Ben, Thanks for your post.
(Ben was the quickest student in the VCA Skip Barber School)
Your experience is the same as mine.
Skip Barber's role at VOI7
Speedway
Primary Objectives:
1.0 Safety
1.1 Staging
1.1 Track entry
1.2 Driver Accident Prevention
1.3 Passing
1.4 Track Exit
2.0 Organization:
2.1 Pre-staging
2.2 Staging
2.3 Return to staging
2.4 etc.
Hotel Parking Autocross events.
A. Timed lower track in Vipers. Event with NO instructor in your car, or their car if you did not ship your car.
a. Organize a safe event
b. Course layout and safety
c. Drivers meeting, safety and track layout
d.. course maintaince(reposition cones)
e.. record and report driver time for awards
B. Neon upper course, Timed event with an in car instructor, DC's car.
1. Organize a safe event
2. Course layout and safety
3. Drivers meeting layout and safety.
4. Help drivers maneuver the course safely while keeping cones in place.
5. Help drivers improve their lap times.
C. SRT-10 Drive, no timing, same as
Same as B. above except a non timed event.
D. Competition Coupe Drive, no timing, no instructor, same as B.
same. Without 5.
General:
To keep the event on schedule it is critical to keep the cone repositioning at a min.
For all events with an instructor, in car, we discussed the specific activity and I followed their advise as much as possible.
Car Safety Check.
Who is responsible?
FYI before my car was put on the transporter The tire pressure was checked and wheel lug bolts re-torqued and checked the fluids including the brake fluid. At the track I stopped at the Michelin trailer and had the tire pressure adjusted to my request, 32psi.