IMI Dirt schedual?

[Anonymous]

@Freezeman wrote:

Race tracks should post info on class record times.

Yeah, they should, but that’s not an easy thing for the tracks to do. Even with the electronic timing used by the tracks, the software that runs the whole show isn’t written in such a way that a new track record could be recognized.

The software does maintain all lap times, but even with that can’t identify a new record. It would take someone pouring over all the data after every event to make such a discovery. Because of that, it can’t practically be done.

It would be nice if there was a software product that did just that, and more – like maintaining points, etc. – and was affordable for the tracks (If you knew just what the current software used by IMI and bandi are capable of and what it costs to replace that software, you’d flotz).

[Anonymous]

Chaz,
That sounds like a good project for you. Why don’t you go back to last years CSC races and identify fastest laps and start calling them the lap records going forward. That way you have a starting point and when they are broken they could be easily updated.

Here’s tag sr by track:

GJ – John Roche 57.522
IMI – Dennis Garwood 55.762
Action – Mike Jansen – 40.585
Steamboat – Jay Jacobellis – 41.094

by the way….who the hell is John Roche? Was he on the track running a tag motor or was he testing a shifter when we were on the track? It only shows him running 1 lap and setting fast time…that doesn’t make sense. If he wasn’t a tag, then I unofficially hold 2 track records (GJ @ 57.673) yeah!!!!! :cheers:

Sounds like a good project for you Chaz…..

[Rodney Ebersole]

It could be set up in only qualifing rounds, which would be much simpler to police. Each year could start over for the changes in any rules year to year. That way we would have different year record holders with different times to beat. If all the computers and gagits can’t come up with the fastest person in each class during qualifing at every race, whats all that crap good for then? Do we not set the grid according to it’s output?

I guess IMI doesn’t run dirt karts any more or maintain a web site of previous events?

[Brad Linkus]

First IMI dirt race is May 8, 2nd race May 22

[Anonymous]

D:

I don’t think that’s a good project for me. I don’t have the desire, or time for such an undertaking. Additionally, I wouldn’t do it for free and the track owners wouldn’t be willing to pay me enough to do it. It’s not because they’re cheapskates. it’s because to do that kind of a boring, mundane, frustrating job, you’d have to pay me a ton of money, and quite frankly, track records aren’t that important.

Ultimately, what you want is a program that will manage most aspects of a race season. Individual racer information, event and series points and of course lap times (practice, qualifying, heats and finals) in real time so that lap-by-lap each laptime can be individually compared to the current list of lap records and reported back when new records are set so it can be announced to the participants and spectators. As far as I know, no such software currently exists that would do all that. Such software could be written, but none currently exists. The local scene may like that level of statistcal analysis, but I guarantee you that you couldn’t find one racer willing to support such a thing. They won’t pay to support a proper event safety and administration crew. They won’t support a statistician

A single person, could do that without the aid of a software product, but it ain’t gonna be me and I pity the sucker who volunteers.

Additionally, you’d want someone who plans on sticking around for awhile. That’s not me either. This season has to be, will be my last for any sort of direct involvement or participation in the Colorado kart racing scene. I may come to hang out with my slicies, but that’s all for next year.

Find someone else.

@Dennis Garwood wrote:

Chaz,
That sounds like a good project for you. Why don’t you go back to last years CSC races and identify fastest laps and start calling them the lap records going forward. That way you have a starting point and when they are broken they could be easily updated.

Here’s tag sr by track:

GJ – John Roche 57.522
IMI – Dennis Garwood 55.762
Action – Mike Jansen – 40.585
Steamboat – Jay Jacobellis – 41.094

by the way….who the hell is John Roche? Was he on the track running a tag motor or was he testing a shifter when we were on the track? It only shows him running 1 lap and setting fast time…that doesn’t make sense. If he wasn’t a tag, then I unofficially hold 2 track records (GJ @ 57.673) yeah!!!!! :cheers:

Sounds like a good project for you Chaz…..

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