Rennsport Renuion VII, Laguna Seca. Sept. 28 - Oct. 1. 2023 Options

[Elvira]

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[beech4rd]

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I went to the first one at Lime Rock park. Spoke at length to Derek Bell about his Le Mans experiences. Won't forget that.
How many of you Californians attended?

Chris

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I went to the first one at Lime Rock park. Spoke at length to Derek Bell about his Le Mans experiences. Won't forget that.
How many of you Californians attended?

Chris

I was at Lime Rock for the first one, and it was great. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

Also traveled to Daytona for RR2 and RR3, which was cool—but I suspect it's difficult for PCNA to ignore past attendance numbers. Even if some of these are off, the pattern is obvious.

RR1 @ Lime Rock: 1,500 (?) attendees
RR2 @ Daytona: 3,000~
RR3 @ Daytona: 3,500~
RR4 @ Laguna: 30,000+
RR5 @ Laguna: 57,300
RR6 @ Laguna: 81,550

I'd love to see Rennsport at Road America, Road Atlanta, or Watkins Glen—but Laguna is alone (?) among North American tracks in having hotels and services for huge crowds nearby, international tourism pull, and a lot of attractions for family members who don't want to go to the track. It's also a great track to drive.

Sears Point comes (sort of…) close with the wine country, and is also great to drive (if riskier), but doesn't have the name recognition and is a longer haul for the LA crowd where Laguna can pull from north and south. As much as I'd like to see it move around, I can't say I blame the people who had to make it work for choosing Laguna again.

[infraredcalvin]

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I went to the first one at Lime Rock park. Spoke at length to Derek Bell about his Le Mans experiences. Won't forget that.
How many of you Californians attended?

Chris

I was at Lime Rock for the first one, and it was great. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

Also traveled to Daytona for RR2 and RR3, which was cool—but I suspect it's difficult for PCNA to ignore past attendance numbers. Even if some of these are off, the pattern is obvious.

RR1 @ Lime Rock: 1,500 (?) attendees
RR2 @ Daytona: 3,000~
RR3 @ Daytona: 3,500~
RR4 @ Laguna: 30,000+
RR5 @ Laguna: 57,300
RR6 @ Laguna: 81,550

I'd love to see Rennsport at Road America, Road Atlanta, or Watkins Glen—but Laguna is alone (?) among North American tracks in having hotels and services for huge crowds nearby, international tourism pull, and a lot of attractions for family members who don't want to go to the track. It's also a great track to drive.

Sears Point comes (sort of…) close with the wine country, and is also great to drive (if riskier), but doesn't have the name recognition and is a longer haul for the LA crowd where Laguna can pull from north and south. As much as I'd like to see it move around, I can't say I blame the people who had to make it work for choosing Laguna again.

Thank you, I was going to look that up myself. After RR4 several articles came out talking about how RR4 had been alienating one of its largest growing markets on the west coast, they stayed and its only grown since, sorry, the $$$ is out here.