Originally Posted by ColinH

Hey Buster,

I RD in Edmonton. Done the last two OCD's for them. Just saw you are from Calgary. You are coming to september OCD i hope?

Jim; I consider myself to be consistent. The ONLY people I am lenient on is the newcomers who have only been a couple times, who haven't quite wrapped their head around everything yet, and that IMO is what a good RD should do. The new guys I am mentioning have been here from late last year, and know darn well what the rules are.

1812; We mention it every drivers meeting, the club pres usually holds the meeting, people take him a little more serious because I am a younger kid. But, at the end when I say I'm calling penalties, this is your only warning today, he gets right in there and says what this guy says, goes, respect it. I have the entire exec on my side, always telling me its my race. Run 'my' Race they say.

We do have an impound table, however no one ever uses it. Which is hilarious, because they ALL put their cars on it at the end of the race to turn the electronics off, then mope back to their pits, then put the batteries on charge, then mope on to the track.

I will start implementing a time limit, I think that would be a good idea. At our large race beginning and end of each year, we ran 3 minutes between heats, with a 5 minute between for transition from electric to nitro, then 3 from nitro to nitro, and 3 from nitro to electric. I think that is more than fair, especially because the table is track side, and there is pit guys for the Nitro's that can take their stuff back to the pits.

I appreciate the input, I was 100% at a loss last week, maybe this week ill pull the "you have literately three minutes.... if not theres going to be a penalty" line.

I have noticed some guys do not care if they lose a lap because they are "fast" and are two laps up on the field. So i do not bring what type of penalty it is into scenario until it is actually taking place.

The word Penalty is taken very loosely here. lol