[Si Coe]

A few of todays 'technical issues' which only ever happen when Rog isn't there:

1) The blue generator stopped working. It starts, then conks out. Switched to the red one but I'd already poured all the fuel into the blue one, so we had to remove the tank to get the fuel out!

2) The sound output jack for the timing broke and needed resoldering. I only realised it was the jack when I'd literally tested everything else.

3) People kept missing laps. We changed the coax, fiddled with the loop, but couldn't figure it. It seemed the faster the driver, the more it missed laps. It was only be sitting and listening to the box beep every time, but not get counted that I realised - we were running a short, fast track. The minimum lap time was set at 20 seconds, every lap under was ignored.

4) After sifting though the printouts and manually editing the times to correct problem 3 I managed to bluescreen and crash the system. On restart it loaded last weeks meeting! Restarted again and this time it restored the right meeting.

5) The 2wd A final was 8 minutes long because it had been reset last week and whilst I knew and meant to change it points 1-4 had kept me so distracted I hadn't got round to it. Mind you, everyone except Alistair seemed to like that!

So all in all a busy day. Having made the A final by virtue of my first round time (I scrapped 2 runs to sort computer problems) you can imagine I wasn't best pleased when someone moaned it me for getting in their way!