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Dan Wheldon from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia 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: http://www.meta.bc.ca/ November 2011 Next META meeting will be Volume 36 Issue # 11 NOVEMBER 2323,, 2011 CLUB EXECUTIVE Our meeting location is Boston Pizza 1045 Columbia Street, New Westminster, BC PRESIDENT: Mike Bailey 604-716-2660 SPEED READING [email protected] VICE PRESIDENT: Nov 9 SCCBC Meeting – Best Western, North Road Coquitlam, BC Tasma Wooton Nov 12 ICSCC Banquet - SeaTac Seattle, Wa 604-854-4245 [email protected] Marriott SECRETARY: Nov 19 VRCBC Gala – Delta Town and Delta, BC Jerold Klassen Country Inn 604-853-3192 Nov 19&20 Totem TSD Rally WCRA BC Interior [email protected] Nov 23 AGM META Meeting – Boston Pizza 7:30 New West, BC TREASURER: Dec 3&4 Big White Winter Stage Rally WCRA Kelowna, BC Manfred Zumm Dec 14 SCCBC Meeting – Best Western, North Road Coquitlam, BC 604-521-4439 Jan 7&8 Ice Race # 1 -- Barnes Lake WCIRABC Ashcroft, BC [email protected] Jan 21&22 Ice Race # 2 -- Barnes Lake WCIRABC Ashcroft, BC PAST PRESIDENT: Ann Peters Jan 28 META Banquet – Guildford Golf Surrey, BC 604-581-7189 and Country Club [email protected] Please Note that Ice Races are subject to Ice and Weather conditions. Please call the hotline 604-475-0583 or check the website http://www.carsonice.ca/ before traveling. NEWSLETTER STAFF EDITOR: Andrew Clouston 604-942-4974 [email protected] Annual General Meeting fax 604-777-7703 MEMBERSHIP META’s Annual General Meeting Thomas Liesner 604-584-1503 [email protected] will be held on All opinions expressed in the Mayday are those of the individual authors Wednesday November 23 and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Mayday staff, Club Executive, or the members of META. Boston Pizza, 1045 Columbia St, META meetings are held on the fourth Wednesday of every month, New Westminster at 7:30pm except December. Publication deadline is the 30th of each month. Submissions may be faxed or Please plan on attending this meeting as our e-mailed to the Editor. Produced in Canada. annual elections will be held at this time Presidents Report Not surprisingly the last race of the year at Mission Raceway Park Road Course was full of incidents as drivers took ‘do or crash’ chances trying to place well in their class. In many cases points for first place for the year in a class were so close a first place win was needed to win the championship for that class, so you can understand some of the less intelligent decisions some drivers made. Fortunately the worst incident of the weekend, which I understand saw Tracy Pearson go to the hospital, resulted in only minor injuries. Certainly where I was, Turn 6, there was a lot of aggressive and sometimes dangerous driving going on. We had one driver lose it going into five, recover and come back on in the middle of a pack of cars between 5 and 6 nearly colliding with two other cars in the process — unbelievable. As marshals/workers all we can do is witness and report these types of incidents and hope appropriate action is taken. What worries me however is that I sometimes hear some incidents go unreported because someone does not want to write a report, I appreciate that most of us hate paperwork, however there are drivers at our track that need sanctioning. Often other drivers know who they are, and have the body damage to prove it, however if there is no report, nothing can be done. A good example of this is the driver of a Mazda Miata that was using Al Harvey’s vintage MGB for brakes going into turn 1, the Miata’s driver’s excuse was that he didn’t realize Al’s MGB did not have bumpers — a flimsy excuse at best. Once can be passed off as driver error and is forgivable, but twice or more is plain bad driving skill, something the Miata driver had already been noted for by a few other drivers. Road racing is not bumper car and we as ‘observers’ can help keep this under control. I can tell you right now race drivers can forgive accidental rubbing of fenders under close competitive racing, however bumping from overly aggressive driving annoys many. I admit, in that we always seem to have a shortage of volunteers at MRP-RC and can’t see everything, however we need to report what we do see whenever possible. On a lighter note, Sion Davies dropped by with his wife on the last race weekend of the year at MRP-RC. It was great to see you Sion. On the last Saturday in October The VRCBC (AKA VRC or Vintage Racing Club) chartered a bus and went down to the LeMay Family Collection in Tacoma Washington. As always with the VRC crowd it was as much about having fun as looking at one of the most interesting collection of cars I’ve ever seen. There is something for everyone there, and includes cars that everyone would have owned or driven at some point. A lot of the restored cars are not ‘over restored’ but look like they would have in the day (cars that most of us could afford did not use to come out of the factory with perfectly aligned fenders or perfect fitting parts). That is one of the unique things about this museum. You will even find things like a Gremlin and a Pacer among the hundreds, possibly thousands, of cars there. Of course I went ecstatic when I came across a 1963 Ford Falcon Convertible, although my first car was not a convertible it was a two tone (red roof, white body) ‘63 Falcon (with a serious oil burning problem) and in-line 160 cubic inch six. Mine had a 2 speed ‘slush-a-matic’ like the one on display when I got it, however using a ‘64 donor car I cured that by changing it to ‘three on the tree’. I hit it off with our guide (he can be seen on the left in the photo below) when I found out he started turnworking at Westwood in turn 2 in 1964, for those of you who didn’t know I got my start in turn 2 at Westwood under Roger Salomon in May of 1976 during a Formula Atlantic weekend. If you ever get a chance to visit the LeMay Family Collection do it, you will be glad you did. Incidentally, did you know that the original Mustang was based on the Falcon platform? We are now into banquet season, and probably by the time you read this the SCCBC banquet will be a memory. I expect to see many of you there to share the good times. For those that have never attended the VRCBC Gala you are missing a good time with a truly fun bunch of people. For those of you that travel there is also the ICSCC banquet. Don’t forget that our banquet will have an Indy 500 theme, so study up on the trivia, prizes will be awarded. I am thinking of giving META a Facebook presence, and possibly a presence on Twitter in order to attract a younger crowd, however I would need help keeping things current. I would appreciate some feedback from our membership before doing this along with some commitment from members already on Facebook to link content they are already sharing on FB or Twitter. Facebook would be an excellent way for all members to share photos, and connecting those photos to our website once posted/shared into a META Facebook group/page would then be a breeze. The forum issue that Lynn had is now fixed, it turns out that on one part of the forum I had accidentally killed the ability to post. I have also opened a section of the forum to registered forum users that I know are active at Mission that is not visible to ‘outsiders’ whether registered on the forum or not (all META members have access) this is a safe place to exchange contact information or discuss issues that should not be made public. Although public forums have their place I think there are times that things need to be discussed in private to solve problems. META members still have their private section of the forum to discuss club business they do not wish to make public, an administrator needs to update your profile to give you this privilege, so if you don’t have access it is probably because I did not recognise your user name. I have also instituted a new forum policy for registering, Although I will allow the use of nickname or other handles, I want them to be run by me (or whoever will be the administrator of the forum in the future) so I can keep a private database so I know who is who. This is the only way I have of knowing I am giving members the correct privileges. It is also my policy to make sure that all members hide their email address on their profile, this makes the forum unattractive to hackers, harvesters and spammers. Question of the month: Q: On Friday, September 16, 2011 the last pre-World War II Indy 500 participant passed away. Who was he? Answers can be sent to [email protected] , please put “Mayday Answer” in the subject line - All parts of the question(s) must be answered, and a prize goes to the first correct answer.
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