Solo Report

Wow, August has been a hectic month! Thanks everyone for hanging with us through the good and bad.

SCCA Solo Town Hall Meeting webinar, Aug 5, 2020
2020 National Championships – August started with a SCCA Solo Town Hall webinar on Aug 5 during which we heard the 2020 Solo National Championships had been cancelled and the Junior Driver Program was to remain suspended throughout the rest of 2020. Not going to go into a whole lot of detail here, but SCCA had been working closely with the city and county officials and determined the cancellation of the Championships was the prudent decision in light of it attracting 700 – 1200 people from all across the nation and possibly endangering countless others no matter how responsible everyone was. Additionally, this helps preserve the great relationship we have with Lincoln and the opportunity to return for many years in the future. I was disappointed personally as it would have been my 24th year and Ben’s first, but I understand fully – that said, everyone should make plans to attend at least once in the future, it’s a great site and even better event!

Junior Driver Program – The second part of the webinar covered the Junior Driver Program being suspended for 2020 and not returning until 2021. For those who hadn’t heard, earlier this year where even though all the processes and procedures were being followed properly a junior karter was involved in an incident which highlighted the need for the immediate strategic pause initiated much earlier this year the Friday before our first event. They are studying how to ensure proper procedures and processes are in place, what those should be, and how to enforce them. Discussions included the potential for each region needing to be certified starting 2021. More to follow, but alas, no Junior Driver Program events for us in 2020, sorry.

So on with the good…

With the 2020 National Championships cancelled, we took the opportunity to add an event this coming weekend:
Southwestern Ohio Autocross Challenge, Sept 5-6, 2020
This promises to be a great event! After we heard Nationals was cancelled we placed a poll on our CincySCCA Solo-Autocross Facebook page to gauge interest in an event. The response was overwhelmingly positive and included some interesting suggestions, the most intriguing of which was to hold a bracket challenge Sunday “afternoon” like at the CAM Challenge, ProSolo, or Match Tours So, we are going to do just that! Anyone running Sunday can qualify for a 32 driver bracket “Sunday afternoon” where the person who is closest to their dial in time or improves the most in each paring will move on to crown the inaugural champion. You can enter to run just Saturday, you can enter to run just Sunday, or you can run both days. This will be a joint event with MVSCC as we would have been stepping on their regularly scheduled event and each day will count as separate points events for them if you enter in a NASA-X class. For Cincy, it will be a two-day combined-time event and even if you don’t run both days you might still be able qualify for an event trophy. PAX times Sunday each heat will be used to determine qualifiers for the Challenge.

Entries are still open for Sat, Sun, or both days! Sign up on line now! http://cincyscca.motorsportreg.com

Novice 101 School – Aug 15, 2020
We were able to conduct our Novice 101 school for 42 entrants in August. With COVID limitations, the majority of the instruction was from outside the car having instructors radio in things they saw from the course as well as the other instructors providing the 1-on-1 feedback. We would have liked to have been able to be in car with the students as traditionally done, but we did what we could. Everyone got at least 12 runs and in talking with the students and instructors it still seemed to go have gone very well and very appreciated. Students received instruction on everything from having their car ready for tech inspection, driver position, course walking, looking ahead, late-apexing, and worker skills. Looking forward to next year where we can go back to in car instruction hopefully in 2021.

Points Event #6 – Aug 16, 2020
We had 163 entrants, gave 6 runs, and had last car done by 4:12. The John Custer designed course was a hoot to drive, many thought it was the best we had there, potentially ever. It included a loop near the beginning, what became a high speed run exiting the loop into/through the walloms, and a good mix of technical aspects. The tightest battle of the day was in STR where Justin King in his Miata edged Tom Mills in his S2000 by a mere 0.002 secs for the win! Not to be outdone, Christopher Walentschik edged Glenn Thompson by the same 0.002 secs for the battle between 6th and 7th in an 11 driver STU class. Street Open had the lead swapping back and forth all day amongst the top five finishers with Chris Rudy taking the win and the top four finishing within 0.102 secs. Top Raw time went to Danny Popp with a 35.997 over Paul Curley with a 36.230. Top PAX seemed to become a Corvette challenge as Chris Rudy (4th) was the only non-Corvette in the top six where Danny Popp garnished top PAX with a 29.985 over Rob Clark with a 29.990. Results are here: https://cincyscca.com/autocross/2020-solo-schedule-results/

Great Lakes Division Solo Series Events 9 & 10 / Cincy Points Event #7, Sep 19 & 20, 2020
Our next events in Sept after our challenge event is our Great Lakes Division Solo Series Events 9 & 10 / Cincy Points Event #7. These are separate events each day being the last two of the GL Div 2020 season and with Sunday’s event also being a points event for Cincy. With the cancellation of Nationals, a number of national level events were scheduled across the country in Sep and Oct to make up for the loss. In this case, SCCA and NWOR scheduled a Championship Tour on the beloved concrete of Toledo Express Airport on the same dates as our event. We explored many other options such as potential dates of Sep 26-27 and Oct 10-11 to resolve this conflict, but in the end it became apparent the best approach for the majority of the entrants was to leave it on Sep 19-20. The biggest factor was how so many of our competitors had bookmarked these dates early in the year and can’t change work schedules to be there, but there were also no clean dates which didn’t have other event conflicts. Please understand this was not an easy decision as Toledo is a big draw for many of us personally, but I firmly believe it is the right one. Other than that, I am very excited, these events have been a great draw and bring in great talent from across the division!

