Witches Wail - Wichita Region SCCA · BOD members present: Charlene Bet- tinger, Dave Geis, Greg...

RE Report

tor this year. The

incumbent, Charlie

Clark is running for a

second term as Direc-

tor. I’m sure you will

be hearing from them

regarding this and all

of you be sure to vote

when the ballots

come out in the fall.

Speaking of ballots,

we need to start

thinking of who we

want to be officers of

our club next year.

We need three board

members, an RE, an

Assistant RE, Secre-

tary. We will need

chairmen for our

club activities – Solo

II, Rally WAIL, Web,

etc. We need an Ac-

tivity Director and

the list goes on and

on. If you are inter-

ested in running for

an office or being a

Ah half the year

gone. Paul Sherman

has resigned as Solo

II Co Chairman as he

needs to devote more

time to the racing

side of his agenda.

We thank Paul for

his leadership during

the past two and half

years and wish him

the best of luck in his

racing agenda. (I

know for a fact racing

takes a lot of time,

and money.) Paul

will still be helping

Solo II with his

knowledge. Hal

Larcher will take over

as Solo II Chairman.

On another note

Greg Laws has de-

cided he cannot con-

tinue as our Solo II

Steering Committee

Monitor. He, too,

has other commit-

ments that are getting

in the way. Bob

Cummings will be

our Steering Commit-

tee Monitor. He will

be arranging the

time, and location of

the meetings and will

guide the discussion

and topics. If you

have a topic you feel

the steering commit-

tee should address,

please contact Bob.

Now on to our other

items: One of the

members of our re-

gion, Will Huxtable,

is running for Direc-

ReFlections

SCCA Wichita Region July 2004 Volume 04, Issue 6

Witches Wail

Special points of interest:

• BOD Meeting 7/14

• Membership Meeting 7/28

• Results, Calendars, and Schedules

• Mid Div Solo Salina

• Win a Prize!

Inside this issue:

ReFlections 1

July BOD Minutes 4

Event Calendar 6-7

Solo Results 14-15

Rally Report 16

Picture 7

From the Editor 22

YTP Participation Points 5

chair person or doing the WAIL, Web, or even if you are not really interested,

but are willing to take your turn doing any of these things, please get with me or

a Board member so we can get our slate of officers and appointments together.

Please note your calendars to attend the MIDIV Convention in Tulsa in No-

vember, and also to attend the National Convention in January 2005. National

Convention has made some changes to their agenda so we do not have to spend

Wednesday night at the hotel, but can arrive Thursday morning and still attend

all the convention. This will cut down on the money needed for the hotel, hotel

parking and for food. Hopefully, this change will let the price be more reason-

able and more members will be able to attend. If you have never been or even if

you have been to a MIDIV and/or National Convention these are great meet-

ings. They are informative with new ideas on how to do things. These conven-

tions are NOT just for Racers as I often hear. They have seminars for Solo II,

and rally also. They do not slight the Solo II program for the race program. So,

think about, and then mark your calendars to attend these conventions. We will

have fun and learn things also. We will honor our fellow members for their con-

tributions to our club.

We are going forward with the changes we have made in our Solo II program. The new

drive through Tech is working and the new run/work order seems to be going well also.

We have had to be very strict about the waivers for minors, but that also, seems to be

going well.

RE Cont.

WICHITA REGION SCCA

WEB SITEwww.wichitascca.org

Witches Wail

http://www.wichitascca.org

Regional Executive

Charlene Bettinger

[email protected]

(316) 788-3942

Asst. Regional Exec

Greg Laws

[email protected]

(620) 221-0122

Past Regional Exec

Dave Geis

[email protected]

(316) 832-0496

SECRETARY

Carolyn Laws

(620) 221-0122

ACTIVITIES DIRECTOR

Linda Timmons

(316) 832-1369

ASST. ACTIVITIES DIRECTOR

Amy Timmons

(316) 721-6374

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Kellie Barker (316) 871-7113 [email protected]

REGION OFFICERS CHAIRS / CONTACTS

TREASURER

John Houston

[email protected]

(316) 634-2966

MEMBERSHIP

Bruce Bettinger

[email protected]

(316) 788-3942

MERCHANDISE

Jeff Dodds

[email protected]

(316) 648-4564

RACE COMPETITION CHAIR

George Morrison

[email protected]

(316) 722-2872

RALLY CHAIR

Bruce Sargent

[email protected]

(316) 838-1126

SOLO II CHAIRMEN

Hal Larcher (316) 218-0728 [email protected]

WAIL EDITOR

Lawrence Duty (316) 283-6289 [email protected] Hotline: If you need further information on any event listed in

this calendar, call the Club phone (788-6023) and leave a de-

tailed message. Someone will return your call and attempt to

answer your questions.

