Sweepstakes has given us the opportunity to raise funds for the Buggy Alumni Association by auctioning off a unique experience this raceday. See the races from the best seat in the house, the lead truck.

The details of the auction go like this:

• General
  • All heats will be auctioned simultaneously
  • The bidding will start at 9am EDT Friday April 10th
  • Bidding will end at 10pm EDT Monday April 13th
  • Each heat will have a $10 minimum bid
  • The minimum bidding increment is $1
  • You may specify a maximum amount you wish to bid for any heat. The site will automatically increase your bid in $1 increments as needed until your maximum is exceeded by someone else.
  • Payment must be received before winners take their rides. Credit card payment will be available and is strongly prefered. Cash and Check will also be accepted at the races.
• Prelim Heat specifics
  • If any person wins the auctions for more than one heat, they will have the option of retracting their winning bids for all but the highest priced heat. If they decide to withdraw their winning bid for one of the lower priced heats, the next highest bidder will become the winner.
• Finals Heat specifics
  • Because the specifics of the finals heats are unknown, bidders will be bidding for the right to have first pick of the finals heats. Runners up will have 2nd, 3rd pick, etc.
  • There will be only two things to bid on for finals: Men's Finals and Women's Finals
  • The top 5 bidders for the Men's Finals will have the opportunity to select a heat in order of their bids
  • The top 3 bidders for the Women's Finals will have the opportunity to select a heat in order of their bids

Suggestions, discussion, and requests for clarification can be made in the forum

We are, of course extremely thankful to sweepstakes for giving us the opportunity to use a spot in the lead truck to create this opportunity and to raise some money so that the Buggy Alumni Association can pursue its mission to support buggy.

Fine print rules

• If two people specify the same maximum bid, and the auction ends without any higher bids, the person that entered their maximum bid first will be the winner.
• The end time (10pm EDT Monday April 13th) is fixed. There will be no extensions to allow for last minute bids. Get your bids in early and make use of the max bid feature!
• Any heats that get rained out or otherwise cancelled will just void the auction for those heats. Of course, if winners of canceled heats want to make their donations anyway, we won't complain.
• Winners should be present at the top of hill 2 at the end of the preceding heat. Failure to show up in a timely manner will result in forfeiting the ride. We can't be the cause of any delays, so the Buggy Alumni Association will have to be conservative in our estimation of "timely manner." Be there!
• The Buggy Alumni Association and Sweepstakes reserve the right to refund donations from and refuse a ride to anyone that is drunk or otherwise unable to safely ride in the back of a truck.
• Sweepstakes also reserves the right to cancel rides and have the us refund donations if they need to for any reason.