March 2009_rev - Central Roadracing Association
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March 2009_rev - Central Roadracing Association
March 2009 The New Rider School had a great turn out. We had 35 new racers sign up. Mark Miller and company did a great job giving the new racers information on safety of the track and how their first weekend will go. Remember though it’s not too late to sign up for the New Rider School. If you are interested in becoming a road racer please contact any Board member or Mark Miller. The CRA BOD’s have gone through the 2009 budget and set the pricing for the season. The club costs have gone up over the past few years and the BOD’s have done a good job reducing costs to offset the increases. Unfortunately for 2009 we needed to increase some fees to offset the costs. The 2009 Gate Fee will increase to $70 and Sprint Races will increase to $50. Preregistration pricing will continue but will be increased $5 per sprint. For an average racer running 4 sprints it will increase your costs $30 for the weekend. The club did look at other clubs across the nation and the CRA still offers the best value for sprints. If any member has questions about the pricing or cost please contact me and we can go over the differences for 2009. The CRA had a great showing at the 2009 Cycle World Show in February. It was nice seeing familiar faces at the booth and meeting potential racers and workers. Thank you to all that helped out by working the booth, you represented the club well. The club will be at the Minneapolis Auto Show on the first floor in the BIR booth. I would like to thank BIR for inviting us to the show again this year. The volume of people coming through the Auto Show is huge and to get the club in front of those folks is great publicity. We are still looking for a couple volunteers to man the booth. Please contact Mark Fisk if you are interested. ~ Dustin W ELCOME N EW M EMBERS U PCOMING E VENTS March 21st – 29th Minneapolis Auto Show April 1st May Race Weekend Preregistration Opens 8:00 pm April 7th 7:30 pm Richfield VFW April 25th May Race Weekend Preregistration Closes 8:00 pm May 1st - 3rd First Race Weekend Sprint Races, Trophy Dashes, Framstad Cup, Formula 40 Long Course Mpls Convention Ctr This may be the first newsletter for many of you. Whether you are a new rider who will be taking our New Rider School this season, a racer returning after a break or a new member or volunteer, welcome to the CRA. We’re glad to have you with us. Membership Meeting As with all of the positions in the CRA, the newsletter is written and created by volunteers. Serena and I are always looking for story ideas, photos, etc. If you have anything to offer for the newsletter, please email us at: [email protected] Brainerd Int’l Raceway On a side note, a lot of our newsletter costs are covered by our advertisers. Please make sure to support those who support us! Here’s to a great 2009 season! Kathie P.S. If someone asks you why they didn’t get their March newsletter, please remind them that it only goes out to paid 2009 members, or have them contact Nick our membership director. 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Contact: Cari 800-443-0625 or email: [email protected] 200 Main St., Manchester, MN 500 B&W Business Cards: $8.00 500 B&W Business Cards 2-sided: $12.00 250 Color Business Cards: $12.00 250 2-part Carbonless Forms: $54.00 Call Jensales: 800-443-0625 www.jensales.com Originals and Quality Reproductions of Service, Operator and Parts Manuals for nearly every tractor, implement, and piece of heavy equipment made. Absolut(ely) the Best Manuals 2009 P RE R EGISTRATION Mark your calendars! 