mikeblaszczak
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Scott Adare, the ICSCC Insurance Advisor, was exactly the guy that I had asked about grid size.
Even without a special race, the schedule at PR is pretty tough because of the hard stop imposed by the drags and the conditional use permit.
I think the plan could mean that we abolish practice, and just make the practices super long. The idea is that you can go out with a weak setup, but still get a time for your qualifying. Then, do a tweak or two, go back up, set your laps, and so on.
Say it's something like this:
0900 - 0955: These Cars
1000 - 1055: Those Cars
1100 - 1155: O/W cars
1200 - 1255: Lunch, driver's meeting
1300 - 1325: Those Cars
1330 - 1455: Those Cars
1500 - 1630: O/W cars
That's 85 minutes in the afternoon, just for one session -- add 55 minutes from the morning, and you've got plenty of time to set your time, make tweaks, take a break, and so on. And a 1630 stop is still 30 minutes earlier than we have now, usually.
Is anybody else interested in finding out what official ICSCC sanctioned car/mile ratio/equation may/must/shall be used? Spill it, ekiM.
.....That's why the 2 day format was interesting to me, with rotating groups and a bye race or two for each group during the year to cut down on the number of events needed to attend.....
Is anybody else interested in finding out what official ICSCC sanctioned car/mile ratio/equation may/must/shall be used?
Spill it, ekiM.
I would love to see two days two races. More races in a season with less weekends in attendance.
About 10 years ago I went through to rule book top to bottom and submitted rule proposals that would allow a club to choose a two day two race format. You will find a lot push back for the status quo.
Many rules in many sections need to be revised. The rules currently require a practice, two qualifying sessions, and race, all with minimum time allowances. Also, think of the points system, the trophy requirements, the schedule requirements, tech, scales, etc.
The two basic formats that would provide the most seamless transitions with our current schedules is:
1.
Saturday morning practice 10-20 min
Saturday afternoon qualifying 15-25 min
Sunday morning sprint race 15-20 min
Sunday afternoon full race 30 min
Sprint race finishing order sets grid for full race or grid could be set by fast lap within the sprint race.
2.
Saturday morning qualifying 10-20 min
Saturday afternoon sprint race 15-25 min
Sunday morning qualifying 15-20 min
Sunday afternoon full race 30 min
I believe to successfully go to a two day two race schedule would require having a open test day on the Friday proceeding the weekend, either by ICSCC sanction or prebooking with the tracks.
Good luck with this. I'll support any efforts to go to this.