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<p>Hello Audi Club Northwest HPDE drivers!</p> <p>We are continually looking at how to improve our High-Performance Driving Education (HPDE) events and would appreciate your input on the topic of run group assignments.&nbsp; This survey should be taken only if you have previously driven at an&nbsp;Audi Club Northwest HPDE.</p> <p>It currently works like this:&nbsp;We assign drivers to White, Green, Yellow, or Red run groups based on a combination of driver skill, vehicle performance and event history to put them with others of similar pace into the same run group.&nbsp; The driver&rsquo;s sign-off level is a starting point for this determination, but it&rsquo;s not the only factor.&nbsp; Typically, the drivers/cars with the fastest overall pace will be in the White run group.&nbsp; Drivers/cars with lesser pace (usually new drivers and non-solo students) will be placed in the Red (or Yellow) run group.&nbsp; We&rsquo;ve used this method because we believe it provides the best experience for everyone; by keeping the overall pace and flow of a run group closer while minimizing congestion and held-up cars.&nbsp; This method also allows us to load balance the number of drivers across run groups to keep the run group sizes as low as possible.&nbsp; This method can cause some frustration because a driver won&rsquo;t always be placed in the same run group, and the determination of &ldquo;pace&quot; is somewhat subjective.</p> <p>The most common alternative approach for run group assignment is sign-off level based.&nbsp; Essentially if your sign-off level is Advanced, you would be in the Advanced run group.&nbsp; If it&rsquo;s Intermediate, then you would be placed in the Intermediate run group.&nbsp; No accommodation to vehicle performance or capability nor relative pace is made.&nbsp; Note that depending on the event, some sign-off levels might be combined into the same run group.&nbsp; One downside to this approach is that some run groups may be completely full and others relatively empty for a given event.&nbsp; In addition, if your prescribed run group fills to capacity for a given event before you register, you would either not be able to attend that event or you would be given the option to move to a lower run group based on sign-off level.</p> <p>The following survey should take between 3-5 minutes. &nbsp;Thank you for your input!</p> <p>David Kelley</p> <p>ACNW Run Group Assignment Coordinator</p>