Group, we have a fantastic opportunity to fill in the hole in the SE schedule at Roebling Road over Labor Day weekend.
Here’s the skinny: VDCA, a respected vintage racing outfit, normally partners with another organization (in this case SCCA) to “sublet” if you will, a race group. Win/win all around. Many of us who also do CCA club races with Tar Heel have attended VDCA events in the past, at VIR, Roebling, and CMP. A real class organization. Their partner backed out of this event, so they have a hole in the schedule fill within their overall vintage weekend.
Anyway, this would be constructed as a “fun” race, not affiliated with NASA, but for purposes of marketing, let’s say the desired types of race cars would fit those who normally race in the Lightning group in a SE race weekend: i.e. SpecE30, SM, 944, HC, PT, and GTS1/2. We will leave the ground-pounding American and big-motor German stuff on the sidelines this time.
I’m in the process of contacting some of the other series guys (i.e. 944, SM, etc.) but in the meantime, it’d be great to get a nice field of SpecE30 cars, especially from multiple regions (which is why I’m posting here).
Details are still shaking out, but here’s what I know so far:
o First off, it is NOT a NASA event. We would market it to NASA racers but no real connection.
o Cost: $250, payable to VDCA.
o At-track registration Friday night, racing Saturday/Sunday
o After-race party on Saturday. Beer and Food provided by VDCA
o Track time: No less than 3 sessions/day, of at least 20/30/30 minutes prac/qual/race. I’m talking to them about trading some qualify time for longer races.
o Eligibility would be for racers holding 2009 licenses from recognized authority (aka NASA, BMW CCA, etc.)
o Cars must have a current 2009 annual tech
o Racers would register and pay directly with VDCA
o We would select a small group of racers to be ‘tech’ and ‘race’ stewards, to make sure cars are up to snuff safety-wise and deal with any ontrack incidents.
o Would be a total fun race, not for points, just for bragging rights.
o There would be no legality protests, etc. as it’s just a fun race.
o The VDCA guys will potentially help us do split starts by group, etc. if we have the numbers but that’s not really important right now.
o We would use VDCA tech forms
o At least 10 racers min to make this viable. VDCA will need to see the $ and registration form to lock in a slot,and if for some reason we don’t get 10, they will refund all payments made.
o I’m approaching this as a motivated individual racer, not in any other capacity
o I will be the the ‘sub-event’ steward’ for this race group. (I already have a relationship with him because Peachtree Chapter is talking about doing a BMW CCA club race with them next winter)
o We would be “guest” members of VDCA for the weekend, and covered under their racer insurance policy.
o Although we would be in our own race group, we are guests with a vintage organization who utilizes a 13/13 no-contact philosophy, and we would be expected to meet their level of friendly but not damaging competition.
o Sample schedules and registration forms will be available by this weekend.
o The event is only 4 weeks away, so people will need to commit and pay quickly to make this happen.