Rulebook meeting before the banquet.

[Doc]

From Wanda:

Good afternoon everyone!

I hope this email finds you all in good health and good spirits. Speaking of spirits, we are all looking forward to the upcoming 2011 Loudon Road Race Series Championship Awards Banquet. We certainly hope you are looking forward to it as much as we are. I am sure some of you are looking forward to enjoying the spirits that evening. We hope that if you do, you stay the night at the Radisson and will be safe.

This year we would like to do something a little different than in years past. Every year we have an Officials meeting on the Saturday afternoon prior to the banquet, which all LRRS Officials are expected to attend. However, this year we have decided it would be a good opportunity to get the riders involved, as well as the officials. On Saturday afternoon, at 1 pm we will be hosting a “LRRS Rulebook Meeting”. This will be located on the second floor of the Radisson Hotel in the Dartmouth Room. We will be going over the entire 2012 LRRS Rulebook (draft) at this time. There is a copy of the rulebook as it stands now attached to this email. Please take a look and make notes to bring with you to the meeting. The yellow highlighted sections mean that there was an addition or change (from 2011). The blue means there is still something to discuss so a change, fix or addition is pending. Red is something we may decide to omit after getting input. And green means that there is a question if this particular section should be relocated to a different section.

We are extending this invitation to all licensed riders who believe that they have some valuable input and feedback and who would like to help us “work out the bugs” in the rulebook from a rider’s point of view. Our goal is to have it flow better, be easier for new or interested riders to follow and to make LRRS a safe and fun event by covering all aspects of racing accurately and comprehensively. Please understand that space is very limited and we ask that only the rider attend, please no spouses, friends or children. We care about your friends and family and we are only looking out for everyone’s comfort; plus, they would most likely be bored and hold it against you later!

See you Saturday. In the meantime, if you have any problems, questions, or concerns, please contact me.

Thank you,

Wanda C. Dumas
Operations Coordinator
P.O. Box 7888
1122 Route 106 North
Loudon, NH 03307
(603) 513-5728
Fax: (603) 783-8323
wdumas@nhms.com

[wheelieman14]

Here is my suggestion to condense the previous 2011 LRRS Practice schedule from 14 sessions to 12 and also increase each session from 12 minutes to 14 minutes for 2012.

Please note there may be subtle changes with each Group# assignment to allow Middleweight & Heavyweight bikes to start practice later & for Ultralight bikes to start practice sooner. Novices would be in either Group 3 (Ultralight or Lightweight) or Group 6 (Middleweight or Heavyweight).

For similar bike classifications, Experts get lower Group Practice number than Amateurs, so there is consistency with Amateurs getting promoted to automatically know they are dropping a Practice Group# (Amateurs in Group 8, 5 or 2 would drop down to Group 7, 4 or 1 when turning Expert).

Group 9 “Top Expert Practice” remains at the end of each rotation, but would immediately follow the Lightweight water-cooled Twins, since there are less of these riders affected with back to back practices than Middleweight or Heavyweight riders. Except for Group 9 “Top Expert Practice”, any Expert with multiple bikes will have at least 1 practice session between each bike’s practice group.

Attached schedule was emailed to LRRS.

Thanks,
Bob Poetzsch
LRRS Expert# 14
Email: Poetzsch@uchc.edu

[Kurlon]

The proposed rules have an altered practice grouping listed. Both it and yours have a tiny flaw... there are more UL bikes than just twins, once you get out of Novice there isn't a practice defined for them?

Why move UL to the earliest session btw?

[wheelieman14]

The proposed rules have an altered practice grouping listed. Both it and yours have a tiny flaw... there are more UL bikes than just twins, once you get out of Novice there isn't a practice defined for them?

Why move UL to the earliest session btw?

UltraLights (Motards, Singles, 125GP, Air-cooled Twins, etc.) are typically the slowest bikes on the track and often handle adverse conditions better than most anything else, hence I suggested Group1 (Expert) and Group2 (Amateur) which already run together at the same time.