I’ve done some calculations and if you run a meeting with 6 heats and 4 rounds of racing (whether they be quail or finals) you will need about 3 hours of racing time form the moment the first heat starts to when the last final ends (technically it will be 2:54 but you need to allow a few extra seconds on to each race to allow people to finish their laps) if you ran all races at 5 minutes, had a 2 minute gap between heats and a 10 minute gap to work out finals.
Given that it takes about 20-30 minutes normally to get the track laid, you are realistically looking at a start time of about 7:40. This would mean that racing finishes at about 10:40-10:45 giving another 15 minutes until 11 to clear the track. That fits in just to the new proposed timings.
With 5 heats, the race time is reduced to 2:30 which then means that the current 10:30 end time is still possible.
This all relies on getting the track out and being able to run heat 1 at 7:40 on the dot with no exceptions. Practice time can fit in around that I guess. Once the track is done and cleared for practice to begin, free practice can run until heat 1 starts so the quicker the track goes out, the more time there is for practice. I think that’s incentive enough for everyone to help and get it done more efficiently.
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