by Dick DickinsonNow is the time to consider when to schedule events for next year. Let’s make the 2002 Championship Series the best there is. I would like to see 3 in LaCrosse, 2 in Fairmont, 2 in Watertown, and as many as we can get in the Twin Cities. This brings up a point. I need event masters and safety stewards for the Twin Cities to step forward. I can not be the SOLO chair and be the event master for Twin Cities events. I will help with sites and contacts. I would like to have all the sanctions, budgets and advertising in and done by February so we can publish the series calendar in February.
This is also the time for someone to consider taking over as SOLO Chair. I will be leaving this position in January of 2002. I am thirteen months from retirement and do not exactly know how my retirement will work. I will be taking some type of job to keep me busy, plus, there’s that travel list which grows daily.
Hopefully, I will leave the next chair with a complete season in place to learn from, and a go-by to know what to do when, as the year progresses.
Last but not least, here’s something to consider. I competed in the Cheyenne Shootout in June over the Fathers’ Day weekend. It is a four-day event. Thursday is a SOLO event at the Frontier Days grounds. Friday is a test/media day again at the Frontier Days grounds. Participants get to practice and tune while the media and local celebrities compete in
matched Chevy Cavaliers for a spot in the Shootout. Saturday and Sunday the SOLO Street Nationals are held on the downtown streets of Cheyenne. The best run from Saturday and Sunday are added and the lowest time wins in class. The 22 class winners are then each given one run in one of the matched Cavaliers to win the "Shootout", and take home the Mayor’s Trophy. This Trophy is so big and so gaudy most spouses hope you don’t win. I won Stock D, I ran in the Shootout. I did not win, but I was not last. Was it worth it? You bet. For example, on Friday when I arrived I parked in the pits between a competitor from Atlanta, GA and 12 time national champion John Ames from Colorado Springs, CO. That’s the caliber of competitor and the strength of the attraction to this event. I may well have a sponsor. Anybody interested in a four day sponsored event in MN? E-mail or call me.
Registration at CBIR has moved!
Anyone that has been to CBIR in the last year or so knows that, due to reconstruction, we have lost the use of the old registration building.
Registration has now been moved inside the track, to the Driver's Lounge above Medical or to the second floor of the tower. To ensure that everyone does register properly, whether participant or guest, the following procedures have been adopted:
- At the front gate, each person will sign a track waiver.
- Each person will receive a numbered ticket once they have signed the waiver.
- That number will be recorded beside that person’s name on the track waiver.
- Each person is to immediately report to registration (In the Driver's Lounge above Medical or to the second floor of the tower.), turn in their numbered ticket, register "properly" and receive their event credentials.
- Registration will check the numbered tickets received against the track waiver.
- Specialty chiefs will check that all of their personnel have credentials du jour.
- Drivers don’t get their tech sticker unless they register. No sticker, no race.
- Drivers are responsible for their crew.
- Each person is responsible for their guests.
If there is a discrepancy between registration and the gate, we would like to remind you of the GCR provisions about responsibility of participants if they do not abide by the supplemental regulations. Big stick.
We hope that this set up will work and make registration a more pleasant experience for all concerned, not least the registrars themselves. Please help us with this.
Tony Sweety!
I probably am the 1st trans-gender driver, proof prima facie that you don’t need balls, just a heavy foot!
Thanks for the honorable mention, in last month's Fubar article but you didn’t tell them how cute I am! (Just kidding.)
It is always good to go to BIR it is the "Mother track" and my favorite course!
Love, Lilly nee Marshall Kirckof
Tonneau On-Line August 2001
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Copyright 2001, Land O'Lakes Region Last revised: March 13, 2003