Membership Meetings: Membership meetings are held on the

fourth (not necessarily the last) Wednesday of every month at

7:30 pm. Our meeting location is the Red Mesa Grill at 756 N.

Tyler - just North of Central on Tyler.

Board of Directors Meetings: BoD meetings are held on the

second Wednesday of each month at 6:30. The meeting location

is at the Sedgwick County Zoo Education Center. Enter the Zoo

at the entrance near the Administration Building. Anyone inter-

ested may attend any of these meetings.

Solo II Events: Setup begins at 7:00 AM (please come help).

Typically, registration is open between 8:30 AM and 12:30 PM,

the drivers meeting is held at 9:30 AM and the first car is on the

Jr. Karts: The Wichita region has a great Junior Solo Karts

program. Pre-registration is required for al Junior drivers.

Contact Rick Knapp (722-2809) for more information

Interested in SCCA Road Racing? Call George Morrison at

722-2872 or attend a Membership Meeting and ask questions!

Race workers are always needed and you can’t get any closer

to the action.

Address Change? So you moved, changed your phone num-

ber, changed your e-mail address, whatever. Let us know!!

Please notify the National office (in Topeka, KS), Charlene

Bettinger (788-3942, [email protected]), and Lawrence

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mailto:[email protected])

. BOD members present: Charlene Bet-

tinger, Dave Geis, Greg Laws, Frank Dir-

inger, Paul Sherman, Andy Timmons,

Kellie Barker, Bill Preheim, and Tom Du-

pler.

Non-voting Club Officials present: John

Houston, Carolyn Laws, Amy Timmons,

Robert Foster, Bruce Bettinger, and Hal

Larcher.

Visitors present: Lu Geis and Brian Meyer.

Dave Geis called the meeting to order.

Secretary’s Report: May 12, 2004 Carolyn

Laws presented BOD minutes. Andy

Timmons moved for the minutes to be

accepted. Seconded by Frank Diringer.

Motion passed.

WAIL Report: Lawrence Duty was out of

town. Charlene Bettinger stated the direc-

tory and Wail have been mailed.

Web Report: Robert Foster presented the

report.

Membership Report: Bruce Bettinger

presented the report. 195 members with

168 voting members. Bruce Bettinger

spoke of various ideas to promote the club.

Bruce and Greg Laws will develop a mem-

bership recruitment flier for review by the

BOD.

Merchandise Report: Hal Larcher has the

merchandise.

Activities Report: Amy Timmons pre-

sented the report.

Solo II events include: June12-13 Midwest

Divisional in Oklahoma City. June 27 Solo

II @ Strother Field. July10-11 Midwest

Divisional in Salina. July 25 Solo II @ Boe-

ing.

Rally events: Ye Olde Loper Map Rally in

June. Lopin-A-Long Rally on July 17. Hot

Springs Rally on August 14.

Club Racing: AVRG Firecracker Grand

Prix XVII on July 3-4.

AVRG Report: Frank Diringer presented

the report. The Driver’s School/Regional

lost money however the Regional/National

made money which allowed the AVRG to

break even so far this year.

Solo II Report: Charlene Bettinger stated

that Hal Larcher has accepted the position of

Solo II Chairman, with Paul Sherman be-

coming an advisor. Hal Larcher presented

the report. The new run/work order has

been accepted well. Greyhound Park is avail-

able for two Solo II events. Bob Cummings

is working on obtaining permission to run at

the Mid America Auto Auction lot. Greg

Laws moved that the Solo budget for the

missed Greyhound Park event to be trans-

ferred to be the event budget for a new event

at the Mid America Auto Auction if that site

becomes available. Seconded by Bill Pre-

heim. Motion passed. Hal Larcher gave

Divisional Solo report.

Treasurer’s Report: John Houston pre-

sented the report. Dave Geis moved to ap-

prove the Treasurer’s Report. Seconded by

Kellie Barker. Motion Passed.

New Business: None

Old Business: Brian Meyer presented infor-

mation and demonstration regarding Solo II

timing software program. He recommended

the system be used for an event prior to deci-

sion regarding its purchase. Brian Meyer

further recommended buying the ongoing

system upgrade option but not the member-

ship module. Brian gave a demonstration of

the potential new system in the lobby after

adjournment.

