Even though I am not a SVRA regular, Iâ??ll put this on the list for next year.
Greg
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> On Nov 12, 2018, at 12:14 PM, Bob Kramer via Fot <fot@autox.team.net> wrote:
>
> Friends
>
> Way back in 1989 I ran across another TR6 in the parking lot of a local auto
> parts store and the ensuing conversation led to the formation of the Hill
> Country Triumph Club. The next year we began holding an All British Car Day
> as an annual event to meet the Vintage Triumph Register requirement of an
> annual "feature" event. I've had better ideas, but not many have lasted this
> long. The event is now a 3-day affair and run by a dedicated committee.
>
> Every 4 years our club rotated responsibility for the "Texas" VTR Regional,
> but the Oklahoma clubs have helped us spread that out to every 6 years.
> Early on I was a regular attendee of the VTR Nationals years and competing in
> the autocross on course at Roebling Road in 1991 planted the seed for my
> racing addiction. Attending these events helped me to decide early on that
> the HCTC should stay away from the idea of ever hosting the VTR National. Our
> club membership was young and busy with life, Austin was too far south, our
> club wasn't big enough and most of all I didn't want that type of
> responsibility to take over my life.
>
> Years have passed, our members have aged, some are even retired, Austin is on
> the bucket list of place to go see for a lot of people and our club is much
> larger now. I've moved further away from downtown and I don't make it to many
> meetings so I wasn't there to talk them out of it when the HCTC agreed to
> host the 2019 VTR Nationals. It will be held in nearby Dripping Springs from
> October 6 through 9th of 2019. Here is where, as a loyal transplanted Texan,
> I am required to say, "you'all come."
>
> But that is not why I am bringing this up. Austin is home to the Formula 1
> event at Circuit of the Americas. The date for this event in 2019 has forced
> the SVRA to move their Vintage National event at Circuit of the Americas to
> the weekend before the VTR National. That's right, the SVRA Vintage Nationals
> will be held October 3-6 and the VTR Nationals October 6-9. In a year where
> the Kastner Cup is in California, and the SVRA is giving free registration,
> to Triumph racecars for the Watkins Glen event a month earlier, the thought
> of asking how many Triumphs might want to tow to Texas, with no free
> registration, just to put on a good show for the 200 or so attendees of the
> VTR National is the last thing I thought I would be doing, but here I am
> doing just that.
>
> The VTR National is happening with or without us as is the SVRA event. The
> track, while fun to race is not a likely candidate for a future Kastner Cup
> because it is a modern facility. This may be the most common sense time for
> us to have a get together at COTA. If we could attract enough cars we can
> integrate the track event into the VTR Nationals by holding the Sunday
> kick-off party at the track.
>
> So I have to ask, who would want to do this?
>
> Bob Kramer
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