Poll: Planning for the future AX

[betegh9]

Larry!
I am glad that you remember that far back. You must have been in diapers during the 70's. I am, on the other hand, considered a senior citizen in some places, so I am allowed to have those senior moments
Today, everyone likes to have as many runs as possible (not like the SCCA: 3 runs and you're out). If you like to get 80 participants X 8 runs each, that would make a total of 640 runs. If you send a car out every minute, add the time to change flaggers every half hour, have coffee breaks, 1 hour lunch, set up and take down and awards, you would be pushing sun rise to sun set but only on the longest daylight day of the year (June 21).
To make the event run fast, exciting and quick, one needs 3 people per station X 6 stations where 2 people RUN for cones (usually you pick the more agile guys and one guy with the radio), starters, stagers, timers (computer wizes), scorers, 4 to 5 instructors for rookies, tech inspectors and the AX chair to coordinate all this. So, if you roughly add all the people needed to run an event, I figure about 34 working while the other 30 run their cars. The extra 6 people per group can do other things to facilitate the load. In this faSHION, you can send a car every 20 seconds and seeing 3 to 4 cars on the course at any point in time. People will have plenty of time to eat and converse with their cohorts. Awards can be presented around 3pm. Go TODAY to an event where lots of participants want to go, and ask what draws them to get up at 6;30 am on a Sunday. People would think that they are loonitics. Why does this person choose to go to event A and not event B by another club?

I travel up to 4 hours a day to compete in an AX event that: 1. The site is large and good open course layout. 2. Everyone works, and everyone has a good time. 3. competition is keen where scores are 3/1000's between cars in class. Therefore, cars are placed in classes diligently and modifications scrutenized carefully by a tech comitee. 4. Only 5 minutes of stoppage when workers are changed. 5. Car is sent off at start every 20 seconds, at times having 3 cars on course. 6. there is no boaring, down time waiting in car with helmet on in 90 degrees+ heat. The list can go on, but it is late, and ...........this is only MY opinion.:? We need to find out what the RTR populus wants (as if the knew) One can only form an opinion once they have experienced several different AX events.