<VV> Time Trails in Cedar Rapids

[FrankCB]

Tim,
     IMHO time trials at the Convention would be a great idea.  NECC has run time trials for over 30 years including the many at Lime Rock Race track in Connecticut.  I've run a couple of them myself and witnessed more of them in more recent years.  Their beauty lies in the fact that the car is on the track essentially by ITSELF so spin outs or other "driver aberrations" usually result in no damage to either driver or vehicle, as I found out when I spun out a couple of times at Lime Rock.  Time trials do, however, require more elaborate scoring/timing with either electronic wireless readouts or 3 people each with his/her own stop watch.  Check with Brian O'Neill of NECC for more details.
     Frank Burkhard

In a message dated 09/07/09 16:27:32 Eastern Daylight Time, minoxphotographer at yahoo.com writes:
Well, I'm no genius in these matters, but isn't a time trial basically an autocross without the cones? e.g. the Cedar Rapids track (Hawkeye Downs) is a race track.  With no "course" set up on it, wouldn't it also work for time trials? Or are time trials specifically run on a non oval track?  Time trials mean to run against the clock, right? Same track, two different events? 

Tim in Bovey