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Re: Driver selection

We did time trials on a few obstacle courses. The tryouts were fairly casual, and the driver with the best time gets to drive the chassis. Because this year was an all new drive team, we had primary driver pick the secondary driver and coach. This works out pretty well because everyone is pretty much guaranteed to work well together. We haven't had any issues in the last 4 years at least with the driver with the best time being someone unsuitable for the position (difficult to work with, not able to handle the pressure, or anything like that), so we haven't had to come up with other criteria to pick a new driver.

Next year, since I'm graduating, our secondary driver (junior) is going to spend some practicing with me before we hold another tryout. It may seem a little unfair that they're going to get this extra practice time going into the tryouts, but really the tryouts are just to make sure there isn't anyone better than our incumbent drive team member. If anyone wants to practice, they're welcome to as well, but most people don't. The way I ended up being driver was pretty much all due to desire. I had the worst, and I mean absolute worst time on the time trial the first time I drove it. It was a horrendous 2 minutes on a roughly 35 second course. So I spent the next week practicing for 1.5 hours or so per day, and by the end my time was down to 30 seconds. If that's how other drivers become the best too, the nature of their personality is probably a good fit for drive team with dedication like that.
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