11 THE BUCCANEER TIMES Official Publication of the Buccaneer Region, Sports Car Club of America www.buccaneerregion.org MAY / JUNE / JULY ‘08 VOL. 22 NO. 2 Photos By: Jim Glass They came...they saw...they conquered! (See Pages 3 & 4) ◊ Region Contacts 2 ◊ Pylons Abound 13 ◊ Minute by Minute 6 ◊ Solo Schedule 14 ◊ SEDiv Schedule 8 ◊ Membership Application 19 ◊ In The News… 11 www.buccaneerregion.org May / June / July 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 1432 St. Catherines Cir. 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Fred and his plus event and even with a deluge on team did an excellent job of organizing the Saturday afternoon worked out to be a event and volunteers from far and wide great race weekend. answered the call. Fred Clark will give you a complete report in this issue. Thanks for your time. I hope to see you at a Buccaneer event soon. At our April board meeting we committed to put on a performance driving clinic in conjunction with our September race at Roebling. This Ted Migchelbrink R.E. event is aimed at you SOLO folks that want to try a full course session with your Solo cars. Keep an eye on the To the Editor... Subject: 2008 Jim Stark Memorial Races From: "Charles Burkett" Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:22:54 -0400 To: <[email protected]> Dear Paula, Just a note to let you know how much I enjoyed participating in the Buccaneer Region's racing (Jim Stark Memorial) at Roebling Road this past weekend. The event was well run in all respects. It was also great to have a chapel service at the track on Sunday morning during quiet time. Thanks to all, Charles L. Burkett, (ITO #89) Eden, North Carolina www.buccaneerregion.org May / June / July 2008 44 45 Years of Formula Vee...Recap The Formula Vee Class defines the meaning of SCCA put their wives or crew members in there cars. There CLUB RACING better than most anything else I can think were drivers who had retired taking a spin. We had rare of... camaraderie... great racing on the club level... and old vintage cars out there. I had a friend of mine longevity of the class... friends helping friends… great drive the reproduction of Bill Nobles first LYNX FV for a parties, etc. few laps and Jan Brundage drove the very first FV, the NARDI, around many laps. Tom Bungay was kind The 45-year celebration of the FV class was no exception enough to bring Bob Snodgrass' extremely nice Formcar with 124 entries from all over the USA, Canada and and make a lot of laps. All of this was paced by our pace Australia, 8 former and current national FV champions, car driver Ted Miller, who kept the speed under 100 special guests like our Sat. night speaker Mr. Ray mph. Caldwell, renowned FV, FF, F5000 and Trans-Am car builder and driver to four of our current SCCA BOD Saturday night's party was a gala affair, “NO TIES members Phil Creighton, K.P. Jones, Lisa Noble and Bob ALLOWED". Karri Barns prepared a LOW COUNTRY Lybarger. And last but far not least, Terry Ozment, the BROIL with all the trimmings and served over 300 V.P of Club Racing, was on hand to join in the fun. guests. What a great job by Karri and her staff. I would also like to say how great it was to see long time Tom Stephanie was our Master of Ceremonies. Tom’s SCCA members back at the track, especially Bud Merrill, family are the original owners of NICKY CHEVROLET, back in the Stewards chair from a far too long absence, with the backwards "K" in the Chicago area. Besides and Dennis Wicklien in his new position as a Steward. being a long time VEE racer Tom still has the "GENIE CAN-AM” car his father and actor Dan Blocker Friday is usually a test day at RRR, however this Friday (Bonanza) fielded in the Can-Am series. was a bit different because the Hoosier Tire Co. and it’s head man, Bruce Foss, made it possible for all who The Guest Speaker, as I mentioned earlier, was Ray showed up to TEST FOR FREE. This show of support for Caldwell. He was preceded by special guests and awards the class was welcomed with open arms and a standing and door prize drawings. round of applause for Bruce at Saturday night’s party. Ray gave us a lot of insight to his involvement in building Saturday it rained on and off, some had a drying track, FV'S in the early days and all the cars and things he has some had a dry track but for the most part it was wet. It been involved with since. At 72, Ray is planning to didn't stop anyone from running and qualifying for the qualify and win the 2008 National FV Championship. next day’s events. Sunday, race day, was warm and dry and the racing At noon on Saturday we did something a bit unusual... began with the 38 Monoposto class FV's, eventually won we had a drive around/parade. We allowed drivers to (Continued on page 5) Photo By: Jim Glass May / June / July 2008 www.buccaneerregion.org 55 45 Years of Formula Vee...Recap (Continued from page 4) by long time Vee driver Slim Pepperdine from Pacific Many things have to happen to put on a race like this Grove California. There were races throughout the field. I one. I can't thank the BUCCANEER REGION, in general, raced for 5th & 6th position with Rick Delrosario from enough for their support of this event.