March 2013 Drift Newsletter

Congratulations
Larry Dent
For
50 YEARS with
SCCA!!!
Meeting Minutes: February 20th, 2013
After everyone was welcomed in, the Regional Executive, Steve Mieritz called the meeting to order.
Steve called to approve the meeting minutes to be approved as published on fwscca.com. Treasurer, Ron Gallmeyer seconded and the approval was unanimous.
Ron then gave his report on the financial health of our club. He stated that the club was in the
black last year including depreciation on the club bus making it a financially successful year.
The Assistant RE, Corey Henkle told us that we are at 133 members. We then discussed ideas on
how to convert more participants to members.
Tyler Pedersen, Solo Director, joined us by conference call. He told us that the schedule has
been sent to Chris for posting on fwscca.com even though a few things may need to change. One
thing being the possible location of the Kitty Hawk site. Tyler is still in conversations with the airport folks to try and get that site for at least a couple events. He also said that the current 2013
schedule has all events in Fort Wayne except for the Hoosier Challenge at Grissom, which is being hosted this year by the South Bend Region.
Saturday, April 27th will be our Solo School. We are looking for instructors to share their
knowledge. Sunday, April 28th will be our first points event.
We will have a truck cleaning party at Steve Mieritz’s house on Sunday, April 14th. Please plan on
helping out. Pizza and pop will be provided.
We are in need of Event Masters to supervise Solo events for the 2013 season. These persons
will work with Tyler ahead of time to be sure of an easy and smooth execution. Jerry Strope
tried to volunteer to host the Grissom event, but since Fort Wayne Region will not be hosting it
this year, Jerry will check his schedule to try a different date. (Thanks Jerry)
Chris Krumnow, our webmaster, explained the traffic on our website and where the traffic is
coming from. He told us of his plans on improving the site in the near future including a section
for latest changes to the site – making it easier to keep up with new content.
Jason Massey is back as our Drift Editor. He is asking for content to put in our newsletter. All of
us have interesting things we can relate to our friends. It doesn’t have to be long. It can be one
paragraph. The Drift newsletter is only good if we have content to put into it.
There will be no J.A. Grand Prix this year. Participation has been steadily decreasing in recent
years, and Junior Achievement has decided to go in a new direction this year. It has been a great
program.
We have 3 current board vacancies. Steve brought a motion to accept two volunteers to fill
these vacancies until the next election. Ron seconded, and the board voted, unanimously, to accept Tom Miller as Director At Large and Ivan Almodovar as Secretary.
With business concluded, Steve called to adjourn. Ron seconded and everyone voted to adjourn.
This Meeting Minutes report submitted by Steve Mieritz
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JA Grand Prix Changes for 2013
The JA Grand Prix has been a great event for nearly 20 years, and FWR
members have pulled together to run the race day event since its inception. Thanks to everyone who has given time and energy to raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for Junior Achievement and kids' financial literacy.
As you know, event participation has dwindled slowly over the years. Fewer
cars means much less financial return to JA for all the work. The JA Board
has reviewed options and decided it is time to rest the JA Grand Prix and try
another community event for 2013.
The new event will be exciting – Adventure Quest. It's a Fort Wayne version
of the Great Race. In general, teams of 2 or 4 people will register, then in a
one-evening Friday night format on June 28, 2013, teams will travel to a
variety of city locations. At each venue, the teams will perform fun tasks,
answer riddles, dodge zombies, etc. for their next location clue.
Bottom line: no JA Grand Prix date needs to be reserved on your calendar
for 2013. Maybe FWR or your company wants to sponsor a team. Let us
know if you want more info as we get it (or visit www.jani.org and click on
"Events").
This is a TENTATIVE schedule. The May IPFW and the July Coliseum event
could change depending on the site.
