Andy I totally agree with you. Its shameful that more people can't spend a
fun weekend racing and learning from others in the National arena. If your
not going to Topeka then why not? Even if you have almost no chance of
winning, like myself, its worth participating. Come on people. Atwater is
only an hour or so away.
Kirk ESP
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Andy McKee
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:34 AM
To: Bay Area Autox
Subject: Tour Entry Update
Well, if you look at the Atwater Tour entry list the SCCA website, you'll
see
that we're only at 145 entries.
http://www.scca.org/amateur/solo2/nat_tour/2002/atwater/entry.html
The National office is still processing the forms from the last couple days,
but that should only raise the number to 175 or so. On the current entry
list,
it looks like maybe 50 or so Bay Area people are willing to make the "trek"
to
Atwater. I guess more people would rather run a local event at Stockton
than
compete against fellow autoxers from Washington, Oregon, SoCal, Arizona,
Colorado, etc. on a large concrete site in Atwater.
Just in case you are still planning on going and don't want to pay the late
fee, today is the last day to fax in your entry (without the late fee).
Starting tomorrow, it costs $20 more. Here's the link just in case you
forgot...
http://www.scca.org/amateur/solo2/nat_tour/entryform.html
We asked SCCA to provide some local classes to run in, so they allowed
BSP-V,
OSP, and a street tire class for novices. While BSP-V has about 5 entries
right now, OSP and the street tire class don't have any.
I'm trying not to be too negative in this post, but it's just a little
embarrassing to be a "Jumbo" region with 340 entrant local events, yet not
be
able to have good attendance at a Tour or Divisional when it's a couple
hours
away. I wouldn't expect every one to be able to make it, but that is
usually
offset by the number of people from other regions who drive anywhere from
6-16
hours to make the event.
While it does take some effort and resources to go and run the Tour in
Atwater,
this really is your one "convenient" chance to see what Nationals is like.
With the kind of attendance we are seeing so far, this chance may not come
again next year. Hopefully alot of entries are just pouring in really
really
last minute.
If you haven't already, send in your entry TODAY! Actually, with all the
cool
raffle prizes Vic Sias has put together (you get one free raffle ticket with
your entry) maybe it's a good thing not so many are going. I could use a
set
of free tires, even if they are Kumhos.
-Andy
Tour Co-Chair
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