Toyotafest 2013 6th October Castle Hill

The MR2 club of NSW will not be attending the Toyotafest in an official capacity, as the MR2 Nationals in Tasmania falls on the same weekend, that is the official club event (for all state clubs) for October.

That doesn't necessarily mean you won't see MR2 owners there with their cars though.

Oh and I assume you meant 2013.....

I will definitely be there. Picked up my new MR2 AW11 just over a month ago and I live just around the corner from the event xD

I misunderstand the point of respect to the Nationals event when everyone who is going to the event has booked and paid. It is highly unlikely anymore people from NSW will join the Nationals at this late stage. If they do, having the NSW division going to a Toyota car show the week after the completion of the Nationals will not influence their decisions. As for the rest of the MR2 owners of NSW who are affiliated with the club as a subscribed member or not, it would make good sense for the club to take a opportunity when it arises.
 
Why you would not offer this event in a 'official' capacity to its members when most would jump at the chance to represent the MR2 NSW division to the 100's of owners in the Toyota fraternity and non affiliated MR2 NSW members?
 
   

Wow.... Gonna take MR2 Owners Club NSW off my list of clubs to support.
Can now see why this club has fallen previously if this is the kind of attitude taken by leadership roles.
 
If I run a club track day in QLD and on the same day Walter organises a QLD Club day out, I'm not going to get my jocks in a knot over it, I'd support it! The guys that are keen to race are going to race, the guys that are not interested or cannot afford to, will be able to enjoy another club event (Which is better then them having NOTHING available to them).

Aaron you are so far off the mark here it’s not even funny.
 
What you are saying is totally different to the point I was making. I used the example of the trackday challenge to make a point as 2 times before Steve was told we couldn’t support Toyotafest “officially” and he had not seem to understood. I did not say I will be running an event at the same time.
 
I have talked to the organisers of the MR2 Nationals about running a NSW club event on the same weekend as the Nationals and it was frowned upon. As I said, The MR2 Owners club is an Australia wide club . The same exclusion from running an event would apply to QLD, SA, WA and all clubs. Not just NSW.
 
 
Aaron, you say if you organise a day the same day as the QLD club does you won’t care. And that’s fair. The difference here is from that situation is The MR2 club is hosting the Nationals. How can a state branch host an event on the same day as its parent club and not have a conflict of interest?
 
You have to remember the MR2 club is a nation wide brand/business. At work you follow under your company right?, you don’t go out and compete with your own company and still work for them.
 
I hope you understand now what we mean by respect for the MR2 Nationals.
 
As we said earlier, the event I am sure some people will attend to, But we just can't attend the toyotafest officially.

No worries Joel. Don't advocate the event as really don't care what you do.
My goal is to hang out with MR2 owners whether they are member or not. The goal of the trackday which was put together with other MR2 owners and myself is for the same reason. 
In your mind, if that is arrogance, then in your eyes I am arrogant.
 
 
 

steve. I was just putting my position forward on the matter of toyotafest trying to make it clear as to why couldn't officially attend it. the arrogance i refered to was the fact you were told twice that we couldn't officially organse a club event for this and you still pushed at the club saying we shouldn't care about our other event we are running at the same time.

i agree with you that toyotafest is a great oppertunity to advertise the club but as said earlier there are restrictions to what the club can do at times.

I honestly didn't think of the post as an attack. i didn't mean it in this way if thats how you read it i appologise. But nuetral methods of explaining to yourself as to the reasons why did not seem to be getting accross so relating to you so you could understand was the only way i could think to do it.

thanks