WHRRI Sticky Tires News Letter – April 2023

Autorama was a rousing success! Not only did we collect 4 trophies with 6 cars, but we had over 50 people sign up to volunteer, mostly for Flagging and Communications. They won’t all follow through, but that is an excellent start to alleviating our flagger shortage. To help with that Ed Frank announced that the Board agreed to a 25% discount on OTD rates for anyone attending Flagger School and a 10% OTD discount for any volunteer working a race or an OTD event.

April is a busy month. We will be having an opening work bee that everyone should plan on participating in.

Weather permitting, the date will be April 8. The Driver’s School classroom is April 15, the on track portion will be April 29 and 30. Our flagger school will be that weekend too. We also have our Advanced Worker Training at the WCCC fire academy in Taylor on April 15. Track time will be kicked off with OTD 1 and 2 on April 22 and 23. Sign up so you can shake your car down before race weekend 1 on May 6 and 7.

I want to remind everyone that OCSC is having a scrap aluminum drive on April 20. We are competing with the other sub-clubs to see who can bring in the most surplus aluminum. While I think the other clubs will be pilfering siding and gutters from empty houses, we have all the pistons, bent rims, radiators, etc. laying around that we are never going to fix or reuse. It’s time to clean it all up and bring it to the scrap drive! I spoke with Jerry Pintar, bring all the clean (other metals removed) aluminum to the workbee on April 8, we’ll bring it to the drive on the 20th. All the proceeds go to charity.

Again, I will remind everyone that we are all OCSC members. The officers and the new club manager put an
inordinate amount of time into keeping it open. Patronize the bar! The food is good, the atmosphere is warm and the beer is cold!

See you at the track.
Brian Murphy