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Originally Posted by john333
Like I said previously, it's when the extra numbers you get with the mrt are used is when clashes will occur. I borrowed one from a friend to do a regional while mine was in the post, when it arrived the alternative numbers on both were the same! So feasibly it looks like bloody loads of people will have the same number IF they change from the main one supplied.
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We had that recently at our club, two MRTs running exactly the same number. BBK put the second person with the same number onto a handout transponder. Unfortunatley the second person didn't realise as you wouldn't really check on the heat sheet because you have booked in with a personal transponder number and so none of his laps were counted for his first race. Ok so this was a club race and he pressed the button on his MRT and we used the alternative number for the rest of the night. Obviously this could cause a problem during the race, as no errant pt number was flagged it couldn't assigned to a driver and essentially you have two Transponders on the track which both have the same number and if they were circulating apart from each other outside the minimum lap time someone could get some really quick laps
. The other thing is that BBK could throw someones number out and out them onto a handout transponder when sorting out finals meaning you could start the A final and not count any laps through no fault of your own, and considering that most competitions stance are that if your PT doesn't count it's your responsibility and not the race organisers.
The thing that worrys me is when I went to another club to race, first time I had been there so I gave the details of My original AMB PT which I have had since they first came out and the computer flagged up that someone was already in the database with that number? Now why would that happen? I have never sent my PT off for cloning, never sent off for repair, and never lent my PT to anybody so how could this other person have the same exact number as my PT? Sounds like someone is churning out transponders with numbers that they have made up or have copied from some list somewhere.
