I like the paired off option. I'm also willing to run the truck down the
track. I've never run the Ram before and have always been curious what it'll
do. Bone stock 00 Ram 1500 Quad Cab 4x4 w/5.9/Auto. I'm guessing a high 17.
Do we know the helmet requirements at Bandimere? Is it all participants or just
those faster than a specific mark?
Walt
In article <e4ibkg$n05$1@bent.twistedbits.net>, jon@dakota-truck.net writes:
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> For those of you who will be attending the National Meet, you
> probably already know that we are planning to put in an appearance
> at Bandimere Speedway on wednesday, which is their "take it to the
> track" day (daily drivers, cars, trucks, bikes, etc.) It would
> appear that this is time trials only, so its more of a "test and
> tune" night as opposed to bracket racing. They charge $10 to
> spectate and $30 to run.
>
> What I was thinking of doing was to bring my laptop along and
> the DML could hold its own private bracket race. I'd make a
> trophy for the winner (possibly 2nd and 3rd place trophies too,
> if there is enough interest). Anyway, how it would work is that
> the DMLers would just mix in with the regular Bandimere traffic.
> Everybody would get a couple of time trials, and then when we
> started the eliminations, before each run, everybody would give
> me their dial-in, which I would input into the computer. Then
> after the run, I would get everybody's ET and reaction time off
> of their time slip, and input those into the computer too.
>
> There are basically two ways of running this that I can
> think of. The first would be to pair people up like would happen
> in a regular bracket race; if there are an odd number of vehicles
> running in a particular round, one would get a bye (based on
> the best reaction time from the previous round perhaps, or a coin
> flip). Note that by "pair people up" I don't mean that they would
> literally run next to each other on the track, since that doesn't
> matter - they would just be virtually paired up against another
> person. The other way of doing it would be to just have everybody
> who is still in the running make a pass each round, and then compute
> the scores, and the half of the field which did the best goes on to
> the next round, everybody else is eliminated. (In the case of an
> odd number of vehicles, the guy in the middle gets to go on to the
> next round, which is basically the equivalent of getting a bye. For
> example, if there were 5 vehicles running in this round, the ones
> ranked 1st, 2nd, and 3rd would go through to the next round.) The
> basic difference between the two methods is that in the first
> way, which is the way bracket races are normally run, you are
> only running against one other person each round. If you beat them,
> you go on to the next round. Even if you screwed up and came in
> way under your dial, if the other guy did worse or redlit,
> you'd move on. Under the second method, you're basically running
> against everybody else in that round. So there are no lucky
> breaks - if you did badly compared to the rest of the field,
> chances are you aren't moving on. I guess if I had a preference,
> I'd lean towards the first method simply because that's the
> traditional way its usually done, but I can go either way on it.
>
> Anyway, I just wanted to post that to see if anybody would be
> interested in participating in a private DML bracket race like that?
> If so, do you have a preference as to which elimination method to
> use?
>
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> -Jon-
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