The 45Th Annual Grand Prix of Long Beach
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THE THE LONG BEACH MG CLUB SPOKESMAN The 45th Annual Grand Prix of Long Beach WWW.LBMG.ORG APRIL 2019 Long Beach MG Club The Southern California Centre of the MG Car Club of England P .O . Box 99, Lakewood, CA 90714-0099 2019 Board of Governors President . Sandi Sherwood Member . Morris Berens Vice President . Juanita Fast Member . Stephanie Himmelberger Executive Secretary . Jim Elsten Member . Richard Sherwood Recording Secretary . .Amy Tulk Member . Ken Thomas Treasurer . Marilyn Gettys Member . Jim Tulk 2019 Chairs Concours Chair . Ken Thomas Photographer . Marie Thomas Director of Racing . Bob Funk Points Chair . Amy Tulk Directory Editor . Karen Lewis Points Auditor . Juanita Fast Directory Publisher . Bob Lewis Property . Phil Glumm, Richard Sherwood, DoubleDay . Ken & Marie Thomas Laurie Glumm Events Chair . Ken Thomas Raffle . Ken & Marie Thomas Flag Marshal . Jim Tulk Refreshments . Marie Thomas Co Flag Marshal . Morris Berens St.. Nix Trix . Jim & Amy Tulk Greeter . Lois Gettys Social Chair . Juanita Fast Great Western . Greg Fast, Spokesman Editor . Sandi Sherwood Mike Peters Spokesman Publisher . Sandi Sherwood Historian . Juanita Fast SteakBake . Marilyn Gettys Membership . Jim Tulk Timing/Scoring . Ellen Lowery Merchandise . Marilyn Gettys Webmaster . Sandi Sherwood Club Membership Information Annual membership dues for the Long Beach MG Club are $30 .00, payable during January and February . On April 1, the names of delinquent members are removed from the roster . Reinstatement is possible through December of the current year . Please refer to your Constitution for this provision . For those who seek membership during the year, dues are pro-rated on a monthly basis . The initiation fee for new members is $5 .00 . Club meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month at 8:00 p .m . at College Park Clubhouse, 808 Stevely Ave ., Long Beach . For information regarding subscriptions to The Spokesman see page 22 of this issue . April 2019, Volume 69, Number 4 In This Issue President’s Message 2 How I Found the LBMG Club 3 Time Bandits 4 - 6 Dues "R" Due 7 April Calendar 8 May Calendar 9 2019 Good Guy & Competition Points 10 March BoG Meeting Minutes 11 & 12 Long Beach 13 - 15 2019 IndyCar Schedule 16 March GM Meeting Minutes 17 - 19 Letter From The Editor: How did you find LBMG? 20 LBMG Merchandise 20 2019 Racing Schedule 21 Spokesman Subscription Info 22 Upcoming Events & Meetings Inside Back Cover 1 President’s Message Hi Everyone, It is now April! Wow! At the time of this writing, I am busy getting ready for the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach . The Grand Prix is celebrating its 45th year and the Long Beach MG Club has been a part of it since the beginning, that is a great accomplishment . There are a few members that have been involved in every race since the very first race in the streets of Long Beach: Dennis Connor, Bob & Barbara Funk, Iler Ganz, Marilyn Gettys, Lois & Rick Gettys, Bea Nickerson & Ernie Prokopovych . Now that is a great accomplishment . Good going everyone! Last month I asked for people to send in a short (or long) story about how they found the MG Club. The first article is from Rick Gettys, my Dad! (See his article on the next page .) Now, I WANT YOU to send and article to the Editor! (Me) So that we can see how you began in the Long Beach MG Club . I know you all have a story . Even if you were born into the club, how did you start getting involved? What is your favorite part of the club, the Rallyes, the Racing, the Socialization . We want you to share! Other than the Long Beach Grand Prix and our meetings April is a pretty quiet month . But the racing starts up again in May . We also have the HB Concours in early June, which kicks off our Summer . Hope to see you soon! 2 How I Found the LBMG Club Richard Gettys (Rick) Entry into LBMG 1960 In September 1959 a group of 4 of us decided to go to the Los Angeles Times Grand Prix for sports cars at Riverside Raceway . This race stayed known, for many, many years as the Los Angeles Times Grand Prix . As we wandered around the race track watching the racing activities we noticed one activity that occurred between each of the preliminary races . Between each race an MG would drive, on the track, between corners towing a chariot, with a funny shape, filled with a group of guys dressed all in white . Pants, shirts, and shoes . We