Pan Am Region SCCA

Minutes of the May 5, 2008 Members Meeting

At

Fuddruckers @ Mesa & I-10.

 

 

The meeting began at 7:15 p.m. on Monday, May 5, 2008

In attendance: Daniel Acevedo                   Dave Lehrschall

                          Clovis Green                        Donald Loomis

                          Larry Conrad                       Barbara Conrad

                          Richard Dziak                      Luis Moreno

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Secretary’s Report

            Minutes of the April meeting were presented and approved

 

Treasurer’s Report:

Don Loomis reported that we had a balance of $1438.45 as of 04/30/2008 

 

Membership Chairman’s Report:

-Dave Lehrschall has officially been assigned as the member chair with the SCCA. 

-Charter needs to be updated for next year.  This should be included in the RE files for the new Regional executive next year.

 

Timing and Scoring

-Laptop will be sent in at the end of the year for repairs to keyboard and cd rom drive.

-Software license for AxWare (timing) needs to be renewed in June or July and costs $80.  Renewal approved by Luis Moreno.

-Microphone has been replaced

-Lights and timing system working properly

 

 Solo Chairman’s Report:

-Looking to get more people to participate behind the scenes with timing and scoring, track setup, etc.           

-Lost $250 from cancelled event (amount paid to Cohen stadium for rental of property)

-Congratulations to Phil Becker for placing 9th in the track event this weekend in Dallas, TX

-We still need more people to stay and help pick up the course.  People are still leaving before the property is cleaned up.  Your cooperation would be greatly appreciated.

-Dave Lehrschall and Luis Moreno will resign their positions of Assistant Regional Executive and Regional Executive respectively at the end of the year.

-Dave Lehrschall is willing to have a training day for those interested in learning how to run the pc for timing and scoring at his home.  Those interested please e-mail him at davelehrschall@aol.com

-New cones are needed but cannot be purchased due to lack of funds.

-No sponsors for 2008 as of this year.  MSD was left as a sponsor due to their generous contribution last year.

 

 

 

Club Racing Chairman’s Report:

(Taken from the Pan Am Forum posted by Richard Dziak):

It was another good showing for PanAm Club Racers at the Ice Breaker Double National event held at Pueblo Motorsports Park over the April 12th weekend. National Points Champion Stan Czacki and Jose Gerardo piloted their race cars to another great weekend and representation for our Pan Am Region. On Saturday, Stan Czacki in class SSB finished 12th in an overall field of 24 racers. In his respective class, Stan finished in 4th place. Over in the FC class Jose Gerardo took a 4th place finish in an overall field of 27 racers and a 1st in his class. Congratulations Stan and Jose for a strong showing on Saturday.

If Saturday was not enough for these Pan Am Club Racers, well Sunday proved to be another good overall day. Both Stan and Jose were back for another day of racing. On the 2.2 mile track, Stan Czacki finished 14th out of a field of 20 racers and scored another 4th place finish in his respective class. Jose Gerardo back on the track after a 1st place showing in his class on Saturday scored a 9th place finish in an overall field of 24, while taking home a 3rd place finish in his class.

Both Stan and Jose have now recorded 6 National event races for 2008 and the season has hardly begun. Both Stan and Jose were strong finishers in the Arizona region earlier this year. Both National drivers now qualify for a berth and invitation to the National SCCA Runoffs to be held later this year. For a small region like the Pan Am SCCA Region, these two National racers have done an outstanding job in representing our region.

Richard Dziak in his Phoenix Formula F1000 secured his first Regional Championship in the Arizona Regional Saguaro Championship Series for the 2007-2008 season. Wanting to debut his Phoenix F1000 in May 2008 at La Junta Raceway, Richard will have to delay that event due to recent ear reconstruction surgery and his medical team prohibits him from racing until a full recovery period. He plans to have his first RMD race in Albuquerque, New Mexico on June 8th and 9th, 2008.

Hector Maldonado has received his Novak F1000 conversion chassis and is working hard to complete the conversion of his 1998 Van Diemen F2000 to the new class F1000 using a Suzuki 1000cc superbike engine. Surely he will be out at ArroyoSecoRaceway testing the car once he completes the conversion. All of the Pan Am Club Racers look forward to Hector's return to Club Racing.

The PanAm Club Racing team is moving forward with more entries than ever before. We welcome all new club racers like John Basler, and welcome questions and interests from other racers who might want to seek club racing licenses or status.  For information on SCCA Club Racing, please contact Richard Dziak, Stan Czacki or Jose Gerardo all local Pan Am Region members.

-Sierra County racetrack in T or C has been approved

-Richard Dziak has agreed to take on the responsibility of the local club racing representative.

-Endowment $4800-4900

 

Rally Report:

-Clovis is unhappy with the turnout of the rally events

-Event set for May 11th has been rescheduled to June 1st.  Same starting point with mild traps.  Please see the website for more information and please try to attend.  This event will be known as “Right, Left or Straight”

 

 

           

Fog Lamp Editor Report

            No report.

 

Old Business

No report. 

           

New Business

Dave Lehrschall and Luis Moreno will resign their positions at the end of the year.

 

Meeting Adjourned @ 8:12 pm