STICKY TIRES NEWS LETTER

We have successfully completed 2/3rds of our season. Other than a few notable mishaps, we have been well-behaved. It has been a privilege to participate in hard, clean racing. I hope we can complete the next two weekends on so high a note.

We also had a very fine Vintage Race Weekend. Joel and Kathy put on their usual well-organized show and we had a very good volunteer turnout. We owe a debt of gratitude to those who made the 3-day weekend run so smoothly. All the volunteers should be proud of themselves!

Elsewhere on the volunteer front, we continue to have way more flaggers than we have had in quite a while. It’s nice to see that all the corners are manned as we come around the track. Kudos again to Ron Cech and all of his volunteers.

Rentals and OTDs are always busy. Dave Hinman is doing a great job keeping our weekdays full. Clutch is doing his usual good job at the OTDs. Both are sources for potential new racers and income that pays a major role in keeping our racing costs down. The OTDs really need help from racer volunteers to be instructors or tech inspectors to get all the cars and drivers around the track safely.

I’ll spare everyone my rant about volunteering in a virtually all volunteer club. We all know what needs to be done. I will, though, continue to extol the virtues of being active at the OCSC with a reminder that we are already members of OCSC and that we owe the club our loyalty and participation. As is the case with WHRRI, it seems that 95% of the work gets done by 5% of the members. Despite there being more than 130 WHRRI members, I don’t think I see more than 10 of us at the OCSC general membership meeting. We can do better. The food is good and the beer is cold. Come to a meeting and find out what is going on.

See you at the track.
Brian Murphy