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Re: Olympus drops from the RA schedule
November 29, 2012 01:39PM
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East and Central regions follow a similar plan.

Was thinking about how cool it would be to have stpr, nefr, rwv, BRS, and sandblast in the same series. it would be a busy summer for sure.

And more expensive if you're like me and blew two brand new motors in one year winking smiley
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Re: Olympus drops from the RA schedule
November 29, 2012 01:43PM
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I'm thinking how cool it's going to be having a six event national championship. Sno*Drift, 100AW, Oregon, STPR, NEFR and LSPR.

I would wait and see. Other organizers haven't made the call for or against the RA fee changes. If they had, you would see a solid 2013 RA calendar today right now.
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Re: Olympus drops from the RA schedule
November 29, 2012 04:17PM
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Re: Olympus drops from the RA schedule
November 29, 2012 04:20PM
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I'm thinking how cool it's going to be having a six event national championship. Sno*Drift, 100AW, Oregon, STPR, NEFR and LSPR.

Yes, because nothing says awesome like driving to Michigan, Missouri, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Maine, then the Upper Penninsula of Michigan for 500 competitive stage miles.



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Re: Olympus drops from the RA schedule
November 29, 2012 07:53PM
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Yes, because nothing says awesome like driving to Michigan, Missouri, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Maine, then the Upper Penninsula of Michigan for 500 competitive stage miles.

How are you doing your math?

If past years are any indication, I get
132
111
121
117
90
113
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684 stage miles

Why such a Debbie Downer lately?
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Re: Olympus drops from the RA schedule
November 29, 2012 08:02PM
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Yes, because nothing says awesome like driving to Michigan, Missouri, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Maine, then the Upper Penninsula of Michigan for 500 competitive stage miles.

It's the nature of our geography. You accept it or don't participate in the nationals.

Tim.
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Re: Olympus drops from the RA schedule
November 29, 2012 08:05PM
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Yes, because nothing says awesome like driving to Michigan, Missouri, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Maine, then the Upper Penninsula of Michigan for 500 competitive stage miles.

It's the nature of our geography. You accept it or don't participate in the nationals.

Tim.

Ummm, have you not read any of his posts in full? The point is that except for maybe 5 teams, everyone else really should be concentrating on learning how to drive faster. That means more stage miles for cheaper, and having a healthy REGIONAL series is a less expensive way to get those stage miles.

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Re: Olympus drops from the RA schedule
November 29, 2012 08:19PM
I was making no comment on what teams should be focusing on or where they should go for events. I was simply stating that to have a national championship in this nation, it's going to require travel.

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Re: Olympus drops from the RA schedule
November 29, 2012 08:23PM
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I was making no comment on what teams should be focusing on or where they should go for events. I was simply stating that to have a national championship in this nation, it's going to require travel.

Tim.

Kinda points to the folly of "the Series" duddnit?

How many "Champ Peens" were towing Champ-peens?

Safe to say every "Pee" class crown...



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Re: Olympus drops from the RA schedule
November 29, 2012 09:52PM
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684 stage miles
Why such a Debbie Downer lately?

I was just estimating. Probably should have started at 600 since I knew SnoDrift was almost 150 miles and only one event was under 100 planned come to think of it. I just made up a quick number.
Is that 684 planned miles or 684 that actually occurred. smiling smiley

Debbie Downer? I'm in best mood of my life! Building rally cars 2 days a week and getting paid to do so, my car is slowly coming together via the Medcroft "one thing a night" method, 5 month old baby and wife, cutting edge science, killing mathematics, goals more often than not in soccer, bowling almost a 200 average, and working maybe 20 hours a week. In the spring I'm going to add an additional rally work day so I can continue to advance making all these ideas and theories I have about how to make rallying successful into a reality.



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Re: Olympus drops from the RA schedule
November 29, 2012 11:41PM
Good job Grant!
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Re: Olympus drops from the RA schedule
November 30, 2012 12:55AM
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Um. The CRS isn't a sanctioning body, and certainly isn't national. Did you mean something else?

Meant the guys in canada with the crazy 2wd rules. Maybe I used wrong letters? Either way, I've failed at humor since I've had to explain myself. confused smiley

No worries. What's an "A" among friends?

Grant: I was having a discussion with Logic over on another board, and he got me looking at the FIA's regional rules. The European ones struck me as interesting. Basically they have things broken up into different regions, and you have to compete in a certain amount of events in each region to be a contender. Not all events in a region, just some, and different events count for different amounts (by some figuring that I'm not clear on). It's similar to what the USRC tried with their East/West/Runnoff Championship, but with more regions (and by my calculations, fewer towing miles). Also, they don't have a runnoff (which I hate, for reasons I can explain but not in this post). That might be a solution somewhat along the lines you're talking about. Break things up into, say, PNW, SW, Central, and NE divisions, and then maybe you have to run two events in two different regions and one in each of the others. Or something like that.



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Re: Olympus drops from the RA schedule
November 30, 2012 12:57AM
Damn grant! Looking for a lacky or an intern?
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Re: Olympus drops from the RA schedule
November 30, 2012 07:41AM
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Um. The CRS isn't a sanctioning body, and certainly isn't national. Did you mean something else?

Meant the guys in canada with the crazy 2wd rules. Maybe I used wrong letters? Either way, I've failed at humor since I've had to explain myself. confused smiley

No worries. What's an "A" among friends?

Grant: I was having a discussion with Logic over on another board, and he got me looking at the FIA's regional rules. The European ones struck me as interesting. Basically they have things broken up into different regions, and you have to compete in a certain amount of events in each region to be a contender. Not all events in a region, just some, and different events count for different amounts (by some figuring that I'm not clear on). It's similar to what the USRC tried with their East/West/Runnoff Championship, but with more regions (and by my calculations, fewer towing miles). Also, they don't have a runnoff (which I hate, for reasons I can explain but not in this post). That might be a solution somewhat along the lines you're talking about. Break things up into, say, PNW, SW, Central, and NE divisions, and then maybe you have to run two events in two different regions and one in each of the others. Or something like that.

Hmmm...sounds kinda similar to a National Series/Championship that I hear may be announced in the near future....



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Re: Olympus drops from the RA schedule
November 30, 2012 09:02AM
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I'm thinking how cool it's going to be having a six event national championship. Sno*Drift, 100AW, Oregon, STPR, NEFR and LSPR.

I would wait and see. Other organizers haven't made the call for or against the RA fee changes. If they had, you would see a solid 2013 RA calendar today right now.

And you were saying?

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