The Starting Line - NEOHIO SCCA · 04.01.2015 · The lower, April 2014 Edition Page 2 R.E. & Club Office Jim Green 330-963-6405 [email protected] Assistant R.E. Open Treasurer

Area4Information 3

Dates to Remember 5

Board of Trustee Minutes 8

Solo News 10

Safety Day 11

Classifieds 12

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The BlowerNewsletter of Neohio Region, SCCA

April 2014

The Starting LineREport by Jim Green

Volume 61, Issue 4

Annual Tech and Driver Physicals

April 19 • 9:00-Noon

If you are surprised to see that the REport is being written by me, I’m sure you are not the only one. Unfortunately, Pete Sedlak has resigned as RE of Neohio Region due to some health issues. He did a great job as Regional Executive and I hope his health improves so he can again participate in the region activities. Thanks Pete for everything you did for the region.

The SCCA National Convention has come and gone. There are reports on the SCCA website about what transpired there. From what I have heard and read the new venue was a challenge, but the convention was successful. The BOD interviewed candidates for the position of SCCA President during the convention and Lisa Noble has been chosen as the new president of the club. Lisa has been a member of SCCA for many years and served in many different capacities. She was a racer, a member of the BOD and most recently was the interim president of the club.

April 19 will be the Nelson Ledges Safety Day, Driver physicals and Annual Tech. Bill Stewart is also planning a PDX for that day. There is a flyer later in the Blower.

On April 3, there was an organizational meeting for the Neohio solo group to start the setup for the upcoming season. Ralliegh and Velma Boreen attended the meeting to offer some

assistance and information. They have spent much time and many hours on the road visiting different regions and divisions already this year. Bill Snow has arranged for three different sites for solo events this year, Lakeland Community College, Lake County Speedway, and Medina County Fairgrounds. Look for the schedule of events for times and places.

I’m sure many of you have heard of the devastating fire in downtown Garrettsville, Ohio on March 22, 2014. A whole city block burned to the ground which included a clock shop, a hardware store, and a very active food bank. Plans are underway by Neohio and Nelson Ledges to put on a benefit race weekend to help food bank and Garrettsville non-profit organization help recover. The date has not been decided yet, but we would like to include all of the regions that have raced at Nelson Ledges in this event. Information will come together quickly for this event and I will try to get it out to everyone as quickly and completely as I can.

As always feel free to contact me with any ideas you have. The next trustees meeting will be May 6 at the Captains Club in Eastlake.

Jim Green

Happy Easter! Happy Spring!

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R.E. & Club Office Jim Green 330-963-6405 [email protected]

Assistant R.E. Open

Treasurer Peggy Dietz 216-235-5124 [email protected]

Recording Secretary Tara Oram 216-272-2487 [email protected]

Membership Secretary Jeff Blumenthal [email protected]

Trustees Roland Hahn ‘14 614-307-0307 [email protected]

Jim Pracker '14 440-708-6177 [email protected]

Greg Vandersluis '14 440-552-2502 [email protected]

Dorothy Harrington, '15 216-390-2856 [email protected]

Jim Leagan ‘15 440-343-2039 [email protected]

Aj Roderick '15 [email protected]

Dan Koplow '16

Stephanie Hahn '16 440-478-5984 [email protected]

Scott Lunder '16 440.637.5044 [email protected]

Specialty Chiefs

Novice Licenses Jim Pracker 440-338-8121 [email protected]

Registrar & Pointskeeper Dorothy Harrington 216-390-2856 [email protected]

Tech Inspection Maurice LaFond 440-946-2207 [email protected]

Timing & Scoring Stephanie Hahn 440-478-5984 [email protected]

Sound Control Gary Bargerstock 724-527-5686 [email protected]

Pit & Paddock Bill Stewart 888-927-9806 [email protected]

Flagging & Communications Jim Shoemaker 330-322-8940 [email protected]

