Our club, CVAR, has always placed a real premium on the value of all
volunteer workers who make our sport possible. All of our workers are
automatically members of the club at no cost to them. We also pay for
their lodging at the events they work. They not only attend all of our
parties; they receive and make awards at those parties. Twice a year
the workers select a member of their group who goes through that driving
school during the weekend driving a car the club rents. In addition,
numerous drivers provide various gifts including track radios, wine and
vintage posters which are awarded at the workers discretion
We have a lot of great volunteers!
Richard
S800Racer@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 10/6/99 10:18:51 PM, psr@mnw.net writes:
>
> <<What ideas are out there, in this largely quiet group of vintage racers,
> which will motivate the workers to come to our events in numbers large
> enough to make them safe in that respect?>>
>
> This subject came up during some conversations during the Summit Point
> weekend and I was taken aback to learn that corner workers are not routinely
> invited to the track parties. That seems like such an absurd and elitest
> (sp?) attitude. I may not be able to do anyhting about the track parties,
> but I can certainly see that they are invited to any party that our Group
> puts on.
> As the Group rep for SVRA's Group 1 (even though I have been officially
> told by SVRA that there is no such thing as a Group rep anymore), I have been
> successful in organizing some casual parties for the Group to socialize and
> get to know each other. I am going to make it one of my goals for next
> season to try to do something for the workers at each event. I can't think
> of any racers in our group that would not agree with this idea. I would
> encourage other Groups to think about some form or worker appreciation as
> well.
> Just because the sanctioning body and the event organizers don't treat
> workers right does not mean we can't take it upon ourselves to show them that
> we appreciate what they do.
>
> Doug Meis.
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