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Pike's Peak -- what a neat event! Racing 12.4 miles up an incredible mountain and demonstrating to the world how cool it is to have two people in the car. I wish we could have made it this year, but it was a mighty pricy stretch of road, beyond our budget for 2002. Next year, however....
Anyway, with the addition of Pike's Peak to the 2003 calendar as a points-paying event, this venue also presents a clever solution to the ProRally scheduling problem.
With ProRally events dropping off the calendar left and right (Rim and Cherokee, get it? har har) and who knows how many more, the board needs to add something back to the calendar to give the manufacturers and gentlemen racers a proper professional series. The challenge is finding an organizer and a venue that will tackle that onerous task.
Pike's Peak set an excellent precedent for a simple solution: add other Coefficient 1 RallySprints to the ProRally calendar!
Indeed, we could make all our Pro events between 10 and 15 miles in length, while letting the club-only guys run on the other 85 miles of roads. Boom, an instant win-win situation for Pro and Club alike!
Why didn't anyone think of this before?
Rally on!
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John Dillon
Anyway, with the addition of Pike's Peak to the 2003 calendar as a points-paying event, this venue also presents a clever solution to the ProRally scheduling problem.
With ProRally events dropping off the calendar left and right (Rim and Cherokee, get it? har har) and who knows how many more, the board needs to add something back to the calendar to give the manufacturers and gentlemen racers a proper professional series. The challenge is finding an organizer and a venue that will tackle that onerous task.
Pike's Peak set an excellent precedent for a simple solution: add other Coefficient 1 RallySprints to the ProRally calendar!
Indeed, we could make all our Pro events between 10 and 15 miles in length, while letting the club-only guys run on the other 85 miles of roads. Boom, an instant win-win situation for Pro and Club alike!
Why didn't anyone think of this before?
Rally on!
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John Dillon