Motion to adjourn was made by Greg Laws,

seconded by Frank Diringer. Motion passed.

May BOD Minutes

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Volume 04, Issue 6

YTD Participation Points

Well, sorry it’s taken me so long to get Worker’s Points all straightened out and compiled. My “genius”

method of creating an easy to use spreadsheet turned into a nightmare. So instead I turned to the good old

VLOOKUP function to “get ‘er done”. I think everything is correct.

If you can’t get a trophy by being fast, might as well pitch in and get a Worker’s Trophy. That’s my plan!

Tom

EVENT

Rank total Person IROC Solo BoD Meeting Race Rally Wail

1 2650 Duty, Lawrence 50 600 100 200 0 100 1600

2 1750 Larcher, Hal 0 1150 200 0 0 0 400 3 1200 Geis, Dave 50 550 0 150 250 100 100 4 1150 Bettinger, Bruce 0 300 200 200 200 100 150 5 1100 Urbanek, Tom 50 700 0 100 0 100 150 5 1100 Sherman, Paul 0 500 0 150 200 100 150 7 1000 Bettinger, Scott 0 0 100 200 600 100 0 8 800 Cope, Tony 0 650 50 0 0 100 0 8 800 Geis, Lu 50 200 200 100 100 100 50

10 750 Roytas, Rob 0 550 0 200 0 0 0

11 700 Heston, Lonnie 50 300 100 200 0 0 50 12 600 Timmons, Amy 0 0 200 200 200 0 0 12 600 Morrison, George 0 0 0 0 600 0 0

14 550 Dupler, Tom 0 450 0 0 0 100 0 14 550 Foster Robert 0 550 0 0 0 0 0 14 550 Jones, Bryan 0 550 0 0 0 0 0 14 550 Zickuhr, Tom 0 550 0 0 0 0 0 18 500 Bettinger, Charlene 0 0 0 200 200 100 0 18 500 Braun, Mark 50 250 0 200 0 0 0

18 500 Diringer, Frank 0 0 0 200 300 0 0 18 500 Sargent, Bruce 0 0 150 150 0 200 0 22 450 Anderson, Jerad 0 450 0 0 0 0 0 22 450 Anderson, Kevin 0 450 0 0 0 0 0 22 450 Barker, Kellie 0 50 0 200 200 0 0 22 450 Braun, Lolena 50 250 0 150 0 0 0 22 450 Cummings, Bob 0 400 0 50 0 0 0 22 450 Laws, Greg 0 50 0 100 0 200 100

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESD AY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY

1 2 3

RNI/HMRC/

AVRG

4

RNI/HMRC/

AVRG

5

Solo Steering

6 7 8 10

Solo Midwest Div

Salina / Wichita

Salina

11

Solo Midwest Div

Salina / Wichita

Salina

1 20 21 22 23 24 25

Solo II Boeing

26 27 28

Wichita

Membership

Meeting

2 30 31

12

Rally Steering

13 14

Wichita BOD

15 16 17

SRC/HPT/KVRG

Rally

Loping-A-Long

18

SRC/HPT/

KVRG

JULY EVENTS 2004

Witches Wail

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESD AY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY

RNI/GIR/St. L

1

RNI/GIR/St. L

2 3 4 5 6

7

Solotime

(KS-Topeka)

Divisional

Championship

8

Solotime

(KS-Topeka)

Divisional

Championship

16 17 18 19 20 21

RNI/MAM/MVRG

22

RNI/MAM/MVRG

Solo II - WGP

23 24 25

Wichita

Membership

Meeting

26 27 28 29

30 31

9

10 11

Wichita BOD

12 13 14

Rally

Hot Springs

15

AUGUST EVENTS 2004

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Rally

Event Date Event Name - Chair(s)

April 24, Saturday 2nd Annual Road Dog - Greg Laws

July 17, Saturday Loping-A-Long - Bruce Sargent {Ye Olde Loper}

August 14, Saturday Hot Springs - Keith & Judi Pfautz

September 22, Wednesday Challenger - Bruce & Charlene Bettinger

ClubRacing

Hallett Motor Racing Circuit

April 17-18, Saturday/Sunday AVRG Regional/Drivers School at Hallet Motor Racing Circuit May 15-16, Saturday/Sunday AVRG Regional/National at Hallet Motor Racing Circuit

