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AX/Track ideas, locations |
Howard |
Jun 27 2004, 11:22 PM
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Incontin(g)ent Member Group: Benefactors Posts: 5,785 Joined: 24-July 03 From: Westlake Village, CA Member No.: 943 Region Association: None |
No time like the present to start delegating. IMHO AX is fun, but getting out on a real track beats bending pylons.
Willow wants $2000-3000 to rent 'streets' for the day. Price varies on time of year, but weekdays are obviously cheaper. If we again get a turnout of 75 cars, that's about $30 per car plus $10 track entry per person. There are other costs, so figure $50 per WCC entry. Assuming other area tracks cost about the same, that seems affordable. But we would need staffing for flags, timing, instructors, safety class, yada yada. Drew, would you be willing to organize this? I'm sure that POC would love to have us in smaller doses for their track days, but do you think they would want 70+ teeners? Would they want everyone to join POC? You know them better, so please see what you can find out. MikeZ, SB PCA is having their monthly Ventura breakfast @ Camarillo airport 7/3. Thought I would crash, and see what's cooking there. Why are you pissed at them? Anything that would affect AX? Is the SLO group better? Slits, Toast. Please look into inbred empire locations. Scott, said you knew some OC/SD Porsche people? What are our options there? Lagunero, any ideas? Having the event in Spring or Fall gives us more options since we don't need to fight inland heat, and hotel rates are usually lower. I know that may hurt because of vacation schedules, but as Drew said, there weren't many school age kids @2004. Hopefully we'll have more info when we meet at the deli. Once the track part is going, the rest should fall into place. Opinion again, but I'm not that concerned with tying into swap meets and such unless they happen to fall into our track plans. |
Howard |
Jun 28 2004, 04:25 PM
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Incontin(g)ent Member Group: Benefactors Posts: 5,785 Joined: 24-July 03 From: Westlake Village, CA Member No.: 943 Region Association: None |
Toast, I'm not even sold the we need AX/track to make event a success. We could go to a Golf and Stuff and hold a triathalon of mini golf, malibu cars, and arcade. Or Dave and Buster's!!
But everyone keeps telling me we need to exercise the 914's. I'm getting a little old for street racing, so it's AX or Track. As Sean noted, track day with instruction, multiple cars on the track (but no passing except in the one straight), is a hell of a lot better than 10 AX events. As to cost, don't worry. Let's say we get 75 cars and 25 add'l attendees for WCC 2005. $150 entry, $30 for add'ls gives us almost $12k to work with before sponsor $$. I think it's OK to assign $3k for the track day. 50 AXers at someone elses venue @$30 per car is $1500. I'll bet we can get sponsors to pay the difference. With the exception of the Glen, 'ring, Mosport, Monaco, and a few others, auto tracks are built to take advantage of cheap real estate, not natural beauty. Any competition events will be held in hellhole locations. I don't think the overall event should be housed at any of them. Rather have one 75 mile commute at the beginning or end of the event. As to the entire event location, worry. San Jose was obvious up north as most of the admins are in bay area. We shlepped in from all over and paid lodging, food and gas bills they did not. The real test of this is how many NorCal types make the trip down. Track would do it; AX may not. Unless the event is held within 20 minutes of my home I figure to be in the hotel. Not many of us will be lucky enough to commute, so the biggest cost of WCC will be food and lodging. |
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