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Club Meeting Minutes - December 2023
We had an awesome meeting last night, it was great seeing everyone!
Items that were discussed:
- 2024 schedule has potential to be big, and we are working on having a longer autocross season than we are used to. Once more details get confirmed, we will post the schedule.
- Updating by-laws on how the Officers and The Board interact, and what their roles are for the club. This will happen in another public meeting soon. Suggestions and thoughts are very welcome for this topic! Do they work as a big group, with separate roles? Are they two separate groups? Etc.
- Voting is done! We had a lot of participation. Results are below:
RE - Seth (same as 23)
Assistant RE - Carl (same as 23)
Treasurer - Derek (same as 23)
Web Master - John (same as 23)
Social Media/PR - Jake (same as 23)
Secretary - Jordan (new for 24)
Board Members:
- Kameron (same as 23)
- Matt (same as 23)
- Orion (new for 24)
- Steven (new for 24)
- Jeff (new for 24)
- Cal is somewhere in here, always, and forever.
We will schedule our next meeting soon! Until then, enjoy the Holidays. See everyone in 2024!
Jake
EIR election of officers for 2024
The EIR Board of Directors and Officers positions are for a one year term and are elected annually in December, with the newly elected board members and officers taking office in January. This is your chance to step up and be part of the EIR management team. As a registered non-profit, all positions are volunteer. As a region of the National SCCA organization, the region officers are required to be SCCA members. You must have a current SCCA membership to vote in the EIR election of officers and board of directors. The EIR operates with two independent groups, the officers and the board of directors. The officer positions consist of the Regional Executive (RE), Assistant RE, Secretary, and Treasurer. The Board of Directors consists of 5 directors and functions as an independent oversight and advisory role of the region officers. Currenntly there are two positions assigned to assist the officers, a webmaster position and a public relations position. Most of the existing 2023 officers have stated their interest in keeping their position for 2024. However, all positions are open for nominations. It's always in the best interests of the region to have a full slate of officers installed and working in January for the upcoming auto-x season. The 2024 season is fast approaching and there is much to do in acquiring event sites and scheduling events.
Here is an update on the elections for our region from Seth, the current RE.
- Nominations for region officers and board of director positions are currently open through December 8th.
- After close of nominations there will be three ways to vote.
- Online: A Motorsport Reg election event will be created and the access link emailed to region members. You will be able to login to your MSR account and vote.
- In Person: Attend the December 20th meeting at 7 Eighty 5 in Blackfoot and complete a paper ballot. The meeting invite was sent out to all members with email addresses in their SCCA profile.
- USPS Mail: Reply to this email with your address so we can mail you a paper ballot. You will be responsible for return postage.
- We will tally the votes during the Dec 20th meeting with results announced the following week (to allow for mail ballots to return). If there are no mail ballots, the results will be tallied and results announced at the meeting.
- The current open positions that are to be filled:
- Secretary
- Board of Directors, position 3
- Board of Directors, position 4
- B oard of Directors, position 5
- The current positions that have an incumbent.
- Regional Executive: Seth Feuerborn
- Assistant Regional Executive: Carl Tyger
- Treasurer: Derek Holubar
- Web Master: Jon Atchison
- Public Relations: Jake Ullery
- Board of Directors, position 1: Kameron Clements
- Board of Directors, position 2: Matthew Dixon
- Current Nominations Recieved
- Steven Bissey: Board of Directors
- Orion Martin: TBD
- Jeff Lacey: TBD
- Jordan Redd: TBD
- Garrett Holmes: TBD
2024 SCCA National Convention January 18 - 26
EIR members! We would like to formally invite you to register for the 2024 SCCA National Convention which will be held virtually January 18-26, 2024. FREE and open to any member with a passion for moving the Club forward, the Convention is specifically designed for the Club’s current and next-generation leaders to learn what’s new and what’s needed for our Club to thrive as we engage with members old and new. You can register anytime to obtain the necessary login and access codes.
Registration is now open at: https://whova.com/portal/registration/sccaa_202401/
Building upon the success of last year's theme of "Engage," the 2024 SCCA National Convention takes a natural progression to the theme of "Grow." This year's Convention aims to harness the enthusiasm and connections forged in previous years to foster personal and collective growth within the SCCA community.
In addition to embracing the theme of "Grow," the 2024 SCCA National Convention also holds special significance as we celebrate the Club’s 80th birthday. This milestone anniversary provides a momentous occasion to reflect on the rich heritage and accomplishments of the SCCA throughout eight decades of motorsports excellence.
We hope to see you there!
Abby Scher & Chris Robbins | Region Development Team!, SCCA National office
EIR SCCA will have a vendor booth at the Import Domestic Throwdown car show on Saturday, June 17th, at the Mountain America Center parking lot. We will have approximately 15 cars entered in the car show and will be distributing auto-x schedules and information about our car club. Join us for a seat in the shade and talk cars and auto-x.