Emergency Services Denny Freeman 330-355-1167 [email protected]

Rally Chair Greg Lester 330-836-9003 [email protected]

Solo Chair Bill Snow 216-659-1179 [email protected]

Rally Cross Chair Pete Sedlak 216-289-0840 [email protected]

Newsletter Editor Laura O’Neill 330-467-4472 [email protected]

Track Contacts

Nelson Ledges Road Course Kerrie Bartzi or Scott Lane 440-548-8551 [email protected] [email protected]

Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course 419-884-2295

Monthly Meetings

Neohio Board meetings are held the first Tuesday of each month. Any exceptions will be published in The Blower.

Meetings are held at 7:00 PM in the private room at Captains Club, 34820 Vine St., Eastlake, OH. Members and guests are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Membership meeting dates and times are published in The Blower.

The Blower

The Neohio Blower is the official publication of the Neohio Region, Inc., Sports Car Club of America. Material in this issue may be reproduced by other regions of the SCCA without specific permission, if proper acknowledgment of both source and author is given. All other reproduction requires specific permission of the Neohio Regional Executive. All photos are copyrighted to the owner and may not be reproduced without expressed written permission of the owner.

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Contributors:Marvin Gray, Jim Green,Tara Oram

Great Lakes Division website: http://www.greatlakes-scca.org/

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Steve Harris Director – Area 4 Great Lakes Division 937 438 3005 (0); 937 681 4484 (C) [email protected]

Information for Area 4 Members – March, 2014

Dear Area 4 Members, Wow! What a whirlwind past 30 days. First, a visit to SCCA Enterprises in Denver, followed by a BOD Planning Committee meeting in Colorado Springs, CO. followed a few weeks later by five days at the SCCA National Convention in Charlotte, NC.: and then our GLD Spring Training Meeting in Findlay, Ohio. Here are the highlights. Presidential Search The Presidential Search Committee, on which I serve, has been meeting on a regular basis to review resumes and vet candidates. Final candidates were invited to address the BOD on Wednesday March 5th of Convention week. We hope to announce something very soon (look for the white tire smoke). National Convention Awards Great Lakes Division members racked up some impressive honors: Northwest Ohio Region………………. Solo Cup Winner, Small Region Todd Cholmondeley, Cincy Region… Club Racing, Martin Tanner Award Tom O’Gorman, Cincy Region……… Solo, Driver of the Year Jerry Cabe, Cincy Region………….. Member of Excellence Bob Hubbard, W. Michigan Region…. Hall of Fame Pete Hylton, Indianapolis Region……. Hall of Fame As the Member of Excellence award winner, Jerry Cabe also receives an all-expenses paid trip to any motorsports event in the world; pretty cool huh? And Pete Hylton looked great wearing an incredible Scottish kilt – as only an MG lover could. He is moving to England and then retiring in Scotland and would welcome visits. Congrats to our winners March BOD Meeting The National Convention is always a very busy meeting time. We were active in the following activities:

Reviewed Staff reports; Reviewed financials; we beat our planned loss due to excellent investing of reserve funds again Met with all Program boards; SEB, CRB, RXB and RRB Participated in various Town Hall meetings Met with Regional Executives and/or their assigns (in no particular order, other than proximity to my seat!):

o Steve Alger, Saginaw Valley o Dayle Frame, Western Michigan o Jim Suhr and Jerry Stem, Western Ohio o Barry Baker and Larry Hall, Ohio Valley o Dave Dusterberg, Indianapolis o Jamey McDaniel and Dave Melton, Kentucky o Tony Brown, Cincinnati o Patrick Barber, Detroit

My apologies if you were in the room and I missed you; thanks for attending. SCCA Website There is an upgrade coming soon to the SCCA website. We all agree that information is sometimes difficult to find. Hopefully, these improvements will make the site much more user friendly. Watch for it and let us know your thoughts.


