I am a member of theTriumph Sports Car Club of San Diego that is running
Triumphest 2005 but I am not on the organizing committee.
I just want to let everyone know that because there were several people
who, like Joe, wanted an Autocross the committee, having originally decided
not to run one, decided to go ahead and do so. However I was at a club
meeting last week and the committee had discovered that the cost of
insurance was so prohibitive that it was impossible for the club to proceed
with a stand alone event. There was no intention to deceive anyone; but
maybe you could say that the cost should have been looked into before
making the announcement.
I understand that the committee will probably subsidize the cost of
entering the SCCA event for people who have signed up to come to Triumphest
and want to participate in the Autocross.
Stuart Greenwood
sagreenwood@earthlink.net
San Diego Ca
Triumph TR8, Stag and Spitfire Mk IV
> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:58:33 -0700
> From: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@cox.net>
> Subject: It is happening again
>
> Triumphest is less than a month away. I was looking forward to seeing
> if anything has changed from last year's Tahoe event where the Spitfires
> and GT6's were soundly snubbed.
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> Well, folks it looks like this year's event in San Diego will be more of
> the same.
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> If you go to the Triumphest home page at the link below, you will find
> their logo for this year's event.
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> http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/sandiegotriumph/tfesthome.htm
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> Look at the drawings of the 4 cars and see if you can see a Spitfire or
> GT6 included!
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> If that is a precursor of things to come, I think this might be my last
> Triumphest event, particularly in light of the shady way that I was
> coaxed into attending this year's event.
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> After I proclaimed that I would not come because there wwould not (for
> the second time in a row) be an autocross at the San Diego event, they
> later came back and stated that they had reconsidered and were in fact
> going to have one. Based on that, I sent in my registration and
> reserved a hotel room.
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> Today, I got an update trying to sell the autocross as "Running with the
> big boys"! What it amounts to is they are passing on the autocross and
> letting people who want to run an autocross go to the already scheduled
> San Diego Region of the SCCA monthly event which is going to be held at
> Qualcomm stadium on Saturday, not Friday as originally announced.
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> Bad move guys. It is this type of subversive planning that sours people
> on your events.
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> Regards,
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> Joe Curry
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