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burgmopar
2 BBL ''SuperSix''
Joined: 28 Sep 2010
Posts: 18
Location: Powhatan, Virginia
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Post subject:
School me on new Race Events, Sponsors, etc. for VA race
(Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:08 am)
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So I'm reading about the cancelled Elk Creek race and the return to Mason Dixon in October...
Just wondering, why not a Slant 6 points race at this show in Dinwiddie, VA?
Mopar Madness at Virginia Motorsports Park, Sept 22-23, 2012.
The show is put on by the Tidewater Mopar Club.
Seems like a perfect opportunity to get your car count up with plenty of Mopar fans watching!
Decent Interstate access: I-85, I-95, I-64
Maybe it's too late for this year, but I'd like to know what it would take to make it happen...
Would anyone be interested???
(Although, I guess Will might have an advantage  )
Thanks!
burg
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Rob Simmons
SL6 Racer & Moderator
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Posts: 4472
Location: Elizabethtown, KY
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Rick Covalt
Board Sponsor
Joined: 23 Oct 2002
Posts: 2871
Location: Waynesboro, Pa.
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Post subject:
Check it out
(Fri Jul 20, 2012 1:44 pm)
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If you are interested in a race in that area here are some things to think about and check out.
1) Check with the track and see if they would be interested in hosting a Slant 6 series race there. Try and get a feel if they are genuinely glad to host a race or not. Some places just don't want to bother with us,
2) See when they would allow us to come. Is the Mopar event a good fit for us and them.
3) Will they allow us to run our own event. Random ladder...etc?
4) Will they put anything into a purse for us as a payout. Will they let us use the payout however we want?
5) Do you have a decent local base of cars that will attend ?
6) Are you willing to do the legwork, be the organizer/coordinator of the race?
Find out all the info you can and if you are still interested, send the info to Lou Madsen, or start a discussion thread on the site. Then when we meet in Pigeon Forge to discuss the 2013 schedule we can decide if we want to do it.
If it was to become a reality, the Covalt clan would definitely try and come, probably with 4 or more cars. It is 4 hours from us.
Rick_________________ 2 Mopars come with Spark plug tubes. One is a highly refined, record setting, world class, racing machine. The other is a 426 CI. boat anchor!
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Rick Covalt
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Joined: 23 Oct 2002
Posts: 2871
Location: Waynesboro, Pa.
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(Fri Jul 20, 2012 1:56 pm)
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I must have been typing while Rob was.
| Quote: | | but there are races added later (like Mason-Dixon in October). |
Remember we did discuss this second race at M-D at the banquet and on here extensively. I think adding another race into that last month of the schedule this year may be a bit much (My opinion). But if there was a decision to add that race next year we could forgo the second race at M-D. At least discuss it.
We also had the whole month of June open this year without a race. Soooo.
It comes down to someone taking the bull by the horns and taking charge. No one else in the North wanted to do it at another track up here so we have the second M-D race that I set up in Oct.
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Ron Hamby
SSRN National Champion
Joined: 22 Jun 2006
Posts: 123
Location: Purlear, N.C.
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(Fri Jul 20, 2012 4:44 pm)
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We held Slant six points races there in the early 2000's. The track was in excellent shape and very smooth as I remember. The track personel were the exact opposite. They didnt make us feel welcome at all. Probably not the same people there now, hopefully.
Tks Ron
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