Countdown to Columbus!

[Geerhead55]

About 18 weeks to go,, lets start the countdown. You should know by now if you're going or not,,, whos coming? By the way,, Thanks again Michael for doing this.
Danny Durham ( count me there).

[Pistol Pete]

WOW, didn't realize it was only 18 short weeks to go.

That's Awesome !!!

I'm Going.

[Michael Beard]

WOW, didn't realize it was only 18 short weeks to go.

AUGH! Scary when you put it that way... total purse, prizes, and contingency posting total over $85,000 and we're *still* adding sponsors! Time flies when you're having fun! Just a couple more months on the racer side of things, and then we start on the local advertising campaign to put some butts in the seats to enjoy the show y'all are going to put on!

The most up-to-date event flyer can always be found at www.looserocker.com/ncn

[Geerhead55]

Really? You guys are going to let this thread pass? I'm not asking for an actual headcount,, just trying to give Michael an estimate of how the attendance and participation might go.
Theres plenty of time to let him know,, keep it flowing, people.
Danny Durham

[Ed Wright]

Was thinking I might go (NO AHFS!) until I found how far that is from Tulsa. Might be too far for this old man. :-(

[Pistol Pete]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Was thinking I might go (NO AHFS!) until I found how far that is from Tulsa. Might be too far for this old man. :-(

Ed, get a friend to take your set-up & you fly in....

[Geerhead55]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Was thinking I might go (NO AHFS!) until I found how far that is from Tulsa. Might be too far for this old man. :-(

I hear you, Ed,, but it all fits the screen on Google maps! LOL. Actually, I did Seattle to Indy once in 39 hours,, so I'm thinking you could do this in a third of that.
Hope you can make it.
Danny Durham

[Michael Beard]

Originally Posted by Geerhead55

Really? You guys are going to let this thread pass? I'm not asking for an actual headcount,, just trying to give Michael an estimate of how the attendance and participation might go.
Theres plenty of time to let him know,, keep it flowing, people.
Danny Durham

I was originally thinking ~350 cars, but given the events that have been scheduled on top of us, I've revised that projection to the neighborhood of 280-330 cars between the two classes. A Divisional alone in this region typically draws around 200 S/SS cars, almost strictly from Div. 3, so the support from all over the country should make those numbers easily attainable. I still have a number of people telling me that we'll see over 400.

I have a race purse calculator spreadsheet I developed several years ago. I put some numbers in for our Fall Footbrake Frenzy $20K Thanksgiving race prior to the event. Friday night of the event, I opened up the spreadsheet, and I had plugged in 220 cars. Actual car count: 216. Anthony just shakes his head at me. We're typically pretty good at projecting our car counts and run time.

Was thinking I might go (NO AHFS!) until I found how far that is from Tulsa. Might be too far for this old man. :-(

The NHRA Div. 3 LODRS at Indy is the week before, which will allow a number of people to make a swing out of it. The two tracks are only 3.5-4 hrs apart.

When I lived in NC, I drove straight through to Tulsa, 1107 miles. Tulsa to Columbus is a bunch shorter!

Hard to believe the snow will be melted enough to get the trailer out by then.

Pretty sure you won't need a shovel in May.

[Winklovic]

I'm hoping to make the trip down from Winnipeg to be a spectator. Won't know for sure until late March.