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From: "Ron Soave" <soavero@yahoo.com>
To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Fwd: Re: 2011 Spridget Event -Longest distance
Final mention of Elkhart Lake before it dies completely - there are at least
6 list members I can think of right off the bat within an hour or two of the
venue, several within 1/2 hour (Bud, Larry, Flounder... not sure about
Chris?). I'm thinking an event there would be a lot easier to pull off with
troops on the ground in those kind of numbers.
Disclaimer:
I live 2 hours from Elkhart and my wife has instructions to sprinkle my
ashes 1/3 at Blackhawk Farms, 1/3 at Yankee Stadium (original site), and 1/3
at Road America at Elkhart Lake, so I am a little biased.
Ron
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I'm with Ron on this.
The central part of the country is readily accessible from anywhere else in
the country in a good 2 days. Coast to coast, at around the middle of the
country, is about 3000 miles. That is 4 to 5 days in a Spridget or about 9
days round trip travel time. If you want to ensure a less than an optimum
turnout, put it on either coast. You will automatically rule out a very
large portion of the other coast. If that's what you want to do, go for it.
Elkhart Lake is great, but anywhere in the central part of the country will
ensure more people than either coast. It's very hard to argue that fact.
So far, we have heard a lot of promotion from the left coast and very little
feedback from those who won't even entertain the thought of going there.
We have as much, or more, physical beauty and incredible driving roads as
Nevada does in the Kettle Moraine Forests.
LAD
P.S. You can easily multiply Ron's numbers of close Spridgeteers and Brit
car fans by 10. Our local Brit Car Club has well over 100 members within an
hour of Elkhart.
Full disclosure: I live 1 hour from Elkhart Lake. That changes nothing in
the facts I cite.
Also, my wife has instructions to have my brother, the pilot, drop all of my
ashes over Road America. Even though I have spent more time and laps at
Blackhawk, my heart is at RA. There is no other place like it.... Period.
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