Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums Branches South Central Autocross at Arrowhead Sunday, June 16

We're not going to limit the number of heats. We're not in a position as a club or as a sport to turn people away because of too much attendance. At the same time, I don't think we're prepared to deal with the ruckus that would ensue if we made first X heats 4 runs, last X heats 3 runs. That's not really fair to people who can't get to the event until later. We got away with an extra run in 1st heat for a while because we often have to make course corrections during the first heat and to be fair we added the extra run. It also worked as an incentive to get people to sign up for 1st heat becuase that used to be a problem. It is no longer an issue, 1st heat fills up fast and the courses are usually good to go right from the start so the extra run doesn't do anyone any good and it's generally gone.

I don't think it'll be necessary to drop to 3 runs but if we've registered or have 120 people standing in line at 9:00 and the first car hasn't run yet, it's something we just might have to consider. I hate to even bring it up because I think it's such an outside chance but I thought it was only fair. I hate that we only usually get 4 runs but any time you have more than about 120 people with courses in the 70-second range the day gets veeeeery looooooong.