July 3-4, Saturday/Sunday AVRG Regional/National at Hallet Motor Racing Circuit Sept 20-26, Monday/Sunday Valvoline Runoffs - MidOhio

Witches Wail

1/2 8/9 15/16 22/23 29/30

M RNI/MMP/MS

A RNI/GIR/St. L RNI/HMRC/AVRG Solotime

Y (STL-Madison,IL)

(Mother's Day) (Memorial Day)

5/6 12/13 19/20 26/27

J RNI/HPT/KVRG Solotime

U (Ok Region) Mirror Khana XXX

N (Ok City) (Salina)

(Father's Day)

3/4 10/11 17/18 24/25

J

U RNI/HMRC/AVRG Solo time SRC/HPT/KVRG

L (Wichita-Salina)

31/1 7/8 14/15 21/22 28/29

A

U RNI/GIR/St. L Solotime RNI/MAM/MVRG

G (KS-Topeka)

(Divisional Championship)

4/5 11/12 18/19 25/26

S Valvoline Runoffs

E RNI/HPT/KVRG Solo II Nationals MidOhio

P Topeka, KS (9/20-26/04)

(Labor Day) (9/14-17/04)

2/3 9/10 16/17 23/24 30/31

O

C SRC/MAM/MVRG HPT/KVRG SR*C/MMP/MS RR/GIR/ST

T (Pro Event)

6/7 13/14 20/21 27/28

N

O MidDiv Convention

V Tulsa, OK

S = Drivers School Solotime=Divisional Solo II ProV = ProVee

R = Regional (MidAm) r = Regional (non-points) I = IT Tour

R* = Bonus Regional (MidAm) N = National C = HPCCC

GIR - Gateway International Raceway - St. Louis, MO HMRC - Hallett Motor Racing Circuit - Hallett, OK

HPT - Heartland Park Topeka - Topeka, KS MMP - Memphis Motor Sports Park - Memphis, TN

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Witches Wail

Event Date Location Event Chair(s) Solo Safety Steward

May 30, Sunday Raytheon Hal Larcher Edwin Martens

June 6, Sunday Boeing Kevin Anderson / Jared Anderson Brian Meyer

June 27, Sunday Strother Field - Winfield Bill Preheim / Bruce Sargent Bruce Bettinger

July 25, Sunday Wichita - Boeing N-Lot Frank Janssen Paul Sherman

Aug 22, Sunday Wichita Greyhound Park Bob Cummings / Darrin Teeter Jim Harrison

Sept 19, Sunday Raytheon ?? Jim French

Oct 3, Sunday Strother Field - Winfield ?? Dave Geis

Oct 17, Sunday Wichita Greyhound Park ?? Jim Pernice

Nov 7, Sunday Wichita - Boeing N-Lot Bruce Sargent / Bill Preheim Robert Foster

Solo Schedule

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Wichita SCCA Summary Results, #5 - Strother Field - 06/27/2004 Total Entries: 61 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Car # Driver Car Model Time Diff. From 1st ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Super Stock' Total Entries: 1 1Tm 10 Patrick Flynn 2003 Chevrolet 52.137 - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'A Stock' Total Entries: 3 1Tm 18 Jim French 1989 Chevrolet 48.334 - - 2 m 65 Dave Gird 1991 Chevrolet 49.773 1.439 1.439 3 m 24 Tony Cope 2002 BMW M3 52.645 2.872 4.311 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'B Stock' Total Entries: 3 1T 66 Ken Neeley 2000 S 2000 48.929 - - 2 m 45 Rob Roytas 2004 Mazda Miat 51.830 2.901 2.901 3 82 Ken Neely 2000 Honda S200 DNS 51.830 48.929 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'C Stock' Total Entries: 2 1T 35 David Guilliams 1999 Mazda Miat 57.845 - - 2 29 Robert Mayle 2001 Mazda Miat 59.790 1.945 1.945 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'D Stock' Total Entries: 2 1T 32 Beau Boggess 2003 Subaru WRX 51.807 - - 2 46 Aaron Kilgariff 2004 Dodge SRT- 57.477 5.670 5.670 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'E Stock' Total Entries: 2 1T 11 Matt Brown 1979 280 ZX 57.207 - - 2 7 Bennie Rogers 1979 280 ZX 61.176 3.969 3.969 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'F Stock' Total Entries: 2 1T 67 Terry Nunemaker 1998 Ford Musta 54.936 - - 2 6 Phillip Strauhs 1983 Mercury Ca 57.072 2.136 2.136 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'G Stock' Total Entries: 2 1Tm 40 Tom Dupler 2002 Mini Coope 52.831 - - 2 m 74 Jim Schoonover 2002 Ford Focu 54.275 1.444 1.444 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'H Stock' Total Entries: 4 1Tm 13 Lawrence Duty 2002 Mazda Prot 54.444 - - 2Tm 27 Gary Bryant 1988 Honda Prel 55.086 0.642 0.642 3 3 Bobby Clair 1991 Honda Civi 55.151 0.065 0.707 4 m 8 Lonnie Heston 1999 Saturn SL 56.438 1.287 1.994 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'C Street Prepared' Total Entries: 3 1Tm 43 Gary Blessing Sr 1980 Fiat 124 S 52.990 - - 2 68 Gary Blessing Jr. 1980 Fiat 124 S 53.545 0.555 0.555 3 m 44 Chad Kellums 1992 Mazda Miat 54.905 1.360 1.915 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'E Street Prepared' Total Entries: 1 1Tm 47 Paul Foster 1997 Chevrolet 49.312 - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'F Street Prepared' Total Entries: 1 1Tm 5 Bill Prehem 1969 Austin Hea 51.508 - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'C Prepared' Total Entries: 1 1Tm 42 David Estes 1987 Ford Musta 56.884 - - 'E Prepared' Total Entries: 2 1Tm 28 Mike Herrick 1986 Honda CRX 50.823 - - 2 m 69 Mark Braun 1988 Honda CRX 54.192 3.369 3.369

