Just be sure you don't go in somewhere
and scare the bejeesus out of the owners and
make it impossible for anybody to ever autocross
on a good site. Not sure how you do that,
but I'd watch it.
Another factor is that some of these sites have to be
"gotten" every year. Marina has been making bad
noises, and I know Dennis works hard to keep
the site.
Jerry
Jerry Mouton mailto:jerry@moutons.org Laissez les bons temps rouler!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Hale" <dhale_510@yahoo.com>
To: "ba autox" <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 8:54 AM
Subject: autocross sites
> At the risk of invoking the censor gods on this list I
> would like to debate Sean O'Boy's statement wrgt new
> sites and who/how they are gotten.
>
> The simple fact is every one is gotten by different
> folks, and the story behind each of them is unique. I
> don't think anyone has ever gotten one in a normal
> business fashion. The business proposal of renting a
> $5M lot for $500 and putting it in some jeapordy is a
> really tough sell...
>
> Historic "revisionist" aspect;
> Oakland Coliseum was gotten by Derek Israel, a
> roadracer who was on the maintenance staff at the
> place.
> Candlestick was gotten by John Kelly as far as I know,
> he can corresct this if necessary.
> GGF has been gotten twice. The first time by Art
> Munchuryan, a roadracer who at the time was pretending
> to autocross, but in HS so.... The second time by a
> guy in the Lotus club [I don't recall his name right
> now] who just wanted to stage a charity fundraiser. He
> never autocrossed. That event was a school.
> Marina was gotten by Sherry Grantz, but she was
> approached by a Street Rod club that was using it as a
> swapmeet site.
> Crows Landing was gotten by Art Segar, a roadracer. He
> worked with Peggy to put it together.
> The Livermore Streetrace was a deal done by Dave
> Vodden when the SCCA office moved to Livermore. He has
> never autocrossed AFAIK.
> Every site has required extensive effort to "finish
> the deal" and lots of folks have been involved there.
> As Naseum.
> The points are, anyone can get a new site deal, new
> folks historically have been the ones to do it, and
> autocrossers ought to be more active in the search and
> not be so reliant upon others! Or at least not be
> defiant of those folks that have helped.
>
> Let the games begin...
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> Dennis Hale
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