The region's racing drivers, through increased entry fees, put up the
bucks for Thunderhill, plus many who contributed various sums.
The only dollars that Solo 2 puts into the region's coffers are our dues
money. Nothing else. If any solo 2er helped get Thunderhill going, it was
done privately with individual contributions.
I have never expected the region to put any money into our site. When
the whole TH idea was started, the first site looked at was a little south
of Crows Landing. We were asked if we'd like to have part of the site for
our autocross area, separate from the paddock, so it could be used at the
same time. That made sense.
But, that site went belly up, and so did the next one. When TH came up,
it was too far away, and the region's management of that era wanted the Solo
2ers dollars to pave the paddock. The idea was we could use the paddock for
autocrosses. A good race track has to be putting on races in order to
survive, so the paddock idea was turned down by the Solo 2 contingent
because 1) we wouldn't be able to use except in the off season and 2) it was
too far away to attract enough folks to even have a solo 2 program.
Does that help clarify? :)
--Pat K
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>From: Lolita and Mike <lomike@earthlink.net>
>To: <Smokerbros@aol.com>, <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: autosuffrage: we got votes for sale here
>Date: Sat, Oct 26, 2002, 8:25 PM
>
> on 10/26/02 9:31, Smokerbros@aol.com at Smokerbros@aol.com wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure what you would have the BoD do to help us with our site
>> situation, but if there was something they could do, I'd bet that they would.
>>
>> Charlie Davis
>
> Charlie
> Did I missing something?
> While I wasn't around at the time, it has been my understanding that the
> Region put up the money for TH.
> Is that incorrect?
> If not incorrect, the next logical question would have to be," wasn't SOLO
> II paying into the Regions coffers then?"
> If SOLO did help them buy TH, why shouldn't we expect them to help us buy a
> permanent site?
> ( I don't even want to get started about a viable site, a plan, et al right
> now. This is simply a philosophical question about support Vs thinking about
> grabbing the $$ and running)
> MJ
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