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1. How to get novices to "stick". (score: 1)
Author: GRMPer@aol.com
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 10:46:03 EDT
As a follow up to an earlier threads about events being "open" to everyone, Despite a pretty good novice program in the Southeast, I've been noticing that there is a pretty good percentage of novice
/html/autox/2002-10/msg00062.html (8,867 bytes)

2. Re: How to get novices to "stick". (score: 1)
Author: "Daniel Reeland" <Daniel.Reeland@BoiseOffice.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 10:09:54 -0500
I'm just a novice myself(started in March @ a wonderful SoloII school in the Chicago Region!) so I can't really answer your questions, as they're geared more towards the guys who organize and manage
/html/autox/2002-10/msg00063.html (10,203 bytes)

3. Re: How to get novices to "stick". (score: 1)
Author: Randy Chase <randyc2@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 08:37:56 -0700
Here in San Diego, we do run a separate novice run group with instructors. They run against each other. This has not shown to increase the retention percentages as I understand them. Many people do t
/html/autox/2002-10/msg00065.html (10,871 bytes)

4. Re: How to get novices to "stick". (score: 1)
Author: <Daniel.Reeland@BoiseOffice.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:13:00 -0500
A couple responses and clarifiactions... 1. A novice that would be discouraged because they got creamed at their first event would probably still get creamed in a novice class (we have 50-70 novices
/html/autox/2002-10/msg00066.html (10,697 bytes)

5. Re: How to get novices to "stick". (score: 1)
Author: Bob Monday <boysrus_racing@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:31:22 -0700 (PDT)
So do you also start climbing on the sheer rock face of a mountain or with something your're more likely to achieve? By "achieve", I mean that you'll get more than 30 ft up it. Without much equipment
/html/autox/2002-10/msg00067.html (9,997 bytes)

6. Re: How to get novices to "stick". (score: 1)
Author: Randy Chase <randyc2@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 09:36:55 -0700
Not at all Dan. I think you raise some good points. I guess my main point though is that for many novices, it really does not matter a lot what we do. They will not stick. And those people are not th
/html/autox/2002-10/msg00068.html (9,764 bytes)

7. Re: How to get novices to "stick". (score: 1)
Author: Randy Chase <randyc2@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 09:41:04 -0700
I very much agree. We identify novice drivers here with a special class designation letter...a big yellow N on their car. I think that is a great idea, as is a notation in the results. I think it is
/html/autox/2002-10/msg00069.html (9,597 bytes)

8. Re: How to get novices to "stick". (score: 1)
Author: "Alan Pozner" <apozner@ptd.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 13:26:23 -0400
Our region does not have a novice class. When I started I came in last or nearly last for a long time. It did not in any way diminsh my enthusiasm. I see no reason for a novice class that does not pr
/html/autox/2002-10/msg00070.html (9,508 bytes)

9. Re: How to get novices to "stick". (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Ourand" <racenumbers@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:04:00 -0700
Why do we need novices to "stick"? Be careful what you ask I have been autocrossing in San Diego since 1972 and have watched entry levels grow from 90 to 100 drivers up to our last event of over 300,
/html/autox/2002-10/msg00071.html (10,404 bytes)

10. Re: How to get novices to "stick". (score: 1)
Author: "Rick Brown" <free2000@quixnet.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:44:06 -0700
We also have a guided Novice course walk before the event and at lunch. Rick Brown BM / D Sports Racer with. 20 Grand an /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try ///
/html/autox/2002-10/msg00074.html (9,971 bytes)

11. Re: How to get novices to "stick". (score: 1)
Author: "Rick Brown" <free2000@quixnet.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:39:36 -0700
Cal Club has a novice class, but novices run with their regular class so they get to meet and associate with the people they would normally be with. We just score them separately, PAXed and with trop
/html/autox/2002-10/msg00076.html (9,594 bytes)

12. Re: How to get novices to "stick". (score: 1)
Author: "JUSTIN MOORE" <91red180sx@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 14:58:27 -0400
As a novice STS'r, 4 events run now, I would like to add a few observations. 1) I knew a little about classes coming in and where I would fit, so I was a little more in my element than someone who ju
/html/autox/2002-10/msg00078.html (11,226 bytes)

13. Re: How to get novices to "stick". (score: 1)
Author: "Rick Brown" <free2000@quixnet.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 13:08:45 -0700
where rate Some regions do have stock tire classes, Cal Club has 2, SK1 (SS, AS, BS, FS) and SK2 (CS, DS, ES, GS, HS). PAXed Stock Category cars running a treadwear of 140 or higher. Typically 8 to
/html/autox/2002-10/msg00079.html (9,877 bytes)

14. Re: How to get novices to "stick". (score: 1)
Author: Randy Chase <randyc2@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 13:30:51 -0700
Ding! I can hand the keys to my previous MR2 (Hoosier shod) to a novice and he will still be last or close to it locally. Only now he has no excuse. Randy Chase http://www.conecam.com/ /// unsubscrib
/html/autox/2002-10/msg00084.html (9,173 bytes)

15. Re: How to get novices to "stick". (score: 1)
Author: "Alan Pozner" <apozner@ptd.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:08:54 -0400
Justin Moore wrote in part: street car and be competitive. I would like to see a true stock class where race tires are not allowed. I think you'd have a much larger retention rate due to a much reduc
/html/autox/2002-10/msg00085.html (10,509 bytes)

16. Re: How to get novices to "stick". (score: 1)
Author: "David W. James" <vnend@adelphia.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:30:09 -0400
And some clubs are on a completely different wavelength, dependent on what their members do. The local (these may be national rules, I don't know) BMWCCA group, like most marque oriented clubs, has t
/html/autox/2002-10/msg00087.html (9,828 bytes)

17. Re: How to get novices to "stick". (score: 1)
Author: "David W. James" <vnend@adelphia.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:35:59 -0400
Which is what we did back in the dark ages. Well, it's what the guys with the money did. Then, as now, a lot of us just changed our tire pressures for the day... If I hear someone complaining about b
/html/autox/2002-10/msg00089.html (9,911 bytes)

18. Re: How to get novices to "stick". (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Ourand" <racenumbers@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:02:24 -0700
And vice versa, When you drive a novice's car (as an instructor) I'm willing to bet that your time is 4 to 6 seconds better on a 60 course. Part of the novice instruction should be that autocrossing
/html/autox/2002-10/msg00090.html (9,371 bytes)

19. Re: How to get novices to "stick". (score: 1)
Author: "Will Kalman" <will@kalman.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:25:55 -0700
Will Kalman '91 Escort GT Cal Club #232 STS /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo /// Partial archives at http://www.tea
/html/autox/2002-10/msg00092.html (8,635 bytes)

20. Re: How to get novices to "stick". (score: 1)
Author: Sean Minehart <mr_two_2001@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 15:29:01 -0700 (PDT)
Exactly. I had done this once at an event where I met a younger guy (my age) who came with his dad (who had done track events before, but had never autocrossed). After talking to him, I went on a run
/html/autox/2002-10/msg00102.html (9,766 bytes)


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