BarrelRoll
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It's been a long time since I've spent a race watching the dots for a race and listened to weatherman over the internet. It seem like all they were doing all night was status updates to the point is was getting in the way of more important race traffic.
Don't most teams have someone sitting in front of a computer sending updates to their chase crews?
I watched the dots for a golf cart team. They had spot trackers on the race car and 2 chase trucks and then every 15 minutes texted them an update via cell. A couple hours into the race I couldn't get score tracking to work for the life of me and the spot trackers saved them. It was a little hard to give exact mileages but having spot on sat view and the course overlaid on google earth I was able to get within a mile or so. I think from now on we are going to go with spot on the race car as well as the required tracking. For the 1000 we are going to kick it up a notch and have our stateside logistics person have a sat messenger or push to talk sat phone so they can have better communication with chase crews. Cell service was pretty good for the 500 but I know it won't be the same for the 1000.
Was I the only one who was getting frustrated with the amount of status requests? If you can afford to race the 500 you should be able to afford a couple spot trackers and have someone help relay car information besides the weatherman.
Don't most teams have someone sitting in front of a computer sending updates to their chase crews?
I watched the dots for a golf cart team. They had spot trackers on the race car and 2 chase trucks and then every 15 minutes texted them an update via cell. A couple hours into the race I couldn't get score tracking to work for the life of me and the spot trackers saved them. It was a little hard to give exact mileages but having spot on sat view and the course overlaid on google earth I was able to get within a mile or so. I think from now on we are going to go with spot on the race car as well as the required tracking. For the 1000 we are going to kick it up a notch and have our stateside logistics person have a sat messenger or push to talk sat phone so they can have better communication with chase crews. Cell service was pretty good for the 500 but I know it won't be the same for the 1000.
Was I the only one who was getting frustrated with the amount of status requests? If you can afford to race the 500 you should be able to afford a couple spot trackers and have someone help relay car information besides the weatherman.