> Move Nationals east of Topeka, even by a day's drive, would most likely
> chop off a lot of the western members of the Club, not the friendliest
thing
> to do.
But what do we gain if we do?
If it did move and we had 3000 people show up would it be a positive move?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Kelly" <lollipop487@home.com>
To: <bthatch@juno.com>; <rickcone@bellsouth.net>
Cc: <autox@autox.team.net>; <rex_tener@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: SCCA national office move
>
> Road racing doesn't seem to mind
> >with their championhips being held in Atlanta for years and now not being
> >very far from Evansville in Ohio.
> >
> I think something's slipped your mind. The national road racing runoffs
> attract drivers from across the country because there's a travel fund that
> is portioned out to drivers. Those who travel farthest get the most travel
> money, if they qualify...
> Since Solo II's only 'qualifying' requirement is to run a Tour or
> Divisional, and we have so many entering, I doubt something like this
would
> work.
> Move Nationals east of Topeka, even by a day's drive, would most
likely
> chop off a lot of the western members of the Club, not the friendliest
thing
> to do.
> --Pat Kelly
> >Ben
> >
> >On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:17:39 -0400 "Rick Cone" <rickcone@bellsouth.net>
> >writes:
> >> I am afraid Rex, it may be you joking, statistically anyway.
> >>
> >> According to the most recent US Census...
> >> http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cenpop/cntpop2k.html
> >>
> >> The median center of population in the US is........... Evansville,
> >> IN! Ok
> >> not quite but it is the next big city to the center.
> >>
> >> Due south of Evansville.... BIRMINGHAM AL....
> >>
> >> So using your numbers... If the offices were moved to the middle of
> >> the
> >> country, in terms of population) then you would have to drive 1852
> >> (your
> >> number) + 342 (yahoo maps, Evansville to Topeka) for a total of 2194
> >> miles.
> >> So it would be another 100 miles to get to Birmingham.
> >>
> >> IF we move the location of the Solo2 Nationals, we should do it
> >> based upon
> >> the geographic center of our membership. And I would contend if you
> >> compared the geographics of the SCCA and the US Population as a
> >> whole the
> >> center would move south, and east. Why? It would move south
> >> because we are
> >> able to race close to year round, and our member to population rates
> >> will be
> >> higher. (How many SCCA members are there that live/work in
> >> Manhattan? I
> >> would bet that Atlanta being a city 1/5 the size has more members
> >> then New
> >> York City... see what I mean? To further illustrate, 6 of the
> >> SCCA's area
> >> is East of the Mississippi.
> >>
> >> You could make a point that those of us east of Topeka, subsidizes
> >> those
> >> coming from the west.
> >>
> >> I'm all for Solo 2 Nationals being centrally located, or in the
> >> central part
> >> of the country. But it should be based on where the membership
> >> lives.
> >
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