CKit

http://jalopnik.com/5970719/austins-...ans-everywhere

Please let them know on facebook how you feel.
https://www.facebook.com/CircuitofTh...cas?ref=stream

Cliff's notes: COTA rents track time, cashes deposits. Decides to cancel events with less than a month to go.

khaosman

That's such utter bullshit. I'm sure you and many other people took a fair amount of time off of work and booked hotel rooms to go to the track day. Now what? You probably lose some money on the hotel room and might be stuck using the vacation time up for nothing.

cracknut

W E A K S A U C E.

Just wrote on their wall.

03threefiftyz

Looks like they have caved under the pressure and will honor the prior contracts.

COTA release.

crash

So they are still flipping off he whole race/hpde community and keeping it for the people that only "watch" racing.
nice

crash

I bet they decided to honor the pre-paids to avoid a massive law suit

03threefiftyz

At least honoring the prior agreements is a start....not a particularly good one though.

Greg W

Any idea if they're moving to a more exclusive driver school relationship (at higher cash flows) or just strugling with first year organizational challenges? Could open liability issues or residual investor conflicts be causing the cancellations? Their references to "amateur drivers" and "...limit the number of vehicles we have on track at any given time..." lead me to think maybe they're not ready to take on the risks of "over the counter amateurs" getting hurt on track. Is SCCA club racing affected?

I hope it's a temporary limitation, I love the look of that track!

krazik

scca and race orgs seem to be fine. just the "track day" clubs

CKit

They keep making a designation about "amateur" race groups and NASA isn't invited. So I wouldn't be so sure how welcome regional SCCA would be. They're planning on a "major" there for SCCA (new "super" national format) so maybe that saved it.

But I'd rather drive the turbo S2000 there in DE than an NA Civic W2W.