Texas 2017 Schedule

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Originally Posted by Suck fumes

just give us the heads up of exact time and day when reg will open. SCCA event sold out with 650 competitors and a waiting list within 15 min after reg opened. And no I'm not kidding.

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I'll see what I can do.

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Originally Posted by MikeP99Z

I'll see what I can do.

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I'm also checking with Will.

Awesome schedule!!! I most likely won't make COTA - son graduating high school - but I REALLY want to.

Thanks to all who work so hard to make this hobby within NASA-Texas so very enjoyable. Especially my fiends in AI/CMC!!!!!!

From Will

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Originally Posted by Will Faules

Sell out events give priority to:

1) date of registration
2) folks who support the most NASA Texas events
3) people in the championship hunt.

This is a common thing I've managed for the Laguna seca event. So it's really just going to come down to guys registering as soon as they can.

The plan that was communicated to people was there would be a supplement posted with all the event info including the registration "open" date. I plan to have this out this week.

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Gents,
Trevor says to register now if you are interested in attending the Edge Addicts event at COTA March 17-18. Sign up for the white group (fast) even if you haven't been there before.

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Originally Posted by dtanker65

Gents,
Trevor says to register now if you are interested in attending the Edge Addicts event at COTA March 17-18. Sign up for the white group (fast) even if you haven't been there before.

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I was hoping to do an event there with Chin. I see they want $540 per driver. I have never understood this since only one of us can drive at a time. I sent an email to ask if we could split time in the car.

JJ

Registration is open for MSRH at a cool $379, 23% increase in price in 2 years, looks like we should budget for $500/weekend by 2020. I wonder if this increase will help with the COTA pricing.

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Originally Posted by mach1

Registration is open for MSRH at a cool $379, 23% increase in price in 2 years, looks like we should budget for $500/weekend by 2020. I wonder if this increase will help with the COTA pricing.

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WOW! That is a lot for two years. Almost $400.00 for MSRH! Then I'm betting a grand minimum for COTA.

JJ

I saw an email from NASA last night. Not sure what it means that HPDE 3 & 4 are getting their own run group but hoping it doesn't take away track time.....

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Originally Posted by BryanL

I saw an email from NASA last night. Not sure what it means that HPDE 3 & 4 are getting their own run group but hoping it doesn't take away track time.....

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Doesn't appear to take any away.

https://nasatx.com/wp-content/upload...H_Schedule.pdf

All,
If you look at NASA TX over the past decade, the entry fee increases have been kept to a bare minimum. When I started racing with NASA 13 years ago, entry fees were $275 per weekend. Over the past 12 seasons, to get to $379 entries, that's only about 2.5% per year... What we haven't seen is very many years of escalations and Will is just trying to re-baseline for what hasn't been done in the past years.

There is a BUNCH that goes into paying for a weekend:
1. Track Rental
2. Insurance
3. Emergency Workers
4. Paying non-comped workers (Timing & Scoring, Driver Info, Tech)
5. Catering for Saturday night (food and two kegs of beer)
6. 20+ hotel rooms for the workers
7. Round trip airfare for workers flying in from out of state
8. Rental cars for those flying in

I'm sure that everyone would agree that the service and atmosphere today is lightyears ahead of the pre-Balangit era when we barely had registration, no Saturday night party (food/drinks), etc.

I spent a fair bit of time on the phone with Will today to understand the scale of running an event. NASA and SCCA provide similar $$/track time experience but I'm sure that the NASA group would be much more tight knit than the A-Sedan crowd..

2005 - entry was $225 if I recall correctly.

Track rental fees keep increasing every year. And some tracks are raising rates faster than others. Ambulance services and insurance are also always on the rise. I believe Will is also adding a second ambulance service to each event. If the ambulance is offsite, we can't race.

I am very happy to be racing here. The competition level has increased every season I've been here, enjoy it and don't sweat the small stuff. A second med crew sounds good to me, if you have a chance to buy the medics lunch... do so. They are very special people who are every bit as focused on their mission as we are about racing. Just my .02

avg price for cota for any org for a whole weekend is $950

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Originally Posted by dtanker65

I am very happy to be racing here. The competition level has increased every season I've been here, enjoy it and don't sweat the small stuff. A second med crew sounds good to me, if you have a chance to buy the medics lunch... do so. They are very special people who are every bit as focused on their mission as we are about racing. Just my .02

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One week after MSRC. I doubt I can pull that off so I guess the Friday prior will have to do.


JJ

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Originally Posted by marshall_mosty

All,
If you look at NASA TX over the past decade, the entry fee increases have been kept to a bare minimum. When I started racing with NASA 13 years ago, entry fees were $275 per weekend. Over the past 12 seasons, to get to $379 entries, that's only about 2.5% per year... What we haven't seen is very many years of escalations and Will is just trying to re-baseline for what hasn't been done in the past years.

There is a BUNCH that goes into paying for a weekend:
1. Track Rental
2. Insurance
3. Emergency Workers
4. Paying non-comped workers (Timing & Scoring, Driver Info, Tech)
5. Catering for Saturday night (food and two kegs of beer)
6. 20+ hotel rooms for the workers
7. Round trip airfare for workers flying in from out of state
8. Rental cars for those flying in

I'm sure that everyone would agree that the service and atmosphere today is lightyears ahead of the pre-Balangit era when we barely had registration, no Saturday night party (food/drinks), etc.

I spent a fair bit of time on the phone with Will today to understand the scale of running an event. NASA and SCCA provide similar $$/track time experience but I'm sure that the NASA group would be much more tight knit than the A-Sedan crowd..

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Marshall, thanks for taking the time to write that out, this kind of transparency and communication is fantastic and greatly appreciated by everyone here.