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Here's the 95 NER (and others) race schedule as set this past weekend at the
NEDiv Mini-Convention.
April 21-23 Drivers School, NHIS (Double)
April 28-29 Regional, LRP (NER)
May 6-7 National, Bridgehampton (NYR)
May 12 Drivers School, Pocono
May 13-14 Double Regional, Pocono (NNJR)
May 27-28 National, NHIS
Trans Am, LRP (Honest!)
May 29 Regional, NHIS
June 2 Drivers School, LRP (NYR)
June 3 Regional, LRP (NYR)
June9-11 Montreal F1
June 30, Jul 1 National, LRP (NNJR)
July 3-4 Regional, LRP (MoHud) - No one knows for sure what will happen on
Monday
July 14-15 Regional, LRP (NER)
July 29-30 Double Regional, NHIS
National, Pocono
Aug 11 School, NHIS
Aug 12-13 Regional, NHIS
Aug 18-19 Regional, LRP (NNJR)
Sept 2-4 Double Regional, NHIS
Sept 9-10 Regional, Bridgehampton (NYR)
Sept 29-30 NARRC-Offs, LRP
Oct 7-17 Runoffs, Mid-Ohio
Oct 13-14 Restricted Regional, LRP (NER) in conjunction with Busch North
Oct 22 Regional, NHIS
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| Article 1696 of rec.autos.sport.info:
The 1995 NEDiv roundtable is being hosted by the Western New
York Region of the SCCA at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Two Fountain
Plaza, Buffalo, NY (716-856-1234) on March 10th-12th, 1995.
This meeting is open to all SCCA members.
The program includes Saturday seminars on Timing and Scoring,
Starting, Scrutineering, Flagging and Communication, Registration,
Race Control, Mini Grand Prix, Solo, Rally, and Regional
Administration.
Sunday will feature the notorious Scheduling Meeting, the Director's
Forum, and the NEDiv Council meeting.
Roundtable registrations should be sent to
Colleen Breslin, Registrar
55 Fennimore Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14215-2324
716-832-4267
For further information, call Karen Frieder, Event Chair, 716-833-1467
Fees:
Full Registration: $75
Seminars & Breaks: $25
Saturday Lunch: $25
Saturday Dinner: $30
checks should be payable to Western New York Region, SCCA, Inc.
--
richard welty 518-393-7228 [email protected]
Motorsports enthusiasts, please check out the
Sports Car Club of America Web Page: http://www.balltown.cma.com/scca/
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| Article 1718 of rec.autos.sport.info:
From: [email protected] (richard welty)
Subject: SCCA: North East Division club racing schedule
Notes:
For 1995, all Nationals in NEDiv are on the NESCCA series, but
the NEDiv and NESCCA championships continue to be separate creatures.
The June 16th/17th Watkins Glen race has been added to the NARRC
schedule, the first ever NARRC race at the Glen.
Note that in general Lime Rock dates are Friday-Saturday, not
Saturday-Sunday, with some exceptions such as the Tuesday, July 4th Regional.
There is NEVER any Sunday racing at Lime Rock Park.
The regional series which visit race tracks in NEDiv are as follows:
NARRC == North Atlantic Road Racing Championship
NYSRRC == New York State Road Racing Championship
NERRC == New England Road Racing Championship
MARRS == Mid Atlantic Road Racing Championship
Entries in the schedule consist of the type of event (School, Regional,
National), host region, and the track where it is being held. Some
events are not SCCA, but are listed as they affect the schedules for
SCCA Race Officials who often work non-SCCA events.
