Let's buy lap timers. Discuss.

[cody]

How much for the V1?

[sperry]

Originally Posted by cody

How much for the V1?

It's like vultures around here!

I'm not even sure I want to sell it... I was just brainstorming a way to afford a $1000 DAQ. I'll let you know if I do decide to part with it.

[cody]

Caw Caw (or whatever sound vultures make). :circling:

[dknv]

Originally Posted by sperry

It means if you kill/injure someone, SCCA's insurance policy will shield you from financial responsiblity, at least partially.

I thought it was for medical payments coverage, if something happens to you.

[sperry]

Originally Posted by dknv

I thought it was for medical payments coverage, if something happens to you.

Well, I guess that's the same thing. Take the guy that got hit at Hawthorne. If that happened on the street, the driver would be responsible (via his insurance) for the injured guy's medical bills. But since it happened at the SCCA event, the SCCA helps with the medical bills.

So, from the worker's perspective, "the SCCA helped pay my medical bills", or from the driver's perspective, "the SCCA protected me from liability for the worker's medical bills".

[dknv]

Originally Posted by sperry

Well, I guess that's the same thing. Take the guy that got hit at Hawthorne. If that happened on the street, the driver would be responsible (via his insurance) for the injured guy's medical bills. But since it happened at the SCCA event, the SCCA helps with the medical bills.

So, from the worker's perspective, "the SCCA helped pay my medical bills", or from the driver's perspective, "the SCCA protected me from liability for the worker's medical bills".

That is, if the injured is an scca member. If he wasn't, I believe there's still some scca insurance coverage, just not as much (or, it may have changed to be $0).

[sperry]

Originally Posted by dknv

That is, if the injured is an scca member. If he wasn't, I believe there's still some scca insurance coverage, just not as much (or, it may have changed to be $0).

Now there's a little tidbit that I've never heard mentioned at the registration table!

[dknv]

I just looked at scca.com, and what it says raises a couple of interesting questions in my mind:

Insurance
All SCCA members are protected with the best event-related insurance program in motorsports at no additional cost. Properly registered SCCA members who are accidentally injured while participating at SCCA events are covered for up to $1 million in medical expenses. SCCA members, in certain circumstances, are also provided with limited third-party liability insurance coverage at most events. Contact the SCCA Risk Management Department at the national office for details.

[cody]

For last weeks track day, they made me fill out a "SCCA Temporary/Trial Membership" which grants the bearer, "all rights and privileges of SCCA membership with the exception of voting and the receipt of SportsCar Magazine."

[Pat R.]

Here's a group buy on DL-1 dataloggers.

[sperry]

Originally Posted by Pat R.

Here's a group buy on DL-1 dataloggers.

Damn that's tempting, 'cept I think the software and the display on the Traqmate is a bit better.... though the DL-1's Compact Flash storage method rocks.

[GST Mike]

I have one of these http://www.g2xtreme.com/ on my desk if someone wants to test it for me for a track day (I can't get on the track till the new year).

Might be something you all could use as it's simple to take from car to car.

Mike

[sperry]

Wow, that G2X looks pretty impresive. It's got all the features of the Traqmate, plus lots of optional sensors (even stuff like throttle/brake/steering sensors). And it costs less.

The only thing is that the traqmate software looks a bit easier to use... and it doesn't look like the G2X does the multiple lap comparisons that are so cool in the traqmate system.

[MattR]

Just to cure my curiosity, Mike K and I timed some of my recent RFR laps via DVD and I clicked a 92.1 second lap.

To put that into comparison with where the time trial cars were running,
Bensons- 85.x range
Mike C Cobra- 100 Seconds
Art M Corvette- 91.16
Matt's Sti- 92.1

So, K and I decided that a 1:30 is a target lap for the sti's in current rtrack config.. However, I doubt we'll ever run that config again