October Membership Meeting

We are having Board/General Meeting tomorrow!
If you are interested in being nominated to run for an office for 2022 calendar year, please attend. If you are interested but cannot attend, please contact us.

October Meeting tomorrow night at 7pm at Shooters again (4981 Winners Circle Drive, Liberty Township, OH 45011).

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Race Report

The runoffs are HERE. Practice and qualifying sessions have been going on this week and races are Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 1-3. The event is being held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Support and follow your region drivers. Watch the races live on the SCCA.COM website.

If you get inspired to see racing in person, there is still an opportunity the weekend of October 16-17, at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. You can get involved by volunteering in one of the many specialties needed to support the racers. If you are interested, let us know and I will personally connect you with the specialty chief who will provide mentorship and give you an experience you won’t soon forget.

Planning to get on the track in 2022 and get your Competition License? Pencil in a Driver’s School at Waterford Hills in Michigan in April. Stay turned for specifics.

Join us.

RoadRally Report

The September’s Scenic Summer Swan Song was held on September 11. There was a small turnout, but a good time was had by all, and everyone made it back to Nick’s American Café in Cleves. The food and service were top notch. Scoring was very tight.
Registration will open soon for the final road rally of the season, Saturday, October 30. The starting/ending location is expected to be Susanna’s Guest House in New Richmond, Ohio. First car out will be around 10:30. I’m not going to give away too much information yet, but you will be exploring in Ohio and Kentucky. Ever been across the Ohio River on a ferry? You will be if you join us. You don’t have to be a member to participate in this kid friendly event. Registration is strongly encouraged at cincyscca.motorsportreg.com.

Gordon Benson
Christy Graham
roadrally@cincyscca.com or
CincySCCARally@yahoo.com
513-658-4677

Solo Report

I was negligent and didn’t get a solo report out last month. A lot has happened over the last two months and a there is a lot yet to happen before the 2021 season wraps up. I could write a book, but will just try to hit the high points.

2021 TireRack SCCA Solo National Championships

First and foremost, we sent nineteen (19!) Cincy members to the SCCA National Championships and had our own Cincy paddock area!

If you haven’t ever gone, you should go and make a week of it so you can take in all aspects of it, the parties, paddock games/events, cookouts, banquets, restaurants with friends, meeting new friends, heck even the trip there an back, etc. Ask Mike Wolf, Ben Weaver, or Tact Takagi since they experienced it for their first time this year. (Okay, Ben was there 12 years ago as a toddler, but this was his first time as a competitor.) Congrats to all the trophy winners and everyone who represented Cincy Region, as this is some of the toughest competition you will find on some of the biggest grippy concrete courses, along with all the other fun! Here is how we fared out of the 1099 drivers:

Rob Clark 6T SS 35 drivers, highest Corvette, 1st Nat’ls trophy
Robert Pendergest 19 SS 35 drivers
Kent Weaver 17 AS 41 drivers
Tim Sholar 18 AS 41 drivers
Ben Weaver 31 AS 41 drivers, first Nationals
Tact Takagi 17 CS 35 drivers, first Nationals
Langlee King 2T CSL 5 drivers, led day 1
Myke Dziengel 11T DS 43 drivers, 1st Nationals trophy
Jo Dziengel 2T DSL 15 drivers, 3rd after day 1, 2nd Nationals trophy
Jack Burns 18 GS 32 drivers
Scott Bourne 22 HS 42 drivers
Keith Koegler 26 HS 42 drivers
Kia Gharib 32 HS 42 drivers
Tina Coil 3 HSL 3 drivers
Dave Montgomery 6T XP 24 drivers
Christian Moist 6 DM 13 drivers
Mike Wolf 13 DM 13 drivers, first Nationals
Robert Armstrong 6T CAMS 27 drivers
Krzysztof Zielinski 30 CAMC 44 drivers

