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The only thing I can say is I wish the event was other than Memorial Day but you can’t please everyone!
Rick, great job in describing things. I felt like I was there and I really do wish to see the photos of Sophie and Ron. I’m glad to hear that Brad was all smiles along with the other owners. You all make me pround to say I’m a part of karting and the CSC.
Rick,
You Are The Man!It’s people like you that make it all worth while. I had a great time working the rescue and corner worker team. Our prayers were granted when at the end of the day, not one racer, or spectator, got a ride to Greeley General Hospital. :cheers:
I would like to challenge any racer, tuner, owner, dad-mom, track owner or self proclaimed racing guru to work the infield at any one of our CSC races. What an experience you will have. I am very proud of Ian, Bobby and all of the corner workers who stepped up and worked their butt’s off.
I would also like to thank my son David and his best bud Dan for the work they did with the FM Pit broadcast, announcing and grid coordination. They even repaired turn one, and three, about fifty times when you wern’t looking.
Hat’s off to all the racers who really did attempt to stay off the hay. It was not easy for the first day, but everyone who did seem to roll thru appologized and helped fix their own holes. I salute you all for a Great Race At A Great Place. :win
See you all at Bandi on the other side of the fence!
CurtPS: How come nobody want’s to talk about Matt & AJ Noud laying down the fastest lap of the weekend? Had to throw that in, sorry for my proudness.
Rick,
Thyank you for the kind words. Mike and Curt are right, you did an awesome job of discribing the event ande it is because of poeple like you that it is so fun to work and announce the races!
However, you forgot to mention several people. First, Craig Mansfield, who arrainged the Color Gaurd, from Buckley Air Force Base, and for the young Lady who sang the National Anthem. Thank you Craig!
Second, Robb Holland, who filled in on the Mic for me on Sat. and Sunday. That allowed me to attend to the 50 other things that came up (can you say Hooter Girls? :rotate: ) Also to Kurt Hansen from Sports Radio 950 The Fan and Altitude TV for Saturday. Listening to him and Robb tag team the call made you think that you were listening to F1 without the funny accents!
We also need to thank my brother, Lee Kunter, who at the last minute agreed to drive the Ralph Schomp Mini Pace Car. Not only did he manage to not run over any Karts and keep it out of the Straw Bales (That car was sold 2 days before the event and the new owner agreed to let Ralph Schomp Mini let us use it!), but he manage to make the Mayor of Greeley and the Ralph Schomp Personell feel very important.
I would also like to personnally thank Anthony Beck for helping set up and run driver/grid information for the announcer’s tent. Agian, it was a last minute call and Anthoney, you came through for us.
As I run through the list of people to thank, there is one person that we all need to thank. That is Rick Schmidt. Rick made arraingments to get us a smoking deal on all of that fencing. If we didn’t have the fence, we wouldnt have been able to get the insurance, and we wouldn’t have had a race. He also got us a great deal on sound equipment for the concerts and to let us use his own personal sound equipment that we combined with some of ours and some of Duff’s (thanks Duff) for the Track Side announcing. Probably the second most important thing he did beside the fence, was arrainging for the Quads. He convinced RPM Motorsports to donate the use of them. I spent most of the weekend on one of them and Rusty on the other. I know my feet were killing me by Sunday evening, I can just imagine what it would have been like if we didn’t have them!
Also, make sure you thank Rusty the next time you see him. He first became involoved with Greeley late last year, when a gentleman by the name of Ken D’Amato, Director of Parks and Rec., started looking for events to bring to Greeley. Something was said about Go-Karts, and the trail led through Scott Hannum to Rusty. The rest as they say, is history.
I have talked to several of the sponsors and they all liked what they saw.
Ralph Schomp Mini, Hooters, Economy RV, Red Bull, and M & O Tires have all already committed to participating next year. They were impressed with the Facility, the program, and the fans, and most improtantly the RACERS.
My hats off to you Lady’s and gentleman!The numbers are in…. we had aprox. 125 karts, 300-350 participants, 50 track workers, 50 sponsors. there were also approx. 1000 spectators with an estimated 300+ coming through the info booth on Saturday alone!
Next year will be bigger and better, I promise!
Drew Kunter
Well, i for one had a blast at the GGP. Even though it was a tough weekend for me, it was still fun. Everyone involved deserves some big kudos, i thought they put on a nice event. The track was fun, too, now we know what it feels like to drive a Champ Car on a bumpy street circuit!
Big thanks to Rick, not only for helping with the GGP, but for helping us out with our kart woes! If it werent for him, we may never have moved! :cheers:
The learning curve on these karts is much higher than i had expected, but we’re gettin the hang of it. And hopefully we’ll have a bunch of the bugs ironed out before Bandi. But i’m already looking forward to the next GGP…just make the track more Rotax-friendly next time. 8)
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