How does your club fund track events membership dues or sponsors

[Shannon Whitehead]

#556039

As you know, we hold monthly virtual meetings for all to attend. We present resolutions for how future money is to be spent. Members can voice an opinion prior to the board vote.

We have a sponsorship of the region and sponsorship of specific events. For the money, each has criteria that is agreed upon.

Interested to hear how others handle the issue.

[Bruce H.]

#556043

Viperenvy said:
As you know, we hold monthly virtual meetings for all to attend. We present resolutions for how future money is to be spent. Members can voice an opinion prior to the board vote.

We have a sponsorship of the region and sponsorship of specific events. For the money, each has criteria that is agreed upon.

Interested to hear how others handle the issue.

Do you have any sponsors specifically donating for a track day where they want that track day to be promoted as being sponsored by them? Or is it such that board or the general membership are free to direct some or all of the sponsorship funds to be used as they see fit?

[Shannon Whitehead]

#556053

With our limited experience, it has been board direction.

[Shannon Whitehead]

#556067

We tend to use the money towards a very nice sit down Christmas party at a country club or nice restaurant. We invite the sponsors and their significant other to join us. We also ask our members to have their viper warranty service and any Dodge, Chrysler or jeep serviced with the dealer.

If the dealer insists on a track day then I would do and perhaps include a nice catered lunch so those not running can still enjoy the day watching.

[Bruce H.]

#556082

^Does your region ever have club track days? Each of the ones we have are actually followed by a patio meal at a local restaurant so non-tracking members can participate as well. Thank you.

[Shannon Whitehead]

#556084

We haven’t done track days as the cost to each member can be high and with the track insurance added its just not something most want to do. I am looking at joining the SCCA which does a once a month track day at Road Atlanta and Atlanta Motorsports Park. Membership is $165.00 so more affordable, however you end up going out with other drivers

[Bruce H.]

#556087

We don’t run our own track events anymore for the same cost-prohibitive reasons. We simply join other track organizer’s events, negotiate a reduced club member price, give a one-time club rebate to offset member’s cost, and plan to fund that partially with sponsor funds. We expect this will be much less costly for the club overall.

[Shannon Whitehead]

#556098

Looking forward to seeing your group in Miami for NVE4.

[Bruce H.]

#556121

Our club members all had to cancel our registrations and reservations due to Covid and all the cross border travel restrictions/bans and quarantine requirements. First NVE my wife and I will have missed 🙁

I was feeling so bummed I just ordered a bunch of track tires and I’m happy to report that I’m starting to feel a little better!

[Shannon Whitehead]

#37280

Our directors are considering using our Dodge dealer sponsorship dollars towards funding other type of club events rather than for track events as we have always in the past.

Is it an over-whelming common practice for dealers to specifically want their sponsorship funds to be used to support club track programs or have some found it successful to attract dealer sponsors for meals or some other activities? I’ve always assumed the big dealer money wants to be associated with sponsoring Viper track days but at least one other directors feels it would be more equitable to be spent elsewhere so the majority of members who do not track their cars would benefit.

I recently spoke to the president of one large region who said he had never heard of a member complain that sponsor funds and membership dues were directed to track events despite less than 25% of members participating in them. That actually did surprise me a little.

I’m also looking for other’s feedback on whether attracting dealer sponsorship requires them to use it for track events, or whether they can use those funds as the club chooses.

Thank you,

Bruce

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