SS 35 SSC 58 SSP 13 XP 24 FSAE 6
SSL 6 SSCL 16 ASP 16 XPL 2 KM 16
AS 41 SSR 12 BSP 12 CP 39
BS 40 CSP 7 CPL 5 CAMS 27
BSL 3 STU 37 CSPL 2 DP 11 CAMC 44
CS 35 STUL 5 DSP 16 EP 8 CAMT 15
CSL 5 STR 34 ESP 4 FP 16
DS 43 STRL 4 FSP 13
DSL 15 STX 46 FSPL 7 AM 11
ES 54 STXL 4 BM 7
ESL 7 STS 52 SSM 7 CM 11
FS 18 STSL 3 SM 18 DM 13
FSL 4 STH 22 SML 6 DML 4
GS 32 STHL 2 SMF 16 EM 12
GSL 1 SMFL 3 EML 3
HS 42 FM 22
HSL 3 FML 3

August Events

Novice 101 – Aug 21 – We held our second Novice 101 event of the year and just like the first, it was very successful. We had 20 instructors/helpers come out to help 41 students improve their driving skills as well as learning how to work course and other key positions to help improve their enjoyment. If you are a novice and interested in running one of our events, you are welcome to enter any event even if you haven’t taken a Novice 101 school, these are just to help you do better and have more fun. Remember, you are eligible to run as a novice for your first full year of autocross competition, but it is not mandatory, you can also run in one of our other classes.

Points Event #5 – Aug 22 – We had 176 entrants for this event, which was one of the hottest events of the year, if not for several years. I was told there were pyrometer readings in grid in the 130 F to 140 F range. Over the weekend, we went through over 30 cases of bottled water! Glad everyone stayed hydrated. Even with the extreme heat and over 170 entrants, we were able to give everyone six runs and still finish running before 4:00. The closest margin of victory went to Keith Koegler over the car owner, Jack Burns in Street Open, by 0.020 secs. Fastest Time of Day and Fastest on PAX both went to Rob Clark in his C8 Corvette with a 43.428 sec run.

September Events

Great Lakes Solo Series (GLSS) Event #9 – Cincy served as the site for the capstone events of the 2021 GLSS series. I’m proud to say once again we put on what most people felt were stellar events even with what felt like temperatures in the 100s (although officially only in the 80s.) We were able to give seven runs to the 95 drivers on Saturday, present trophies, and have over an hour of fun runs completed all by 4:00 pm. The closest battle was in XA where Brandon Mihal in his STi edged Scott Baker in his RX8 by 0.101 secs on his fifth run. Fastest Raw Time went to Neva Hoover in her KM Honda CRG Kart with a 40.818 sec run and top PAX went to Rob Clark in his C8 Corvette with a raw time of 40.859 secs

Great Lakes Solo Series (GLSS) Event #10/Cincy Points Event #6 – On Sunday, we were able to give the 168 drivers six runs, present trophies at 3:30, pack up, and be off-site by 4:36 after a very warm, yet successful weekend. Whereas both Saturday’s and Sunday’s courses were fun and fairly fast, Sunday’s was changed substantially from Saturday’s, and most liked the mix of Sunday’s better. The closest battle of this event and of the year goes to Jason Rector who edged out Adam Austin both in Fiesta STs by 0.002 secs and both improving by roughly 0.3 secs on their last runs! It was a fun battle to watch as the lead swapped between the two. Fastest Raw went to Christian Moist in his DM Birkin 7 with a time of 37.590 secs and fastest PAX went to Rob Clark in his C8 Corvette with a raw time of 37.817 secs.

The GLSS has asked us to host events again next year, which I am glad to report we intent to do. Lastly, I want to thank everyone for making this event so successful and helping raise $5000 for the American Stroke Association!

Upcoming Events

Points Event #7 – Oct 3 – Our next event is this coming Sunday. The points battles are in full swing as many of the class standings and trophies are hotly contested. Come out and fight to earn that trophy and just have fun!

