This is going out to introduce the first of what we hope to become part of some series across the country. The Evolution Performance Driving School/Kumho Tire Team Challenge Event. This is an event that is happening alone or inside another event. The first one scheduled will be the Perry Georgia southeast divisional being held at the End of August. This event will have a big money payout for the top 10 teams.
Evolution and Kumho will be combining together to present a type of competition that will hopefully encourage new friendships, more women to get involved, and a new type of event to maybe win back some decent money. It will also give entrants some much-wanted seat time before the big event. Keep reading for details...
For an additional team entry fee of $160.00, a team of 4 people will enter the event already scheduled for Saturday and Sunday.
The times for each team will be the combination of the PAX-adjusted best time for each member on the team. The times gathered during each day of the event (Saturday and Sunday, in the case of the Southeast Divisional event) will be the times used. All adjusted times will be based on the then-current National-level PAX values. The top 10 teams will be get a money payback.
When registering for an event which includes this type of Team Challenge, please mention the name of the team you will be competing with. It might be something simple, like the Beecher-Sipe Team, or something fancy like The Red Devils. This will help keep things organized; however, if you are not on a team at the time of registration, details such as team name can be done later at on-site registration. (There is a special field at the bottom of the on-line registration form for the Team Challenge name. Please use that field.)
Each team must have at least one rookie with 2 years experience or less.
Each team must have at least one female driver.
Each team must have at least one member registered in a non-Stock class.
For the purposes of meeting the above requirements, any single team member may only fulfill two of the three. So a female rookie in a Street Prepared car cannot fulfill all three requirements -- another female, rookie, or non-Stock driver must be found as a team member.
A person can be entered on up to 2 teams, but their time for the event counts the same for both teams.
Besides the chance to win back some GOOD money, the $160 entry fee will also buy you a practice session on Friday for unlimited runs on a course (from something like 9am - 3pm). In addition, Evolution Performance Driving School is planning to possibly hold a school on Friday for those who might be looking to improve (although the school would still carry it's usual entry fee).
Evolution and Kumho will be putting $1,500 in the pot to start. All entry money will also go into this pot to make one big pool for payouts to draw from. All payouts will ultimately be decided by the number of entries. For example, if 10 teams enter, the payouts will look something like this:
| Position | Payout Amount |
|---|---|
| 1st | $600 |
| 2nd | $500 |
| 3rd | $400 |
| 4th | $350 |
| 5th | $300 |
| 6th | $250 |
| 7th | $200 |
| 8th | $175 |
| 9th | $150 |
| 10th | $75 |
| Total | $3,000 |
So, at 9th place, that team could still get their entry back for the challenge plus get all day Friday to play and practice.
We might add to the payout that any ALL Kumho tire placing teams in the Challenge will get an additional $100.00.
We wanted to get this information published so you can have the chance to hook up with some people and spread the word. We'd like for this to develop into a series for regions all over the country. Maybe 3 events for the year and then a "National event" sometime at the end of the year, with an even bigger turn out. Maybe if it becomes a series of its own, we might add some classes to make it more alluring to the import crowd. We are hoping we will see many co-drivers working together and splitting expenses for this as you can actually have 4 people on the team in the same car.
We hope this will encourage some new participation, some new females to get involved, some new friendships to take place by picking some novices to get involved and take them under the wing of sorts. It also adds some new excitement and a different type of twist to competition.
Please spread this to any list you can think of and tell them to check the website for additional news and info as it becomes a reality. I've had this idea and wanted to do it, and now with the help of the Southeast Divisional series and Kumho Tire this will really happen!
More to come! [ Last updated: Wed Aug 8 09:52:15 2001 ]
Jean Kinser Dana
Owner, Evolution Performance Driving School
http://www.autocross.com/evolution/
Voice: 407-889-7207