Welcome 2010 Sloperacers!
January 24th, 2010I’m pleased to let all know that 2010 is well-planned and should be a stellar year for slope racing in So Cal. We have drawn from the creative minds of the 2010 boardmembers to implement some new ideas that should make for a fun, and successful year of racing. Our focus will be on growing the club, and having fun at every event. It should be a banner year. If you are on the fence about trying racing, then this will be a great year to take the plunge.
One thing that will be different than in years past is that we will have “backup dates” scheduled for many of the races. This should accomplish many things:
1. If the weather looks iffy prior to the race, the CD may elect to cancel the race, and instead rely on the backup date. This will save everyone time, gas money, and the pain of getting skunked by a no wind situation.
2. If the scheduled date has good conditions, the backup date can be used by SCSR for whatever is deemed interesting for the club- F3F Clinics, Man on Man races, etc.
3. Scoring at the end of the year should be very easy because there should be plenty of scoring events with the added backup dates, if they are needed.
Another thing that is new this year, is a Prize Raffle. That’s right, REAL prizes!
We have dipped into SCSR funds to buy some prizes for the end of the season. These will NOT be awarded to the fastest flyers, but rather to random, race attending, raffle winners.
This is the way it will work:
Every race that you attend, you will receive a virtual raffle ticket. MAKE SURE THAT YOU SIGN INTO THE STARTING LIST! The more races you attend, the better the chance you will have to win. Since the more you race, the better chance you have, a person may end up winning multiple prizes.
I won’t give away just what the prizes will be at this time, but let me just say that the grand prize will be something that the lucky person will be able to burn some fast F3F laps with….. And the other prizes are nothing to sneeze at either!
It is also our intent to have t-shirts available later in the year. They will be at a very low cost for the people attending races. That will be something that I’ve looked forward to having for a while. So look for that around mid year, possibly sooner.
Lastly, we would like to have more after race dinners and BBQ’s. We will wait for the weather to warm up, and then the time will be right. Mentions of 6-foot submarine sandwiches, and/or pizza parties have been heard, so bring your hunger.
I hope that I see all of our “newbies” from the last year or two, our veteran racers, and some more new racers this year at the slopes. 2010 should be a great year for all of the SCSR members.
Happy Landings,
Target
PS. DON’T FORGET TO RENEW YOUR AMA!