If Alan will recall the 01 Topeka event, Thursday, Friday (if you were
there, Alan). Amazing. The almost total 4-day event was squeezed into 2
days, with rapid worker change-over and 15 second overlaps (and an exhausted
timing crew--no one wants to do that again. The worker changeover was the
real key, and very shortened course walkthroughs.
--Pat K
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>From: "Jerry Mouton" <jerry@moutons.org>
>To: "Alan Dahl" <adahl@eskimo.com>
>Cc: "Bay_Area_Autocross_List" <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: So how do you do it?
>Date: Mon, Mar 4, 2002, 2:59 PM
>
>Alan,
>
>It's just getting started as much as possible on time,
>keeping separation between cars at about 25 secs or so, and
>changing workers on the fly. Then mid-day course walks are
>short, drivers meetings, too. The chiefs work hard to push
>people to keep the pace going. Grid folks work pretty
>efficiently, keep 2-3 cars lined up at all times. Not putting
>up with grid guff from competitors, tossing them if they get too
>balky in line (this does not happen too much any more)
>If there are a few cars running late in a group, feeding them
>into the following group instead of making everybody in that
>group wait till they are done.
>
>We always have two grids, so the current and next run group can
>be getting ready at the same time.
>
>It's funny, the whole thing is pretty disorganized if you watch it
>from the point of view of cheifs and workers, pretty much
>everyone pitches in and makes things work. There's an attitude of
>keeping things mmoving that everyone shares, and everyone is ready
>to pitch in when called.
>
>Jerry
>
>Jerry Mouton mailto:jerry@moutons.org Laissez les bons temps rouler!
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Alan Dahl" <adahl@eskimo.com>
>To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 1:31 PM
>Subject: So how do you do it?
>
>
>> Saw from today's posts that SFR managed to get nearly 340 people though
>> 3 runs at yesterday's autocross. Congratulations! As a Northwest Region
>> member where we are struggling to deal with 260 entrants (in Seattle in
>> February!!!) it would be helpful to know just how you guys manage to be
>> so efficient? We're getting better and better but it's been a struggle
>> keeping up since the numbers of entrants at our events have grown from
>> 65-100 back in '95 to our current 200-250 range. Every time we think
>> we're ready for the new level we get still more entries.
>>
>> Last weekend's event was the back-breaker. After bigger and bigger
>> entries at each event this year (191 then 226) we were snowed with 256
>> entrants of which a whopping 110 were novices! Unfortunately several
>> problems resulted in not everyone being able to run which we want to
>> prevent from ever happening again so anything NWR could learn from SFR
>> would be great.
>>
>> I should point out that these early-season attendance problems were for
>> our WWSCC series not the NWR/SCCA series which starts this upcoming
>> weekend. We've discussed requiring SCCA membership as SFR does to limit
>> entries at SCCA events but since WWSCC is not SCCA and has no membership
>> per se (it is a council of several unrelated clubs) this solution is not
>> available to us. What we need to do is be more efficient in event
>> planning and execution which is where your help would be invaluable.
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>>
>> - Alan Dahl
>>
>> P.S. Please CC me directly on your replies, I am on the digest version
>> of the list and I'd like to be able to keep your separate responses to
>> forward on to the folks on our local autox list.
>>
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