NEQ Corral '97 - Audi-Mt. Washington Hillclimb

["Bob W." <zcritter@netaxis.com>]

Hi All,

After working at the Maine Forest Pro Rally in Rumford Maine I was
having dinner at a great brew pub when I finally met and raised afrosty
with Nat Putnam who is responsible for Site Preparation at Mt.
Washington. During our conversation several issues came to light which I
feel you should know about since the folks at Mt. Washington allowed us
to hold our Corral right in the center of the action and the area we
were in was easy to get to and just plain perfect.

Here are the issues:

1. It seems that someone made off with a very large section of the Blue
Storm fencing which has the Audi Quattro logo on it. Audi is upset that
someone made off with this fencing and whoever took it has risked our
relationship with the Mt.(returning it would be a good idea although no
one knows who took it),

2. Several Quattros that identified themselves as part of the Corral
attempted to seek free passage up the Mt. on Saturday. It was very clear
in the information provided that the admittance to the NEQ Corral DID
NOT provide for free passage up the Mt.,

3. The most disturbing issue occured on Sunday afternoon after the Race
was over. As we all know the event ran late and everyone was trying to
get off the Mt. so that the Mt. Washington folks could get the Mt.
cleaned up, the road re-graded and get the 'vette out from among the
trees. There was a Red Quattro who went up the Mt. and after being
stopped and told to go back down was found to have shrugged off this
request and was found later coming down from higher on the Mt. as these
sections were being re-graded.

For the NEQ Corral '98 we will have to have a wrist band ID system and
will work out a system of control with the Mt. to insure these above
issues don't occure again.

It was a super event and next years will be even better so let's all
work together to insure a great continuing relationship with the folks
at Mt. Washington.

Bob W. 
Eventmaster NEQ Corral '97