Christmas meeting

[hashiriya]

OK so Scott has asked us to start discussing ideas on what we should do on the Christmas fun meet. I had suggested at the meeting last Friday that maybe an endurance race would be good fun.

I thought a bit about how we could run it. Maybe have a few teams (maybe 4 or 5 maximum) and have a relay endurance race using 1 transponder per team. Pit stops would require a car to pull in and a team member to take the transponder out of the car and into the next car. It’ll take a bit of time to do it but it could be an interesting part of the tactics to see how each team organises themselves to make the pit stops fast and smooth.

When I briefly suggested this idea to people at the last race meeting, the general thought was that they liked the idea of the team endurance race but was concerned about the touring cars and the minis being on the track at the same time. This is a very understandable issue and so I thought about some solutions. Someone (I think it was Scott) suggested that we could run 2 separate races for the TC and mardaves but I think it would be a shame to not be able to involve everyone in one race and so I thought of the suggestion that maybe we could have everyone in 1 race but restrict the type of cars which can be on track at a given time. For example, if each team contains 6 cars of 3 TC and 3 Mardaves then we could say that the first 15 minutes of the race that only touring cars can be on track, at the 15 minute mark, the track would then be mini only meaning that all teams must make a pit stop and change over to a mardave. What do you all think?

I think that there only needs to be a couple of rules with this format to be able to keep the racing fair for all in terms of track time etc.

Each member of the team must go out on track before a member can go out for a 2nd leg, similarly all members must do 2 legs before anyone goes out for their 3rd.

Teams to marshal their own team cars only.

There are a few things that we would need to decide on if we do decide to go with a team endurance race.

Do we run all class types together like my suggestion above or have 2 separate races?

How long should we run the races for? Should we have a few races? For example if we have all cars in one team should we have say a single 90 minute race or 2 45 minute races with a break in between?

How should we pick the teams? Should we allow people to pick their own teams or should we pick them out of a hat or at random? Should we base it on the results of this current championship?

Any other suggestions on what we could do?