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| View Poll Results: Open Track --Keep or Drop? | |||
| Keep Open Track but charge an extra (~$75) to run. |     | 36 | 69.23% |
| Drop Open Track, but keep Autocross |    | 9 | 17.31% |
| Drop both Open Track and Autocross |    | 7 | 13.46% |
| Voters: 52. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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10-12-2003, 02:14 PM
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| President Paid Member  |  Open Track 2004?? Hello to all planning to attend Lightning/HD-TruckFest 2004,;w In looking at the cost/benefits of the past LightningFest 2003, it appears that the Open Track event does NOT pay for itself.  Thus we are asking the following questions to see if the Open Track event should be continued or dropped for next year.
Thanks, ...Dwight...
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10-12-2003, 10:17 PM
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| Team Procharger  | For cost reasons I say drop the open track event and keep the parking lot racing(much cheaper) Maybe dont get the track for Friday this time would that save any money? I think Sat is plenty of time for the drag racing deal.Have sunday for show and autocross and have a (Huge) cookout on sunday. Have some 50/50s to bring in a few more bucks. Id charge 10 dollars for people to get in who are not racing or showing. Id have two ET classes next time. Have one heads up class for race trucks(Backhalf/fronthalf/mini tubbed/lencos etc.. One heads up class for 100 percent street trucks that have on them current tags,insurance etc..suspension must be in stock location with working lights,wipers,interior there etc...Have them all take a 30 mile drive and pull right to the staging lanes type of thing. Have no GEN1 or GEN2 only class this time.Just some ideas Ill be there no matter what though.
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10-13-2003, 12:05 AM
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| President Paid Member |  Yup Doug, We know that, and that is part of the equation. The OT is a high dollar expense and was not covered by the entry fees last time. the answer is to have more entrants, paying more. Ideas??...we have some, but will not voice them...rather want ideas from the board. ...Dwight... |
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10-13-2003, 07:26 AM
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| Team Art Carr  | I say drop the OT and have 2 days of drag racing and 1 day for the car show and auto cross.....Alot of people won't drive far just for 1 day of drag racing. Also If you have the car show on sunday and drags on fri. and sat. people could enter in both |
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10-13-2003, 10:55 AM
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| Keith Blackburn  Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Pikeville , Ky.
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View this user's gallery iTrader: 15 / 100% | I'm going to go out on a limb and say that " Most " people are more drag-race oriented, than open track or autocross. More Drag racing would be better, Just like Jerry said,.......a lot of people don't want to travel that far for just one day of racing. Something else that you should keep in mind, is some sort of "window" in case of bad weather! What would've happened if it had rained all day saturday,.....and clear skies on sunday?! Who would've got to race,......the drag racers,....... or the open track / autocross guys?! Just something to think about.
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10-14-2003, 07:01 AM
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| President Paid Member |  Hi Chris,;w We may have a way to keep the Open Track, we are just testing the waters for event participant support. We will decide what way to go after a few weeks of polling. How many HD's do you think will run in the Open Track?  ...Dwight...  |
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10-14-2003, 07:20 AM
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| LostInPace Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Cincinnati, OH ; West Side
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View this user's gallery iTrader: 0 / 0%  | I'm hooked on Open Track. I'm very willing to pay the extra for it; but like Aryton said; if it is not possible to be part of the event- then so be it. I know I can get my fix elsewhere.  Either way- I plan to be there! peace, john |
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10-14-2003, 09:43 AM
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| Registered User | First I had a great time at this year's event. I will be willing to pay more to do the road course. But since I do not drag race normally driving for 5 days and 2500 plus miles round trip is a little much for one day regardless of how much fun I had. I would like to see the auto cross and the road course be done on different days. It is too much to do on one day. I think that you would have more people do the auto cross if it was done on Saturday and road course on Sunday. I do not see where that would interfere with the drag racing. On another topic, I think that the Bar-b-que Meet and Greet needs to be done at different time than the plant tour. Having it at the same time breaks the club in half and defeats the purpose of having the Bar-b-que. Also beer and wine or just beer needs to be available even if we pay for it in addition to the meal. If it is a track rule of no alcohol maybe it could be held at the event hotel or something. Just my thoughts, Kim Reed;w |
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10-14-2003, 11:25 AM
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| President Paid Member | Beer was allowed at the BBQ feed...but BYOB...we could not provide it.... The BBQ will be done differently next time...as for the plant tour..it was a late entry and was fit as time allowed. The plant tour was on the plants time schedule....not ours as the plant does not do tours. Maybe the Autocross could be moved to Friday?? Cheers, ...Dwight... |
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10-14-2003, 01:20 PM
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| Registered User | Friday would be good for the autox. That way there would be some who could do all three events. I did not know that we could bring our own beer or whatever. Now I do. I knew that the pl ant tour was an add on and I am sorry that I missed it. Look forward to seeing you and Nan again. Kim |
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10-14-2003, 02:43 PM
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| Derelict of society  | Quote:
Let me know what changes will be needed to the truck and I will post something over on the site. I really want to go next year and you already know how I feel about the NHRA roll cage rule, so I need something to do. | |
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10-14-2003, 03:03 PM
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| Registered User | Big D , I'm a newbie to the board and unfortunally I was'nt able to attend. I plan on coming next year though. I have a quetion about the roll cage rule. If NLOC is renting the track for a private event and all the participants sign a waiver releasing the track of any responsability why do we have to adhere to NHRA rules(the last I heard it wasn't a NHRA sanctioned event?????
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