alphamale;107806 wrote:
2) Our country is moving towards ("Equal pay for Equal work") That should be extended to equal pay for equal tracktime.
Sigh, been moving towards it since the 1970s, and before. Maybe someday we'll get there.
Agree with the track price vote, as mine was the same.
Whoever suggested nesba hosting an all-women's trackday...it'll likely never fill. There simply aren't that many women into this sport. Fishtail used to do an all-women's school at Loudon once a year. They did fill it, but I don't know what they consider full, how much it costs to rent Loudon compared to tracks around here, etc. If you try for a women's day and it doesn't fill, then you open it up to men, the women who signed up only because it was a women's day aren't going to be happy. Reg Pridmore hosted an all-women's CLASS at Loudon in '95 and filled it. He tried to do subsequent ones, but couldn't get enough women. As a compromise, he tried to have a "ladies day" class filled with close to equal numbers of men and women, the idea then was to have all the women in one group, men in a second group. Problem with that was now you've got a huge disparity in ability. That didn't work, so he ditched the entire idea.
To you guys who have wives who want to try this, tell them to just c'mon out and jump in there with the guys.
Or, if a woman really wants to go to an all-women's school as the first track experience, here's the only option I'm aware of. The Women's Riding School that I think was associated with BCM Ducati, then Fishtail Riding School, is now affiliated with Penguin and hosts a day once a year at Loudon.
http://womensridingschool.tripod.com/