Boy that’s a tough one.
Keep in mind that I have no official capacity here.
I would say first come/first served/per class. That would give Jansen first rights to the number as that’s what he ran in class last year. That seems the fairest. But that’s just me.
The CSC and local kart racing in general hasn’t had any mechanism to prevent number dups for as long as I’ve been involved. It’s a drag, because it causes no end of hassles for timing/scoring. Promoters don’t seem to give a damn. Ask anyone connected with scoring of races. Having more than one of any number on the track is a real drag. Especially if you have to manually score the race.
Most of the time people don’t really give a damn about how much trouble the officials are having or have to go through. Especially in the case of numbers and if there’s suddenly any confusion of what number got what. IOW, it’s not really a problem until the racers say so (and some of them actually don’t know why we have problems getting officials and keeping them).
The short answer is, Mike, use whatever number you want. There “could” be 3, or 4, or even 10 “27d” or “27” in the class and nobody will really care.
@Mike Jansen wrote:
Chaz, you seem to know more than the average bear:
What I want to know is this: Jack Warrington and I were both 27d last year and I know he took #1 in shifter class last year (novice i think?) so who wins number rights 😀 😀 🙂 🙁 😮 😥 👿
Does anyone know how to contact hi flyer Wrong Way Warrington?
#27 because that’s Gilles Villenueve’s number, the best F1 driver I ever saw (see qualifying in Monaco late 70’s. Over 2 seconds quicker than the field) 😮