Top GUN pre-registration is open !
Top Gun auto-x event is scheduled for August 19-20 in Helena, MT
Organized by Montana Region SCCA.
This is THE LARGEST AutoCross event in Montana and the competition gets better year after year. Which region will bring home the travelling TOP GUN trophy? Which drivers will be first in Raw and PAX?
Note that the Idaho drivers won the event in 2022! Come join in the fun this year!
There are a LIMITED number of entries available, so pre-register now so you don't miss out!
Each entrant that registers on or before August 8th, will get a free T-Shirt!
For pre-registration on line and more event details at MotorsportReg.com, *** click here ***
EIR meeting minutes from 5/15/2023
- Members voted on new rates of one day/weekend:
First time $25/$50
Member $35/$45
Nonmember $50/$60
- Import Domestic Throwdown car show at Mountain American Event Center, Idaho Falls, June 17
- 4 volunteers, 6 more that paid for an extra spot including Zack’s Miata, Mo’s evo 10; Garrett (Audi) volunteered to help as well. We’ll have a variety from daily drivers to modified to show cars.
- The weekend before we’ll need to check the trailer and get the media loop ready for a TV.
- Need table, chairs, a loaner helmet or two, etc. for display
- After June 10th event, get ready for IDT.
- Kameron printed 20x45” signs for the trailer. *Jake will install.
- 11 AM vendor check in. 2:00 PM to 8:00 PM is the actual time of the car show. First shift 2-5, Second shift 5-8.
- Volunteers need to coordinate and be ready for the show.
- Matt is managing the trailer this year.
- Selling hats & shirts at car show; prices will be $20/apiece.They will be in the trailer at IDT. We can sell anything but food & bev.
- Who will be in charge of money at event? We have a square device in the trailer. *Figure out Square before IDT.
- Pocatello airport updates
- Airport said FAA is saying they can’t let us race. (Austin verified with FAA that is not the case.)
- The SCCA has a team of people specifically in charge of discussions with airports to help secure tracks. *Seth to reach out to SCCA and have them help us get the airport.
- Car-b-que - end of year
- Saturday after the last event, potentially at Matt’s place.
- Father’s day car show - not going to do this
- Event in two weeks
- *Seth to send email asking for volunteers for event positions:
Event master
Course design
Safety
o *Reach out to Cal to get a safety class set up
Update *** Import Domestic Throwdown car show - June 17, 2 - 8 pm
We had such a large interest for helping man the EIR SCCA booth at Import Domestic Throwdown! We had to use a random number generator to pick people because there were so many.
Shane Johnson, Jason Paulson, Matt Dixon, and Steven Bissey were selected by random to help run the booth with John.
Thank you gentleman so much.
Like we said before though, there is NO limit to how many cars can be parked adjacent to the club booth. Member or not (though you should be, seriously, it pays for itself plus more). The IDT entry fee is $35 per car. Below is a link to pay the club that $35 so we can pay IDT all at once and give them a headcount, so that we can park all our cars together adjacent to the EIR SCCA booth. Vendor roll-in starts at 10 AM, and the car cannot leave until the end of the show, but you can leave and come back anytime during the car show! Please keep that in mind.
We have a deadline to pay IDT on or before Monday, May 15th. The cut-off to place your car in the show adjacent to the EIR SCCA booth will be 10AM on May 15th.
If you have any questions, let us know!
- Jake
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Dave Krekel 1948 - 2023
Long time member and club officer of the EIR SCCA and Eastern Idaho Sports Car Club, Dave Krekel of Shelley, Idaho recently passed away on April 29, 2023. Dave loved driving his Mazda Miata convertible and drove the car in many club events with his daughter Alexis as co-driver. Old time club members will recall Dave's love of old Jaguars and Lotus.
Dave's obituary can be viewed at: https://www.woodfuneralhome.com/obituary/David-Krekel
Funeral services will be held Wood Funeral Home at a later date and will be announced.
Military Honors will be performed by the Bonneville County Veterans Memorial Team and Idaho Honor Guard
Import Domestic Throwdown car show - June 17, 3 - 8 pm
We are excited to announce that EIR SCCA will have an outdoor vendor booth at Import Domestic Throwdown car show to be held at the new Mountain America event center in Idaho Falls. One of the largest local car shows hosted by local enthusiasts and even some members of our club. We would like to include as many members and non-members of our club in this event and with our information booth! We want any and every car there! From your daily driver, all the way to a fully built/prepped race car.
Below are the details if you're interested:
There are 4 vehicle spots that'll be paid for by the club, and parked closest to the EIR SCCA booth. These spots will be reserved for members willing to volunteer at the booth during the show. There will be 2 shifts with 2 people at a time.
