Solo Season Ends at LES Covered Bridge Rally Bill goes to the Runoffs

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1 The Events of September & October 2014 Solo Season Ends at LES Covered Bridge Rally Bill goes to the Runoffs Aaron Wolozsyn gets FTD at Lake Erie Speedway in October Bruce Wesley won FTD at Lake Erie Speedway in September Bill s BS Pictures Covered Bridge Rally Results Runoffs Report Solo Report Solo Results September Meeting Minutes October Meeting Minutes Club Trials Results Membership Report Membership Application and Officers List Dates to Remember

2 Bill s BS 10/31/14 It s Banquet Time! First ours, then the NEDIV Mini-Con, and finally the Kryder Series. by Bill Stewart We had an incident at the September Solo. Fortunately, the passenger only had a scratch, while the car was a bit more serious. Thanks everyone for your cooperation! Those walls are hard. Well the weather was great and Bruce, well he was great in the S2000, now in the Corvette, he is awesome! I want to thank Aaron Woloszyn for all his hard work as Solo Chairman. I know that it sometimes seems like herding cats, but we had a great season and oh so much fun. Several of us went down to Nelson Ledges for a wet track day early in September and then for the PDX and Club Trials at the end of the month. I think the track is back into the shape of 2 or 3 years ago. It s encouraging, but there is a long way to go. Todd Karam, the new manager, has some interesting ideas. Nick Simon has not had very good luck this year. At the Club Trials, after setting the FTD on his second lap, the car went over the lip on the outside of Oak Tree, into the tire wall and over on its side. The GTI is not pretty any more. Nick Simon at the MVR Club Trials before the big oops I know that Mahoning Valley lost money on their Golden Harvest event at Nelson. Neohio had to cancel their Regional at PittRace for lack of entries. I hope that we can support them more next year. Back from the Runoffs, I had to really hustle to get the Covered Bridge Rally ready. I am afraid that Dave Hammer and I should have triple checked the instructions. Next time, I would like a rally novice, with lots of questions, and also an experienced person who knows what questions to ask, to do a pre-run. We had beautiful weather and 4 of the cars had novices. Our banquet is tonight. We have had a great year and we deserve to celebrate! We always have some impressive and sometimes amusing prizes! I think of the other ones that I have been to. We have more fun! Bob Mazza s South Shore Wine Company will be a fantastic place for it and I bet Calimaris does great catering. I can t wait. I actually am going to have a weekend off before making my way, along with Charlie Campbell and maybe Dave Hammer to the NEDIV Mini-Con. Along with the banquet, this is where the planning and the scheduling 2 SCCA Chairman John Walsh in the Runoffs Pace Car wearing his Nelson Ledges cap for next year gets done. It should be interesting with Thompson now open in Connecticut, Palmer in Massachusetts getting ready, and PittRace finishing its second half. Next is the Kryder banquet, and then Thanksgiving. Things to think about for next year. The North American International Auto Show is always a fantastic road trip. Our Erie Auto Show is at the end of January, should we try to have a booth? Neohio has their Ohio Winter Rally, and we should have our Sno-Go Rally. The SCCA National Convention is again being combined with the MSX Motorsports Expo down in Charlotte in February. So, let s enjoy the banquets, remember this year, take a rest, and dream of next year. See you at the banquet! Bill

3 Pictures! Clockwise from the top--andrew & Kate are Engaged! Aaron Young, Kate Bell at the Nelson PDX, Nick Simon vs Bruce Wesley, Tim Mackey, Lance Dunn 3

