More Daytona Speedway News
The following is an excerpt from the RE Report from Central Florida Regions October edition of THE CHECKER.
http://www.cfrscca.org/LinkClick.asp...=1416&mid=2588
In late August, Bill Martin and I were
requested to attend a meeting at the
speedway with Bill's track contact, her
boss and her bosses' boss. We did not
turn the invitation down.
The discussion started with 'would we be
agreeable to moving the September date'?
Our answer was "sure", additionally, since
we were making changes, we suggested
test days at the May and August race
dates. They said "what a great idea", and
have planned on sending operational staff
members down to the Sebring Test day in
January to see what it takes to actually do
a test day for club. The test days are not a
done deal, but are in the works for 2009.
The September race date for 2009 is firm;
in 2010 it could be moved.
Next, we discussed how hard it was to
have our registration at the current
location, bullet proof windows and small
openings for doing all the required
paperwork. We offered to change the
windows and when on to mention the CFR
building at Sebring. We discussed how
that Sebring deal was set-up and then…
They asked if we'd be interested in having
a building on Daytona Speedway
property? And then… we started looking
at the map for a location. However, this is
very far from being a deal, but has a
serious chance of happening, as the
Honda Pavilion, out front of the speedway,
has set the precedent.
Since this meeting with the speedway was
going so well, I thought I'd throw out one
more item and see how it was received.
So, we discussed that the 2012 SCCA
National Championship races would be up
for bid after 3 years at Road America, and
would Daytona be interested. Not only
was the answer yes, they had also
expressed interest in the bid that went out
last year. This discussion point is far from
being any more than just that, but I
thought you'd be interested.
Back to the CFR BoG meeting; the Board
voted 5 to 4 that they were changing the
Daytona 2009 May Race weekend from a
Restricted Regional event to a National/
ECR as we have had in the recent past.
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