If your vehicle is not chosen or you don't wish to work the booth, we are able to bring a lot more cars! The fee from IDT to bring an extra car is $35, we will have a link for you to pay that soon on MotorsportReg.com so that you can park alongside the booth and we can showoff the entire club cars together! A survey is located on the EIR SCCA Facebook page.
Please complete the survey on the club Facebook page answering these following questions if you have any interest at all in working the EIR SCCA booth or just showing your car!
1. Post a photo of your car!
2. Do you want to be one of the booth cars, and in return work and setup the booth?
3. If you are not selected or don't want to volunteer, do you still wish to park with the club? There will be a $35 entry fee.
4. Are you currently an SCCA member? If not, why aren't you?!
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The cut-off to apply with be May 12th.
- Jake
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EIR meeting minutes from 4/10/2023
Attendees: 15
Agenda:
State of the Club
Membership count: 67
Finances: no major expenses other than the toilet rental for events (same cost as last year). Every month MotorsportReg.com charges us a monthly fee for using their online event registration and payment service. Event sites are paid for 2023. Trailer expenses: trailer storage fees. Wristbands, forms/brochures/paperwork/ waivers/weekend membership forms need to be inventoried and supplies ordered from SCCA national office.
Marketing - acquire business cards with event dates; stickers
Club equipment trailer prep weekend:
planned for April 30th at Austin’s at 12:00 PM(backup at Herschel’s).
Cal offered an awning for the trailer. New loaner helmets for the trailer have been delivered(Derek has helmets). Lock for concessions door on the trailer needs to be repaired or replaced.
Import Domestic Throwdown car show - June 17th
The club will have a vendor booth at Mountain America Center from 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM (no race this weekend). Use it to market this club in the area. Need volunteers to set up between 10:00 AM and 12:00 PM, in turn will get a spot for their car at the car show. Carl and Jake will create a simple application/question to find volunteers for this event and pick two people plus $35 add-on fee per car. Set up: TV? Laptops/iPads? Display helmets, canopy, chairs. Possibly two teams of volunteers. each team to work the club booth for half the day. Need to pay IDT by the end of May. Volunteers to organize the club booth for the car show: John Atchison, Kameron Clements, Jake Ullery. Jake to post questionnaire and feed responses to John to coordinate within three weeks (April 24th). Jake waiting to hear back if we can use a generator to power the booth at the car show.
Social Media update
Club members only closed Facebook group is being designed to allows us to post official notices to club members only. It will not replace emails, it will be in addition to the emails notices. Keeping track with Member IDs and expiration dates. Polls for meeting dates, agendas can be built/voted upon. Marketing to the younger audience who may not check their email. It can be hidden or invite only for club members.
Cal represented the newly elected Board of Directors and presented the followimng information:
Board needs to meet and vote on president, vice president as a balance of power. Club Officers are: RE, Assistant RE, Treasurer, and Secretary - vote to lead the club. Board Members: president, vice president, and members - to protect the club and structure. *Seth to look at the bylaws by next meeting and have a proposal, review as a board/members.
Possible club/public BBQ at a park: May 6th or 13th?
Discussion involved that it requires a lot of prep, not a lot of return. Car-b-que - Jake has experience, John did the Tautphaus park car show bbqs for several years. This could function as a "meet and greet" for new club members and potential club members. Topic was tabled until next club meeting.
It was noted that when SCCA national releases the detailed 2023 helmet requirements, this info needs to be posted to the club website.
Discussion of annual tech process, helmets, classification, sound compliance (SCCA hard stop at 101 db - EIR voted on using 98 db for our events last year), as a "good neighbor" practice at our event sites.
SCCA 2023 National Convention will be an on-line meeting, Jan 19 - 27
The annual SCCA National Convention is a yearly gathering designed for all SCCA members who seek to learn, trade ideas, and teach each other in the pursuit to better themselves and improve their Club at every level. Attendees can attend general sessions and breakouts where members from all parts of the Club present fresh ideas, conduct training and certification courses and have organized discussions. The National Convention also hosts the SCCA Annual Meeting and the SCCA Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. For 2023, the SCCA National Convention will be conducted virtually.
Important Dates:
Registration Opens - December 1, 2022
SCCA Convention - Jan. 19-27, 2023
Building on the success of our virtual conventions in the past, SCCA's 2023 Convention will provide a great opportunity for Members, Region Leaders, and Event Leadership to continue the pursuit of our collective purpose of connecting car enthusiasts with memorable shared experiences.
The SCCA 2023 Convention connects SCCA leaders and members by focusing on how we can collectively and collaboratively impact member experience, program experience, and leadership experience across 2023 and beyond. In short, we will continue SCCA growth by delivering excellence as one team in pursuit of delivering a more unified enthusiast experience.
