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Re: what's wrong with Vintage Racing

To: Fubog1@aol.com
Subject: Re: what's wrong with Vintage Racing
From: Jerry Barr <jerrybarr@charter.net>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 14:05:13 -0500
For the midwest group we have Midwestern Council and VSCDA. Both 
provide a lot of track time for the money, both are fun groups to run 
with.

Jerry Barr
#59 Red GT6

On May 13, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Fubog1@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 5/13/2005 1:35:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> britcars@bellsouth.net writes:
>
> The  Mitty started out kind of like that, a lot of track time for a few
> groups.  But as the sport got popular and more and more types of cars 
> came to
> race,  the number of groups got larger. To accommodate them all, and 
> they had
> to  accommodate them so they could get that entry fee, the sessions 
> had to
> get  shorter.
>
>
> I just want to add to what Barry has already said.
>  If you look at what happened to SCCA in the 70s, when it went from  
> being a
> "club" to "Inc.", it became more of a big bidness & had to start  
> adding more
> & more classes in order to accomodate the paying customers, the  
> racers. This
> is what helped Vintage racing in its early days,  it  attracted a lot 
> of SCCA
> Prod car folks that were burned-out on all the constant  rules & class
> changes. Now the same thing has happened to Vintage but it's a  $$ 
> making proposition
> for the folks who run it & they have to approach it as  that. I don't 
> know
> the solution but this is what makes groups like SCCA Vintage  & VDCA, 
> etc, look
> much more attractive today (shameless plug for Mike  Jackson & VDCA), 
> they get
> back to the basics of racing & getting track  time without all the 
> frills
> JMHO
> Safety FasTR,
> Glen
>
>
Jerry Barr
#59 Red GT6

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