It has been a while, as most of our meetings have been pretty boring and mundane, but the last meeting of the year was not so I thought I'd drop some notes for the membership at large.
We met the Monday before the banquet, October 30, at Kings of Speed World Headquarters (a.k.a. Steve Brown's garage) and had a little pizza and beer while chatting about the club and our plans for 2018. Several things were decided.
First was the matter of configuration. After polling most of the club's members, we have found that many of our club do not like the alternate configuration, but many do. However, most simply have little preference. From that standpoint we are justified running both configuration. Further polling found that nobody could (or would) enumerate a specific "safety hazard" with the alternate configuration outside of pavement irregularities, so we have decided to run the alternate configuration for 2018. We came up with a schedule and it WILL NOT BE ALTERED unless an act of nature or some other disaster demands it.
Second, we discussed schedule. We talked about when to start, when to finish, double headers, track days, and considerations like holidays or MotoGP Austin. The schedule we've come up with is pretty simple. We will host seven race days as we did this year, with five track days. The track days will be on Saturdays preceding race days, and the July event will be a racing double header with racing on both Saturday and Sunday.
Each event will be hosted on the third weekend of the month.
THERE WILL BE NO STAND ALONE SUNDAY TRACK DAYS IN 2018. We've hosted Sunday track days as long as I've been part of the club, but for the last several years (at least four) we've lost money on nearly every stand alone track day we've hosted. We cannot afford to bleed money to host Sunday track days.
May, July, August, and October events will be in the "standard configuration.
June and September events will be in the "alternate configuration". Again, WE WILL NOT CHANGE THESE CONFIGURATION ARRANGEMENTS. Don't bother asking, because it's simply NOT going to happen.
Ed and Nicole will be staying on in the capacity of Safety Officers assuming they want to continue.
We will search for a more permanent Timing and Scoring solution over the winter.
We will consider rewriting the Secretary's role over the winter.