The SCCA Convention is free, but you need to register to obtain the web access to the convention presentations. SCCA members can register at: https://whova.com/portal/registration/sccaa_202301/
Fred Kienlen 1939 - 2022
Long time member of the Eastern Idaho Sports Car Club and EIR SCCA, Fred Kienlen of Idaho Falls, recently passed away on Oct. 26, 2022. Fred loved his 50's era Alfa Romeo convertible and drove the car in many club road rally, auto-x, and hillclimb events. Fred's obituary can be viewed at: https://www.buckmurphy.com/obituary/Fredrick-Kienlen A short video honoring Fred was provided by his daughter Angiie and can be viewed on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/_k8aV9jfOU4
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EIR meeting minutes from 12/19/2022
Agenda: Season party, jackets, schedule, fees, trailer
Party: Doing it at The ZONE Sports Grill in Idaho falls. The Zone is located on West Broadway St., will be in the basement.
Food is three choices, prime rib, salmon, chicken. Prime rib 6 or 8 or 12oz (I think 8oz was selected?) Baked potato, salad, and roll, free fountain drinks. Time: starts at 5pm start, 6pm dinner. Anyone under 21 must leave at 10pm. Presentation of 2022 year end awards. White elephant exchange, min $15 value, no price limit. Need to look into a projector. Posting the party on MSR this week.
Awards: Jackets - adding embroidery. Prints for top raw and pax. 4-10 place will receive 15$ credit. Drop off jackets. Additional awards for Rookie of the year, Most improved, MVP Volunteer.
Elections: Paper ballots can be provided. Review of positions.
Anything over $100 needs to be voted on by the club.
Board of Directors is composed of an odd number of directors to avoid tie votes, and wanted more than 3 people on the board.
Schedule: George casper: potentially in September. Proposed auto-x event dates; May 27-29 3 day Rigby, June 10-11 Rigby, June 24-25 Bonneville, July 1-2 Bonneville, July 22-23 Ridgy, August 5-6 Bonneville, August 26-17 Rigby, a minimum of 8 days to qualify for year end awards in 2023. Making a donation to Rigby of $500 for use of the parking lot. Flex Friday account.
Its been years and they’ve never charge us for the lot. We need to give back to them. Idaho falls events will be using both lots. Need to make sure we cross the transition between lots without tearing it up.
Safety steward training: Most of us have it expires 2024.
Didn't talk about fees or the club's equipment trailer .
EIR meeting minutes from 11/19/2022
Meeting notes provided by Seth Feuerborn, EIR SCCA secretary
We're over a month into the off season and it's super cold outside. This month the current board had a couple meetings, we completed a club meeting tonight, and a group of us got together and started heavily modifying the club equipment trailer. Another trailer mod party is scheduled for Dec 3rd so let me know if you want to help out and I'll send the details.
Elections for 2023 EIR board are underway so please check your emails for elections notice from Motorsport Reg (MSR). The winners will be announced at the 2022 season party. Speaking of the party, it's roughed in for January 14th (Saturday evening) at the Zone, should this change I will let you know!
Here's the relevant notes compiled from the last meetings for you to review.
- Class winners
- 16 class winners
- 3x 2nd that qualified
- 1x 3rd that qualified
- Add embroidery on the jackets
- 9 new class winners that need jackets
- Reach out directly to those people (Kameron)
- Collect old jackets
- Post on site?
- Reach directly out to them (Kameron)
- Next meeting
- Qualifier award (hitting 8 events)
- Recognition
- Pax Raw
- 1,2,3 photo of plaques
- 4-10 recognition
- Cone Killer
- Pending
- Seth to make the trophy passable.
- Schedule 2023
- Tentative sent out in
- May 27-29 3 day Rigby
- June 10-11 Rigby
- June 24-25 Bonneville
- July 1-2 Bonneville
- July 22-23 Ridgy
- August 5-6 Bonneville
- August 26-17 Rigby
- Every other weekend and around major events
- Trailer
- Etrack, not now
- Fire extinguishers, keep what we have
- Desk surface
- Modify the outside shelf
- New case for the large display, sure, when we have time.
- Nose shelf
- Wire passthru
- Outside monitor? Figure out live timing better.
- T-shirts
- More of the same
- Black and dark gray
- Prices are up, probably $10 a shirt
- Same spread as last time
- 4x, 3x, more 2X XL, L; M & S less
- Season party on January 14th
- Seth to pickup the top gun trophy from SRR
- The zone is most likely place.
- Message Kameron and setup the date.
- White Elephant
- Participation optional
- Bring one to get one
- Value of $10 minimum
- Max cost of $25
- Food and cost to be determined.
EIR meeting minutes from 10/12/2022
This was a meeting held at 7Eighty5 resturant in Blackfoot.
By Laws. Will be revamped with the 2023 board.
