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Editorial Exhaust

Now, if I were Brock Yates, you'dprobably expecting some kind of rantabout how speed limits are too low, orreminiscences of Cannonball Runs gone

by.

Hi. I'm NOT Mr. Yates. My name's Mark,and I'll be taking over from Richard over

the next couple of issues as editor of yourLink. And that's something that I'd like toemphasize. The link is YOUR newsletter.If you would like to see an article aboutsuch-and-such or so-and-so in here, forgosh darn sakes, write one, please!

Anyways, enough soap-boxing. I think Ishould give you a short bio of myself, justso you know who you're dealing with.

I'm 24, and I'm a speedaholic. I started mymembership with the club this pastJanuary, competing in the Slush n' Slideseries at Capital City Speedway (now

Ottodrome). This summer sees mecompeting in ASS class in Solo II with my240sx, and having a blast of a time. Nextsummer, I hope to add Solo I to my bag oftricks.

Anywhoo... If you feel like saying hi, oroffering advice or what have you, I can bereached at the e-mail address and phonenumber appearing just below and to theleft. Criticizm can be sent [email protected] :)

I'm looking forward to my time as theeditor of your Link, and am looking

forward to meeting and getting to know alot of you members out there.

One last point: Thanks for making MCOwhat it is.

Cover Photo: John Blouin's Datsun 510(the Pumpkin) by Richard Muise, Lew

MacKenzie's Formula 1600 by CraigHamm.

Motorsport Club of Ottawa

Founded 1949

Founding Member CASC 1951

Incorporated 1953

2002 MCO Executive

President andOntario Race Organizing Rep.

Ron WoltmanH: (613) 831-8682W: (819) 997-6988

C: (613)75 [email protected]

[email protected]

Vice-PresidentBennett Leckie

W: (613) 822-1765 [email protected]

Directors

Open WheelRick Miskiman

H: (613) [email protected]

Closed WheelSteve Greiner


RallyCraig Hamm

H: (613) 727-3192W: (613) 596-7107

[email protected]

MembershipPatrick WeightmanH: (613) 831-3749

[email protected]

TreasurerRobert Benson


SecretaryJohn Powell


Solo-IIGreg Kierstead

H: (613) 274-3942W: (613) [email protected]

Solo-I LiasionJeff Graves


Hotline(613) 788-0525

Website

www.mco.orgmaintained by Rob Microys

Hosted byAnjura Technology Corporation

General Meetings

Louis's Steakhouse1682 Cyrville Rd., Ottawa, ON

FirstTuesday of every monthAll are welcome

M.C.O.P.O. Box 65006,

Merivale Postal OutletNepean, ON K2G 5Y3

The LINK is the official publication ofthe Motorsport Club of Ottawa. Theopinions expressed in the LINK do notnecessarily reflect those of the LINKEditorial Staff or the Club's Executive.Though all efforts are made to ensurethat facts stated in the articles hereina r e a c c u r a t e , t h e i n d i v i d u a l c o n t r i b u t o r s s h o u l d c h e c k t h eaccuracy of thei r ar t ic les pr ior tosubmission.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS:18th day of every month.

KartingPaul Swinwood


Ontario Race Committee RepCindy Armstrong


Club Merchandise Co-ordinatorWarren Haywood

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Upcoming Race Events

CASC 2002 Ontario Region Schedule:

DAC Shannonville July 20/21BARC Mosport August 10/11CRDA/SCCA Mosport Aug 31/ Set 1BEMC Mosport Sept 14/15CASC/Panoz Mosport Sept 28/29

Solo-I Schedule

Event #5, MDDT, July 6, BACEvent #6, MDDT, July 7, BACEvent #7, TMP, July 27, HADAEvent #8, TMP, July 28, HADAEvent #9, SMP, Aug 10, TACEvent #10, SMP, Aug 11, TACEvent #11, TMP, Aug 24, BACEvent #12, TMP, Aug 25, BACEvent #13, SMP, Sept 14, OMSCEvent #14, SMP, Sept 15, OMSCTop Gun Shoot Out TBA TBA TBASolo Banquet November 2nd.

MCO Solo-II Schedule

July 14 Event #4August 11 Event #5August 18 Performance Control SchoolAugust 25 Event #6September 8 Event #7October 6 Event #8October 13 Event #9* all events at Jetform Park

MCO Rally Championship Series Schedule:

Totally Silly Drive (TSD)- night time learnex, July 13, 2002, 132km

Solo-II schedule- See above

Golden Pine Rally- daytime drivex, September 14, 2002, 200km

Lanark Highlands Drivex- daytime drivex, October 19, 2002

MCO Race ResultsJune 2002

Rallys

Silverstone Black Bear Rally:Greg Brady and Steven Frankovitch

(2000 Subaru Impreza 2.5RS)

3rd overall of 30 entrants, and 2nd in P4 class

Darryl Malone and Jim Stark

(1992 Eagle Talon AWD)

1st in seed, 17th overall

SCCA NY Cen. Div. -"Return of the Route of All Evil" Rally

Jim Morrow (d) and Craig Hamm (n)

(Subaru Impresa 2.5RS)

2nd in Limited Class

Jodi Shay (d) and Sonya Howard (n)

(Nissan Sentra)

4th in Stock Class

Road Racing

CRDA Shootout*:Open Wheel Sprints:Lee Racicot

Formula-Libre, DNFCanada GT:Jim Harrison, Porsche 911

Qualified 2nd, Finished 1st

Ian Madden, VW Jetta

Qualified 10th, finished 7th

Canadian Grand Prix (Montreal):Formula-1600Lew MacKenzie

Qualified 23rd, finished 28th.

