Is anyone really concerned that SCCA would drop a program that has nearly
100,000 competitors nationally (PRI statistics, not SCCA) and a championship
event pulling 1100 competitors with minimal liability concerns?
Not bloody likely!
And as for a different Chuck's query: "P.S. Who "mentioned" the 2006 venue
change? That sounds like an unfounded rumor, possibly based on the fact
that some folks have said that they didn't think Heartland Park could
provide appropriate pavement."
This one is pretty well-founded. The "who" was SCCA President Steve Johnson.
The where was first at the Solo Nationals Town Meeting, then again at the
Wednesday banquet as he announced we would be either on a repaved Forbes
site or a newly-built site for '06. As for Heartland Park, go check out
http://heartlandparktopeka.com/06runoffs.htm, click on "renovation" and
check out the map. Those black squares in the top-left (northwest) corner
are the potential new site HPT owner Ray Irwin has in mind. But it is WAY
early in that process (and Ray is most heavily focused on the Runoffs just
now as that is his bird-in-the-hand), so don't be premature expecting any
hot news out of SCCA just yet. Besides, SCCA may have other options.
--Rocky Entriken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck" <golden1@britsys.net>
To: "Matt Murray" <mattm@optonline.net>
Cc: ".Team.Net" <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: SCCA Club Racing Announces New Entry Level Track Program
> Is anyone else concerned that divorcing Solo1 from Solo2 is the first
> major
> step in dropping the Solo2 program entirely? We already know that there
> was
> serious talk of deleting Prosolo this year and it was mentioned at the
> convention that the 2006 National Championships would not be at Forbes nor
> at Heartland.
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