Schedule:
March
25-26 School, Wdc Summit Point
April
21-23 School, NER/NHIS
22-23 Regional, Wdc/Summit Point
Indy-SCCA Pro, Nazareth
28-29 Regional New England Region/Lime Rock, NERRC, NARRC
29-30 Regional Steel Cities-Western NY/Nelson Ledges
May
6-7 National NYR/Bridgehampton
12 School Tri-region/Pocono
13-14 National Steel Cities-Mahoney Vallye,Nelson Ledges
Regional NNJR/Pocono (Double), NARRC, NYSRRC
20-21 Regional Central NY/Watkins Glen, NYSRRC
27-28 National New England Region/NHIS
SCCA Trans-Am, IMSA WSC/Both @ Lime Rock
29 Regional New England Region/NHIS, NERRC
June
2 School NY Region/Lime Rock
3 Regional NY Region/Lime Rock, NARRC
Regional Wdc/Summit Point, MARRS
10-11 F1 Montreal, Indy Detroit, SCCA Pro Detroit
17-18 National Wdc/Summit Point
Regional Glen Region/Watkins Glen, NARRC
Regional Western NY/Mosport
Longest Day (24 hours), Nelson Ledges
23-25 Regional TriRegion/Pocono, MARRS
Regional Mahoney Valley Region/Nelson Ledges, Restricted
School Mahoney Valley-NorthEast Ohio/Nelson Ledges
24-25 NASCAR/IMSA Watkins Glen
June 30th-July 1st
National NNJR/Lime Rock
July
4 Regional Mohud/Lime Rock, NARRC, NYSRRC
8-9 Regional Wdc/Summit Point, MARRS
14-15 Regional New England Region/Lime Rock NARRC, NERRC
15-16 National Finger Lakes Region/Watkins Glen
Indy/SCCA Pro Toronto
Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix
22-23 Indy/SCCA Pro Cleveland
29-30 National TriRegion/Pocono
Regional Glen Region/Watkins Glen, NYSRRC, MARRS
Regional New England Region/NHIS, NARRC, NERRC
August
5-6 NASCAR Indy SCCA Pro Trois
11 School NER/NHIS
12-13 Regional NER/NHIS, NARRC, NERRC
Regional Wdc/Summit Point, MARRS, tentative
Indy, SCCA Pro/Mid-Ohio
NASCAR, SCCA Pro/Watkins Glen
18-19 Regional NNJR/Lime Rock, NARRC, NYSRRC
19-20 Regional Steel Cities/Nelson Ledges
Indy, SCCA Pro NHIS
25-26 School Glen Region/Watkins Glen
26-27 Regional Glen Region/Watkins Glen, NYSRRC
September
2-3 National Western NY/Mosport
2-4 Regional Wdc/Summit Point, MARRS, Double
Regional NER/NHIS, NARRC, NERRC, Double
9-10 Regional New York Region/Bridgehampton, NARRC
16-17 Regional Glen Region/Watkins Glen, NYSRRC
23-24 Regional Wdc/Summit Point
29-30 New York Region/Lime Rock, NARRC Runoffs (double points)
October
7-15 Valvoline Runoffs, Mid-Ohio
13-14 NASCAR BGN/Lime Rock
Restricted Regional NER/Lime Rock (AS, IT)
21-22 Regional, NER/NHIS
Regional, NE Ohio?-Mahoney Valley/Nelson Ledges, Double
28-29 Regional Western NY/Nelson Ledges, NYSRRC
School Wdc/Summit Point
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richard welty 518-393-7228 [email protected]
Motorsports enthusiasts, please check out the
Sports Car Club of America Web Page: http://www.balltown.cma.com/scca/
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Hamming it up at Mt Washington Hillclimb
Mark AB1X, Erik KA1RV, Bruce W1LUS and Jim N1HTS
While some hams were busy getting ready for field day, others were preparing
to participate in the Mt Washington Automobile Hillclimb as emergency workers.
Basically there are 33 stations or checkpoints spread out over 7.4 miles.
Other hams are used with tow trucks and ambulances - hoping they will never be
called. Most are on the emergency channel, while 4 stations are on a "traffic"
net that follows cars up the hill. Those are also responsible for any
emergency issues that happen at their station.
