Being a Canadian and living in "Smack in the middle of it" San Jose, CA,
I would have to agree that the costs are outrageous.
But, then again, I just got this years racing schedule.
15 events starting Feb. 8 and ending Dec. 6 with little to no rain
and 70-80 deg. days has its pluses!
Sarcastically,
Derek Palmer
67 Austin Healey 3000 MkIII
84 Renault Sports Racer
87 944 Turbo
92 Ford Explorer (So my wife won't touch the others!)
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Evans [SMTP:brian@uunet.ca]
Sent: Monday, January 19, 1998 6:00 AM
To: Jim Hayes
Cc: vintage-race@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: Convicted of attempted humor!
Sounds like in the land of the free and the home of the brave,
the
capitalist system of marketing economics is alive and
well...where the right
price is all the market will bear (for the vendor, at least -
called "market
based pricing" in my Marketing 101 course at university).
Up here in kinder, gentler Canada, we have non-profit clubs run
our racing,
rather than profit based corporations, and follow a "cost-plus"
pricing
model. The "plus" is two-fold - we try to break even at the end
of the
year, and our racing is the lowest cost per lap in the western
hemisphere
(verified by independant audit - I asked Mike Rosen, and he said
"Sure, eh"!
So come to sunny (I wish!) Canada next May, and run Mosport with
VARAC!
Brian
At 04:22 PM 1/17/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Wm. Severin Thompson wrote:
>> That's in addition to the highest cost per lap, lowest
tracktime ratio of
>> any event we do. Plus... they rape and pillage about 75,000
spectator
entries...
>>
>YOU MEAN THEY DON'T GIVE ENTRANTS A BREAK BECAUSE THEY MAKE SO
MUCH FROM
>THE SPECTATORS? I'M APALLED!
>--
>Jim Hayes Winchester, MA, USA
>hayes@mediaone.net http://www.fotec.com/jim.htm
>jeh@fotec.com http://www.fotec.com/
>All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one,
are false!
>
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