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Hello Cincinnati SCCA members & friends!
 

Fall kicked in literally right on the nose for us this year with the temperature drop, hopefully no more 90+ degrees for 2022. As you read this, our season is winding down with a few more region events to go , the 2022 Solo Nationals are history and we have participants actively competing at the 2022 Runoffs at VIR this weekend! I hope for safe travels for everyone on the road wrapping up there events.

With the changing of the season it also brings us to that annual time of year for our club to regroup, assess the season and prepare for the next year. The most important activity is the election of our new Board of Directors for 2023. If you have ever wanted to get more involved, this upcoming election is a very opportunistic time as we have some positions that we will be filling with new faces and names for next year. One of those positions will be our Region Executive. It’s hard to believe but it has been 10 years since I had the opportunity to start serving the club in this capacity and it’s time for me to “pass the reigns” to a new RE for Cincinnati Region. I have loved the opportunity and the people I’ve had the privilege to work alongside over the years and now I need to focus on the family while the kids are still in the house. 🙂

 So at our next Board meeting on October 18th at 7PM at the Shooter’s in Liberty Township, we will have our regular meeting (on the 3rd Tuesday of the month) and accept nominations for current region members interested in running for board member positions to form our ballot that will be voted on at our November meeting (11/18/22). If you are interested in learning more about the board positions, please look up a board member either at an event or thru the contacts listed on our website cincyscca.com OR you can also look up the responsibilities listed in our bylaws that are also published on our website.

Look forward to seeing some new faces at our October meeting on 10/18/2022 at the Shooter’s Bar & Grill in Liberty Township at 7pm. Full address and information are on our website as well. Enjoy the time as the leaves start changing this month and get out and drive!

 
Take Care,
Tony Brown
Cincinnati Region SCCA, Region Executive

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Hello Cincinnati Region SCCA Members & Friends! It’s wintertime and most of us have cold tires and engines yearning to get moving. But we have had some members recently venture south with some great success! Rob & Doris Bax spent some quality time in Florida as Rob championed his B-Spec Mini Cooper at SCCA Majors Events. With 2 races at Homestead-Miami Speedway he took away 1st & 3rd place trophies including winning a pole and a new track record! The following weekend at Sebring International Raceway brought a pair of highly contested 4th place finishes. If you had a chance to watch and listen to the broadcast on scca.com it was some exciting racing. Congrats Rob!

Also new this month you will find an article from our new Area 4 National Board of Director Dayle Frame! Dayle has offered to periodically update the regions in Great Lakes Division as to what is happening on the national level with his new responsibilities. We should look forward to this great new line of communication from our National Board representative.

The covid pandemic has recently reached some of our very dear members and friends. I want to extend well wishes to those on behalf of their friends here in Cincinnati Region and hope for a strong recovery. Spring will be here before we know it and I look forward to seeing everyone soon!

Stay safe and healthy,

Tony Brown
Cincinnati Region SCCA, R.E.

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Happy New Year Cincinnati Region SCCA!

As we begin to see the light of 2021, we can reflect with a heavy sigh of somber reflection and the sobering reality of the year that was 2020. All of our lives have dramatically changed from what our hope and expectations were a year ago at this time. Our SCCA region was able to pull together and utilize the resourcefulness of our membership to still host Solo’s, Rally’s and a Road Race event with every obstacle imaginable to surpass. I’m very proud of our volunteers that stepped up into roles to make these events successful! The pandemic is not over and may not be for awhile, but we now have a road map to host responsible events and look forward to a fantastic 2021!
I hope everyone has a safe start to the new year and we look forward to announcing our 2021 Season very soon.
Happy New Year,

Tony Brown
Cincinnati Region SCCA – R.E.

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Hello Cincinnati Region Members!

At our latest Cincinnati SCCA Board/Member Meeting on November 17th, the elections for our 2021 Cincinnati SCCA Officer’s were held. By unanimous decision the following will be your officers for 2021!

Region Executive – Tony Brown
Asst Region Executive – Gordon Benson
Treasurer – Christy Graham
Secretary – Glenn Thompson
Board Members at Large 2021-2022
– Brian Walker
– Jeff Loewe
– Takuto Takagi
Board Members at Large 2020-2021
– Jack Burns
– Jim Clark
– Tom Tomlinson

Registration is OPEN for our Cincinnati Region Annual Awards Banquet on FEBRUARY 6th, 2021. Once again it will be at the Fairfield Receptions Event Center in Fairfield. All of the details and registration for the banquet are online at CincySCCA.MotorsportReg.com. PLEASE CLICK HERE to be taken to the site.

Our November meeting wrapped up our regular Board/Member meetings for 2020, our next meeting will be Tuesday January 19th, 2021 and details will come after the new year as to where and how it will take place, Our events have wound down for 2020 but lot’s of planning is going on for 2021 in hopes that the merciless pandemic will eventually be behind us. Please have a wonderful winter and be safe and healthy!

Take care and see you soon!
Tony Brown
Cincinnati Region SCCA, Regional Executive

2020 Meeting Schedule
December – No Meeting

Special RE-Port – ELECTION TIME

Hello Cincinnati Region Members!

