The above is correct, I believe.. lol
If everyone knows their number at the beginning of the evening and lines up on the grid for the first round then they just move forward or back as a complete row for rounds two and three. Unfortunately if you qualified 7th or worse then you'll never start on the front row.
I also believe that there was going to be a drivers briefing before we started but, due to time, this didn't happen.. please correct me if I'm wrong (Alan)..
It definately worked, as has been mentioned above, the starts seemed to be cleaner, however, that might just be because people are still filled with Christmas cheer and whisky (again Alan).. lol
To be honest I had been asked to check some of the starts and make sure people were lined up on the grid correctly etc. but was also trying to sort my car/s out so maybe didn't do enough!! sorry.. will try harder!
The problem I found was that a lot of people were complaining about practice.
I think this needs to be addressed properly by the club, just so people know when they're allowed to go out and for how long. I still think that the "free for all" is best as long as people realise that you can't fit more than 16 people on the stage let alone on the track. Also, that it is practice and therefore there are going to be slower drivers out there, juniors, new cars, new tyres - all sorts. It's never going to be easy to allocate a time period to each driver as I know most of the top drivers will try a set up and realise by the second corner that it's not right, take their car off, make adjustments and then come back on to check again.
A bit of common sense all round really, well that's my point of view anyway. If the practicing in heats was voted in then the evening needs to be started earlier and organised so that the heats are called out and everyone within those heats knows that they should be out practicing.. However, how do you know which heat your in when you haven't booked in and therefore the heats haven't been allocated?!..
Great track last night, loved it.. well done to Will and Ollie for a good result.
Scott..
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