Is COTA nuts?
04-09-2013, 01:50 PM
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Is COTA nuts?
I just got off the phone with them about the 2013 F1 race. I wanted to come down in my motorhome and stay at the track. The very nice person that I talked to told me that they have full hookups along the main straight for $15,000.
$15,000!!! WTF? I asked if they had anything else, as I was expecting the cost to be about 1/10 that, but was told that's all there is. I ended with telling them that I did not want to participate in the event, just watch it.
$15,000. Can't get that out of my head. Guess that I might not be going afterall. Really wanted to stay at the track.
$15,000!!! WTF? I asked if they had anything else, as I was expecting the cost to be about 1/10 that, but was told that's all there is. I ended with telling them that I did not want to participate in the event, just watch it.
$15,000. Can't get that out of my head. Guess that I might not be going afterall. Really wanted to stay at the track.
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Retired Club Racer & National PCA Instructor
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04-09-2013, 04:16 PM
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Larry,
They may have come down. A buddy inquired last year and got about what you got except you also had to buy 6 full tickets and maybe even something like that $1000 preferential purchasing thing. In the end he said it would have been more than he paid for the 996 he drives.
West
They may have come down. A buddy inquired last year and got about what you got except you also had to buy 6 full tickets and maybe even something like that $1000 preferential purchasing thing. In the end he said it would have been more than he paid for the 996 he drives.
West
04-09-2013, 06:53 PM
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It sounds like this place is going to have to have the come to hesus moment when they realize everybody hates them before they wake up a recognize their customer service and customer relations management policies and skills need lots of work. Think Barber in the beginning. Everybody's chit stinks. Even COTA's.
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04-09-2013, 06:59 PM
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It sounds like this place is going to have to have the come to hesus moment when they realize everybody hates them before they wake up a recognize their customer service and customer relations management policies and skills need lots of work. Think Barber in the beginning. Everybody's chit stinks. Even COTA's.
from my experience there they a friendly and trying to do the right thing but just clueless as to how a track is supposed to operate. I think the real boneheaded decisions are coming from senior management/ownership.
04-09-2013, 07:33 PM
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I just got off the phone with them about the 2013 F1 race. I wanted to come down in my motorhome and stay at the track. The very nice person that I talked to told me that they have full hookups along the main straight for $15,000.
$15,000!!! WTF? I asked if they had anything else, as I was expecting the cost to be about 1/10 that, but was told that's all there is. I ended with telling them that I did not want to participate in the event, just watch it.
$15,000. Can't get that out of my head. Guess that I might not be going afterall. Really wanted to stay at the track.
$15,000!!! WTF? I asked if they had anything else, as I was expecting the cost to be about 1/10 that, but was told that's all there is. I ended with telling them that I did not want to participate in the event, just watch it.
$15,000. Can't get that out of my head. Guess that I might not be going afterall. Really wanted to stay at the track.
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04-09-2013, 08:29 PM
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04-09-2013, 08:40 PM
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Montreal is more fun. When I started going in the early 90s, there were scads of fantastic general admission viewing spots, you wouldn't want to buy a seat to sit in one place, but they've obscured many of those with advertising, but it's still a far better place to attend an F1 race.
I'm happy the US has a GP but I don't think this one will be any more permanent than Sebring, the Glen, Detroit, Las Vegas, Long Beach, Phoenix or Indy.....
Bernie needs to go, but as long as countries (country ? wtf it's a city) like Singapore will pay WHATEVER FOM wants.....
I'll go to New Jersey before I go to Texas.
I'm happy the US has a GP but I don't think this one will be any more permanent than Sebring, the Glen, Detroit, Las Vegas, Long Beach, Phoenix or Indy.....
Bernie needs to go, but as long as countries (country ? wtf it's a city) like Singapore will pay WHATEVER FOM wants.....
I'll go to New Jersey before I go to Texas.
04-09-2013, 08:45 PM
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