come on Firko, your kidding right, no event in the world is measured by when the last guy finishes, geez
I'm dreadfully sorry Trev but I'm deadly serious and I'm using your own Conondale Nats as my example. To try and get my point across to you and Johnny O,
I fully agree with you that the current race length for the Nats is too short. Read my posts back and you'll see what I wrote.
The point I'm making that seems to be misunderstood is that at the Conondale Nats the duration of the 3 lap races were defined by the amount of time the last bloke took to finish. As a official Trevor you know quite well that you can't start another race until the last bloke is finished. This is a
totally different concept to a timed moto where the race is ended when the winner crosses the line. That's fine ....but it's not the way the Conondale Nats was run. I was merely making the point that using those times as an example of how long a race is run and how difficult it'd be fitting longer races into the program.
Lets look at that over 60s program again, but this way from the perspective of a timed moto. Rob Newmans over 60s 3.03 minute lap x 15minutes would end up a 5 lap race, Andrew Baileys Over 50s 2.49 lap time for a 15 minute moto he'd do 6 laps. On the other end of the scale Dean Burts 2.35 minute lap for a 15 minute+1 lap moto he'd do around 7 laps.
If you can follow that you'll see that those 15 minute motos would add a lot of laps and therefore time to the program, something that isn't readily available if the Conandale Nats program is used as an example. I'll repeat my point again..unless the Nats split goes ahead, we're pretty much stuck to what we've got.