I haven't seen anything offical since Sept. - sorry wish I had more to offer. What I can comment on are the dates that KVRG has at HPT:
May 2/3 - 2 day Double National
Sept 5/6 - Double Regional (MidAM Bonus Race)
In addtion, KVRG and MVRG are teaming up to host a Super School/Regional in April at MAM. April 18/19 on on the tentative planning schedule that I have.
We had a Race Group meeting this evening but I had work committments and couldn't attend. I'll see if anyting was provided at the meeting.
With respect to what KVRG is doing this year - I'm a big fan. I think both of the HPT events can be successful and putting on a Super School at MAM with MVRG should be a great deal too.
Be thinking of what you would like to see at the Sept. Double Regional to spice up the event. Remember, one of the days will be the Mid Am Bonus race. The other day should provide single MidAm points too because KVRG/HPT is only hosting two Regionals this year.
i am also a huge fan of the KVRG schedule, as you remember scott this is essentially what we both lobbied for last year. i really think these with both be successful, and i actually think the NN is more of a risk than the RR.
i'll continue to ask for what i have asked for in the past at regionals.......practice. if even just for the Bonus race on saturday, then we can get people on the road quicker on Sun. i don't want to leave out the PDX stuff though, as those guys are potentially our future racers, and it seems like we always get enough of them that they are not the smallest run group.
to make it work timewise i think you can look at the entries and combine groups, and they don't have to be the same combinations all day.
what i'm thinking of is something like we do on test days for practice....an open wheel and a closed wheel group. or if we get a whole bunch of cars, two closed wheel and one open wheel group. then for qualifying you can have maybe five groups, and go back to our regular 6 if the entries support it.
1) GT1, GT2, GT3, EP, FP, AS, T1, T2, ITE
2) GTL, GP, HP, T3, SSB, SSC, SM,
3) ITR, ITS, ITA, ITB, ITC, IT7
4) FA, F1000, FE, CSR, DSR
5) FC, FF, FV, SRF,
you can play around with that depending on how the entries turn out, and even combine groups #2 and #3, but you probably wouldn't want to since you'd likely be combining the two biggest run groups. if there aren't any Atlantics or tunneled CSR/DSR (which is likely), you can combine 4 and 5.
i think getting the ol podium out and getting pictures would add a fun element also. basically winners circle like at the RO without the TV/Interview stuff.