non Lemons track time

we could probably allow team participation (assuming the venues allowed driver swaps) but the car/team would likely be in competition, rather than a specific driver. it would probably become a logistical nightmare to try to keep tabs on a handful of drivers' times for a handful of cars.

so far as driver swaps are concerned, I'm fairly sure that Hallett and thunder valley operate the same way, so long as you have a driver's wristband you can drive anything that passes tech. at the same time, it's likely that each venue would want each driver to pony up.

in the past, we've bought the Hallett day and entrants paid us, i think we did Thursdays to keep the price down. thunder valley has been done on a Friday or Saturday evening test and tune night, so entrants just pay them. finally the autocross (usually a Sunday, occasionally a Saturday) is paid to its organizer by the entrant. when we've hot-seated the autocross, each driver buys in.

so, we MIGHT be able to spread the cost of Hallett across a team (tho there might be an additional cost for extra driver's bands), and thunder valley is a crap shoot (i can't recall how picky they are on wristbands on test and tune nights). autocross is certainly a per-driver cost.

we've tried to make it as reasonable as possible, which is why we don't handle the thunder valley and autocross transactions. we've done little for prizes, outside of bragging rights, because it was originally devised as an us vs them, import vs domestic, drag/street racers vs autocrossers event and as an thin excuse for seat time.

if it looks like we could make an event out of this, I'll put more pen to paper and nail down some dollar amounts.

no matter what i bring to a race....nobody likes to lose to it.

when you get right down to it...the little Japanese trucks are not bad racecars.

in the front, they are basically 240SXs with upper control arms and torsion bars instead of struts and coil springs, and in the back they are leaf springs and live axles.

they are running basic technology that has been refined for decades. they can be made to be good enough to scare some people.

Just put something better under the hood than that lump of iron Mazda calls an engine.