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September 6 & 7 Events - Huntsville vs. Birmingham

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Mike C.

Mon Aug 11, 2008, 04:29PM

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Call it what you like,

HSV vs. BHM
Appollo vs. Vulcan
TVR SCCA/TAC vs. AL SCCA

This is an autocross competition as a team sport. Make plans to not only run on Sept. 6th at Milton Frank but the 7th at the Birmingham Race Course off I-459. Running one event does not score points.

Edit:
After re-reading the previous paragraph I believe I need this clarification. You can run Saturday and not Sunday. There is no requirement what so ever that you HAVE to run both. However, to score points for N. Alabama and show up ALSCCA we need as many people as possible to also run in Birmingham the next day. This is a friendly competition that we can win.

More details will follow but in the meantime there are a couple of threads running on the ALSCCA Forum for your reading enjoyment.

Discussion about the September event
Vulcan beats the snot out of Apollo

[ Edited Tue Aug 12, 2008, 09:30AM ]

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Mon Aug 11, 2008, 04:49PM

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This could be some fun, we have so many problems with finding something to do around here.
Who's up for some fun?

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I am planning on it...

Those ALSCCA guys are funny - or something...

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Tue Aug 12, 2008, 09:04AM

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I'll be going.

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must say its great
hey, very helpful site

[ Edited Tue Aug 12, 2008, 09:20AM ]

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Rothermel wrote ...

must say its great
hey, very helpful site

Where at you it is possible to look Football?He He

[ Edited Tue Aug 12, 2008, 10:44PM ]

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Unfortunately I will not be able to make it to the Birmingham portion, but I would have loved to go and think that this is all a great idea. I will be renting a car for the remaining events, so that I can continue instructing the Novice Program and give ride-a-longs. The Alfa will most likely be on jack stands the rest of the season.

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bumpety bump bump.[music from jaws ]We are coming for you.That is all....

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Mike C.

Fri Aug 15, 2008, 09:09AM

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Good Lord, just looked at the AL SCCA forum. I can almost visualize them foaming at the mouth. Maybe I need to stop poking them....

Nah, what the heck. It's a lot of fun.

JohnW8

Fri Aug 15, 2008, 10:14AM

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Is registration open for this event? Is it?! Tell me now, is it?!

Just kidding, there've been folks asking about registration.

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Fri Aug 15, 2008, 11:41AM

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Registration is up in a separate thread.

Here is what I propose for Rules:

1. Two day event. Winning Region will be the one with the highest points total from the two days added together.

2. Points. Each day, the top 15 drivers in the RAW and PAX results will score points. 15 for 1st, 14 for 2nd, 13 for 3rd,.....etc.

3. Drivers from the visiting region each day will score a minimum of one point in RAW and PAX regardless of finish rank. Home region drivers will not have a guaranteed minimum.

4. The points accmulated by drivers from each region will be added together to form the total for the day.

Discussion:

I read through the thread on the Alabamba forum and there were a lot of good points made. Scoring by either PAX or RAW alone would leave some drivers out of the mix from a competion standpoint. Scoring by classes would leave too much room for abuse by class jumpers and would make the scores lopsided for the home region each day. In addition, our classes do not match exactly between the 2 regions. I don't really want to limit the competion to only those who run both days because it would severly limit participation and this way people can help their region by running either day and particulary by coming down and running at the other regions event. Plus requiring two day participation would leave us with no first day results because we wouldn't know who was participating the second day until the start of that event.

So the rules reward success in both PAX and RAW times and giving the visiting region drivers a minimum of 2 points (1 for RAW and 1 for PAX) will keep the scoring closer each day and provide and incentive for traveling regardless how good you are.

This will also be a very simple scoring system that I can pull together results for quickly so we aren't waiting around to see who the winner is.

[ Edited Fri Aug 15, 2008, 12:57PM ]

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It doesn't matter what the scoring format is...

We are coming up to kick your butt!

And when you come down here, expect a course so technical that your slide rules won't help!

Grrrrr

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I'm signed up for both days. Ready to help TVR win!!

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Nice pics Clay!
An ALSCCA "fire sale" and James on his first airplane ride.

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Sat Aug 16, 2008, 10:59AM

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We going to have points for ladie's classes?

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Sat Aug 16, 2008, 08:35PM

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Technical? I like technical. Please please make it VERY technical.
he he he

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claym wrote ...

Clay,
You've changed ALOT since I last saw you!

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John wrote ...

claym wrote ...

Clay,
You've changed ALOT since I last saw you!

They were running a special at the Hair Institute for Men last month. After that, well...

OKAY- But I am ready to run the ladies classes now!

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I just saw the last few posts here...and O.M.G. I just stopped laughing !!BTW.Registration is open for sundays portion at BRC
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