Solo (autocross) Schedule 2013
Solo School – April 27th (IPFW)
Points #1 – April 28th (IPFW)
Points #2 – May 5th (Coliseum)
Points #3 – May 19th (IPFW)
National Match Tour – June 1-2 (Grissom)
Points #4 – June 23rd (Coliseum)
Points #5 – July 14th (Coliseum) Great Lakes Division Event
National Pro Solo – July 27th (Toledo)
National Tour – August 3-4th (Wilimington, OH)
Points #6 – August 18th (Grissom) Hoosier Challenge hosted by SBR
National AutoX Championships – Sept 3-6th (Lincoln NE)
Points #7 – Sept 15th (Coliseum)
Points #8 – Oct 6th (Coliseum)
Points #9 – Oct 27th (IPFW) Halloween Event
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From the Editor...
Need more? How can we get more? What can we do to engage more?
I have heard these general statements in many activities I am a part of, whether it is racing, home and garden show, running our business, and just simple networking groups I
participate in. I will not preach like I am the all and knowing leader of how to accomplish
this task of “more”, but I will leave a couple points to help us discuss the problem of retention.
There has to be something at stake for engagement of our members, usually discounts are not the saving grace
for this retention, but it does sweeten the deal. There needs to be clear focus and dialog on the mission or the
perception of the goal at hand. Then there is the buy in. How do you get the guest to buy in and the volunteer to
step up? A club is only as powerful as its product and volunteers – but then you must ask, why are we striving
for more? Are we not having fun with what we have? Is there a problem with the product we are selling to our
guests? Maybe it is more of a matter of the products policies or rules that keeps retention low… Maybe all this
energy focused on more “quantity of members” than the quality of service we offer the member is our root
problem with retention.
All great ideas sound AWESOME when on paper, but the meat of the AWESOMENESS is how real the experience
is with people wanting to volunteer for the duty and the major challenge is to keep from blowing out the fire
that burns within the volunteer – from over working them on the AWESOMENESS. There is a role call I have with
my activities and it goes like this: Family & Friends, Work, and then everything else or other. I am sure a majority
of volunteers in most club activities have this same role call to manage with when being a member of the
“other”, probably the norm. How do you work around this? This might be a million dollar question but I wonder
if it is simpler than we think. Make the product so irresistible that you mix the three roles together, bring the
family, friends, work, and other into one event. I personally believe that is what the SCCA is all about…
Member of the SCCA or not – you are welcomed as family and the events are promoted to be fun, challenging, and a way to network with new relationships –
whether it be business or pleasure, the focus is there. The goal has been achieved,
and I would keep the focus of promotions on that whole perspective. Sure – there
are always tweaks that can be made, welcome packs to new members, thank you
packs for your service, a strong awards program for you volunteer work – the list
goes on. Just do not lose track of the whole reason we are all doing what we are
LAST
MONTH’S
NEWSLETTER
doing, TO HAVE FUN! —Jason Massey
Upcoming Events
20-Mar
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Board of Director's Meeting/Membership Meeting
17-Apr
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Board of Director's Meeting/Membership Meeting
27-Apr
8:00 AM
Solo School – IPFW)
28-Apr
8:00 AM
Points #1 – IPFW)
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Asst. RE: Corey Henkle
I would like to welcome everyone back for the 2013 Fort Wayne SCCA season. We
are coming off a great 2012 season where we excelled at not only a regional level
but a national level as well. I want to challenge everyone to make this season even
better! One of the ways I know will is to volunteer. We are still in need of a few
positions to be filled and are also looking for corner workers to work the Club Racing portion of our region. We also could use a few more Solo Safety Stewards. Detroit Region is holding a safety steward seminar on March 24th. If anyone
is interested in attending this with me. Please email me
@ [email protected] or call/txt me @ 260-494-0842
Northeastern Indiana Racing Museum
The Northeastern Indiana Racing Museum located along I-69 at Auburn, IN. Exit 126 covers the history of
Auto racing in Northern Indiana from it's birth to the present. Racer's Photo's, Trophies, Drivers Suites,
Plaques, Banners, Signs, and actual race cars from sprints to stock cars are wall to wall. You'll see history
from tracks which include Angola Motor Speedway, Baer Field Speedway, Avilla Speedway & Drag Strip,
Fort Wayne Speedway, Anthony Speedway, Pleasant Lake Speedway, New Paris Speedway, Plymouth
Speedway, South Bend Motor Speedway and others. There is no other racing museum dedicated to
Northern Indiana local auto racing anywhere. Located inside The Kruse Automobile Museum and National Military History Center building. Hours are 9am-5pm Mon-Thru Fri. Except Thanksgiving, Christmas and
New Years Day. One small admission fee gets you into the whole building. For more info call 260-9279144 for info on the Northeastern Indiana Racing Museum or if you have racing artifacts to loan or donate please call 260-316-0966.
