June 24, 2009

The Official Newsletter of the Motorsport Emergency and Turnworkers Association M.E.T.A. c/o: 10952 McAdam Road, Delta, BC, V4C 3E8 Newsletter E-Mail: [email protected] META Website: www.meta.bc.ca June 2009 Next META meeting will be Volume 34 Issue # 6 JUNE 2424,, 2009 CLUB EXECUTIVE Our meeting location is Boston Pizza 1045 Columbia Street, New Westminster, BC PRESIDENT: Mike Bailey SPEED READING 604-716-2660 Jun 10 SCCBC Meeting – Best Western, North Road Coquitlam, BC [email protected] VICE PRESIDENT: Jun 12/13/14 Rose Cup Races & Trans-Am SCCA/OR Portland, Or Roger Salomon Jun 12/13/14 Westwood Club Race #4 & IKF WKA / IKF Chilliwack, BC 604-581-7189 Sprint Race - GMR [email protected] Jun 13&14 Mountain Trials Stage Rally WCRA Merritt, BC SECRETARY: Jun 20&21 ICSCC Race#4 & WSC#2 – SCCBC Mission, BC Tasma Wooton MRP 604-854-4245 Jun 24 META Meeting – Boston Pizza 7:30 New West, BC [email protected] Jun 27&28 Coastal Club Race #7 – GMR CKR Chilliwack, BC TREASURER: Doris Gildemeister Jun 27&28 Northwest Tour Stock Car Race – ASA Seattle, Wa 604-588-9218 PR Jul 3&4&5 Double National – PIR SCCA/OR Portland, Or PAST PRESIDENT: Jul 3&4&5 Pacific NW Historics – PR SOVREN Seattle, Wa Ann Peters Jul 4&5 CACC Race #3 & WSC#3 – MRP SCCBC Mission, BC 604-581-7189 Jul 4&5 Grand Prix at the Glen IRL Watkins Glen, NY [email protected] Jul 8 SCCBC Meeting – Best Western, North Road Coquitlam, BC NEWSLETTER STAFF Jul 11&12 Portland Historic Races-PIR SOVREN Portland, Or Jul 11&12 Toronto Indy IRL Toronto, Ont EDITOR: Jul 17/18/19 Westwood 50 Vintage Races – VRCBC Mission, BC Andrew Clouston MRP 604-942-4974 July 17/18/19 NASCAR West Series – PIR PIR Portland, Or [email protected] Jul 17/18/19 ICSCC Race #5&6 – SRP NWMS Spokane, Wa fax 604-777-7703 Jul 18&19 Coastal Club Race #8 & #9 – GMR CKR Chilliwack, BC Jul 18&19 Westwood Club Race #5 – MRP WKA Mission, BC MEMBERSHIP Jul 22 META Meeting – Boston Pizza 7:30 New West, BC Thomas Liesner Jul 24/25/26 Edmonton Indy IRL Edmonton, AB 604-501-1503 [email protected] Jul 25 Gold Digger TSD Rally WCRA Squamish, BC All opinions expressed in the Mayday Westwood Karting Association Gold Cup race are those of the individual authors th th and do not necessarily reflect the From the 12 to 14 June 2009 opinions of the Mayday staff, Club The Westwood Karting Association will be hosting the Executive, or the members of META. IKF Gold Cup race META meetings are held on the fourth Wednesday of every month, At The Fabulous Greg Moore Raceway in Chilliwack BC except December. Publication The Westwood Karting Association has requested help with this race deadline is the 30th of each month. Submissions may be faxed or The entrance to track is located about 1/4 Kilometer north of Wolfe Road on e-mailed to the Editor. Old Dyke Rd, Chilliwack, BC Printed in Canada. Contact and info: www.westwoodkarting.org or [email protected] Mike's Ramblings: The Answer to last month’s question is: Most think of Audi as the winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans since 2000, essentially they are partly correct. However this was a bit of a trick question, and I don't think Mark Miller realized this when he suggested the question. Team Bentley won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2003 using an Audi engine and support from Audi works team Joest Racing. It should be noted that Team Bentley took both first and second in this race. The last time Bentley won this race was back in 1930 before it's 73-year absence from racing. More information can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_24_Hours_of_Le_Mans and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentley_Speed_8 . This month’s question is: Many people of my age or older probably remember the Shell commercial with Jack Benny driving a 1908 Maxwell Roadster built by the Maxwell-Briscoe Company of Tarrytown, New York (1908 Maxwell Roadster shown here with Jack Benny shaking hands with Harry S. Truman). The Maxwell-Briscoe Company later changed its name change to Maxwell Motor Company, Inc. in 1913. By 1921 the Maxwell motor company had fallen into financial difficulties and was purchased by a person that would later form one of the 'Big Three'. Who was that person and which of the flailing US car giants did he form? May was a fantastic month for me in that I actually got to spend time with my youngest daughter, Chantelle, at the Knox Mountain Hill Climb. I think she might be better on comm than I am (I know that isn’t saying