Board positions are: RE, ARE, Treasurer, Secretary, Marketing/media, Web development, Board Member of Tenure.
Current Nominations are: Webmaster, John; Marketing, Social Media, Jake; Tenure, Kameron, Steven, Lex, Jason, Matt, Cal;
RE, Seth, Carl; ARE, Carl, Jason, Seth, Lex, Jake; Secretary, Ashley; Treasurer, Derek.
Potential nominee’s we identified: Max, Austin, Jim (sad face cuz he's moving away), Don g, Alex, Garrett if he becomes a member, Barney, Jennifer, Hershal.
Elections notes: Nomination tonight? No, we'll leave it open for emails and in person. Nominees must want to do it. Board tenure is limited to seven, top seven vote getters get the slots. Ranked voting. If you win multiple, you take the highest ranking position and are removed from the rest. (11 positions). As a board member you have to be an event master for one event. Membership is required to be on the board. Board members are strongly encouraged to make it to the meetings and non-race events. Nominations due by Nov 5th.
Need to lay out event masters. Set these up at the beginning of the season. Kam has a course design how to book.
Rookie of the Year: Kameron nominates Johny.
Trailer review optional: Windows, Monitors, Solar, Cabinets, Shelving, Printer, Date of work. Cabinets: Vote on using cabinets - yes, Sticker bomb them if they’re rough. Jake claims he has to manage the stickers. Discussion on concession style window.
Vote yes this is what we want. Discussion on glass no glass. No glass wins. Use plexiglass insert of some design, split, accordion, etc. Protection film to keep from scratching? Trailer, 1” square bar steel (1x 20’ stick, seth can get from Pacific).
Welder (everyone seems to have one). Magic eraser to clean the cones (Carl). Get a 50” TV for Timing display outside trailer.
Helmets en route.
Locations for 2023 auto-x events: Need to get this going. Bonneville 3 events, we can have priority if we jump on it. ISU - george casper follow up. Rigby, is free. Rigby donation, $500 to the school. Current board needs to do it. 7 events like 2022 because we only get the summer months. 1x 3 day event. Charity event - all scca fees are sent to a foundation. Do a high attendance event.
EIR meeting minutes from 9/19/2022
This was a virtual meeting using Google Meet.
Elections for board. All positions are open. Election will be hosted electronically on the MSR website. Request persons who are interested to nominate themselves for the following club officer positions: RE, Assistant RE, Secretary, Treasurer - Derek if he’s willing, Social Media / Marketing, Web Development - John A., Board of Directors.
Possible site solicitation for next year: Bonneville High School, Holt Arena - need to reach out to George, Airport?
End of Season party: What month - January seemed to work good
Awards: 1-3 or 1-10, More trophies is going to get more people to the party. Consensus that 1-10. Prizes TBD by the board members. Round up the jackets and sizes. T-shirts, 2022 season or generic. Cost effective to be generic and sale next year. . Make an event specific shirt. Custom tshirt for winners 22 season. Hats? Most people would wear a hat. Qualifier award for hitting the 8 events. Results review and audit. Cone killer award? Going to happen again. Engraved plaques with winner and the number of cones hit. Permanent trophy for PAX and RAW - everyone likes the idea of this.
Elections details: Open on MSR to nominating persons for positions. Results go to current board. Compile list of persons on the ballot. Post official ballot on MSR and leave open for in person voting at the season party. Paper nominating process at next team meeting. Announce that this will happen at this meeting. Roles, better definition of the roles. Social media rep.
Web page master will stay as John.
Whiteboard used for posting results on-site? Delete this role due to live timing. Seth suggested getting a cheap monitor or TV and use that as a substitute. Steve suggested two monitors for different reports, mount them to the trailer walls.
Events: Try to get more like Utah and get the roles established ahead of time. Steven suggested a timing board member.
Responsible for teaching newbs, managing the event timing. Timing technology? Pronto is expensive, maybe pay per entry fee. Used off a numeric pad. Registration files management, permanent file vs new file every event.
Review of the intent of the Seth email. The three current board members will review this and hash out the details of the work that has to go into running the club.
Equipment Trailer: Party, Oct 2nd at noon. Logo, install it. Design windows - Seth can work on this. Shelving - Seth to design this. Helmets - not arrived yet, shipping end of Sept, 8 helmets. Cleanout. Storage - Derek or Watkins.
Axware ORM we have event credits.
