Well....................... What can I say. I guess its true. You can't please everyone all the time, can you.
Where do I start.
I guess the first thing to say is................................................ ....
Thanks to our SPONSORS!!!! For with out them. The IIC,Snowbirds,Reedy race or any major race in the world WOULD NOT HAPPEN!
Regardless of what Pat and Al have to say about us reserving spots for our Sponsors of the IIC. We could not put on the type of event we do without the financial contributions the sponsors provide to the event and a benefit of being a sponsor is ensuring their team drivers are signed up.
Pat your offer to be a big sponsor of $10.000.00 would be great and I would be happy to reserve some spots for you and place your name on the big backdrop.
You mention having the teams sign up early. We have been in contact with the teams for along time. We did reserve the XXX number of spots that the teams told us to hold.
As Shane mentioned: Some of the team drivers entered on their own thus using 2 spots. That is one of the things I am doing to make available those double entries. We also have numerous drivers that entered twice, I also have to contact those drivers and find out exactly what classes they ment to sign up for. All this pulls away from our total open spots.
As someone mentioned in an early post. This event is on a global scale. It is quite a task for these teams to firm up the attendance of all of their team drivers from around the globe 6 months in advance. But they did a great job at it.
So I guess I can just say.. Thank you for 99.9% of you guys for being understanding and supportive for what our team has put together with the IIC. And the other .1% that thinks we DROPED THE BALL! I hope you will enjoy your expericence with us and hopefully we meet your expectations as a Race Director and staff. If you still have things to complain about, let me know and I will be happy to issue you a refund right away and give your spot to one of the patient and understanding racers on the waiting list.
I am going to continue working on the registrations that came in yesterday and verify all the paypal payment and then post a confirmation of who is paid and confirmed.
NASH POSTED: Last year we sold out in 8 days. Who would have thought it would sell out in less than a day.
I obviously am very proud that some many racers from around the world want to participate in our event.
I am not trying to start any ruckus, but when somebody comes on here and complains about this event I feel the need to defend not myself, but all the other people that bust there butts all year to put this togehter.
Again thanks for your support. And we look forward to again putting on the best event we can.
Sincerely,
Scotty