WWSCC Report – Not a lot
happening since we are done with the season.
January 19th will be the date for the Coneheads banquet. The only minor drawback is that it could
potentially be a playoff game day if the Seahawks actually progress far enough
along, but there is a very small chance of this happening due to various
factors. The fallback date would be
Sunday the 20th, but the plan is to not advertise this and leave it
for the 19th. The rules
meeting is next Monday the 19th at Goldie’s. This is a change since it is typically held
on a special date, but it will now be included in the regular monthly meeting.
Weekend Membership Program
– Dick presented a letter that he wrote to the National office regarding this
new program. There is a small typo where
data is being referred to as 2008 but it is actually 2007 as stated in the
prior sentence. Dick will be calling Duck Allen to determine his feelings about
the situation. Dick had not been
receiving much feedback from our region board members until the meeting last
week and apparently this is going to be a difficult program for several regions
around the country. Bud commended Dick
for his efforts for a well written letter but reminded us all that SCCA does
not respond well to data and feels we will be better off if we get the support
of those higher up.
NEW BUSINESS
All suggested rule changes
must be presented at tonight’s meeting.
The vote will be held at the December meeting after authors are allowed
the opportunity the make any revisions after tonight’s discussion. NO new rules will be taken under
consideration at the December meeting.
2008 Supplemental –
Proposals
1.
Add the
following paragraph to Section 21. SCORING of the NWR Solo Supplemental Rules:
Competition Runs: The first
three runs at any given event are considered to be the “competition runs”, and
only these three runs will be scored for the event and for the year-end
awards. Other runs allotted for the day,
at the discretion of the event chair are NOT scored although the times will be
made available to the competitor.
The
rationale:
Three
runs are the norm at Solo events including Divisional, National Tour and the
Solo National Championships. It is
appropriate to adopt this standard for the NWR regional Solo series.
When
more than three runs are allotted, auditing of the times can begin while the
later runs are performed. The number of
runs possible depends on many things including the number of entries, hours of
daylight, course length/run time, weather, etc. and is at the discretion of the
event chair. These non-competition runs
are practice runs and can allow opportunity to take passengers, try a different
car setup, different driver, etc.
Per
Section 7.3 of the National Solo Rules, “Each driver shall be allowed at least
three official timed runs per course.
Only the fastest official run per course will be scored.”
2.
Ladies Index
Class
Section
15.
Combine
most Ladies Classes into two indexed Ladies classes, Ladies Index Stock (SL),
and Ladies Index Non-Stock (NSL). This does not eliminate the existing Pax
Ladies classes which would remain as the upper level or Pro class. It does not include Street Tire Ladies.
Support
There
were a total of 22 ladies that entered one of the classes that would be affected. Of these only 5 attended enough events to
quality for a season trophy. 3 in Stock
and 2 in Non Stock.
Drifting Event Supplemental
rules – A set of supplemental rules was presented by Russell O’Conner for the
pilot NWR Drifting program. A discussion
was held and it was determined that the rules created for Drifting by National
Office in cooperation with San Francisco Region SCCA and Middle Georgia Region
SCCA are “official” and must not be changed.
He can add to these rules in the form of the supplemental rules, but
nothing can be deleted, specifically the fact that entrants must be 18 years of
age or older to participate. Dick
reminded the group that since this was a pilot program we will be a little more
lenient and expect that things will change as the year progresses.
Meeting adjourned at 8:10 p.m.
GOO