V8SC: No COTA round in 2014

[hairy_scotsman]

Wow. It's official. No V8 Supercars next year. No Separate Grand Am & ALMS/WEC weekends next year either because of the merger. So what's left is F1, Moto GP, & USCR/WEC. Am I forgetting anyone outside the Vintage Racing event?

http://jalopnik.com/texas-being-dropped ... 1362802764

http://www.autoweek.com/article/2013092 ... /130929959

[Luke]

Wow. It's official. No V8 Supercars next year. No Separate Grand Am & ALMS/WEC weekends next year either because of the merger. So what's left is F1, Moto GP, & USCR/WEC. Am I forgetting anyone outside the Vintage Racing event?

http://jalopnik.com/texas-being-dropped ... 1362802764

http://www.autoweek.com/article/2013092 ... /130929959

A shame, I thought there was a good turn out there this year..

[Gatecrasher]

What other ORGs would you like to see ?

Has Texas got bitten by the go fast bug ?

Are trackdays full with locals, or do they have any ?

[MOWOG]

Are trackdays full with locals, or do they have any ?

Initially, COTA gave a cold shoulder to the idea of letting AMATEURS onto its hallowed racing surface. But there are quite a few people who race/HPDE with SCCA, NASA, Corvette Club, Porsche Owners Club and so forth who have money and know how to make their voices heard.

COTA has since rethought their position on track days, but their initial attitude left a lot of people with a bad taste in their mouth.

It's too early to tell, of course, but there is a lot more to building a race track business than hiring Hermann Tilke. :-"