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For Novice class, you I have Tadd run my ST class letters? Or do I have him run NOV class letters (that I don't have)? Or do I have run both???

Ideally for the computer operator, both.

Its not as difficult in the begining of the year, but as people start running multiple indexes in Paxed classes, We don't wipe out all of the computer's database for every event. Therefore you end up with the situation Palero was in last year, sometime running DS and sometimes GS. Without the paxed class on the car, its up to the computer operator to pick one out of the computer. Sometimes they get it right, and someties they get it wrong.

Christine Berry wrote:Ideally for the computer operator, both.

Its not as difficult in the begining of the year, but as people start running multiple indexes in Paxed classes, We don't wipe out all of the computer's database for every event. Therefore you end up with the situation Palero was in last year, sometime running DS and sometimes GS. Without the paxed class on the car, its up to the computer operator to pick one out of the computer. Sometimes they get it right, and someties they get it wrong.

I always made sure my online registration had the correct class & index picked, but even though I made the effort to correctly register, registrations were still carried over from the last event, forcing the computer operator to decide weather or not a white VW hatch is a GS GTI or a DS R32.

To be fair, there were a few times when I might have forgot an important date or something trivial like a family dinner, so the Patty didn't let me drive the R that weekend. I really wanted to drive in only 1 car for the year.

man...it always comes back to Palero

Who else is running nov?

Follow the link in the reg instructions to the axware site.

Click on the event and you'll see I think three small icons. Roll over them and one will be the registration list so you can see who all is entered. Quite a strong field already in Novice, its going to be a good shootout.

What if we were to accept a simple "N" (in 2" blue tape?) to signify "NOVICE"?
Most novice folks probably won't be showing up with production made mag letters, but they seem to love blue tape.

Chuck Fowler wrote:man...it always comes back to Palero

lol...well at least he has a car for the year. ST FTW

Steve Collins wrote:What if we were to accept a simple "N" (in 2" blue tape?) to signify "NOVICE"?
Most novice folks probably won't be showing up with production made mag letters, but they seem to love blue tape.

I'd really prefer the NOV paper ones that are available. Now I have no objection to changing NOV to just N in the computers and letting that be enough on the car if that seems acceptable to others. I prefer that what's on a car and what comes up for the computer operator to match.

Rick Brown wrote:

Steve Collins wrote:What if we were to accept a simple "N" (in 2" blue tape?) to signify "NOVICE"?
Most novice folks probably won't be showing up with production made mag letters, but they seem to love blue tape.

I'd really prefer the NOV paper ones that are available. Now I have no objection to changing NOV to just N in the computers and letting that be enough on the car if that seems acceptable to others. I prefer that what's on a car and what comes up for the computer operator to match.

Roger. Having those be identical makes very good sense. I had forgot that we have "paper plates" that say NOV. That's better anyway. They match the 600 numbers and *we* control how legible they are.

I withdraw the suggestion.

steve

'Nov' is better than 'N'. In san Diego they use 'N's, but at least 1/3 of the novices don't know what they stand for and run them as 'Z's. Seriously.

Jay W

While we are talking about novices,I don't believe there has been any discussion about whether we will count novice's on the team challenge competition. We have never used them for the regular team points competition either.
How do we want to handle this? Any comments?