I am planning a club day at to run the road course at Motorsport Ranch in Cresson Texas. I am looking to set up a day in either March or April next year. It will be limited to 20 to 32 people. The format will be 2 25-minute lead and follow sessions. For these there is no passing and there has to be maintained a certain distance between the cars. If one car starts to catch up with another, they are flagged and their positions are switched. There will be instructors available to ride along. For these, no helmets are required and passengers are free to ride along. There will be a classroom session break. Then there will be 2 on-track competition sessions. Drivers will be split into 2 groups based on experience. They wil be required to use helmets and no passengers. They can pass only on the 2 straights. The price that is set from Motorsports Ranch is $95 a person for the full day including insurance. Since I race regulary, I already have a helmet. I will try to barrow additional helmets from SCCA or ER to use during the event. Otherwise, helmets are available for rental at $10 for the day from MSR.

I am putting this on the list to find out how many would be interested in doing this and if there is a preferred weekend in that time frame everyone would like. We may also make this in conjuction with the club meeting and hav ethe meeting at MSR in the morning before the driving event. This would be planned for a Saturday and the driving portion would be in the afternoon.

Loren
MSR Event Organizer
G35 Club of DFW

04' G35 Coupe(finally in the garage)
6-sp Diamond Graphite/Willow w/Premium

 

Well, there hasn't been a club meet since August. I talked to Robert and the next meeting will be in January. I have been waiting until the meeting to get feedback from the entire group on when to have it. I suggested having about 3 months from the annoucement meeting so we could actually have the next meeting at MSR. I am not sure if this is going to be the plan, but we are definitely going to require a pre-registration before the event. I will post more as we have more information.

Loren

04' G35 Coupe(finally in the garage)
6-sp Diamond Graphite/Willow w/Premium

 

Not yet. In order to get a date set, I have to get suggested dates from people from when they can do it and target a date most convenient for the greatest # of people. It doesn't do any good to set a date without having attendies. I started working on this shortly after the August G35 club meet. The last meeting was last August. No meeting since then means no discussion. I will talking about it at the next club meeting on February 17th along with a sign-up sheet for people interested and that will be the time to suggest dates. I am starting to take a role as an event coordinator for the club, so I will be talking about some additional types of other events we may do in addition. Because the meeting is so late, I am now looking for an event date in May.

I am trying to push for more regular meetings. After the February meeting, I will look at the suggested dates, see if there are enough people and if so work with MSR to set a date. If the club is already having a formal meet a month later, I will give out the details then. If there is no formal meeing set, I will set of a meet just for the racing event. There will be places for phone numbers and e-mail addresses on the sign-up sheet so I will have a way of contacting everyone.

04' G35 Coupe(finally in the garage)
6-sp Diamond Graphite/Willow w/Premium