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"I have always wanted to run VIR but, if that is their feeling towards us, I say pull the whole plug - lock, stock, barrel, workers, everything. Screw 'em!"
"This is the wrong attitude if you ever want SCCA to go back there. Low turnouts will just make it worse."
Bill, I said lock, stock, and barrel - not low turnouts - NO turnouts! Cancel everything. They evidently want to have their cake and eat it too: they allow us to hang around just enough to keep us interested (for their benefit) but treat us like crap. It's like the girl you would die for who tells you you're never going to get anywhere w/ her (because she likes doctors who drive Porsches) but she doesn't mind if you take her out to dinner now and then anyway. I say: fine, if you really don't want us then we will just find another track that does. Maybe they will come to realize that having a good relationship w/ the SCCA and its tens of thousands of members is worth something. Barber basically kicked us out and now it looks like we'll be going back.
I'm sorry; this kind of crap just pisses me off. :mad1:
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Be careful of what you wish for. Very few new race tracks are being built these days. The tracks need to survive and its simple supply and demand. Yes I agree that the SCCA does do a lot for the track with publicity, workers, etc and it never feels good, but to think that the track will be screwed if we leave is silly. They can rent those days out ALL DAY to other clubs, while needing less workers and having less risk. I still want to drive VIR, but we must understand the economics of running a track before we make blanket statements.