FIA Worker Accreditation There is a movement afoot by the FIA to train and accredit F & C workers. Obviously, the SCCA is one of the largest and well-trained volunteer/worker corps in the world. But, F & C is organized differently in every area of the country. What impact this movement might have on us is unclear at the moment; just wanted you to be aware of it. Membership SCCA finished 2013 with 42,235 members; a 1,756 or 4.3% gain from 2012. The Solo program continues to lead the Club in attracting new members with 37%, Club Racing is next with 32%, Pro with 16%, RallyCross with 8% and Road Rally with 7%. From an age standpoint, 54% of the new members and 34% of all members are 35 years old or younger. So, you ask, how does this affect me? Well, just this small uptick in members returned about $50,000 more in dues to our Regions. That is right. More new members, especially participating members, add to the spiritual and financial health of our club. So, let’s get out and recruit! Topeka has all kinds of tools to help you. Need some help? – Just ask! MSX Show This year, our National Convention was held in conjunction with the Motorsports Expo Show (MSX). It is always dicey launching a new show. Unofficially, I heard 82 booths were sold. It didn’t take long to walk through the exhibits, but the speakers and seminars offered visitors a good sampling of race related topics. The feedback was good and we expect this show to expand greatly in the future. Thank you Mazda for sponsoring the snacks and beverages Friday night! National Corvette Museum Motorsports Park With everything else going on this month, I almost forgot to mention that Interim President Lisa Noble and I met Mitch Wright, Manager of the new NCM MSP, at the museum in Bowling Green, KY a few days before the sinkhole (it wasn’t our fault!), to discuss SCCA’s participation at the track. Good progress was made and we met Mitch again at the National Convention to clarify some details about possible partnerships. We are getting close to bringing these ideas to the BOD for action. The track will open in September 2014, and will include the road race circuit and 16 paved acres for Solo. SCCA Enterprises One of my assigned duties this year is to be the BOD Liaison to SCCA Enterprises. I visited the Denver shop on February 13th along with SCCA Chairman of the Board, John Walsh. I also met with the entire Enterprises Board at the Convention for about 3 hours. These are exciting times for Enterprises. The old 1.9 L Ford motor is reaching the end of its life and a new 1.6 L motor from Ford has been designated to replace it. The new motor is much lighter and has more horsepower. Initial testing has shown the new GEN3 motored cars to be much faster than current cars (like in 4 seconds a lap). The conversion process will begin this summer with all cars converted by 2018. Ramping up for this change, securing good parts vendors, while providing excellent technical support, is the challenge. The staff, led by Erik Skirmants and Mike Davies, along with the Enterprise Board, had done a fantastic job getting ready for this program. Let the good times roll. Spring Training, the ides of March Thanks to Dan Hodge and Val McCammon for putting on an excellent GLD Spring Training Event. We had over 90 attendees and it was especially sweet to have participation from our Solo and RallyCross programs along with our Club Racing folks. Thanks also go to Raleigh and Velma Boreen, ZB Lorenc, Ray Jason, Steve Kammeyer, Rhonda Knapp, Lauri Burkons, Larry Dent, Mark Sommer, Barry Baker, Mick Walker, Jerry Cabe, Dorothy Harrington and special guest Doug Gill. Again, apologies if I missed any of the presenters and organizers. We are already planning next year’s meeting at the same venue. SCCA Foundation Raffle The SCCA Foundation announced a new raffle this year – an all-expense paid VIP trip to the US Grand Prix in Austin, TX plus five usd grand ($5,000). Go here for more information: https://scca.raffleready.com/off-to-the-races-raffle As always, should you need any assistance, please let me know. Yours for a better SCCA,

