I was pretty surprised to return from a week-long trip in early August to see a Patrick Reusse article on the Colonel’s BIR. The rotund Strib writer has from time to time been abandoning his golf clubs for forays into motorsports and doesn’t do too bad a job. A lengthy report on Don Williamson’s dealings with our much-loved track followed along with the typical Williamson promises that his goal is a premier racing facility, never mind his firing everyone who brought the track to where it is today, and rumors of resort development displacing the track facilities. Time will tell if Reusse was having burnout smoke blown up his ample posterior, but a follow-up article after the NHRA event indicates not all fans are overjoyed with the Colonel and his promises. In late July a large manila envelope arrived unannounced from SCCA HQ in Colorado. I observed my normal precautions - dunking it in a vat of water and running it through the X-ray machine, all the while remembering the old story. That being, what do you get when you cross Monica Lewinski with Ted Kaszinski: answer - a dynamite BJ. Upon opening the envelope, fully expecting at the least a summons from a pack of SCCA attack lawyers, out fell a letter from Nick Craw (in possibly his last official act as The Man)			congratulating me for 25 years as an SCCA member. Included were a 25 Year tag to hang on my SCCA pin (I think the pin’s on a seersucker suit in a cracked plastic bag in the attic), a dash plaque for my rusted 15 year old truck, and another wall plaque for my almost endless collection. Recent events make me wonder what to do with these things. My son Chris(tian) recently passed his 21st birthday. Both to mark the occasion and as a gesture of thanks for his help crewing for me over the past two decades, I entered him in Milwaukee Region’s Blackhawk Farms Driver School in mid-August. Given the current racing surface at Blackhawk, I would only run my car there after wholesale setup changes including shocks, springs, anti-roll bars and ride height. For this reason, and for several other valid concerns (Chris’ size 11.5 shoes won’t fit a Swift) we arranged for a SRF rental from Lars Lindell Motorsports. I’m gratified to report that the school went very well. Chris consistently improved his lap times, and by the final session was within 3 seconds of the pole time for Sunday’s Regional, plus he dominated the student SRF group by almost a minute in a 25 lap practice race. Traffic was a major concern with almost 40 cars in the closed-wheel group, but Chris did an excellent job executing safe passes even when faced with an obscenely slow GT1 Camaro serving as a rolling chicane everywhere. He even had time to execute a lazy spin at the exit of turn 4 near the end of the race, and get waved back on to finish well ahead of the entire student group. Given Chris’ long association with SCCA, some NRKA go-karting, plus driving rental karts at virtually every  FUBAR, continued on page 4		LOL Board of Directors Regional Exceutive Greg Youngdahl Home (507) 332-0297 gregy@deskmedia.com Assistant Regional Executive Shannon Murphy Home:(612) 798-3575 blueflagger@yahoo.com Co-secretaries Steve Gingras Home: (612) 263-0739 T3sgingras@GVMF.com Norm Johnson Home: (612) 870-9503 NJohnson@EEAEngineers.com Treasurer Mark LaBarre Home: (651) 407-7293 mlabarre@telepool.com Members at Large Doug Dill Home: (612) 925-1731 dougd@edsonline.com Chad Lemmons Home: (651) 688-7976 John Niemi Home: (651) 766-8027 captmayday@aol.com LOL Web Page: http://www.scca-lol.org LOL Hotline: 612-885-6888

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