Instead of everyone wandering around before and after a race trying to figure out and keep track of who their competition is, what if class signage was required on the cars near their numbers?
It would make it a lot easier to know if you can ignore that car that just lapped you or if you need to make an adjustment.
It will defiantly help here in Florida, however I see it more as helping a lot for spectators Its a little hard to explain the classes and who races who to people who have never seen electrathon before.
I imagine you are thinking of having writing that says Adv-O, Adv-HS, std-O, std-HS, etc
or simply a colored sticker, a blue for HS, Green for Open, orange for Advanced battery, maybe this can instead be implemented to replace the red triangle thats supposed be round your battery cutoff?
-- Edited by 4TRIDENT4 on Wednesday 1st of May 2019 04:02:21 AM
Actually according to the rule book high school and open are always separate.
There is a high school advanced battery and a open advanced battery. (Page 29)
State stickers because apparently they can't guarantee no number duplication for different cars.
I agree it will make watching races more enjoyable if everyone can tell what car is in what class.
It would be clearest if each car said Open Class Lead Acid or High School Class Advanced Battery etc. The problem is that we need to make the letters small to fit on the car and then they are hard to read when on the track.
So how do we abbreviate? Colors are not a bad idea but then people watching need a crib sheet.
I am suggesting:
Open class lead acid 77 (just the straight number)
High School lead acid HS77
Open Class Advanced Battery 77A
High School Advanced Battery HS77A
My thinking is the use of O is easily confused with zero. Also most people come to watch the High School teams, so having them marked clearly is good and requires no explanation.
This seems a way to mark everyone clearly with the minimum addition of letters.
I was hoping we could remove the 6 inch state ID to make more room but it makes sense if the same number is issued in different States. Do we have more than 999 registered cars?
In Nebraska we have 4 classes of cars. Novice, Standard, Advanced, and Exhibition. Cars have to have the first letter of the class they are competing in before the car number. Example: Standard class car # 17 would be S17 , Advanced class car 49 would be A49, etc. These letters must comply with the same size limitations of the car numbers.
This simple letter makes it very easy to determine who to compete against and who to forget about. Unless you just want to beat everybody.