[Spridgets] Fwd: Re: 2011 Spridget Event -Longest distance

[Larry Daniels]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Soave" <soavero at yahoo.com>
To: "Spridgets" <spridgets at 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.