DeTomaso Mailing List: January 98, Message #124
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Kirby: I cannot believe you live in Houston and refer to a race within our great state as a "midwestern event". This is either "Texas" or the Southwest. Even the children in my wife's class say that the country can be divided into: Northeast Southeast Midwest SouthWest Northwest Central US West Coast and Texas!!! Just kidding! However, maybe your group would like to work something out with the Shelby Cobra Assocation of Texas (SCAT) for the event to be held at TMS in early October. They are looking at all kinds of expense sharing arrangements for the event on the new (suppose to be finished soon) road course there. Interested? Scott Black ---Kirby Schrader <schrader@sugar-land.spc.slb.com> wrote: > > > OK, the issue seems to have died and gone to heaven on the list here, but > as Mike says, someone has to start something.... > > I mentioned Texas World Speedway as a place to have a 'midwest track event' > at earlier on, so I checked up on it. > > As of today, there are the following weekends available at TWS (this is the > track near College Station, not the new one in the Dallas area which I've > never seen). > > August 15-16 > September 5-6 > October 3-4 > > For a full weekend, the cost is $7,900 for the 1.8 mile track (course shown > by the little red line at > http://mwd.sugar-land.anadrill.slb.com:65080/images/track.gif > if you're interested). > > This includes: Ambulance > Wrecker > Fire and safety crew > Security both Saturday and Sunday plus over Saturday night > > Organizers (that'd be us guys) take care of the insurance, which for a > 'non-racing' event runs about $400. > > I mention the above dates because they are all after Pocono, Silver State > and Vegas... Didn't want to conflict. > > What thinks the midwest folks or anyone else interested? > > Anyone got comparable (i.e., cheaper!) prices from other places? Heartland? > I'm afraid SCP isn't quite ready to fund the whole thing if there are > no-shows.... and have to eat it. > > I'm going to propose this at this weekend's Space City Panteras meeting and > see whether I get shot at or not, but I'm sure we don't have enough people > from the Houston area to make it worthwhile. The Dallas Pantera Club would > also have to join in to get anywhere near a decent price per person. > > Now, assuming there's not enough people to make a go of the track all to > ourselves, the other option is that all interested contact me, I find out > how many there are, and I book enough slots in one of the TWS Motorsports > Club events. The owner will fill in the above dates anyway if he doesn't > get anyone else to take them. > > This means you'd have a chance to go up against the odd Camaro, Mustang, > Cobra, them plastic thingies (one of which is pretty darned impressive!), > an odd Ferrari or Diablo, Porsche, or even a race car that someone brings > every now and then to iron out chassis improvements, etc. Not a bad thing, > eh? > ;-) > > The TWS Motorsports Club runs classes, so you can't get in over your head > unless you want to! > > Remember, I'm certainly not going for a 'Vegas replacement with car show, > etal. I'd like to start making it to some of these events myself. > This is just a 'midwest track event' that I thought I'd take a stab at > where guys can bring their Panteras and have some fun without going all the > way to Pocono or Willow Springs... > > Waiting for suggestions, opposition, flames, etc. with bated breath. > > > Kirby > > > Kirby Schrader Compuserve: kschrader@compuserve.com > kschrader@slb.com > '71 Pantera #1661 > '90 Thunderbird 35th anniversary special > '78 Longchamp GTS #3001 The wife's... > '76 Moto Guzzi LeMans Mark I > > http://mwd.sugar-land.anadrill.slb.com:65080/ > > > > == TimePiece Public Relations Dallas, Texas (214) 219-2333 _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com