Hi to all in Norcal! Let's have some presence here! Seems like all of the other regions have all of the fun. I read about the snooty winery events we do, but what about the fun stuff? Other than Fred's driving school yearly, where are the track, drag and autocross events?
And how about one meeting a quarter outside San Jose? Norcal is a HUGE piece of land, and you all know how bad the traffic in the bay area gets. :cuss:
Hi Fang!
Your suggestion is great and has been discussed many times.
Our 2007 March's meeting had 64 adults and two under 10. Finding a meeting place with space, reserved parking, suitable meeting room, reasonable cost and good food is a challenge.
Our monthly meeting started at the Dinner in Los Gatos with 4 to 8 attending the meetings. As we grew we had to find bigger and a more suitable.
A few years ago we moved to our 4th location and present meeting place, Maggianos in Santana Row. To get a reasonable deal we made a committment to Maggianos for the monthly meetings.
It takes more planning than most realize to manage a dinner meeting of 40-70.
Track Events:
Would love to have more! Any volunteers to do an event? We have completed 5 track day so far this year. Four were Viper Days and one was BAMF. Viper Days will be back the end of Sept. for two more days and BAMF will with them for one more day. Next year Viper Days will add one more CA event which will add two more track days. That seems pretty good to me. I personally do not have time to do more.
Autocross - Great idea have a suitable location in mind? Have cones? FYI, I have the timing equipment.
We have people attend our meetings form all around the larger ( Stockton, Danville, Marin, Redding, etc ) Bay Area. FYI the traffic pattern from the East Bay to San Jose is not bad better when compared to the reverse trip!
