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Where's Naylor and his math????Marshall Grice wrote:144 votes cast.
Gayle = 52 votes
Christine = 50 votes
Me = 48 votes
needed more then 60 votes to knock off the 4th place person. 1st place person had 88 votes.
Gio, you sound like one of the safety nazi's that promote the "Speed Kills" BS. It's incompetent drivers and and unsafe equipment. I did Solo 1 for some time and a few track days in the old GT2 Z-car with triple digit speeds and never felt at risk. But I recognize there is risk and wouldn't have done it without a full cage and personal safety equiment. Las Vegas region used to run HPDE combined with Solo 1 at Spring Mountain with the Solo1 drivers being the instructors for the HPDE drivers. The only time I felt unconfortable was riding in a street car with not even a roll bar, even though they coned down the straights to reduce speeds.Thomas Barrett wrote:Triple digits are where the adrenaline kick in and even if it is more risky, that is why I do it for the thrill.Giovanni Jaramillo wrote:And increased risk in wrecking with track speeds at triple-digits.Thomas Barrett wrote:But you also get more seat time, 4-5 sessions at 20-25 minutes per session.
I have been driving that fast my whole life and now doing it on track instead of on the street seems much safer to me and more fun.
Having raced motorcycles for three decades, and five of those years on the national circuit, I can tell you adrenaline is your friend. Red mist is bad because you not only react reflexively to needed car inputs, but your decision-making becomes flawed and you will make bad passes, etc. I don't think I could win some of the hard fought races without adrenaline flowing. My reaction times are so much faster. My vision is keener. I smell everything. My capacity to sense my environment and where other cars are on track goes up dramatically. Everything seems to happen in slow motion even though I am processing massive amounts of data input. The key is balance and sensibilities when operating in that hyper stimulated condition.Giovanni Jaramillo wrote:This is called the red mist and that is not a good thing to experience while on track.Thomas Barrett wrote:the adrenaline kicks in
On the contrarty Rick. I just recognize when the "red mist" hits me, and dial it down and drive within my limits. I've been to Willow Springs (Big Willow), Buttonwillow, and California Speedway. All at triple-digit speeds, but always drove within my limits. I understand the adrenalin rush but the key is to not push it (unless your Club Racing). If it's an HPDE then you increase the risk of a crash.Rick Brown wrote:Gio, you sound like one of the safety nazi's that promote the "Speed Kills" BS.
I believe that's Schenker's titleRick Brown wrote:Gio, you sound like one of the safety nazi's
Her Komendant Wilhelm SchenkerGiovanni Jaramillo wrote:I believe that's Schenker's titleRick Brown wrote:Gio, you sound like one of the safety nazi's
Herr Field Marshall SchenkerAaron Goldsmith wrote:Her Komendant Wilhelm SchenkerGiovanni Jaramillo wrote:I believe that's Schenker's titleRick Brown wrote:Gio, you sound like one of the safety nazi's
Frau Farbissina SchenkerBob Beamesderfer wrote:Herr Field Marshall SchenkerAaron Goldsmith wrote:Her Komendant Wilhelm SchenkerGiovanni Jaramillo wrote: I believe that's Schenker's title
You might look at the SCCA PDX program. ;) AZ and CO are doing this now (as well as others), and CO reports over 20% of drivers on regional race weekends come from PDX.Oli Thordarson wrote: I am going to go out on a limb here and surmise with reasonable confidence that staffing even one weekend of track days/HPDEs or a Time Attack like Redline is going to require more volunteer staffing than we can muster at Cal Club. Remember, this is a not-for-profit race club. To the best of my knowledge all of the solo events, road races and rallies are staffed by volunteers. The demand for track days is huge, you are right. But on any given weekend I can usually choose between two and sometimes three local tracks to run a track day if I wish. There is no way Cal Club can expect to volunteer staff all of those events. Nor do I think the tracks would find it in there best interest to let one association monopolize dates. I think the same can be said to some extent about autocross events. For Solo there appears to me more demand than what Cal Club can deliver locally just once per month. How do we best meet that demand and meet the competitve challenges?
All this discussion about winning a seat(s) on the board brings me back to an unanswered question in one of my previous posts.Kurt Rahn wrote:Even more incredible is that it only took 60 votes to win one of the seats. With 10 or so more votes, we could have had at least one of our people in. Definitely worth remembering next election.
See the race on Speed December 31st, 9 AM.Jason Isley BS RX8 wrote: You might look at the SCCA PDX program. ;) AZ and CO are doing this now (as well as others), and CO reports over 20% of drivers on regional race weekends come from PDX.
Marshall Grice wrote:http://scca.com/contentpage.aspx?content=36
That tells you what it is. The July 08' SportsCar tells you how AZ (and CO) work it in to Regional Race weekends. 
Any region not using this program for "track days" is giving money away.Haven't had time to update the calendar but suffice it to say, November is always the last meeting of the year, every year, as we take a break in December due to the holidays. And that the meetings are ALWAYS on the 3rd Wednesday of every month except Dec, unless otherwise noted. But this reminds me to update the calendar when I get home tonight.Oli Thordarson wrote:I see your next Executive Committee meeting was scheduled for December 17th, but it is cancelled due to the holidays. I looked it up because I wanted to go if you would have me. I don't see any others yet scheduled.
This is SUCH a loaded question. If you could read my mind, you'd be shocked. But I'll leave it up to the E-Board http://www.solo2.com/contacts.asp to either reply here or PM you offline or talk to you in person.Oli Thordarson wrote:If the solo group had a control of all the seats on the BoGs, what would you guys do?
Do you have a plan for what you want?
Which was grumbled about earlier this year Oli. So now you understand Oli how we really feel. Why should YOU (i.e. road-racer) get all of MY (i.e. soloist) $25?? Please answer that question.Steve Ekstrand wrote:Piss off too much and we'll start a coordinated campaign to register our members as San Diego members.
This sounds like a great program for me.Marshall Grice wrote:http://scca.com/contentpage.aspx?content=36
Its a lot more fun in a Corvette. The car is in its sweet spot, 80-140 is where it likes to run.Hell it diesn;t shift into 3rd gear until 118 mph.Steve Ekstrand wrote:Oh hey look.... I'm entering Willow's turn 8 at 125mph.... I hope Dodge has better oiling than BMW.... No that can't be.... Crap, why am I doing this????
All I can think about at Big Willow is blowing up.... Of course, I've only run little four bangers there. And the throttle is flat like 95% of the time.
I think it's a lack of timing and advertising it within our Solo division. Now that we now how it works, we'll be better prepared for 2010. Also the LINK to the petition to submit people was WRONG and only after telling them it was wrong (2 weeks after the fact), did they fix it. Luckily I was able to figure the correct link based on their web-directory configuration. Still it was timing in my opinion.Bob Plante wrote:It's pretty pathetic that we could not turn out enough votes to get even one seat.
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