Perry maintains a staff of 20 traveling officials to ensure constancy and experience. Working with a database of about 500 volunteers, Perry secures the necessary staffing for all 20 CART events. He starts organizing for the new season in December of the preceding year, communicating by letter with each person on his list. We get our people from SCCA, Winners Circle, friends, that's how we go about building volunteers. We've had everything from morticians to switch-board operators.
Overseas races can be a bit problematic, due to language barriers and inexperience.
Australia presents no such difficulties, as he has a good base of people there, but he adds two additional paid officials for Brazil and Japan. This season's newest event in Chicago presented a unique challenge. It's a new event. I had too many people, so I had to choose volunteers on the number of days they were able to attend. I took four days over those who could only attend three.