WWSCC Report – Talked about
the event that was just held – UWSAE event. Rulebooks were done. There is a
schedule change. ACE event is this
weekend and then the BEAC event. It
will not be held before Torque Steerer Understeer/Oversteer. The question was raised as to whether the new
rulebook will be put up on the webpage.
There is a technical issue with that and until Karen Babb can determine
a solution it will be done, but it’s not as easy as everyone thinks it should
be. Karl will follow up with
Karen.
A review of the first WW
event was held. Everyone understands
there were several errors that happened and because they are all students
without much experience most of them were understandable. The question was raised as to why this group
always received the first event. This
is important because they need to raise funds to help build their car early in
the season. Karl also reminded us that
BEAC/WW must hold some of the responsibility for the course mistakes because it
was presented at the meeting prior to the event and very experienced people
reviewed it. They gave the group strong
warnings that the course was not going to flow well and they were going to have
issues. The lesson was learned that in
the future it will be necessary to keep this group on a much shorter leash
because they DO NOT have enough experience to run an event independently. WW needs to do a better job of being stern
that course design changes are put in place, or the course will not be
approved.
Equipment
Report – Transmitter does not work. We
also have not replaced the gas cap yet.
Brian will make sure that gas cans are full before we take the bus out
again.
May
19th Practice – Brian and Jess will be out on Friday night helping
clean up and get ready for the weekend.
He will make sure any equipment issues will be addressed. Gretchen will ask Angus about the condition
of the site. Typically when we do this they have it swept. Brian would like the practice friendly to
those that would like time between runs to make changes. He would like to run it like a NT style of
practice where people purchase tickets, and then work in one hour
increments. $4 a run and 6 runs for
$20. There were several questions
raised, and it sounds like Brian has things well thought out and things should
run smoothly. Tim will not be around on
Saturday morning to handle the waivers, so he will be looking for a volunteer
to cover the early position. Packwood
Topo Map - Scott, Jess and Brian spent the weekend in Packwood and did a
complete topographical survey of the site with 600 elevation shots. There are nails on the ground ever 100 feet
in a grid, so we should be able to design a course on paper that actually
matches the surface. They discovered
there wasn’t much elevation change, just a few feet.
First
aid kit & trained resource list – At the last meeting Dick volunteered to
purchase a kit. He did this, but felt it wasn’t worth the investment and sent
it back. He is going to create a
first-aid box and expects to spend between $50 and $60 dollars. He will coordinate with Brian where it
should be stored on the bus. It will
include a simple supply of actual medical supplies, but absolutely no drugs of
any kind.
Noise monitoring &
control in Packwood – We had a contact from a resident in Packwood regarding
the noise produced by our events. She
basically asked what our schedule was going to be, so that she could plan on
being someplace else that weekend.
Because of this Dick would like to make sure that we really look at how
the sound is transferring into town.
This resident lives down by the Chevron station. It was suggested that we park motor homes,
and trailers in the middle section to help block as much of the noise as
possible. Dick would also like Kevin
and Fast Mike to start going into town and monitoring the sound within the
community, not just on course. He would
like to get a better handle on the entire situation, no just at the site. Jodi reminded the group that typically the
PA produces more noise than either tires or exhaust, because of this we should
focus on where we place the PA and also turn the volume down and promote the
fact that we using the FM transmitter.
Although the group felt this was important, it was not going to be only
thing that produces sound. Jerry felt
it was important to start implementing the actual SCCA sound limitations. It
was also discussed that we should research the Washington state RCWs to give ourselves
a good place to start while we are collecting our information. Everyone felt it was important that if we
are going to start putting these restrictions on our events than it would be
better to start sooner than later, and also apply the sound limitations to ALL
sites, not just the site that someone happened to complain about.
Course worker training &
monitoring – Glen proposed becoming
“Chief of Course Workers” if he could find a replacement for Grid. Joel Ferguson volunteered to cover this
position and would be happy to have someone take over the second half of the
day.
Pre-Registration for our
next events – Jodi will be closing registration for event #2 on Wednesday
before the event. This is two days
early because she is going to be leaving town on Thursday. Her plan is to open pre-registration for the
BMP Memorial Event once she closes Event #2.
Timing Information – Last
year Jodi had intended to make a form for people who had not pre-registered, or
had changes to the information they had pre-registered with. That way those people would be in another
line, filling out the form for timing while everyone who pre-registered gets to
be in the main line. This will require
a minor change in our registration procedures, but shouldn’t be an issue. Once she gets the form produced she will
contact the necessary people.