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« on: July 29, 2019, 08:14:47 AM »
Great event - thanks again to the organizing committee and to Overtime Rentals for the support.
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« on: October 05, 2018, 09:55:05 AM »
Should be fine...snow has been gone from here since Tuesday.
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« on: October 04, 2018, 08:50:50 AM »
Weather looks pretty good for our FINAL event of the year.
Head on down to FTM for some fun.
October 6th...registration is OPEN.
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« on: September 07, 2018, 09:17:58 PM »
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« on: August 01, 2018, 03:04:44 PM »
Does Lethbridge's Street Machines weekend have any opportunity for booths etc? I think that's already passed for this year but might be the most visual way to get in front of a lot of local car people at the same time. Facebook is kindof dying, at least with younger people; it's pretty awful for a whole bunch of reasons.
I've never seen a booth...where do you suggest if Facebook is not young person friendly? I'll post the remaining dates on this forum as well as continue what we're doing now.
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« on: August 01, 2018, 08:47:45 AM »
Instead of cluttering up the thread discussing the continued viability of Fort Macleod with a discussion about what's wrong with the LSCC Club (I'm VP), I thought I'd start another thread to see if I could get some advice. As most of you know, we started back racing at Fort Macleod after a few years of dormancy when we lost the local Exhibition Ground site. This is our second year hosting events at the Fort Macleod airport and we're suffering. Few people are coming out, we're on MSReg and we advertise primarily on social media.
We were hoping that SASC members from Calgary would come down and join in the fun on the weekends when we're out at Fort Macleod. I'm not on this board very often, so we haven't posted our events here.
What I'm looking for is ideas on how to do a little promotion of our events.
Things I know we need:
1. Local venue - probably solve all our problems if we could get something in the city - also not very likely.
2. Better attention to forum/facebook and other social media.
Not sure of what else might work - so I'm appealing to the knowledge base here.
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« on: August 01, 2018, 08:32:58 AM »
An alternate way to interpret increased attendance from Southern Alberta residents at SASC events is that SASC is cannibalizing LSCC's participation.
True, there are a few people from Lethbridge and area who do come to our events (even the Calgary ones!) but that has really been a phenomena that seemed to start just this year with a few exceptions from the past years. Also, I would estimate we are talking about less than a half dozen people - not too many. Back in the early '80's the LSCC had a regular membership of between 45-50 people and I don't think that has been matched yet (population was about 65,000 at that time if I recall correctly - 3rd largest city in Alberta at that time - Red Deer and Ft. McMurray have grown to be bigger now. Lethbridge is around 85,000 now).
However, I think this (limited) migration to our club, may be because of a few different reasons - the YYC lot (a great venue always draws people), less LSCC events over the last couple of years resulting in an unmet demand, and perhaps some other reasons (maybe someone from down there can jump in here and let us know what they are thinking?).
However, generally, it appears to me that the Lethbridge folks simply stopped attending autoxes from what I can tell. I have not really been able to figure that out ...
Some key people have left for various reasons and this may be a hint. This means someone has to come in and take over the reins and "make it happen". Craig has done this with some help from a few others but Craig is also out of town due to his work which makes it difficult.
Notably the "elephant in the room" is the loss of the Exhibition Grounds in Lethbridge as a venue. Obviously this was very convenient in that no one had to drive out of town. Even driving a short distance (1/2 hour/50 km) out of town can make a difference is something I have seen ... perhaps after becoming accustomed to not driving outside the city.
Personally I am a bit mystified why more people from Lethbridge do not come out to their and our events at FM. I know I would be there but that is me.
I should probably start a separate "How to promote this sport" thread instead of cluttering this one up further...but here's my take on the Fort Mc venue. LSCC lost the Exhibition venue and I'll be working this year to get it back (where's my horse? I see a windmill over the hill...charge!). The city is now 100,000 residents and apparently 10 of us enjoy autocross. We get very good attendance at the annual Street Machine Weekend event (around 70 people) but it's not an LSCC event - we did advertise with flyers on the windshields of all competitors cars listing our next events. As it's run by the Street Wheelers Car Club, it's not like they're going to be on the PA all day telling everyone to come out to another club's events. It's a struggle. We have the shortest distance to get to Fort Macleod but what I've heard is that this is considered too far for the newbies. Basically, if you put it in the local area (like the YYC lot), then people will come and try, some will get hooked, some will never come again or only attend when they have the time (  this year has been terrible for my participation...and it shows in my driving I'm affraid). "Last minute Lethbridge" is how we all joke about this place - we're not making it up. We fired things back up after a few dormant years when SASC decided to stop hosting the 2 day event weekend. We picked up the other day - I saw this as our opportunity. This worked better last year when it was a consistent thing with SASC out on Sunday and LSCC out on Saturday. We only lost money on 2 events. This year we're in the hole - I can't say how much, but things like our membership drive has yielded 3-4 members - there are probably more Lethbridge people with memberships in SASC than LSCC (I've got one for both). YYC lot is a great venue and many of the Lethbridge people prefer to race there. To be fair, I was told that this would happen by other LSCC members, but with a lot of support from SASC we've at least got a foothold. I see LSCC presence (regardless of loss) as important for SASC - if we keep the pressure on Fort Macleod, when the YYC lot gets re-developed, there is an option. I'll go start that other thread now.
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« on: July 31, 2018, 04:42:34 PM »
Out-of-the-box idea for maintaining Fort Macleod event counts -- have we talked with the LSCC about co-sanctioning more events? If we bring funding and equipment, and they bring some attendees who might not otherwise attend, perhaps we could maintain the same number of events and similar levels of participation without making the events mandatory for the SASC championship.
Sorry for being late to the party. LSCC would appreciate the dialog...our max attendance this year at FM is 15...lowest was 7. We have all the equipment, insurance and cones we need...I can't promise attendees as you can see. As this is the Southern Alberta Solosport Club, I like the idea of keeping the venue. I haven't been able to make any SASC events this year and LSCC is struggling. If SASC pulled out, I'm not sure we'd take both days on a weekend given our poor attendance (we'd be broke in less than a year). We were also not able to book an August event - this reduces our numbers as we will go almost 2 months between events. So Wayne is right...use it or loose it.
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« on: October 23, 2017, 07:22:03 PM »
Are you looking for summer tires?
If so I have a few of that size in the old nexen sur4 if you want
I had some brake issues and badly flat spotted just one of my RE-71's - so that's why I'm looking. Would rather not mix and match with this. I was looking to see if someone had a spare sitting around collecting dust. If not - I'll just replace it in the spring.
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« on: October 12, 2017, 09:22:53 PM »
I've had a few issues with brakes lately and have completely destroyed one of my front tires. I'd take two if you have them. Let me know what you have.
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« on: September 25, 2017, 12:37:13 PM »
Nothing to add other than a thanks for changing the look of the webpage. It was much easier to read on my phone during the event yesterday!
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« on: July 23, 2017, 07:30:27 PM »
Great track as always...but could someone turn down the HEAT out there!
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« on: July 18, 2017, 11:45:54 AM »
Just as a heads up - the LSCC event this weekend currently has 3 cars running. It's only Tuesday and the online registration doesn't close until Friday, but seriously...3 people  .
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