Exciting news as we gear up for the 2024 Lake Garnett Grand Prix Revival. We’ve made some changes to the event segments for this year, which many of you have been requesting for the past several years and that will provide more options for track time. If you are planning on participating, we highly recommend that you read through all of this carefully.
First and foremost, all event segments are a-la-carte and all of the track groups will have sessions on BOTH Saturday and Sunday. You can participate in as many or as few as you like, on one or both days (full-competition Groups E & V are the exception as they are still two-day groups).
Let’s go through all of the changes:
REGISTRATION – OPENING EARLIER
We’ll be opening registration at 6:30am on Saturday and Sunday beginning in 2024, hopefully allowing a little more time for participants to get their registration packages, get their cars in place, and get themselves to the driver meetings.
GROUP R – Rookie – 60 MPH
This group is still for 16-17 year old drivers and 1st timers only, and is limited to 60 MPH. As in previous years, drivers in this group must be accompanied by an instructor / guardian / parent (over age 30) who will help ensure that track rules are followed. However, in 2024 Group R will run concurrently with Group A, so be aware of this if you are planning on sharing a car with another driver. We will be separating the two groups on the grid and rolling Group A out first. The biggest benefit to all this is that Group R drivers now can run on Sunday as well!
GROUP A – 60 MPH
We’ve added Group A sessions on Saturday this year. Group A will run concurrently with Group R, so be aware of this if you are planning on sharing a car with another driver. We will be separating the two groups on the grid and rolling Group A out first.
GROUP B – 80 MPH
We’ve added Group B sessions on Saturday this year.
GROUP X – 100 MPH: REDESIGNATED AS GROUP C
The Saturday 100 MPH previously known as Group X has been redesignated as Group C, the same as it is on Sunday.
GROUP H – HISTORIC
Group H still has one session on each day, but participants can now select to run on one or both days, and the entry fee has been adjusted accordingly.
AUTOCROSS
No changes to the Saturday morning autocross format for 2024, but be aware that if you are running any Saturday track sessions, you cannot also run the autocross. You’ll need to choose one or the other.
FRIDAY TOUR & CRUISE – CANCELLED
Due to waning participation in recent years, we’ve elected to cancel the organized road tour. That doesn’t mean that you can’t come down with your group of pals and drive your classic cars around the town and Anderson County. In fact, we encourage it. The local merchants really appreciate the early-birds and the townsfolk love seeing the cars.
One thing to note is that while we are adding the additional track groups to the Saturday portion, they have only 50% of the capacity compared to Sunday (when we have B1/B2, C1/C2, etc.), SO IT’S IMPERATIVE THAT YOU REGISTER EARLY IF YOU WANT TO RUN SATURDAY as those groups will sell out fast!
And don’t forget that any entry into either the autocross or a track session gets you FREE ENTRY to the Saturday car show on the square!