'Street Open' Total Entries: 12 1Tm 56 David Avard 1990 Mazda Pro 50.480 - - 2Tm 62 David Green 1999 Mazda Miat 51.116 0.636 0.636 3Tm 75 Julie Avard 1990 Mazda Prot 51.870 0.754 1.390 4Tm 31 Bryan Jones 1995 Chevrolet 53.062 1.192 2.582 5 m 1 Hal Larcher Chevrolet S10 54.001 0.939 3.521 6 m 79 Richard Sirokman 2001 Mazda Miat 54.091 0.090 3.611 7 m 70 Brent Coppock 1995 Ford Musta 54.264 0.173 3.784 8 76 John Lewis 2003 Ford Musta 55.933 1.669 5.453 9 54 Gary Hovnanian 1999 BMW Z3 56.285 0.352 5.805 10 2 Greg Brink 1996 Chevrolet 59.764 3.479 9.284 11 m 52 David Finley 1997 Lincoln Ma 59.984 0.220 9.504 12 m 53 Matt Finley 1993 Ford Super 62.193 2.209 11.713 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'E Modified' Total Entries: 1 1T 4 Howard Cravens 1984 Nissan 300 58.958 - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Street Touring (Tire)' Total Entries: 5 1Tm 55 Tom Urbanek 1992 Saturn SC 52.398 - - 2Tm 61 Tim Harmon 1999 Ford Conto 54.064 1.666 1.666 3 50 Chris Lawrie 1995 Acura Inte 54.382 0.318 1.984 4 30 Todd Heath 1995 Honda Civi 55.537 1.155 3.139 5 34 Matthew Sosa 1995 Mitsu Ecli 58.838 3.301 6.440 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Street Touring 2' Total Entries: 2 1Tm 19 Jared Anderson 1991 Mazda Miat 52.931 - - 2 m 39 Kevin Anderson 1991 Mazda Miat 54.549 1.618 1.618 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Street Touring X' Total Entries: 1 1Tm 71 Robert Foster 1988 BMW 325is 52.658 - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Street Modified II' Total Entries: 4 1Tm 20 Richard Prestage 1999 Chevrolet 48.898 - - 2Tm 51 Darrin Teeter 1995 Toyota MR2 49.653 0.755 0.755 3 m 12 Paul Gutierrez 1996 Chevrolet 56.754 7.101 7.856 4 49 Chris Gutierrez 1996 Chevrolet 61.211 4.457 12.313 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'F125 Shifter Kart' Total Entries: 2 1Tm 41 Rick Knapp 1999 Shifter Ka 43.722 - - 2 m 22 Bob Cummings 1999 Shifter Ca 44.295 0.573 0.573 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Junior Kart 4' Total Entries: 1 1Tm 17 Blake Teeter Tony Kard DNS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'B Stock Ladies' Total Entries: 1 1T 25 Chrissy Brown 2004 Mazda Miat 56.446 - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'C Stock Ladies' Total Entries: 2 1T 48 Sandra Mayle 2001 Mazda Miat 59.414 - - 2 73 Carolyn Mayle 2001 Mazda Miat 60.343 0.929 0.929 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'E Prepared Ladies' Total Entries: 1 1Tm 80 Lolena Braun 1988 Honda CRX 60.635 - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Fun Run' Total Entries: 2 1Tm 63 Rob Roytas 2002 BMW M3 51.755 - - 2 m 64 Tony Cope 2004 Mazda Miat 53.073 1.318 1.318 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top Time of Day: F125 41 Rick Knapp 43.722

