For what it's worth, the story on the JCB rooms is this:
Their decision to go to the salt was late enough that there were NO rooms
available when they made their request, so, the guy handling their travel
arrangements booked them into what he determined by looking at a map to be the
closest town ... Ely. They made that 120 mile commute every day until rooms
opened up in Wendover around mid-week.
Distances in the American West are somewhat unnerving to someone from the
British Isles.
Wes
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From: James Tone <gmc6power@earthlink.net>
> I can't speak for the Board, but as a long time competitor and worker the
>growth
> of LSR takes it's toll on all of us. With long wainting in lines for
>inspection,
> registration, rooms, food, etc. we all get a little frustrated.
>
> From the days of a few high dollar street rods parked in front of the old
> Stateline to the now raft of rat rods which seemed to have made Bonneville
>their
> adopted home. Just a few years back a team or group of guys which may have
>used
> 2 rooms to masses of large entries where who knows how many rooms were taken
> (JCB come to mind here). If it were not for the rooms the SCTA/BNI has been
>able
> to keep I would be at Bonneville to set up then leave from Friday after
> inspection and come back maybe Tuesday to get a room so I could run. To tell
>the
> turth here I would just go home.
>
> Growth causes this and what the motel owners do with those rooms is their
> business of which we have no control. I, like many, do not track anything in
>the
> room but everyone is not the same and cannot be expected to be. Ever tried
>to
> get a room in a NASCAR race town on race weekend?
>
> Many come just to spectate and with out them we might be charging a lot more
>to
> race. I enjoy them. I enjoy the coverage we have recieved in magazines over
>the
> years and with Fries writing more have come.
>
> I have tried, unsucsessfully, to get rooms for my family and since I can't,
>they
> can't come. Hopefully after this year I will make it. If not, perhaps the
>USFRA
> meet will be for me and my family.
>
> Maybe LSR will slow down and there will be a lul' in the action but I'm not
> planning on it. For right now all of us will do the best we can....Good Luck
>to
> all...J.D.
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