John Restemeyer

Qualifed 32nd, finished 31st

MCO - Ted Powell Summer TrophyRaces*:Canada GT:Jim Harrison, Porsche 911

Qualified 3rd, Finished 8th

Ian Madden, VW Jetta

Qualified 11th, finished 4th

*Complete official results unavailable at press time

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Formula 2000 RacingSchool

by Brad Merkel

While I love sports cars and have ownedmany, in the racing world I have always

been fascinated by open-wheeled formulacars, especially Formula 1. Not surpris-ingly, I have always wanted to drive a for-

mula car, and on May 4, sixteen experi-enced Solo 1 competitors got that chance.Included in the group were 2 MCO mem-

bers, Jeff Graves (Green '00 Miata) andmyself (Black '97 Miata).The opportunity came through a specialday set up by CASC/SoloOntario and theBridgestone/Firestone Racing Academyon their Driver Development Track atMosport. As the group already had a fairamount of track experience, the normal

preliminaries such as braking, shifting andskid pad exercises were dispensed with,and we started with an excellent lectureon race car dynamics and performancedriving by Brett Powell, who runs theBFRA. The drivers then went to theirusual Solo I cars for 2 sessions of cri-tiqued lapping. In this segment, instruc-tors were stationed at key points of thetrack and made notes from outside the

cars. This segment was a great learningtool as it gave drivers the chance to get

professional instruction in the cars thatthey normally compete in.As valuable as that was, everyone waskeen to get into the Formula 2000 cars.For those not familiar, these cars are sin-gle seat, rear-engined, open-wheel Rey-nard race cars with 2L Ford engines and

front and rear wings that make them looklike scaled down F1 cars. The first ses-sion was primarily braking and shiftingexercises to allow students get used to thedifferences between race and street cars.The first impression is how physical thecars are. Every system is completelymanual and requires higher effort levelsthan any street car, the engine noise andvibration is right behind your head, thesuspension is set purely for performancewith no thought for comfort, there is noroom to move around in the cockpit with-out banging against something, and every-thing happens much faster and more di-rectly than in a street car. For example,the gear shift actuates a rear transaxle withstraight cut gears and no synchro, so shift-ing requires much more effort than usual,

but at the same time the shift lever lengthand shift throw distance are less than halfof that of my Miata. Holding the gearshift

slightly incorrectly will reward you witsharp rap on the knuckles from the frarail every time.The rest of the sessions for the day wset up such that the students were diviinto groups, each group following an er-faster instructor attempting to copyline, braking points, etc. Each studenthe group took turns directly behind

instructor, who basically would drivefast as the student behind could go. Athe first of three lapping sessions in F2000s, the instructors, who led the fsession in the school Camaros and F

birds, were forced to move to F2000 cas they were being pushed too hard some of the students. No doubt the hilight of the day were the times spent rectly behind the instructor as he triedshake you off the tail of his F2000. It ctainly made you think about how mfun running in a series like this could bI can't say too much about the schoolis recognized as one of the top 3 in NoAmerica, and having spent a day theris easy to see why. The instruction the whole set-up is very professional, they go out of their way to make sure teveryone is having fun. Highly recomended for anyone who has the chance

Ted Powell Summer TrophyRaces Summary

by Richard Muise

It's been just 4 days since the Ted PowellSummer Trophy Races weekend, but the

response received so far has been genu-inely warm, and I just wanted to take amoment and give Kudos to all involved. Iknow others will have submissions forAugust, time constraints limiting theamount of coverage for this issue.

I started working with the race committeein late February, and much of the workhad already been planned and the commit-tee was focused on implementation aswell as agonizing over the financial issuesand insurance. With the potential for alarge loss for the club, the committee, us-ing extensive spreadsheets supplied bytreasurer Bob Benson, cut where it could,

while trying to balance the need to have aweekend that would compliment theaward for best organized race in 2001.The insurance issue eventually resolveditself in early April.

The decline in entry numbers was of greatconcern, and it's likely to be a bugbear forthe rest of the year for other clubs. In theMCO weekend's case, a very specialthanks for Jay Saslove for organizing theOCC Price fund and thanks to all those

who contributed to the fund. A number ofdrivers, owners and businesses stepped upto build the fund.

