There is so many things that are “up in the air”. someone or group needs to put things in concrete.
Dave,
As mentioned in an earlier post, part of this is an apprenticeship. We went through it racing at different levels. I went through it with Harley Davidsons back when “if you have to ask you wouldn’t understand” was pretty much the norm. Once I understood, I would share anything I knew with anyone.
It’s hard to look at things as noobie when you’ve been around it for a while. But you do have some options. Many of the racers who post fairly regular here would be glad to help you directly or get the information you need. There really is no handbook for the somewhat infinite things that you may need to know. Coming out to a race day to hang with a team would be about all you would need to do. While this would not be Csc or The Series specific, it will be very simular to the events you’ll be attending. We are thinking about doing the Grand Junction enduro if you want to come hang out. There are also people who offer services to the racer for one on one.
Maybe you should be the one to compile all this information and put it in a form to help racers coming in behind you not to suffer the same frustrations you are encountering. The problem is, it will take a lot of effort to do a news letter for noobies or something like that which would include specifics to “The Series or Csc” events and structure. Most of these questionsare answered the first race day. But when your sitting around wondering how all this works before your first season, it might be a great thing to do. Rich Vito put out a news letter, he may be a good contact if you want gather and put this information together for others as well. I don’t think the cost is much and you wouldn’t need more than 20-30 copies at most.
As far as the transponders go. I personally would just figure out a way to buy one. I kinda doubt you’ll have much luck this time of the year on ebay, so you may just have to bite the bullet. It’s not much more money than a set of tires and a jug of racing fuel. There are also benefits to using your own transponder. You can log onto http://www.mylaps.com
and bring up any event that your son has ever raced in easily and it is cool to surf back through and use it as information for your previous performance as well as your competitors. You can also track your drivers lap consistency in a bar graph form which is a great tool and view lap charts to see postion changes per lap. When you click on lap chart, go to a drivers name below and click it to highlight one or several drivers, it’s awesome. You can also profile your driver with specific information there as well. Go there and type in – roman gutierrez or kyle ray for example (or any driver) and look around. If you know all this already, sorry for redundancy but maybe some other new racers don’t.
Rick