Team SCCA, A bit of a slow news month, but here is the April Newsletter.

I did not include information about the Divisional Driver’s School scheduled for May 11-13 at Gingerman. Verne Wandell and crew have been working overtime to restructure this event to make sure GLD does not lose our shirt. As of now, only 6 cars are signed up to attend. Look for news about this event this week. If we have an open test day on Friday, we will need to get the word out ASAP to our racers as to availability and cost.

I am heading to Colorado Springs for the BOD Planning Committee meeting May 16 – 20 and to Topeka for a BOD meeting May 30 – June 3. There should be quite a bit of info to share after these critical meetings.

Thanks,
Regards, Steve

From Indianapolis Motor Speedway's Website:
Car Clubs Can Enjoy Super Weekend Deals With New Corrals

Car club members who want to display their prized vehicle and meet fellow automotive enthusiasts can take advantage of one of five Car Corral packages offered by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the inaugural Super Weekend at the Brickyard on July 26-29.

All five packages include tickets, passes to the Car Corral in the IMS infield, IMS merchandise coupons and other perks for the historic event, which features NASCAR Sprint Cup, NASCAR Nationwide and GRAND-AM Road Racing on the same weekend.

Car Club members who purchase any Car Corral package also can drive a lap around the famous IMS oval Monday, July 30 in their passenger cars.

Package prices start at $50 per person and are available by (800) 822-INDY or by visiting IMStix.com/promotions and ordering with the promotion code B400CC.

Four thrilling races will take place in three days during the Super Weekend, with action on the famed IMS oval and road course during the same event for the first time.

GRAND-AM races for the Rolex Sports Car Series and Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge will take place Friday, July 27 on the 13-turn 2.534-mile Grand Prix road course. The action will shift to the 2.5-mile oval Saturday, July 28 with the inaugural NASCAR Nationwide Series race at IMS, followed by the Crown Royal Presents the "Your Hero's Name Here" 400 at the Brickyard NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race Sunday, July 29.

Car Corral participants will park in groups separated by car manufacturer or marque. This will create great opportunities for car club members to meet and spend time with like-minded enthusiasts and also enjoy some good-natured ribbing of fans of rival manufacturers.

Package details:
Thursday-Friday (July 26 – Nationwide practice, July 27 – GRAND-AM) Thursday
and Friday General Admission ticket and Friday Car Corral parking pass
IMS dash plaque and souvenir
$5 discount coupon on IMS merchandise, $15 Track Scan rental coupon
Driver meet-and-greet, club name on video boards
$60 per person ($95 value)

Friday Only (July 27 – GRAND-AM)
Friday General Admission ticket and Friday Car Corral parking pass
IMS dash plaque and souvenir
$5 discount coupon on IMS merchandise, $15 Track Scan rental coupon
Driver meet-and-greet, club name on video boards
$50 per person ($85 value)

Sunday Only (July 29 – Sprint Cup race)
One Race Day Reserved Seat ticket in Northeast Vista Turn or Southwest Vista
and Sunday Car Corral parking pass
Two IMS souvenirs
$5 discount coupon on IMS merchandise, $15 Track Scan rental coupon
$100 per person ($140 value)

Super Weekend #1 (Thursday-Sunday)
Thursday, Friday General Admission ticket, Saturday General Admission or
Reserved Seat ticket, Sunday Reserved Seat ticket; Car Corral parking pass for
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
IMS dash plaque and souvenir
$5 discount coupon on IMS merchandise, $15 Track Scan rental coupon
Driver meet-and-greet Friday, club name on video boards
$190-250 per person, depending on General Admission or Reserved seats

Super Weekend #2 (Friday-Sunday)
Friday General Admission ticket, Saturday General Admission or Reserved
Seat ticket, Sunday Reserved Seat ticket; Car Corral parking pass for Friday, Saturday, Sunday
IMS dash plaque and souvenir
$5 discount coupon on IMS merchandise, $15 Track Scan rental coupon
Driver meet-and-greet Friday, club name on video boards
$180-240 per person, depending on General Admission or Reserved seat

LET'S DO THIS!!!!
Here's what I propose: I want to get as many of us to do Friday as possible, all 400 members of our Region would be awesome but if we could get 50-100 would make a big impact and be quite the show. I'd also like to see as many of us bring our competition cars or at least our toy cars to display, leave the family truckster at home!
We can show up early, stake claim to a good viewing spot, throw up some pop-ups, fire up a grill or several, watch some great sports car racing, and have a great time! We need to take action on this soon as corral space is limited.

If you are interested in this Club Day Out opportunity, contact me at: ddusterberg@indy.rr.com

Bob Pierson of Grand Am contacted us looking for members of our Region interested in working the Grand Am race. The following is an excerpt from his letter to us:

"USAC is going to be supplying a group of F&C personnel to work the Grand AM race on July 27TH. Among the perks that we have worked out for the workers is each one will have access to 2 Weekend Grandstand Tickets if they would like to attend the Nascar portion on Saturday and Sunday. I have attached the worker letter that is also on the worker sign-up site - www.usacworker.com. I think we have a nice package of support items for the workers. We are not using a large group, so if anyone is interested they should sign up early."

You heard the man, if you want to be as close to the action as possible without being in a car, get to it and contact USAC via the supplied link!

Due to the Spring Solo School not being held here in Indy (Have no idea where it is to be honest! If you find that, let me know!), the Solo Annual Tech will be done at the first three solo events. As of now there are no plans for a pre-season tech party, but if there is, we will have that posted ASAP!

You can go online and order any of their embroidered items with our
logo on it.

We have also joined the SCCAGear Region Affiliate Program

What does that mean to us?

For every sale that is received at SCCAGear using the banner on our
website we will receive:

Either 2% of the sales in cash OR
3% of the sales in invoice credit or gift certificate.

The banner ad is just over to the left of all pages, just under the other menu selections.

The votes have been cast and the Election Results for 2012 are as follows:

RE - Andy Welden
Asst. RE - Charles Lemeron
Secretary - Dick Powell
Treasurer - Rich Lankford
Membership Chair - Stephanie Stribling
Activities Chair - Dave Dusterberg

The elected directors selected the At Large Directors listed below:

Lee Miller
Geoff Chambers
Chuck Hanson
Chris Brake
Sam Crites

Congrations to our new BoD and we wish them much success!

Next BOD meeting scheduled for March 8th at O'Tooles. Everyone is welcome to attend and the food is really good!

The National and Pro Solo Tour schedules just came out! Snagged the email and posted it here in case anyone missed it.