4 Covered Bridge Road Rally October 26, 2014 We would like to thank everyone who came out to our Annual Covered Bridge Rally. The weather and the leaves were beautiful. This year we travelled to the Covered Bridge Pizza in North Kingsville, although some relied on their cell phone GPSes and went to the one in Saybrook. We finished at Crowley s in Platea with awards and many prizes. Major thanks to Dave Hammer, Bob & Brenda Nick, Ron Johnstonbaugh, and Greg Lester who worked the checkpoints. Also major thanks to Bob Mazza for helping with the wine for prizes. It was great to see Bob Hart. It s been too long. Great Day! Results Place Driver & Navigator(s) Vehicle Points First Overall, First Stock Adam Spieszny & Piotr Roszczenko Eagle Talon AWD 34 Second Overall, First Equipped Dave Sellers & Janis Ford Subaru Impreza 42 Third Overall, Second Stock Andrew & Danielle Dumbeck Volkswagen GTI 363 Fourth Overall, First Tourist Melinda Kuhn, Eric Seifert, & Bob Hart Dodge Durango 670 Fifth Overall, Third Stock Bill & Sue Crowe Saturn Ion 872 Sixth Overall, Fourth Stock Matt DeLacy & Nick Simon Ford Fairlane 1586 Seventh Overall, First Novice Pamela Moe & Robert Curran Toyota Camry 1669 Eighth Overall, Second Novice Steve Cold & Elizabeth Reddy Lexus 1682 Ninth Overall, Third Novice Greg Alley & Kathy Langston Mazda Miata 1823 Adam Spieszny and Piotr Roszczenko win the 2014 Covered Bridge Rally in their 1992 Eagle Talon AWD Matt DeLacy and Nick Simon in the Fairlane at the State Road Bridge South of Conneaut, OH 4

5 Runoffs Report Our SCCA National Championship Runoffs visited Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and its famous Corkscrew for the first time. The hills and tight turns were a huge contrast to Road America, the host of the Runoffs for the last 5 years. I was surprised to see all the familiar NEDIV and Great Lakes friends made the trip. Our former RE, Tom Ward made it out from DC with his crazy hat to work corners. Steel Cities s Steve Mortimer and Mahoning Valley s Cliff McCandless were up on the starter s stand. Steel Cities Jeff Hutzelman, who once worked for me at Erie Computer manned Timing & Scoring. SCCA s Chairman, John Walsh, seemed to be everywhere, wearing his Nelson Ledges cap. The action was fast and furious on the track and also in the tech shed, with penalties at both places. I worked a personal worst 8 black flag alls in one day during qualifying. The fierce competition created carnage in Turn 2, the first real turn and it continued all the way to the turn 11 gravel trap. After 3 days of qualifying, the 27 classes started the racing on Friday with the big guns of T1. Sure enough, 4 cars were taken out at turn 2 right after the start. Philly s Andrew Aquilante just walked away from the field to win in his Phoenix Racing Mustang. Local legend, Joe Huffaker won GT-L for his 9th Runoffs Championship in his famous rear wheel drive Mini. Formula F saw 3 full course yellows with Summit Point neighbor Jeremy Grenier finishing on top in his Citation Honda. Ohio native and SCCA VP, Eric Prill had a spirited race long dice for second with Joe Huffaker in F Production until he flat-spotted his tires while Rookie Nigel Saurino cruised for the win. A Sedan dominator, Andy McDermid tried to soldier on with a broken brake rotor, but Dylan Olsen and Bill Baten were able to squeeze by for first and second. Chris Farrell s Stohr Suzuki was the fastest car of the whole week as he won the new Prototype 1 class. The start of the T3 race was a mess with at least 4 cars making contact in Turn 2. At the end, David Daughtery won his 8th Runoffs in a Nissan 370Z after swapping the lead with Tom Wickersham. Saturday stated off with a 2 hour fog delay. We finally got started with Cliff Ira dropping to 3rd from the pole in STL and trailing smoke from a loose dip stick in his Acura Integra. He regained the lead on lap 9, but the smoke got much worse with 2 to go. His engine held together enough for the victory. Turn 2 saw another first lap fiasco as Rich Rigda took out Addison Lee and T2 pole sitter Kurt Rezzetano. Andrew Longe and Kyle Kelley swapped paint and the lead until a drag race out of turn 11 ended with Longe s Porsche winning by.047 seconds. Robert Allaer held off 16 year old Andrew Evans to win Formula Continental. Springboro, OH native Scott Rettich dominated Formula Enterprises for the 4th year and also won the Super Sweeps. British Columbia s Colin Jackson won GT-3 for the 3rd time in his Nissan 240SX. Mike Anderson swapped the lead with Alan McCullum on the last 2 laps of the Formula Mazda race, but after 3 second places, he finally stood on the top of the podium. In the E Production race, Matt Reynolds passed Jim Daniels on the second lap and went on the win by 20 seconds in his Miata. Aaron Downey was 3rd in his 1976 Mazda RX-3. Andrew Aquilante ruled GT-2 in his Corvette for his 2nd win of the week. Fabian Okonski went into the lead of the Prototype 2 race, but was passed by 2 cars when a yellow came out. He got the win when the 2 offenders were penalized. Sunday opened with the T4 and B-Spec race. In T4, Daniel Bender in his Mazda MX-5 passed the Mazda RX-8 of Izzy Sanchez on the lap 9 restart for the win. B-Spec pole John Heinricy pulled into the pits with the ECU problems that haunted him all week. This continued on p.6 Above: Jeff Hutzelman, Bill Stewart, Lisa Noble, John Walsh, & Tom Ward at the worker party Right: MVR s Cliff McCandless hands the checkered flag to STU Champ Andric Hartanto 5

