East Tennessee Region SCCA

Final comment. I strongly suggest that anyone who designs courses should read Solo Course Design 2009 presented by Houston Region SCCA ( http://houscca.com/solo/courses/Course_Design_4-1.pdf ) It makes my points far better than I have in this thread. For example, from page 13, Judging your success (...

John Brown wrote:Yellow caution or crime scene banner lining the course has not been addressed yet.. has it?

You do know that other regions often use powdered chalk line spreaders to mark courses, don't you?

Driving from cone to cone and not looking far enough ahead may also be a problem. It sounds like you are looking for pointer cones from one cone to the next. Find the cone and then start looking ahead for the next turn before you get to the one that you are about to get to. Continue this till the c...

Simply put, you should not need pointer cones. Pointer cones are necessary during your course walk, but if you are driving on course at speed looking for pointers to remind you which way to go, you have failed at your course walk....and that circles us back to your course walk and preparation. Redu...

Scoob, 1. I agree that this pointer was obscured from view, but it was a bit necessary for the two laps around said cone coming from the other direction where you could see it perfectly. And to be honest, it was not a key cone at the start - the first cone was. So why not put two pointer cones at ri...

Dang Chris I swear you have that stored somewhere where you can pull that vidoe ot and any given moment. :lol2: Seriously I will be honest you can ask Robert Carpenter how I used to overanalyze everything. Even how much throttle should I apply at this spot. Finally Robert gave me one of his reality...

I've been going over the videos I took. I was even more lost than I thought. There were a couple of points where I think the course design might have made things more intuitive. For example, the hairpin after the start: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/91578766/Pellissippi%20June%209/Key%20Cone%2...

If I'm going to be cartographer, I need to know which parking lot at Bristol is the one we're using so I can bring a few printed copies with me. Someone should get Scott Gibson to chime in here as well on how many times the course designer's plan on Saturday evening actually makes it to 11:30am Sun...

Not to rub it in DeWitt, but you DNF'd 10 times last season out of 6 events you ran. That's an average of almost 2 per-event-attended (not quite). The first step to fixing it, is admitting you have a problem :wink: You missed a few, it was actually 16 in 9 events in 2012, I ran in tire class for th...

If I'm going to be cartographer, I need to know which parking lot at Bristol is the one we're using so I can bring a few printed copies with me.

Key cones is where a course map would help. You don't have to put all the cones on the course map, just the ones that are critical, like the cone at the exit of the hairpin turn after the start which had to be taken on the left. That was the start of at least one of my DNF's..

::edit:: the kart DNF's were from mechanical problems.

The kart wasn't listed in the final results so those DNF's weren't part of the count. That's the sixth 'no time' that I missed.

oh.. well, I guess it was just a case of not knowing where they were going then. I was hoping it was weather related.. :? Listen to Rife... I see folks out on course with pens and paper,thinking wtf... When you see a tricky spot.. put your eyes at ride level and look at the entry till it burns a pi...

John Brown,

Only the last few drivers in group 2 made their third run in the wet. The first two were as dry as for group 1.

It was important for me to not only know which cone I needed to focus on, but at what point I'd be able to find it.

Exactly, especially the finding it part. Heyward Wagner tried to drill that into me at the EVO school at Atlanta. Apparently it didn't take.