The annual Grissom work day is this Saturday, May 25th. We will meet at Grissom at 9am and start working then. We will be bringing concrete, water, wheel barrels, a mower, a blower, a generator and assorted tools to work on the concrete.
Please bring with you gloves, tools to work concrete, shovels, wheel barrels if possible, leaf blowers, mowers and possible gator/four wheelers.

We plan to:
1.) Repair all of the holes with concrete.
2.) Sweep the entire surface with a rented street sweeper
3.) Mow the grass
4.) If we have enough people and time, paint the guard house near the gate

Please pass this along to anyone who may be able to help us - even if it just for a few hours.

If you can help, please contact myself or Velma Boreen (wiznby1973@yahoo.com)

Chris Brake IndySCCA Activities Director - chrisbrake@rocketmail.com

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To everyone who witnessed my losing my temper yesterday at Grissom, I am sorry. What I did was un-called for and hurt the Region and upset several people. I have no excuse for my behavior and can assure you I am taking steps to make sure it will not happen again. I have already made two attempts to apologize to the party I directed my anger at and have already apologized to one other person who was in the bus and had expressed concern. The next issue of Clutch Chatter's R.E. Report will also be an apology to the entire Region and the individual I lost my temper with.

Also, I am going to back away from my involvement in our Region's Solo program.

If you believe further action needs to be taken against me, do not hesitiate to contact the Board of Directors, I will not fight any action the Board feels it needs to take.

Again, I'm sorry to everyone I have offended and/or upset and to the Indianapolis Region SCCA for not holding myself to a standard it deserves.

Dave Dusterberg

** extra note from Sam Crites Assistant RE **

I was not at Grissom, so cannot comment on the particulars of Dave's losing his temper. I will however comment on the fact that Dave has worked tirelessly for years to support the region in all of it's activities. The burden of doing the business of running the region has always fallen on a few dedicated members, it's a shame the load is not more evenly distributed amongst all of our members.

In the past I, along with just about everyone I know, has said things or done things that they have regretted.

I will continue to support Dave as RE and hope whatever the issue was will not linger and we can get on with promoting our sport.

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Conor Daly has put together a t-shirt commemorating his drive to race the Indy 500 with AJ Foyt's team. Foyt doesn't have a great selection of merchandise for the race which means Conor has to try and get T-shirts done himself. Unfortunately the shirts cost quite a bit of money if he wants to order a lot and try and sell them at the track so what he's doing is seeing how many people want them so he can order a certain number.

It is $15 per shirt. Conor's brain has been in a blender this week trying to get everything ready for Indy practice because he leaves Saturday and won't come back till May 12th and he will be in the car the following morning.

Conor doesn't know when the shirts will come but I know it will be early in May.
If you want to get a t-shirt, Ben Newburn is taking orders and collecting money.

Contact Ben on his phone at 765-271-2327.

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The Indy Region Rallycross program is in desperate need of your help. Dave Christie, the owner of Friendswood Golf Course (our current site) has run into some issues with the zoning board. He is in the process of working with them to come to an agreement but long story short, we may have limited or no use of the site for events. This is where you come in. We are on the hunt for other locations to host events. The site can be either grass, dirt or gravel, needs to be fairly smooth and with few obstacles. The current site is approximately 7 acres so we'd prefer at least 6+ acres (but bigger is always better). Our goal is to have 2-3 sites we can rotate using through the season. So if you have, or know someone who has, some land that could work and would be willing to let us rent, please let me know at indyrallyx@gmail.com.

In the mean time, please keep watching Indyscca.org for updates on our upcoming events in case we have to change site locations, postpone or cancel events.

Travis Camp
Rallycross Chairman

In a meeting with the Mayor of Connersville, Mayor Urban and the Chamber of Commerce are completely behind hosting a Tire Rack Street Survival school at the Visteon plant. The event is planned to take place on June 15th. The necessary preparations for the event have just started so please keep visiting for more information. We will need volunteers as well helping to spread the word to get as many participants as possible.

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (March 2, 2013) - At the SCCA National Convention started off by inducting into the Hall of Fame several motorsports legends such as Bobby Rahal, Skip Barber, Carroll Shelby, Bill Noble and Andy Porterfield.

Later that evening, no one was more surprised than Raleigh Boreen, the night’s master of ceremonies who was surprised with the Woolf Barnato Award. The Barnato Award is the Club’s highest honor, presented to the member who has made the most outstanding long-term contribution to the SCCA. Boreen, who has been active in the Solo community for more than 30 years and currently serves on the SCCA Foundation supporting the Tire Rack Street Survival teen driving program, was presented with the honor by last year’s winner, Dick Templeton.

Congratulations Raleigh!!! Well deserved!

July 13th and 14th Indy SCCA will be hosting a double National Road Rally. We will need approximately 20 volunteers all day, each day to help with check points. Headquarters is in Bloomington. Our rally program has come a long way, please help us keep it this strong and even continue to grow!

If you can volunteer to help, or would like more information, please contact
Chuck Hanson at dtcgh@att.net

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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.