Region News

 Auto-x Events SCHEDULE CHANGES !

Hi all!

We received some unfortunate news from Bonneville High School this week. They have decided to do more construction this summer and have canceled our June and July events. I was told we are still ok for August, but it is not clear yet if that will truly be OK as they said we could only use the drivers ed lot and I have not received a response on exactly what that entails yet. I asked if we would have space outside of that lot for grid and paddock. I was told they are replacing the main parking and hopefully that means Bonneville will be an all new surface for us, but I have also not received clarification on whether they will let us autocross on it next year or not. 

The July event I was able to get moved to Rigby. I am also waiting on clarification from Rigby if we can move August there if Bonneville falls through. We may not know until the week before. 

See the SCHEDULE web page for the revised 2026 schedule. 

Thanks!

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Carl Tyger

Eastern Idaho Region of SCCA

2026 Regional Executive

 Upcoming Monthly EIR SCCA Meeting - Tuesday, May 5, 2026

The next monthly EIR meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, May 5, at Tommy Vaughn's restaurant in Blackfoot. 

Join us 6:30 to 7:30 pm for social hour (food and drinks if you want). 7:30 pm begins official business portion of the meeting.

This will be our final general club meeting until we resume in October.  

The agenda for this meeting will be:

SCCA Sound limits and how they affect our club (see details at the end of this email)

Discussion about safety vests for course workers

Common Car Improvements (see details at the end of this email)

Overall feelings about the first event

Other business brought by club members

Sound

This has been a hot subject for a couple of years. SCCA guidance suggested that the limit would drop to 105 DBc in 2025 and to my knowledge it did not. We'll discuss a bit further, but I suspect we will put this subject to rest until the SCCA makes any changes. 

Common Car Challenge (CCC)

Generally I think people had a good time with this, but also agreed it needs some changes. The main points of change that have been gathered so far are:

If you win the CCC today you cannot compete in it at the next event.

If you have won the CCC a total of 4 times you cannot compete the rest of the season

If you did the challenge today and want to do it again tomorrow you will be put on a waitlist to join. For example, I signed up early on Saturday and got in. Then Sunday I try to do it again and am the first in line to enter. I will be placed as the first on the waitlist. When check-in closes at 9:00 if the driver cap has not been met with new drivers the registrar will start calling up waitlist people in order until the CCC cap is met or the list is empty. 

Looking forward to seeing you all Tuesday night and at upcoming events!

Carl Tyger

Regional Executive

 Upcoming Monthly EIR SCCA Meeting - Tuesday, April 7, 2026

The next monthly EIR meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 7, at Tommy Vaughn's restaurant in Blackfoot. 

Join us 6:30 to 7:30 pm for social hour (food and drinks if you want). 7:30 pm begins official business portion of the meeting.

This months meeting agenda:

• Looking for event master volunteers for upcoming events
• Common Car Challenge (CCC)
• Further brainstorm discussion on how to convert and retain more active members
• Other business brought by members

See you all Tuesday!

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"Barney" Carlson

Assistant Regional Executive (ARE)

 Upcoming Monthly EIR SCCA Meeting - Tuesday, March 3, 2026

The next monthly EIR meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 3, at Tommy Vaughn's restaurant in Blackfoot. 

Join us 6:30 to 7:30 pm for social hour (food and drinks if you want). 7:30 pm begins official business.

This months agenda:

Training recap 

Solo Safety Steward (SSS)

Solo Course Design

Discussion on sound limits

Discussion on how to convert and retain more active members

Other business brought by members

See you all Tuesday!

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"Barney" Carlson

Assistant Regional Executive (ARE)

  Monthly EIR SCCA Meeting Minutes - Tuesday, February 3, 2026

The February monthly EIR membership meeting was held on February 3, at Tommy Vaughn's restaurant in Blackfoot. 

The meeting notes are summarized below. 

Safety Steward

• Safety steward training is now online at the SCCA national website and available for member access.

• Several EIR members have completed the training for 2026.

• A group training class may be planned to occur at one of the auto-x event weeklends. Not sure if this is needed anymore with the online course available

Course Design

• Auto-x course design training is now online at the SCCA national website and available for member access.

• Several EIR members have done the training

• Training takes about 45 min to complete

• More people should work toward the certifications so we don't have one or two people always stuck in the same work position

• Cal will do one of the Rigby events

Event Master

• We want to try to have a different event master every weekend

• Christian volunteered to be event master for memorial Day weekend auto-x event.

Class Jackets

• New jackets for yearly class winners will probably be issued every 3 years

Carl Tyger

Eastern Idaho Region of SCCA

2026 Regional Executive

 Upcoming Monthly EIR SCCA Meeting - Tuesday, February 3, 2026

The next monthly EIR meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, February 3, at Tommy Vaughn's restaurant in Blackfoot. 

Join us 6:30 to 7:30 pm for social hour (food and drinks if you want). 7:30 pm begins official business.

This months agenda

Solo Safety Steward training

Course Design training

Event Master volunteers

Class win jackets - How often do we make new ones/general discussion

Other business brought by members

Also anyone who has a class win for 2025 that is coming to the meeting and has a previous class winners jacket, please bring it to the meeting so we can update your jacket. Those that had their first win have been contacted separately to get their jackets going. 

See you all Tuesday!

Carl Tyger

Eastern Idaho Region of SCCA

2026 Regional Executive

  SCCA National Convention - January 15 - 23, 2026

The 2026 SCCA National Convention will be held virtually January 15-23, 2026 and is FREE to all SCCA Members. More than 1000 SCCA members from around the country participated in last years annual convention. Registration is now open.

For the first time, the convention is presented by the SCCA Foundation.

The SCCA Foundation exists to support the future of motorsports by investing in the people and programs that help SCCA stay strong for the long haul — which makes them the perfect presenting partner for a Convention focused on growth.

This year’s convention theme is "Level Up" — because the best version of the Club doesn’t happen by accident. It happens when Region leaders, volunteers, and members sharpen skills, share what’s working, and bring fresh ideas back home.

You’ve joined us before, so you know the Convention is where we connect, learn, and align on what’s next. We’d love to have you back for Level Up.

See you there,

The Convention Team

There are lots of excellent presentations planned by the SCCA national office staff on subjects pertaining to auto-x (solo), road race, track days, time attack, road rally, rally cross, marketing, insurance, etc. So sign up NOW! by clicking on this ***LINK***

  Monthly EIR SCCA Meeting Minutes - Tuesday, December 2, 2025

The December monthly EIR meeting was held on Tuesday, December 2, at Tommy Vaughn's restaurant in Blackfoot. 

The election of officers for 2026 was completed and the following results were announced:

The following EIR SCCA members have been elected to serve as region officers for 2026.

Regional Executive (RE) - Carl Tyger

Assistant RE - Barney Carlson

Treasurer - Christian Annis

Secretary - Jordan Redd

Congratulations gentlemen for volunteering to lead our region into 2026!

The 2026 EIR SCCA auto-x event schedule has been released !

EIR SCCA