If you haven’t already registered, register here: https://cincyscca.motorsportreg.com/

2020 Season Point Standings
The standings are posted with many tight battles and only two points events remaining on Sep 20 and Oct 4 currently. We are considering making the Oct 25 fun event our last points event to make up for missing PE2, please stand by for updates.
See standings here: https://cincyscca.com/autocross/2020-solo-schedule-results/

Kent Weaver
Cincy Solo Chair

Solo Report

Welcome to August!

Last weekend we had a joint event with Western Ohio Region (WOR) at Traders World on July 25 & 26. Everyone needs to thank WOR for helping us resolve a conflict with our originally scheduled date a week earlier which became the date for the Peru Championship Tour at Grissom Aeroplex. Out of the graciousness of their heart they agreed to let us move our event to what was their weekend and move their event to Saturday at Traders World! Along that line, we had 20 Cincy members attend the Peru Champ Tour to enjoy the grippy concrete with a couple first timers and many of us who regularly travel to other events. Congrats go to David O’Maley who set fastest time of day both raw and PAX!

Photo courtesy of Jeff Loewe

For those who attended the joint WOR/Cincy events last weekend, you know it went very well even with the sweltering temperatures. WOR hosted a great event on Saturday with 142 entrants – by far the largest turn out on a Sat yet! Sunday, we had 154 entrants. Everyone got six runs both days on challenging and very different courses on Sat and Sun designed by Nathan Roberts and were done running by 3:30! I want to personally thank all of you for playing within the state COVID guidelines, saw plenty of masks, hand sanitizer being used, and social distancing. Thank you

Photo courtesy of Jeff Loewe

Our next events are a Novice 101 School on Aug 15 and Points Event 6 on Aug 16. The Novice school is intended for novices (no matter what class you run) and will provide instruction on work assignments, tech inspection, what to do to be ready for an event, driver position, walking the course, and of course driving skills. Primary instruction will be with instructors outside the vehicles to comply with COVID guidelines. We will have an entry cap of 50 students for the school, please sign up early!

Going back to the large Cincy group traveling to events outside Cincy, the CAM Challenge is back at Peru next weekend, Aug 7-9. You do NOT have to have a CAM car to compete, they have a “worker” class where you can run both days (9 runs over the two) for $40 but you will need to stay and work the CAM Challenges on Sunday afternoon.

Kent Weaver
Cincy SCCA Solo Chair

Solo Report

I’m happy to report our second event weekend (Points Event 4 by number) is in the books and went very well! Thank you to the 159 entrants and of course the solo committee who decided to spend Fathers Day with us and made it all possible to hold these events in a responsible manner while getting to enjoy the hobby we love. Unfortunately we made the decision to limit it to only four runs because we had timing issues first heat, the weather was threatening to thunderstorm in the afternoon, and of course it was Fathers Day so we wanted to make it so people could go spend time with their loved ones. Want to take the time to recognize Danny Popp and his team for designing one of the funnest courses we’ve ever had at Traders World! When timed competition ended at 2:30 thanks to great work by all during heats 2, 3, and 4, it looked like we would have the opportunity for fun runs. Looking at the radar it appeared the weather gods had something else in mind as the storms came right after we awarded trophies and got the trailer loaded. Guess the four runs was the right decision.

Next up is a joint event with WOR at Traders World on July 25 (WOR) and July 26 (Cincy Points Event 5.) This was originally scheduled for July 19 but the Grissom Champ Tour got moved to the 19th so we had to move ours to a week later on what would have been a conflict with WOR. We worked closely with WOR to see what could be done and thankfully WOR helped us come to this fantastic arrangement. The Saturday event will be a points event for WOR at Traders World using their classes, but we will also award points as a make up for PE1.

No new information on potential for changes to our COVID procedures, but the Monroe police officer were there and were very complimentary to how we conducted our event. Stay tuned to our Cincy Solo Facebook page for updates to the procedures as we determine we can make them.

Kent Weaver

Solo: Registration Now Open for WOR PE5(CincyPE1)/CincyPE5

Registration is now open for Saturday July 25th Western Ohio Region (WOR) Solo Points Event #5 and Sunday July 26th, Cincinnati Region Solo Points Event #5.

*The event registration closes on Thursday July 23rd, 10:00PM.
*Pre-Regisger/Pre-Pay ONLY, Entry CAP 150 (may change)

*Please read our COVID-19 Guideline closely. The Guideline will be updated as situation changes.

