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April 2017

Apr 10
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Shasta AutoX Challenge Series #1 results are now live!

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Hello Trinity Touring Club members, racers, fans and everyone in between!  Necia here filling in for Brian on the social media front this month, so I will do my best to get all the info, shoutouts, and thanks to everyone in my first attempt at the blog!

Our first points race of the season is officially in the books, and results are now live in our “Results” tab on the website (trinitytouringclub.com).  Huge thanks go out to Chase Warner for a challenging and entertaining track on Sunday. I think it’s safe to say that track gave even our most seasoned veterans a hard time when it came to remembering to keep right for their second lap!

Dave Winterburn took the trophy for Top Time of Day as well as the trophy for the Modified Class, with an incredible time of 70.746.  Our Top PAX Time of the Day, and winner for Street Class, was Chase Warner with a PAX time of 61.17.  Touring Class champ was Blake Dewit, Prepared Champ was Scott Murchison, Street Modified Champ was Bryan Nunes, and our Novice Champ was Andrew Barbitta.  Great job everyone!  If you didn’t receive your cone trophy, please see a club officer at the May 21 race to claim it!

We had the pleasure of hosting 44 drivers for this race, with a large number of those being new drivers (or new to driving with us). It’s always so great to see new cars and new faces (and old faces with new cars!), so we want to extend an extra special thank you to those of you who came out to join us for the first time this weekend, and we really hope everyone enjoyed themselves enough to keep coming out, and to invite anyone else that might be interested!

If you look at the results page, and notice any errors with names, cars, numbers, times, or any other data, please reach out to us at trinitytouringclub@gmail.com so we can get it corrected both on the site, and in the timing software. When I got all the data home and opened it up today, I noticed we were missing some information on the cars, so I’d like to make sure everyone’s information is correct.

We’d also like to start adding everyone’s photos and videos from the events to spread the word about the club and what a great group of people and cars we have. If you have anything you’d like to see on the website, the club Facebook or Youtube pages, please email it to us and we’ll get it uploaded.

Don’t forget, the next club meeting will be NEXT Tuesday 18th at Angelos Pizza at 7pm.  It sounds like there will be a lot to talk about, so we invite everyone to attend to give their input, or even just to provide some feedback.  If you aren’t able to attend, but have something you’d like discussed, please shoot us an email.  And finally, our next race will be Sunday, May 21st, with the same routine – setup will be the evening before (the time to be announced that week), gates will open race morning at 7:30am, and driver’s meeting at 9am.

Have a great rest of your week, and we look forward to seeing everyone again in a little under 6 weeks!

– Trinity Touring  Club

Apr 02
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2017 Shasta AutoX Challenge Series starts April 9th!

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Please join us for the first points race of the 2017 “Shasta AutoX Challenge Series” on Sunday, April 9th.  Setup is Saturday at 5pm – please come out to the track and help us get everything ready for the race.  Chase Warner is our Race Director and will bring us maps for setup.  Danny Ide will bring the tow vehicle.  Ray Dibble will be acting Secretary for the event.

Gates open at 7:30am on Sunday with driver’s meeting at 9am.  Entry fee is $30 for members and $35 for non-members.  If you have not autocrossed with us in pre-season this year, please arrive early enough to complete your registration / tech sheet and have your car and helmet inspected.  We also hope to have our club t-shirts ready at this event.
Updates from 03.21.2017 TTC Club Meeting!

1.  Timing / Scoring:  No rounding – all times will be recorded in thousandths (0.000)
2.  Timing / Scoring:  Times called out from the timing trailer will be the adjusted time including penalties.  Example: a time of “51.50 plus 1” is a 50.50 raw time with a 1 second penalty.  Adjusted time and penalty notation will be recorded on the timing board.
3.  Novice Class:  After two events, a competitor is no longer eligible for novice class and must race in their car class.
4.  Class Race Day Trophy:  To be eligible for a race day trophy based on the best PAX time for your car class (Street, Street Touring, Street Prepared, and Modified), there must be 3 competitors in the combined PAX class.
5.  Car Identification:    The club would like competitors to display SCCA compliant door numbers.  These are 8″ numbers with 4″ car class – specifications are in section 3.7 of the SCCA solo rule book.   Chase Warner is working on a design that will incorporate the club’s logo – please reach out to him if you’d like a number design created for your car.  The cost to get them made is around $45 / set – Chase has a source, and we have a club sponsor who can help – contact Cat or Halli of “Tach’d Up Vinyl”.  Competitors may continue to use tape or large, clearly written window marker to identify their car number and class.
6.  Flagging / Communication:  We would like to improve communication between the workstations, the flagger, and timing.  The center workstation will be responsible for getting the cone count from all workstations and communicating with the flagger, who will will then update timing.  Will have some new walkie-talkies to try to make this work better than our typical method of shouting.
7.  Race Series Name:  We have a new name for our racing series – “Shasta AutoX Challenge Series.”  This name is on our published Schedule, on Where2Race, on our upcoming local event listings, and will be printed on our t-shrts and race schedule banners.
Please reach out with any questions!