Turbo Thunder VI Info Letter #1
Hello all! I hope you’re looking forward to this year’s event as much as I am. I wanted to try and get organized and not send out info every other week as I’ve done in the past. Instead I’ll try to limit the e-mails. Please don’t hesitate to ask me questions via e-mail any time you want though.
Change in Philosophy:
In years past I have tried to take steps to push for the following:
1. Making the event bigger
2. Bringing in more “fast” cars
3. Growing the payouts to help bring in the faster cars
Despite our efforts the event has not grown substantially in car count. The other side of that is the fact that I personally have still had a great time at every event. The feedback I’ve gotten from others is similar, everyone seems to have a great time at the event. For my part I’ve decided that we don’t “need” a car count over 100, and we don’t “need” any 7 second cars for this event to be a success. Judging by the smiles and laughs, every event has been a success, head gaskets, top-end fires, and other breakage aside. In this light we’re proposing the following:
No more pre-registration:
In years past we used Pre-registration as a way to judge how many cars would be racing. We’ve settled in between 28 & 40 cars for 5 years. This year all registration will take place at the track. My wife will be set up and ready to take your registration money and sign you up after you get in the gate. We will have our motorhome there just like last year, you should not have any trouble finding us
Registration Fee:
Between now and July, I will post a poll where we’ll vote on Registration fee’s. Either $5 or $10 will be the choice, and as in years past, 100% goes toward payouts.
Ps. everyone will need to pay in cash since we do not have a way to process checks or credit cards at the track.
Sponsorship:
Last year we had Adam Nonis (HYBRID-T) who stepped up and got our shirts printed and paid for by his company. This automatically gave us space to sell to sponsors which we did at $100 per. It also added to our payouts in the way of shirt sales. I have not heard from Adam as of yet so I am assuming that this is not going to happen this year. If handled properly a person could likely arrange to have shirts bought, printed, sponsorships sold, and shirts sold for a payout-profit. The problem is that I simply do not have the time to make the phone calls, run down the sponsors, and basically make it happen. If anyone is willing to try and pull this off between now and July, I will give you whatever support I can.
Race Classes:
I would like to stick with the same 3 classes we had last year:
Turbo-Sportsman (11.50-13.99)
Turbo-Pro (7.50-11.49)
Quick-8 (Qualifying Ladder)
Future of the event:
For next years event I would like to consider a break from doing the event planning. I would like to pass the torch on to someone else. In a perfect world, an organized club would be the best bet, but it’s not necessary. The event doesn’t even have to take place at Woodburn. It’s no secret that the majority of the cars that attend are not from the Portland area. I wanted to mention this now incase there is somebody out there that would want to take this on. I would be more than happy to write out in great detail all the steps that are taken to pull off one of the events. All in all I would guess that it’s a commitment of about 20 hours, spread over a few months time, not including the event itself.
Don't hesitate to send me an e-mail if you have questions, suggestions, or whatever.
See you in 5 months!
Hello all! I hope you’re looking forward to this year’s event as much as I am. I wanted to try and get organized and not send out info every other week as I’ve done in the past. Instead I’ll try to limit the e-mails. Please don’t hesitate to ask me questions via e-mail any time you want though.
Change in Philosophy:
In years past I have tried to take steps to push for the following:
1. Making the event bigger
2. Bringing in more “fast” cars
3. Growing the payouts to help bring in the faster cars
Despite our efforts the event has not grown substantially in car count. The other side of that is the fact that I personally have still had a great time at every event. The feedback I’ve gotten from others is similar, everyone seems to have a great time at the event. For my part I’ve decided that we don’t “need” a car count over 100, and we don’t “need” any 7 second cars for this event to be a success. Judging by the smiles and laughs, every event has been a success, head gaskets, top-end fires, and other breakage aside. In this light we’re proposing the following:
No more pre-registration:
In years past we used Pre-registration as a way to judge how many cars would be racing. We’ve settled in between 28 & 40 cars for 5 years. This year all registration will take place at the track. My wife will be set up and ready to take your registration money and sign you up after you get in the gate. We will have our motorhome there just like last year, you should not have any trouble finding us
Registration Fee:
Between now and July, I will post a poll where we’ll vote on Registration fee’s. Either $5 or $10 will be the choice, and as in years past, 100% goes toward payouts.
Ps. everyone will need to pay in cash since we do not have a way to process checks or credit cards at the track.
Sponsorship:
Last year we had Adam Nonis (HYBRID-T) who stepped up and got our shirts printed and paid for by his company. This automatically gave us space to sell to sponsors which we did at $100 per. It also added to our payouts in the way of shirt sales. I have not heard from Adam as of yet so I am assuming that this is not going to happen this year. If handled properly a person could likely arrange to have shirts bought, printed, sponsorships sold, and shirts sold for a payout-profit. The problem is that I simply do not have the time to make the phone calls, run down the sponsors, and basically make it happen. If anyone is willing to try and pull this off between now and July, I will give you whatever support I can.
Race Classes:
I would like to stick with the same 3 classes we had last year:
Turbo-Sportsman (11.50-13.99)
Turbo-Pro (7.50-11.49)
Quick-8 (Qualifying Ladder)
Future of the event:
For next years event I would like to consider a break from doing the event planning. I would like to pass the torch on to someone else. In a perfect world, an organized club would be the best bet, but it’s not necessary. The event doesn’t even have to take place at Woodburn. It’s no secret that the majority of the cars that attend are not from the Portland area. I wanted to mention this now incase there is somebody out there that would want to take this on. I would be more than happy to write out in great detail all the steps that are taken to pull off one of the events. All in all I would guess that it’s a commitment of about 20 hours, spread over a few months time, not including the event itself.
Don't hesitate to send me an e-mail if you have questions, suggestions, or whatever.
See you in 5 months!