2009 Pre-registration deadlines. It’s the information you have all been waiting for! Listed below are the pre-registration deadlines for the 2009 CRA Race Season. We have tweaked the times a bit to make them more user friendly (no more midnight opening/closing). Note that the May weekend registration opens at 8 pm, while all others open at 8 am! May Weekend Opens Wed. 4/1 at 8 pm Closes Sat. 4/25 at 8 pm June Weekend Opens Sat. 5/30 at 8 am Closes Sat. 6/13 at 8 pm July Weekend Opens Sat. 6/27 at 8 am Closes Sat. 7/11 at 8 pm August Weekend Opens Sat. 8/1 at 8 am Closes Sat. 8/15 at 8 pm September Weekend Opens Sat. 9/5 at 8 am Closes Sat. 9/19 at 8 pm We will be using the same ‘shopping cart’ that was used last year, although it may look slightly different. You can find the official directions on how to pre-register on the CRA website under the forms/info/fees tab. Even if you used the site last year, you will need to re-register for your user name/password. Reminder… NEW RIDERS CAN NOT PRE-REGISTER ON THEIR NEW RIDER WEEKEND. The one important change this year is this… if you forget to add the multi-sprint discount to your order, you have two options. 1) You keep your grid spot (order you registered in) and forfeit the discount, essentially registering at full price. 2) You get your order cancelled, forfeit your grid spot (order you registered in), re-order and add your discount. The directions to use the pre-registration system are very clear, and there should be no reason to not add your multi-sprint discount in. It is your responsibility to check your order before you submit your credit card information for payment. If you click the submit order button and the discount is not there, I will notify you by email. You will have until the pre-registration deadline to make your choice of 1 or 2. If you do not respond by deadline, you will receive option 1. We are currently in the process of setting up the shopping cart. Please wait to register your username/password until 3/28 or after. Make sure to read the directions on how we would like you to set up your user name (it should include your bike number). If you are a top 10 expert, please list the number that you will have on your bike. Any questions, please let me know. ~ Kim Mattson [email protected] C HIEF OF H OSPITALITY N EEDED With regret I have resigned the position of Chief of Hospitality. I do not know how many, if any, CRA events I will be able to attend this year. Therefore I do not feel it is in the club’s best interest for me to hold this position. I will still be doing the newsletter and season program however. Please read below for what is required, and if interested contact Mark. ~ Kathie Lanigan The CRA is looking for a volunteer for the Chief of Hospitality position within the club. Primary responsibilities of this very important role include: Ensuring the workers get fed lunch during the race weekend, providing beverages for worker appreciation on Saturday nights, along with any CRA sponsored event that involves serving food (banquet, brat feed, year-end trophy ceremony etc). The Chief of Hospitality sees that lunch is provided each day for the CRA volunteers and works under the direct supervision of the Board of Directors by: • Calling ahead of time to order lunches and beverages • Picking up food/beverages 1/2 hour before lunchtime if necessary • Arranging setup of lunch line and helping serve all the volunteers • Helping clean up lunch area and return supplies to proper place If you are interested, please contact Mark Fisk at 612-685-5236 or [email protected] RV S TORAGE AT BIR BIR has again agreed to offer RV storage between CRA events. The cost will be $30 between each event. (Stop in the front office at BIR to make arrangements.) Units must be parked in the infield over the new bridge and to the left. (If you have been there for Nationals, it is where the Rickshaw Races are.) Absolutely NO units may be left there between August 3rd and August 17th. If they are, they will be towed at the owner’s expense. 