It depends on what you want from the track as a group. This was a first time event for the track that was organized by one of the gasser guys. It was set up as a track rental I suppose. However there was some misinformation going around based on the flyer. The flyer stated that it was a three day weekend - fri - sat - sun. The entry fee was 50 dollars for car driver and 2 crew for the whole weekend. It was supposed to be 1970 and older and included a car show and swap meet should you choose to do that as well. Spectator Admission 10 bucks. However that was not the case as Friday night had Street Car Chaos and Sunday was open test and tune to all cars. Saturday was the only 1970 and older specific day. There were some Nostalgia racers who were in an uproar to have to share the track with newer cars on Fri and Sun, but the turnout was still great. In fact that might have been the most spectators ive seen at the place in a while. They said they were really using it as a trial run to see how the turnout would be before making it a specific nostalgia only weekend. They had a small turnout for the car show (15-20 cars i think?) and maybe 5 guys in the swap meet.
I do not know if the same thing will be offered next year - IE - 50 bucks for the weekend, 10 for spectators, 10 for the car show, 10 for a swap meet space. They didn't have car show awards or classes but gave $250 to the best looking car. I don't know who judged that.
I do know the track owner and the guys that run the place and they are all friendly people and love ideas. As far as a 348-409 meet I do not think that they would offer a purse to do it. I do think that they would happily let us run any race within a race that we wanted to. That was how I ran the Vintage Super Stock Series events we had there. They run us as a class when we were ready, the tower gave me all the run printouts, etc. They didn't care if you kept running even if you lost in eliminations, if you wanted to keep making test passes or even grudge race your buddy for fun, you came up with the rest of the class, put a dial on the window and they'd stagger the tree for you.
I am sure they would let us organize our own race, a gamblers race if the guys wanted to put in 50 bucks each and run for a pot. This is what I remember doing at Thompson back in 2010 for our race anyhow. You can have specific grudge races if you'd like. You can just have open testing. The are really open with anything that a specific group would want to do. In future years they might offer a payout but I doubt it if you can run non stop for 3 days for 50 bucks. Although I understand some things like Super Chevy is an exhibition and some things like the Memorial races and Hot Rod Reunion are actual competition. However it is nice to have a mix of the both so that you don't drive 500 miles (like to Bowling Green for example) make 2 passes, lose round 1, and then go home. If you want to run the wheels off the thing they will let you here.
cool car, and fast too!! Also love the Code Red 62