Synopsys: We had numerous "records" broken this year.
o We had a new record time for driving up the mountain of 6:45.22
o We had the largest list of competitors yet - 50
o We had almost 50 hams from five states helping out
o We ran four bands, 2 Meters, 220MHZ, 440MHZ and 900 MHz
o We had for the first time live TV images were sent down from near the
halfway point and the top of the mountain during the race
o We had probably the longest stretch of hot sunny weather (complete with
the biggest collection of bugs) that the summit has seen for many years
Thursday
--------
Departure from Jim's was just after 10AM with our usual stop in Salem, NH
at Ham Radio Outlet to get a full size 135' ladderline dipole to try.
The drive up was nice via RT93 to 104 to 25 towards 16. We generally take
the RT113 shortcut to 16 and Jim thought he did, but was on 113 west, not
east which caused a little delay. We finally get to 16 and head north.
Weather was sunny and warm, and traffic was light making the trip pleasant.
We arrive at the autoroad just as Ian MacLennan AF1R (head ham) was beginning
to start setting up the antennas. Ian's car is packed ...like Russ Horton's
car used to be... to the gills with antennas, masts, cement blocks to
hold antenna bases up, etc... We stayed and help set up. During the recent
modifications to the building, only one electric plug had been wired in,
and we needed more to handle control, timing's radios, copier, battery
chargers, etc. Jim negotiated with the electrician there to tie his 100'
extension cord directly into the patch panel to give us more outlets. Jim
just happened to have a cord all set to be wired in that gets used at the
Rochester hamfest! Mark, Bruce and Erik helped set up the two antenna masts
that were used to support 2 meters, 220MHZ, 440MHZ voice and ATV (Amateur TV-
for hams), and 900MHZ ATV. What a setup! Someday if we can pull it off,
we'll try for an ATV repeater on Wildcat mountain to give us full ATV
coverage in certain cars.
We arrive at White Birches Campground in Gorham to find out Phil Cardoza
has not registered yet. We may be in for a quiet weekend there. After
setting up the antenna via the "rock on a string method" not much on the
radio. Erik searched hard for Estonia but couldn't find them. We also
made sure we didn't have any wine with screwcaps this year. Bruce liked that.
We also decided to make sandwiches at night this year and give ourselves a
few more minutes to sleep in the morning. It worked out nicely.
A couple "notables" that day, at driver registration, Bob Elliot (car #10)
was filling out the entrance form next to his girl friend Jill, and when it
came time to put down what her relation was in case of an emergency, he
asked Jill "how do you spell fiance?". Jill's comment was "since you haven't
proposed yet, is this your proposal?". Bob replied "I guess so". We heard
they were still engaged after the event.
Howie Wemyss, manager of the auto road was giving the DDD's (Damned Denver
Dignitaries) a ride up the mountain and ran out of gas. After getting another
5 gallons of gas delivered, he handed the truck over to John Ricker the Safety
Steward who also proceded to run out of gas driving around up there.
Friday
------
The 5am alarm seems obscene, however Jim's espresso maker helped perk up
Erik and Jim. We arrive at the base and see a lot of familiar faces from
previous hillclimbs. We only did the top half of the course which means
checkpoints 18 (start) through 33 (finish). Ian gave out the assignments,
Steve Chisholm instructs on the use of the flags and fire bottles, and John
Buffum the Chief Steward gives his talk before sending everyone up the
mountain.
The weather was HOT and gorgeous!!! Jim was in control with the emergency
net, Mark was at checkpoint 24, Erik was at 18 which is where they started
from and Bruce was at 30. In control with the traffic net, Mike Collier -
N1TRR was there for the first time along with Ian. Great, a new control
operator. Just like last year's Friday we only had a couple of breakdowns.
It went way too smooth.... Of course we did have Erik announcing cars had
started with his bloody Australian accent, which caused for a few requests for
repeats.