2009 C OMPETITION N UMBERS ( AS Rider OF 3/17/09) Class # Rider Brett Donahue NR-E 10 Tino Carmona N Tony Mahto E Zach Hughes E Tony Peterson Jay Bryant Jason Lanigan E David Olson Jr Class # Darren Rime N 36 11 Bryan Okubo E 37 12 Jeff Japs E 38 13 James Mullen E 39 E 14 Jennelle LeBlanc E 15 Gareth Jones 16 Eric Barbot E 40 E, LTM 41 NRS 43 N 17 Glen Christianson E 44 Bradley Lancour Jr. NR-N 18 Phil Batzlaft E 45 Christopher Spargo E 19 Mike Gates N 47 Brian Boyd William Carlson Brent Juusola E 20 Shane Keaveny NRS 21 Brian Janssen E 22 E 48 NRS 49 Nicholas Campbell E 50 Sean Edgett E 23 Ramin Delshad E 51 Kurt Schuschke E 24 Robert Jensen E 5/52 Kurt Proctor E 25 Michael Wagner E 53 Dave Rosno E 26 Cameron Fisher N 54 Eric Dooyema E 28 Ward Jensen E 55 Bruce Holmstrom E 29 Tony Day E 56 James Phillipps E 30 Kevin Gordon E 57 Michael Smith E 31 GR Gardiner N 58 Marc Chiodo E 32 Shaun Bennett E 59 Greg Siem N 33 Dan Bowden E 60 John Roswick N 34 Jesse Stoner E 61 Troy Pierson N 35 Scott Riley E 62 2009 C OMPETITION N UMBERS Rider Class # NRS 205 Christian Schmidt E 6/208 Jaron Gustofson NRS 546 Sheldon Lutterman N 212 Carlos Montenegn NRS 560 116 Gustavo Aramayo N 214 Eric Romanowicz N 575 N 117 Christopher Forster NRS 217 Jonah Klevesahl N 612 N 118 Aaron Collins E 220 Todd Johnson N 614 119 Pat Udenberg E 221 Kris Skellenger NRS 615 E 121 Jason Cheng N 223 Quoc Huynh N 122 Aaron Anderson E 7/225 NRS 123 Greg Sand NRS Tony Legueri E 126 Aaron Nelson Zach Amick N 131 Kurt Mosher Eric Purves E 137 Robert Oliva E Michael Hale N Class # Rider Brian Chen N 65 Joe Sjolander Mark Dargis E 66 Amanda Scheibelhut Matthew Losen E 69 Mark Scheibelhut Andy Martin N 70 Dean Nemitz Cary Tankson E 71 Noel Shuckhart Kyle Knutson E 73 James Pendergrass Brad Zajic E 1/75 Mark Jensen N Jonathan Smrecek N 76 Robert Pretts 77 Jourdan Siem NRS 79 Dustin Miller Karl Rehpohl E 80 Adam Shaddrick N 81 Tony Williams E 4/82 Todd Counters E 83 Pete Monson E 84 Sheldon Nelson E 85 Derek Gilbertson Nick McCoy N 86 Brian Cieluch N 87 Mark Miller E Andrew Kruse Eric Josephsen Jake Anfang Rider Class # N 113 Jamie Boyle NRS 114 N 115 N Rider Mike Hamm Class # N 501 NRS 619 Gabriel Blevins E 620 228 Toby Olsen E 622 NRS 230 Scott Christopher N 666 N 240 Neill Ward N 667 David Johnson E 242 Benjamin Moore N 677 145 Jason Hoffman NRS 246 Anthony Gallagher E 713 147 David Ostwald N 257 Jonathan Shore NRS 722 NRS 151 Brian Martin N 260 Bradley LeBlanc N 740 Shane Fletcher E 3/157 John Buren NRS 271 Bill Pelfrey NRS 748 Dennis Goman E 166 Jacob Hawthorne NRS 300 John Wolff E 777 88 Steve Bauman E 169 Dustin Jagusch E 301 Anthony Myhre NRS 817 E 89 Jason Anderson NRS 171 Lauren Clapp E 90 Jessica Zalusky E 2/172 N 92 Dennis Zajac N 173 Tucker Dally Retired - Don Framstad Luke Marty 2009 C OMPETITION N UMBERS Ernest Scherger N 304 Daniel Peters N 818 NRS 308 Jason Bartlett N 822 E 8/309 Paul Jensen E 888 Aaron Colton E 93 Eric VonHolt E 175 Wesley Thomsen NRS 313 James Roberts John Sterling N 94 Alexander Freeman E 177 Patrick O’Neill NRS 317 Hytham Abu-Safieh Brent Bixby E 96 Corey Haag NR-N 181 Dwayne Stroman N 334 Darren Hickey E 98 Nathan Massa NRS 183 Robin Hiney N N 889 NRS 900 Sean Krelle N 912 345 Bradley Johannes E 913 Paul Heinen E 99 Kevin Anibas E 185 Kenneth Earl NRS 357 Patrick Murphy N 916 Joshua Jones E 100 Chad Bakkene E 186 Ty Huynh NRS 373 Serena Loy-Petersen N 919 NRS 101 Glenn Hinton NRS 188 Jeremy Womack N 381 Joseph Kasper E 944 NRS 189 Jennifer Jensen N 383 Corey Robinson E 951 E 190 Geoffrey Egerman N 410 Shawn Conrad E 9/971 NRS 192 Mitchell Weege N 411 Charles Dinges NRS 