11 TTHEHE BBUCCANEERUCCANEER TTIMESIMES Official Publication of the Buccaneer Region, Sports Car Club of America www.buccaneerregion.org Mar/AprMar/Apr ‘08‘08 Vol. 22 No. 1 The Biggest Party of the Year is Coming to Roebling Road! (See Pages 3 & 4) ◊ Region Contacts 2 ◊ Solo Schedule 15 ◊ Minute by Minute 6 ◊ Evolution School Info 16 ◊ SEDiv Schedule 9 ◊ Membership Application 19 ◊ Tom Nehl Recap 10 www.buccaneerregion.org Mar/Apr 2008 2 2 Region Contacts Board of Directors Region Officers Chief Starter Area 12 Director John Ingram Phil Creighton North Chapter Secretary/Membership/ 641 A Rose Dhu Rd. 3109 Trotters Pkwy Regional Executive Newsletter Editor Savannah, GA 31419 Alpharetta, GA 30004 Ted Migchelbrink Paula Frazier (912) 920-8277 (678)366-2100 Work 5084 Ortega Cove Cir (‘07-’08) (770)329-3384 Cell Jacksonville, FL 32244-3202 Chief of Grid / Pits 215 Calley Road [email protected] (904) 779-2027 Phone/Fax Lee Stanley Savannah, GA 31410 [email protected] [email protected] Flag Chief Treasurer Art Corbitt Webmaster Skippy Boatright (‘08-’09) P O Box 246 P O Box 13 Mark Eversoll Karen Kern 164 Oak Creek Ct. 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Card$15.00 $100.00 Jacksonville, FL 32244 (321) 259-1946 (912)398-0147 Cell (904) 779-2027 Fax savannahsolochair@ Classified Ads are no charge [email protected] to Buccaneer members. buccaneerregion.org Chief of Tech Michael Walters, Sr. Fred Clark (‘07-’08) (904) 731-7597 Please contact the 75186 Brookwood Dr. [email protected] Newsletter Editor for details Yulee, FL 32097 (904) 703-1499 Rick Henschel [email protected] Mar /Apr 2008 www.buccaneerregion.org 33 Forty-Five Years of Formula Vee Founded as a Sports car Club of America (SCCA) including the race for the prestigious “Brundage Cup”. class in 1963 to promote low-cost single seater racing, Displays of memorabilia from throughout the class’s history Formula Vee succeeded beyond expectations and has will be present along with plenty of camaraderie and become synonymous with large fields of racecars and close, bench racing. Saturday will feature two time-honored hard-fighting racing. The class rapidly gained international traditions: a full-field start line photo opportunity at status and remains a staple of racing in Great Britain, lunchtime; and the 45th Birthday Party and Banquet Ireland, Europe, the Americas, and Australia. Formula Vee featuring great food, a speaker of special note to the has launched the careers of many successful drivers history of racing, presentations and awards, and some very including Indy 500 winners Rick Mears, Arie Luyendyk, impressive raffle prizes. Emerson Fittipaldi, and Buddy Lazier. Formula One World Champions Niki Lauda and Keke Rosberg also started in More information can be found on the Buccaneer Formula Vee. Region SCCA website (www.buccaneerregion.org) and the Formula Vee Birthday Party website More than 200 current and vintage Formula Vee ( www.fv45birthday.com). You can also register as a driver racers and their crews, past drivers, and notable invited or a worker at www.DLBRacing.com. guests from all around the world will gather at Roebling Road Raceway in Pooler, Georgia on April 4-6, 2008 to Please plan to come and join us for this very unique celebrate the 45th anniversary of this long-standing and and special race weekend! highly successful racing class. Nancy McDonald This three-day event will feature practice sessions on Race Chair Friday, with qualifying and race events for all classes of current and vintage Formulas Vees Saturday and Sunday, RE-Ravings Hello Buccaneer Region, The national convention in San Antonio was the typical 3 This will be our first newsletter in 2008 and we are days of meeting after meeting but the transfer of info and committed to keep our members better informed than we ideas is well worth it. One of the high points of the weekend did in 2007. With the advent of the internet and email was the induction of Fred Schmucker into the “Hall of communication we lost sight of the value of the written Fame”. A well deserved honor. page, but that’s changing. We will be hosting the Jim Stark Memorial Double SARRC We hosted our double driver school two weeks ago and got April 26-27. There is always room for more help in all the rave reviews from the attendees. It was also the first specialties so contact me, or our specialty chiefs for more weekend of our improved worker perk program and the info. This is usually a great event so come out and be a part turnout of workers was very refreshing. The new program of the race team. consists of a gift of $50.00 per day worked in any of the specialties. I hope the turnout continues to grow. Let me Another exciting news item is our revamped website. Karen take this opportunity to thank all the students, instructors, has recently made the changes and more are planned. and workers who came together to make that event a Check it out... I think you’ll like it. success. Well, that’s all for now. I’ll see you at a Solo or the track. Jax Solo group had their first event on the 20th of Jan. with 57 entries. The Coastal Empire has a two day event the Ted Migchelbrink R.E. weekend of Feb. 16-17. Registration for both chapters is on myautoevents.com. There are over 20 events on the Solo schedule so those groups will have a full year. www.buccaneerregion.org Mar/Apr 2008 Formula Vee 45th Birthday Party Buccaneer Region SCCA Restricted Regional Race April 5,6, 2008 Roebling Road Raceway Sanction # 08-RS-26-P RACE GROUPS Group 1: Monoposto, Vintage Formula Vees Group 4: Super Vees Group 2: Historic cars Group 5, 6, 7: Current Formulas Vees. Groups as needed Group 3: Formula Firsts (GROUPING SUBJECT TO CHANGE) Event Officials Specialty Chiefs Chief Steward: Russ Smith Race Chairman: Nancy McDonald Asst. Chief Steward-Safety Bob Horansky Registration: Wanda Cecil Asst. Chief Steward: Ron Kent Timing and Scoring: David Williams Asst. Chief Steward: Bud Merrill Tech Inspection: Michael Walters Asst. Chief Steward: Dave Rollow Flagging: Bob DeLoatch Asst. Chief Steward: Peter Roberts Communication: Ann Taylor Steward of the Course Bob Lybarger Starter: John Ingram Chairman of SOM: Dave Blevins Sound Control: Larry Buell SOM: Rocky O’Sheill Grid & Pits Lee Stanley SOM: Rick Mitchell Course Marshall: Lincoln Buell Paddock Marshall: Ted Migchelbrink Medical: EMT’S EVENT SCHEDULE Pace Car: Ted Miller (All times are tentative, schedule subject to change. Sessions could be shortened.) FRIDAY April 4, 2008: TEST DAY SUNDAY April 6, 2008 Registration Opens 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM Registration 7:30 AM TO 11:00 AM Tech Inspection 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM Tech Inspection 8:30 AM TO 10:00 AM Race Staff Report 7:45 AM SATURDAY April 5, 2008 Communications Check 8:00 AM Registration for Workers and 7:30 AM - 11:00 AM GREEN COURSE 8:15 Tech Inspection 7:30 AM - end of qualifying. Warm-ups - Hardships only Two 15 min. sessions Scales Open 9:00 AM - 15 min after end Race 15 laps Group 1 of qualifying.