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RE: No reruns when a DNF is scored

To: "Navid Kahangi" <navid@interwoven.com>,
Subject: RE: No reruns when a DNF is scored
From: "Kelly, Katie" <kkelly@spss.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:57:25 -0700
Dear Navid,

In Basque culture (my father is a half-Basque, his mother, a
full-Basque, and I, a quarter-Basque, bada bump), please understand that
the :) that you flatlanders use to signify humor is for us a symbol of
aggression.

Katie


-----Original Message-----
From: Navid Kahangi [mailto:navid@interwoven.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 9:52 AM
To: ba-autox
Subject: RE: No reruns when a DNF is scored


Is this thing working?!?!  Do my smiley show up in my posts or are they
filtered out?  :)  Did you see that one?

--Navid

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John F. Kelly Jr. [mailto:76067.1750@compuserve.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 9:32 AM
> To: ba-autox; craig boyle; Navid Kahangi
> Subject: RE: No reruns when a DNF is scored
>
>
>
>
> -------------------- Begin Original Message --------------------
>
> Message text written by "Navid Kahangi"
>
> "So, what happens if the said driver, after he/she gets red-flagged,
turns
> around and goes upstream and corrects the DNF?  :)
>
> --Navid
> "
>
>
> -------------------- End Original Message --------------------
>
> Being red flagged and DNF'ing are two different subjects.
>         When you're red flagged you are supposed to stop and then
proceed
> slowly on the course under direction of the course worker who is
supposed
> to direct you. Does it always work EXACTLY that way? Hey we're
> dealing with
> people here.
>
>         If you are red flagged and you turn around and go "upstream"
> thereby causing a VERY  dangerous siutation with a potential head-on
> collision with the following car, at minimum you'd be
> disqualified. At most
> the chairman will tell you to leave for being stupid and go do your
stupid
> stuff some place else. It's the same thing we tell folks who go
> too fast in
> the pits or who spin donuts in the pits, as happened at our final
regular
> season event in August. (That guy wasn't a member and had spent the
> afternoon enjoying rides with entrants as a passenger which some of
our
> members believe is the way to get more people into the sport.
> That can be a
> future discussion subject!)
>         And if said driver gets really snotty about it (his dumbness)
we
> cancel his SCCA membership.
>
> --John Kelly

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