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May 2019

Thunderhill This Weekend!

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Our autocross race weekend at Thunderhill is this Saturday and Sunday, June 1st and 2nd.  A few of our campers are planning to arrive Friday.  We are doing a little trackside BBQ potluck Saturday early evening, so if you are planning to camp at the track or are coming to the Saturday race, plan to stay for a while and enjoy some awesome BBQ on the Club!  Bring a side dish or dessert (grocery stores / Walmart are minutes away – no reason to prepare something unless you really want to!) and your favorite beverage. 

It should be a fun weekend and I hope you can make it!

Remember:

  • Register by Noon
  • Bring Cash
  • Bring Chairs
  • Bring Shade
  • Be Safe, Go Fast, Have Fun!

Shasta AutoX Challenge Series 5 & 6 – Thunderhill June 1st & 2nd

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We are very excited to be partnering with the North Bay Corvette Association for our Club’s first official autocross event on the 7 acre Large Skid Pad at Thunderhill Raceway Park!  North Bay Corvettes will be managing the event and taking your money.  Registration is $35 each day for TTC members, $45 for non-members.  This is a points race weekend for TTC – you will only be scored against your fellow TTC competitors for season points.  You will be competing against others at the event for the ‘Fun Car Class’ (basically everything that isn’t a Corvette) and Fastest Car of the Day bragging rights.  We will have Fast Time, Top PAX, and Class winners for our participants as we do for all of our events.

Download all the details – https://trinitytouringclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Shasta-AutoX-Challenge-Series-Thunderhill-Info.pdf

Based on our sign up sheet from the last event, we have about 18 racers who plan to make the trip down, and half a dozen plan to camp overnight.  I’m hoping folks who didn’t make it out last weekend are planning to join us at Thunderhill and pump those numbers up!  If you didn’t sign up but plan to go, no worries, we will see you there!  We are talking about doing a little BBQ or something trackside Saturday night for those who make the trip – more to come on that.

Hope to see you there!

Race Results – Shasta AutoX Challenge Series 3 & 4

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We had some wet weather this weekend that kept some competitors away, but we still managed to fill up a couple of run groups each morning for points racing, and then opened up the track for fun runs in the afternoon.  Safe to say even though we got a little wet, it was great to have the time to do fun runs and trade rides.    

Saturday morning’s competition laps were dry, with David Winterburn winning Fast Time and Blake DeWit taking PAX.  We need a minimum of 3 cars in each PAX group to declare a Class winner, so Saturday that was Blake for Street, Eric Haney for Touring, and Shawn McNeely for Modified. 

Sunday’s weather was the inverse, with morning competition laps in the wet, and afternoon fun runs on a dry track.  Blake managed the fastest time of the day in his E Street Miata, and I managed to squeak out a PAX win in the SVT Focus.  Class winners were Brian Berry for Street, Andrew Skemp for Touring, and Jordan Enloe for CAM. 

Complete event and season to date results are posted at https://trinitytouringclub.com/race-results/

Our next Club meeting is Tuesday May 21st @ Players Pizza in Anderson, social hour 6pm – 7pm, with meeting following.  We’ll be finalizing our plans for our next points race at Thunder Hill June 1st and 2nd – I’ll send out some additional info after the meeting.   Hope to see you there!

Racing This Weekend – Rounds 3 & 4

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The Trinity Touring Club is hosting two days of autocross racing this weekend, May 18th & 19th.  The Shasta AutoX Challenge Series events are rain or shine, and this weekend is threatening rain, so be prepared for wet and wild!  If you got a look at our January photos, you know we take racing in the rain seriously!  Campers are welcome to stay at the track this weekend.

Setup is Friday at 6pm in the pit area of the Shasta Speedway.  We welcome anyone who can make it out to help!  The more people, the quicker it all gets done.  Jeremy McNeely is our Race Director for the weekend.

Saturday and Sunday, gates open at 7:30am for registration, with driver’s meeting at 9am.  Race entry fee is $30 for members / $35 for guests for each day, and you can pay using your favorite credit card.  Club t-shirts are included with your membership or can be purchased for $15, and we have helmet rentals available if you do not have your own.  Novice racers are welcome!

We’ll have the hot dog crew serving lunch, and a sign-up sheet for our next event at Thunderhill coming up June 1st & 2nd.  Our next club meeting follows on Tuesday, May 21st.

See you at the track this weekend!