Joining Bob Benson on the race commit-tee were Chief Registrar Sherrisa Microys(who juggled time between this race and

pre-pending the title "Dr." to her nameover the same time frame), Clerk of theCourse Cindy Armstrong (and emergencysubstitute Chief Starter on Sunday), Sec-retary of the Meet Ron Woltman, pace cardriver Rob Microys and before my time,Basil Chiu in PR. Assistants in organiza-tion were Bennett Leckie and Nick Berry(radio-man extraordinaire). In the shorttime, I learned a lot, but know that there issignificantly more I can learn from every-one for the 2003 weekend!

No event goes on without the effort by thevolunteer workers. We had a full compli-

ment of between 80 and 100 workers forthe weekend in diverse roles such asclean-up crew, scrutineers, paddock mar-shals, flag and pit marshals, towing, fireand rescue crews, runners, judges of factand stewards, mock grid and photogra-

pher. Keeping the workers happy was oneof the goals of the race committee; I hopethat we met that goal.

Thanks to the drivers who were able tocome out to race. The attendance wasslightly above our expectations. If there is

any feedback from the drivers, both goand bad, issues that could make a beweekend for next year, please contact executive. The only issue raised so far

been the lack of a practice session, whhit the small single-person teams most. Other feedback has been entir

commentary.

As a flag marshal during the weekenwould like to also remark on the fact tit was a surprisingly quiet weekend. Scifically on Saturday, there was only tow required. Most weekends, it's bmy experience that nearly every race quired one tow. Sunday was busier, for the most part it was just good raciEven a photo finish in the Formula-12race!

In the next issue, I'll have a fuller summry of the weekend (including results

photos), and I'm sure that others will hthe time to acknowledge everyone volved and offer them the thanks they sire. From myself, I wish everyone gluck for the rest of the race year, anhope to see you all back in 2003.

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MCO Rally Group Reportfor July 2002by Craig Hamm

By the time you read this I trust we willhave had a successful Map Run Rally onSaturday June 29. This was a short non-series event starting in Almonte, and ter-minating at a nice restaurant/pub in Perth.The rally-committed 'sacrificed' a few

hours of a long weekend to drive on funroads through the beautiful Lanark Coun-ty countryside. The event format wassimple, with minimal overhead for the or-ganizer: follow a route highlighted on amap, one average speed taking into ac-count all and any built up areas. Cheaptoo, all we wanted to do was cover the in-surance cost. This was a rally with socialfocus for all car and rally enthusiasts.Thanks to Jim and Jean for organising theevent.

Repeating from last month, Jim Morrowand I are presenting a short course on Ral-ly Organising, July 20, location TBD. Jimis chief instructor. If you always wantedto know how to put a rally together, fromscratch, but were afraid to ask, this courseis for you! This course will help you do

better as a competitor as well, learn thedark secrets of the rallymaster, and maybea little sympathy for your organisers, too!It's not rocket science, but there are skillsto learn. Check the website for details.

On June 1, Jodie Shay (navigating) andmyself (driving) powered the mighty 89Corolla to a first place in Novice at theSMCC Map Run, running from VankleekHill. This turned out to be a good 4 hour

rally, which even took us into MangyMoose territory. It was brisk, too. Allnon elapsed time sections were CAS 72(maintain an average speed of 72 kph).On a lot of roads it's quicker than youthink! We felt like we hit the big timewith a few really deep, long, muddy pud-dles. Talk about dramatic water splashesand a bunch of dirty cars! Note to naviga-tors, close your window when you seemud puddles coming! One last thing. Wewon our class because we WERE the

class. : ) Oh well, it was still fun! Overallwe were second, though the Experts had amuch harder task working only from theirown topographic maps.

On June 15 Jodie Shay and Sonya Ho-ward, and Jim Morrow and I, set out forUtica, New York, and the Return of theRoute of All Evil, a brisk TSD rally, thirdevent in the SCCA NE Divisional Cham-

pionship. Besides seeing what great roadsthe Americans would provide we wantedto experience the differences betweenroad rallying in the USA and Canada.There are plenty of differences and I hopeto write about it when I can find 5 spareseconds to do so. Anyway, Jim (driving)and I came 2nd of three teams in LimitedClass, and 9th overall of 19 teams, and Jo-die (driving) and Sonya (navigating) came4th of 5 teams in Stock Class (no specialequipment), and 14th of 19. The roadswere absolutely amazing, and we drove

them over a period of 11hours, including two rest pe-riods, finishing at 1:15 AM.

Results were posted near3AM, and then we hit thehay. Rallying - it feels sogood when it stops. Results

posted at: http://www.mej-photo.com/routeres.html

Also on June 15, MCO hadtwo performance entries atthe 2002 Silverstone BlackBear Rally, in Dorset, Ontar-io. Greg Brady and StevenFrankovitch came an amaz-

ing 3rd OVERALL of 30 entries, and 2ndin their class in their 2000 Impreza 2.5RS

(P4 class). They were beat only by teamswith bigger budgets and considerablymore experience (including Dan Sprongland Brian Maxwell - both well respectedchampions in North America). This putsGreg and Steve at the top of their P4 class,and 2nd overall (all classes) in the OntarioPerformance Rally Championship! Newmembers Darryl Malone and Jim Stark ina 1992 Eagle Talon came 17th of the 30entries finishing their first ever perform-ance rally quite unscathed in a rally with 8DNFs. Well done guys! See results athttp://www.mlrc.ca/blackbear/02results.html

You can check outthe Subaru Cana-dian Rally Cham-

pionship on TSNand RDS. The

broadcast sched-ule is located ath t t p : / / w w w. c a r s r a l l y . c a /TVTimes.html,and several arecoming up.

