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Vegas
not a fan of the "run all of your runs right away" type of event (in vegas, we shoot for no more than hour long run groups, break for lunch, then do it all again in the afternoon).
Every club has to make these decisions. Our club has chosen to focus on "Fun" (the F in FAST is for FUN, seriously!), and to us that means more time autocrossing. While shorter work sessions are nice, running 6 groups rather than 3 means 3 additional group changes, which take at least 20 minutes each. That means we either have to stay an hour later (which nobody wants to do, and we have enough trouble getting people to stick around to help clean up), or if we want to finish in the same amount of time, we have to take that hour out of our competition time. We'd rather do 6-8 runs than 4-6 runs.
Anyway... that's the way we do it, some other clubs (including the local SCCA guys) often do split groups, especially when they have a very low turn-out. You can pretty much do anything and be done early when you have less than 30 cars!
The classes were pretty simple enough... I liked the simplicity of that. Although I read the ruleset and stuck myself in E, i was moved to F, running against a SCCA prepped AS S2000 on r-comps on the fronts... thankfully I was able to get moved back to my proper class and was only 0.02 from taking first.
Jack was moved to class F when it was thought he was going to run on street tires. He opted to run race tires on the front, and was reclassed accordingly. F is a street-tire class.