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Ladies and Gentlemen:
I am in the process of ordering my number plates for the upcoming season. Besides the top 5 in class, does everyone know the number they want? How do you “register your number” for the season? Is it like last year where if you show up early you get the pick? Anyone?
Dennis, do people ask you why you have a number one plate on your rear window on you SUV? 😆
Mike Jansen
I’m planning on running number 34. Named after my favorite motorcycle gp racer, Kevin Schwantz.
Loren
Mine will be the same as last year, 87, since i will not be able to use the #1 plates from last year. Ill just have to try my hardest to win it this year
#24 here
I’d check the results from last season’s races. That should give you a good idea of what numbers are already taken. The steamboat race would be a good one.
You can almost always figure on “lucky numbers” like 77, 33 and so on to be taken. EVERYBODY wants those numbers it seems. Every class hass one or two of those numbers.
I’d strongly recommend AGAINST using the number 69 even if it’s available. Even if there’s a decent reason for using it – like the year you were born, married, whatever. Personally, and this is just me talking here, I think the number 69 should be permanently banned from racing.
I’m going to run #82 like I ran last year.
24 is also my son’s favorite number.
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) 😮
#1 Plates for Sale!!!!! Who wants them? Get em while they’re hot! Obviously #1 is going to be unavailable to race this year so maybe Mike could run the #1 plate for me as a symbolic gesture? 😈
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) 😮
I guess I’ll keep (21) , the number that is coming on the Track Dragon that I will be receiving Friday.
If this is true (no management of numbers on karts) that does not make me hopeful about management of the races 🙁
@chazilla wrote:
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) 😮
How tall do they have to be, and were do I have to polace them ?
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