Ryan Huber's Totally Silly Drive is set togo for July 13, starting from the Harvey'son Carling Avenue (across from the Coli-seum/Swiss Chalet). A rallymastersnightmare: I heard they changed a hugenumber of road names after Ryan devisedthe route, so the Green Crew will havesome work to do! This will be a very be-ginner friendly event on smooth roads.

No special equipment necessary exceptfor some interior lighting for the latter

part of the evening (the days will still bepretty long, though). Auxiliary drivinglamps are good to bring if you have them.Start is at 8pm and expect to be finished

by about 10:30pm back at Harvey's.WORKERS REQURED. Please post tothe rally forum or email Ryan directly [email protected] as soon as pos-sible.

Repeating myself from last month, theRally Group is actively seeking a rally-master for the 6th rally in the Series, theLanark Highlands Rally, Oct 19, 2002.

No organiser, no rally! For the 2003 com-

petition season we also need a rallymasterfor the November Mississippi Valley Ral-ly. Step right up! Contact either Jim Mor-row, Corey Groves, or Craig Hamm, or

post your intent on the online forums. Fi-nally, I intend to organise two new ralliesin 2003, and would like somebody to startthinking about becoming Rally Directorfor 2003. Already we have had Jaak Laanand Jim Morrow, then myself as Director.Several rally group members just finishedhelping out at the MCO Ted Powell Sum-mer Trophy Races at Shannonville Motor-sports Park. There is life beyond rallying!This was a lot of fun and a great learning

experience. Hats off to Cindy Armstrong,Ron Woltman and the rest of a very hardworking race organizing committee for

putting on such a professional event forour club.There will be no formal meetings of theRally Group in July or August. We maymeet at iPlay in Stittsville and check outthe rally video games, so keep watchingthe website. Don't forget, if you can't findit in the Link, all rally information is up-dated regularly on the club website.

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MINUTES OF MEETINGM.C.O. Executive Committee

June 18th, 2002

Louis's Steak House, Ottawa, Ont.

PRESENTExecutive: Ron Woltman, President; Ben-nett Leckie, Vice-President; Rick Miski-man, Open Wheel; Steve Greiner, Closed

Wheel; Jeff Graves, Solo I; Greg Kier-stead, Solo II; Richard Muise Link Edi-tor; John Powell, Secretary.Members/ Guests: None present.

ABSENT WITH EXCUSESExecutive: Bob Benson, Treasurer; RobMicroys, Website Editor; Craig Hamm,Rally; Paul Swinwood, Karting; PatWeightman, Membership; Warren Hay-wood, Club Merchandise Co-ordinator.

NOTE The position of Public RelationsDirector is still vacant.

The President opened the meeting at 6:40p.m.. As many members of the Executivewere involved in preparations for the TedPowell Summer Trophy Races, whichwere now well in hand, there were only afew housekeeping matters to discuss, asfollows:

Agenda Ron Woltman remarked that ashe had not received any items for theagenda, he assumed that there were nosignificant issues to be addressed.Agreed.Ted Powell Summer Trophy RacesVarious points were raised throughout themeeting, as follows:- Greg Kierstead will be getting 50 tickets

for Lynx games to be given out as work-er gifts at the race. This leaves 400available for use at other events.

- Richard Muise reported that we areplanning for 81 worker lunches and 160

for the B.B.Q.. He would like to ad-dress the Workers' Meeting on the topicof meals.

- He will also bring a few pylons and pickup the new trophies.

- Bennett Leckie asked if there would betime left in our 9 to 5 schedule forworker lapping. Ron Woltman repliedthat Ralph Frisken is fairly flexible, sothere should be no problem.

- Regarding the electric vehicle display,Ron would like to see them havingsome track time during lunch. Therewas a brief discussion on how to handleadmission passes for employees of thecompanies concerned.

- Ron gave an update on the OCC. prizefund, and recognised the efforts of JaySaslove for getting it started.

- There was a brief discussion on the useof Club signs and banners, and JeanMacGillivray's display for Registration.

- Ron Woltman advised the meeting thatthere will be a credit from ASN-FIA foran overpayment on our insurance premi-

um.- Ron also gave an update on the CASC-

OR trailer. Apparently it is parked atMosport in an un-roadworthy condition,with seemingly no-one taking responsi-

bility for it. Ron will raise this topic atthe next ORO meeting, as the trailer is

paid for by the clubs, and should beavailable at all races. He has been in-formed by CASC that any essential sup-

plies and equipment from the trailer willbe brought to Shannonville for our race.

