WSID rental

[silver gts-t]

i hear u can rent out the new WSID 4 a day?

if this is possible y hasnt SAU been ontop of this as a event? (if SAU hasnt thought of it)

im sure alot of ppl would b up 4 it, i would anyway!

also ova the past couple day been seeing this blue r34 gtt on princes hwy round tempe, just noticed the SAU sticker 2day. nice ride!

john

[Merli]

and how much would you be willing to participate in this kind of event?

$50? $100? $200?

It's been thought of, and discussed at the AGM. Hiring WSID is expensive, and SAU doesn't have the members, or the budget to wear the incredible loss that we'd face if people are all talk and don't actually show up once it's been organised. We're talking thousands and thousands of dollars here.

From prior events, the rate of "all talk" people is frightening. "Yeah bro, I'll come for sure!!!" Then we book it and then all the excuses come rolling in... "Nah sorry bro... No money" or "Nah not this time... I have my cousin's funeral to goto"

[silver gts-t]

from wat ive heard its a set cost 4 the day. so the more the ppl the lower the cost. we arent talking just a couple runs like on a drag meet,so i'd b willing to fork out $200, would b great practice, but as i said the more the ppl the lower the cost.

it would b a private event.

[silver gts-t]

also wouldnt taking deposits help. or iff ppl are serious the whole amount upfront

[Merli]

So how would it work? Take deposits from XX people until we have enough to cover the day and *THEN* book the day? How's that going to work? It won't. I'm not willing to put a deposit down if a date wasn't set! What if I couldn't go on the date that is decided upon!

We'd have to book the day FIRST, and THEN get money off people, which goes back to the weaksauce, all-talk people I referred to before.

And it would be 100% deposit, as half the money doesn't help as SAU would have to shell out the other 50% if you don't show up.

[Merli]

Please don't take this the wrong way, I want this to happen to, but it's in the "too hard basket" at the moment.

Adrian (2RISMO) is SAU NSW's Drag Racing Co-Ordinator, so if you wanted to help with organising the day, please PM him.

I think I heard a figure of $10,000 for renting WSID for a day as well, but I'm not sure how accurate that was.

[franks]

i hear there is an abandoned airstrip out at windsor way

[silver gts-t]

$10,000???

i heard $4000.

didnt really give much thought to the organisation

i thought id bring it up anyway,

[2rismo]

This is something that has been discussed and considered. Lets use this thread as a thermometer to guage the interest of members and forum contributors.

Please post your interest but be aware that something like this is a long way off.

Out of interest, the cost to hire the track today including the minimum appropriate staff and ambulance is just under 4k

Adrian

[B-Man]

$4k is pretty reasonable - is that for 8 hours ?

SAU-NSW has close to 100 members

If 50% of them were interested - lets say 50 cars (inlcuding new members and ring ins)

Charge $100 each for the day - club gets $1000 profit (prolly go into organisation of the event)

8 hours of fun @ say 20 runs per hour (one run every 3 mins) - thats 40 cars per hour

Over 8 hours thats 320 individual runs - lets round it down to 300 cause fatz & adrian will do 10 minute burnouts.

That's 6 runs each over the day.

There is merit there...

What are the regulations etc ??

[B-Man]

But like Merli says - the biggest problem is getting 50 comittments.

[R33vit]

In

If it happens that is

[butthead]

I'm in

Great idea!

[B-Man]

Lets use this thread as an odometer to guage the interest of members and forum contributors.

Fixed

BTW - I think it is a great idea if we can make it work

[Merli]

Okay... some questions and thoughts.

1. Who runs the day? Does the $4000 fee include WSID staff to organise or do we have complete run of the place? The reason I ask is the WSID staff are pretty darn good at getting the cars through at a good rate. If we did the organising, we'd probably struggle to get the same throughput rate they do.

Which leads to yes, we'd probably struggle to beat 3 minutes between cars, but the WSID guys can do it in 1/2 that time.

2. You have to factor in oil downs and other time wasters too... They can take a LOOOONG time to clean up.

3. So if we have to pay $100 just to get 6 runs, that's not overly great is it? Is that even worth the effort of organising the day if we can pay $45 and get 4-5 runs at the normal Street Meets.

4. How is it WSID are able to take upto 200 cars and still move them through at an average of 3 runs per car? (Cars who get there at 3pm get about 5 runs, the cars that get there at the close of scruitineering get about 2-3 runs)

5. I really think 50 cars is very ambitious, especially for our first event. I'd say aim for 30 cars.

[B-Man]

Yeah I know WSID can do way quicker than 3 mins per car - I assumed we would need to organise and be crap at it.

30 cars is more achievable yeah - price goes up obviously.

Anyway - let the interest begin

[JAS-25T]

im definately interested, and pretty much i wouldnt pay anymore than $100 with atleast 10 runs for that price.

otherwise its just not economical.

maybe we should make it open to a few other cars, as i know a friend who would aslo come along.

[benm]

(Cars who get there at 3pm get about 5 runs, the cars that get there at the close of scruitineering get about 2-3 runs)

Regardless of what time you get there, if you have your first run @ 7pm then you will get 5 runs in total.

[2rismo]

The only way to make this do-able is to make it open to other types of cars.

Andrew, the $4k covers:

1 person in the timing office (where you get your slips)

1 person in the staging lanes

1 person in the burnout area (before your run)

1 starter

1 fire crew

1 ambulance and the ambo's to staff it

We wouldn't have any part in the running of the cars and would be obliged to obey all directions of officials and safety staff. I think it's obvious that because there would be a skeleton staff from WSID running a day like this, they need to break for lunch as do we. Common sense says this would happen at the same time. BBQ? All good.

Like I said, this is a LOOOOONNNGGGGG way off and personally, I need some confidence restored in this club/forum and it's ability to support club drag events.

For now, let the interest be guaged.

Adrian

[benm]

Seeing more than 2-3 SAU cars on a regular "off-street" night would be a good start