Brooks,
The street schools have taken the heat off the need for Solo I. There
used to be a strong Solo I program headed by a very hard working guy.
After he died, a few others made an attempt to fire it up, but the work
involved (getting track dates is the hardest--and look at the calendars
for TH, Sears & Laguna), plus writing a column to promote the events in
The Wheel proved too much. Track rental costs do not drop because it's
only 60 or so folks renting it, esp with the major ones. You'll note the
street schools are at TH, and I don't believe they are truly SCCA SFR
ventures, but track operations.
Unless the Solo I guy/gal wants to find some other sites that lend
themselves to a track environment other than the above-mentioned tracks,
or maybe hillclimbs, doing Solo I is a big stretch.
--Pat Kelly
"Talley, Brooks" wrote:
>
> I'm just wondering if I'm the only one that misses that SFR doesn't do any
> solo I (Solo1?) events. It seems like it would be a great combination of
> the safety and focus-only-on-driving of Solo2, and the higher speeds and
> longer runs of competition road racing.
>
> I talked to Gary Pitts up at Thunderhill, and he basically said the problem
> is that there's no interest, and that if they put on Solo1 events, there
> wouldn't be enough entries to cover track cost, let alone having respectable
> depth in each class.
>
> Is there anyone else out there who's with me? Obviously nothing's going to
> happen this year, but if there's interest I'd like to push for some kind of
> Solo1 series next year. Of course, being the loudmouth, I'd be willing to
> invest energy in making it happen if there's a chance it would be
> successfull.
>
> What do you all think?
>
> Cheers
> -b
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