RE: Other Options
>Notes are great! I can drive faster and SAFER
You BELIEVE you are safer....... only time will tell.
Remember the guys at Maine, several driving for several miles all the while the co-drivers rattling off the nores or the route book and they were, we are led to believe, completely unaware they were off course.
Perception is a funny thing.
with then
>than without them... they are WELL worth $150... that's one
>tire for pete's sake!
I drive on crappy used Michelins because I have shown time and again _I_ can find grip better than most everybody I know, except probably other multi-year off road bike guys like Eric Eaton, or Mike Whitman.
See, I can trade my skill for the new tire's (soon to be gone) way new edge.
I cannot overcome the advantage of a person reciting off a piece of paper that the little kink ahead is "absolute", a piece of paper they didn't prepare but merely bought.
You young guys simply don't understand the resistance that MANY MANY people expressed was based on the obvious diminuation of the role SKILL would play in co-driving and how it would be shifted to merely buying the done notes and then reciting.
What skill does that demonstrate?
I think you're almost alone in not likeing them Trevor...
Wrong JB, there was much dissent but like most other recent innovations PS, this was OPENLY done at the demand of the British Visitors and as usual with SCCA, the request for public feedback was window dressing.
Many people I talk to gave up in disgust. And many find the published range of costs an absurd joke.
UPS the silly Note making machine to the local Organisation and have the routemaster drive thru in the course or checking the route and save "$6,800 to 9,400" per event.
And so it might take a bit of time for locals to get it right, they can learn, we all learned how to drive and go clicky clackey on these stupid crappy computers, local organsiers CAN learn to operate the machine.
And BS to must always be the exact same crew, somehow other places in the world some people HAVE done events with course note done by different crews and NOT DIED!!!
and as far as I know, YOU'VE never used them YET.
We all will because while it is not specifically required by the rules it is _de facto required _ since the advantage is too great to be overcome with skill or experience.
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>J.B. Niday
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www.nidayrallysport.com
JB,(EDIT: Many) people (but not Mark Utecht) (there Mark is that better?

) like them cause they know they now sound like their idols on TV.
John Vanlandingham
Seattle, WA. 98168
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