Expo 2023 - Community Collective

[audipwr1]

What track : location would be best yield?

Buttonwillow?

Lime rock?

What was the weekend participant fee last time?

I’ve rented out tracks a few times so am happy to try to be helpful

[coolhandluke]

What track : location would be best yield?

Buttonwillow?

Lime rock?

What was the weekend participant fee last time?

I’ve rented out tracks a few times so am happy to try to be helpful

These will be classic, it depends. I'm trying to be openly transparent so forgive my IT nature in responses.

The Expo committee volunteers has served the Type R community (who track or enjoy attending as a guest) by selecting tracks that were worth ~4x vacation days and the travel time, with respect to family/school/summer schedules, and region. We regularly had people from WA/CA drive to VA/SC, NC/SC to CA, or FL to MI/WI, or every corner to IA.

To clarify two statements above, we were not limited to weekends and as a non-profit, track selection was not focused on dollar yield, but yield in terms of paid drivers (community members) on track. Doespike/others crunched the numbers to keep the costs as low as possible for the community. The drivers paid for the event rental, including grid & corner workers/fire, and that was it. The committee volunteered to run the event, sell merch, which paid for hosting this site/non-profit fees/etc. One will notice there are no ads on this site.

Safety was also a top concern, even if that meant some (more affordable) tracks didn't make the selection criteria. I'm happy to say both a car was never stolen and no one was seriously injured in events spanning 2001-2018 when we pulled off two events in 2018 and the volunteers needed a break. We didn't know there would be a world wide pandemic in 2020....but here we are.

[g3teg97]

Brand new member living in the Lansing, MI area, wanted to say that I would be happy to assist with planning Expo 2023 if there is any plan for the event to be held in the Midwest. I've been collecting vintage Acura's and Honda's for several years now, however just picked up my first ITR and couldn't be happier. As I have seen in some of the previous threads, the car is well known to the community (98-0022), and I just couldn't pass up a car with such an interesting history!

Thanks for allowing me to join the community,
greatlakesvintageITR
IG @greatlakesvintagehonda

The others......
1988 Honda Accord LXi, 5-speed manual
1988 Honda CRX Si
Soon to be acquired 1988 Integra Special Edition
1990 Acura Legend Coupe
1991 Honda Civic Si (Tahitian Green Pearl)
1996 Acura NSX-T
2000 Honda Civic Si
2000 Honda Prelude
2023 Civic Type R #428

Welcome to the community! You have an AWESOME collection! If you haven't already, you should make a thread with pictures of these cars. I would love to see your collection in your mini-Honda museum you are building! haha

[coolhandluke]

Brand new member living in the Lansing, MI area, wanted to say that I would be happy to assist with planning Expo 2023 if there is any plan for the event to be held in the Midwest. I've been collecting vintage Acura's and Honda's for several years now, however just picked up my first ITR and couldn't be happier. As I have seen in some of the previous threads, the car is well known to the community (98-0022), and I just couldn't pass up a car with such an interesting history!

Thanks for allowing me to join the community,
greatlakesvintageITR
IG @greatlakesvintagehonda

The others......
1988 Honda Accord LXi, 5-speed manual
1988 Honda CRX Si
Soon to be acquired 1988 Integra Special Edition
1990 Acura Legend Coupe
1991 Honda Civic Si (Tahitian Green Pearl)
1996 Acura NSX-T
2000 Honda Civic Si
2000 Honda Prelude
2023 Civic Type R #428

Welcome to the community! You have an AWESOME collection! If you haven't already, you should make a thread with pictures of these cars. I would love to see your collection in your mini-Honda museum you are building! haha

I agree.

[Dot_tom]

I've always wanted to attend an ITR Expo. My car attended the year after I sold it. Hopefully, I can attend one of these in the future.

[jayhaire]

I'm leaning a reunion style event for this year...

[coolhandluke]

I'm leaning a reunion style event for this year...

I agree that a non-track focused event will help serve many in the community who never tracked, no longer wish to track their Type R, etc., while still bringing together the community which was half the fun of Expo.

The biggest challenge today with an event is the lack of committee volunteers.

[g3teg97]

The Type R community was always spread across the US, Canada, and still has a thriving base in EMEA. The recent track day in France, as an example. I agree with your point though, due to underserving those outside the Chicago, Northeast, and Southeast regions, the Type R Expo attendees were limited from the midwest, California, and Pacific Northwest regions.

Do we have a list of where people are? Might be something to use that gives us a list of tracks to go to. Unfortunately, it would be stupid to go to Willow Springs if 10 people from CA sign up but we have 100 east of the Mississippi (just an example). Obviously, we don't need to provide exact locations or if we do, maybe it's only accessible by certain people in our group? Or Maybe this is something we do, I have no idea. I'm just thinking out loud here.

[coolhandluke]

I understand the question, but it's actually simpler. Where ever the event is hosted, the local community must primarily support. Ex: CA = majority of attendees should be CA, if southeast (MS), then southeast majority supports, etc. This trend is why some events have canceled and shifted towards a new location in the past, ie 2002 & 2011.

The reason this is simpler is a location should be chosen after a track is secured. I agree, the local community plays a role, but if the goal is to host an event centered around a track event, the track needs to be secured first. Where as other events will pick a date & location, name a track, only to learn that track isn't actually available.

The planning of a Type R community reunion gets tremendously easier if the community prefers an event no longer centered around a track event.

[audipwr1]

Cheap seats here but track event I am in - big parking lot meet honestly probably not

Get its harder - I wonder if you could round up 20 folks to pay for tickets on the day you book the track to ensure you don't take a loss? "Founder club" - make those folks a T-shirt or something and charge 2x. Ill do one of those