Alright..it has been a long painful process communicating with Gateway Motorsports Park to get this going. I've been talking to them off and on since the beginning of the year, trying to communicate with at least four different people, and rarely get a return call. But I think it is coming together...
The date for the event is September 8th. DDay is working out details for a hotel for the attendees.
The track is having a "Midnight Madness" event the September 7th, but I can not suggest that would be anything that anyone would want to attend. Not with their car, anyway. Usually it is focused toward a young crowd, little or no track prep, and there are several hundred inexperienced racers in street cars with street tires. Not to mention another area with sport compacts doing drifting.
At this time I've been told that we will be sharing the Saturday ticket with a points program. However, we will have our own classes. What classes those are depends on how many people we have and what they are bringing. Clearly, several of the heads-up TR classes will be held. As far as the GS classes, that remains to be seen and depends on cars showing up. We will likely have a jackpot / gambler's race and some bracket racing based on some ET breaks as well.
I will keep talking to the track to make this happen. It is already late in the season to be "planning" an event.
I will say that planning is already underway for a 2013 event, which will include a Friday T&T and a Saturday all-Buick program. However, it may not be at Gateway. The 2013 event should be very racer-friendly, offer on-site RV hookups, and more.
Right now I think we need some idea of car count and classes. IMHO, unless we have at least four cars show for a class, that class would be a waste of time. Maybe DDay has some thoughts.
Let's get the discussion rolling, and some sponsors talking, and revive the Gateway Grapple for 2012 as a starter event that will lead to a much larger 2013 event with a fuller program.