The only thing I would have changed at the RC-Area meeting I came down for would be the warmup for a bit followed by a slightly odd/pointless couple of minutes closed track before the race starts between races. I understand concern for marshals swapping round safely, but that seems like a bit of a strange way of doing it. How about warmup all the way up to the start of the next race but require the drivers in the next heat to single the jumps for a minute or so while the marshals get swapped over? Normally at 10th meeting's it's a free for all practice between heats and that (usually) works out just fine. At nationals you're meant to go easy down the straight during warmup laps although some drivers who should know better can tend to ignore this.
The main thing to remember with the jumps is the downslope should always be a shallower angle than the upslope. The corner tabletop thing just in front of the rostrum was my least favourite part of the track as it didn't flow very well having such a shallow initial takeoff. You could make up a tiny bit of time by jumping the whole thing but it's so sketchy to do and so little gain it's not worth doing, then the jump becomes a bit of an obstacle. From what I've seen of the current layout it looks a ton better now the approach to it is slower, the second takeoff still looks a bit too vertical for 10th though.
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