6 Runoffs Report continued allowed Kyle Keenan in his Kia Rio to battle Travis Washay in a Mini for the win. Dearborn s Brian Novak led wire to wire to win his 3rd Formula 500 Championship. Formula Vee was a 4 way tussle with Terran Swanson leading Vermont s Richard Siebenaler and Steel Cities Rick Shields most laps. Andrew Whitson edged past Shields on the last turn for 3rd but then the top 3 were all disqualified in tech and Shields became the winner. The GT1 race was a little bit faster. When the pole sitting Jaguar of Michael Lewis broke its differential at the start, Kyle Kelley was able to cruise to victory in his Corvette. J.R. Osborne slowly drew away from Alex Mayer and Gary Hickman to win Formula Lawrence Loshak diced with Jason Isley the whole H Production race to win in his CRX. Formula Atlantic pole sitter, Michael Mallinen, took the early lead but then slowed and finally dropped out. 17 year old Conner Kearby started 6th but had over a second a lap on everyone. He passed Mahoning Valley s Sedat Yelkin for second and then got the lead and the win when Mallinen dropped out. 44 Spec Racer Fords took the green flag and 4 didn t finish the first lap. Mike Miserendino led for most of the race but shifting problems allowed Cliff White to harass, and then pass him on lap 16 in the Corkscrew. Miserendino didn t give up and finished 2nd by only.065 seconds. T.J. Acker finished 3rd with Scott Rettich 4th. And there was the Spec Miata fiasco. The race itself had all the rubbing and bumping that you would expect. Mark Drennan from San Jose led the entire race with Kyle Kaiser, Andrew Carbonell, and Brian Ghidinelli swapping place behind. However, a group from Oregon filled a protest after qualifying about the cylinder heads of the top 9 cars. So we stopped all the cars at the end of the race and the tech inspectors pulled all the usual top 6 plus ones that they wanted to look at the heads. 8 were sent to last place and Kyle Kaiser was DQed completely. Michael LaBouff was DQed for reckless driving. So the 7th place driver, Mark Sterns, became the SM Champion! SCCA and Mazda are now working on a way to better police things. Anytime that you have a big event at a new location you have lots of mostly small problems. Honestly, SCCA did not expect 530 entries, many with semi-truck rigs. They were forced to use the secondary paddock. Cars from there had to travel on the track to the regular grid. It was usually hot most of the week, and then we were delayed by fog on Saturday. The track has unusually stick sound rules during the week too. In the end, I was pleasantly surprised how well things went and I had a great time! Congratulations to all the racers and all the workers! I can t wait to go to Daytona and then Mid-Ohio in 2016! 6 Love at the track & A surprise FTD By: Aaron Woloszyn 2014 SOLO Chair Our last two events of the year where both very exciting and a lot of fun for everyone involved. We once again had gorgeous weather for the September 7th event. We had some friends from both the north east, WNY, and the south, Steel Cities, come up for a day of racing. Bruce Wesley in his beautiful Silver Corvette took both FTD (Fastest Time of the Day) and PAX. Our local guys Nick Simon and Nick Kelly were both hot on his tail all day, but in the end could not best the Vette. October 12th was our last event of the 2014 season for MBR and it truly turned out to be one for the books. Upon arriving at the track to set up, it was a brisk 30 degrees! However by the time lunch rolled around it had warmed up to a nice crisp fall day. Being the last event of the season, MBR was very surprised to see a large number of first time drivers taking part and many of which already stated being excited for the upcoming season. Nick Simon co-drove a Civic Si for this event and took overall PAX time, while FTD went to myself! You heard correctly. A DSM took FTD. I could not have been more excited and proud. I want to thank my fellow racers for all of their congrats and kind words. The cheering did not stop there however. The last car of the day was driven by Andrew Ferrara who was co-driving his girlfriend Kate Bell s Genesis Coupe. A few key people knew the day was leading up to this epic moment. Upon finishing his run, Andrew came to a quick stop, got out, ran to the back of the car and waited. Once Kate got out to see what was going on, the proposal happened! She said yes! Love at the track! I look forward to seeing you all next year for our 2015 season!

