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11-09-2006, 04:06 AM
smankow wrote:
I'll comment on the online registration in a second. But first I want to tell you guys a story about "cones".
Many years ago we were invited to come down to view the new track at Summit Point. No, not Shenandoah, Jefferson Circuit. We spend a couple of hours listening to Bill Scott talk about his new baby and what his plans were. He talked about being able to run it in either direction, how he was going to finish the runoff area and where he was going to put tire walls and so on. Heck the big equipment was out there working while he was talking about it. Around 11:00 he turned us loose to go play and asked us to let him know what we thought. Well going down the back straight towards T5 (clockwise) there was a BIG earth mover sitting off to the left. At a pretty good place to be used as a brake marker. Well, a half hour or so into running I came around the turn heading down the straight and said earth mover was driving across the track. Kurt later commented that it was a little disturbing seeing it on the track. My reply was yeah, it really screwed up my brake point
Ok, online registration. In the past couple of years we had registration at our club meetings. This was to promote the monthly meetings and to simplify things on our end. We have since moved away from registering at the meetings so that hurdle is no longer an issue. Tom, Carol and I talked about a new online system that PCA is looking at. Or something like that. Anyway, I think it is in our future.
23 hours, 55 minutes and counting ......
Quote:here is the one issue that I thought would have been raised much earlier in this thread. It may be the primary component to take RTR's DE program to the next level. It's an area that I personally have not used but I know that others have and really like it. What is it?Steve,
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and region, such as Potomac, use this for all of their events, including DE, AX, etc.
I know that RTR has been looking into it. Hopefully, we can incorporate it into our 2007 events. Our program is very well run despite its manually intensive setup. Maybe we can accomplish this and upgrade our "wonderful" website at the same time.
Steve
I'll comment on the online registration in a second. But first I want to tell you guys a story about "cones".
Many years ago we were invited to come down to view the new track at Summit Point. No, not Shenandoah, Jefferson Circuit. We spend a couple of hours listening to Bill Scott talk about his new baby and what his plans were. He talked about being able to run it in either direction, how he was going to finish the runoff area and where he was going to put tire walls and so on. Heck the big equipment was out there working while he was talking about it. Around 11:00 he turned us loose to go play and asked us to let him know what we thought. Well going down the back straight towards T5 (clockwise) there was a BIG earth mover sitting off to the left. At a pretty good place to be used as a brake marker. Well, a half hour or so into running I came around the turn heading down the straight and said earth mover was driving across the track. Kurt later commented that it was a little disturbing seeing it on the track. My reply was yeah, it really screwed up my brake point
Ok, online registration. In the past couple of years we had registration at our club meetings. This was to promote the monthly meetings and to simplify things on our end. We have since moved away from registering at the meetings so that hurdle is no longer an issue. Tom, Carol and I talked about a new online system that PCA is looking at. Or something like that. Anyway, I think it is in our future.
23 hours, 55 minutes and counting ......
Michael Andrews