I used to race wth Cal Poly SLO at the Santa Maria Airport. We had a smallish
airplane parking area for the main part of the course and they gave us the use
of one of the taxiways, several hundred yards down to a turn-around (wide spot
on the taxiway). I drove the truck used to carry the cones and tow the timing
trailer, and had a lot of input on course design (which usually consisted of
driving the truck, a '72 IH crew cab 4WD, around while people tossed out cones.
One Sunday morning, the club president says, why don't we just make the taxiway
one slalom? So, I did. I paced out the cones at 25 paces (I'm 6'3"+). I think
that there were 13 cones, but it might have been more. At the end was a gate
with a pin turn on the wide spot on the taxiway, and then you went back through
it all again. It was a FAST slalom (45-50mph), and few people made it through
quickly without tagging at least one cone. The whole thing took about 40-45
seconds to get through.
After 3 runs, people were sick of slaloms, but they sure got good at them.
Nearly everyone enjoyed it, with the caveat of "don't ever do that again!"
David Avard
STS in Kansas
>Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:18:21 -0400
>From: "Wentzel" <greendot1@comcast.net>
>Subject: Re: [evolution-disc.] Longest slalom ever?
>
>Nationals in the late 80's or early 90's, Salina south course, had I think
>12 cones in a straight line. Rocky, you remember that one?
>Bruce
>- ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Eric Linnhoff" <knuckledragger@kcweb.net>
>To: "Evolution" <evolution-discussions@yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 11:56 PM
>Subject: [evolution-disc.] Longest slalom ever?
>
>
>> What's the longest, inline slalom that folks have experienced at an event?
>> 5 cones? 6? 7? 8? 9? More? And not that
>> bent-to-the-right-like-my-Grandpa's-index-finger stuff we had at the Nats
>a
>> few years back. That sort of POS maneuver doesn't count as a continuous
>> slalom in my books.
>>
>> Eric Linnhoff
>> '98 Mini-Viper #69 STS
>------------------------------
>Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:11:15 -0500
>From: Chuck Schultz <n2pua4@peoplepc.com>
>Subject: Re: [evolution-disc.] Longest slalom ever?
>
>Gee, if they'd put it on the drag strip, it could've been even longer!
>
>Chuck (took my first autox school there) Schultz
>
>- --------------------------
>On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 8:45am, Don Kline wrote:
>> In the late 70's Western New York region was running on a 5/6's oval at
>> Lancaster Speedway and we had a 13 cone, random spaced slalom on the
>> straight down the back of the course. NO rhythm, could be set. After
>> the slalom IIRC there was a turn around and you went back thru.
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