Thread: Official dates, times, and places for the key party.

I agree a second thread be created and all traffic directed towards it.

A full day of discussion here and the organizer is absent from it?

I don't think rescheduling is an option. I had to pull a lot of strings to get that time off. Changing it now is next to impossible.

When the schedule was initially drafted, it was based on availability of accommodations, and track schedules (Road race, Karting, Drag) and the dates for all was ideal. Now the contract for the hotel have been signed and the planning for tracks was already detailed. Unfortunately the road racing portion of the schedule got axed for SCCA

I will look into rescheduling for the week before but I will have to see if that is feasible with the Hotel, Karting, and Drag

Jimmy,

I hear you and I am sure your not alone, if rescheduling is not feasible I would stick to the original plan

That was the plan. However, Friday At The Track is simply their generic arrive-and-drive event which gets sprinkled throughout the calendar when nothing else is scheduled, and it is subject to cancellation if someone rents the track.

As best I've been told, that's what has happened to our road course day. SCCA came along and rented the track. So the default arrive-and-drive day got canceled. I believe it is that simple. But it's been like pulling teeth to get that info and clarity.

So...technically, the dates can be moved, and someone else rents out the week before. That would REALLY suck.

Ben, I was giving a general example.

My point is, the schedule is SET typically at the beginning of the year, and groups have already reserved the track. There is no way for a licensed body to come along and just say "Hey, I want your date" and have whoever has reserved the date be booted (a properly sanctioned body like a PCA or BMW driver's club event for example). The dates are usually set in stone by this time of year (the first SCCA HPDE was last weekend!), so for us to be booted sounds more like we never had anything set in stone to begin with (and more why I would have perfered for us to piggy bank another sanctioned group).

Big buck racers typically like to see a schedule sorted by the first month of the year to get everything in order, ESPECIALLY considering the months of November to March are the BUSIEST car prep months, and to not have a schedule to work against early enough, makes things extremely difficult.

Simple as that! It would have saved us an immense amount of upfront cash, planning and coordination, in addition to the majority of the behind the scene work be already handled.

All I am saying is, there are more than one ways to skin a cat. We just chose the wrong method.........

If we were already firmly in the schedule, they are NOT booting us........unless we were not.

My 0.02cents..........

See my above post.

(Note: I have been going to Summit for 10 years now, and started HPDE a few years ago. I crew for my brother who races SCCA there and kow several of the people that run the show, so have a little info on how things work. I made my suggestions early as I had a hunch this was going to happen and how events have fallen apart so quickly in the past........).