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Well said Mike, at all the races I have attended they always adjust the heats to make everything flow. There's good signups for the Atlanta race and I'm sure they will make it work.
Actually there was a time in dist 4 IMPBA when races limited racers to just two entries, late70 early 80s. this was back when there were only the 4 hydro and mono classes, there were alot of racers in dist 4 impba. Seamed to work out ok. There was a third boat allowed if you had a scale hydro, they were trying to promote the class. Main reason I got into scale hydros HA
Sam I have to ask where are you going with this?
Yes we do Ray. But the one thing I would like to point out. Talk to the racers and tell them to pull off a good race they have to be ready when the heat is ready to go on the clock. I do not remember if we had to wait on anyone at the last Internats. And I thank them at the banquet for the good job they did to help out in this way.Mark, do you do 2 hot pits at a time, so ones always ready after retrieve boat docks? Atlanta did this, I remember one year almost 90 heats in one day at a 2 day race!!! That's rocking it........ just saying.
Mark, do you do 2 hot pits at a time, so ones always ready after retrieve boat docks? Atlanta did this, I remember one year almost 90 heats in one day at a 2 day race!!! That's rocking it........ just saying.
The absolute time killer is retrieving dead boats. I went to the Atlanta Spring Nats 5 straight years back in the early to mid 2000's and they sure did nail it. Retrieve boats went out as soon as last running boat was in and the next heat went on the clock as soon as the retrieve boats hit the dock, out fast & in just slow enough to not create wakes. If you were in back to back heats you had someone go get your dead boat. I cringe whenever I hear "we need a retrieve" at a race, a huge waste of precious minutes.....
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