[Fot] VTR 2019

[marty]

Hmmm. How far is COTA from where VTR is taking place?  I would have to find someplace to park a 48' toy hauler at VTR. Same trailer would have to find room at the VTR autocross so I could run.  It does get me thinking though.

Marty
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Subject: [Fot] VTR 2019

Friends

Way back in 1989 I ran across another TR6 in the parking lot of a local auto parts store and the ensuing conversation led to the formation of the Hill Country Triumph Club. The next year we began holding an All British Car Day as an annual event to meet the Vintage Triumph Register requirement of an annual "feature" event. I've had better ideas, but not many have lasted this long. The event is now a 3-day affair and run by a dedicated committee.

Every 4 years our club rotated responsibility for the "Texas" VTR Regional, but the Oklahoma clubs have helped us spread that out to every 6 years.  Early on I was a regular attendee of the VTR Nationals years and competing in the autocross on course at Roebling Road in 1991 planted the seed for my racing addiction. Attending these events helped me to decide early on that the HCTC should stay away from the idea of ever hosting the VTR National. Our club membership was young and busy with life, Austin was too far south, our club wasn't big enough and most of all I didn't want that type of responsibility to take over my life.

Years have passed, our members have aged, some are even retired, Austin is on the bucket list of place to go see for a lot of people and our club is much larger now. I've moved further away from downtown and I don't make it to many meetings so I wasn't there to talk them out of it when the HCTC agreed to host the 2019 VTR Nationals. It will be held in nearby Dripping Springs from October 6 through 9th of 2019. Here is where, as a loyal transplanted Texan, I am required to say, "you'all come."

But that is not why I am bringing this up. Austin is home to the Formula 1 event at Circuit of the Americas. The date for this event in 2019 has forced the SVRA to move their Vintage National event at Circuit of the Americas to the weekend before the VTR National. That's right, the SVRA Vintage Nationals will be held October 3-6 and the VTR Nationals October 6-9. In a year where the Kastner Cup is in California, and the SVRA is giving free registration,  to Triumph racecars for the Watkins Glen event a month earlier, the thought of asking how many Triumphs might want to tow to Texas, with no free registration, just to put on a good show for the 200 or so attendees of the VTR National is the last thing I thought I would be doing, but here I am doing just that.

The VTR National is happening with or without us as is the SVRA event. The track, while fun to race is not a likely candidate for a future Kastner Cup because it is a modern facility. This may be the most common sense time for us to have a get together at COTA. If we could attract enough cars we can integrate the track event into the VTR Nationals by holding the Sunday kick-off party at the track.

So I have to ask, who would want to do this?

Bob Kramer
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