The plan

[John Daley]

Some years ago I prepared a paper detailing a Festival of Sidecars, at the time sidecar numbers were low, but things have changed and I wonder if the time is right to present my paper.
It involved, Road race, speedway, dirt track and classic motocross.
Doug Flack mentioned something about thsi style of meeting at the Vic His. Titles, so thats why I have presented this concept.

The plan included the concept of getti8ng spectators to watch and help pay for it, scratch racing with heats and points score, handicapping etc to show case outfits. By having the other disciplines available and racing we could put on a greater show and have static displays after the racing.

I guess if we planned it for a long weekend, interstae people may be able to attend and I would expect we could give them a travelling allowance to get to the meeting.

Perhaps even a sidecar swap meet could ber planned as part of the deal if we had a long lead time, say 18 months to plan it.

The only way it would work would be to have each team invoilved in some way it promotion, organisation and implementation as I cannot imagine many solo riders being willing to set up such a specific meeting.
I imagined teams would be obliged to sell tickets to spectators, place posters around town, find promotional funding for the Festival and not just themselves.
Entry fees would be determioned but I would expect about $100, for one days activity with teams arriving on Saturday afternoon for scrutineering and a dinner Sat. night.
We may even be able to fit in a come and try time scale.
I would expect we can get oifficials readily, burt gate keepers, car parking etc would be a hard one, but necessary.

Some questions;
1 Would you support it, as a racer?
2 How could it be improved?
3 Where would we get promotional funding?
4 Would you help in some way to get the show happening?


Overall I would expect input from all who want to attend, otherwise the load will fall on a few, and that is simply not fair.
PLEASE ADVISE YOUR THOUGHTS, POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENTS OR PREPAREDNES TO ASSIST