Ok guys, I was thinking the following about cell charging. (Could just be my total fear of the IBs going pop on me making me more paranoid but ....)
80 drivers, 10 per heat = 8 heats
Each heat takes 7.5 minutes (5mins race + lap + 2mins for change over of heats) = 1 hour per round
So run a pack in round 1, cool for an hour (now round 2) then charge at 3.5A (my normal charging rate) takes 1 hour 15 minutes on average. Just enough time to be ready when you get back from marshalling round 3. Ok, in reality your only going to have to put 50% or so back in so about 40 minutes charge. That is final 1 sorted.
You now have just about enough time to get the cells from R2 charged for final 2, then just about enough again to do the R3 pack for final 3.
This is fine until you have a false peak, get out of step and fall as little as 15 minutes behind with your routine (i.e. forget to put cells on before you go out for your race and have to wait until you get back after marshalling to put them on) your sunk
If you get distracted by working on your car this can easily happen!!!
Just sounds REALLY stressful ...... will certainly be taking lots of Solpadine with me and make sure I have a BIG bottle of brandy waiting for me when I get home!!!!!
That jump looks awesome .... get it right and it should be a beautiful arc in the air get it wrong and you could have a broken everything ..... will take some driving and I bet the different styles people have will me mean more than one coming together during the day I am sure!!! Is great to see a proper form on a man made jump.