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Changes as of June 25:
We've lost access to the Brooksville airstrip after April 7, which really messed up our schedule! As of the end of June, we should have things settled for the rest of 2019 with events at Dunnellon, Lakeland and now Venice!

We gave up on trying to color "changes" on this schedule because nearly everything after May changed in either location or date. So, just be sure to look at each date carefully!

The Schedule:
Jan 6 - SUN - FAST Bonus
Jan 12 - Sat - Brooksville - FAST Open
Jan 27 - SUN - Brooksville - FAST Classic
Feb 9 - Sat - Brooksville - FAST Open
Feb 23 - Sat - Dunnellon Championship
Mar 3 - SUN - FAST Gymkhana
Mar 9 - Sat - Brooksville - FAST Open
Mar 23 - Sat - Brooksville - FAST Classic
Apr 7 - SUN - Brooksville - FAST Open
Apr 20 - Sat - Dunnellon Championship
May 4 - Sat - Dunnellon - FAST Open
May 26 - Sun - Lakeland - FAST Open
Jun 15 - Sat - Dunnellon Championship
Jun 29 – Sat – Dunnellon – FAST Open
Jul 27 – Sat – LAKELAND – FAST Open
Aug 10 – Sat – VENICE – FAST Classic
Aug 25 - SUN - Annual Awards party Philipe Park Safety Harbor
Sep 7 – Sat – LAKELAND – FAST Pointless Season Opener
Sep 28 – Sat – LAKELAND – FAST Open
Oct 12 - VENICE - FAST Classic
Nov 3 – SUN – Dunnellon – FAST Classic
Nov 16 – Sat – LAKELAND – FAST Open
Dec 1 – Sun – VENICE - Fast Classic
Dec 14 – Sat – Dunnellon – FAST Open
Dec 28 – Sat – LAKELAND – FAST Special Event

Loren wrote:7 FAST Open events at Brooksville

I'm assuming the 7 fast (non championship)open events are the classic events?

p.s it was fun knowing you dogtrack was a fun site.

Good catch. Yeah, the 7 are Classic events.

I don't see this one on the motorsportreg.com site:
Jan 12 - Sat - Brooksville - FAST Open

It will be there soon. Relax, y'all!

Hey Loren, special request for this course... I have a 3700 pound car that would enjoy it and I need to use up it's tires.
https://youtu.be/t-x1G2J7Byo

cab33 wrote:Hey Loren, special request for this course... I have a 3700 pound car that would enjoy it and I need to use up it's tires.

You want Philip to abuse your car and its tires?

If you didn't get the memo, we've lost our Brooksville airport site as of April 7th.

See the first post for schedule changes.

What kind of start times are we looking at with Dunnellon? I guess I better not sleep in next time

We're working out those details. By the time registration is open, that information will be in the usual place... the specific event info page.

We don't want to get up any earlier than you do... but, we'll do what we have to do.

I suppose the split format is straight out in Dunnellon?

Working on that. Should be able to work it with a slight schedule adjustment.

Do we have a limit of peeps allowed there? I know Les likes to sleep in but, If no limit, why split it?

Just let us do what we do.

We'll figure it out.

AScoda wrote:Do we have a limit of peeps allowed there? I know Les likes to sleep in but, If no limit, why split it?

Shut up Drew! ;-)

Seriously though, I think the split event format is generally pretty popular for both "night owls" such as myself and "early birds" aka crazy people.. It gives people a way to attend autocross and not blow the entire day, which is important for some. I think it becomes even more important now that our primary site is twice the distance for most of us.

A big part of the reason we do split events is because *I* don't like doing large events. I have no desire to do a 100-car event. Split the day, and I can do two 50-60-car events... easier to manage.

There are certainly a number of people who have learned to love either the Early or Late session schedule... and even some who have learned to love doing BOTH sessions and doubling their fun.

The FAST Open events are split events. Unless we absolutely CAN'T do a split event, we plan to continue doing them that way. We like it. Almost everyone else likes it.

Split event works well, I remember my first event at SPC, came early at 8am, worked course before lunch, and didn't run before 3pm or so.

The Latest

Updated the schedule as follows:

Canceled the May 19 Classic and moved the Jun 1 Open to May 26 at Lakeland.

This change is PENDING! We're reasonably confident that we'll get approval for this date at Lakeland, but we don't have it yet.

More changes:

We've got two more Lakeland events, and a couple more Dunnellon events confirmed. We're working on some other stuff, as well. But, that's it for now.

See the first post, or the Schedule on the Website.

Bad News and Good News.

The bad news is that we had to cancel the July 13 event due to personnel availability at the airport. The good news is that they wanted to also cancel June 29, but were able to find a way to accommodate that date for us. (be sure to thank them)

The other good news is that within the next week, we should have approval for some dates at Venice Airport. Once that's done, we'll publish what will hopefully be the last round of schedule changes for 2019! Three different locations, and no more back-to-back events at the same locations. So, lots of variety.