While not a Right Coast Formula F series event , Road Atlanta remains one of the tracks every racer I know aspires to compete at.
Personally I have promised, threatened and intended to for years now to go.
Well gang, this is the year.
All being well after Right Coast finale at Summit Point the previous weekend my plan is to wander around for a few days before making landfall at Road Atlanta Wednesday afternoon November 2 to get ready for the Thursday test day before the ARRC Friday and Saturday Nov 4-5.
Forgive me if you are racing Sunday Nov 6 but per the schedule, available on motorsportreg, the ARRC FF/CF race, including FV and F5 and the rare FST class cars is over and done in the books Saturday Nov 5, and like most of us if I am not in it what does it matter ?
That is, indeed, tongue in cheek, before I get pounded for being an open wheel snob.
While that charge may or may not be appropriate, aside from the FE qualifying and feature race on Sunday, all open wheel racing, indeed all sports racing classes as well, are likely heading home by Sunday morning at the latest.
So what about we, the FF and CF community make an event of the ARRC for ourselves with a decent turnout of cars and drivers in both classes ?
We know there are cars and drivers lurking in the Southeast and as I was guilty for many years of NOT running the ARRC, why not come out this year ?
Beat up on this old guy in his seventieth year on the planet with his 41 year old Crossle 30F, admittedly with a Honda Fit in the engine bay, but come on, 46 years after my peaking early as a young early 20's kid winning FC at the initial runoffs at Road Atlanta [that is to many letters to type so I will refer to the track simply as RAT going forward....] and a guy who has yet to race the revised dip-less version, how hard can it be ?
So I stupidly out the challenge out, I want enough CF cars there that I don't make the class podium, come on people, prove me a dopey old delusional guy, you can and know you want to do it !
How about a "Keep Rand off the Podium" or maybe a "Rand Free Podium", RFP at RAT !
I'm up for it if you are......who's in ?
Now I just better keep everything together through Summit Point Oct 29-30 !