Solo Report

I’ll make this quick (hopefully). We have the Great Lakes Divisional SCCA Spring Training coming up on March 10 which is a great opportunity for Junior Driver Program and Solo Safety Steward training. If you can’t make it to Findlay for Spring Training, there will be webinars offered.

Our 2018 schedule is firming up, we now have a Starting Line event on Apr 21 before our first points event on Apr 22. Let’s hope this one isn’t iced out like our last one in Wilmington a couple years ago.

Excited about the season starting in roughly 5 weeks!!!

See posts about each of these elsewhere in the edition or online.

Kent

Solo Safety Steward and Junior Driver Program Training

Doug Gill, SCCA Competition Manager, has announced the 2018 Training Schedule for SSS and JDP.

This Schedule will be up on SoloMatters facebook page, and www.scca.com/pages/autocross.
Please contact Doug via email (DGill@scca.com) if you have any questions.

2018 Solo Safety Steward training Webinars Schedule – 1+ Hour

Date Start by Time Zone Registration
EST CST MST PST Alaska Hawaii
03/20 (Tues) 9:00PM 8:00PM 7:00PM 6:00PM 5:00PM 4:00PM link
05/10 (Thur) 11:00PM 10:00PM 9:00PM 8:00PM 7:00PM 6:00PM link
07/09 (Mon) 8:00PM 7:00PM 6:00PM 5:00PM 4:00PM 3:00PM link
09/13 (Thur) 9:00PM 8:00PM 7:00PM 6:00PM 5:00PM 4:00PM link

2018 Junior Driver Program training Webinars Schedule – 2+ hours

Date Start by Time Zone Registration
EST CST MST PST Alaska Hawaii
03/05 (Mon) 10:00PM 9:00PM 8:00PM 7:00PM 6:00PM 5:00PM link
03/29 (Thur) 11:00PM 10:00PM 9:00PM 8:00PM 7:00PM 6:00PM link
04/02 (Mon) 8:00PM 7:00PM 6:00PM 5:00PM 4:00PM 3:00PM link
06/14 (Thur) 9:00PM 8:00PM 7:00PM 6:00PM 5:00PM 4:00PM link
08/06 (Mon) 10:00PM 9:00PM 8:00PM 7:00PM 6:00PM 5:00PM link
10/29 (Mon) 11:00PM 10:00PM 9:00PM 8:00PM 7:00PM 6:00PM link

RE-Port. February 2017

For being in the middle of winter, Cincinnati Region SCCA has been super busy! We kicked off our year with our first General Membership meeting for 2018 on 1/16, thank you for all that attended! A reminder that our General Membership Meetings are on the 3rd Tuesday of every month at 8pm at the Mill Race Banquet Center.

Immediately after that meeting, Scott Bitzer (RallyCross Chair & Board Member at Large), Tact Takagi (Webmaster & Board Member at Large) and I attended the 2018 SCCA National Convention. The convention this year was jam-packed with information filled sessions and meetings. The initial highlight was being introduced to our new SCCA President & CEO, Michael Cobb. Mr. Cobb gave an impassioned, hopeful, and thoughtful presentation during the Annual Meeting and the Leadership Kickoff Meeting on the current state of the SCCA. He presented his 2018 leadership focus for our club that “We are all here to serve our Members and those that serve the Member.” He gave goals to continue reaching for in our local regions to fulfill our core mission in that “We exist to fuel a safe, and exciting motorsports experience for auto enthusiasts.” Other sessions of note included more detail of the newest race worker specialty “Data Acquisition/Race Data Technician”. This specialty is responsible for collecting and analyzing data to provide the CRB and the Advisory Committees with valuable information to make decisions on car classifications and Balance of Power (BoP) adjustments. If you are interested in more information about this new worker specialty please contact me! During the R.E. meetings and panels we met with our recently re-elected Area Director Marcus Meredith. A big topic of discussion between the R.E.’s was the organization of Great Lakes Division and the upcoming Spring Training.in Findlay, OH on March 10th. During the Road Race meeting there was review of the Runoffs success in 2017 at Indianapolis and talk of the upcoming Runoffs at Sonoma Raceway. Rumor at the time for 2019 Runoffs was Virginia International Raceway (VIR was confirmed the week after we returned). There was also much discussion the following day regarding brainstorming of events that could possibly be done in connection with our existing Solo, Rally and Race events to increase participation, we’ll be talking about some of these at upcoming committee and membership meetings for feedback.

And finally on the last Saturday of January on the 27th we held our Annual Awards Banquet at the Mill Race Banquet Center. We easily had the best turnout for this event in many years and I want to thank everyone again who came out for this event! Many trophies and awards were handed out and there will be a full recap with photos on the website coming soon! And since I have this forum, I wanted to say a few words on being the latest recipient of The Joel Williams Award. Over the years I have had an incredible opportunity to work with & for a group of people that are passionate about competing & organizing motorsports events in our Cincinnati Region and at the Divisional and National level. The team effort to meet and rise above the challenges to move our club forward are sometimes astounding for a “little” not-for-profit organization. I am humbled and honored for the recognition this year. The future looks very promising for our Cincinnati Region and I can’t wait to see what comes next! I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for spring!
Thanks again and see you soon down the road,

Jan 27, 2018: Cincinnati Region SCCA year end awards banquet at the Mill Race Lodge at Winton Woods.

Tony Brown, R.E.

*Photo courtesy of Jeff Loewe Photography

Banquet Registration is Now Open

Cincinnati Region SCCA Award Banquet Registration is now open!

This year’s Award Banquet is on Saturday, January 27th, starting 6:00PM at Mill Race Banquet Center. The registration will be closed on Jan. 19th.

Please join us to congratulate our Annual Award winners and Program Championship Winners.

There will be dinner, door prizes, and the great folks with which to socialize!!

Register on MotorsportReg.com

Please feel free to contact us for any questions. Look forward to seeing everyone!

Solo Report

Along with Christmas shopping, I’ve been busy wrapping up the 2017 Solo season. Trophies are designed and ordered, so please come to the awards banquet to get your trophy or cheer for your friends who do get one. Look for registration details elsewhere on the site.

I’m happy to say we are returning to Traders World starting in April 2018. I’m still in contact with a couple other potential sites, but even if those pan out we will still have events at Traders World. We released our tentative 2018 solo schedule on both our Facebook page and on the website along with other neighboring regions/clubs, national level events, and other major events. Dates and/or locations could change as things are finalized but this should be very close.

Add March 10 to your calendars and come to the Great Lakes Division SCCA Spring Training. There will be Solo Safety Steward training available along with other great topics.

Look forward to seeing everyone at the banquet and next season!!!

Kent Weaver

Rallycross End of Year Report

The much coveted, Charles Eugène Jules Marie Nungesser ace driver award goes to (drum roll please)….. OVR’s Lothrop Withington IV (Draco)… a bottle of something French and wet will land near you in the coming future… a hearty congratulations from Bitzer’s Farm.

The Cincinnati RallyCross Cup award winners are:

In Modified all-wheel Drive:

Joshua Zortman

In Stock Rear wheel drive:

Tyler Baumet

In Modified Rear wheel drive:

Scott Bitzer

We want to give special mention to the Team Watermelon entry for the most absolutly abusive behavior directed towards a used car with 45 runs completed during one event with no apparent damage.