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bandit, the events would be spread out over the spring and summer mostly. the limited discussions so far are thinking an event in mid to late april and have the other events spread out by at least 3-4 weeks. that should give everyone time to spread out and plan vacations and get their cars ready for the next show.
unfortunately with a series there would not be any way to avoid having a few events in the middle of the summer heat. but if we started in april and had the last event in september, maybe we coudl skip july or august to stay away from the worst of the summer heat. all of that will depend on what the tracks have going on though, so we will see.
bigal, the NMRA was actually part of the inspiration for this. the mustang crowd really have their **** together with that. they let their classes evolve each year and are constantly looking for ways to offer an entry level into racing.
untamed, a lot of what you are saying are the concerns that we have. we plan to keep the racing as economically realistic as possible by having 4 brackets classes along with the heads up program. we also have a rules outline for a heads up class that is pretty good sounding for entry level/fast street cars. obviously, heads up still comes with a cubic dollars stamp on it, we would just work on keeping it at least partially realistic.
the dates and locations are still to be determined. the only event that is absolutely going to follow the format as of right now would be the east coast nats.
having participants prepay for the events is something we have looked into before for the nats. it is definately something to follow through with for the series.
volunteers are gonna be a big deal. the local host club or the njfboa would have to provide people to help with tech, at teh front gate, parking car show participants, and other little odd jobs. nothing stressful, just stuff that require a person or two paying attention to one thing for a few hours.
believe me, we are planning to go all the way with this. that is why the thread was put up. so far the idea is out there and receiving good feedback from tracks and some potential sponsors. we just wanted to see what the clubs take on this was before we made any concrete moves to put this together.
thanks for the feedback everyone. keep it coming.
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