The DDD's were on the mountain taking copious notes, and were either so
impressed with our organization or were bored, because they didn't stick
around for the rest of the weekend. Something about a little SOLO event in
Boston. Jim noticed the flags shown on the Climb-To-The-Clouds jackets has
a white flag. Since workers don't use it, it can only mean one thing
"drivers surrender". At the critique when everyone was down, it was
basically "keep doing exactly what you did today for the rest of the weekend".
Back at the White Birches, we pull out the radio gear again but nothing juicy
was coming in, so naps were in order before the pool and showers. Later
we headed to Wildcat for the videos, awards and food. From there back into
Gorham for the antique car show on the common. After drooling over lots of
cars we wish we owned we head back and crash early to prepare for tomorrow.
As we were cleaning the campsire, Bruce announces he's lost his glasses.
After a major search, Bruce checks the trash can only to find them there, and
HE was the one who cleaned the picnic table off. He puts them in a safe
location but doesn't tell us where.
Saturday
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Bruce wakes up and guess what? Can't find his glasses again. We search all
over again but he found them in his track bag, where he put them in for
safe keeping.
We get to the base of the mountain and the weather is a copy of the day
before. It ended up to be 85 deg at the base at noon, and about 60 deg at the
summit. Even the bugs were out in force up at the top. The assignments are
passes out and Mark was at checkpoint 24, Erik was at 18 and Bruce was at 22.
In control with the traffic net, Dick Sawyer - W1ZMM was there with Ian.
Great, another new control operator. Jim was in control with the emergency
net again. Today we run the whole mountain.
We run the qualifying runs without any real mishaps. Most of the incidents
were cars just broke and the drivers pulled over in a safe location. For
those who did - THANK YOU. Mark did have car 3 stop right at station. That
was interesting because it was the only alcohol burning car we had, and the
warning at the meeting was that you cannot see alcohol burn, so the workers
were cautious until they realized there was no fire.
John Buffum drove Carl Merrill's #02 S10 truck and broke a CV joint at
station 8. Carl drove his truck up the day before and got all the way to 20,
breaking the same joint. Carl car #03 broke down at 18. Needless to say
that Carl's crew were busy that weekend.
During qualifying we had to stop cars from going uphill since there was an
injured girl on Tuckerman's Ravine that needed immediate medical attention.
A pickup truck brought the needed medical supplies to station 30, which is
the cow pasture. John Howe's #11 Honda was the one held up at the starting
line, so we pondered whether or not John would have caught the truck if we
released him. After all, the truck was clocked at 48MPH in the speed trap.
Once the car was at 30, we started them where we left off.
Floyd Schrammeck's formula car broke. The driver and crew said afterwards
there were "chunks of aluminum" was found in the oil. Bruce McCulley and
Mike Zaharee were at 14 when car #13 came in and ended up sideways half
blocking course. It was a very bad spot but when 2 cars went by at speed
with the yellow flag out, we red flagged it.
Later in the day, John Buffum went to Rumford, Me to do mileages for the
July Maine Forest Rally and blew TWO tires on the GMC Jimmy. After getting
both tires changed, he then proceeded to break down again and had to call
the Mt Washington autoroad rescue trucks to get him out. John, you were
suppose to wait for the rally before driving like that...
At the cookout the final grid for the race showed Paul Choiniere at 6:53.21
and 92 mph in the speed trap, and Jerry Driscoll, Andrew Havas and Bob
Elliot all with new class records, setting the expectations for tomorrow's
finale.
Mark and Erik get their 5 year pins for 5 consecutive years working the event.
Nat's only job was to have the beer ready. A broken pressure regulator
meant no beer until Howie drove to get canned beer. Nat said if one more person
asked about the beer, he would have gotten a regulator to take home, buried
in some body cavity. While waiting for the beer, we eat and watch rally
videos on the big screen as tapes were for sale. Dave Richmond of car #69 fame
brought over his in-car video tape of the day and we watched that as well.