Our latest Cincinnati SCCA Board/Member Meeting on October 20th produced our ballot for the 2021 Cincinnati SCCA Officer Elections on NOVEMBER 17th, 2020. The position and candidates on the ballot for 2021 are as follows and are running unopposed:

(The following are 1 year terms)
Region Executive – Tony Brown
Asst Region Executive – Gordon Benson
Treasurer – Christy Graham
Secretary – Glenn Thompson

(The following are 2 year terms served 1/1/2021 to 12/31/2022 – 3 candidates to be elected)
Board Member at Large –
Takuto Takagi
Brian Walker
Jeff Loewe

OUR ELECTION MEETING FOR NOVEMBER WILL BE HELD VIA ZOOM! We would like to see as manyof our Cincinnati SCCA Members in attendance as possible. To attend this ZOOM meeting on Tuesday 11/17/2020 at 7:30pm, please email your request to us at info@cincyscca.com with your FULL NAME and CINCY SCCA MEMBER # so that we can reply to you with the Zoom Meeting Log-In Information.

Speaking of elections, there is another important election I want to remind you about. NO, not that one! This is the election of our new NATIONAL BOARD of DIRECTOR for AREA 4. This person represents our SCCA area which includes the Great Lakes Division on the SCCA National Board of Directors for a 3 year term. The candidates for this position are Dayle Frame (click here for info) and Marcus Meredith (click here for info). This election is being conducted electronically thru your log-in at the my.scca.com website. If you have not yet created your log-in for this website (you will need your member number), no problem. Just go thru the process of creating your log-in and then when you have completed your log-in look for the tab for MEMBER RESOURCES. At the bottom of that tab you will find a link titled SURVEYS AND VOTING. Click on that link and you will find the option to vote for our Area 4 Director. If you have any trouble logging in to the my.scca.com website, please contact Member Services Department at membership@scca.com.

We have also secured a date for our Cincinnati Region Annual Awards Banquet for FEBRUARY 6th, 2021. Once again it will be at the Fairfield Receptions Event Center in Fairfield. All of the details and registration for the banquet are online at motorsportreg.com. PLEASE CLICK HERE to be taken to the site.

Thank you everyone for your continued support of your club during these unprecedented times. The leadership provided by our event teams this year has been incredible. There is a quote I have hanging in my office by James Lane Allen that reads “Adversity does not build character… it reveals it“. This was proven true by the team we were fortunate to have this year that worked tirelessly to plan, organize and implement successful events for our membership in the face of the current pandemic. Let’s hope for an even better 2021!

Take care and see you soon!

Tony Brown
Cincinnati Region SCCA, Regional Executive

2020 Meeting Schedule
November 17th 2020 – 2021 Board Elections via ZOOM
December – No Meeting

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Hello Cincinnati Region members and friends! I hope everyone has been able to have a safe and adventurous (as Covid will allow) summer so far. As we start to see the finish line of our 2020 event season, I would like to send a big thank you to all of you that have and been able to participate in one of our events this year be it solo, rally or autocross. And to those that are taking a breaking from 2020, rest assured that when the time is right and the pandemic is over we look forward to seeing EVERYONE again! And enough cannot be said for your region leaders and volunteers that organize and run our events, many hats off!

Your Cincinnati Board of Directors had our August meeting last month via Zoom on 8/18 and our plan is to have our next meeting on September 15th in the same manner. If you have any questions that you would like to have addressed by the board, please email them to me at re@cincyscca.com and we will answer and either reply back to you or post the answers on our Facebook page. Also, we will be discussing options at our next meeting regarding our 2021 election of officers which normally follows the process of nominations at our October meeting and Elections at our November meeting. Since we are under restrictions still for large gatherings we will talk about options for what we will/can do for this pandemic year. If you have heard from members of other surrounding regions, the plans for their 2021 officer elections (if they have them) are far and wide. We will keep you up to date and if you are interested in running for a position, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me or a member of the board!

Thank you again to our Event Chairs and the volunteers that make our events a success! See you soon!

Tony Brown
Cincinnati Region SCCA – R.E.

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Hello Cincinnati Region SCCA members and friends! At the midpoinit of 2020 we are starting to roll along with some clarity on how the rest of the 2020 season will work out given the current state of our new normalcy in the world. Our Event Chairs will have some good updates in the following sections but I wanted to make note of the exciting news from our Road Racing department! Yes, the rumors are true and we are joint hosting a GLD Champ Series Event at Nelson Ledges! Registration is live on MSR for the racing event and we will soon have information for a Track Event/Testing Day on the Friday before. Exciting!

The Cincinnati SCCA BOD had our June meeting via ZOOM and we feel we might have mastered the technology enough to host our next meeting on July 21st in a town hall style event to allow for more participation. We will have more news to come as we await the most updated indoor group social distancing requirements to be updated by the Governor at the end of this week. Our current plan is to have a hybrid in-person/online meeting but we will have more information and details on that in the coming week.

As our 2020 season is finally getting an oportunity to get off the ground, I want to thank your dedicated Event Chairs, Board Members and countless and essential volunteers that make our events a possibility. Stay safe and see you soon!

Tony Brown
Cincinnati Region, R.E.