I have just returned from a meeting with George Brugenthiess, the President of Road America. I went up to the track and ran with SVRA last weekend and if you have never been there you will love it.
Parking is really going to be an issue. There is no way to coordinate parking together or anything like that. Renting a tent is 1000-2000 for the event so........
I have come up with a solution that I feel will be adequate.
On friday night there is a race car concours (show) in downtown Elkhart lake about 3 miles from the track. The police escort us to town in our race cars and we park outside of Siebkens bar and Brian Redman and others judge our race cars. We drink, eat, and mingle. We return back to the track, again under police escort, right before dark, with cars with headlights sort of interspersed with the race cars. You do not want to miss this !
It does not matter if you wax your car or have scratches. It costs 50 USD to enter the concours but we can all line up together there and walk around with drinks and look at all of the Lolas in a row, as well as many other fine race cars.. We can eat dinner as a group right there as well so it all seems to work out. The best part is that a bunch of great looking chicks will be loving your car as well. There are thousands of partying spectators at the concours friday night. Maybe a Lola will get an award, who knows ?
If you would like to attend Road America, better hurry and sign up.
Look here for the info...
http://www.roadamerica.com/2006/races_bric.htm
This is my list of Lolas/Lola owners attending so far:
66 Lola T70 MK II Woerheide, Johan (display only)
67 Lola 3B Spyder Somerville, Hamish
67 Lola 3B Spyder Hogan, Patrick
69 Lola T70 MK IIIB Woerheide, Johan
69 Lola T70 MK IIIB Kitchak, Peter
69 Lola T70 MK IIIB Stauffer, George
69 Lola T70 MK IIIB Bean, Toby
69 Lola T70 MK IIIB Bristol, Kenne
69 Lola T70 MK IIIB Atlas, Tom
68 Lola T160 Griot, Richard
68 Lola T160 Smith, Nick
69 Lola T163 Blain, Brian
69 Lola T163 Gallucci, Jim
69 Lola T163 Lipetz, Daniel
72 Lola T290 Rahal, Bobby
72 Lola T290 Daigrepont, Phil
73 Lola T292 Connor, Larry
73 lola T296 Kenne Bristol
75 Lola T296 Brahin, Lee
76 Lola T296 Galdi, Greg
76 Lola T286 Bean, Theo
74 Lola T332(F/5000) Neviaser, Larry
74 Lola T332 CS Paul, John Jr. /Woerheide, Johan
76 Lola T332/Schkee DB1/2 Woerheide, Johan (if I can rebuild the motor)
76 Lola T333 Woerheide, Johan (display only)
93 Lola T9300 Dooley, Tom
99 Lola (F/3000) Gensini, Michel
Get your car up to Road America even if it is just to display and join
us for what promises to be a fun event ! If it is not race ready, fine. Just display it in the concours. I am working like a dog trying to get something running....still not sure what I'm actually taking.