June 6th Solo II – Boeing Before I start writing about the event I want to thank everyone who arrived early to help Jared and I set up and start the Solo at 10AM sharp! It was a great team effort! It’s amazing how much work you can get out of people for a few donuts. Also, a big thanks for posting the results and a lot of great pictures on the web site before I even made it home Sunday. I do apologize for the short runoff after the finish, but several of us missed that and it won’t happen again on a course that we design. This being our first event to chair or co-chair I’ll chalk that up as a rookie mistake! Even though we arrived at Boeing at 6AM sharp, Dave and Lu Geis (Early Birds) still beat us by a few minutes. The day started off really nice with morning clouds and a cool breeze. Later in the morning the clouds disappeared and left us with a beautiful sunny day, but not to hot. The course was hot though, in regards to the fast times. But the fast times enabled everyone to get in an extra lap, which I didn’t hear any complaints about. We tried to design a course to reward the talented drivers, and yet leave room for error for those of us who are less skilled. I think everyone had fun and there were only 7 DNF’s and 103 cones out of 322 laps. It also appears that the course evened out the playing field between classes with the eight fastest cars all being from a different class. Dave Geis on his third and final lap won FTD. Unfortunately for Lu, Dave broke the car. :-( FTD for a car with fenders was Ron Williams driving a Honda CRX in CSP. And Tina Williams was only two seconds behind for a 12th overall fastest time. That CRX looks like a lot of fun! I really enjoyed the orange 66 Mustang driven by Mike Bundy. It looked and sounded great and at his expense, provided us with some entertainment at the start of his third lap where the pony bucked and kicked out its heels, knocking down 4 cones. Easy on the spurs Mike. Including Ron and Tina Williams we had several drivers that drove quite a few miles to Boeing. Joe Silva of Manhattan ran an impressive 32.278 in his ES Toyota MR2, and Mark Hill of Lawrence was driving a power steering-belt-spitting Neon. Hopefully Mark gets that belt problem fixed and comes back again. Mark Dilts also from Salina (I think) got some serious oversteer on his first lap in his SO 1981 Chevy PU. After that first lap he reined it in and got his best time of the day on his last lap. We also have several members that drive a pretty good distance to attend every Solo and we appreciate their extra effort. One of the highlights of the day for me was that after much discussion, Jared talked his mom into riding with him on her first-ever parade lap. And then with the finesse of a conman, or a child sweet-talking his momma, Jared actually got her to ride one lap with him. I guess other than a couple of muffled screams she handled it pretty well. Maybe someday we’ll get her to chick school. When that time comes, I will obviously leave the convincing to my more talented sweet-talking son. Jared and I had a great time chairing the Solo and working with everyone. The only downside to the day was that as hard as my wife and I have worked to raise our son right, I think we missed a lesson on manners. I had to remind Jared that it’s not polite to beat dad in his own car. I’ll have to assign him extra chores for that. ;-) Thanks everyone, see you at the next Solo! Kevin Anderson – 91 Miata

