BlueFirePony
12-29-2009, 04:29 PM
There seemed to be some interest in working a charity event into the TWS Endurance race in late April, so I called Clifton and he thinks its doable.
JK also mentioned that we could consider the Texas Mile (which is in late March 2010).
I was not planning to enter my car in either event in 2010, but if this charity thing gets steam I'll do my best to attend one or both (though I'll be lucky if I can get BFP over 160mph).
Here's a few thoughts I've collected (mine and others):
Rather than limit this to our group, we should extend to all race groups and maybe have a "Series Challenge" for the most $ raised.
We need to engage the charity directly and have them assign someone (or someones) to work with us directly to raise awareness of the event and to even help collect pledges - e.g. they assign someone locally in Dallas, Austin, Houston, etc. to work with folks in/near their hometown. This would be a good way of getting the involvement of the specific charity rather than us just handing over coin and make the event itself more successful.
For the TWS endurance race, pledges per lap seems to make a lot of sense...in fact, cents per laps makes a lot of sense ;)
For the Texas Mile, pledges per MPH would make sense.
We could start attending local car show/events in Feb/March & early April to promote our series and collect pledges. This would be one way to get involved, even if you are not going to race in the endurance race.
This would be a good positive step in promoting our series and doing something nice for others. As promised, this is the point where I am ready to take names of people who want to be involved.
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JK also mentioned that we could consider the Texas Mile (which is in late March 2010).
I was not planning to enter my car in either event in 2010, but if this charity thing gets steam I'll do my best to attend one or both (though I'll be lucky if I can get BFP over 160mph).
Here's a few thoughts I've collected (mine and others):
Rather than limit this to our group, we should extend to all race groups and maybe have a "Series Challenge" for the most $ raised.
We need to engage the charity directly and have them assign someone (or someones) to work with us directly to raise awareness of the event and to even help collect pledges - e.g. they assign someone locally in Dallas, Austin, Houston, etc. to work with folks in/near their hometown. This would be a good way of getting the involvement of the specific charity rather than us just handing over coin and make the event itself more successful.
For the TWS endurance race, pledges per lap seems to make a lot of sense...in fact, cents per laps makes a lot of sense ;)
For the Texas Mile, pledges per MPH would make sense.
We could start attending local car show/events in Feb/March & early April to promote our series and collect pledges. This would be one way to get involved, even if you are not going to race in the endurance race.
This would be a good positive step in promoting our series and doing something nice for others. As promised, this is the point where I am ready to take names of people who want to be involved.
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