Ozark Mountain Region SCCA

OMR's own Jim Rowland has been appointed MIDIV's new Rallycross Steward by SCCA's National Board of Directors. The appointment was announced in September's edition of "Fastrack News" available here http://www.scca.com/about/?cid=44415 Jim replaces Nebraska Region's Jerry Doctor. Congratulations, Jim!

Registration closes at Midnight, July 4th.

Jim posted a total time of 687.434 sec. with his Nissan Sentra SE-R. Scott finished Third in the same class (Prepared/Front Wheel Drive) at 709.387, and wife, Jeanie, placed Fifth at 815.596. The Creech family competed in a Hyundai Veloster...not to be confused with a Yugo Velociraptor or, for that ...

The second event in this year's Divisional autocross championship will be run July 7/8 at Heartland Park-Topeka. As usual for solo events at Heartland Park, the 23-acre, asphalt "south paddock" will be utilized.

You can register at....

http://www.motorsportreg.com/index.cfm/ ... 2F091CB16C

Just watched the above program on the Springfield PBS channel. If you are a native of the Springfield area, it's well worth your time when it's re-broadcast Monday night. I much enjoyed the recollections of the old timers. Did you know OMR's own Forrest Tindall once raced "Mini Stocks" at the Fairgr...

At the Le Mans 24 Hour race Test Day on Sunday, June 3, everyone's favorite batmobile posted the 32nd quickest lap - 3 min 47.980 sec. Fastest lap went to one of the Audi hybrids driven by Allan McNish - 3 min 25.927 sec. Sixty-one machines were able to post times. Story and results sheet at http://...

OMR members David and Susie Small will be flagging at Turn 14 when the Indycars race at Detroit's Belle Isle circuit on Sunday, June 3. The race will be broadcast by the ABC network beginning at 2:30 PM CDT. Turn 14 is the last corner (on the pointy end of the island in the Detroit River) before the...

An eyesight testing search of the Mineral Wells (TX) PRO SOLO Results - see for yourself at http://www.scca.com/solo/content.cfm?cid=51016 - revealed.... In E Street Prepared...Mark Maradash/Firebird TransAm won at 89.242 sec. (44.767 & 44.475) while Mark Foley/Firebird finished Third (and trophied)...

An exhaustive search of the Results from last weekend's Lincoln, NE SOLO National Tour reveals only Mark Foley and Opie Viets were on hand to fly the OMR flag. (You can look for yourself at http://www.scca.com/events/results.cfm?eid=3601 ) Running in the 18-entries E Street Prepared group (tied for ...

Here's the latest on our favorite race car.....

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/99764

Legendary American sports car racer, Le Mans winner as driver and entrant, and prolific sports car builder Carroll Shelby has died. Here's a link to Autoweek.com's announcement of his passing. http://www.autoweek.com/article/20120511/CARNEWS/120519987 Excellent words about an extraordinary individual.

Here's a message I received today from Lisa Noble, MIDIV's representative on SCCA's National Board of Directors. Lisa explains what form each of MIDIV's remaining race weekends will take. I found it informative because I previously had felt uncomfortable explaining all the changes to MIDIV's racing ...

Well....no mention of catastrophe so far...but also no mention of speeds attained.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/98946

On mine too but....

OMR's June autocross will be run on Sunday, June 24th.

Surely Nissan has considered and rejected dry ice so moving on.....
what happens if it rains? Sometimes people who think "outside the box" think too far outside the box. Great publicity generator though....

Ted Wells