Reply to "Concorso Italiano 2009"

For those that haven't followed this real close, the financial issue is worthy of note:

THE Concorso is now up to $125 for EARLY registration (through May 31), which allows two people to enter in the car. Raises to $175 after that date.

The NEW event has a $50 per car and driver only early registration (though May 31), with an additional $25 per person entering in the car. Raises to $65 and $35 after that date.

Early/late costs for two people in the car are thus-

$125/$175 at Concorso
$75/$100 at La Dolce Vita

You can easily do the math and realize you'll have to budget higher to attend Concorso.

Most of us know how entry to Black Horse was for the old Concorso - tolerable at best. None of us know how the entry to either of the new events will work out. The new La Dolce Vita event at Black Horse is in a new section so I imagine entry roads will be similar but different. The new Concorso golf course is on the main highway from Monterey to Salinas - the main Laguna Seca Raceway entry road - and that road can be a REAL crawling nightmare at times.

Concorso says they are having a dedicated entry for vendors and exibitors, but a Google look at the golf course left this concept rather unclear to me. The Clubhouse is the upper, "B" marker on this photo. There is one main road to the course entry which can be accessed from either the highway or South Boundary Road to the North, and one potential entry to the far SE corner of the course just off the highway (just off the edge of this photo). Now S Boundary Road is a road for Laguna Seca entry that comes off General Jim Moore Blvd was/is the entry road for Black Horse. I see no other options other than these two.

George, can you perhaps contact them and try to learn just where/how they are doing entrants' entry at the new location?

I'm leaning to the new event at this time. We all admit, themselves included, that Concorso blew it last year.

This old saying keeps coming back to me:

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Larry