CR's basically volunteer their eyes to give you an outside perspective on your riding. To maximize the efficiency of that service, clear and concise communication is essential.
If you were lining up to the front, that's a signal to them you feel you're looking for the bump. In my experience, if you're ready, most times they will recognize that. There are quite a few CR's now,
many are my friends, and I know they go looking for people for to discuss riding, both good feedback as well as opportunities for improvement they see and what to share with N and I riders. I get tips from them all the
time in the pits after A sessions. They REALLY helped me this year make some great improvements.
When you communicate with a CR, I've found it historically more productive for me to approach them with a specific problem I'm trying to solve in my own riding. That will give them a specific issue to pay attention to, to help you with, to
provide you more detailed feedback. It's more of a recipe to success for all involved than coming in and asking, "How do I look?"...too ambiguous.
Also, the CR's generally sit at the pit in gate after each session waiting for riders to approach them and give feedback, while it's fresh in their heads, at the end of each session they work. They have a lot of people to work with on each day, so getting the feedback when it's fresh is also essential to your success.
My last piece of advise....don't go looking for the bump, it will find you. Just go out and have fun. Yes, I know, moving up is satisfying. It satisfies our need for a sense of accomplishment. It's part of the Human Condition. Especially us Americans.
But maybe you focus so much on getting that new sticker on your bike, it takes away from your concentration on the track and actually costs you that much coveted promotion. I think that singular focus maybe cost myself my I sticker and left me stuck in N group for quite a few years when I started with this group. Once I stopped giving a damn and just went out to ride, BOOM!
And I never had any ambitions of being an A rider. I was just having a blast lining up in the back of the left side line and working my way through all the riders ahead of me during a session. Next thing I know, I'm working with Taylor Wells on VIR Full and asking him to help me with body position, or the line in some specific corners I wanted to run through quicker, and he comes in and says, "Dude..you gotta GO! You're done in I group. Come up to the building, sign the sheet and get a new sticker." That made me nervous..but I accepted it. And then get out for my first session, expecting to line up and get all confused....nobody's lining up! They just wait for the green flag and GO in A group...that's weird at first.
So hopefully you come back and hopefully you continue to have fun and progress with us.