I just got off the phone with the Howard Co. Fairgrounds, located in No. MD.

He is mailing me a brochure to make sure this will be ok to me for this event, but he says it should be fine.

He has to work around some scheduling, but thinks he can work something out in June. Also, he said as an estimate to rent it will be about $500.

I'm not sure of the exact city it is in, but you can enter Monrovia, MD into mapquest.com if you want to get an estimate of travel time.

Thanks guy, and hopefully we're about a week away from gettin this thing nailed down.

 

good news
$500 should not be that bad. how much does he want up front?
praying for some good news. how far is it from the track and campground?
biker

 

I believe the track and campgrounds are no more than a 15 min drive within the fairgrounds.

Not sure how much he would want up front, either way, you have 150 intereted, that's only like $3 per person.

I have to call thirdgenresource , they're interested in sponsorship as well as Mike from hr3rdgen.org but I think he might be gettin the shirts for us.

 

the track is about 15-20 min away from the fairgrounds and the camp site is about the same.

 

darn patapsco state park needs to return my calls, if they don't return my call on friday, i'm gonna personally go up there.

 

Thanks Der, once we get a date set, I'll email 7580 dragway again, to see about renting the track.

 

cool, good news!!

 

Hope this is it! I've been through that area before - Very scenic.

 

i love the area, not many cops to hassle you and you get a scenic tour of maryland. You could sorta take a vacation. LOL.

 

road trip, vacation.. isnt that the same thing?!?

 

I thought the Howard County Fairgrounds were in West Friendship, MD just off of I70!! You may want to double check the location and name of the fair grounds.

 

I beleive they are, If I listed a city above, I just gave it at the time just to give people an idea, since these locations are close to each other.

 

did you try cecil county dragway they may let you use the pits on the spectator side for camping and then rent there track as long as it dont interfere with there points racing

 

Yup, they wanted $10k to rent the track.

But I would need enough space for us to park for a car show..

 

HOLY S%$#!!! $10,000 damn the last i heard it was around $1500 to rent the track for a day thats a shame they would have enough room to do whatever you would wanna do the spectator side is huge and has alot of grass area for people wanting to tent it for the weekend. thats outrageous!!! did you think of moving a little north to maple grove?


$10,000 they are crazy!!!!

 

hmmm, wonder if they just added an extra zero by mistake...

I will move it a little lower S before N, got some from around Miami, FL coming.

 

10,000 is CRAZY.......how exactly are you setting this up? I mean if you are trying to get a weekend date at the track, then yeah, you may be looking at this kind of money because MIR will make 10,000 by just having a TNT that day!

Now if you wanted to rent out a weekday, then that might be a different story.

Here is what you do....contact Bergie @ bergie@dontbescaredracing.com and tell him that Jeremy sent you. If he says "who is Jeremy" tell him I taped his 8.85 run on his bike at MIR the day before the import vs. domestic shootout. Ask him who to contact about renting and or get some information from him, he rents out MIR once a month throughout the year so a bunch of guys can go and make some passes.

 

Too bad that you don't want ot go north. Sounds like beaver springs in PA would be just the deal, dirt cheap and an easy going owner also.

 

Hes lucky us southerners are going to put 4k miles on our cars to go there :lala:

 

i laugh at ur 4k round trip.. 6k baby..

 

any word yet Mark??

 

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it may take a few more days, havin some trouble with parking right now, should be cleared up soon though.

 

Monrovia, MD is only 500 miles from Scumter.

That's a half-day drive. Works for me! :thumbup:

 

you gonna get those other 3 3rd gens in that sig pic to come?

 

Woohoo. Not as far as I thought! Only about 700 miles each way for me! lol. 700 miles at about 17 mpg= $170 round trip gas cost, and about 12 hours of driving. including tolls its probably about $180 to $190 for me.

Hey if we get the carravan going maybe us IL people can draft on the way there.