Henry, one reason for the fall out for the sprint races was likely the heat.
I know of at least two people who just packed up and went home. Probably
more. I also seemed to notice more cars with mechanical problems this
weekend. The Healey guys had lots of track time during the weekend and might
have worn out some of their cars. This was the last race of their US tour.
There were others invited to the meeting with Michelle, but might have been
racing or working on their cars. I believe we were the only meeting, but
never asked Carl.
Someone at our meeting mentioned another track (Road America or the Glen)
where they paid $75 for RV parking with no services, so Mid Ohio is not the
only track doing this. Don't worry the issue was raised strongly but I don't
know of any plans to change this practice.
Read Bob Harrington's event report to get his feeling on the positive changes
he experienced.
http://www.svra.com/SVRA/SVRAHome.nsf/weblinks/EJEN-675QB7?OpenDocument
BTW, I've received an email that some of the Monoposto racers were very
unhappy with the organizers at Mospot and have threatened to delete Mosport
from their schedule in the future. I guess it's getting harder to keep us
racer's happy!!
Jeff Snook
http://www.snooksdreamcars.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Henry Frye
To: Jeff Snook ; fot@autox.team.net
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: Mid Ohio Report
Holy cow, talk about low numbers.
A quick peruse of the results on the SVRA website shows at Mid Ohio last
weekend they had only 152 cars take the green flag in their Sprint race.
Group 1, where Spits usually run, had 24 cars start. Group 3, where the 4
cylinder TR's generally run, had 16 cars. Those groups used to have 50
plus each.
It looks like the Healey Challenge guys sat out the Group 3 race, no idea
why, but that had some impact on the Group 3 number.
I do find it interesting that Jeff's meeting was only attended by Group 1
and 3 people. Jeff, do you know if any other meetings were held with the
big bore guys?
I am glad Jeff's meeting went well, and I hope the M-O staff keep
listening. From what I heard and saw at Road Atlanta, it is obvious the
SVRA staff is well aware that we racers are the customer and they are doing
everything they can to keep us happy.
I have to say I am surprised at M-O, with all this scuttlebutt about how
poorly they treat racers, they have a lot of gall charging $75 for the
privilege of parking an RV without any services whatsoever.
At 11:23 AM 06/30/2005 -0400, Jeff Snook wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>Had a good meeting with Mid Ohio President, Michelle Truman, and her Vice
>President, Dennis Rhee. Sitting in on the meeting were MG racers Don
Munoz,
>Jerry Richards and Les Gonda, Turner racer Keith Burnett, and SVRA
Competition
>Director, Carl Jensen.
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