CORSA 2012: Draft Schedule

[Vairtec Corporation]

Ken, with all due respect I object to your recommendations concerning 
the scheduling of concours classification on Thursday.

At the very least, listing the concours classification process as 
beginning prior to the conclusion of the road rally will cause some 
people to skip the road rally because they fear being "late" to 
classification.

At the worst, it is yet another example of how CORSA permits the 
Concours to ride roughshod over everything else.

So, how would I list the Thursday classification on the schedule?

"Concours Classification:  Conclusion of Road Rally through 5:30 PM"

In my view you can start as early as you want, but what you can't do is 
PROMOTE an early start.

You'll note that I also dropped the reference to "placement."  The 
"placement" information is too much to put on the schedule; let's simply 
include that information in our promotional efforts, registration 
packets, and the like.  We should be able to disseminate the "placement" 
option adequately.  If it is on the schedule some people might 
mistakenly believe that parking their car on Thursday is mandatory.

On a related matter, I believe that offering a Friday morning 
classification option is vital, to serve the needs of participants who 
may be "day-trippers" from the region (they draw 100+ cars to the 
Clark's one-day show!) and participants who may have had a late road 
rally experience.  So the concours might run into the afternoon; it 
really is not likely to be unbearably hot on a July day in Massachusetts 
under trees on a lawn alongside a lake.

--Bob


On 2/16/2012 6:50 AM, Ken Schifftner wrote:
> Ron:
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> Another tweak...or two.
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> Regarding Concours, we'd like to start early on Thursday for the folks not in the Rally.  We'd then do Classification for the Rally folks as they return.  We'll give these instructions at the Participants meeting on Wednesday.
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> Soooooo, Thursday would be
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> Concours Classification and Placement on Concours Field:  1:00 PM to 5:30 PM
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> Folks can go to meetings...certainly once their vehicle is in place.  If Larry Claypool hasn't returned from the Rally and we need to Classify a vehicle that arrived early, we'll place a marker sheet on that vehicle for Larry to classify.  No big deal.  The shuffling of vehicles will be on Thursday...we'll have time.
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> For Friday, we are trying to avoid the afternoon heat, soooo
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> Friday: Concours Set up:          7:30AM-8:30AM
>          Concours:                 8:30AM-1:00 PM
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> For Friday, the vehicles will already be on the Field. I'd like to drop the extra "official" classification time. If we offered Classification Friday AM I'm afraid too many folks will wait thus delaying the Concours start. The early Classification is only for the stragglers or hardship cases and we'll verbally offer that at the Participants meeting.
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> Can these adjustments be made....?
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> Thanks!
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>
> Ken Schifftner
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