Next meeting in Oct, projected on 17th. Location, Figure this out in messenger. Carl offered his warehouse. Meeting on the 12th, settled
EIR meeting minutes from 6/7/2022
The first auto-x event of the season was a three day event over the Memorial Day weekend. This event experienced delays in getting drivers registered and competition runs started on schedule. There was much discussion at the club meeting abouit finding a way to avoid this problem. The number one reason for delays is drivers showing up late i the morning and wanting to register at the event. One solution that already helps alleviate this problem is to encourage drivers to preregister on the MotorsportReg.com website. A second solution will be enacted for upcoming events. On-site registration will be held from 7:30 to 8:30 am. Registration from 8:30 to 9 am will be considered "Late Registration" and will have an additional "late fee" of $5 added to the entry fee. This is to encourage drivers to arrive on site and get registered before 8:30 am, so the event can start on schedule.
Live event timing was discussed and it was decided to move forward with using the AxWare live timing site as soon as we can install and test the software.
2022 Auto-x Cumulative Standings
For many years, EIR SCCA has kept season long cumulative points based on each drivers finishing position in the club auto-x events. Previously, the results were totaled and announced at the club's year-end awards banquet, where gifts/trophies were awarded to the year long best drivers. Seth has recently constructed a spreadsheet app which will be used to track points for each driver for PAX standings, raw time standings, and class standings, after every auto-x event. The results will be posted to the club website so they will be available soon after each weekend event. A link to the final 2022 season cumulative standings has been moved to the 2022 Results web page.
EIR meeting minutes from 5/17/2022
The first auto-x event of the season will be a 3 day event over the Memorial Day weekend, at the Rigby Middle School parking lot. Event work assignments were discussed. The club's equipment trailer had the floor refinished and it's ready to go for the first auto-x event. Sound control will be enforced with friendly reminders this year. IF you car is too loud, please take care of it now, before the first event. Kameron and Derrick are working on updating the clubs computer to enable live timing results available over the internet. If all goes well, live timing may be available for this first auto-x event weekend. The Domestic Import Throwdown car show has been scheduled for July 9 in Pocatello. This is not an EIR SCCA event, but support was encouraged, as it has quickly become a must see, local car show.
Fontana Pro Solo
Our own local driver, Brian Coulson won the SCCA Pro Solo event in Fontana, CA recently, driving the Cal Craner Corvette. A total of 126 drivers had times scored during the event. A full field of 32 drivers slid into the Super Challenge bracket, with four in the Ladies Challenge and eight more in the Bonus Challenge bracket. In the Bonus Challenge, Brian Coulson’s CAM class machine took the top spot from Paul Durr in the always-exciting Corvette vs. Kart Modified matchup. For the effort, Coulson earned a free entry to a future ProSolo.
EIR meeting minutes from 4/6/2022
The first auto-x event of the season will be a 3 day event over the Memorial Day weekend, at the Rigby Middle School parking lot. Volunteers were solicited for event chairman, safety stewards, course design and setup, and timing setup. The club has ordered new loaner helmets as part of a group buy through the SCCA national office, but they will not be delivered until sometime in June or July. If anyone has some used helmets they would like to donate to the club for use as loaner helmets, it would be greatly appreciated. The club's equipment trailer has been cleaned and organized. The trailer floor is being refinished before the first auto-x event. There was discussion of getting graphics installed on the outside of the equipment trailer so spectators know who we are at events. As event sites become harder and harder to obtain, with new housing developments being built on every available piece of land, sound control will become more important and will be enforced with friendly reminders this year. IF you car is too loud, please take care of it now, before the first event. There was some discussion of enhancing the clubs timing and scoring system to include live timing results available over the internet. It will be investigated as to what it would cost and if it could work at our existing event sites. The clubs Facebook page will be updated soon with event dates and the link for on-line registration. The Ride-out car club had several members attend the meeting with the intent of being involved in some of our events. It was great to see a new car club being formed in the area. Their main focus is to hold responsible show & shine and touring events.
EIR meeting minutes from 3/9/2022
The first auto-x eve• Season starting, looking for about May if ISU will work with it. Kameron to reach out tomorrow via phone. Possibly 2 events, late April, first of May, the other late August into September. Idaho event center - working on getting this venue. Highland option? Not likely at this time.
Loaner helmets
o Small RE bulk buy to get 10 through the SCCA. branded SA2022.
o Not going to charge, honor system as we have always done
o Where to get helmets: amazon, revzilla, saferacer. Most likely want SA helmet
o No more european certification accepted after 2022.
Live timing
o Working to get on top of it.
o Seth brought up the radio announcing and how we are on par with nationals
o Gets rid of a white board position
Decibel meters
o Will start using the dB meter and enforce
o 50ft at point of peak throttle
Equipment Trailer
o Austin is willing to seal coat our floor in the trailer
o Vinyl wrap the trailer for advertisement
o Trailer organization and adding a window
Events
o THis year we are looking at fewer events
o We want to assign positions and have trainee’s.
o More hands on deck, design, running, safeties, etc. grow the skills of the club.
o Put out feelers for trainee’s, make it official
o Safety steward
Need to bring more persons up to speed
Course design approval
o Positions
Photography
Tech, walking tech, tech sheets online, put this in the MSR
UMC emails the whole checklist
Online Event Registration at MSR
o Raising walkup prices to push people into the online possibly
o Comment MSR is confusing for the first time registration. May need to get a how to on the website
o Will look to making this easier, tech sheet, make things funner, make a video that makes it better.
o We need to be more involved in social media
o website
Event Schedule
o Packwood - whos going. Looking at getting a cabin.
o Montana events
Community
o Car show involvement,
o Give back to the community more, grow attendance.
