Curt,
I will try again after attempting twice to respond to the thread and after seeing another thread started on the topic………..
I appreciate your offer to host a regional kart racing forum to discuss Colorado kart racing and the future of the sport in our state and region. I agree that the meeting should be as soon as the current statewide season ends and would suggest a Saturday date that might be easier for some to attend but whatever the majority agrees on. I would also suggest that a moderator would be helpful to keep the meeting on course and subject. We should go forward with a meeting for ALL inspite of who may agree or disagree with the purpose. The forum should be open to all of the track owners and obviously the CSC reps since they are one and the same that want to participate, as well as the kart shop owners and a reasonable number of knowledgable and experienced kart racers. This is 2006 and ALL involved in our sport are important to the future success and growth of the sport in our state.
Once again, this is 2006 not 2000……the karting landscape in the state and region for that matter have changed substantially. There are now FIVE karting facilities in the state not just one. There are four other track owners who have heavily invested in the sport in the region. The population of the state and region have NOT declined over this period of time but the number of kart racers most certainly have.
Kart racing is an individual sport but a karting event and program is a collective team effort. A prospective kart racer without a supplier/ service center and a kart track is just a prospect. A kart shop owner without prospective racers and kart track is a bankrupt business……and of course a track owner without competitors and suppliers has just an empty field and a wasted investment.
Brian Davis, alias “The Owl” , an outsider looking in, who wants to become involved said a mouthful regarding his novice view of the Colorado karting scene and speaks to the frustrations of those that are already involved and those that would like to become involved but who have already turned their backs on the mindless confusion of the sport within our state and region. Brian Davis has spoken for what I believe is the silently majority in the state.
I am a track and kart shop owner……..I am here to say that our sport is BIGGER and has FAR more potential than the opinions of one track owner. We ALL are only one piece of a potentally larger and more successful karting scene in Colorado…….we ALL are important to the future of the sport and SHOULD BE heard!