Hey guys, so I wanted to share this to all the folks of NAM. I am trying their winter days at Laguna and of course the $49 Buttonwillow Track Day.

2009 has been a very interesting and successful year for Northern California Racing Club (NCRC). While our quality low cost events have been very well received by drivers, we can't say the same for some other parts of the industry. We’ve seen negative comments, pressure to raise our entry fees, and a general aversion to the principle of free market. We knew that our pricing was going to ruffle some feathers, but we were hoping that most would have understood the long term benefit to the sport of making events much more affordable. Bringing new drivers and enabling drivers to participate more often far outweighed any need to improve and adapt in order to stay competitive.

To kick off our Southern California 2010 series and get some buzz going, we’re offering this fantastic deal. On March 22, we’re offering the day for**$49 **for anyone that hasn't attended an NCRC event before. The cost $99 for prior NCRC drivers, as this is an effort to get the word out to new Southern Cal drivers. As with all our events, this day will include five 20-25 minute sessions for open track, or a qualifying, practice and two race sessions for the racers.

2010 Schedule
Feb 1 Monday, Laguna Seca
Feb 25 Thursday, Laguna Seca
*March 22 Monday, Buttonwillow
April 5 Monday, Buttonwillow
April 30 Friday, Thunderhill
May 10 Monday, Buttonwillow
June 5 Sat, Buttonwillow
June 6 Sun, Buttonwillow
June 25 Friday, Thunderhill
Sept 3 Friday, Thunderhill
Sept 17 Friday, Buttonwillow
Oct 1 Friday, Buttonwillow
Oct 22 Friday, Thunderhill
Nov 20 Sat, Buttonwillow
Nov 21 Sun, Buttonwillow
*$49 Buttonwillow Track Day "Get to Know NCRC Day"
They are still working out some details with Buttonwillow, and will plan to open the event reg on Jan 22.

Dave & Luc
http://www.ncracing.org

 

New 2010 Schedule (Added Dates)

Feb 1 Monday, Laguna Seca
Feb 25 Thursday, Laguna Seca
*March 22 Monday, Buttonwillow
April 5 Monday, Buttonwillow
April 30 Friday, Thunderhill
June 25 Friday, Thunderhill

May 10 Monday, Buttonwillow
June 5-6 Sat-Sun, Buttonwillow
Sept 3 Friday, Thunderhill
Sept 6 Monday, Laguna Seca
Sept 17 Friday, Buttonwillow

Oct 1 Friday, Buttonwillow
Oct 22 Friday, Thunderhill
Nov 1 Monday, Laguna Seca
Nov 20-21 Sat-Sun, Buttonwillow
Nov 27 Saturday, Laguna Seca
*$49 Buttonwillow Track Day "Get to Know NCRC Day"
They are still working out some details with Buttonwillow, and will plan to open the event reg on Jan 22.

 

so March 22nd is the ONLY day at $49?
No Grand Am races that weekend.... I'm interested

 

Yup, but all others times are only $99
Except Laguna Seca $159 and Infineon $179
Thunderhill $125
And it is Five (instead of normal 4) 25 minutes (instead of normal 20 min.) sessions.
You can bring passenger too if they are "instructing" you.

 

I am in.

 

ME TOO!!!!!

as long as I'm not at the races

 

$49 a day. Wow. I'm driving to Cali just to save money.

 

you come out here and I'll let you taste the TVS up close and personal

 

When & how do you register?

 

Just go to the site. Registration is not open yet.

http://www.ncracing.org/events.php

 

I think they just bumped the price up to $99.

 

Registration is still not open for this event.

 

I sent an email to them and here is what I got. But they still have not opened up registration?

Hi Felipe,
Sorry for the troubles. We absolutely want to run the Get to Know NCRC Day at $49, that has not changed. Buttonwillow is asking us to raise our prices, and we are pushing back on them as we want to keep prices low for the drivers. So while we debate with them, we’ve just left the web site alone. But believe me, we want to do it, and we certainly have no intentions on raising the price up.
Dave
dave@ncracing.org

Anyway, I went to their Feb 1st event at Laguna Seca and had a great time, if they don't open that registration soon I am gonna do Laguna Seca on Thursday February 25.

 

Northern California Racing Club - Schedule of Events

Appears they removed the March 22nd event from their schedule. :(

 

Sorry guys, here is the update I got:

Dear Drivers,
A lot of you have asked us why we haven’t opened our Buttonwillow events yet, and why we have so few days at Thunderhill compared to prior years. Here is an update.
Thunderhill: Due to a serious business dispute that we have with the track, Thunderhill has cancelled all our events. We have retained the services of an attorney and a complaint will be filed against the track in the next few days. Once the lawsuit is filed we will be able to give you a lot more information. Buttonwillow: The March 22 event is cancelled, for now we are only opening the two weekends. We will be able to give you more information regarding the single-day events very soon.
We will refund the event payments for the cancelled events over the next week. If you have any questions regarding your NCRC membership or annual tech payments, please contact us.
www.ncracing.org
Luc & Dave

 

Registration for June 5th is now open. It's $99 for five 20/25 minute runs. I was planning on going with speedventures on march 28th for $190 until I saw that they had added buttonwillow on their event list again. So who is interested ?