914 Club Sponsored Tent at the Runoffs, Help your racers win in September Options

[ChrisFoley]

The SCCA Club Racing National Championships are being held at
the Mid Ohio Sports Car Course from September 19 through the 25th. This is the last year that the Runoffs will be held at Mid-Ohio.
Several club members, as well as a number of other 914 guys from across the country, will be driving their 914 race cars in an effort to win a National Championship in their respective classes.
We would like to officially represent the Club at this big, week long event!
We need people to organize and $$ to make this happen.

What we are hoping to have is a tent big enough to work on at least 8 race cars, on the tarmac in the lower paddock, just like the Mazda, Nissan, etc. guys get with their factory support.
This will put us closer to the action, therefore less running around. Our cars will stay cleaner and be easier to work on than being in the upper unpaved paddock.
Being together will help us all be ready for the races so we will put on a good show and get proper notice by the Speed TV camera crews on the track.

Hopefully someone from the Club can step up and organize this so the racers can concentrate on their cars and their racing.
Tasks include: contacting the track to make sure we will have the space we need; finding a tent rental company; having a 914 Club banner to go on the front of the tent; organizing people to provide cooking and gopher services; security; etc.
The total costs may reach or exceed $3000 for everything, so your donations will be much appreciated!

Each race driver gets at least three crew passes, so people helping out will be given free access to the track facility during the week as well as on the race days.
The tentative driver list includes:
E Production- Erik Madsen and Kevin Groot
F Production - Chris Foley, Ed Givler, Tom Burdge, Les Handly, Mark Hotchkiss, Keith Peare, Kyle Dolbow
GT2 - Steve Limbert
As the season progresses I'll be checking for other 914 drivers who are working to qualify for the Championships.

[william harris]

Update: after speaking with several people at Mid-Ohio, I finally was passed on to Mary Weiss, who is the person who gives out space on the paved paddock area for the event. We are now "on the list" for space on the upper paddock. This does not confirm that we have the space because there are two issues to be resolved. One: SCCA must first confirm that tech will be set up on the lower paddock area (where it has been for the last two years) and Mid-Ohio must get confirmation from vendors (who set up in the upper paddock area) as to who is actually coming and how much space they need. Mary says she will do everything possible to give us a 40x40 space, but the vendors come first. So, I will not get an "official" confirmation of the space until the end of June. Will let everyone know when I get the final nod. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/beerchug.gif)