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June 27th Solo II Strother If we don't count the Polish Autocross (gimmick gymkhana) I chaired at Raytheon circa 1994, then this was my first attempt at laying out an autocross in nearly thirty years. When I moved to the desert southwest in 1974, we made a brief run at reviving the Wichita Region satellite club in Garden City. We did have several autocrosses at Leoti, Liberal, Hugoton, & Garden City, but drawing Solo II entries off the left edge of no-where is difficult. I digress, back to the present. There were sixty some entries at Strother Field, for what was supposed to be Maintaining Momentum or Isn't Lateral Acceleration Fun . However it wound up being The Least Crappy Option . I believe there were at least three of us who did not like the course, but mostly I heard polite pleasant comments. Shifter carts are COOL! Bondurant's web site claims their 125cc, 6-speed shifters corner at 2.5 G's and do 0-100-0 in ten seconds. Hell, I remember when Ken Miles ruled the world with a 427 Cobra by doing 0-100-0 in thirteen seconds. WOW! Of the street legal regulars, the fast guys were still fast. Richard Prestage and Jim French traded FTD with each successive run. Jim must be one hell of a shoe, that blue 'vette doesn't even have a clutch! Go fig-ure. Congrat's to both. GOOD SHOW! The weather/rain/storms that were forecast at a seventy percent probability, didn't show up till long after we were done. They did deter a few entries from coming out to play, however. A group of us sat through a real down-pour at a Pizza Hut in Derby on the way home. Had a chance to visit with new (to Wichita Region) solo participants, David and Julie Avard. They are fast, personable, and loaded with southern California ex-perience. We could learn a lot from them. Hope they join us on a regular basis. I showed up at Strother at 6:00 am. Ready to go, organized, check list, everything. Bruce Sargent was al-ready there. Hal, Kim & Kim arrived a few minutes later with the equipment trailer. As I walked through the weeds hiding the traps on the concrete I panicked, I spaced off organized, the check list, every-thing. With the help of Bruce, Bruce, and Tim, we salvaged the course by using the Least Crappy Option method. It was 10:00 am and time for the Drivers Meeting and the first heat. Lo and Behold, everything was set up and ready to go operational. I was overwhelmed. I don't have a clue how to start thanking everyone individually. THANKS TO ALL! Bill Preheim

Volume 04, Issue 6

Monday July 12 @ 7:00pm

RRSC Meeting

Torre's Pizzaria in Old Town Wichita, 131 N. Rock Island

Saturday July 17 1:00pm

Lopin-A Long Road Rally

21st and Amidon in Wichita SE Corner at 1 PM Registration.

First car out at 2 PM. Ends at Benton, Kansas about three hours later.

Good Food and Refreshments there and Interesting 'things' to look at or even

buy! Come out and have a good time and meet and greet. This is a simple

road rally that roams around a while before arriving at Benton. You

have a few questions to answer as you go, too. Is it a history lesson?

I will let you be the judge of that.

Saturday August 14

Hot Springs Road Rally

Lake Afton on the West side.

You can not get lost on these two! Well, maybe not.

Bruce Sargent

Witches Wail

Rally News

Volume 04, Issue 6

PICTURE PAGE Lawrence Duty

RR Gila

Wonder how fast I could do that on my bike? Built from scratch car hauler

Mr. Cooper Giddy-Up

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Will Huxtable of the Wichita Region announces his candidacy for the

SCCA Board of Directors seat for Area 6. Ballots will be coming in Sep-

tember to a mailbox near you. Please choose to exercise your right to vote.

Will's background includes a variety of positions within the Wichita Re-

gion over the past 20 years. Past offices held include RE, Assistant RE,

Activities Director, Board Member, Assistant Activities Director, Ark Val-

ley Race Group board member, Flag Chief. He is currently serving as the

the Vice Chairman of the Midwest Division.

While Will is best known as a flagger at many of MiDiv's club racing

events, he has also competed as a soloist. Primarily warming tires for fel-

low Wichita region member Greg Laws, he managed to finish 4th in FSP

at the recent Gateway to the Nationals Solotime event in St. Louis. He's

been registrar for the last two Solotime events conducted by the Wichita

Region.

Rally can sometimes be an overlooked activity within our club, but Will's

managed to participate in that program as well. Despite Will's driving

skills, his brilliant navigator (and wife) has managed to lead the team to

several good finishes over a number of years. When not actively rallying,

Will can be counted on to help work checkpoints as well. Anyone remem-

ber the Witches' Ryde and the Huxtable family all dressed in costume?

Contact Info:

Will Huxtable

e-mail: [email protected]

(316) 775-7627 (prior to 9:00 PM, please)

Campaign Manager:

