ALMS at Laguna Seca / Problems with the "Bay Area" list

[urquattro]

As far as I have been able to determine, the corral at Sears Point was part
of the Audi dealers' promo package.  As I understand it things were
apparently fairly loose ... you were supposed to pay $10 to park in the
corral.  QCUSA had nothing at all to do with anything at Sears Point.  It
was all pretty ad hoc ... I hear some folks managed to park in the corral
for $10 ... others got to park there free ...

I am sure that if you walked into an Audi dealer and paid somewhere around
$150 you could participate in the hospitality stuff at Laguna ... and pay
the $10 to park in the corral.  I was hoping to be able to set up something
in advance, but (as I posted on the BA list) SCRAMP (i.e. Laguna Seca)
requires that you sign up for a hospitality of some sort to be able to
qualify for a corral.  AoA has indicated very clearly that they aren't at
all interested in helping us set up a corral ... our last suggestion (by
Harrison) was to have Michael Williams check through his connections with
the local dealers to see if there is some way we could get in.  As I had
said earlier, we're not expecting to weasel into the hospitality suite
gratis ... it would simply be nice to be able to pony up an extra $10 to be
able to park in the corral.  The event is coming up ... perhaps I can give
Ann Boge another call to see if we might be able to set something up now ...

I hope this helps you (and everyone else) get up to speed ...

Steve Buchholz
San Jose, CA (USA)

> At the Sears Point ALMS in July, there was a small
> corral of Audis.  I don't know who set it up or how
> one gained entrance.  I didn't know any of the people
> parked there, but I gotta suspect it was organized by
> QCUSA... or perhaps Audi NA, as their hospitality tent
> was very nearby (I didn't have an invitation to that,
> either).
> The crowd at SP was mellow and relatively small.  I
> would suspect the same for Laguna Seca.  So besides
> making it possible to get very close to the race cars
> in the paddock and on the track, it should be possible
> to get some corral parking space.  I hope that if this
> happens it will be publicized.