Aaron Luptak Aaron Luptak Professional Moderator Location: SLC Join Date: 02/15/2008 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 776 Rally Car: Civic... |
Thanks, I've pretty much got my own service crew now, my wife already decided that the 3-year old is going to be the crew chief. They're gonna keep me from making Idaho this year, fingers crossed that I'll be able to make it to Denise's UT event. Wait, is there some other way to do "recce"? In all seriousness, I plan to go down and volunteer and do what _I_ am able to make the event a success (without getting into the organizational side of things with Denise), and hope that worst case, she doesn't screw things up for us to put on another event down there in the future. KF7RWG http://www.utahrallygroup.com |
FunctionAuto Tyler Patik Infallible Moderator Location: Casper, Wy Join Date: 12/13/2009 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 131 Rally Car: 1995 IMpreza |
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heymagic Banned Mod Moderator Location: La la land Join Date: 01/25/2006 Age: Fossilized Posts: 3,740 Rally Car: Not a Volvo |
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Aaron Luptak Aaron Luptak Professional Moderator Location: SLC Join Date: 02/15/2008 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 776 Rally Car: Civic... |
(sorry, too lazy to format denise's wall-of-text)
I can write my own notes for free? What a concept! Accepting any license is nice, although the notion that having a license (at least RA or NASA) means you have any qualifications as a driver is good for a laugh. Sure hope they institute a sane helmet rule. Other than that? Meh. Truthfully if I was competing I wouldn't be too unhappy, since it would mean that I didn't have to buy two licenses to run the two closest events - would definitely be asking for details on the insurance coverage though. KF7RWG http://www.utahrallygroup.com |
NoCoast Grant Hughes Infallible Moderator Location: Whitefish, MT Join Date: 01/11/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 6,818 Rally Car: BMW |
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johnhuebbe John Huebbe Ultra Moderator Location: St. Peters, MO Join Date: 08/31/2012 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 283 Rally Car: 1970 VW Beetle & 1991 Subaru Legacy |
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NoCoast Grant Hughes Infallible Moderator Location: Whitefish, MT Join Date: 01/11/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 6,818 Rally Car: BMW |
"Rally America Inc. unfortunately will not add on any new events to their schedule that has new roads not previously been used since the cost of inspecting roads and the time schedule they can not provide." That sounds like such a load. Isn't the internet made for gossip? Grant Hughes |
Gravity Fed Alex Staidle Junior Moderator Location: Δx = ħ/2Δp Join Date: 08/21/2009 Age: Settling Down Posts: 1,719 Rally Car: Various Heaps |
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heymagic Banned Mod Moderator Location: La la land Join Date: 01/25/2006 Age: Fossilized Posts: 3,740 Rally Car: Not a Volvo |
Ok..there is a backstory, but I'm not going into details as I'm not sure that is a proper thing to do.
I will say that RA is pretty much blameless in this one. More details than that need to be authorized by one of my sources. When Forespring tried to put on the Wild West in Pomeroy the last time he tried the independent thing and the county balked at the lack of a sanctioning body. So he tried NRS. There were volunteer concerns , the event was canceled the previous year due to lack of workers. NRS politely declined for a couple reasons but the underlying was safety concerns and speeds to some degree. RA was then called, they said that either Hurst or myself had to go to Pomeroy, survey and approve the route and there were still some worker concerns. The survey expense was to be Forespring's to cover...he declined and the event died quietly. So, there is precedent for the sanctioning body requiring a new event to jump thru some hoops so to speak. Denise hates NRS and disdains RA. She continually whines that RA doesn't support stand alone regionals and I think she expects to continually put on low turnout events and have someone else eat the loss. She has been claiming to want to go independent for well over a year now and raising hell in emails and private forums to do so. Perfect I say, don't let the door hit you in the back of the fire suit. |
john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Godlike Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Aw come on nobody ever ereads anything here. And lord knows we won't say anything to anybody... John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |