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Originally posted by 66 AC COBRA:
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Originally posted by WHYT LIE:
This is one area where we did screw up. The organization of the lanes and classes.

A few things contributed to this, but I was not prepared for it as well.

First, the track wanted to call different lanes at different times (for some reason they skipped B1 in eliminations.)

As for calling cars to the lanes... I had invisioned having everyone pit in the back and calling up the classes when we were ready to run them. The track said with how little time we had that wouldn't work. And with how little space was available from the prior event it made it difficult to do.

And after we found out there was an issue with the lanes being marked wrong and people in the wrong lanes I did send someone down to the end of the staging lanes to direct traffic. I think that person decided not to do that...

Chalk up one more learning experience for next year...

when the track "forgot" to call bracket 1 to the staging lanes, is right after jason mack's outlaw mustang oiled the right lane down

i dont think it was an accident that they sent bracket 2 out first, they just figured they would send the slow cars down first, who cares for fairness [Roll Eyes]

This is exactly what pissed me off and the reason why I got screwed. When I went and complained about this I was told that they didn't want to send the fast cars down because the lane just got oiled down. Which is complete BS. I paid the same as everyone else and have the exact same potential of losing traction and hitting the wall as any car. Which I did loose all traction when I launched the car at 5k+ I had to get out of it right away.

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Originally posted by bunchmyfunky:
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Originally posted by 66 AC COBRA:
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Originally posted by WHYT LIE:
This is one area where we did screw up. The organization of the lanes and classes.

A few things contributed to this, but I was not prepared for it as well.

First, the track wanted to call different lanes at different times (for some reason they skipped B1 in eliminations.)

As for calling cars to the lanes... I had invisioned having everyone pit in the back and calling up the classes when we were ready to run them. The track said with how little time we had that wouldn't work. And with how little space was available from the prior event it made it difficult to do.

And after we found out there was an issue with the lanes being marked wrong and people in the wrong lanes I did send someone down to the end of the staging lanes to direct traffic. I think that person decided not to do that...

Chalk up one more learning experience for next year...

when the track "forgot" to call bracket 1 to the staging lanes, is right after jason mack's outlaw mustang oiled the right lane down

i dont think it was an accident that they sent bracket 2 out first, they just figured they would send the slow cars down first, who cares for fairness [Roll Eyes]

This is exactly what pissed me off and the reason why I got screwed. When I went and complained about this I was told that they didn't want to send the fast cars down because the lane just got oiled down. Which is complete BS. I paid the same as everyone else and have the exact same potential of losing traction and hitting the wall as any car. Which I did loose all traction when I launched the car at 5k+ I had to get out of it right away.
One other quick thing that was screwed was that they said that the bracket 2 guys would have the 5/10th lights and in the first round it was wasn't...

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what did your vert end up runnin again ?

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Originally posted by jayl:
what did your vert end up runnin again ?

The best time of the night was 11.60 at 116.

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very nice!

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Originally posted by jayl:
very nice!

Thank you... [patriot]

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