With Randy's words of advice, let me explain some of my reasoning's to do this. I can explain in more details over beer at Hallett.

1. I want to build NASA TX to be "the place" that people want to go for auto-sports. The NASA calendar should be the first place they look when setting their schedule for the year. If this means do the same thing every time and be consistent, we can do that. Or trying new things to see what breaks and what works best, then yes.

2. I want our racers to be top notch quality and be able to go anywhere and stand on the podium. Under any conditions and length of race. 25 hours in a constant downpour, 15 minute sprint, 40 minute race in the heat. While building muscle memory is a great thing to do, if you only exercise the same way you are conditioned to only work one way.



Two quick notes:

Someone asked if we are trying to do things that are done by a successful larger region. Yes, in fact Texas is a small region and minuscule in comparison to what it could be for the population of Texas. This region *should* easily have 250-300 cars per event and history to 2010 was just about 100 cars per event. That's why we were brought here, to make things grow. We hit our target of 200 cars in the first couple of seasons several times. Now it's time to raise that bar and hit 250. We are also trying things done well by smaller regions than Texas. Things we have done in RM, Central, Florida, Arizona, etc. NASA's goal is to keep things fresh and keep trying to improve - this is ONE thing that hasn't changed over the past 20 years. Help us reach those goals.

If someone on a team gets butt hurt because we only have 3 races in a weekend, then we can allow them to run an extra race in another race group (PTB or SM8) to make up for their loss of a session. I am happy to keep working on solutions to perceived problems. You guys set them up, I'll keep knocking them back until I'm under the table.