Solo II- Greg Kierstead reported that there is apossibility that a Solo II event will beheld on Saturday Sept. 7th at the Avia-tion Museum parking lot.$ Jeff Graveswill approach the Hampton Inn regard-ing the promotion of accommodationsfor out-of-town competitors for the Re-gional Solo II event.

Pylons- The Citroen Club have expressed their

thanks for the use of our pylons at theirrecent event.

- Bennett Leckie will investigate the pur-chase of some new pylons to replacethose no longer serviceable.

Solo I- There was a good turn-out for the June

15/16th event at Shannonville despiteall the rain. There were 50 entries forSaturday, and 40 plus 14 paid no-showson Sunday.

The Link- Richard Muise has price quotes from 3

or 4 possible new printers.- Mark Atos, the incoming editor, pre-pared this month's Link under Richard'sguidance.

Club Properties- Bennett Leckie reported that the design

of asset tags for the inventory of Club

properties is currently underway.Incorporation Papers- Steve Greiner reported that the Club's

incorporation papers for 2002 are completed, but somehow the ProvincialGovernment office responsible hasomitted the changes requested. This can

be addressed next time.The meeting was adjourned early, at ap

proximately 7:30 p.m., due to the smalamount of business to discuss.

Prepared by John Powell, SecretaryMCO, June 24th 2002.Tel. 613-835-2910e-mail - [email protected].

MCO: The First Fifty YearsOnly $35 for this important book!

Plannning for a delivery of 300 numbered copies. It is a hard-covered coffee table style bookrecounting the long history of motorsopts in Ottawa and the regions. With 150 pages, everything

and everyone is included. Don't miss out on your copies!

There is still space available for sponsorship as well. For $20 you can ensure your name is in thebook by sponsoring a page of your choosing. Full or partial page ads are open.

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CRDA Shootout Reportby Richard Muise

For me at least, the CRDA weekend pre-sented the first good weather weekend ofthe summer racing season. It was also myfirst opportunity to crew with John Blouinhas his crew (co-driver Kim, crew chiefAlbert and photographer Yves) on the #40Datsun 510. The Pumpkin looks great, a

lot of effort was put in over the winter andit shows.

The Saturday started about 30 minutes(maybe more) late as CRDA was havingsome difficulties getting workers andequipment placed quick enough.

Alas, for our team, it was short lived Sat-urday morning. On the first lap of the first

practice, John pulled into Fabi pits when awater temperature gauge blew out andemptied most of the coolant out of the en-gine. The car was towed back to the pad-dock and the gauge reattached with JBWeld.

There were a number of other MCO mem-bers out, Ian Madden in the #1 VW Jetta,Steve Pomeroy and Frank Smith in theirnew tube-frame Tercel #93, Michael Mori(Corner-2 Civic), Mike Kilby and Jay Sas-love in the GT.B Civic, Bernie Betzema inhis new Alfa-Romeo and JR Fortin shar-ing John Lockhart's car. The open-wheelcrowd was represented by Lee Racicot,

Nigel Moritmer and Lew MacKenzie.

The weld on the Datsun held during thequalifying session, and both drivers gotseat time; Kim qualified in 7th place I be-lieve. At lunch, Albert and I (were) volun-teered to help in the pits during the after-noon. The pit was short of marshals (anumber of the fire crew were being usedin the pits) so we chipped in to help ChiefPit Marshal Elizabeth Somers.

The first race of the weekend was GTSprints on Saturday afternoon. Mike Kil-

by was had a great dice with the FordF150 and a Corvette. Mike would fall

back a little on the straights but wouldstart pushing for position in corner-13,hold on tight through 14 and would houndthe Ford and Corvette through 1 andwould take a position in the left hand cor-

ner-2. However, on the long straights hewasn't always able to keep the position,and would be setting up for the pass incorner-2 with nailing corners-13 and 14.He cemented his second (?) place positionwhen the F150 turned SUV drivers-rightin 2 and the Corvette blinked under brak-ing in Corner-13 and spun. JR Fortin

placed 3rd in GTB.

The Action Front Street Stock series wasnext up. I was able to watch the standingstart from the pits. So far this year,AFSSC starts have gone well, but it's go-

ing to be messy if and when there is ever aproblem. Ideally, there would be yellowflag marshals posted along the pit wall todeal with issues once the cars are gridded.As I've mentioned before, this is a fun ser-ies to watch. And lucrative for the bodyshops.

One of two scary moments happened dur-ing the Formula-1600 race. Two cars (#10and #08 I think) touched wheels and one

barrel-rolled. The race went full courseyellow then red-flagged as the service ve-hicles raced to the scene. I believe neitherdriver was hurt, but were brought to themedical centre for observation.

At the end of the day, there was somethingspecial for the workers. The Action Frontseries drivers took workers out for workerlaps in their Nissans. Everyone went out,in many cases more than once. We lappeduntil everyone had had his or her fill(about 30 to 40 minutes, much more thanthe length of the actual AFSSC races). Iwent out twice and was asking lots of

questions, watching the lines, shift-pointsand the footwork, as I still have a lot tolearn. There was some confusion abouthow hard to push. It appeared to me thatmost of the drivers were out doing racinglaps and were following each other asclosely as during the race. I wore my hel-met, but not everyone else did.

