<VV> Some Convention reports

[Sethracer at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/4/2005 4:49:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time,  
bwschug at charter.net writes:

I  haven't seen any real reports as to what happened at the Convention. 
Why  not? Were you all sworn to secrecy until the Convention issue of 
the  Communique comes out? By now there have usually been several 
reports and  the complaining about what was wrong is going full steam 
ahead.

Who  won what? How were the events?

Bruce W.  Schug



Those who sat through the Banquet may still be arriving home!  Warren  
Leveque won the FTD Don Yenko award. BIll Jabs took the William L. Mitchell  Award 
for the highest score in the Concours. Richard Jenkins won the Edward M.  Cole 
award for participation and performance. This is all from memory, so I  
apologize in advance for any errors. 
The Autocross was a bit small, but used enough of the available lot to  be 
"just" safe enough. Lots of Concrete close by. Again Corsa allowed an  SCCA-type 
course, (put on by the local SCCA folks) with gates and pointer cones,  
(grrr) causing lots of DNFs due to drivers missing gates.  One driver  I watched, 
from my corner worker position, missed the same gate on all three of  his runs. 
Three DNFs. That sucks. Of course, the novices who miss those gates  are the 
least likely to complain. Buffalo, I believe, will use a circle-track  based 
location, perhaps using chicanes to keep speeds in the safe range.  I am trying 
to keep gated courses out of Corsa Autocrosses. SCCA runs them  at their 
National Championships, so many local regions run them as practice.  But gated 
courses result in more DNFs, at least at Corsa events. I  missed a gate twice, 
despite walking the course. My failure -I admit! But it is  so easy to draw the 
same exact course without gates, placing the cars in the  same line, but 
making it impossible to get lost!  Okay, enough whining for  now. 
I'm sure NECC will have PIR results up on their web site soon. Warren won  
that one too!  This was the first time I saw the Roe car in competition and  it 
looked very nice. Warren had a crossover pipe problem at the track, but had  
it fixed by the autocross. 
 
- Seth Emerson   ace/2  reporter         - (as in "half ace"  reporter)