Save the dates
o Topgun 8-20
o Coneheads 9-24
o Nationals - Lincoln NB 9-3
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SCCA 2022 National Convention was on-line Jan 21 - 29
The SCCA National Convention is over, but if you missed it, all sessions were recorded and are available free for viewing if you are an SCCA member. If you missed a session or would like to view it again ALL session recordings are now uploaded into Whova (the software partner that hosted the SCCA National Convention).
https://whova.com/portal/webapp/sccaa_202201/
In the coming weeks all presentations and session recordings will also be uploaded in your SCCA Member Account Portal under the tab "File Cabinet" for you to access and use.
2021 auto-x season results
The 2021 season is over and wow what season it was! We had a total of 188 different people participate with us this year, and a massive group of new SCCA members to our little club! We have finished and proofed our end of year standings. We adapted a different method of and we will now be able to add results and standings after every event quickly. For class winners, top pax and top raw of the season, you had to have a minimum of 10 events to qualify. If you competed in more than 10 events, your highest 10 finishes counted . Click here for the complete season break down of all the classes, points, and raw/pax points.
Class winners for 2021 w/ 10 qualifying events
A Street- Barney Carlson
A Street Ladies - Jennifer Carlson
C Street - Kelly Keele
D Street - Cole Smith
E Street - Seth Feuerborn
H Street - Steven Bissey
S Street - Don Goetz
Cam-T - Adam Smith
STH - Robert Millward
STS - Derek Holubar
STU - Kris Bruington
STX - Dakota Goss
SM - Brandon Beers
XS-A - Jake Ullery
Top Pax Index of 2021
1. Barney Carlson in his A Street Corvette
2. Kris Bruington in his Volkswagen Golf R
3. Chris Clark in his Red Corvette
Top Raw Times of 2021
1. Chris Clark
2. Barney Carlson
3. Kris Bruington
EIR meeting minutes from 10/13/2021
Summing up the seasons auto-x events, 122 different drivers participated in 21 events. EIR now has 75 members. It was reported that the online pre-registration process has worked well for the events this year. Kameron is working on the year's points totals and awards. Results should be available in the mid-November time frame. A work day is being planned to clean out and re-supply the club's equipment trailer, sometime before winter. The club's year end dinner party and awards presentation is being planned for January 2022, with a location yet to be determined. It was reported that the Pine Ridge Mall parking lot will no longer be available for club auto-x events. New sites are being pursued, including the possibility of holding auto-x events at the ISU stadium parking lot, which has been used several times in the past. There was some discussion of returning to in-person monthly club meetings. No decision was made, as the COVID-19 virus situation is still changing weekly.
Auto-x Photos ! - Several people have provided photos from the last couple auto-x events.
Sept 11 auto-x at Pine Ridge Mall.
Jessica of Yellow Avenue Photography has posted action photos to her website:
Miguel has posted his photos at:
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1J-kBpfe7dcRaL1UZudgcMGDgHE7GbEc-?usp=sharing
Mike Deford shared these photos form the 2nd run group on Saturday. Here is a link.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/k9nlhjptxg1j67l/AACMkAmC04_IOgBsAO7h7IdDa?dl=0
October 2 and 3 auto-x at Pine Ridge Mall.
Miguel provided his photos here:
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EIR meeting minutes from 5/12/2021
The upcoming auto-x event will be a 3 day event at the Rigby Middle School over the Memorial Day weekend, Sat, May29 - Mon, May 31. As of the the date of this club meeting, the SCCA national office is still requiring masks and social distancing rules for our events. The club officers emphasized that event on-line registration at MotorSportsReg.com will be open on Friday, May 14th, and that pre-registering certainly helps make the event go much smoother and quicker in the mornings when many tasks have to be accomplished to get equipment setup and functioning.
Their was discussion of the club using one of the auto-x events as a charity fund raiser for a local charity. The SCCA national office will waive the event sanction fees for one event a year, if we then donate the proceeds to charity.
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EIR meeting minutes from 4/14/2021
The first auto-x event of the season is less than two weeks away at the Pine Ridge Mall parking lot. Pre-registration is open on MotorsportReg.com. Fourteen drivers have already registered for the upcoming auto-x. We've had snow cover the ground last week and this week, so maybe it will be done snowing by the end of April ! Several of the local Eastern Idaho drivers got an early auto-x event already done by traveling to the SCCA National Tour event in Las Vegas last weekend, where the weather was hot and sunny. So they are ready to go for the EIR season opening auto-x.