Kelley Huxtable

Candidate


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Volume 04, Issue 6

Witches Wail

I know that sometimes the rain gets tiresome but I cannot complain about the temps. Been very lucky at all the events I have attended so far. Went to OKC for the Divisional and had a great time. Great course, wonderful hosts, and a very well run event. And the weather was cloudy but that saved us from frying. Been very busy at work flying all over the country, and working on all my cars. I have seven now, hmmm please someone buy the one in the For Sale section, oh and my boat too please. As a matter of fact will make a great deal on both as a package. Was hoping to go to Hallett this weekend but don’t think that is going to happen now. Soon I will get down there, as someday I hope to pro-gress to be able to participate in a road race. I enjoyed the Solo at Strother, just my kind of course, the grocery getter loves the twisties. I was already to go to Nebraska and sign up for the Open Road Race there, but dang it they were all full up already. Will have to sign up earlier next year. It sounds like the new software is working great in the trailer, at least I did not hear of anything going wrong and only nice things. Still think we need the short range FM like the drive-in so we could hear times on our car radios. Went to a car show at Rock Away Beach near Branson, it was a Rod show and they had over 100 cars there. The one thing that really caught my eye was a car carrier built from scratch out of old pickups shells, it was a mid-engine, four door crew cab, cus-tom interior and paint. (See pix on picture page). I cannot imagine the time it took to build this monster. The Hot Rod Power tour went through near my mom and dad’s, they said traffic was backed up for miles and miles. Next year I would like to get a group of us to attend that, if anyone is interested please let me know. Been working on the Mazda P5 to see if I can learn more about tun-ing a car. In HS we don’t have a lot to work with, but have been researching shocks. I know I need to learn more about tires, pressures, temps, etc. Hmmm maybe we need a clinic for us new guys, any volunteers? This will probably be my last year for HS though, I am either going to modify the P5, and it won’t be eligible, or I may even purchase something else to run, that can also be a road racer. Please no calls trying to sell me your cars, (see above). Just now started to post on the SCCA web boards. Some interesting info there, would anyone be interested in having our own forum, I am sure I could get that hosted for us if there is enough interest. I think it is easier to exchange ideas and comments that way, tell me what you think. Last and not least, I think when I retire, and that may be soon, I might go to Mac College and enroll in auto restoration, man I could save a ton of money. Once again please send your contributions and pictures for the Witches Wail, it has been slim pickings lately, I am getting down to maybe having to post pictures of my vacation soon.

Lawrence Duty

From the Editor

Volume 04, Issue 6

Pos. Car Driver Car Model Time Factor Pax Tm Lag Tm From 1st

1m SS 10 Patrick Flynn 2003 Chevrolet Corvette 52.137 *0.836 = 0.000

2m AS 18 Jim French 1989 Chevrolet Corvette 48.334 *0.828 = 0.000

3m AS 65 Dave Gird 1991 Chevrolet Corvette 49.773 *0.828 = 0.000

4m AS 24 Tony Cope 2002 BMW M3 52.645 *0.828 = 0.000

5 BS 66 Ken Neeley 2000 S 2000 48.929 *0.826 = 0.000

6m BS 45 Rob Roytas 2004 Mazda Miata Turbo 51.830 *0.826 = 0.000

7 BS 82 Ken Neely 2000 Honda S2000 DNS *0.826 =

8 CS 35 David Guilliams 1999 Mazda Miata 57.845 *0.811 = 0.000

9 CS 29 Robert Mayle 2001 Mazda Miata 59.790 *0.811 = 0.000

10 DS 32 Beau Boggess 2003 Subaru WRX 51.807 *0.794 = 0.000

11 DS 46 Aaron Kilgariff 2004 Dodge SRT-4 57.477 *0.794 = 0.000

12 ES 11 Matt Brown 1979 280 ZX 57.207 *0.804 = 0.000

13 ES 7 Bennie Rogers 1979 280 ZX 61.176 *0.804 = 0.000

14 FS 67 Terry Nunemaker 1998 Ford Mustang Cobra 54.936 *0.803 = 0.000

15 FS 6 Phillip Strauhs 1983 Mercury Capri RS 57.072 *0.803 = 0.000

16m GS 40 Tom Dupler 2002 Mini Cooper S 52.831 *0.781 = 0.000

17m GS 74 Jim Schoonover 2002 Ford Focus SVT 54.275 *0.781 = 0.000

18m HS 13 Lawrence Duty 2002 Mazda Protege 5 54.444 *0.776 = 0.000

19m HS 27 Gary Bryant 1988 Honda Prelude 55.086 *0.776 = 0.000

20 HS 3 Bobby Clair 1991 Honda Civic 55.151 *0.776 = 0.000

21m HS 8 Lonnie Heston 1999 Saturn SL 56.438 *0.776 = 0.000

22m CSP 43 Gary Blessing Sr 1980 Fiat 124 Spyder 52.990 *0.837 = 0.000

23 CSP 68 Gary Blessing Jr. 1980 Fiat 124 Spyder 53.545 *0.837 = 0.000

Top 30 Pax Final Results, - Strother Field - 06/27/2004

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