The best of both worlds? The Street Car Shootout, SCCA’s newest program, combines the challenge of autocross with the thrill of time attack.
Slated for February 15-16 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the SCCA Street Car Shootout starts with competitors running four autocross runs on a giant lot located east of Las Vegas Motor Speedway–the same pad that hosted …
Personally, I love this best of both worlds concept. It'll make things interesting.
Interesting, though this- "Top times from each of the three competition elements will then be added to decide the winners." probably means the time attack is going to be more important than autocross. IME there tends to be more separation in TT. If I were running it, I'd throw in a 'must use the same time the whole weekend' in there.
There will be one here in Vegas.
theruleslawyer said:Interesting, though this- "Top times from each of the three competition elements will then be added to decide the winners." probably means the time attack is going to be more important than autocross. IME there tends to be more separation in TT. If I were running it, I'd throw in a 'must use the same time the whole weekend' in there.
It says there are two autox times included though, one forwards and one backwards.
But yeah, to balance them properly you'd need to normalize the times.
codrus (Forum Supporter) said:theruleslawyer said:Interesting, though this- "Top times from each of the three competition elements will then be added to decide the winners." probably means the time attack is going to be more important than autocross. IME there tends to be more separation in TT. If I were running it, I'd throw in a 'must use the same time the whole weekend' in there.
It says there are two autox times included though, one forwards and one backwards.
But yeah, to balance them properly you'd need to normalize the times.
Probably the easiest way is to change it to a % of fastest time for each class rather than raw time. Or just do a points system for finish place like imsa, etc. Then the gaps don't really matter, just the order. You'd probably want to average the autox runs to maintain the balance between events with something like that.
isn't this what Optima does for their ultimate street car challenge? I think they also add a few other components but the idea applies
theruleslawyer said:Interesting, though this- "Top times from each of the three competition elements will then be added to decide the winners." probably means the time attack is going to be more important than autocross. IME there tends to be more separation in TT. If I were running it, I'd throw in a 'must use the same time the whole weekend' in there.
It's not specifically mentioned but since it appears to be sanctioned as a TT event, I would assume the tire requirement still applies.
The other way to look at this is...you trade off all your Saturday TT laps for a handful of autocross runs.
Uh...no thanks.
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