much), although we had many issues with the radios which seemed to all have weak batteries. We had fun at Knox although attendance was down. We were with Evan Frazer on Turn 9 on Saturday and had a fairly uneventful day, all the real action (including Marmot road kills) occurring elsewhere. The big unfortunate incident on the Saturday the green Caterham Super 7 Hayabusa driven by David Saville Peck hit a tire wall avoiding a marmot and sustained weekend terminating damage. Saturday night saw us hanging out in the paddock area ‘harassing’ drivers. Chantelle and I joined Roger Fleshers and others for his BBQ Salmon and hospitality. Chantelle spent a fair bit of the time chatting with Evan William’s wife while I discussed gear-head stuff with like minded individuals. About 8pm Chantelle and I headed to her place and were asleep by 9:30. I was awoken at 8:30am by Chantelle pounding on the guestroom door; apparently neither of us had set alarms (or had possibly slept through them). We obviously had missed the 8am meeting and arrived at the hill just as cars were staging to go up the hill, so we got to watch the first group start their run, this gave me a perspective I’ve never had before. We got sent to turn two where we attempted to reign in 3 teenage boys that were on the turn, by the end of the day I think they might have had a few simple concepts in hand. Evan ended up with a lot of the action in turn nine, including a rogue black Camero that sprayed him with gravel after going through the tire wall, spinning around on the bank. The Camero then proceeded back through the tire wall and left dragging a good bundle of tires with him to the finish. The last race weekend in May saw a good turn out of both cars and workers. Although Saturday was fairly uneventful, other than the flyover by Don Souter in his plane, Sunday was very different. I was in Turn One, so did not witness the incident, but my understanding is that Dennis Repel was having a good battle for position, with several cars in close proximity, a couple of the cars touched and Dennis ended up spinning into the wall where the new Turn Nine station is. Dennis is home form the hospital, where he was kept for overnight observation, and is fairing well other than being sore. This should be a reminder to all workers that there is no truly safe place on a hot track, fortunately the workers in Turn Nine were paying attention. I would have liked a little more feedback from race control after the red flag, I understand that the incident takes precedent over all else, however anyone that has sat in race car in Nomex and a helmet on a hot day would recognize that if the drivers are expecting to stay in one spot for any length of time that we could advise them so they can take their helmets off. Important Notice: There are many volunteers that stay overnight at the track on race weekends, however on the Westwood50 weekend their usual location will be used for other things. It has been suggested that the camping area be moved to an area by the Randal building. If you have any suggestions or feedback on this please contact Keith Robinson or myself. Other Stuff: David Saville Peck, driver of the Caterham Super 7 Hayabusa that crashed at Knox sent me this email that should be shared with all that were there: Victor and the gang did a FANTASTIC job – as always – and without you guys and gals of META, we would never be able to do what we do knowing that when we “Fxxx Up” there is always somebody there to save us from ourselves…….!! Victor had taken videos of most of us on his cell phone and he got one of me crashing!! If you listen to the audio, the efficiency of the radio traffic closing the course down and notification of my crash, is something that us drivers never are privy to and is most comforting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C--0NTGJZRs Please thank everyone from me and I hope that I don’t need your help again!! (I hope to return to the track for the Children’s Charity GP at Mission in September). PS> When racing – and crashing – in the Can-Am series in the early 70s, the crew at Riverside, after I had had an off, put a sticker on my car that read “ You crash, We dash” How appropriate for META…….?? My very best wishes, David O. Saville Peck For those of you on Facebook, Jennifer Ores Arthur has a few pictures posted of Dennis Repel's car after his mishap; Lisa Curtis is using one of those pictures as her profile picture.

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