Kart Makes and Hotel Updates December 6, 2011
A few changes that we want to mention as we head into the quiet winter. The first is that we’ve added fourteen common kart chassis manufacturers to the vehicle dropdown list to help make it easier to add karts to your garage. While any driver can always use the “Other…” option to enter anything they want, seeing their brand listed provides a warm fuzzy that no blank text field can match. We curate this list to keep it reasonable in length but please let us know if we’re missing any major brands. Karting, both indoor and outdoor, is become a major event category for us. We just recently helped Performance Racing Industry manage the Red Bull Kart Fight event that featured top karters and international race stars!
Also released last month was an update to our hotel program. We have been trialing a different layout for events held at Thunderhill Raceway in Northern California and have rolled out those changes to all venues. The sidebar now lists potential hotels with a thumbnail, quality rating and estimated price for the dates of the event being viewed.
Occasionally we received reports of hotels coming up that were nowhere near the venue. In one instance, a poor HPDE participant booked a hotel an hour away because our partner did not have any inventory near the track! As a result, we switched to a geolocation API that allows us to make sure the hotel is within a close radius of the venue or otherwise does not return any listings.
This work was primarily done by a new member on our team, say hi to Josh!
December 10th, 2011 at 9:00 am
Our club uses Arroyo Seco Raceway Deming NM (and other out of town track) and chooses one of the two most convenient hotels based on the best deal we can get. That one gets called “race central” If Motorsportreg provides 2+ options can we somehow designate race central?
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December 10th, 2011 at 1:08 pm
Rick – not yet. We just added this but we do intend to let you flag one as your hotel of choice so it floats to the top. Great question and good to hear you’re interested in that. Thanks!