7 Misery Bay Solo #6 Lake Erie Speedway September 7th, 2014 Kart Class Results Name Class Car PAX Time Raw Time Overall PAX 1st Aaron Young KM Kosmic Kart Stock Road Tire Class Results Place & Name Class Car PAX Time Raw Time Overall PAX 1st Sam Mehler BS Honda S nd Ralph Cummings BS Mazda Miata rd Tom Hall AS Pontiac Solstice th Norman Thomas HS Ford Focus ZX3 SVT th Glen Borton FS Ford Mustang GT th Steven Clark GS Ford Mustang th Paul Meka GS Chevrolet Impala th Michael Matczak FS Chevrolet Camaro th Brian Blake BS Subaru WRX STi DNS 41 Street Touring Class Results 1st Nick Kelly STX Subaru BRZ nd Logan Flaherty STX Subaru BRZ rd Andrew Ferrara STS Mazda Miata th Lance Dunn STF Acura RSX Type R th Matt Curry STR Honda S th Matt DeLacy STS Acura Integra th Ian McCune STX Scion FRS th Kathryn Bell STU Hyundai Genesis Coupe th Mark Zanella STX Subaru WRX Modified & Prepared Street Tire Class Results 1st Tim Mackey ASP Mitsubishi EVO nd Justin Stull SM Scion FRS rd Mark Bodamer SM Subaru WRX th Alex Decker ESP Subaru WRX th Justin Gibala SM Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX th Aaron Woloszyn SM Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX Stock Race Tire Class Results 1st Bruce Wesley SSR Chevrolet Corvette GS nd Jay Gyger SSR Porsche 911 GT rd Bill Stewart SSR Porsche Cayman R continued on p.8 7

8 Misery Bay Solo #6 Results Continued Modified Race Tire Class Results Name Class Car PAX Time Raw Time Overall PAX 1st Nick Simon SMF Volkswagen GTI nd Anthony Cuzzacrea ASP Subaru WRX STi Novice Class Results Name Class Car PAX Time Raw Time Overall PAX 1st David Griffin GS Volkswagen GTI nd Taylor Pearson FS BMW M rd James Szustakowski GS Ford Focus ST th Matthew Ramey BS Audi S th David Holewka HS Ford Focus SE th Joseph Pifer SM Roush Mustang th Andrew Murphy DS Subaru WRX th John Pearson HS Oldsmobile th Jeff Marcelus FS BMW 335xi th Cody Colpo FS BMW 525i th Andrew Donaldson SMR Opel GT Misery Bay Solo #7 Lake Erie Speedway October 12th, 2014 Kart Class Results Name Class Car PAX Time Raw Time Overall PAX 1st Aaron Young KM Kosmic Kart nd Deb Young JA Kosmic Kart Stock Road Tire Class Results Place & Name Class Car PAX Time Raw Time Overall PAX 1st Nick Simon GS Honda SI VTAK nd Drew Bickel GS Honda Civic Si rd David Griffin GS Volkswagen GTI th James Turner GS Fiat 500 Abarth th Daniel Colebert ES Mazda Miata th Norman Thomas HS Ford Focus ZX3 SVT th Paul Meka GS Chevrolet Impala Modified Race Tire Class Results Name Class Car PAX Time Raw Time Overall PAX 1st Andrew Hankewycz ASP Mitsubishi EVO continued on p.9 8

9 Misery Bay Solo #7 Results Continued Modified & Prepared Street Tire Class Results Name Class Car PAX Time Raw Time Overall PAX 1st Aaron Woloszyn SM Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX nd Adedayo Ademowore SM Dodge Colt rd Justin Gibala SM Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX th Justin Stull SM Scion FRS th Jon Rausch CSP Toyota MR th Jordan Bryant SMF Mazdaspeed th Brandon Pratt SM Pontiac Trans-Am th Travis Pratt XP Mazda RX th Jonathan Meighan XP Mazda RX th Anthony Sinopoli XP Mazda RX Street Touring Class Results 1st Lance Dunn STF Acura RSX Type R nd Andrew Ferrara STU Hyundai Genesis Coupe rd Christian Peehler STS Acura Integra GSR th Matt Curry STR Honda S th Cory Espinola STS Acura Integra GSR th Kathryn Bell STU Hyundai Genesis Coupe th Ian McCune STX Scion FRS Novice Class Results Name Class Car PAX Time Raw Time Overall PAX 1st Taylor Pearson FS BMW M nd John Pearson FS BMW M rd Joshua Brown FS Ford Thunderbird th Andrew Gentry STX Volkswagen GTI th Marvin Alvarado SMF Honda Civic th Richard Gentry FS Ford Mustang GT th Matt Lachesky FS Ford Crown Victoria th Andrew Donaldson SMR Opel GT Congratulations on a Great Season! 9

