As far as the schedule goes, its was impossible not to have some conflicts. There are just so many sundays in a year. The first restrictions were from the track owners themselves. All three tracks have dates which they can not have races. GJ and IMI offer motorcross events and they couldn’t/didn’t want to have CSC events on the same weeeknds. Bandimere is closed certain weeeknds over the summer like during the NHRA Mile High Nationals. We had a PMT in GJ. Neither of the local tracks want to have an event on the major holiday weekends during the summer, they are big rental weekends for them. And whether we want to admit it or not, it is the rentals that keep them in operation so that we have a place to race. Take all the weekends that we can’t have races, it doesn’t leave many dates.
Next we looked at the SKUSA PMT schedule. As we have many local racers who do them, we needed to work around those dates. By the time we got done looking at the exclusions, (don’t forget the USGP) there weren’t many weekends left.
I was fortunate to watch the track owners in action developing the schedule. The spririt of cooporation was beyond belief. More than once I heard, ” That date would work better for you? OK, I’ll move mine, its no big deal.” We should thank every one of them, Brad, JB and Stacey for the hard work they are doing. They can’t work around every date in the country or in the state, but they did the best they could given the situation.