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July 31 Autocross - CANCELLED!


unclebilly

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The Grey Eagle Casino has had a few complaints about noise from clubs running autocross / slalom events in their parking lot so regrettably have had to withdraw the use of their parking lot for these activities. My guess is that the noise complaints were not from July 3 becasaue we had no loud cars present. Either way, it's bad for us.

 

An alternative venue (although not available on July 31) is the Deerfoot Mall. They also charge $1000 for the use of the lot so we would have to charge participants to take part. A target minimum participation of 20 cars means a fairly steep $50 entry fee.

Who is willing to pay $50 to participate? Is Aug 14 a suitable day to replace this event?

Does anybody know of any other venues that would be suitable?

Feedback please.

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That is crappy news. The solo cross club will be very sad about this too I'm sure. They even had a sound limit for cars imposed in place, how could there be noise complaints??? Perhaps Reijo has some suggestions for alternate venues, he's the king of the sport.

 

Anyway, August 14th is the WRR camping trip so it would be great if you could get another date.

 

Perhaps the Stoney Nakoda casino on the way to Canmore will let us borrow their lot for free?

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I'm in if in August, I'm just not sure where it could be held. Any part of Croo Iron Mills not developed yet?

Bob James

 

06 Cayman S

2018 Macan GTS

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I was in contact with Reijo. It appears that it came down to one grumpy old man who lives on the other side of Glenmore Trail. This appears to be just one step in this guy's diabolical plans to reroute Glenmore Trail and any associated traffic from his house.

 

I guess he had words with Reijo on Saturday and then further words with Doug of the Corvette Club on Sunday. FWIW, I understand that the police were pretty uninterested in the whole deal as no noise bylaws were broken etc.

 

It appears that we were the innocent victims of one guy's unhappiness with life in general.

 

Bottom line - we need to do what we can to improve the perception of motorsports in Calgary. Loud mufflers are part of the problem, perception of what we do is the other side of the issue.

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Guys,

 

Nakoda Casino supports us using their parking lot. I need to geet out there to check on lot suitability for this event.

 

Scott

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Wow, that would be GREAT!!!!!

 

I have these visions of this perfectly level, brand new, pothole free, smooth-as-a-baby's bottom parking lot....

 

I can't wait to hear what it's like!!!

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For the difference in cost between the Grey Eagle and Deerfoot Mall we could by the old fart an Ipod and headphones!! Well I hope a solution or alternative can be found as I enjoyed my 4 runs so much last time that a helmet is now proudly on display in the media room. Will most def keep my ears open for alternatives as unfortunately my parking lot is not big enough and would only be suiatble for show'nshines......

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Mike scoped out the Nakoda parking lot today. It sounds like it might be a bit tight and there are no natural (or manmade) dividers to keep other patrons from driving into the HOT ZONE.
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I drove by this site yesterday and it got me thinking - the site has been empty for months now. Has anyone been close enough to see whether the lot is big enough?Graham
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