OPTIMA Ultimate Street Car to air on SPEED

[Charley Lillard]

Or just throw out the autocross.................................

[wicked68]

Make optima another SCCA race and see how many folks drive accross country spending $2000 or more to attend it.

I spent 6k between getting the car there and back / hotels / food /etc


I would, but I already put money into safety on my car. I saw many cars there that were very much into safety - just missing a few items here or there or chose not to wear some safety gear when they had it and knew better to - because the rules did not mandate it.
People dont always make the best decisions.

Like a few other peope said - if you can put that much money into your engine and suspension surely you can afford the small amount by comparison to make the car safe and quite frankly I think it enhances the look and value of the car.

This event will always have way more very nice cars that can meet safety willing to attend. I dont think they will ever have a problem finding good cars and drivers.

[Steve1968LS2]

Or just throw out the autocross.................................

Chicken... ;)

[David Pozzi]

I moved the safety discussion to a new thread here:
https://www.pro-touring.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=64909

[Blitz]

Everybody already said just about everything I wanted to say, they were just quicker at posting it I guess. Here are some highlights.

...personally like the idea of having the new vettes, vipers, amgs and bentlys there. I think that is the whole idea of pro-touring is to directly compare the cars to new performance cars. ...that definitely adds to the cool factor to be able to see that a 69 Camaro just ran with or better than a new Vette.

I couldn't agree more. Even though I love exotics, it's funny knowing that they can get whupped by 40 year old steel.

Let's not make this overcomplicated..


Simple.

This should be the new title or at least the subtitle and should be auto-posted every third post.

My 2 cents...2 classes..One for owners...One for Pro shops, sponsors etc.. The shops can have whoever they want drive. They want to show how well their stuff works so they should be allowed to get someone capable of showing just good their car can work with their product. The owners drive their own cars. The event is invitational so the organizers can choose what gets invited anyway. The shops have their own shootout and the owners have their own shootout.

Exactly.

Maybe hold one in texas so its nice and central for everyone.

take all the ideas from this thread and make it a 2 or 3 day deal.

Great idea!! At least for as long as I'm a North Texas resident. At that point the location would have to change.

I want to see more coverage. If they can show Barrett-Jackson auctions for 6 hours or 2 hours of American flippin Idol, I would think we could make this a 2 hour in depth covered event. Brief driver history, car highlights and more race coverage would make it really nice. Now I know it would be tough covering 40 cars but we could iron those details out later. Anyway, those are my ideas...for now.

[DLinson]

If anyone doesn't want to go, I'd be more than happy to take my Nova out there and make everyone else look good. It looks like a lot of fun and I wish I could do it too. Hopefully I'll be able to make a PT event this year. If people complain too much about rules and stuff, that might discourage them from continuing.

Dennis

[justimagine]

We'd like to thank everybody for the very valuable input and want all of you to know that we are monitoring the feedback very closely. We will continue to do everything we can to make this a fun, exciting and safe event for all involved.

There will be some rules changes for 2010, some addressing directly the concerns posted here and a couple of others we came up with on our own. Please know we will never change the rules just to keep someone from winning or participating. We've only done this event for two years and we are still learning and rather than make knee-jerk sweeping changes, we will make subtle adjustments based on legitimate advice to keep things headed in the right direction.

We have assembled a committee of 10 individuals with various areas of expertise to provide guidance and direction as the event continues to evolve and grow. These individuals are well connected and influential within our industry and our hobby, and are passionate about what we do. I won't name them individually, but all of you would know them by name.

As for qualifiers, there will be several starting with The Faceoff at Road America on May 1st & 2nd. The others will be announced as they come on board, keep an eye out on the events board and check www.optimainvitational.com.

Thanks again for your feedback, we want to put on the biggest and baddest street car events on the planet!!