Sunday morning was the OCC race. In mycase, John Blouin did the first stint ofabout 20 minutes before pitting to let Kimfinish the race. We did well (I don't havethe final results) and had lots of ideas forimprovements. John Lockhart won theOCC race outright.

After the race, we moved the Datsun backto the paddock to start packing. Followingus down the paddock lane was GunterSchmidt, CASC-OR Race Director. Look-ing rather grim actually. Oh no, what didwe do wrong? Gunter walked up to Johnand asked "How much to rent the car forCanada GT?" What? "I want to rent thecar for Canada GT."

John thought about it for about a micro-second and agreed. We were going racingagain!

The scrutineers were called over to reviewthe logbook, and when that was done, we

put on the stickers. As an FYI, putting onthe stickers takes a lot longer than youmight think. They are hard to properly

peel off the wax paper backing. 10 mi-nutes later, the Pumpkin was ready. Checkthe fluids, tires and push it up to the grid.The picture on the cover was taken about20 minutes before the race.

This weekend seemed to bring a change inthe perception of CGTCC. Many of the

big name, big horsepower, big moneyteams aren't coming out to play, and overthe CRDA weekend, a few teams decidedto enter CGTCC and stand a good chanceof getting price money in the smallerfields. Ian Madden joined Saturday anddid well in the coming two CGTCC races.I think you'll see more and more cars withthe Canada G.T. Challenge logo across thewindshield.

But it was not to be, not this day at least.As my first weekend as crewmember, ev-erything was new and interesting. But tim-ing Gunter was fascinating and slightly

boring. He never varied from 1:25 (so Ididn't have anything new to put on the pit

board). About 20 to 25 minutes in, heslowed to 1:30 and then pulled into the

pits. The temperature had spiked and theengine sounded bad. We later discoveredthat the bearing had failed on piston #3(what, am I some sort of bearing bad luckomen?). I think Jim Harrison finishedCGTCC in first place (and seems to beworking on the overall championship), but

I was in the paddock at the time.

I missed watching the second F-1600 race,but was back in the pits for the second GTSprint race. Jay Saslove did very well inthe Kilby Civic. JR Fortin placed first.The second AFSSC race ended with a roll-over in turn-11, but the driver was ok. Itcame back on the flatbed with less dam-age than I had expected.

The final race of the weekend was the sec-ond Vintage race. It was a full field; 27cars. The Vintage cars were all in the Fabi

pits and their paddock was on the backside of the track, totally separate from therest of the facility. Elizabeth went to theFabi pits to work the race, leaving Albertand I in what should have been empty

pits. However, the second scary momentof the weekend gave us both lots to do.Coming into turn 14 onto the front straighta Ginetta G4 (open cockpit, right-handdrive) had to avoid a Corvette that sud-denly slowed. Unfortunately this gave thetrailing Volvo 122S no place to go but up.As in up the back side of the Ginetta, re-moving the drivers side door and puttingwheel marks up the rollbar behind thedriver's head. Both managed to avoid thewall, but were out of the race and debris

was scattered along the wall. Luckily bothdrivers were ok, and they pulled off(pissed-off is more like it) at Nelson pit-out.

We ended the day collecting the remainsof the cars and looking for parts of themirror in the grass along pit wall.

(Note: I hope I got all the results right, butat press time, the results had not been

posted to the CASC-OR web site. Apolo-gies ahead of time for mistakes.)

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Miscellaneous Rumblings IIby John Powell

1. To every thing there is a reason?

There are many things which, to me,exist for no logical reason, some ofthem in the motoring world. Let's be-gin with:

Harley-Davidson 2-Wheeled LandYachts - sorry - motorcycles. I knowthey have a large following amongstimage-conscious people, such as mov-ie stars and members of biker gangs,but I am not impressed. They costmore than many decent cars, have anexhaust note that reminds one ofsomeone continuously passing wind,their acceleration is merely adequatefor their engine size, manoeuverabilityand cornering are underwhelming, youhave to re-tighten every nut and bolt atleast once a week, and if you drop oneit takes two men and a boy to put it on

it's feet again. "Hog", in it's negativeconnotation, is an apt name for them.Harley's are only suitable for use aspolice bikes, as most cops don't likereal bikes anyway. Or sports cars, forthat matter. And before you ask, no,I've never ridden a Harley - I just nev-er saw any point in it.

Fake retro-cars. These are based onclassic cars or hot rods which neverexisted. They are similar to bad massproduced copies of Michelangelo's"David", moulded in plastic, passedoff as being equal to or better than the

original, and titled Mike's "Dave".The Plymouth Prowler and Dodge PTCruiser come readily to mind. O.K.,maybe they look "cute" to some, butthere never were any hot rod roadstersof the '50s and '60s which had a frontengine and rear transaxle (the Prowl-er), nor any front wheel drive '40s orearly '50s U.S. station wagons or se-dan deliveries (the PT Cruiser).Couldn't the designers have stayedtrue to the original concepts, or usedtheir imagination to come up with ap-propriate modern styling? Or, andperhaps I'm being just a tad cynical

here, is it just another ploy, somewhatsuccessful in the case of the PT Cruis-er, to separate the consumer fromsome hard-earned cash?

