[Fot] VTR 2019

[Bob Kramer]

It is going to be a busy weekend and week for me. I plan on running the
SVRA event and I am also responsible for the VTR autocross. It will be held
in Austin a little less than 20 miles from the host hotel, and COTA is
about the same distance from the autocross location. We can probably store
trailers at COTA after the SVRA event and tow them to the Tony
Burger Center for the autocross.

Bob Kramer


On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 7:49 PM marty <trmarty at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> 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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