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Here's my test number on the side of my car from about 100 feet away. It's hard to show visibility with a picture because the focal length of the menses does not match the human eye. I could actually read the number well up to about 150 feet in person. While training about proper radio use, cone display, etc will improve things, it cannot solve the fundamental issue of properly recognizing the make/model of the cars we have coming out. Some are real obvious by their color alone, like the lime green Dodge Challenger. I have been doing this since 1963 and there is always something new that shows up. I doubt that very few people would know what a VW Corrado is.... 😀 The problem gets worse when every car is the same color. And then we have the occasional person who is not ready and runs out of order. With up to 3 cars on course at 15 seconds apart it comes at you pretty fast and these moments of confusion lead to a number of missed penalties or times. In groups A & C which I ran/worked we had several such incidents. One case was even giving somebody a rerun for a downed cone, but he didn't actually stop at the cone as is required to get a rerun. As a side note, not having the correct timing sheets printed out for Group C really added a level of chaos, as well.