2018 Canadian Autoslalom Championship - Location up in the air

[Cagare]

Someone had asked about this earlier in the month in the rules thread.  Thought I would update in a dedicated thread.

The location for the 2018 CAC is now officially up in the air.  The air field that is located north of London Ontario was the potential location, the board for the airport (which is owned and based in China) denied the proposal to host the event there after the local management had already agreed to hosting.  This has been conveyed to ASN and it is being discussed currently I believe.  Unfortunately the only other venue suitable in Ontario is the Picton Airfield, near Belleville, which is also for sale and unable to host. There is a real lack of large quality venues in Ontario currently.

Hopefully another venue can be secured quickly because it is getting late in the year to get this scheduled.  I am sure more will be heard on this in the near future.  It seems unlikely that it will stay in Ontario, but another club will need to step up.

[Reijo]

That is not good news ... hope they figure something out.

R

[Dr Dave]

My contact in the Oshawa club confirms this, he said they lost the London airstrip last week, but they're scrambling to find another venue. I am thinking about attending, keepign the fingers crossed!

[Cagare]

Well, it sounds as though the Picton Airfield, which is just south of Belleville Ontario has been confirmed for the weekend of July 20.

It's a great location along Lake Ontario.  The venue is phenomenal for autocross, it is a very wide triangle of runways, although it is often run at higher speeds.

Official announcement is likely coming in the next week or so.  If you can make it happen I would say do it because of the venue and the area which is quite nice.

[Dr Dave]

Thanks for the update!

[Cagare]

For those of you thinking about it here is the google map of it, the runway is quite long, it's in fair condition

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Picton+Airport/@43.9908484,-77.142807,1236m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x89d7ca686300eb77:0x5b6b132596cab16!8m2!3d43.9891714!4d-77.1403329

[MurrayPeterson]

Official ASN announcement:

http://www.asncanada.com/2018-asn-canada-fia-canadian-autoslalom-championship-event-awarded/