Lessons from other regions/sponsors?

[Brian Minkin]

I have been to other regions events that did registration and tech the night before either at the track or at the headquaters hotel. They did the grid tech for my car in the enclosed trailer.  However I did not find that that this improved the event.  It just made longer hours for the volunteer workers.  Did give me something to do the night before the event.   However the way we do it works well and if it aint broke dont try to fix it.

In regards to releasing cars and lunch breaks.  This is up to the corner workers.  Untill all corner workers are ready cars for the next run group will be held.  Its all about saftey. At most of our events I find they release the 1st car when the last car of the prrevious run group has cleared the track.  But for example at Shenandoah this summer they took water to all the corner workers and held the run groups untill the truck delivering the water was off the track.  And sometimes a corner worker needs a bathroom break.  You cant object to keeping the corner workers alive and their senses sharp!  Of course if an incident has occured you will be held untill the track is cleaned up and safe.  Having a lunch hour and bringing the corner workers off the track for lunch is also a saftey related issue.  Being out in the infield on your feet is just as tiring as driving and they need a break.  Other regions do their own flagging and have work assignments for corner workers (we used to)  but I think professional corner workers are much better and keep us safer. But there are only so many of them to go around.

I have experienced that other regions run the 1st lap of each session under yellow flag and then go green when the 1st car completes the lap.  I think this is a good policy. 

Other regions issue a track pass to green and blue students in the classroom so if you try to skip the classroom you dont get admitted to the track.

The adhesive numbers affixed to the windshield works well for instructors finding their students the first time out but I know from being a corner worker, its dam hard to identify a 3 inch letter and two numbers on a windshield of a car going by at 90 MPH. This makes communication for the corner workers more difficult when all you can say is the "Black Boxster" and their are three or four of them on the track in that run group.

Yes looking at other regions events and policies is a good thing but I believe RTR puts on a great and safe event and dont want this thread to make people believe otherwise.