by rshon on Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:08 am
At San Diego AXs, I think it's always been on the right side. DEs are not supposed to be timed, but sometimes someone "forgets" and puts a timing beacon up. At most TTs, there's a transmitter beacon on both sides (when the Equipment Chair puts them up). There have been a few rare cases where we didn't have access to the passenger side of the track at Start/Finish (like at Fontana, where S/F is on the banked front straight of the NASCAR oval), so it either gets put somewhere else on the track (creating a different timing line than the transponder system), or it gets put on the driver side and those without GPS loggers scramble for duct tape. One of my BK rollbar extension brackets is actually for the driver side in case the receiver needs to be moved to the other side of the car...
Russell
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