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Re: Oct. 17 and 18 at Brooksville
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 2:46 pm
by Native
impalanut wrote:I was going to have the choosing sandlot style by the captains, but now I am leaning toward picking names at random by the captains. I would like some feedback as to how people thing we should do it.
Allowing captains to choose sandlot style is not a good idea - nobody wants/likes to be picked last. A random assignment of some sort seems more reasonable, whether by captains or by Mr. Chairman.
Re: Oct. 17 and 18 at Brooksville
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:36 pm
by impalanut
I was leaning toward having the captains pick names from a box. The only reason to pick sandlot style is that it tends to keep the teams more even than a random draw, although they are already seeded to a degree.
Re: Oct. 17 and 18 at Brooksville
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:23 pm
by Charles
Native wrote:
Allowing captains to choose sandlot style is not a good idea - nobody wants/likes to be picked last. A random assignment of some sort seems more reasonable, whether by captains or by Mr. Chairman.
Don't worry Steve, we know you have feelings
Re: Oct. 17 and 18 at Brooksville
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 10:12 pm
by Native
yes, and they were all crushed in elementary school PE classes...
Re: Oct. 17 and 18 at Brooksville
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 10:15 pm
by miazda man
Jamie
I won't be driving Saturday. I plan on dropping the trailer then heading out but I will be racing Sunday
Re: Oct. 17 and 18 at Brooksville
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:47 pm
by Jamie
miazda man wrote:Jamie
I won't be driving Saturday. I plan on dropping the trailer then heading out but I will be racing Sunday
OK.
Re: Oct. 17 and 18 at Brooksville
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 11:52 am
by impalanut
If Bob isn't driving on Saturday, replace him with Sam Sculerati
Re: Oct. 17 and 18 at Brooksville
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 12:46 pm
by Jamie
impalanut wrote:If Bob isn't driving on Saturday, replace him with Sam Sculerati
When you set things up, remember Sam and I are sharing a car.
Re: Oct. 17 and 18 at Brooksville
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 3:06 pm
by impalanut
As long as you aren't on the same team there is no problem
Re: Oct. 17 and 18 at Brooksville
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:21 pm
by S2K_MoZo
Getting new rears put on today...so ready for this weekend!
Re: Oct. 17 and 18 at Brooksville
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:53 pm
by shakedown067
S2K_MoZo wrote:Getting new rears put on today...so ready for this weekend!
Looking forward to testing out my new rubber as well. Got them right after the last event and am dying to shed some of that new deep tread off.
Re: Oct. 17 and 18 at Brooksville
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:45 pm
by Jeremy
I got new tires also. Full tread
Maybe it'll rain.
Re: Oct. 17 and 18 at Brooksville
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:14 am
by WAFlowers
solar 90GT/03Si wrote:S2K_MoZo wrote:Sunpass is a pre-paid transponder you put in your car that lets you basically "cruise" through the toll booths; it deducts the toll from your pre paid balance.
And the SunPass system is running on the QNX4 operating system. I was the senior designer for QNX4 and began the project which became QNX4!
Dang, that was over 20 years ago! :shock:
Also, I didn't sign up for this weekend. My rear tires are completely shot; not corded but into the wear bars after only 8 months, and it is my wife's birthday - I'm hoping to take her away for the weekend. I guess I had a choice, spend money on tires and autoX or spend money on my wife's birthday. There will always be another autoX.
Re: Oct. 17 and 18 at Brooksville
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:33 am
by S2K_MoZo
Jeremy17 wrote:I got new tires also. Full tread
Maybe it'll rain.
Glad to hear a lot of people got some new rubber.
On a seperate note, did you get XS again? You might wanna try Direzzas, I have tried those and XS and a lot of different Extreme performance tires including the old RE-01Rs but so far I like Direzzas the best! I got new Direzza rears and am going to try to finish my fronts this weekend so I can replace front XS with Direzza too. Also, Direzza handle way better in rain. XSW got 1 out of 10 in wet autocross and Direzzas got a 7 or 8 I think!!
Re: Oct. 17 and 18 at Brooksville
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:06 pm
by Jeremy
I got Dunlops also. 255 all around. First time driving on non-staggered tires. Hopefully it's not too loose.
Re: Oct. 17 and 18 at Brooksville
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:16 pm
by S2K_MoZo
What was your setup before? Wasn't it 275s all around?
I am sure you will love the tires, although it tends to oversteer a little with 255s all around from all that I know. I know people who disconnect their rear sway bars to make it a little better. Either way it should be fun. Is it Friday yet? lol
Re: Oct. 17 and 18 at Brooksville
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:16 pm
by Jeremy
I had 245/275.
impalanut wrote:The four teams with the fastest times for their best two runs will qualify for the finals, which will be single elimination and will be handicapped according to the average of the two best times. The fourth seed will run the first seed, the second and third seed will run, and winners in the final. The upper seed will have choice of who runs first. The faster seed will have the difference in the average times added to their time. In other words, for the runoff the winner will be the team that beats their times by the most not necessarily the fastest raw time. This is similar to the singe start pro solo rules. This will keep things more even between teams in the final.
So, you want to sandbag and still get in 4th spot. Got it.
You might want to have this all written down on paper to display at the event. Some (most) people might not get it. I just had to read it several times and I think I understand now.
Re: Oct. 17 and 18 at Brooksville
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:25 pm
by Alizarin
Depending on the final decision for how things will be run (which can eliminate the chutes), the software help file does indicate that it can be run in lapping mode with both beams.
Sending cars in Groups: - The easiest way to run a lapping session is to send several cars in a group onto the course. The start and finish will be triggered in a consecutive fashion. Each group completes their runs before the next group is sent onto the course. With respect to timing, this method expects X starts and X Finishes to occur, otherwise a timing error will occur. Special control must be expected if a car breaks or can't finish it's run (and thus not generate a Finish). In this case the respective Reset Stop Watch button must be executed.
I can set up the number of laps (1 in this case) for the number of cars (3? 4?) and can time each lap or total time. I don't know how this would look in the staging grid though (no screenshots in the help file). Just some extra info.
Re: Oct. 17 and 18 at Brooksville
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:33 pm
by shakedown067
Looks like it's going to be beautiful out this weekend. High of 80 and no rain! Might have to run the vette topless saturday! 8)
Re: Oct. 17 and 18 at Brooksville
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:46 pm
by impalanut
You can try to sandbag for fourth. But if you are in the first group, you may be passed by any of the second group teams. If you have the last run and are in fourth than you can dump your last run safely.