Saturday is WOR Points Event #5, but also counts toward CincySCCA PE1 Make-up Day.  As such, car classes will primarily be those offered by WOR.   (Cincy points will be calculated per Cincy classing structure after the event.)

WOR will be running “PAX (Index)” classes to facilitate better competition. They are as follows:

S – Street (formerly Stock) Classes (SS, AS, BS, CS, DS, ES, FS, GS, HS, HCS)
ST – Street Touring Classes (STF, STX, STS, STR, STU, STP)
SP – Street Prepared Classes (SSP, ASP, BSP, CSP, DSP, ESP, FSP, SSR)
P – Prepared Classes (XP, BP, CP, DP, EP, FP, HCR)
M – Modified Classes (AM, BM, CM, DM, EM, FM, FSAE, SMF, SM, SSM)
CAM – Classic American Muscle & XS (CAM-S, CAM-T, CAM-C, XS-A, XS-B)
L – Ladies (any sub-class)
N – Novice (any sub-class)

Sunday is Cincinnati Region’s Point Event #5. Classes will be normal Cincy offering.

Cincinnati Region SCCA accept all SCCA Classifications.  In addition, we also have Index Classes for similar category cars, as well as Novice, Pro, and Tire Index.

If you would like your Saturday event results to be counted toward Cincy PE1, please make sure to run appropriate/equivalent Car/Class for the Cincy Region’s class offering.

If you have any questions, Please contact us.

Registration:
CincySCCA.MotorsportReg.com

Solo: We are now offering SpeedWaiver (electronic waiver)

We are now offering the Speed Waiver at our Solo events.

Image Courtesy of MotorsportReg.com

If you have signed up for Point Event #4, you will receive an email shortly with a link to the Speed Waiver.
(You will need a smartphone with text/data ,fee may apply, to complete the Speed Waiver.)

Once you receive the email, please follow the link, and complete the sign up process.
You will then be provided a screen that looks like your photo ID, and also a text message with the link to the page.
You need to open the page, and show to the waiver staff at the gate, and receive a wristband.

This will reduce the time it takes at the gate as you will no longer need to sign the paper waiver at the gate.
Please be prepared before you arrive to the gate, so that you are ready to show us the screen shot or waiver page.

Annual waiver is still available through SCCA, and if you do have one already, there is no need to sign the speed waiver.
We will have the paper waiver available at the site as well.

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

Solo Report

Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back! That is the theme for the month of June. We have gone through many iterations of on and off over the past few months. Even as late as the week before last things changed three times in three days before settling in as a go. Of course we are subject to the State of Ohio COVID-19 guidelines and orders which are ever changing to react to the situation and threat.

So as of right now we are a go for our first events of 2020 this weekend with a limited entry Test & Tune this Sat and our first points event (still titled PE3) Sunday!!! These are limited entry events which are pre-register and prepay only – NO WALKUPS.

Since Traders World is so visible publicly we need to follow closely to help ensure we keep our site and ability to put on events there. Understand wearing a mask and social distancing can be a hassle or is no fun, but please do what you can to help us. Face masks are required as you come through the gate, sign waivers, driver check in, and some worker positions. We will have a limited supply of face masks available at our cost and Will also have gloves.

Depending how all this goes we will see how things change for our next event on Jun 21st. Those will also be preregistration and prepay so register early!

Kent Weaver

Solo: Registration is Now Open for Point Event 4 (June 21)

While we eagerly getting ready for our season opener, T&T and Point Event 3 next weekend, Point Event #4 Registration is now open at:
CincySCCA.MotorsportReg.com



Again, Please note this and other future events may be canceled to comply with COVID-19 mandates.

We will notify entrants via email for any event cancellation/schedule change. We will also announce on our website and Facebook. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us via email or through the facebook message.

Also please carefully read the following COVID-19 policy summary.
(Up to Date Full version: CincySCCA.com/Autocross/Rules)

Cincy SCCA Solo COVID-19 Operating Guidelines Executive Summary

  • Do not attend if you are or have been sick with COVID-19 type symptoms in the past 14 days
  • Preregistration/Prepay only, NO Onsite/Walk-up Registrations
  • Spectators are discouraged
  • YOU ARE REQUIRED TO BRING YOUR OWN FACE MASK AND PEN TO THIS EVENT
  • It is highly recommended everyone on site wear a mask/facial covering when not wearing a helmet
  • Social distancing measures are required on site
  • Requested to bring nitrile or latex gloves for your work assignment
  • Drivers meeting will be held over PA and FM Radio
  • LOANER HELMETS AND BOTTLED WATER WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE
  • No passengers except necessary by law or by safety
  • Co-driving is permitted with social distancing
  • Credit Card will not be charged until registration closes
  • If event is cancelled after registration closes, we will refund or credit

* We continue to monitor the situation closely and will provide updates as we receive them. We appreciate your understanding. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us via email or on Facebook message (https://www.facebook.com/groups/CincySCCASolo/)