>Jeff:
>
>As organizers it's a lot easier to organize an event with
>longer distances between services.
>
>It is also a lot safer to not ask the service teams to drive
>around all day.
Mike
I absolutely agree. Please don't take my prior statements as a push against organizers or their efforts. I KNOW and understand the difficulties of organizing and structuring an event is. And believe me, I love events that are compact, light service events.
But I just don't want people to dismiss this as a team issue when a well thought out structure (IE no turn arounds without a fuel offer no matter how far you've gone) could have prevented someone from being towed off a stage because a remote fuel drop wasn't allowed.
>I would not want people to have to tune for fuel economy, but
>there is nothing unreasonable about a 15 gallon fuel cell, and
>it would probably not be unreasonable to need a 20 gallon fuel
>cell.
>
>What are your thoughts?
Absolutely, if a team wants to roll the dice and 'light load' their cars in hopes that this will help with their times better, by all means I wish them all the luck in the world. Running stock tannk here. I just want to make sure that the organizers have some type of direct input from Teams with ranges etc so that we can all go there and have fun.
But we all need to remember that there is a lot of "starting up, sitting around, queued up, shut down, start up, move over for official cars, shut down, start up, get ready, no shut down, okay lets go" that is never figured into those miles. Again, I'm just a bit sensitive as we DNF because of range.
So, if I was a guy with the power to create rules for Organizers, I would like to see a couple simple things added.
-Turn around stages are forbidden unless an independant remote refuel is offered to the teams. (no point in sittind there doing nothing)
-All refueling areas must be on ground that is level.
-The range until a refuel is offered shall be defined as "(stage miles*3) + (transit miles)" and will be equal to less then 90.
But again, that is just my thought. I could be completely wrong on this.
Jeff Burmeister
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