Please dont mention "party line", Gov, and definately not "L _ _ _ _
r", I am ill with proceedings lately, have to leave the tv on
Speedvision and call it good, another reason I like landracing, it
takes me away from political engines to concentrate on internal
combustion ones
Joe
Dick J wrote:
> Right On Tom. I don't know who he was either, he
> hasn't appeared on the list before, but I think
> he's thinking that everybody will pay $50 more,
> no matter where they race. I guess I could see
> his point in not wanting to "subsidize" Muroc if
> he's racing at Bonneville. My feelings are, the
> entry fee has to be whatever it has to be to
> cover the costs. But hey, that's what this list
> is all about. Everybody, with each his own
> opinion, can get his opinion out in the open,
> whether he is in the minority, out in left field,
> or mainstream. We'd never come up with any new
> ideas if everybody was afraid to speak anything
> except a "party line".
>
> --- "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
> wrote:
> > BR,
> >
> > I don't know who you are, where you live in
> > relationship to Muroc, what
> > your experience with LSR is, etc., so it makes
> > it difficult to respond
> > to this letter, but it does merit a response.
> >
> > I have been involved with LSR since the
> > mid-fifities. I can certainly
> > afford the sport now better than when I
> > started, but I too don't
> > appreciate the rising costs of participating.
> > Really, though, the entry
> > fees we pay are an insignificant portion of the
> > overall expense of
> > putting a car in competition. To the best of my
> > recollection in 1960 the
> > Bonneville entry fee was $75, at that time I
> > was working for about $4 an
> > hour. In comparison today's $300 entry is
> > roughly $50 to $60 in 1960
> > dollars.
> >
> > I'm tempted to some day give a history lesson
> > on LSR as we know it. I
> > don't think many of our participants realize
> > how these meets were put on
> > in the early years. Bonneville was budgeted at
> > $1000 per day. Daily
> > Sponsorships were sold to, various Speed
> > Equipment Vendors, etc. and the
> > entry fees were the only other income. The only
> > people that received
> > fees for their work were the ambulance and the
> > timer, everyone else
> > volunteered. The staff and volunteers received
> > a room and the midday
> > meal. Later, some times the SCTA Officials &
> > Staff were reimbursed for
> > fuel expense to and from the meet, if the meet
> > made money. Many of the
> > racers, including myself, worked at extra jobs
> > to support our racing
> > expenses. Of course in those days there were
> > fewer entries and therefore
> > less personnel needed to run the meet.
> >
> > Currently, I have no idea how the meet is
> > staffed, who gets paid, who
> > volunteers, etc., but I can tell you this, we
> > have many loyal hard
> > working people that make these meets happen,
> > many giving up running
> > their cars for a year or more, dedicating
> > themselves to these events, so
> > we can race.
> >
> > For the use of the real estate, I believe that
> > BLM gets a percentage of
> > the take at our El Mirage meets, I suppose it
> > is the same at Bonneville
> > and those in control at Muroc are asking $5000
> > per day ($10,000 for the
> > weekend), this is a bit different than it was
> > in yesteryear. At
> > Bonneville the fee was reimbursement for the
> > insurance that the
> > Bonneville Board, out of Salt Lake City, had to
> > carry. It could be $1000
> > or so if we were the only ones using the salt,
> > or it could be a share of
> > the total fee according to how many used the
> > salt that year. Let us not
> > lose sight of the facts in this discussion. No
> > one is suggesting that
> > fees be raised just for the sake of more money
> > in the till, my
> > suggestion of a $50 increase in entry to be
> > able to run is to offset the
> > greedy demands of the landlords, our
> > government. I guess we could call
> > it a tax!
> >
> > Tom, Redding CA - #216 D/GCC
>
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