If a system such as this were to go into effect, I for one, would be no
longer available to assist the SCTA I any of the volunteering I now am able
to do. As soon as I have completed inspection I would now need to prep may
car in anticipation of my number or group being called.
In the past I could perform duties and then go get in line anytime and wait
my turn. If a minor glitch occurred with my race vehicle, in these "systems"
and I was not able to put my car inline I would need to wait again for a
"call" and not just get in line then.
IMO. I believe what we have now works and it's the competitors who are not
ready and don't get off the course makes for extra time between runs. The
suggestions working with staging and setting a teams down for a day with out
runs for not following procedures has more merit.
> How about just dividing the vehicle numbers into equal-sized groups
> (before or
> at the very beginning of the meet), then drawing the groups at random for
> starting order. First group might be vehicle numbers 267 through 349.
> Any
> vehicles in that group could pre-stage and run if they were ready. When
> that
> group peters out group two is announced and those in group 2 can go to the
> pre-stage lanes. Perhaps this would be easier for people than listening
> for
> their particular vehicle number (somebody said it was too stressful?). If
> you're in a group that is called, but you're not ready to run, you have to
> wait until your group comes up in the rotation again. I think there are a
> few
> bugs in this, but those can be sorted with a variety of solutions I'll
> think
> of later--my wife just called me again "Are you ready to go yet?", so
> that's
> all for now.
> Benn
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