Woohoo!!!! Unfortunately it looks like we're going to miss the rain though . Stratos, is all of your house related craziness taken care of? Are you gonna make it?

ChrisW, do you have your replacement springs yet?

Cheers, Joe

 

Yes, safety is paramount. You need to be at that meeting for any safety announcements (i.e. a feature of the course to watch out for) and for a refresher on the San Francisco Region's way of doing things (not all clubs run events the same way... ex NASA doesn't use pointer cones). Things may have changed since you last attended an event (actually they have changed, there are now rules about inexperienced course workers being without an experienced worker at a station, these conflicts need to be resolved at the morning meeting). For the same reason (safety) you should walk the course as well which means being there by about 8:00 to 8:15.

Since you haven't run this year and won't qualify for a trophy I suggest you run out of group in the second session of the day. On the top of the card write "FUN-RUN" in very big letters. As for which class to run in I'd choose something where the speed of your car won't potentially break the flow (so don't sign up for the same run group as OSP or Super Stock). Note that you still have to do your work assignment even if you write "FUN-RUN" on your card.

Have fun, Joe

 

You wouldn't have to wait around. You'd get there later (before 12:00 PM when registration closes for the afternoon run groups) and sign up for a run group, say group 5 for example. People run in group 5 will work in group 7.

No, you just run later.


Because at this point you can not win a trophy. If the points are close between two competitors and you compete, your placing (if you beat one of them) could have an effect on the final standings. You will still get timed during a "FUN-RUN". Fun run just means "please don't count these runs for points". To compare your times to those in G Stock Novice (and just to make sure, are you positive that you're still in G-Stock, there's been A LOT of changes to the stock categories since then, your car may have been moved... whatcha drivin' BTW?) take your time and just see where you would have fallen in under your class after the results are posted.

You're misinterpreting the Novice rules, they specifically state:

You are NOT eligible for the Novice class if you have: competed in more than 33% of any prior year's events (e.g., for the 2001 series: regular series plus slush series equals 24 events; 33% is less than 8 events. You are ineligible if you ran 8 or more events in 2001.)

http://www.sfrscca.org/solo2/Results...vicerules.html

So, if in the period of one year (not the immediate year but ANY PREVIOUS YEAR) you ran in more than 33% of that year's events then you can not run in the novice class. In your case I believe you said that the last time you ran was in '97. There were 21 total events in 1997. 33% of 21 (21 * 0.33 ) is 6.93. That means if you ran 7 event in '97 you can no longer run in the novice class. If you ran 6 events or less in '97 then you do qualify as a novice (so long as you haven't won a trophy, or competed in more than 33% of the events in a following year).

Cheers, Joe