Yep we got ETR to do it. It's in their territory. Stay posted on the list
I should have it up an running soon. It will be nice to have a townhall
meeting all year long on event operations, won't it? I'm hoping we can
get Howard Duncan, Tasha Goodale and the honchos in Cal Club, San Diego,
San Francisco and Seattle on the list, too.
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 00:16:34 -0400 "Glen Thompson"
<glen.thompson@home.com> writes:
>
> I like the idea of such an e-mail list. The noise level on team.net
> gets
> a bit high sometimes.
>
> By the way - did you ever find someone to run an event in Bristol?
>
> glen
> ==============================
> Glen E. Thompson
> Regional Executive
> Blue Ridge Region SCCA
> glen.thompson@home.com
> www.brr-scca.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-autox@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-autox@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of Benjamin D Thatcher
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 10:28 AM
> To: autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Subject: No Autox on TV please
>
>
> Rick Brown of Cal Club,
>
> I empathize with you about getting overwhelmed with entrants (with
> your
> 280 drivers). I think we're seeing this all over the country.
> However,
> we've got to do something to cope with it as Steve Johnson is going
> to
> take the old "Secret Car Club of America" out of SCCA. I know that
> the
> internet has fueled our visibility, also.
>
> Either we will have to start expanding schedules, renting adjoining
> lots
> or raising our entry fees to cope with this.
>
> We just bumped our entry fees from $20 for members to $25 and saw
> about a
> 15% reduction in entries. Do the math, we increased fees 25% and
> only
> reduced entries by 15%. So now we are taking in more money but
> having a
> little smaller event (177 versus 210). It's supply and demand. (Lots
> of
> our experienced drivers have fled to surrounding small regions for
> their
> events, they don't like the extra $5 expense and the large events).
>
> Let's not choke off the supply, if possible. Let's figure out ways
> to
> accomodate the hordes. If we start bumping up to 250+ we are
> considering
> renting an additional lot and having 2 courses for the weekend with
> 2
> timing & scoring trailers to accomodate the competitors. Then each
> of our
> events would be weekend affairs like at Topeka (run one course on
> Saturday and the other on Sunday).
>
> These are the growth pains when the best kept motorsports secret
> gets out
> in the open. Unfortunately, they don't pay us enough to solve these
> problems but we get to do it anyway<grin>. Probably what we need is
> an
> elist just for Autocross organizers so we can swap ideas and get a
> handle
> on this. Anybody interested? If so, I'll get one started.
>
> Ben Thatcher
> Apex Benefit Services & Motorsports
> Stockbridge, GA
>
Ben Thatcher
Apex Benefit Services & Motorsports
Stockbridge, GA
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