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I would like to say thanks to the marshals who impressed one of my friends so much, he's not a motorsport fan but I managed to convince him to get out on the bank for one of the stints and he was astounded as to how friendly the marshals were and how much he enjoyed it!

And of course thanks again to all those I chatted to over the weekend, you all gave great interviews which makes my job just that much easier!

Jon

All the information is avaliable on another thread;

http://www.2cvracing.org.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1581.0.html

Heres the time table for you Paul

http://www.barc.net/competitors/race_timetables/hq1031-01.php

just check how long snell 2005 lasts for.i bought a helmet several years ago and didn't check only to find that in the blue book a couple of years later,it was out of date.the buggers will sell you one and they wont sell you a snell 2010 until they have sold all the snell 2005.so worth asking

The following was part of an MSA press release from 29th March of this year;

"The MSA would also like to draw attention to the Snell SA2000 helmet standard. Regulation K 10.3.1 of the 2010 Competitors' and Officials' Yearbook states that this standard 'May be withdrawn with effect from 01/01/11'. However, the MSA is pleased to confirm that this standard will now be valid until December 31, 2014."

I know it says 2014, but thats for Snell SA2000, so you'd imagine you should be safe for a while with SA2005.

Hope that helps.

https://tickets.motorsportvision.co.uk/events/timetables/BARC%203%20April%20CP.pdf

Heres the timetable :D

If it ain't broke, why try to fix it?

I get your point, and agree to a certain extent, but why change it? to make it better, no it's not broken but this year was the first year of the webcast with RSL/RLM, there wasn't any need to do it, but i know people who had no idea the event existed and they stayed up for many hours watching and listening to the webcast. This year (as written here by Martin: http://www.2cvracing.org.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1469.0.html) theres a possibility that there may be an increased webcast with multiple camera angles and such, my point being, no it's not broke, but can the event be improved? of course.

If you look carefully at a Le Mans car you'll see two things:
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- a vertical row of three big dots, on each side. They are lit up depending upon which driver, 1, 2 or 3, is in the car.

The lights are actually for you to see if the car you're watching is in the top 3 in class, different lights are lit depending on whether it's 1st, 2nd or 3rd in class, but the idea of numbered drivers does sound good

What do they at Le Mans?

All the names are on hte car, and then name  of the person in the car are on the timing screen.

If this was put in to our supplementary regs' for the event, Tape ('gaffer' or otherwise) just does not 'cut the mustard'.  The method would have to be slot in name cards or such.  Have you ever tried to stick tape to a wet, dirty, oil and petrol stained car. 

I think we need some input from the Dutch team, who did this last year, to find out what they used.

You make some good points, and i'll definitely make sure I use the CoC and other such people for this years event. I completely agree about the change sheets though.

I would not support this at all!! It's not necessary and in no way performance enhancing. The info is available from Race Admin anyway
I can just see someone forgetting to remove and replace the tape in the heat of the moment at 3am and it costing them a drive-through etc.

It dosen't necessarily have to be a penalty, I hadn't thought of that until Paul raised it, but for spectators and commentators, it made it alot easier to find out who's in the car.

    what penalty do you think would be fair if the name wasn't changed over then?Drive thru?stop go,5 laps like a tow back?There would have to be a penalty or who would bother?

I don't know really, part of me thinks that there shouldn't need to be because it's in everyones interest, but I take your point, I really don't know what I'd put as a penalty, but would imagine a black and orange, correct within 3 laps and then a suitable penalty, a stop go maybe.

I hadn't thought as far as a penalty, but remember thinking that having to pound up and down the pitlane with a clipboard and a piece of paper checking all the names i had down were right, took away from the commentary a bit.

Am sure it's been raised (and I know this is very early, but it was in my head earlier and so i thought I'd put it out there)...

Last year one team in the 24 Hours put tape over the names of the drivers that weren't in the car, which made it so much easier for us as commentators (and i'd imagine the spectators too) to find out who's in the car. Can this be made a rule this year?

Regards

Jon Waldock

Formula Brookes?

Does this mean there will be another car in the (unofficial) University/College category?

but playing bob the builder at 5am? Ive been singing it ever since....  ::) :-X

yeah i do appologise for playing that, lack of sleep does that.... ::)

It's changed again, same link;

http://www.barc.net/competitors/race_timetables/hq0930-01.php