07-17-2006, 02:36 PM
.RJ Wrote:white_2kgt Wrote:he works with an SCCA racer as well and they don't make crew pay to enter...
+1 on that, I crewed last weekend, I went into the gate, they checked me off at registration and gave me my wristband - pretty painless. Then again, SCCA has a HUGE group of volunteers that make this happena and there were at least 15 people working in the registration shed.
When Chris used to race SCCA we did have to pay at the gate and get a refund at the registration building on the left if you were a racer or crew. Apparently, now what they are doing is not charging the racer or crew but those people have to stop at the registration building and get a wristband that indicates your gate entry is taken care of. And then, they have someone checking wristbands after you leave the registration building. All racers have to go through their registration either Friday night or early Saturday morning. We do things differently and have registration at the tech area and don't ask you to wait in line at all to register if you are preregistered online. Since we combine tech and registration to avoid having people wait in two lines or any lines at all, we won't use that registration building. So, since we have no "stop gate", everyone will have to pay and get a refund. There just isn't another way. And it is probably still the case that if you arrive after noon on Saturday for an SCCA event, you have to pay as well. It seemed like the hours of 10AM to 2PM worked pretty well since people told me the lines were not long or basically nonexistent when they went. And, guys, it is only this one event which is a spectator event. If we didn't have all the media, vendors, spectators, BSR instructors for hyperdrives, and every imaginable credentialed person out there, we could have other options. We have tried to explore other alternatives and welcome other ideas. But the track will always do the refunds and they are great to accommodate us for that long on Saturday. Using the registration building is not an option because of all the people headed to camping areas in the carousel, etc that don't even need to get to the race paddock. Mailing out passes is not an option because the racers on the whole do not mail out the passes to their crew and when we did mail them to racers, many claimed they did not receive them at all. That was a nightmare at the gate. And we cannot have lists at the gate. But again, if anyone can come up with something else, we will definitely consider it!
Laura