Shortening of sprint races . . .

I agree Ronnie, it's sad to see races reduced to 4 laps. Many new classes are adding to an already tight schedule. Red flags and extensive clean-up didn't help but we need to allow extra time for these types of delays and it just seems there isn't any time. More daylight hours really only helps us at Oak Hill, I don't know the current arrangement with TWS but in the past the club had to pay more rental fees every time we ran late and I believe the same holds true for MSR and Hallett.
All in all I think Walter and the rest of the staff are doing there best to get it all done, but I do think it's time to get rid of the classes that don't carry their weight and there are a few that have not done so for several years now. Don't get me wrong I'm all for diversity but we got rid of the provisional classes that averaged over 10 entries a weekend and continued to schedule others which have not averaged anywhere close to that number.

Bryan can we flip flop the before lunch races so they run at the end of the day? The way we currently flip the schedule those races are not impacted, they will always run full length races because they are excluded from the schedule flip.

I agree Ronnie, it's sad to see races reduced to 4 laps. Many new classes are adding to an already tight schedule. Red flags and extensive clean-up didn't help but we need to allow extra time for these types of delays and it just seems there isn't any time. More daylight hours really only helps us at Oak Hill, I don't know the current arrangement with TWS but in the past the club had to pay more rental fees every time we ran late and I believe the same holds true for MSR and Hallett.
All in all I think Walter and the rest of the staff are doing there best to get it all done, but I do think it's time to get rid of the classes that don't carry their weight and there are a few that have not done so for several years now. Don't get me wrong I'm all for diversity but we got rid of the provisional classes that averaged over 10 entries a weekend and continued to schedule others which have not averaged anywhere close to that number.

Bryan can we flip flop the before lunch races so they run at the end of the day? The way we currently flip the schedule those races are not impacted, they will always run full length races because they are excluded from the schedule flip.

Brad, that is an interesting suggestion. I will bring that up as one option.

Again though, everyone seems to think that we have added RACES to the schedule, we have not.

We added classes, and are running those within the existing races.

The only exception is we removed the provnov race and replaced it with another.

We did not add any more races to our daily schedule.

The reason for shortening races has nothing to do with the classes we have added.

Brad, that is an interesting suggestion. I will bring that up as one option.

Again though, everyone seems to think that we have added RACES to the schedule, we have not.

We added classes, and are running those within the existing races.

The only exception is we removed the provnov race and replaced it with another.

We did not add any more races to our daily schedule.

The reason for shortening races has nothing to do with the classes we have added.

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Hey Bryon, could you speak up and repeat that for the folks in the back of the room.

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Hey Bryon, could you speak up and repeat that for the folks in the back of the room.

What are you doing in the back of the room Mr. Dibble???? Trying to hide from the teacher??? Not prepared for class??????!!!!!!!

Ronnie

What are you doing in the back of the room Mr. Dibble???? Trying to hide from the teacher??? Not prepared for class??????!!!!!!!

Ronnie

i dont know the rules but i noticed there weren't alot of entrants for motards and vintage, and a couple of others. whats wrong with combining several classes?
And if you did that, you could throw in a "naked bike" class too. [img]/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif[/img]

If you move some big bike sprints to saturday, my wife is gonna kill me. [img]/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif[/img]

i dont know the rules but i noticed there weren't alot of entrants for motards and vintage, and a couple of others. whats wrong with combining several classes?
And if you did that, you could throw in a "naked bike" class too. [img]/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif[/img]

If you move some big bike sprints to saturday, my wife is gonna kill me. [img]/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif[/img]