Lap Timers & Students

[Tony356993]

Tony, now as an instructor, how do you gauge when a student is ready to move up in experience level/group color? In other words, when instructing, do you watch your students [lap times] to determine whether or not the group they are in is fast enough and you find the student is being held back by other students on the track?

Not to be a chicken and avoid the question but I'll let you know after the 3/31 instructor meeting. This will be a topic of conversation. We are going to try and come to an agreement (yeah right) with promotion protocol.

I have my standards and they are not the norm. I'm very conservative about promotions. Search this forum for some of my previous comments about this.

 

[smankow]

bobt993 wrote:

Please suggest to the moderator to move this thread to Club racing since lap times are specifically forbidden by our DE guidelines. Now in club racing................ it's everything.

AMEN

[michael lang]

I was just curious.

 

[Tony356993]

AMEN

I thought we were supposed to keep church and club seperate.

 

[jakp993]

michael lang wrote:

I was just curious.

Mike,

There's some discussion of promotion criteria in the following thread

http://rtr.mywowbb.com/forum1/220.html

There's a bunch of other junk discussed as well, but slog thru it if you are interested in the opinions of folks on this forum.

Jack

[JIMK]

I use a calendar for lap timing. 

My first laps of the season are soon approaching.  Right now I'm still practicing staying up late to register.

But if I did use a timing device with more precison, I would be more interested the lap time "delta's" ; am I getting around consistently.

See, if you have to worry about getting caught in traffic or waiting for a pass, you're not in  944NA!