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Topic: Heat race length

Hey ya'll, yesterday we talked a little bit about how long our races should last. As I remember we talked about the length of the heat races and we would leave it up to the race host/track owner, taking into consideration how many racers were in attendance. I'm good with that, but how about set minimum and maximum parameters? I was thinking the heat races should be no less than 2 minutes, and not more than 4 minutes. We could even establish a heat race length bracket system based on attendees i.e.;
up to 10 racers = 4 min. heats,
11 to 17 racers = 3 min. heats,
18 and over racers = 2 min. heats.

What do you think? Input.............  -----------Bill

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Re: Heat race length

I was thinking about that after our meeting and I think you hit the nail on the head!

also I think we talked about start time...it use to be around 7pm....do you think maybe 6pm would be to early? or maybe 6:30? i know some people work on saturdays and getting to the race is an issue....if someone is comming late they can call and we can set them up to run later in a heat maybe?
Just wanted to toss that out there....=)

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Re: Heat race length

I like that Bryan. I think 6:00 pm race start is good. It seems like in the past that has been a reasonable time to start. The only consideration might be the races that are "out of town" for the Portland area racers, like maybe Eugene where we will be carpooling? Do we want to adopt a "home town" type precedent for NASTE where races out of the Portland metro area would be considered "out of town" races and have different start times?  ------------------Bill

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Re: Heat race length

Yes, it would be nice to start and end a little earlier when we are quite a ways from home.

"Big Smooth"

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Re: Heat race length

Hey folks, I took a look here just to revisit this topic. I want to get down some notes for a NASTE rule book for next year. After the last race at Hemi Heights I think we could go with 3 minute heats up to 19 racers. I would like to amend it to read:

Up to 10 racers = 4 minute heats
11 to 18 racers = 3 minutes heats
19 plus racers = 2 minute heats

Race start time is 6:00pm.

-----------------------------Bill

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Re: Heat race length

kidvolt wrote:

Yes, it would be nice to start and end a little earlier when we are quite a ways from home.

Monte needs his beauty sleep?????????????

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Re: Heat race length

Hey Rico, I'm jut fine without my beauty sleep.  As long as I get my nap.  cool

I like the 2-minute heat 2-off rule that I think they use in the Tacoma area.  That will make it shorter and eliminate the bad drivers quickly.  Larry, they'll only be in your way for two crashes.  If we have fewer drivers, we can just run more heats.  More than two offs would be hard to track.  We can use three-minute heats for endurance events.

"Big Smooth"

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