Quattro Club national doesn't run events?

[Patrick Martin]

You miss my point.  National may help fund local events and maybe even
handle registration ect ect..  But to actually get an event to happen
someone on the local level HAS to make it happen.  For people in region A to
complain that there is no event for them it screams to me that there is no
one willing to make it happen.

I have people contact me with events that they want us to do all the time.
Yet they do not want to do the work neccesarry to make it happen.

There is help out there but these are not for profit businesses that someone
is making a living at. If you want something to happen the regional people
are going to have to step up.

Pat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Linkov" <jon at audiclubna.org>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: Quattro Club national doesn't run events?


> Hi Patrick -
>
> I hate to break it to you, but the Audi Club North America National DOES
run
> events through funding. Yes, there is not a staff of "expert track people"
> on call to fly out to Texas/Arizona/Guam to run an event. But National
funds
> a large number of events each year. Plenty of instructors fly across
country
> (on their own dime) to help instruct at these fledgling events if there
> aren't enough instructors.
>
> We will work with chapters to run an event, depending on the need of the
> chapter. Of course, there it isn't really best to have a board member in,
> say, Connecticut, as the event master for an event in Texas. But it is
wise
> to have a local person do as much legwork as possible to round up local
> instructors (again, who will know the local pool of instructors better?),
> work with the track, etc, but have a BoD member and the headquarters there
> for help/assistance before the event, then have a group come in and get
the
> event running on site.
>
> Each chapter is different in its needs. Your NW chapter has a lot of
history
> with the club, but it is VERY different than the Northeast chapter, the
> Potomac chapter, etc, etc. There isn't a blanket way things are run in
> regards to first-time events.
>
> Jon Linkov
> ACNA Board of Directors member
>
> >>
> >> Message: 10
> >> From: "Patrick Martin" <mardkins at msn.com>
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> I hate to break it to you but the Quattro club does not run events.
Local
> >> people run the events. If you want an event the only way to make it
happen
> >> is for someone to take the initiative and make an event happen.  The
> >> National club will help you but they will not run an event as they rely
on
> >> chapters to do that.
> >>
> >> I am the local chapter president for the Northwest.  We have anywhere
from
> >> 6-9 track days a year.  This is all done by local members taking the
> >> responsabilty of making an event happen.
> >>
> >> Pat Martin
> >> 86 4kcsq turbo, 2 1/2 cat back, H&R-Bilstein, MC and loving it.
Drilled and
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> >> uh....
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> >> 87 5kt stick, improved beater
> >>
>
>