987 Denyse Woodwick Jeff Touhey E 103 Katie Rouse Patrick Beyers E 105 Franklin Webb Michael Pendergrass N 106 Christapher Morse Michael Lear N 107 Richard Nelson E 194 Jeffrey Madsen N 416 Michael Nemitz N 998 Tony Rau N 110 David Holter E 195 Robyn Udenberg N 442 Derek Gallion N 999 Tom Maier E 111 Allen Hoover E 200 Dean Rumfola E 451 T HE I NFAMOUS S PARES K IT (and other info every racer needs Spares are a big deal. No matter what bike I am racing I usually have an extensive spares kit. I learned along time ago it sucks to walk around the paddock looking for spares from strangers, which is everyone if you are a new racer. Plastic totes work great to keep things contained and inventoried. Target sells these very cheap. No matter what your choice in race bike, you will need a good spares kit to go along with you to every event. Things to keep in mind when setting up your spares kit: Have an inventory list in the box, and update it when a part is added or subtracted. This makes track repairs much quicker and also helps out someone else in need quickly should that situation arise. The aforementioned plastic totes work really well and stack nicely inside a trailer or the bed of a truck. Be helpful to fellow racers with your spares (Karma goes along way at the track). If you have multiple spares of a specific item you can sell it to a racer in need, if you only have one of that part, you could loan it to them with the promise of return after the event or payment if it is ruined. This helps with that Karma thing I spoke of earlier. Always have plenty of Clip-ons, Rearsets, foot pegs, exhaust clamps, fairing stays, oil, oil filters, grips, windscreens, brake pads, clutch and brake levers, shifters and brake pedals, and other highly consumable hard parts. These items get damaged often, even in low speed crashes and tip-overs. Always bring everything with you (that you can). If you have a spare set of forks, a spare fuel tank, or spare exhaust, bring them with you. Bring all the little miscellaneous bits you never thought you would need. Bring stuff to facilitate the making of a part or bracket (metal stock, nuts and bolts, duct tape, zip-ties, etc). You can often repair something with parts that had no natural use in that function. Remember that Function is always first, you need to make the bike work, weather in optimum shape or not. I have raced with bent forks, one foot peg, shifters made from handlebars, and numerous other “Franken-bike” type parts. The goal is to get on track and race. I hate working on the bike at the track and try to be as prepared as possible when I arrive, but the reality is that we will always have to fix something at the track so be as prepared as you can. Learning the hard way about what you need is how most of us learned. We needed something and did not have it. This not only wastes time and effort, but it often can cost you a race you have already paid for, or maybe even a championship you have been fighting for all season long. Setting up your “Spares Kit” is a task that never ends. It starts when you start building or setting up your race bike. The race bike project has a completion point but the Spares Kit project is always ongoing. Be on the lookout for windscreens, throttle assemblies, master cylinders, subframes, forks, wheels, etcetera, as these often can be purchased from internet auction sites, and motorcycle forums for considerably less money than new. Always remember to update your inventory list as you add to and subtract from your Kit. ~ Mark Miller #88 Chief New Rider Instructor Web: www.lithiummotorsports.com Phone: 800- 894-7190 Proud Sponsors of CRA Expert Middleweight Races for 2009! CENTRAL ROADRACING ASSOCIATION 2845 Harriet Ave, Suite #203 Minneapolis, MN 55408 www.cra-mn.com