captdownshift
captdownshift GRM+ Memberand UberDork
3/14/16 10:44 a.m.

This idea is big, bigger than something I could take on even in good health. Big enough that though I'd expect GRM staff to like, possibly even love the idea, the organizational undertaking would be daunting.

I'd love to see a motorsports expo/convention, whatever you'd like to call it to be hosted at the Borgata during the weekend in June that coincides with the Race of Gentlemen taking place at Wildwood. Over the weekend a TSD rally could be organized through the pine barrens, a HPDE and vintage race arranged to be run at NJMP and an automotive related act, maybe pull Click and Clack out of retirement for a weekend, or a automotive enthusiast of a comedian, as there's about a half dozen (anyone but Christopher Titus), to perform at the Borgata in the evenings that weekend. Other meeting spaces could be used for automotive vendors to rent space and setup shop. Is there a lot large enough to host an autocross? I'd love to see a valet driver challenge class with some of the valets competing against each other in a spec car. I'd be surprised if Kerbeck's wouldn't be up for sponsoring a car show portion of the weekend.

So, what would need to be done to get the Borgata on board as being the epic center and preferred lounging for such an event and enter for entertainment and registration?

I think the variety of activities to take part in or spectate over the weekend really brings something to the table for most racing enthusiast:

-Race of Gentlemen

-HPDE

-Vintage Race? (would need to bring an outside sanctioning body in)

-autocross

-automotive related entertainment

-car show

-TSD rally

-vendors

paranoid_android74
paranoid_android74 Dork
3/14/16 10:28 p.m.

Hmm. Following with interest

Huckleberry
Huckleberry MegaDork
3/14/16 10:35 p.m.

This sounds exactly like the BMWCCA Oktoberfest that they move around the country every year.

5 days of club racing, HPDE, vintage stuff, TSD rally, as well as entertainment somewhere near the track with lux digs and food...

It's a massive undertaking. They were at AC and NJMP last year. It took the combined resources of the NJ and Del Val chapters to pull it off.

I raced the ones at the Glen, and Mid Ohio as well as visiting this last one on my bike.

I would be interested in attending one with no specific brand loyalty.

patgizz
patgizz GRM+ Memberand UltimaDork
3/15/16 11:39 a.m.

Click and clack would be a no-go, one of them died

Furious_E
Furious_E GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
3/15/16 11:43 a.m.

I would definitely attend this.

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