uscarrera

Does anyone else think that PCA should make the enduro pit times available? Seems to me we should be able to review the efficiencies of that important part of a race.

BigKraut

Yes! I was curious about mine in the last club race so I watched my video over and over. Real close to 5 minutes but hard to tell. Would like to know an exact number.

Maybe you can add a poll to this thread and gather some data to support this idea. Not sure if times should be published or just available upon request.

uscarrera

I for one would not care if they were posted somewhere like Mylaps, have not spoken to anyone who would mind but have spoken to a bunch of racers who would like to know pit times.
Rich

mcongleton

Rich

Do you have someone in your pit time you "cone to cone"?

Mark

uscarrera

Mark I announce on the radio when I pass pit in cone, issue always seems to be time to get out of pits including hold ups due to traffic, determining time at pit out cone.
Rich

amso3

You (crew not driver) actually can see the pit stop times using Race Monitor during the race. I compare our driver's lap plus pit stop to others we are racing against during the race to see how much we did. Info after the race is not much value, IMHO. We try to determine time from pit box to pit out during practice.

MRW

If, like me, you do a 4:59.8 stop, the Steward will let you know immediately via black flag what your time was.

Chaos

mcongleton

Rich

When I leave the box for pit out someone on my radio is counting down the time (to 5 minutes) and lets me determine my speed to hit the pit out cone. Not sure if that helps.

Mark

uscarrera

Mark that is what we do but would it not be interesting to see the actual "official" time as used by the race organization to be able to compare the effort vs the result?
Rich

mcongleton

copy that.

deutschkar

Call me old fashioned but I wear a chronograph wrist watch. Seems to work okay for me.

uscarrera

deutschkar is that not the point you think it works but without knowing the official time how are you sure?
Rich

MikeQuig

Correct me everyone, but unless the pit stops are timed and reported by that small army of unskilled volunteers with radios that are thrown out there at the last minute then no one knows your pit stop time better than you. No one in your pit box can gauge when you pass the in/out cones. Chances are a 4:59.8 stop is "close enough". Especially when the mass stops occur around halftime or the lap after a full course yellow goes green. Yes I've velcroded an egg timer to the dash but after one came adrift and wound up in my footwell I've quit that approach. Nothing like coming around to the start and trying to wait until the last minute to start your timer. Concentrated on that so much once that I didn't downshift to second - started in third instead - really gets everyone's attention. I'm much better now - I just look at my watch!

Mike Quigley
SpecBox #23

DanR

Pit lane has its own timing loop so the stop lengths are recorded just like lap times.