Joliet 2018 Roll Call! (Page 3 of 6)

Lenses are covered in the rules.

Sunset is 7:30.

Latter is a lot of asphalt near the timing and lots of grass elsewhere.  If you are not in by about 6 PM Thursday, you are likely in the grass.  No power.  No garages.  Great bathrooms with terrible toilet paper.

Gates are open to all on Thursday usually around 3 pm depending on other events. The prime spots go first.

Is this the case for all plastic head/tail lights?

The rules state:
3.J.9 Glass, Headlights, and Taillights.

All glass windshields or windows must be OE-type automotive laminated or tempered glass.

Driver’s- and passenger’s-side front windows must be removed, or left open behind fully encasing door panels.

Headlights, taillights, and sidemarker lights must be removed or taped over.

The way it is punctuated seems ambiguous - Does 3.J.9 only apply to glass things? Or is it explicitly stating that regardless of construction the head lights tail lights and sidemarker lights need to be removed or taped over?

Bryan

Check with the track...they only staff the shack that first night until X o'clock and I always forget what time that is.  I want to say it was 9 PM?

We got tired of always having dry weather tires when it rains and snows, and going down 1 full lap against Team Sheen in just an hour. To avoid this, we will be on Douglas Xtra-Trac all seasons. We will dominate. We had to go all the way to Nebraska to find the tires, apparently they're discontinued

I’m just not a very creative person. Does anyone have any good ideas to bribe the judges with?

Bob Johnson

Well, consider they will be getting a ton of booze, so Pepto? Team T-Shirts, Local to you anything funny (Restaurant with a goofy name, weird local sports mascot), things they can play with when they're bored.

And as always, a good theme they can use for article write ups, or video, always makes it easy for them to not bother trying too hard looking at your BS folder.

You won't need headlights. Sometimes the significantly fast(er) A-class cars will use headlights in the rain to let people know they're coming, but  95% of the field will ignore them anyway.  You CAN remove them, but clear packing tape over the lenses will be fine for tech.

Some of the pits are over tarmac, but most are over grass. There is no power on site, so bring a generator and be prepared to listen to your neighbor's all night long.

There are no garages for rent.

Just was informed we will have a tire machine at the track to swap tires. We'll take shots beer cash gas or something of little to no value for a tire swap

Useful? Not Useful?

Weird request, but here goes....
One of the rookie drivers on our team is probably going to be too big for our racing seat.   I'm going to see if I can scrounge up a spare one that we can install on Friday but I don't know if I will be able to get my hands on a bigger seat.   If he doesn't fit, are there any other teams that have a big enough seat for a big guy (280-300lbs) that would be willing to trade a session in their car for a session in our Acura?   Or would be willing to sell a seat?   I hate to have him come to the track and not be able to get any track time, so I'm looking for ideas.

Thanks!

Matt
Dropped Packets Racing