Quote Originally Posted by marty
Quote Originally Posted by PremiumBlend
This idea was also brought up at the Wed night meeting @ Walnut Room. I would say 3/4 of the people in the room liked the idea.

I think practice should be from say 8-9 or 9:30 and then the endurance race after that up to lunch. Lunch from 11-12 as usual and then after that it's an open track to street riders who want to come out and play. They pay a premium with a minimal prepped bike and have a blast. Win Win!
the problem with a minimally prepped bike is if they crack a case cover and leak oil on the track. sure we can clean it up, but i don't want to be the guy who tests the track to make sure. if minimally prepped street bikes race with us, which is not a horrible idea, i would like them to be the last race on sunday
I don't know what people are so scared about if a track has been cleaned properly. Sunday at 4 pm is NOT an optimal hour for street riders to jump on the track, that would never fly. But a saturday from 12-4 would be PERFECT. The best part is you can organize a ride down to the track, all of the guys can meet up and scoot down. Make it mandatory that they show up for the lunch hour to get basic rules, eat some lunch (bonus, b/c it puts more money in the clubs pockets) have them pay $80 or something like that for a half day on the track (already have corner workers there and staff, so why not) and then have a rider "escort" them around the track. They CANNOT pass the escort rider, but I'm sure whomever it is that escorts them can make it worth their while.

Finally, if they enjoyed it and want to do it again then we can start making them do upgrades to their bike to make it more track ready. Maybe start with something fairly simple but important... maybe RayRay has some ideas on what that could be. If they keep coming back after that (they are obviously getting hooked at this point and probably getting more comfortable and faster) require them to make certain mods to their bike. If they want to run on an OPEN track with no instructor then they need to come to either a Chicane Day or the Race School.

Just ideas, but if we want to make it happen... it could happen.