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Finally have my video ready. Was fighting a copyright strike all week. Lol.

Thanks for the pics Jason. Much appreciated!

Thanks Jason, you got a great pic of Sledge Hammer! I've been wanting an on track pic.

I will double check with Jason Bucki but I believe the test he did with our setup last year was just as you describe. Everything stays the same just adding a car # column to the registration. I also agree that adding car #s won't help or fix anything at all if we also do not correct the radio, course worker, or T&S tent noise issues which can all be done without adding the additional work of adding car #s. I'll try to get the number of new drivers we had at the last event before the meeting tomorrow night, but I know this...it's a LOT. It's a good thing to have so many new people joining the Region and attending our events but at the same time it also means they need a bit of time to get up to speed with how our events run. An unintended consequence of Registration gridding cars by class in each group (which I've been doing the past couple of events) is that all of the CS Miatas are now on course at the same time. I like gridding the cars by class as it puts drivers in and around the other drivers in their class both for fairness and bench racing chatter between runs...curious how many others have realized this was happening and do you like it or don't care either way?

We were out taking a bunch of pictures at the event. We don't know what we're doing but trying as part of our Homeschool routine. We wound up with a few good shots from each run group A-D and a few shots around the paddock. Feel free to download and use them as you wish. All I ask is if you like a pic hit my YouTube channel and drop a "like" on any video, it really helps. If you're feeling especially kind, a comment is awesome too. @DrivingForwardBuilds I should have my run video out this week sometime as well. If you don't see any of your car in the pictures, let me know. We have 725 we took! This folder is just the ones we thought turned out ok. My Boys wound up taking most of them. 🙂 This was one of our favorite shots by my older son, JJ. Link to Pictures...

Happy to help. Numbers aren't the answer to everything, but I feel like it does help with interpretation and clarity for cone calls. Proper understanding of how to work course well is also important - as is radio etiquette.

The SCCA rule book specifies contrasting colors and minimum sizes for numbers and class letters. You can throw magnet numbers on the floor or trunk. You can store static cling numbers in a plastic notepad holder. Timing & Scoring enters the car class and number based on what's on the car. You can see the cars in line at grid. At typical events at other regions, your computer worker can see the cars going to the line and queue the cars visually without relying on the starter to clog the radio calling out cars by grid spot based on a small piece of paper on the windshield. Numbers on the car is easier. Regarding grid numbers, it no longer matters where cars grid. They can grid wherever they want in their group (unless two-driver car) because T&S will use the number on their car. Well that's unreasonable. How can you ask people to bring umbrellas if we can't ask people to bring numbers?

I originally started my auto-x journey in the San Diego region and I know the use of temp numbers/number ownership worked well in that much larger region than ours. This past April's event one of my competitors was another black Focus ST and literally ran right behind me and if I didn't have my numbers, I could easily see things getting mixed up, let alone the plethora of "like" Miata's so I would agree with the need/use for numbers as well. I know that the current system works when it does and then there's instances like this past event when its a cluster...... If remember correctly, isn't our club from a financial stand point in an overage? The temporary numbers would be a drop in the bucket in terms of using up an expense. Also we've graduated to a medium region and have made some great leaps and bounds, this could be another one of those next steps into making this slightly better/efficient.......

The issue with people hanging out at timing and scoring is probably shade. It was rather hot this past Sunday and most people can't bring shade with them in their track cars. It would be great if we had an extra shaded area for people to hang out and watch.

Disagree with this not being feasible for a local region. San Diego region had a successful system for this where you registered your regional competition number annually (with a fee to have your Solo Card and ownership of that number). The SCCA magazine (which we should all be receiving with our memberships) has advertisements in the back for multiple vendors supplying numbers that fill this need. If people are spending $1000/year on tires, it's not a huge ask to improve the running of the event to have somebody spend $60 on numbers. Roll the annual number registration in with annual tech. For newer entrants, temporary 4 digit numbers were assigned and the paper + painters tape method was required. Eventually, they decide that they want to "look the part" at the events and buy numbers as well. This seems to come up every few years, and I haven't understood the pushback to improvement, other than just being resistant to change.

Almost every other region and club in the country requires numbers. Static cling, magnet, vinyl, painter's tape, paper. This isn't some unreasonable requirement. Also to your other point about numbers being hard to read from the tent... that's not the point. The point is for corner radio workers to be able to see the number and call the cone by number rather than "gray miata - no the other gray miata".