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Pacific Coast Road Racing Championships® Auto Club Speedway – November 14-15, 2020 Welcome to the 2020 edition of the Pacific Coast Road Racing Championships® hosted by the Cal Club Region at Auto Club Speedway. With the 2020 SCCA Runoffs complete, it’s time to really find out who is the fastest on the West Coast. Also adding to the excitement this year is the fact that this facility (Auto Club) as it currently stands, will no longer be hosting Road Racing events in the soon to be future … thus entrants will be getting one of the final opportunities to race on this iconic Southern California track. As the Race Chairman, I’d like to offer up some information that may make your visit to Auto a bit easier. If there are any questions, concerns, suggestions - before, during, or after, please let me know. Again, I am here to make your weekend the best it can be. Auto Club resides in San Bernardino County. San Bernardino has some specific requirements allowing “events” at Auto Club. NASCAR (Auto Club’s Owners) has given us the opportunity to hold this event at their facility, as long as we meet or exceed the requirements mandated by the County. Attached is the formal plan that NASCAR had to approve (along with the Country) to enable us to put on this event. Please read the document and adhere to the mandates. All it takes is one missed stepped item and the event will be shut down and everyone loses the opportunity to participate in one of the final SCCA sanctioned opportunities to participate at the soon-to-be “historic” facility. Please read the entire COVID PLAN document at the end of this Info Package: Below are some highlights of the County/NASCAR mandates – → Entry to the event shall be limited to registered entrant/driver plus three (3) crew members. → One car per garage door for those that secured a garage → Temperatures will be taken at Registration – and everyone must sign in through Registration → Everyone must have a wrist band – that indicates your temperature has been checked → Masks when the 6ft “social distance” is difficult → Race Control and Timing and Scoring are no-go places Page 1 Mark Smith – Cal Club Race Chairman ([email protected]) 562-208-9660 [email protected] www.calclub.com Ceci/Office: 661-304-9382 Pacific Coast Road Racing Championships® Auto Club Speedway – November 14-15, 2020 I have included some details that hopefully will make your experience a bit more informed and welcoming as you attend the event. ⇒ ENTRY TO THE TRACK: Enter at the main gate on Cherry Ave, (Gate 1). You will be able to enter the paddock area after 3:00 pm on Friday November 13th, 2020. If you arrive before 3:00 pm you will be put in a staging parking lot within the track’s main gate. Gates will remain open 24 hours a day after that time. ⇒ PADDOCK AND GARAGES: There is plenty of paddock space for everyone! Most all spaces have free RV (power/water) hookups. If you have rented a Garage, Ceci should have forwarded you the Garage space number. If you did not rent a garage, please DO NOT Paddock in the garage area, those spaces are reserved for garage renters and Race Officials. You will be asked to move if you park in this area and do not have a garage, this will be strictly enforced. In the back straight paddock area, please try to park perpendicular to the fence so everyone will have enough room to park! ⇒ PARKING - Remember, if you have a garage, you have a single “in front of the garage” parking spot. We didn’t design it that way, but we have to work with it. Please have your crew vehicles, etc. - park along the fence or in the parking lot as you approach the fenced in garage paddock area. Parking in the “back stretch lot” as well as other areas throughout the paddock are open. All that is asked is that you respect your neighbors and with a large expected entry, minimize your footprint so all have adequate space to paddock. ⇒ REGISTRATION: Registration is located by the center garage building (Garage Bay #2), outside under an EZ-Up by the Driver’s lounge. Please wear a MASK when interacting with the Registrations Team. Friday: 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm . Saturday: 6:30 am to 11:00 am . Sunday: 7:00 am to 9:00 am → Please check your competition licenses and make sure it is current. NOTE - your membership can be current but your competition license expired. You can pay for membership on line but that does not renew your competition license - that has to be done by mail or over the phone. Everyone who is to be in a HOT area will need to come to Registration to get an armband. Mark Smith – Cal Club Race Chairman ([email protected]) 562-208-9660 Page 2 [email protected] www.calclub.com Ceci/Office: 661-304-9382 Pacific Coast Road Racing Championships® Auto Club Speedway – November 14-15, 2020 ⇒ POWER for Motorhomes/Trailers/Blenders/Jacuzzi Pools, etc. is available throughout the facility (free of charge!), especially in the back straight paddock area. I believe it is a 30/50 Amp hookup. ⇒ TECH will be in it’s usual spot, right next to the Gas Pumps. Please wear a MASK when interacting with the Tech Team. The Tech Team will be ready at 3:00 on FRIDAY. Good opportunity for those needing Annual Techs Thursday afternoon. Plan ahead, they will close by 6:00 on Thursday. For the rest of the weekend, Lonny Sheek and his Tech Crew plan to be available from 7:00 am on Saturday, and Sunday morning. ⇒ IMPOUND – We will have mandatory Impound after each Qualifying and Race Session. Impound will be in the Tech area, and regardless of “how many laps” of the Session you completed, all are required to stop in the Tech/Impound area until released by the Stewards. ⇒ DRIVERS MEETING: The Driver’s Meeting for this event will be accomplished via the Track’s PA System. The Chief Steward will read the Chief Steward’s Driver’s Meeting Letter multiple time Saturday morning (found on Page 6 of this package). Also be familiar with the Event Supplemental Regulations. Copies of the Supplemental Regulations can be found in this document (following Page 16) as well as copies available at Registration or can be downloaded from here: https://calclub.com/sup-regulations/ ⇒ TIRE SERVICE: Shelby Goodyear will be at the Speedway to service your tire needs! If you need to order tires and have them delivered to the track, Buttonwillow Raceway Tire Shop is available for orders and delivery. The contacts you may need: Buttonwillow Tire Shop: Mike 661-764-5333 and Jim at Goodyear 702-439-4977. ⇒ GRID area is the area between the Pit Road Suites and the hot pit wall. You enter the Grid area via the vehicle entrance (open fence gate leading to the Front Straight) near the end of the middle Garage (#2). There should be some maps available at Registration so be sure to pick one up (or review the one’s attached here). ⇒ TIMING AND SCORING: Timing and Scoring is in the Pit Road Suites (up the stairs) above where you drive under the Suites to get to GRID at the end of Garage #2. All timing results (qualifying and race results) will be available from Gail at the Question Box located near the end of Garage 2 in the Garage Paddock area. Timing and Scoring Chief Dennis asks that everyone please double and triple check that your name, car #, type of car, class, Region of Record and sponsor are all correct on the sheets and if they are not to let them know right away so it can be corrected! Mark Smith – Cal Club Race Chairman ([email protected]) 562-208-9660 Page 3 [email protected] www.calclub.com Ceci/Office: 661-304-9382 Pacific Coast Road Racing Championships® Auto Club Speedway – November 14-15, 2020 ⇒ FUEL STATION: Fuel station is located in the Impound/Tech area. Current prices are $6.50 for 91 and $9.75 for 98 and $9.75 for 112. Hours will be 7:00 am to 3:00 pm Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (all subject to change). ⇒ Those needing to set up a timing light, track security/insurance has forced us to a new area, near Turn 12-16. Refer to page 13 of this package. ⇒ CAFE: Pit Row Café will be open for Breakfast and Lunch 8:00 am to 3:00 pm Saturday and Sunday. They are located below the suites near where you head for GRID. ⇒ SOUND: There will be NO SOUND readings taken during this event, but please take into account the Flaggers out track side, as their hearing is a valuable entity and anyone perceived to be over doing the sound constraints as set within the SCCA GCR may be challenged. West Coast Majors #1 West Coast Super Tour #1 Registration will be open via Auto Club February 19-21, 2021 MotorsportsReg in December Jan 15-17, 2021 Buttonwillow Mark Smith – Cal Club Race Chairman ([email protected]) 562-208-9660 Page 4 [email protected] www.calclub.com Ceci/Office: 661-304-9382 Pacific Coast Road Racing Championships® Auto Club Speedway – November 14-15, 2020 → T/S wants to remind drivers that they need to have their transponder on and working, even for practice, very difficult to see numbers up in the tower → Registration is looking for exact change if paying by cash (but prefers charge card verus covid cash0 → AND for those drivers running one class one day and another the other day have them remind us at onsite Registration what they are doing so we can let T/S know.