July 2013 Checker - Central Florida Region SCCA

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New Members Clark McKinney District 7 District 1 Jan Barr Franklin Chaney Margaret Dalrymple Deborah McKinney Andrew McNamara Jay Payson Mark Gergely Rich McCarthy James Shoemaker Robert Ledwell Justin Payson District 8 Christopher Metzger Brandon Payson Patrick Sides Kenneth Regnier Scott Pilato Larry Vanscoy Cole Pilato District 9 Troy Pilato Wendy Fuller District 2 George Poelker Mary Lenz Zoila Kenny Yanira Rivera Robert Lenz Sr. Alan McLain Richard Woodley Beverly McLain District 10 District 4 Joyce Bakels District 3 William Adkins Matt Germino Don Cross Dennis Ferrara Codye Jumpingwolf Rafael Diaz Steve Mason Eric Diaz District 5 Jon Walker Jose Duenas Scott Gray Ahitor Gaubeca Peter Hutter Chuck Kilgore Ted Waller District News Distrtict 1 The June BOG was a long one. It ran until 6pm. News from the BOG touched off updates from others as well. Here are some of our discussion highlights. Our contact person for Daytona negotiations has changed. It was Mary Morris. It will now be Jennifer Young. The popularity of our PDX program could eventually lead to a dedicated Daytona weekend running a school type course, like is used at the April event. The hitch is the PDX group will have to develop their own workers for such an event. Speaking of workers for Daytona; if you are a driver, crew, or family member in club racing, and would like to do some flagging/ corner working but can never do it on a CFR club racing weekend, there may be an opportunity for you. We are being asked to staff more events at Daytona than in years past. I'm referring to events like HSR, Porsche club, Italian cars, Chump cars, all sorts of other types of sports car events and test days that use the Daytona track. Our regular licensed workers cannot staff all of these 'other' events being asked of us now. It is important that CFR gets people to staff these events, to maintain our good standing with Daytona. As 6 drivers, you will be working towards keeping your Daytona entry fees for CFR race weekends as low as possible. If you are interested, please contact Flag chiefs Jim Hooker, or Ron Offutt now. Their info is in The Checker and on the CFR website. They will keep a list of interested people to contact when these other events are coming up. If you are interested in having a test day at Daytona on the Friday before a club racing weekend, talk to your fellow drivers. We would need at least 100 cars to participate to make it worthwhile. If you are interested in this and think you can get enough of your fellow racers to show up, let the Race Board Chairman know about two months in advance of the event. This has to be arranged when we submit our schedule and apply for the sanctioning numbers. Daytona is going to be remodeling the grandstands and tower in the coming months. A recent majors event in June- summertime long daylight time- still did not finish on time running their proposed number of groups and victory laps etc. So it is becoming more obvious to the majors organizers that what we have been telling them about their schedule being too ambitious for the July 2013
shorter January days here in Sebring is fact. IMSA/GrandAm integration is underway. CFR 2014 The SCCA Runoffs are going to a moving locations schedules for DIS and Sebring are in place. At every year format. East coast, Central, West coast. Sebring, there may be some location changes on the Tentatively the Runoffs in 2015 may be held at 12 Hour paddock side - tire companies may be Daytona. moving to the far end of the paddock. Their current site near the drive over bridge causes some On the long course at Sebring, there will be some congestion. Our Treasurer and Financial Advisor changes in the paddock. The tire suppliers and tech report that the Region is in solid financial shape. are going to be moved down to the opposite end of Solo's program continues to improve. They have the paddock. Moving eastward. Tires and impound 50-150 entries attending their events. They will activities were creating too much congestion for begin holding events again at Brooksville for the people going and coming over the bridge, and to the west coast contingent. RallyX continues to hold fuel depot. events and averages 23 cars per event. They have At the June Sprints race, a new generation 3 Spec sites in St. Lucie and East Bay and would like Racer was being demonstrated by running with the additional locations near the Orlando area. group. It is speculated that as these become Re-elected to serve another term: RE - Chuck available to drivers who want to switch over, they will Dawson, Asst. RE - Lee Hill, Secretary - Robin all run together with a class designation difference. Ragaglia, Treasurer - Walt Williams. Pamella Perhaps similar to SM & SM5 I am not a tech MacGregor was elected Assistant Treasurperson however. er/Bookkeeper. Thanks to all for your volunteer Our overall car counts at CFR events was down a service! little in this past fiscal year. That will be reflected in Districts 1,3,5,7,9 will elect Governors this year. our budget planning for this coming year. The local Nominations for Governors and Lt. Governors are Sebring vendor that we rented the shower trailer due to the Club Secretary by October 14. from for the workers at the 12 hour event the past several years, has sold that unit. It has been moved At our district meeting, Solo reported that Brooksville far away because of this sale. So we are back to was very successful. The event was the first there in having to come up with ideas to plan for this once a two years and was sold out at 60 drivers and 10 year necessity. guests. The site attendance is capped at 70 without additional security. All drivers got 3 dry runs and The last bit of news from the BOG is that our Solo some ran in the rain for their 4th run. Two more program is active and doing well. events are planned there - July 28th and in August. Elections for governors of odd numbered districts Robin Langlotz - Director, reported that the national are coming this fall. New governors will be seated at format will be changing in 2014 - there will be no the annual meeting in December as usual. Info on double events. For licensing, you will count races, the annual meeting, and where to make hotel not sanction numbers. There was continuing reservation is on the CFR website. discussion about the Majors and Daytona Mini-Pro As always, we’re always interested in seeing more events. written articles submitted by members to put in The News of Note: Runoffs for 2014 will be at Laguna Checker. Seca, 2015 - Daytona International Speedway, 2016 Dave Fredrick - Mid Ohio. District 3 held their regular monthly meeting at Rossi's Pizza on S. Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando with Governor Bill Martin presiding. We had our usual mix of those interested in racing and solo as well as our officials and workers attending. The June 22 BOG meeting was recapped. Daytona will be undergoing renovations but that is not See you at the track! expected to impact our activity there. The Fran 2014 National Convention will be in Charlotte. The trade show will target the individual buyer as opposed to large companies. Annual Meeting - We continue to receive monetary and product donations. A big THANKS! to everyone for your support. Check for updates on our web site and in The Checker. July 2013 7
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Page 9 and 10: SHAMELESS RECRUITING: Worker count
Page 11 and 12: SOLO Championship Points as of July
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Page 19 and 20: dramatic car chase was intense. McQ
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