'05 24 heurs du Willis

[Johan]

I had a conference call with the owners of HSR today and they agreed to do the event for next year, but have not yet made up their minds for this year.They are making calls to their people to see what can be lined up. At an HSR event, there are several, perhaps 10 , HSR people that work the event. From timing and scoring to rig parkers to pit lane workers , registration people, competition director, race control, tech inspectors, etc, and they all have to travel to the track by various methods from different states and then stay in hotel rooms with transportation. Lots to coordinate for an event 6 weeks away,with an as yet unknown (but fairly small) number of attendees..... but,
I think the're going to do it ! I offered them a check to cover the expenses of the event and they will refund to me a portion of the 1/2 price entries, and only up to my investment, plus I still am to pay for the party.
SO,
If we keep Friday,
Thursday is the first welcome party, in the Motel parking lot perhaps.
Friday is a practice day with 5 run groups running about 4 times each. which is actually pretty much , about the same as last year.
Friday night is the fairly brief welcome party at the track, whether we ran that day or not. The gates close around 9:00 PM
Saturday would be practice and/or qualifying sessions followed by qualifying race (or not-race). A practice is a practice and times don't matter for the next sessions grid. The difference in a qualifying session and a qualifying race is that a qualifying session is not a green flag race but a time trial by fastest lap to obtain grid position.
A qualifying race has an 1,2,3,position outcome that determines grid position based on finishing position , not lap times.
Saturday night is the night to consider staying at the Hilton Head Holiday inn or Red Roof Inn because we'll be having the party there.
Sunday is a warmup session and some different types of races that need to remain a secret for now.
It is probable that some of you that have a lot of DE experience and capable cars of a vintage nature, such as Ruble, Terry, Ed with a little work, etc
could get an HSR comp license and par ticipate in the group 5 races (Mustangs, Jaguar XKE's, Porsche 911's, etc.
This is the tentative schedule, and if HSR can't do it this year, that's in no way a deal killer.
We'll just suffer through another year of finding our way in the dark. We'll just make do. DSCC can jump in and provide some help as it is required either way and it will be soon known what we can expect from HSR.