10 Misery Bay Region SCCA General Membership Meeting Cornerstone Bar and Grill September 4, 2014 Those in attendance: Members: Tim Mackey, Andrew Ferrara, Bill Stewart, Dave Hammer, Rich Hall, Aaron Woloszyn, Kathy Vanderwende, Matt Curry, Sam Mehler, Ian McCune, and Nick Simon. R.E. Tim Mackey called the meeting to order at 7:12 PM. The August minutes are not ready as our Secretary, Bill Stewart was not at the meeting and got back from California just now. Tim stated that the minutes from July were approved with the Treasurer s report removing the amount of the Solo surplus. Committee Reports Rally - Bill reported that the Covered Bridge Rally will be October 26th. We need entries and workers. Pit Signal - Bill just got back from California. He is getting a write up from Aaron on the Solos. Solo - Aaron Woloszyn reported that our 2 August events went smoothly. Dave Hammer reported that he had ordered the cones, but they have not yet arrived. SCCA estimated several weeks. For Sunday, Bill, Dave, and Drew Bickel will be Solo Safety Stewards, KV will do Registration. Our new Waiver Chief, Ian McCune, will do that. Aaron will be moving to Medina, OH. Registration - Motorsportreg is not setup for the September Solo yet. Tech - No report. PR -No report Banquet - No report. Tim contacted Kim Stucke on the details. Tim will follow up. Waiver - Ian McCune volunteered to be our waiver chairman. Treasurer - Dave Hammer reported a present checkbook balance last month of $13, We still have to pay weekend memberships, sanctions, and insurance on both August Solos as Dave has not received totals and the sanction numbers. He is trying to settle a discrepancy with motorsportreg. We still need to make our contribution to the Neckers Memorial. Membership - We have 84 active members, 3 have expired. For weekend memberships, we will have a hand written list at the event which Kate Bell will enter them into Nationals Excel form and send it in. Trophies - We need trophies! We finally ran out of the glasses. We will have Billies. Consensus was to wait until next year for regular awards. We need ideas for our year-end awards and we need to order them real soon after our last Solo. Old Business Tim said that we will donate our Gary Neckers Memorial $1,400 to the Clymer Fire Department. Dave Hammer has written a letter to them. New Business Sam Mehler will put our new sponsor, Bonnell s Collision on our web-page. Tim has the 1,000 Misery Bay business cards that Andrew Aul created before he moved to California. Tim and KV agreed that we have a tradition of paying our banquet fee for our Member of the Year and their guest. We should invite our sponsors, Mike Schmitt at Tires for Less and Scott Bonnell to this year s banquet. Rich Hall and KV will have their MG Midgets at the Scions of Britain car show at the Waterford Square of Sept.21. Tim and Logan never ordered their jackets. Bill reported that Mahoning Valley will be having both PDXes and Club Trials at their Golden Harvest Races, September 27 & 28, at Nelson Ledges. The motoseries folks have really done a lot of work on the track. Several MBR folks will be going to the Funday this Saturday. The gift certificates from last years banquet will be honored by the new management. 10 continued on p.11

