Actually, 6 days may be in the future if the event keeps growing as it has.
but it won't be at a 1200 car count. Maybe at a 1500 car count. For one
thing, to supply the extra stewards, chiefs, captains, etc., and even cone
chasers, you need the extra entrants. And if I were to guess:
Tuesday-Sunday. 6 day may become the solution at a time when we are turning
away significant numbers of entrants after we hit the 1250 entry cap.
Of course, we also just proved we can run a 400-car event in a day. It was
ugly, but we got it done and with remarkable and laudable efficiency. Not
what we want to do every year, but it lets us know we might be able to edge
a little beyond a "normal" 300-car event per course per day so that 1250 cap
might rise to 1300 or 1400 in future years. But if I were to guess, not
until we have hit 1250 a time or two and brought off successful events.
--Rocky
----- Original Message -----
From: <jac73@daimlerchrysler.com>
To: <jeff@winchell.com>
Cc: <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: 4 runs at Nationals
> On Wed, 19 September 2001, Jeff Winchell said:
>
> >On Wed, 19 September 2001, jac73@daimlerchrysler.com wrote:
>
> >>you're looking at some VERY long days trying to do 4 runs for 1200
> >>people (figure 300 cars per course per day). I don't think that's a
> >>realistic call at our nice, high Nationals entry levels.
>
> >How about running 6 days?
>
> I take it you're talking running Monday to Saturday. Okay, let's ponder
> this one. Yes, it drops the cars per course per day count to effectively
> 200 cars per day. 200 cars x 4 runs x 20 seconds interval = about 4.5
> hours. Certainly reasonable on the face of it. Figure 6-7 hours with
> downtime, reruns, etc. Three runs is even nicer in that respect.
>
> However... It adds one banquet (Tues, Thurs, Sat vs. Wed, Fri), which is,
> as they say in the brake shop commercials, "substantial additional cost"
> for someone, be it SCCA, the MTAA, the TCVB, and/or the entrants. Said
> banquet also eliminates the only "free to graze" night of the week, which
> would be somewhat discouraging to the local restaurants who offered
> discounts, coupons, etc. for competitors and also underwrite the Topeka
> Convention & Visitors Bureau. Keeping the locals fat and happy
> economically during our week there is probably the biggest reason we have
> the support from Topeka that we do.
>
> Running 6 days instead of 4 requires 4-6 additional Operating Stewards,
> Chiefs of Course, Timing & Scoring Captains, 8-10 additional Safety
> Stewards, 4-8 additional Announcers. It requires an additional day of
site
> usage as we'd need to stay on the Forbes site on the following Sunday for
> course teardown and equipment & facilities removal (Port-a-johns,
> dumpsters, tents, bleachers, barrels & signs), which is hard to get, even
> in years that don't involve sudden increases in airport and military base
> security levels. In past years, people leaving trailers on the site
Friday
> night were instructed that they had to be gone by 0800 Saturday morning.
>
> And we lose the Monday arrive/get settled/get registered/get teched/walk
> courses day. Remember that both courses would need to be available for
> walking at the same time. With the South Course area in use by the
ProSolo
> finale on Saturday and Sunday, even if we eliminated one day of the Kansas
> Region warm-up event on the North Course area, we wouldn't be able to open
> it for walking until the South Course was also available anyway, so Kansas
> Region might as well run the warmup both days on the weekend.
>
> While it's *possible* to do this, I don't think it's ultimately advisable
> as it's awfully hard on the organizers and chiefs -- you've essentially
> added 50% to their existing workload. Remember that these folks are also
> competitors, and they deserve a shot at driving at Nationals with their
> heads in reasonable shape. *I* can't drive well when my head's elsewhere
> or I'm fatigued out of my skull, and I firmly think I'm fairly normal in
> that respect.
>
> Jim Crider
> autojim@att.net
>
>
>
>
>
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