Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:42 pm
As always... I'll tech if the second spot is still open 
Anyway... we have 28 drivers listed, and at least 3 of them are maybes. Subtract from that a handful key folks like the event chairman, worker chief, timing chief and safety (that's me... again), and that leaves us with a pool of right about 20 folks to work the course throughout the day. That's not a lot, but we can make it work. It's going to require folks to work a lot more than they're used to (3 hours or more, but not all at once)... but we're also DRIVING alot more than we're used to.
Due to the nature of this event, we're looking at 6 hours of run-time, which will be non-stop from (hopefully) 9am until 3pm. We need about 12-14 people (that includes starter, timing helpers, and all course workers) to work at all times. Rather than try to split into two groups and be short workers all day, we're going to do something a little different.
The worker chief (cough... Steve... cough-cough) will have a list of all entrants. After the driver's meeting, workers will be sent out from the top of the list (the list is in class-order, FWIW), and class G will grid up to run.
Each car on grid will do one run (which will probably consist of 4-6 laps... 3-4 minutes). When a driver finishes their run, they park their car, take a minute or two to catch their breath, get hydrated or whatever, and report to the worker chief within 10 minutes. The worker chief will send workers out a pair at a time to replace the workers on course so that they can get in line and take a run. We'll continue this rotation of workers all day long, so nobody should be out on course for more than about an hour at a time. As a bonus, your car gets to cool down for an hour between each abusive run.
The number of runs we get will depend on how early we get started, how long the course ends up being, how many laps Ron decides we should do per run, whether we have any timing problems, weather, etc. But, my loose calculations show that we should be able to do 3 runs each.
Math:
28 drivers x
4 minute runs x
3 runs = 336 minutes = 5.6 hours
With that, each of us gets 12 minutes on course... the equivalent of 16 typical 45-second runs. Only better.
Are y'all excited yet? You should be.
