Wheeeeewww!! Thats A Relief...

[chicken lips the ocho]

What other race ?

A race in Baja Sur, from what i been reading poor organization from the promoter played a part in it

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[ndvalium]

Why so long to get PD bird in air? 5 hours missing seems like way too long

I can in no way speak to this incident however as one that handles the contingency planning for off road events for other promoters, that is not all that unusal of a response time. We often have racerrs that go "missing" at races. Nearly all the time, it is a mechanical breakdown where a driver pulls off a race course or down an access road. It is often challenging to get people into certain areas to check those roads until the race traffic starts to subside. In some cases they are even found to be with other team members that failed to communicate the latest status of their racer. If the racer pulled off early in the evening, it would not be listed as an outstanding issue until later in the evening as you start going through your finisher / out list and account for each racer.

That being said if the racers team or someone else had reported that he was seen to be driving miles the other direction I would expect a different response would have been provided by any reasonable promoter. I know many dont care for the IRC system but this is a good case that may have helped the subject be located faster. It may not be perfect but in the absence of perfect I will take anything that helps me find people that need me -

[philofab]

During races we have issues with cars being gone IE "The car passed this checkpoint and then has disappeared" or "So and sos team can't find their car" We later find out they drove back to the pits and never checked in or sometimes they leave the car and are wandering around the desert. I have found racers 5 miles from their car. It gets busy at times for retrevals/checkpoints/emergency staff and when a car is not anywhere near the course it gets even harder to find. An improved version of IRC would really help everyone be safer, such as modified / required SPOT trackers.

[FlyHiFlyLo]

During races we have issues with cars being gone IE "The car passed this checkpoint and then has disappeared" or "So and sos team can't find their car" We later find out they drove back to the pits and never checked in or sometimes they leave the car and are wandering around the desert. I have found racers 5 miles from their car. It gets busy at times for retrevals/checkpoints/emergency staff and when a car is not anywhere near the course it gets even harder to find. An improved version of IRC would really help everyone be safer, such as modified / required SPOT trackers.

Yes even with IRC that only locates the car. The GPS should be on the driver if the driver leaves the car.

[FlyHiFlyLo]

Hey Philo, how come we keep killing red tops in IROC Maiden?

[dan200]

Hey Philo, how come we keep killing red tops in IROC Maiden?

Because tbey suck now. Has been tbe case since tbey moved tbe company mfg to Mexico. They are now tbe harbor freight of batteries.

[dan200]

lol... stock mini shortcourse bet AZ vs CA...

[JoeyD23]

Fishy is a man!!

[philofab]

Hey Philo, how come we keep killing red tops in IROC Maiden?

The battery quality is lower these days on Redtops but you may have other issues. What voltage is your chraging system at? Also, does that battery get run down (below 12.1) when the car is stored? Optima's seem to like 13.5 as a maximum voltage. Anything over 14 seems to shorten their lifespan.

May not be your issue but many cars that run high rpms for long peroids of time actually overcharge batteries. If this is the case you may need to install a larger pully on the alt. or a smaller crank pully. Disreguard this if you have underdrive pulleys already.

[Bill]

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