The event master and helpers will be at the Pine Ridge mall parking lot on Friday evening, 4/23, at 5 pm, to set up the course and mark it. Any volunteers willing to help out on Friday evening would be greatly appreciated.
There was some discussion of how tech inspection will be handled at the event, and is was decided that a tech station will be set up so that drivers can bring their car to the tech inspector when ready for inspection. Due to Covid restrictions, please do not congregate at the tech station. The tech inspector will examine your vehicle from outside the vehicle.
Seth has repaired the club's backup timer display board, so we now have both timer display boards functional again.
The Carlsons have adjusted the PA system to get it back into good shape again, so run times can again be announced at the upcoming events.
The generator is also being tuned up do we will have remote power is needed.
The equipment trailer has been cleaned and organized, and is ready to go to the event.
The timing computer has been set up with the 2021 season points tracking option for determining year-end awards for each class, including overall PAX standings, and we hope to post the season points to the web site and keep it updated throughout the season, so drivers can see their standing after each event.
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EIR meeting minutes from 3/10/2021
The upcoming first auto-x of the 2021 season will be at the Pine Ridge Mall parking lot. The section of the parking lot we used the last year has been reduced due to the mall selling part of the lot. However, we now have use of another adjoining section of parking lot to use for trailer parking and unloading, spectator parking, and grid. So the end result is we still have sufficient size parking lot to hold events on.
A new change for the club is the use of MotorsportsReg.com for event preregistration. So you will be able to register for events up until midnight prior to the event. We will also use the Speeed Waiver option on MotorsportsReg.com. These options should greatly reduce the time spent registering and signing waivers in the morning at the event site. If this goes according to plan, we should have the first car on course at 10 am.
The club is offering a free event entry to whoever can tow the equipment trailer to and from the events. The trailer would need to be towed to the event site early Friday evening to facilitate course setup. Then towed back to its home from the event site after the event finishes on Sunday, the site has been cleaned up, and the trailer reloaded.
With 10 event weekends planned for 2021 season, the club is looking for members to step up and volunteer to assist with course design, safety stewards, and tech inspection at each event. Many hands make for short work.
Tom Larkin plans to be the photographer at each event and will have the capability to print on-site and sell race action photos of your car at the event.
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EIR meeting minutes from 2/10/2021
Monthly Meetings:
Even though winter decided it was time to show up fashionably late, we are still headstrong on getting a solid season put together for everyone. We have had a lot going on the last month, and in case you missed our meeting last Wednesday, I'm going to cover some of it in this post.
First things first.....
Our schedule is done! Check the Schedule of Events web page. Still have some time to finish those projects up,( i know i need the time!) so keep at it and we will see you at the Pine Ridge mall come late April.
Second:
In our meeting we had a new chair position get voted in. Would like to say congrats and looking forward to this, as we join Seth Feuerborn into our Secretary position! Seth has been a great member and helping hand through many of our events. He will be bringing a lot of help to the table in organizing and helping us have even more successful events in the future. So give a good shout out to Seth, and sticker bomb his WRX at the next event!
Our current chair holders now consist of:
Regional Executive: Kameron Clements
Secretary: Seth Feuerborn
Treasurer: Derek Holubar
Webmaster: John Atchison
Third:
We are going to now offer online registration through Motorsportsreg.com. This has been something we have wanted to do and are stoked to be able to offer this. This will cut down the amount of on site registration and give you all more time to get you and your vehicles ready for the event. We will still be offering on site morning registration for now. We are still in the process of getting all our events setup through them, but watch out as they will be posted soon. If you haven't used Motorsportreg before, I suggest going on there and browsing around. Once our events are ready they will be shared through email and blasted on our social media pages as well.
Fourth:
*NOTE THIS* We are going to be raising our entry prices by $5.00 all around. Not a huge jump but the reason for this was, lots are costing more to rent, equipment replacements/maintenance for our events, and offering more to our members in making it easier to enter our events. With that increase that still keeps us cheaper than most SCCA regions throughout the nation!
Our Entry cost would be:
Member: $35-1 day, $45.00-2 day
Non Member: $45-1 day, $55.00-2 day
Novice: $25.00-1 day, $45.00- 2 day
Also another quick note,
We are going to be offering to print out class and numbers on computer paper to all participants that don't have magnets. We will be charging $1.00 for 2 sheets that will consist of your class and # to put on both sides of your vehicle for the event. This will cut down a lot on the use of Blue tape and offer a much cleaner look on your car.
We are excited to be under way and more focused on providing the best events possible for all this summer.
Thank you all, and can't wait for April!!
-Kameron
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