Quote: Went yesterday. First day blues with the electronics, but the track was okay, if green. One guy put his car on the roof (he's okay) and there were a few cleanups.
Got one car working better, the other still lays down on top.
Checklist for the track to fix. Timing booth didn't work. timing slips with no names, cut in half at the tower No radio no scoreboard. No pre-stage lights by late afternoon. No tech cards when paying, had to go back to get them. Staging Lanes not marked Ladders hand made on paper (nobody brought a laptop?) Fix that stupid, over-long name!
Improvements all tracks can make.
In tech, make each car start, and load up on the converter, then shut off. Many of the minor leaks can be caught before it gets to the track.
have a dry easel or chalkboard with the classes listed in order of run times, updated as the day goes on. If you are going to call a class and then make them sit for 2 hours, you are going to annoy the racers and (rightly) receive a less timely response. Also the staging lanes tend to get messy!
I really am tired of the juniors and all the time and space (car, golf cart w/pullback, starter, 2-3 people each) it takes to run that class. The kids are the most pro of them. Mama and the other 2 kids tend to be the worst.
A great sound system next to the tower but bad further out is useless when you can't hear it over the burnouts and runs up close and nothing further out. Have another set of scoreboards on the tower, facing the area where most racers congregate (lanes) so they can keep track of others. Having the announcer say "and Bill made a GREAT run, 9>cue burnout drowning out the rest<".
