Lessons from other regions/sponsors?

[Hammerin Hank]

Mike Andrews wrote:

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 ......

Earth mover? That's funny! I once used a dead ground hog as a mark down by the T1 on the Summit circuit. It was fine until someone knocked it way down in the weeds. After that, I found it best to used more "fixed" points like the painted strips and such.

P.S. I wonder if Brian M. was at that event? <<caddyshack carl voice on>> Gopher! <<off>>