[Spridgets] Kohler Int'l Challenge

[Larry Daniels]

Yeah, I kind of guessed that it was a comedy of errors.  What I wanted to 
get across to Daniel is that the only way to prevent it from happening again 
is to identify the problem and correct it.  If that means some some unpaid 
volunteer or some not-for-profit car club or anyone else at blame takes one 
in the shorts to prevent it from happening again, sobeit.  I agree, it would 
be hard to put any blame on VSCDA, but SOMEBODY sure as hell screwed up 
big-time.

I don't remember the car count in the crash(es), but I would not be very 
surprised if the damages in that incident neared one million dollars. 
That's a pocketful of cash.  Plus, there were a few injuries.

LAD

P.S. Everybody keep your fingers crossed that the Giants whip the Cowboys 
today.  The Pack doesn't want to have to face the Boys in their home 
stadium.  (Sorry Brad.)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wm. Severin Thompson" <wsthompson at thicko.com>
To: "'Larry Daniels'" <ladaniels at sbcglobal.net>; <Weslake1330 at aol.com>; 
<spridgets at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 2:58 PM
Subject: RE: [Spridgets] Kohler Int'l Challenge


Did I ever show you the entire collection of in car and trackside video of
that incident?

That was the perfect storm of race accidents. One particular driver/car is
most often cited as the prime culprit. But, there were a few other
factors... large field, front rows checking up because of a late green, guys
with 2 way radios in the back of the pack jumping on the loud pedal early,
well before cresting the hill, over prepared cheater cars, and overly
aggressive drivers... just to name a few ingredients.

VSCDA was the sanctioning body... but that was very much in name only. When
the Chicago Historics were taken over by Road America, VSCDA was brought in
to administer it. I think the club got $10k for that. But, the reality was,
the VSCDA did not have anything to do with what drivers, what cars, what car
classifications, etc. But, VSCDA took a lot of bad press from people blaming
over prepared cars as the reason behind the melee, as if the VSCDA was the
reason there were 180mph Camaros, etc. I don't think the blame on the club
was justified. The track used it all as an opportunity to bring in the SVRA
to run the event (a for profit business, VSCDA is a not for profit club).

Then, within the VSCDA, the whole deal started this era correct push which
over the last 2.5 years has been a real pigf*ck. That did nothing but make
it appear that the VSCDA's critics were right, and our car prep rules were
at fault, when it was the track that totally controlled who raced what.

Lots of politics in vintage racing.

WST