"Real" retro-cars. These are ersatzmodern versions posing as reiterationsof an original vehicle. Dodge pick-ups are not in this group, as they dofollow the styling, drive-train and pur-

pose of the original "Power Wagon"pick-ups and light trucks of the '40sand '50s. I was unsure about the"New" Mini, but after having seen a

few and read about their engineering, Ihave decided that, although very muchmodernised, it's also true to the origi-nal design concept of Alex Issigonis.Then there's the new Ford Thunder-bird - it's just plain butt ugly! It takesit's "styling cues"from the '55 "T" Bird, but hasn't trans-lated it's classic lines into a gracefulmodern style, nor it's 2 seater sporting

character. The "New" Beetle is anoth-er poseur, albeit a better car than it'spredecessor. In fact, it probably is avery good car, as it's basically a VWGolf, and I suppose it could be consid-ered "cute", but it is definitely not are-iteration of the original VW Beetle.It has more interior room and betterluggage capacity, it drives from thewrong end, doesn't have swing-axleswhich go hippety-hop around corners,is front-engined, the engine is not air-cooled, it doesn't burn exhaust valvesor blow out mufflers, at least not thatI've heard of, is not an economy car,and, it has a REAL HEATER for

God's sake! I ask you, what is thisworld coming to????

2. Back in the Saddle - Episode IX -"Don't Bogart those Solo I Regs,mah friend, ..."

"... pass them over-r-r to me." O.K.,so maybe that dates me a bit.

Well, it looks my return to racingwon't take place anytime soon. Some-times you think that you've gotten ridof all the alligators, and you can get towork on draining the swamp, then you

find that you've missed one when herises up and bites you in the arse! Myrace medical went that way. Withoutboring you with too much detail, let'sjust say that something that hadceased to be a functional problemyears ago, and which I had thereforenot considered a potential concern, in-volved an aspect which was not to theliking of the Regional Medical Offi-cer. Then the TV broke! This, ofcourse meant no VCR, and Susan isgoing into Video Withdrawal.

I'm a great believer in planning, or-

ganising, and preparation. I find thatthey prevent the vast majority of prob-lems, but I'm not naive enough tothink that they will prevent all. Notlike some people who want to spendvast amounts of money (usually nottheirs) to ensure that nothing evergoes wrong in the world anywhere,anytime, and to anyone or anything,including dogs and small boys. Therewill always be oversights, errors, andother occurrences with unexpected re-sults, such as the example of a butter-fly fluttering it's wings and ... "poof",

an earthquake on the other side of theworld! I think it's called "ChaosTheory". Hey, isn't that the basic lawof computer programs? Well, nobodysaid life would be without it's chal-lenges, so what to do?The first thing, of course, and menwith companions of the fairer sex willunderstand this, is to get the damn TV

fixed or replaced! Then I will try toget the exact details of the medicalproblem and see mydoctor about possible remedies. Thefinal issue involves finding some-where to drive the car, and this iswhere the Solo I Regulations come in.It won't be the same as the direct com-petition of racing, but it will be a goodplace to stretch the car's legs and getmore familiar with it, and to keep mydriving mechanics up to snuff. Then,of course, there's also Mr. Panoz'sTest Days at Mosport, which shouldalso help , and remind me about usingmy mirrors! Plus which I just love

that track.

So that's it for "Back in the Saddle"for now - maybe for good. The col-umn will continue, of course, (that's apromise - or maybe a threat?) and I'lloccasionally regale you with tales ofmy exploits in Solo I - that's if I canfigure out their @#$$#%^% car clas-sification rules. Now where did I putthose Regs.?????

3. The Shipping Report

Activity was extremely high at the

seasonal Port of Shannonville, Ont.,during the weekend of June 15th and16th past. The local Collector of Cus-toms reported an increase of 1,000%in the number of Inwards and Out-wards Reports for vessels traversingthe Shannonville Lakes during that pe-riod. He commented on the unusualnature of the vessels, noting that theyappeared to be possessed of fourwheels instead of the customary rud-ders and sea screws or sails. The ap-parent reason for the high volume oftraffic was that the Honda Acura Div-ers' Association, of the Port of Toron-

to, was holding a Solo I Regatta. TheCommodore of that club reported that,although some contestants becamepartly submerged during the event,there were no drownings and no ves-sels were lost. The Regatta was there-fore judged to be a success.

4. "O solo mio..."

Well, this does concern the HADASolo I event mentioned above, but italso refers to the gondola I needed tocross the lake in my basement, which

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I discovered the Monday morning af-ter I arrived home from the Shannon-ville Lakes. The water was up to thetops of my Wellies - somehow, thesump pump had been switched off,and .... "Ah, Hastings, it is almost tolaugh, is it not, when someone doesnot use the little grey cells?"