CLICK HERE TO VISIT THEIR WEBSITE!
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All SCCA people are invited to this Racing Expo and Racer's Swap Meet in
Auburn,IN. on March 23rd. If you have a SCCA race car please bring it to be
on display. The Car and driver get in FREE.
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This SCCA Neon that used to belong to Roy Sjoberg is on display at the National Military History Center in Auburn, IN., in the Northeastern Indiana Racing Museum. I sat in on a meeting tonight with the Fort Wayne SCCA guys. It
was an interesting meeting. We are honored to have them bring some of
their cars to our Racing Expo and Racer's Swap Meet on March 23rd.
Solo Director:
Tyler Pedersen
2013 brings change to the Solo program. I am bringing
back event masters to help run the program. Email me at
[email protected] if you're interested.
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MAY 4TH
ONE LAP OF
AMERICA
WILL BE AT
GRISSOM!
CONTACT
INDY SCCA
TO
VOLUNTEER!!!
WWW.INDYSCCA.ORG
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FOR SALE
$$$
*Men's red summer weight size 42 R. jacket in
for sale- $10.00
*A request for homes for 2 late summer kittensneutered, rabies shots- females, orange and
white. Use litter box and sweet personalities.
Have something
to sell, trade, or
want - EMAIL ME!
[email protected]
*Late fall male orange and white (not same parents). Will be neutered soon as weather breaks.
*2 year old neutered orange male. Gentle. Nice
cat.
*They have spent the winter outside and are
in need of homes and some serious love.
Contact Larry & Linda Dent:
[email protected]
Selling my helmet! i got it in July this year its a large Zamp FSA-2
white. minor blemishes on it. $140 obo. Im in need of a hans acceptable helmet so need to sell this one to get a new one.
heres link to the helmet:
http://www.racedaysafety.com/zamp-fsa2-sa2005-h22005.html
Contact Kip Mitchell (contact Jason for email address)
2013 Board of Directors:
Position & Name
Email
Regional Executive: Steve Meiritz
[email protected]
Assistant R.E.: Corey Henkle
[email protected]
Director At Large: Thomas Miller
[email protected]
Secretary: Ivan Almodovar
Treasurer: Ron Gallmeyer
[email protected]
Public Relations: Corey Henkle
[email protected]
Solo Director: Tyler Pedersen
[email protected]
Competition Director: Larry Dent
[email protected]
Rally Director:
VOLUNTEER WELCOME!
Newsletter Editor: Jason Massey
[email protected]
Webmaster: Chris Krumnow
[email protected]
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Publication of the newsletter shall conform to the following policies:
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Submissions by members encouraged; no anonymous submissions permitted
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Submissions published as provided by member, without editing, unless prior approval of submitting member
granted; accurate grammar/spelling/punctuation corrections automatically provided by editor.
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Detailed club financial information not included in newsletter but freely distributed at board meetings, which
are open to any region member.
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Submissions by the 20th of each month for inclusion in subsequent month’s issue
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Published and mailed free of charge to all FWR SCCA members, interested persons who request to be added to
the mailing list; non-member participants at club events added to the mailing list for 3 – 6 months to encourage
future participation.
Per section 5.11 of Fort Wayne Regions P&P page 16
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