WWSCC Report – BEAC Autopilot
weekend before last. Karen Babb did the
course design which was challenging and unique. Not a lot of yee-haw moments, but technical in a strange
way. The council purchased a third set
of timing heads so they now have a spare.
Need to vote on the status of Autopilot. Motion made and passed for Championship status.
National
Tour – (Brian Norton/Jess Lynch) Looking for a Chief of Safety, and also
Waiver. Jerry reminded the group that
if we are offering a Street Tire class it will be very important to make
several announcements and advertise the fact this class will be available. Not making a bigger deal out of it last year
did hinder the number of people running in that class. Brian has ordered the Port-a-Potties and
Dick will confirm that they have been instructed to leave these over the week
for both National Events, and the Evo Schools.
LJ Moffet has agreed to be the Youth Steward, but we will need to follow
up and make sure that he has received the training and/or license that may be
required. The basic contract has been
returned to the office and all is moving forward.
June
23rd Regional Pro – (Scott Miller/Jerry Lamb) We are having
one. Registration should open anytime
and will include two separate events with all regular classes including L1 and
L2 available for the Saturday event.
There will probably be a Pro class, but everyone will be encouraged to
run in their regular classes. David
Lewis says that we do have a course designer.
At that point the Mill will be closed, so we will probably need to enter
the site through the county road on the backside of the property, where we
typically park the Motor homes. We do not anticipate the gate to be open. Given the fact that the site will be
completely closed down we may be able to lessen restriction for the yellow
line. This will open up things to
change several factors like course design, grid, start position, etc. Jerry has not contacted the specialty chiefs
or ordered port-a-potties, but will do that shortly. Angus did state that now that the mill is closed it may be open
for more people to stay overnight, will confirm the details next time he speaks
with Angus. Dick has been contacted by
three out of town people asking for more information on this event, so it has
sparked some interest with outsiders.
This will be the first event in a series of three including the National
Pro Solo.
EVO
School – (Keith Brown) There are currently no Phase One openings, five Phase
Two openings, and no Challenge openings. He has received permission to add an
additional instructor for Phase One, Two and Challenge. He currently has a wait list for all of
these classes, so the spots are filling quickly and will probably not be
available soon. He has contracted with
TS to rent their scales and alignment tools, so they will be available for the
Dial-In school. This will allow much
more bang for the buck for those students.
There will be a ground school Monday night for the Tuesday class, so
anyone thinking about attending that class should keep that in mind.
Pro
Solo – Most of the Chiefs have been taken care of. Oregon region will be covering Impound as they have in the past.
It
sounds like everything is coming together nicely.
Noise monitoring &
control in Packwood – Fast Mike did bring his equipment to the last Packwood
event and took several recordings. He
looked for the loudest spots with heaviest acceleration. He discovered that our cars really aren’t
that loud. On Saturday there were lots
of mid 90’s and some high 90’s. The only car over 100 was Jim Daniels with his
straight pipe. He changed positions on
Sunday and tried to get different types of readings. He actually went down the access road to try and find out how
loud things were at a greater distance.
At that point, he did notice that he was hearing the noise bouncing off
the mountains, but they were not read by the meter. Mike is trying to get more detailed information from the National
Office to see exactly how they are monitoring the situation, but he has not had
any luck with that yet. Many of our
cars would not have passed the restrictions put on the site in San Diego. Dick did find a Washington state RCW, but
due to way it is written it does not apply to our situation at all. It seems that our biggest problem is going
to be the sound bouncing off of the mountains, and unfortunately Packwood is a
community used to a very quiet, peaceful environment and this may continue to
be an issue. Mike will do some
additional checking at the Pro and NT so we can continue to collect data.
BMP Course Design
Guidelines – In early 2004 several cars went off course and both damage to the
cars and BMP were incurred. This
brought attention to the National office.
In June of that year, Bud recommended that we create a committee to help
oversee this situation and get things back under control before we lose our
site. At the December meeting a course
design guideline was created and approved.
Given the course design of the last SCCA event, there was a loop that
allowed competitors to enter the access road at a very high rate of speed and
Bud felt this should be addressed within the current course design
guidelines. Our Chief of Course, David
Lewis would like an opportunity to put together a packet of information. Bud has found the guidelines that were
created in 2004 and would like to make sure that we do a better job of getting
this information out there and available for use by our current course
designers. Dick would like to put
together a seminar that connects all of the Safety Stewards and course
designers on site at Bremerton to help them understand how the actual design
should be applied to keep things safe and sane at BMP. Karen Babb reminded us that one of the very
fundamental parts of designing a course is FIRST putting down the finish, and
NEXT is the start. It is also important
that we have at least 150’ feet of run-off at the finish. Another thing to always keep in mind is that
you should NEVER do anything wicked within 100’ of the finish lights. She feels that almost anyone can get a car
back under control in 100’ and this is a necessity. After much discussion a motion was made and passed to allow David
Lewis to create his packet of information so that it could be reviewed by this
committee and approved before the next event.
T-shirts for Pro & NT –
We need to do something to create more interest in producing the design. Dick would like to present a proposal to our
community. He recommends that we
determine one person who will be responsible for designing and producing the
actual t-shirts. He would also like to
create a three-person committee that can approve and oversee the design because
there are specific design elements that MUST be included like the SCCA logo
size. Gretchen has volunteered to be on
this committee. Scott Miller has the
quantities ordered from last year and will make sure this information gets to
the correct person.
Meeting adjourned at 8:30
p.m.
GOO
Dick would like to discuss
new locations for our Solo meetings and determine how much the group is
interested in paying for meals. Barnaby’s down near Southcenter Mall has a
great space, but the entrées run around $20 a piece. Vince’s was also discussed because they have a very private
meeting space, but they are not willing to give individual checks for parties
above 10 people. Goldie’s on Airport
Way has a great space and is very willing to work with larger parties. Dick is also checking out the Hilton Garden
Hotel in Renton.