C'mon CCS!

[Chuck]

Ok I've over looked the fact that CCS over extends themselves and has to shorten races to get them all in at EVERY event.  I've overlooked the fact that they went so far as to cancel the last races of the day at Road America after I drove 12 freaking hours to race the track.  I even overlook the fact that racers feel like we are in the way when we ask questions or have to go to the tower to get some lap times when they should be posted somewhere in the paddock anyway.  But I'm having a hard time overlooking the fact that no points have been posted since the first freaking round of the Great Plains Championship.  

Here we are going into round 4 and I have no idea where I stand in the championship.  We racers pay alot of money to compete and deserve to at least know where we stand before we head to the next round.  

Get it together guys c'mon.  Without racers CCS would have a hard time holding races, can we come first for once?  At $35 per race and cheaper licsensing fees CRA is sounding pretty good for next year.

Does anyone else feel my pain?

[stumpy]

Amen Brother. Amen. If I ran my business like that I would have no customers....




Stumpy

[Chuck]

Here's a link to MRA's site.  They know how to run a race program.  They post results and points after every round.  They even post lap times for every rider...even us lowly amatures!

http://www.mra-racing.org/

You should see the cool schedule/programs they hand out.  Top notch stuff, with pictures of the riders that supported the MRA program and made it happen.  

I guess that's the difference between a non profit race club and a rake you over the coals, and could care less about the riders race club.

Sorry for venting...I'm having a bad day.  

Thank's Stumpy it's nice to know I'm not alone.  

[OmniGLH]

MRA sounds pretty cool but it looks like all of the rounds are a pretty good hike from Chicago...

[Chuck]

I know...If your a CO resedent it's a no brainer.  You have like 4-5 tracks in one state.  How cool is that?  If CCS doesn't pull it together we'll be looking for a new club.   :'(

[the_weggie_man]

Chuck, I'm not defending CCS here, but.... it's much easier to keep points current and do all that cool stuff for local clubs like CRA and MRA than for a national organization with many regions across the country.

[Chuck]

Good Point.  I do think the age of computers has made these kinds of things easier for everyone though.  All we're talking about is taking data from a computer and posting it.  It can be done the day after the event if someone was motivated to do it.

[salex43]

Well if it is that hard to enter in that much data they should hire more people.  ::)  Trust me it is not rocket science to enter in this stuff.  If they need help my 6 year old can do it she is probably more computer smart than half of the people that work for CCS.  Things will never change at CCS.  WERA does not have that problem maybe someone should call over to Mongo or Evelene and ask them how they get it done so quickly.

[Jeff]

CRA/MRA/CMRA/WERA/etc

Get any one of them in the midwest and things would be different...

How?

Well, either the infiltrating organization would start delivering bad service because they aren't so localized OR CCS would improve because of lost revenue (or just pull out all together).

Any which way, like the price of gas, we can all b1tch about it but at the end of the day we pay and play...

[Chuck]

Isn't it frustrating that we pay so much and get so little back?  The fact that you even bring up the fact that if another club came to the Mid West CCS would pull out is crazy.  CCS is a profitable club and should do what it takes to keep us happy to keep it going.  All we're asking for is a little effort.  

Quit getting by, by doing the bare minimum.  We will only put up with it for so long.

[the_weggie_man]

Send that message to Clear Channel.... as everyone should. If they realize just how unsatisfied people are they may do something. But remember, it won't take only a handful of people to get a reaction, it will take many hundreds or more.

[Thorny]

I believe the last time I had gotten any info CCS is still owned by Clear Channel Entertainment. What does that mean? Well as far as I have been told and seen myself, we are a money cow. That means you just milk it until it dies. When I did my full amateur season in 00' of the 9 complete race weekends in the mid-west (at that time they were running seasons you didn't have to refinance your home to win a championship) CCS got my pre-entries correct 5 times. I started in the 16th row in one race and finished 2nd, the next day I started in roughly the same spot, and in the 3rd turn was swept up in some slower guys garbage as he crashed and the bike tumbled into me. I recievede a flight for life that day, all because CCS didn't get the entries correct again. But don't feel bad, they said they were sorry and bumped my entries to the following weekend.
 I am discouraged about the slight progress they have made since I started back into this in 99' through 04'. I don't blame KE though, Clear Channel gives him about 10 people to take care of a nation of riders. Plus they require them to show at a select few races a year therefor making it harder to get the real work squared away. I say this, when we get sick of it or realize that most of us are never gonna make any money doing this, we quit.
 As far as getting another orginazation in here and them squashing out CCS, Jeff your talking through a paper a-hole, IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN... Ride-pay-smile-shut up-ride-pay-smile-shut up SAY IT WITH ME NOW OR, QUIT,
 Chuck the more you spend the louder you voice will be.