Steve


Dates to RemembeRMonday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

apRil / may 2014

March 31 April 1

7 P Trustee Mtg /Comp Board Mtg, Captain's Club, Eastlake

April 2 April 3

Solo Committee Organization Meeting

April 4 April 5

Twilight Tour, www.detroit-scca.org

April 6

April 7 April 8 April 9 April 10 April 11 April 12 April 13

April 14 April 15 April 16 April 17 April 18 April 19

Annual Tech & Physical Day, Nelson Ledges

April 20

Easter

April 21 April 22 April 23 April 24 April 25 April 26 April 27

April 28 April 29 April 30 May 1 May 2 May 3 May 4

May 5 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 9 May 10 May 11

May 12 May 13 May 14 May 15 May 16 May 17 May 18


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Neohio Region, SCCA SPECIAL MEETING Minutes | March 18, 2014

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Specialty Chief

Solo By Chairman Bill Snow

Street SurvivalBy Chairman Pete Sedlak

Watch FaceBook for additional information on Street Survival. Planning an information meeting later this month.

6/7-6/8/2014–CASTinStone& LettersofIntentNationalRallies (tentative), MI. Detroit Region, SCCA - GLD Rally Championship event. www.detroit-scca.org.

7/19-7/20/2014–TwinNational Rallies, Bloomington, IN. Indianapolis Region, SCCA

9/5/2014–PressOnRegardless (POR),Indian River, MI. Detroit Region, SCCA - GLD Rally Championship event. www. detroit-scca.org.

10/4/2014–ClareColorTour,Clare, MI. Detroit Region, SCCA - GLD Rally Championship event. www. detroit-scca.org.

10/18(?)/2014–JohnnyAppleseed Rally, Bolivar, OH. Neohio Region, SCCA - GLD Rally Championship event. www. neohio-scca.org.

10/26/2014–LakeErieCovered BridgesRally, Ashtabula, OH. Misery Bay Region, SCCA - GLD Rally Championship event. www. mbrscca.com

12/6/2014–PavementEnds, Lansing, MI. Detroit Region, SCCA - GLD Rally Championship event. www.detroit-scca.org.

Upcoming Rallies

The Solo Committee is excited to announce the 2014 Neohio SCCA Solo schedule.

We’ve added two new venues this year and are working on a charity event to close out our season.

We start the season with a “shakedown” down event. Additional details will be released very soon regarding this event and it may be limited to a certain amount of entries. Stay tuned and be ready to register!

2014Schedule:

May 4 - Shakedown at the Speedway (Lake County Speedway)

June 1 - Medina County Fairgrounds

June 29 - Lakeland Community College

July 13 - Lake County Speedway

July 27 - Lakeland Community College

August 10 - Lake County Speedway

August 24 - Lakeland Community College

September 28 - Lakeland Community College

Fall Event TBD

The Solo Committee can always use your help. Even if it’s just for one event - volunteering makes make our region and the Solo program stronger. Contact Bill Snow @ 216-659-1179 for more details.

SoloPlacesofInformation:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NeohioSccaSolo

Newsletter sign up: http://eepurl.com/tZL8r

Website: http://neohio-scca.org/solo/

Bill Snow 216-659-1179, [email protected] www.RadAir.com/Wickliffe

The annual SCCA Tech and Driver Physical Day will be held at Nelson Ledges on Saturday, April 19th from 9:00 to noon.

For a physical appointment contact Debbie LaFond at [email protected] or 440-946-2207.

Tech Inspections are on a first come, first serve basis. Weather permitting, they will be done by the registration area at the track. If you have a new car or one that needs an additional logbook, please contact us in advance as well.

SCCA Annual Tech and Driver PhysicalsNelson Ledges • April 19 • 9:00 to Noon

Membership Address, Phone, E-mail Changes?

Contact Jeff Blumenthal [email protected]

NeohioCompetition DriversIf you raced over the winter, remember to submit your non-Neohio results to Dorothy Harrington by October 1, 2014 to be eligible for the Neohio Region Championship, Rookie of the Year, and Driver of the Year.

Laura O’Neill397 Apple Hill DriveSagamore Hills, OH 44067

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