Thanks, Zate.

Yes, I remember our conversation. And I want to welcome you guys to the SCCA. If not as members, at least as competitors. It's not much fun competing against the clock without someone to gauge yourself against.

And no, I don't expect to get any hate mail! From the folks I met last weekend, it seems like you've got a pretty good crowd there.

I do want to add, however, that in talking with some of the other event officials after the close of the day on Sunday, that we're going to raise the number of timed runs to 5 at the next event. We had such EXCELLENT response to the worker signup process. I mean, we sign people up to work the course and often they don't show up at the timing tent right away, so we have to delay the next run group while we wait for the workers. But on Sunday, everyone checked in and they did so EARLY! This made the whole thing so much faster, and much more pleasant for the officials! One easy way to reward that kind of help is to provide an additional lap for each and every driver.

So we're going to do 5 laps next time. And if the work assignments go just as smoothly, we'll increase it to 6 laps in August. And up to 7 in Sept! Our plan is to raise it each event until things start to fall apart, and then we'll back it back down a notch. Having those volunteers to help coordinate work assignments, for example, will ensure speedy worker shift changes and hence, more seat time.

I also want to apologize if I tanked on anyone last Sunday. I am just so used to having people show up for fun runs, but not wanting to shag cones for a few minutes in return. So I kind of got my hackles up when I saw a long list of cars parked by the start waiting for fun runs and I started thinking that those might be the people who're going to make the runs and then leave, not allowing their friends and other drivers to make THEIR fun runs. I was very pleasantly surprised when that didn't happen. So my apology is for prejudging the crowd that I had there on Sunday, and that includes the TR folks.

CFR looks forward to having you back in July!