Malcolm:
once again I have to put on the "egalitarian" mantle: to "create a working
team of the right size to do all that is on your check list" (as you say)
suggests that the rider/ driver must have EITHER...
--a big flock of very capable friends (who have nothing better to do)
--a vehicle that-- despite being ingeniously simple to service and inspect--
still has the technological prowess to best the vehicle that set the
previous record (yeah, right), OR...
--a big, fat crew PAYROLL
Those who are not as popular as Don Vesco or Al Teague-- or as well-financed
as Richard Noble-- are expected to play Russian Roulette with the 1-hour
turnaround. To me, that feels elitist. But maybe that's just me.
W/resp. to wind-- I suggest that we could record wind direction and velocity
for each run (we already have the electronic weather stations), and solve
the course centerline vector windspeed equivalent; add or subtract that from
the actual timed speed on each run-- even before the timeslip is issued. It
wouldn't take much more effort to do that as an (integral, w/time) average
for the time the vehicle is in the traps. That procedure would
automatically correct for any wind advantage (or disadvantage). And-- with
respect to the idea of canceling wind advantage effects-- it would compare
with the one-hour turnarounds that have been done traditionally.
To limit the allowed "rebuild", all that is needed is a simple set of rules;
the vehicles will stay in Impound, and Dan (and his crew) are not going to
allow any hanky-panky. (You'd have better luck trying to "get a break" from
the Fedayeen Saddam. LoL!)
Russ, #1226B
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