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