11 September minutes continued Nominations for Officers Regional Executive Tim Mackey-nominated by Bill & Dave Assistant Regional Executive Nick Simon-by Aaron & Sam, Andrew Ferrara-by Aaron & Tim Secretary Bill Stewart-by Tim & Aaron, Kate Bell-by Tim & Aaron(Andy had nothing to do with this) Treasurer Kathy Vanderwende-by Sam & Bill Board of Directors(elect 3) Dave Hammer-by KV & Tim, Sam Mehler-by Dave & Aaron, Lance Dunn-by Tim & Aaron Bill Stewart-by Tim & Sam, Matt Curry-by Aaron & Sam, Logan Flaherty-by Tim & Aaron Nick Simon-by Andy & Aaron, Kathryn Bell-by Bill & Aaron, Jay Dumbeck-by Bill & Sam Nick Simon moved and Sam Mehler seconded that the meeting be adjourned pending the Motion passed and the meeting was adjourned at 8:06. Bill won the and donated it to the region. Submitted for approval Bill Stewart Secretary MISERY BAY REGION, S.C.C.A. Minutes of the General Membership Meeting Cornerstone Bar & Grill October 2, 2014 THOSE ATTENDING: Matt Delacy, Sam Mehler, Ian McCune, Marvin Alvarado, Aaron Woloszyn, Kathy Vanderwende, Lance Dunn, Logan Flaherty, Rich Hall, Henry Young, Dave Hammer, Dave Michalak, Kim Witherow, Terry Witherow, Andrew Ferrara. An announcement was made by Dave Hammer regarding the injury to his forehead. According to Dave s account of the incident, an Ohio State linebacker made some derogatory remarks about SCCA. Dave straightened him out. (Uh-hum.) The meeting was called to order by R.E. Tim Mackey at 7:12 PM. (This was followed by a request to pass the ketchup.) A request to approve the minutes of the September 4th meeting was made by R.E. Tim Mackey. Kathy Vanderwende mentioned that a correction was necessary for the August and September minutes. It was stated in these minutes that, in the past, the dinners for the Member of the Year and their guest were paid by the Region. This was incorrect. Only the Member of the Year s dinner was paid by the Region, and did not include the guest or spouse. A motion to approve the amended minutes was made by Dave Hammer and seconded by Aaron Woloszyn. The motion passed. RALLY: There was no report given. Bill Stewart is attending the Runoffs at Laguna Seca. PIT SIGNAL: There was no report given. continued on p.12 11

12 October minutes continued SOLO: Aaron Woloszyn reported that everything is ready for the last event. Safety Stewards are Logan Flaherty and Bill Stewart. If either of these individuals are not available, Drew Bickel or Dave Hammer will be available. Henry Young is the Youth Steward. A discussion focused on moving the trailer from the Speedway to Jay Dumbeck s home for winter storage. Dave Hammer will transport the trailer, but will need directions to Jay s home. The new pylons are still in Aaron s possession, but Dave Hammer will pick those up before the next event. REGISTRATION: Logan Flaherty reported that he has set up access for multiple users on Motorsportsreg. Logan also requested that Tim Mackey be added as a user also. WAIVER: No report was made. TREASURER: Dave Hammer handed out the September 24th financial statement to the membership. The report found in the Pit Signal was incorrect due to an editor error. Dave reported that the Treasury has $11, to date, with one outstanding check payable to the Clymer Volunteer Fire Department for the Gary Neckers Memorial contribution. Dave has paid for the recent purchase of the pylons and the latest Speedway payment. In addition, insurance and sanction fees are current. However, weekend memberships need to be paid. Dave also briefly discussed the Motorsportsreg discrepancy. MEMBERSHIP: Andy Ferrara reported that there are currently 83 active members. TROPHIES: No trophies were purchased this year. Trophies will be purchased next year for the autocrosse season. Also, trophies will need to be ordered for this year s banquet. MERCHANDISE: Dave Hammer has taken the club merchandise to each autocrosse. Anyone wishing to purchase anything should contact Dave at our next event. OLD BUSINESS: Again, a discussion was held concerning the check sent to the Clymer Fire Department for the Neckers Memorial. The check was written on September 5th. Tim Mackey asked for a follow-up if the check continues to be uncashed. R.E. Mackey reminded the membership that he still has the MBR business cards in his possession. Anyone needing these cards should contact him. Sam Mehler will contact our sponsors this year and invite them to our year-end banquet. The region will pay for their dinner and for their guest. NEW BUSINESS: A brief discussion was held concerning the last event at Lake Erie Speedway. Logan Flaherty asked that the region secure current and working telephone numbers and contacts in the event that incident reports need to be filed. Our last incident report has been filed, and no further correspondence has been received from Topeka. Dave Hammer reminded the membership that MBR has a jinx with Mustangs. Kim Witherow gave a banquet report scheduled for November 1 at the South Shore Winery. She discussed the menu, desserts, and payment methods. Reservations will be taken thru Motorsportsreg or by mail to the PO Box. The deadline will be announced later, but is estimated to be a week prior to the event. A discussion was held concerning the auction. Opinions were solicited concerning a budget amount and items to be included in the auction. A Board meeting will be scheduled to determine the budget. Also, the Board will discuss candidates for the year-end awards, such as Member of the Year, Driver(s) of the Year, etc. A discussion was held concerning year-end class trophies and PAX classes. Logan Flaherty will look into securing jerseys for the PAX awards and Ian McCune will check on class trophies/plaques. Any discrepancies in class awards will be considered by the Board for resolution. 12 continued on p.13

