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Old Apr 24th, 2007, 02:31 AM
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I don't believe working corners is BMWCCA-wide. I definitely didn't do that at the Hoosier event I did last year, and there was no mention of it in preparation for the Watkins Glen event (Boston chapter). Maybe it's a White Mountain thing? I think the stakes a bit higher with track events and I'd rather see dedicated flaggers. I also wonder how they schlep everyone to their designated corners in an efficient manner; in my experience, there's just about zero downtime between events unless it's lunchtime or there's an "incident".

I'm still processing the photos, and haven't touched the video yet, but I went to the Boston BMWCCA auto-x at Devens yesterday and had a really good time. They got a *very* slow start and took a loooong time to get the first two rungroups through in the morning, so I only got my four runs in before having to leave at 3 for Dan's calling hours. But the course was fun and fast and I think it was well run, aside from the first-event-of-the-season bugs. I hope to make it back out with them more this year. My first three runs were in the 100s range (first one with an instructor, 2nd with some random guy's grand-daughter, remainder solo) and my last one was 96.250. The instructor seemed to be fresh off the Evolution school from last weekend and was very enthusiastic; I soaked up a little too much of that enthusiasm and got into an incipient spin at the back side of the course, but recovered without too much damage to my shorts. I talked to a guy driving a Z06 (?) 'Vette and he got 78s on his first or second run (although he hit like 6 cones). I didn't think my 96.25 was going to put me in the running or anything, but day-mn!
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