Red River Region Solo Points Change Proposal

by John Lieberman

 

I need your help with something. So please pay attention to what follows. At the January planning meeting, a proposal was made and generally approved to change the way we calculate the overall year-end Mens and Ladies Autocross champions.

 

In the past, we’ve always taken everybody’s class finishing positions from each event and then just totaled up the points. This, it is suggested, favors the driver in a one-car class or the dominate driver in a very small or bumped class.

 

So, the proposal was made to PAX everybody’s class finishing positions from every event and then apply these PAXed times to a points scale the same way that it’s done for the TLAC Handicap Challenge. This way, you’re comparing every driver against each other. An additional advantage to doing this is that it would also give the officers a much more subjective way to nominate our Most Improved Driver for your vote at the end of the year.

 

Unless there’s a groundswell of opposition to this proposed change, it will stand for the 2001 season. If you’ve got a problem with it, please let me or one of the other officers know yesterday or sooner.