all had a marvelous time at the race, I believe it was won by Phil Hill in a Ferrari GT . On the way home we talked about the cars towing the workers, (we found out later it was the LBMG Flagging Team) . They seemed to be having a good time and were obviously part of the racing activities . We wanted to get involved . One of our group volunteered to find out who they were and how we could get involved. Early in 1960 we found out that the flag men were with the Long Beach MG Club. We decided to go to one of their meetings and find out what else they did. (I won’t tell you who my friends were, they might want to write their own stories!) We joined the LBMG in 1960, at the small Recreation Park clubhouse and became involved in the membership, as I recall was 400 to 500. Our first race was at Santa Barbara, on the Goleta airport runways . My first assignment on the flag team was to work the last corner before the start/finish line. My last memory was of the A/B production race and my mentor/trainer was Paul Russell. After a few laps all h*** broke loose, coming at us, spinning out of control was a Cobra, we started running, running right into an out of control Corvette . Since I am writing this article, we survived and Paul Russell really enjoyed it!!!! After the Saturday was finally over, I decided that flagging was not my cup a tea so I went over to the scoring trailer . There I met Jack and Dawn Duncan and asked them if I could please help in their activities . After the first race at Santa Barbara I became involved in Timing and Scoring and have enjoyed all of the years, and all of the venues we have been to . 3 TIME BANDITS COMES OF AGE As you may remember TIME BANDITS, in 2018 ran for the 20th time . So that follows that in 2019 was 21 . That meant that this year TIME BANDITS could gamble . Thus we put seven cars out on the road to have an interesting drive . We decided that this year we would give the navigators a break and eliminate some of the speed changes . This route was originally run in 2009,with a great deal more speed changes . We wondered if that was a good idea, as it turned out both drivers and navigators found that they really enjoyed the event . So we may have to consider the same format next year . The weather turned out to be absolutely fabulous which made it even more fun, with all the rain that we have had we were very pleased . We were in hopes of a desert in bloom, and there were many flowers, but not as many as there were other areas of the desert . At any rate we started out going along the freeway, (you can't avoid them if you want to get you out of town) to 138 and out to back side of Hesperia toward Lucern Valley, on to 29 Palm, and on to Amboy Rd. to I 40 to Goffs Rd. to I 95 enter Nevada for the final leg on 163 to Laughlin. The group pulled into a rest area that we have used for the last few years, where we scored control cards and awarded trophies . We are investigating a possible new route for next year . We will keep you posted . We hope to see more of you next year . Phil Glumm, Kassie Martinez, Merry Glumm 4 Time Bandits 2019 Results Place Driver/ Leg Leg Leg Leg Leg Leg Leg Leg Leg Total Navigator 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 J/S Getchel 0 .02 .11 .14 .10 .25 .13 .55 .32 1.62 2 K/M Thomas 0 .88 .57 .21 .16 .35 .11 .64 .15 3.07 3 J/A Tulk 0 .08 .57 .21 .16 .22 .15 .73 .25 4.54 4 L Glumm/ R Bush 0 .11 .07 1 .49 .195 .00 .22 .44 7 .27 .79 5 J Martinez/ M Negnate 0 .01 .10 4 .23 .062 .33 .47 .25 7 .37 .82 6 A Martinez/ D Warren 0 .10 5 .00 5 .00 .11 .25 1 .27.54 .2112 .48 M Peters/ 7 J Fast 0 .93 .48 .28 .37 4 .99.60 5 .00 2 .36 15 .01 Rallye Masters: Phil Glumm & Kassie Martinez Pre-Run/Work: Merry Glumm 5 Time Bandits Photos 6 2019 Dues "R" Due! Yes! I want to pay my dues for 2019! Name (please print): __________________________________________________________ Address: ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Best Contact Phone Number:___________________________________________________ Email Address: _______________________________________________________________ Associates Name: ____________________________________________________________ Member Renewal ($30/year) . $ ____________ Spokesman Subscription (including postage)($36/year) . $ ____________ Total . $ ____________ Dues R Due! Be sure to send them in soon! 2019 $30.00 Make check payable to LBMG and mail to: Long Beach MG Club Inc . LBMG Member Long Beach MG Club PO Box 99 Lakewood, CA 90714-0099 7 4A . PRIL.