Team "Pro"Motion?

[castle228]

I had the WORST experience this weekend @ Summit Point cornerworking for Team "Pro"Motion track day.

When my girl and I arrived on Sunday, we were treated as though we were an inconvenience and frustration because "We were not on the schedule" of cornerworkers. Not one morsel of appreciation for coming out...much less @ 7am on a holiday...and in the rain.  >:(

At lunch....ALL cornerworkers had to buy their own lunch at the cafe while control riders and a few others ate at the Team "Pro"Motion grill!   >:(

The President of the club blew his engine in T8, left a 4-5 foot wide path, center track to pit in. While most others stood around, myself and two other people (neither of the other two were TPM people) cleaned up the "Valdez like" oil spill. The oil spill was cleaned up before the bike was removed from Pit In road. TPM then requested that they be able to keep the track later than what was already reserved.......AND asked cornerworkers to stay.  :o >:(

When I said that we couldn't stay, the attitude that we received made us want to leave that much more.

Compensation to cornerworkers is a check....THAT IS MAILED AFTER THE EVENT!  >:(

So, I got up early on a holiday, spent $30 out of my pocket, was disrespected, covered myself with kitty litter and not appreciated.



NEVER AGAIN Team "Pro"Motion....never again.

Mkay, b*&ch session done.

[EmerWil]

Hmmm...

from the looks of their website they said there was supposed to be a cook out...

also their web site says they dedicated to safety..hmm kinda hard to be safe when you piss off all the corner workers.

If you want corner workers like NESBA has, then keep doin what you're doing.  If you want seasoned, experienced workers you better change your ways team pro motion.

[Nate R]

WOW. If that's a regular way of doing things for them, that's ridiculous.  >:(

[Sunny]

Sorry to hear it.  Totally ridicoulous and outraged.................   >:(  I would have quit corner working no later than when you found out that you need to cover your own lunch and continue to be treated as "they are doing you a favor to let you work".............

[Woofentino Pugrossi]

I've been wanting to do a track day with some of these "clubs" just to get some time in, but after spectating 2 nesba ones and all the horror stories I hear about TPM, I'd rather do a LP one. ::)  

[Eric Kelcher]

Hate to jump on the bandwagon but I have left this to simmer since the FUSA/CCS race weekend.

Team Pro Motion came on here and said they would provide the air fence to CCS at no charge and I had said great bring it and left contact info so we could arrange deployment and timing issues never heard another word. Roger Lyle told me he had left word (email I believe) for them also. They did not show for the weekend and when I asked the track if they knew anything about it we were able to contact someone with TPM and they were at VIR doing a track day. Kinda makes you wonder how they could have offered when they knew they would be out of town?

I would like to thank all the racers/spectators/cornerworkers that jumped in to help deploy the CCS airfence for the weekend.

[LAG]

Chris, I'm so sorry to hear about your experience with TPM, but I must say, I'm not surprised.  One of our friends asked me to do the TPM day with him, and I said I'd never do a TPM day.  I have little respect for the owner, and have found their days to be less than enjoyable.  Then our friend calls us and tells us about the oil spill.  He was furious.

What I want to know is how the owner of a track day organization is so irresponsible to let that happen to his own bike (my apologies if it was for some other reason than his own ignorance, but I heard it was his fault)...

I, for one, want to thank you for always being at events and cornerworking.  You do a great job and take your job very seriously, and us racers and family/friends of racers thank you!  

[Bernie]

Chris I am sorry you had a crappy day.  I sure appreciated your being out there.  The MARRC crew does a great job and your efforts are never taken for granted by racers who know how hard you work at putting our safety as your priority.  :)

[castle228]

I had never really heard about TPM before participating on Sunday, although I had e-mailed a person there twice before (once in late 2003 and then early 2004) to let them know I was interested in doing track days for them at Summit. The person who reponded both times blew me off and told me to talk to BSR (track owners) if I was interested in working...even AFTER I provided a short "resume" style e-mail explaining my experince.  :-[ So, Sunday was the third strike.

I sent them a rather lengthy e-mail early today prior to my post on here, one individual's response I got back...and this is a quote, "I did read the other e-mail. Please just do not sign on again. Everyone would be better off."  :o ???  Uh, excuse me?



Eric, I want to talk with you about the FUSA/CCS weekend @ Barber. I heard you may be looking for a roommate for the weekend. Still the case? If so, I'm interested. I'll be working with Alan again in control and not sure if I want to camp out.

LAR, thanks for the words of encouragement and appreciation. I know there are alot of racers, spectators and racing staff who greatly appreciate what the cornerworkers do and show it. It's just encountering the bad apple on rare occasions that make you go "hmmmmm".

Bernie, I saw you out there and tried to wave a couple times but I don't know if you saw me. Thanks for the nice words.

[cornercamping]

4 Words:  Sport Bike Track Time

Best org. I've ever ran with, and I've done tons of track days.

[r6_philly]

hey chris, I thought you were cool, but I am not too sure about you for making public statements on a racing board about your personal experiences with a different org that lacks entire truth.

so you didn't have a good time. So maybe you feel mistreated as a corner worker, but to put a public statement questioning the entire operation of team pro-motion? We were there for our riders first. We are not there to make you happy (sorry, but its the truth dude), we are there to make our members happy, so we do what is needed to be done for our members. Sure we respect our corner workers because they are usually our members. For this event we hired PA Posses and some MARRC workers. and your complain is not founded because:

I drove the crash truck for both days, so don't say nothing like I dont know what I am talking about.

1. your pit marshall called everyone to go to lunch at the cafeteria. We did not exclude anyone from the grill. BY THE WAY, the corner workers that did stay the night before WERE TREATED at our grill for free food and drinks and enjoyed the fireworks display. So don't make fuss were you don't know the story??? we cooked the LEFTOVER at the grill for lunch Sun and everyone who did show up did get food. The BBQ and party was SAT NIGHT. (yes I know because I posted the notice)

2. the president of the club blew oil, yes. He then went and paid time and half for extra 45 minute of tracktime because he felt bad that he caused a delay. Then after paying the extra money, we were held up because 3 of your MARRC workers LEFT THE POST. We couldn't let people back out on track because we were SHORT OF CORNER WORKERS. You were hired to work until 5, the oil spill happened at 4:20 (yes I know because I drove the crash truck), and oil cleaned up at 4:40, but your corner workers PRESUMED THAT THE DAY WAS OVER BEFORE IT WAS OVER. And we didn't get back on track until after 5 because we couldn't find the corner workers. I did not hear over the radio that the day was over (did you???) and why couldn't we find the corner workers?????????

3. what a check is not good for you? I get a check too, after the event, getting paid is getting paid. How about go work for AMA for free???

there is always 3 sides to any story, you didn't have a good time, I am sorry. Next time I have a complaint about MARRC corner workers, I am going to post a similar message post to every message board I can think of, and we see how you would feel.

and 4. we hired corner workers before the event. if you are not on the list you are not on the list unless you have comfirmation from us.

[r6_philly]

anyway, it is very childish and immature of you to post the statement the way you posted.

you even made a mockery of our name. Thank you.


I really enjoyed my dealings with corner workers and others from MARRC, but you ...