13 September minutes continued The nominations for 2015 MBR officers were continued. Nominations are as follows, pending approval by nominees that were not in attendance at the meeting. REGIONAL EXECUTIVE Tim Mackey ASSISTANT REGIONAL EXECUTIVE Nick Simon, Andy Ferrara, Sam Mehler (nominated by Aaron Woloszyn and seconded by Lance Dunn) Logan Flaherty nominated Lance Dunn, but Lance declined the nomination. SECRETARY Bill Stewart Kate Bell declined the nomination TREASURER Kathy Vanderwende, Nick Schneider (nominated by Lance Dunn and seconded by Aaron Woloszyn) BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dave Hammer, Bill Stewart, Nick Simon, Sam Mehler, Matt Curry, Kate Bell, Logan Flaherty, Jay Dumbeck, Nick Schneider (nominated by Lance Dunn and seconded by Sam Mehler), Terry Witherow (nominated by Lance Dunn and seconded by Aaron Woloszyn) Dave Hammer moved that nominations be closed. Aaron Woloszyn seconded the motion. The motion passed. Rich Hall volunteered to generate, mail/ , and count the ballots. Sam Mehler will construct the ballot and forward it to Rich for dissemination. Rich Hall moved to adjourn the meeting pending the 50/50. This motion was seconded by Andy Ferrara. The meeting adjourned at 8:31 PM. The 50/50 was won by Logan Flaherty, winning $4. Repectfully submitted for approval, Kathy Vanderwende Acting Secretary Mahoning Valley Club Trials Results Nelson Ledges Road Course September 27, 2014 Name Class Car First Session Second Session Nick Simon SMF Volkswagen GTI 1: DNS...FTD Nick Kelly CS Subaru BRZ 1: : Brian Garing SM Chevrolet Camaro 1: : Matt DeLacy STS Acura Integra GSR 1: : Keith Nutter IT7 Mazda RX-7 1: : Andrew Ferrara STU Mazda Miata 1: DNS Don Edwards STU Mazda Miata 1: :

14 Membership Report October 28, Full Members 2 Renewals Overdue Please Welcome Marvin Alvarado Justin Stull WE REALLY MISS Todd Beddick Israel Vosberg Jordan Rimpela Debbie Swick Jeremy Sagala Amanda & Rob Cox Ken Hoovler Andy Stevenson September Renewals Rob Bender Elizabeth Schneider October Renewals Bill Crowe Aaron Kaczar Paul Smith James Turner November Renewals Lance Dunn Alec Slomski Ken Wise December Renewals Matt Baseler Kevin Burkholder Eric Confer Dennis Roesch Frank Victor You can check your status and renew online at SCCA.com Make sure that your membership card shows a membership in Misery Bay Region

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16 November December January 1 MBR Awards Banquet South Shore Wine Company North East, PA 6 Monthly Membership Meeting Cornerstone Bar & Grill Trans-Am & Historic Sportscar Races Daytona International Speedway NorthEast Division Mini-Con Royal Plaza Hotel Marlborough, MA 22 Kryder Championship Banquet A La Carte Catering Canfield, OH 4 Monthly Membership Meeting Cornerstone Bar & Grill 4-7 Ohio Vallley Audi Club Driving School Daytona International Speedway 6 Pavement Ends Road Rally Lansing, MI 13 Detroit Region Thistle Hill Rally-X South Lyon, MI 8 Monthly Membership Meeting Cornerstone Bar & Grill 9-11 SCCA Majors Races Homestead-Miami Speedway SCCA Majors Races Sebring International Raceway North American International Auto Show Cobo Center, Detroit, MI Tudor United Rolex 24 Hours Daytona International Speedway 29-1 Erie Auto Show Bayfront Convention Center