Registration for Points 7 will open for the July 12th event at AMS! This event will have four heats with a break inbetween heats 2 & 3; there will be no optional TNT runs after the end of heat 4. First car will be at 6:00PM, site will be open at 4:00PM. Run order will be announced at the event (except for novice group, see below).
* Novice Orientation class will be capped to 20 entrants. NOVICE MEETING WILL BE AT 5:00 PM. ALL NOVICES WILL RUN HEAT 2 AND WORK HEAT 3.
The site opens at 4pm, event check-in will begin then, and should be open as late as 5:45 pm. This is EASTERN STANDARD TIME
This is what I can arrange for Late Check-in, without having asked permission yet. I will need a photocopy of each drivers license, with car number and class written on the sheet of paper. With this info, I can check the group in ahead of time, and figure out the work assignments for you. This is of course assuming I'm allowed to do these things.
The first rungroup will drive at 6pm. We are a large region, we run large events, just hosted two SCCA National events on back to back weekends, expect that we will be very efficient and prompt, meaning we will start on time.
I will get as much rungroup info as I can as soon as I can, most likely Friday evening, and make sure everyone knows what time they need to be onsite for their rungroups and work assignment.
If you are a Novice, you must be onsite at 5pm for the Novice class. Miss the class, lose your ride.
If everyone decides it is worth it, meaning they don't cared to be scored in a class appropriate for the car, meaning heads up racing between ourselves, agree ahead of time to enter all cars as class "AM" (A-Modified), and I will arrange to have that class work heat 3 (or worst case heat 2), and drive heat 4. This will allow the most time to get to the track, probably 7:30pm EST.
These are probably the best considerations I can manage with respect to time. All of our processes are hardened, computerized, wireless, and generally advanced, but people are still needed to handle the equipment. Those people are also competitors, and aren't able to wait on us if we aren't where we say we will be.
Note that by 3pm(CST) at Little Talladega, we have always decided to call it a day before somebody falls asleep at the wheel. If the AM classing idea is accepted, I will begin working on it tonight, and a 3pm leave time will get you there in time for even a 2nd heat work assignment.
Regards,
Dale
Last edited by Dale Seeley : 06-06-2008 at 09:25 AM.
I haven't officially decided on the Autocross yet. I may sit that one out and just provide moral support/pit crew efforts. After beating on the car all night Friday, and all day Saturday... i thinking its going to pretty pissed off by Saturday night.
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I haven't officially decided on the Autocross yet. I may sit that one out and just provide moral support/pit crew efforts. After beating on the car all night Friday, and all day Saturday... i thinking its going to pretty pissed off by Saturday night.
Bryan
Figures that once a bit of skill is required, the decisions to sit out...
I've had nobody request that I try to set up a late arrival for them.
With the start time moved up an hour, it's going to make it very difficult to get from TGPR to AMS. The timezones are working against us.
Anyone that is planning to run the autox, who is a novice, will have to be at the start of the event on time. There is a chance I'll be able to set something up for expreienced autocrossers.
I'll be driving for the first time since the last Nationals in Memphis. Y'all be able to make up t-shirts, "I couldn't beat his kid, but I was faster than Dale".
Given the choice between the roadcourse and autox event, I'd choose the roadcourse myself.
Looks like I will be there as a spectator only as the whole time change (Both the zone and the event) has made it pretty impossible to complete both fully.
I did talk to Erich and he will be back to AMS in time for the Auto-x....
Anyway, has there been a clear "hotel of choice" that people have voiced a preference for? I need to make a Saturday night reservation and could use some guidance.
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I've registered for the AutoX at AMS and I'll likely be cutting the roadcourse short too.
Disappointing to be sure, but I don't think that I can miss the opportunity to beat Erich again OR a night AutoX. That stuff just doesn't happen around my neck of the woods.
Hopefully that will keep me out of the worst of the southern heat as well...
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OR a night AutoX. That stuff just doesn't happen around my neck of the woods.
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