I was a Chief of Course for the first two heats of Tues-South, Wed-North.
On Tues day, we only had to give away two reruns in the first heat because
of a downed cone, none in the second heat. Wednesday was a little
different. While we did not have a ton of reruns, we had quite a few
because of a downed cone. Typically, it was the second car on course that
dictated the amount of cars that got a rerun. If that car got the red flag,
but did not proceed at 25-30, we would have to stop the third car as well.
Luckily, we had a couple of experienced starters (Rick McDaniel and John
MacDonald) that knew to hold the car on the line until we were sure that the
third car would finish. We never had to give four cars a rerun because of a
downed cone. I did see that happen on the North course a couple of times
later in the week.
Paul Zahornasky
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-autox@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-autox@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Randy Chase
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 4:16 PM
To: Mark J. Hirt
Cc: autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Reruns at Nats
"Mark J. Hirt" wrote:
>
> As a drivers who stopped for a downed cone lets NOT put the blame on
> us.
*sigh*
I must be a total failure in getting a point across. :-/
I was asking about the *worker's* purposely red flagging drivers who
were approaching a course that was not 100%. In fact, blame was not part
of any previous discussion.
Randy Chase (who would also stop for a down cone, and exit at what I
consider a reasonable speed, etc...and would not consider it a fault for
any other driver to do so...and who thinks cars should be red flagged
for ANYTHING dangerous...is e-mail this bad at getting a point across,
or is it just me?)
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