Mongo, why are the Miller round races only 4 laps? The sun's up at 5 AM till 9:30 PM this time of the year. Lots of time in the day. Hard to justify driving 20 hours round trip for an 8 minute race or two. Or, maybe I'm reading the schedule wrong? Hopefully?
Aren't the races set to last about the same amount of time, regardless of track? So a long track would have fewer laps and a short track more, right?
Just because there's sun doesn't mean the track will let you run past the contracted time. 4 laps does seem mighty short though... full course?
Road America with the "other org." is same. 4 lap sprints, and considering the track is over 4 miles long that's cool.
I do question the 4 laps as well. With a 3 mile lap that seems very short, especially given the front straight that is nearly a third of those 3 miles.
Its a 12.32 mile race, We run 7 lap races on the East and west that equal out to about 15.4 miles so they are a lap short of a normal sprint. BUT with 14 races to get done after 12 PM the 4 laps makes sense as far as the schedule goes. Warm up and cool down laps on a 3 mile course eat up a ton of time. Make it 5 and people will bitch about not getting enough practice or that they get out too late on Sunday to travel. Just run more races.
Could always reduce the amount of practice time I would love to run more races but Mongo won't let my bikes into Supersport :/
How many races do they have in one day? If the races are 3-4 miles longer, then I have to assume there aren't 17-18 races on the schedule (or they start the races before lunch). I can't see CCS being allowed to race till 7pm.
So should they go race with CCS at: -Miller(don't they only run the east track?) -Road Atl -MidOhio -Pitt Race etc??? Oh wait Ride safe, AAron
Plus, because of the extra track length, you would be wasting that much more time on sighting and cool down laps because of all of the dumbasses that want to go 8 mph. Hit the road, dipshits!
We've been doing 17-19 a day ALOT in the MW region. At Road America and Blackhawk Farms we have to be shut down by 6pm. Hell I think we've done 20 once at Blackhawk.
I have to get everything in by 5pm. I don't actually go by miles although that is a factor but I lean more towards laptimes and how long it takes to get in 3-4 races an hour along with worrying about giving people enough practice and as always factoring in 30 minutes or so for problems throughout the afternoon. I know a number of orgs do one round of practice in the morning and then go racing even before lunch. I could do that and do more racing laps easily enough but that is just something that goes against every gut feeling I have about what to give our customers. Not necessarily logical but it's how I feel so it's what I go with.
