DE Scheduling Suggestion

[Tony356993]

I like 4 sessions per day; I think it "minimizes the risk" of lost track time due to an incident on or off the track.  I'd rather risk 1/4 of my track day than 1/3 of my track day.

Good point. I was just throwing out the idea as a way to reduce the number of instructor transitions over the day. Longer run sessions are not ideal at a big track (with higher risk) like the Glen but it might work on other tracks.

The transition is simple on paper but complicated in reality.

Simple: Instructor gets out of his/her car or the other students car and gets in your car.

Complicated: Instructor is out in a his/her car or another students car and is the last car past the checkered. 2-3 minutes later (at a large track like the Glen or VIR) they get to the pits. Just before they get there the pit steward holds traffic (for another minute or two) to let the next run group go. Assuming the instructor gets dropped off or parks right at your car they still have to jump into your car and has to get buckled and connect the communicator. This could be another 1-2 minutes for a 3 point belt (I like to "lock" the 3 point as tight as possible) or another 2-3 minutes getting into harnesses. Then when we are ready to go we might have to wait for the pit out folks to get us safely on the track. I made no time in this scenario for the instructor to check his/her tire pressures or temps. Worst case is we lost 8 minutes of a 21 minute run - or 38% of the session. The 13 minutes left would be about 4 laps at the green groups average speed.

My only thought was it might be possible to still have 22 minutes of track time of a 30 minute session if the same 8 minutes were lost. This would be a 27% loss of a session instead of a 38% loss in the above scenario.

I fully understand that the Glen might not be the best place to use this scenario since if a student were able to run the whole 30 minutes, fatigue might rear it's ugly head and be cause for an incident.

Just food for thought - nice suggestions everyone.