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From: wspotter <wester6935@home.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 06:40:56 -0700
To: Higginbotham Land Speed Racing <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
Subject: Re: Procedures-Drivers-Logic-
Ski, List.
At the top end of the course, about eight miles from the start there is a
barrel marking the end of the smooth salt. At that point everything runs
together, return road, course, everything funnels down to a small area.
It's my understanding that Tom touched that barrel. My point is that the
safety crews are already on the move toward the end of the course as the
faster cars come down the track. Turning to either side at that point won't
speed up the arrival of safety equipment by more than a few seconds. The
course watchers have knives to cut safety harnesses and fire extinguishers
as well as large crow bars to help with leverage for extraction if needed.
They have to wait for the trained ambulance crew to extract a driver who is
injured but they can do the basic things to prepare the scene for the
arrival of those people. I'm just trying to help you understand the
thinking and agonizing that goes into the placement of those people. Once
the car turns to the right they relax some. If the car goes to the left
they put on the speed, whether it is necessary or not it is a unique signal
that there may be a problem.
Tom was traveling at roughly 1/4 the maximum speed of the run when he had
trouble. After traveling at the high speed the comment was made that he
probably thought he was stopping at that speed. He was. I'm assuming he
was on the brakes. The right people had him in their sight and were going
toward him when he went over. It didn't matter which side of the course he
was on at that point, there isn't much difference.
If you were to propose another scenario, more on course, say at the three
mile ... There are many shut-down's at that point by slower cars ... If one
of them has a problem and turns left as requested, EVERYONE goes to them.
If they turn to the right, there is one chase vehicle to meet them. Simple,
obvious signal. It seems to work well. AND, THERE ISN'T A VEHICLE RUNNING
OVER THE WIRES EVERY RUN. The way we do it, someone contacts every car
after every run. That's why I added the word logic to the heading on this
thread.
Wes
on 10/1/01 8:49 PM, Higginbotham Land Speed Racing at saltrat@pro-blend.com
wrote:
> Wes,
> Tom turned right.......towards the rescue folks. He didn't turn left as he
> was told to if he was in trouble. So, I guess that he didn't think that he
> was in trouble?
>
> I guess that I have been misunderstood once again....I was under the
> impression that the rescue gear was on the right side of the course at WOS
> and that the course watchers have only fire extinguishers. That is the
> source of my comment that the car in trouble should go towards the rescue
> equipment.....as Tom did....inadvertantly or ???
>
> I certainly did not criticize the folks down the course.....why are you
> acting like I did? I also do not recommend that cars turn left normally and
> run over the timing wires.
>
> Again...why turn away from rescue gear if you are in trouble? Put the
> rescue gear on the side of the course that you go to when in trouble! Then
> you have an improvement to the rescue system.
>
> Geez
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