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1. Acceptable finish designs. (score: 1): Author: Smokerbros@aol.com; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:47:42 EST; We had an event on Sunday with a corner after the finish line, and several of us wanted (and did) move the finish line back so there would be some room to slow down and make that corner. One region o; /html/autox/2001-12/msg00251.html (7,940 bytes)
2. Re: Acceptable finish designs. (score: 1): Author: Dick Rasmussen <rasmussend@mindspring.com>; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 19:02:33 -0500; of us wanted (and did) move the finish line back so there would be some room to slow down and make that corner. One region official said "learn how to drive!" and told me it's acceptable to have to b; /html/autox/2001-12/msg00254.html (9,132 bytes)
3. Re: Acceptable finish designs. (score: 1): Author: Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:04:12 -0800 (PST); I do. Safe? Yes. Legal? Yes. Acceptable? Yes (acceptable = safe/legal). Desirable? No. KeS /// autox@autox.team.net mailing list /// /// To unsubscribe send a plain text message to majordomo@autox.te; /html/autox/2001-12/msg00255.html (8,639 bytes)
4. Re: Acceptable finish designs. (score: 1): Author: "Pat Kelly" <lollipop487@attbi.com>; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:51:26 -0800; The most important part of the finish is the car is under control, whether it's in a straight line or in a corner. It is more fun to finish with the pedal to the metal, but when there's no room for t; /html/autox/2001-12/msg00256.html (9,312 bytes)
5. Re: Acceptable finish designs. (score: 1): Author: "Bob Klingler" <bklingler@worldnet.att.net>; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:33:59 -0700; Hey Charlie, Did this designer also do the course for your July event at the Coliseum? My tires and I both hate those finishes. Technically that "feature" is not unacceptable as long as it is safe. B; /html/autox/2001-12/msg00258.html (9,593 bytes)
6. Re: Acceptable finish designs. (score: 1): Author: Chris Eckles <MRoadster@compuserve.com>; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 19:47:52 -0500; I have done a ton of autocrosses (nearly every warm weekend the last three years). Only one did I hate the finish. A recent PCA (Porsche club) event. Sharp left jink, at the outside of the turn was t; /html/autox/2001-12/msg00259.html (9,459 bytes)
7. Re: Acceptable finish designs. (score: 1): Author: "Steven T. Ekstrand" <cyberlaw@earthlink.net>; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:11:18 -0800; This is a subject of much debate in our region. We have huge lots, but lots of newbies and a few of our course designers insist on the hard turn after the finish. Now some in our region argue its a t; /html/autox/2001-12/msg00260.html (9,425 bytes)
8. Re: Acceptable finish designs. (score: 1): Author: "Rocky Entriken" <rocky@tri.net>; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 19:21:47 -0600; It is not prohibited by the rulebook and so technically legal. Which is not the same thing as acceptable. Rule #1 of course design: Is it fun? No? Then don't do it. And potentially hazardous if blowi; /html/autox/2001-12/msg00261.html (11,126 bytes)
9. Re: Acceptable finish designs. (score: 1): Author: "matthew c. mead" <mmead-autox@goof.com>; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 20:29:42 -0500; Ok, I'll bite? What's a Texas Star? I attended a solo ii event in '00 that was basically a spirograph. Turn cones and triangle of cones in the center - make a gate out of your choice of cones each ti; /html/autox/2001-12/msg00263.html (9,194 bytes)
10. Re: Acceptable finish designs. (score: 1): Author: "Jay Mitchell" <jemitchell@compuserve.com>; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 19:29:09 -0600; BTDT. One of my pet peeves. You may not always be able to force a change to a feature such as this for strictly safety-related reaons, but that doesn't change the fact that, IMHO, it's stupid. The be; /html/autox/2001-12/msg00264.html (9,510 bytes)
11. Re: Acceptable finish designs. (score: 1): Author: "Rocky Entriken" <rocky@tri.net>; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 19:38:36 -0600; You Brings to mind the very first Solo II Nationals, running the old Mid-America Raceway circuit in reverse direction from T7 to T1 (chicanes in the corners, open straights). Finish line was followe; /html/autox/2001-12/msg00265.html (10,951 bytes)
12. Re: Acceptable finish designs. (score: 1): Author: "Pat Kelly" <lollipop487@attbi.com>; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:25:53 -0800; That's a gymkhana, which I thought died in 1958! :) --Pat Kelly -- /// autox@autox.team.net mailing list /// /// To unsubscribe send a plain text message to majordomo@autox.team.net /// with nothing; /html/autox/2001-12/msg00266.html (9,964 bytes)
13. Re: Acceptable finish designs. (score: 1): Author: "Rocky Entriken" <rocky@tri.net>; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 19:49:37 -0600; Imagine 5 cones at the point of a star (actually makes a pentagon shape:. Then for a "left hand star": Go through with two cones on the left, circle the second cone and go through again with two con; /html/autox/2001-12/msg00267.html (9,868 bytes)
14. Re: Acceptable finish designs. (score: 1): Author: Hottvr@aol.com; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 21:08:37 EST; << IMHO, it is a safety issue. The safest finish is a full-throttle straight line. Second choice, finish on a curve, but still in a WOT situation, not a braking or lifting situation which upsets and/; /html/autox/2001-12/msg00268.html (11,058 bytes)
15. RE: Acceptable finish designs. (score: 1): Author: "Paul Zahornasky" <p.zahornasky@att.net>; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 21:34:03 -0500; Any finish that forces you to brake before the finish lights can spell disaster, especially if it includes a turn after the lights, but even if it doesn't. Case in point: I was an event in Maine (NOT; /html/autox/2001-12/msg00269.html (9,263 bytes)
16. Re: Acceptable finish designs. (score: 1): Author: "Scott Peterson" <scott.peterson2@worldnet.att.net>; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 21:08:29 -0600; Ya, I remember that one....serious Pucker Factor finish that was dangerous. If I recall the Knuckle Dragger "backed" through that one too. Seems to me that most course designers spend too little tim; /html/autox/2001-12/msg00270.html (11,706 bytes)
17. Re: Acceptable finish designs. (score: 1): Author: "matthew c. mead" <mmead-autox@goof.com>; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 21:48:04 -0500; It sounds just as bad as the spirograph. [ spirograph ] Three of us from my local region went to this unnamed region to try them out and encountered this. We've joked ever since about relabeling a sp; /html/autox/2001-12/msg00271.html (9,127 bytes)
18. Re: Acceptable finish designs. (score: 1): Author: TeamZ06@aol.com; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 23:02:52 EST; from 2001 Solo2 rulebook, Page 52, Para. 2.1.J ..... *In all cases*, a sufficient distance past the finish line must be available to safely slow or halt any competing car from the highest possible sp; /html/autox/2001-12/msg00275.html (8,577 bytes)
19. Re: Acceptable finish designs. (score: 1): Author: "Scot Zediker" <roadsterboy@earthlink.net>; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 20:08:35 -0800; You Of course. But this is partly because the lot they use for the SD Tour is HUMONGOUS!! A straight braking zone is a luxury they can afford, even with 70-80 second course lengths (a few of the loca; /html/autox/2001-12/msg00276.html (9,568 bytes)
20. Re: Acceptable finish designs. (score: 1): Author: TeamZ06@aol.com; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 23:18:03 EST; Woo-hoo, all those responses and I'm the only who actually looked at the rulebook rather than mouthing off about ... what was the prize for the right answer again? IMO, the rule above makes running c; /html/autox/2001-12/msg00277.html (8,839 bytes)

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