Sunday
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A 6:15 arrival to start workers up the mountain at 7:30 only to wait until
9:00 for the tow trucks and ambulances to arrive had some interesting word
exchanges. Ian and Buffum agreed to change that for next year. The
assignments are passes out and Mark was at checkpoint 14, Erik was at 28 and
Bruce was at 11. In control with the traffic net again was Dick Sawyer with
Ian. Jim was in control with the emergency net again.
As always there is lots of traffic on the mountain, with hams, flaggers,
timing and scoring, media, paid spectators, Mt Washington trucks and vans
well before the wreckers and ambulances arrived. When they showed up and
were dispersed to their location on the mountain, the final course check was
done and the green course given the the chief steward to start the cars.
Just before we are about to get things rolling, it's reported that a
pregnant woman was having difficulty up there, so we had to have her come
down with medical personnel. It was initially reported she was in labor!!!
After that the course was clear and we began the fun.
We had our normal breakdowns and for the most part, cars pulled over safely,
but we had a few emergencies, like when car #15's roll over at 28 which
caused a red flag. Erik's voice was back to normal after the wrecker left
with the car.
During the safety sweep before final run, we had Bette French in the safety
vehicle pass out hats to the workers. We asked everyone not to say what
they were passing out so not to spoil it for the ones further up, and
nobody mentioned the hats as asked. Hams not talking. WOW...
In the afternoon, we also had an emergency for car #64 between station 11
and 12 in the trees and rocks on it's side. John Howe in car #11 was stopped at
11 with the red flag, and proceeded to drive Blair March with fire
extinguisher up to the car. Since the car was not on the pavement, we left
it there until after we were all done.
Weather was nice but some clouds started to roll in. We had a few light
sprinkles, but it ended quickly. Control had ATV from 24 and the finish.
We all watched and cheered as Frank Sprongl's Audi went airborn just after
the finish line. Paul's Hyundai stayed on the ground. Jean Petryshyn
did a sparkling job with this year's checkered flag duty. Yes Jean, we saw
quite a bit of your back side, and have it on tape too. Dick Sawyer in
control went through three pens tracking the cars!
Getting everyone down from the mountain in a orderly fashion is always a
challenge. Some Mt Washington stages from half way first, then the safety
car followed by the racers, followed by timing and scoring, followed by GMC
Jimmy's followed by a Mt Washington push truck.... then the pause
for workers while the "parade" comes down, then making sure that everyone
has a ride down or to their vehicle, etc makes a long day even longer, but
we did it. After three days of wonderful weather, we name
Nat-the-stagecoach-driver-from-hell as weather steward again. He must have
done some funny weather dances with the knee brace he was sporting.
During the awards ceremony, Bob Elliot mentioned that at one corner he went
up on two wheels (Joey Chittwood style) and could see the workers eyes open
REAL wide. After getting the car back on all 4 wheels, he gave them a
thumbs up and proceeded up the mountain. We never heard it called in.
The drive home was uneventful. Just the way we wanted it after a long
weekend. As always, we are signed up for next year.
Winners:
Class Name Car Time (min) Speed (MPH) New Records
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CL0: Paul Choiniere Hyundai 6:45.22 65.74 course record
CL1: Jerry Driscoll Special 7:11.70 61.70 class record
CL2: Michael Wilson Corvette 7:38.65 58.08 class record
CL3: Andrew Havas Honda 7:55.64 56.00 class record
CL4: Don Taylor Omni 7:52.46 56.38
CL5: Bob Elliot VW GTI 7:48.68 56.84 class record
CL6: Ed Sicotte Sprint car 8:45.05 50.73
If there are any drivers willing to make a copy of their in-car videos,
please let Jim know. He will reimburse you for copying and postage.
Jim Evans
90 Tenth St.
Tewksbury, Ma. 01876
(508) 658-4544
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