>>Rally America
did not do the timing and scoring for WW
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>If that is correct it should be noted on the Rally America
>website.
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>The live coverage (scores and notes) from Rally America
>typically
>is less than stellar. It needs substantial refinement.
Steve - There is certainly room for improvement in our coverage
of Rally's, although it should be pointed out that the live updates are only one part of what Rally America does at rallys. If you explore the "about us" section at Rally America
http://www.rally-america.com/about/wehavedone.shtml you will find just some of what we have done at rallys this year that aren't as visible as the live updates.
We were not responsible for scoring at WW. How we got our scores was to ask each and every co-driver for their stage times and posted those. We also got some of our scores from the scoring folks by reviewing stage logs. It took a lot of leg work and a lot of time to get the scores, but we thought the readers of our website might be interested in some scores and it would be worth it.
As for the notes coverage; we can only post what we know. We have people asking teams for information about what's going on with their team and how they are doing. We also encourgage teams to send someone to the truck and let us know what's going on. Some teams even hand us notes, which helps a great deal because we don't have to stop what we are doing right then and transcribe what they tell us.
We have a feedback page where you can tell us what you like and dislike about the site, what you would like to see on it, etc. A lot of people have offered very good suggestions and have even volunteered to help the effort as well.
Rally America is an organization of volunteers. None of us get paid for what we do at Rally's. So if you have any skills that we could use and you'd like to volunteer, step on up, we'll put you to work. There is a lot of things we would like to do but money, time, and people to do the work are just not there yet.
-al