2012 Official SO WinterNationals

[Howie Nichols]

Sports Marketing has sent out a lead sheet to all the hotels in the area for us and hopes to have an answer by the end of the week. They assure me they will have a full list of hotels available and campgrounds too. They asked that we remain patient and if you find something in the meantime go ahead and book it.

Tom thanks for the campground info!

[Howie Nichols]

Race Schedule

Here is the Schedule we are contemplating for the event;

This is still in works, please let us know of any conflicts so we can try and resolve them now.

Time (within reason) will be given for motor changes.

FRIDAY

CSH - ELIM 1
CSH - ELIM 2
BSR

CSH - ELIM 1
CSH - ELIM 2
BSR

CSH - FINAL
CSH - FINAL
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ASR - ELIM 1
ASR - ELIM 2
20SSH - ELIM 1
20SSH - ELIM 2

ASR - ELIM 1
ASR - ELIM 2
20SSH - ELIM 1
20SSH - ELIM 2

ASR - FINAL
20SSH - FINAL
ASR - FINAL
20SSH - FINAL

SATURDAY

JH
25SSR
BSH

JH
25SSR
BSH
------
AXR
25SSH
DSH
CSR

AXR
25SSH
DSH
CSR
-------
JR
ASH - ELIM 1
ASH - ELIM 2

JR
ASH - ELIM 1
ASH - ELIM 2

ASH - FINAL
ASH - FINAL
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CSH
AXH
DSR
JR

CSH
AXH
DSR
JR

SUNDAY

20SSH
ASR

AXH
CSR
25SSH

20SSH
ASR

AXH
CSR
25SSH
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JH
BSR
ASH

JH
BSR
ASH
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DSH
25SSR

BSH
AXR
DSR

DSH
25SSR

BSH
AXR
DSR

[bryanlauer]

Howie when can you get in pits testing??????

[Howie Nichols]

We can begin to place trailers Thursday afternoon / evening.

Testing will begin after you check in at Registration and the Ambulance is on site Friday morning, we are planning for its arrival at 9 am.

[daveracerdsh]

Dsh

Is there going to be a DSH class at winter nationals?

[DiGia54D]

DSH is on Saturday

[Howie Nichols]

East Coast DSH

Mike Lee
Mad Russian
Steve Noury
Scott Clark
Alan Akerstrom
Pete Gevinski
Steve Dunn

Any of you planning on making the trip to Lakeland??

How about the Midwest guys

Tom Smith
Larry Gottschalk

I know I missed a few....

[Emily88]

JH and AXR running?

Howie,

I did not see JH and AXR listed on the sanction on the APBA website.

I only have one motor, If you need Emily to run JH, will I have time to switch restrictor plates and change the motor for AXR? You know how fast I am with a wrench! (not very )

David

[Howie Nichols]

Sanction / Website is not not transferring the info on classes correctly, Cindy is working on this for us. All J classes will run at Lakeland.

David - There should be plenty of JH's present so its Emily's choice as to which class/classes she runs. If she decided to do both we will make sure whe has the time to make the switch!

Camping:

PDF file is attached with campground information for the surrounding area.

Hotels:

We hope to have a list by Monday...

Schedule:

No complaints / requests, so far so good!

Make sure you have looked it over since it did have a few small changes...

[Hutch06]

Camping

Thanks for the camping information and all the work that you and Nuch are putting into this.
Thanks Howie!

[jtower3941]

Lakeland, Fla

Howie and Nuch:

You have put a lot of time and effort into this race. We thank you and will see you soon.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORT

JIM TOWER 118P

[Team 12R]

D Hydro?

East Coast DSH

Mike Lee
Mad Russian
Steve Noury
Scott Clark
Alan Akerstrom
Pete Gevinski
Steve Dunn

Any of you planning on making the trip to Lakeland??

How about the Midwest guys

Tom Smith
Larry Gottschalk

I know I missed a few....

howie,

did you get any feedback on how many D's are attending? a couple covered wagons from oregon are headed that direction. might be room for a little D hydro if there is a class.

[Howie Nichols]

Bill,
I know of 1 DSH here in FL that has expressed an interest, other than that nothing that I have heard.

[Howie Nichols]

Hotels

The long awaited Hotel List is now here...

Some of the prices are up there, but remember that this weekend is pretty heavily booked with events throughout Lakeland and the entire Polk County area.

When booking hotels please use the code word "Lakeland Boat Races."

It may take a day or so for the hotels to get the word that we will be using this code word. This will help our Sponsor track hotel rooms booked by us which is what they need and how they get their funding which in turn keeps us with a sponsor!

Mileage from the pit area to the hotels (in order as printed on the PDF file)

The Bold names are the hotels we have listed as the "Host Hotels" with the Best Western as the Headquarters Hotel"

Best Western - 12.9
Holiday Inn - Lakeland - 6.8
Travelodge - 23.7
Green Gables Inn - 29.5
Stay Plus Inn - 26.5
Ranch House - 18.1
Holiday Inn - Bartow - 11.5
Jameson - 6.9
Stanford Inn - 12.8
Stay Inn - 11.8
Regal Palms - 34.8
Bahama Bay - 35.9

Good luck everyone and see you all in 6 weeks!!

[DtwSailor]

Ray, give me a shout regarding the shot list. I have some equipment and a cameraman available!

Also, does anyone know about how good the Internet coverage is there via cell phone, so maybe we can do some live streaming of the event?

Getting antsy to get in the boat!

-MD