Wegeman weekend team challange poll

[Mark Bernard]

This poll is being created to see how many racers in the MW region are willing to participate in a team challange to benifit the Wegman fund at BHF the weekend of the auction for 2005. Not saying it will ever happen, but we would just like your opinions.

[nfcracin]

I said yes,
But it would be better as a real endurance race not a team challange.

By this I mean a timed race from 3 to 8 hours not a lap or mile distance.


Lonny

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

I'm in!  Where do I send my money?

Why couldn't this be held on Friday?  That way it wouldn't effect the CCS schedule, and it could be a real endurance race like that nfcracin guy said.

Lonny? ;)  Need a teammate?

[Thingy]

I'm in.

K3, you don't want to race with Lonnie.  He falls down in T1 on cold tires!  :P ;D

[Thingy]

I also agree.  3-5 hours.

[KBOlsen]

This Friday idea might have some real potential!

Count me in!

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

I'm in.

K3, you don't want to race with Lonnie.  He falls down in T1 on cold tires!  :P ;D

For the record, Lonny.  It wasn't ME who went there! ;D

[Mark Bernard]

C'mon racers, pony up your opinions and or ideas... Team challange or endurance? Friday or Saturday? What are your opinions and thoughts? I have never run in a team challange so I am going blind here folks. Paul... any thoughts? Rember people, this is just a poll. No one is saying anything will happen with this. Just an idea at this point. But if we get some good plyable ideas, I will pitch it to Ft. Worth. So far the response has been 100% in favor. Need more votes and ideas tho. Keep em comming! Mark B.

[StumpysWife]

I was thinking it would be a good way for CCS to contribute to the Wegman Fund by them donating all of the entry fees to Wegman and providing the race/staff, etc.  Of course, CCS would have to agree to all this.   ;)

Heather

[russ1962]

I'm IN...  I like Friday, and whatever format works best, I'll do it.  I don't have an opinion either way (3 - 5 hours, Challenge...).  

[fourandsix]

It should be a 3 hr Endurance , it should run on friday afternoon. Start at 3pm run till 6pm. Have open practice as usual from 8 till 3.Run 2 classes GTO & GTU. Require every team to have at least One (1) expert rider.

[the_weggie_man]

With the Wegman Fund somehow being the beneficiary of this race I would like to add mho.

I agree with fourandsix about the time (3 hrs) it's a good fit for any number of riders. Although there would need to be at least an hour break between practice and race start so practice would run from 8-2.  I also agree with the "one expert rider" idea. I also think with the large number of lightweight bikes we need to have a GTL class also.

A possibility for this would be for Blackhawk Farms to hold the race as the promoter since they hold the open practices on Friday.  They could charge a practice fee and a seperate race entry fee. All bikes entered in the race would have a seperate and easily identifiable tech sticker or frame tag so no "practice only" bikes could enter the track during the race.

The fund could benefit from a cut of the entry fee and/or racers getting pledges for their race laps. Would this not be be a great opportunity for outside sponsorship by a dealer or other company looking for exposure with naming rights???

I will talk to Mike Irwin about the possibility of the track doing this on the Friday before the Wegman weekend.

Now I just need to see all the race schedules so I can schedule the Wegman weekend so it doesn't conflict with any other races.

We would also need to get a strong group of corner workers for this event. Normally corners are lightly tended on Fridays. That could not be the case for an actual race........ and shouldn't be for practice but that's another story.

You guys pitch it to more racers and CCS, I'll pitch it to BHF and we'll see what we can get going.