Challenge Event – Oct 23 – We are planning to hold a Challenge event again this year even though timing errors killed the event last year. This event will be run similar to the CAM Challenge events where everyone will get 4 or more runs in the morning (# of runs tbd based on # of entrants) to determine who gets into the challenge brackets. Current plan is for the top eight (8) competitors per each of the four heats by PAX to get into the challenge! Of course all of this is subject to adjustments based on number of entrants. Should be a great time!

Points Event #8 – Oct 24 – Our last points event of 2021 will follow the Challenge Event. Time to finalize the trophy competitions!

Fall Fun Event – Nov 7 – Alas, the last event of the season. A chance to come out and play one last time before winter hibernation takes over.

If you are interested in helping organize and make the events even better, please contact me or one of the current solo committee members. We welcome the help and new perspectives to keep improving our program.

Kent Weaver
Cincy SCCA Solo Chair

RE-Port

What an incredible summer of events we have had so far this year with Solo, Rally and our annual Race & Track Event weekend at Mid-Ohio! Support with entries for all of our opportunities to have fun with cars in our region has been fantastic! A big shout out to our members that chair and organize these activities and their committees that make the events rock. Have you been enjoying these activities and thought “what makes these events tick?” or “can I get involved in making these events better?” and the resounding answer is “YES!”  you can get involved and we are always actively looking for people to learn the “tricks of the trade”! Cincinnati Region has a long history of putting on great events and to continue our mission for the best quality events in the SCCA, WE NEED YOU! Please feel free to talk to one of our event chairs, committee members or myself anytime to set up a time to talk in more depth about our activities and how you can participate on another level!
 
September also takes the competition to the top of the national level with the Solo Nationals out in Lincoln, Nebraska (9/-10) and the National Championship Runoffs this year at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (9/25-10/3). We have many Cincinnati members that have qualified and will be heading out to these events later this month! SAFE TRAVELS and GOOD LUCK to everyone going. If you can’t be there in person to watch, the next best thing is to watch online! Make sure to check out SCCA.COM for schedule updates and to view the events online.
 
Hope everyone has a great Labor Day weekend and we’ll see you soon!
 
Tony Brown
Cincinnati Region SCCA, R.E. 

RoadRally Report

The August Awesome Adventure was held on August 14. A good time was had by all, and everyone made it back to Shooters in Liberty Township in one piece. There was a three-way tie for first with only one missed question, among which was a first-time rally team – apparently, we need to make the questions tougher. If not for a misinterpretation of a series of questions, there would have been a two-way tie with only two missed questions. Visit the cincyscca.com website for complete results.
Registration is open for the fifth road rally of the season, Saturday, mid-morning September 11. The last rally of the season is October 30. The starting/ending location is Susanna’s Guest House in New Richmond, Ohio. First car out will be around 10:30. I’m not going to five away too much information yet, but you will be exploring in Ohio and Kentucky. Ever been across the Ohio River on a ferry? You will be if you join us. You don’t have to be a member to participate in this kid friendly event. Registration is strongly encouraged at cincyscca.motorsportreg.com.

Gordon Benson
Christy Graham
roadrally@cincyscca.com or
CincySCCARally@yahoo.com
513-658-4677

Race Report

Were you at Mid-Ohio with us from July 30 through August 1? If not, you missed a good time. Great weather, lots of entries, competitive races, yummy food – we had it all.  There is a place for every car enthusiast at our race weekend. Gear up to be a part of it next year. Schedules aren’t set until very late fall, but we’ll let you know when we get confirmation.


Don’t forget the runoffs are quickly approaching. The week of September 25-30 will bring practice and qualifying sessions. Races will be on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 1-3. The event is being held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. There are currently 926 entries in 26 classes. Check the SCCA.COM website for details. Support and follow your region drivers.

Meanwhile, there are still two race weekends left in the 2021 season – September 4-5 and October 16-17. You can get involved by volunteering in one of the many specialties needed to support the racers. If you are interested, let us know and I will personally connect you with the specialty chief who will provide mentorship and give you an experience you won’t soon forget. And hey, did you know you can get a reduction in your membership dues by volunteering? I just renewed and saved $45!

Join us.