I didn't pick the best weekend to startmy career in Solo I. The weather-man's idea of "periods of rain" was notexactly what I was expecting - four tosix hours or more at a time of heavy,soaking rain instead of the more nor-mal 40 to 60 minutes. Parts of thetrack were inundated with what couldno longer be called large puddles,but small lakes. Not even the raintires were any use in them. Andspeaking of rain tires, we were lostwith their set-up all weekend.

Our rain tires were previously unusedfull-tread Toyo RA1s, and they evenhad the moulding buttons still on the

treads. And it had completely slippedmy mind to ask the previous owner ofthe car what tire pressures to use forthe wets. There was nothing to do butto ask every driver in the paddock run-ning Toyos for advice - and that wegot! The problem was that none of itwas the same. Some recommendedpressures as high as 40 lbs., others aslow as 24, so we started in the middleand first tried going up, which didn'tseem to work, and then down, whichwas marginally better. Now sober andmore experienced minds will no doubtconsider that this really wasn't the ide-

al way to attack the problem, but wehad no idea of what we were doing,we were getting a little panicky, as itwas Saturday morning, and our minds,as well as our tent, were already wa-terlogged!

Saturday morning, boating on LakeFabi. Well, two lakes, actually, one atturn 3, Lake Fabi East, and the otherat 5b, being Lake Fabi West. Therewere also various small rivulets andlarge puddles at other locations, mostin the braking zones or at the apexesof corners. The car was miserable -the brakes were locking up and thefront end washing out under anythingapproaching vigorous braking, andgetting through the corners remindedme of driving on glare ice - sliding onall fours. Negotiating turn 3 was likefording a large river, with water sprayeverywhere, including inside the car,and when the temperature rose a bit,the windshield started fogging up -completely. There is a de-mister inthe car, but it was absolutely over-whelmed, and RainX didn't helpmuch, and I could only wipe the driv

er's side of the windshield with mygloves. I must have used Sonar to lo-cate the apexes of right hand corners,which, of course, was most of them,as I managed to stay on the track. Un-believably, I finished 1st in class - butas I was the only one, I also finishedlast. The best part is that, through oneof those arcane calculations that seemto be common in Solo I, I got 100points for my effort. I didn't deservethem, but I guess everything evens outin the end, which it did the next day.

Sunday was canoeing on the NelsonRiver. There had been a Lake Nelsonon turn 1, but the track workers man-aged to pump it dry, without, I sus-pect, an Environmental Assessment.The Nelson River rose in the afore-mentioned Lake Fabi East, and flowedgently across the Nelson back straightbetween the two intersections with theLong Track, emptying into theswamp located in the infield. I'm notsure what it's course was from that

point on, but as it did not traverse thePit straight, I presume it must go toground somewhere. Perhaps some in-trepid explorer could take on the taskof discovering it's estuary - Dr. Liv-ingstone, perhaps? But back to moremundane pursuits.

Well, maybe not quite so mundane, asthe car's handling remained, shall wesay, interesting. It was still rainy andvery wet, and stayed that way until theafternoon. In addition, the car didn'tlike full throttle when fording the Nel-son River on the back straight, making

some fascinating lateral movements,both front and rear. At the same time.Often in opposite directions. Thenthere was the fact that the spraythrown up by cars going through thewater was carried along by them anddeposited on the track all the way intothe braking area for the next corner.This caught out several cars, includingthe Mustang in front of me - twice -which slowed me down a little bit onthose runs.

Turn 1 was somewhat different. Sure,the lake was gone, but there weresome fair sized puddles in the brakingzone, which caused me some drama inthe last morning run. As the trackseemed to be drying out a little, I ap-proached the corner at a somewhatoverly optimistic rate of knots, andpromptly locked 'em up going in tothe corner. Dancing in the puddles, Ididn't get the speed down as much as Ishould have, which wouldn't havebeen too bad if it hadn't been for wateragain being carried along the surfaceof the track - on the racing line. Iknew I was in trouble, and sure

enough, approaching the apex I couldfeel her start to go. The old sayingcame to mind, "Beware the dreadedside-slip!" I was very busy at thewheel for a bit, as first the back endand then the front flicked out on me,and I wondered if I was going to bethe first car of the day to lose it at one.I wasn't, and I was rather pleased withwhat I considered a feat of some mi-nor degree of driving virtuosity, whichnonetheless seemed to go unnoticedby the assembled soggy masses. Evenmy nephew Dave, who was crewingfor me, hadn't noticed anything amissas I fought to avoid depositing the carin the waterlogged boondocks.

I spent the remainder of Sunday stillskating through turn one and some ofthe other corners, but as the trackdried out a bit more, I got a little fast-er. So much so, that I began to thinkthat I was doing a little better than theprevious day on the Fabi circuit.When I got the results for the second

day, however, it was a return to reali-ty. A Corvette and a '93 RX7 hadmoved up from ASS1 to ASS2 in or-der to make a full class, and they bothbeat me. Oh well, maybe the nextevents at the Mosport DDT will be dry - we have thedry tire pressures pretty well figuredout now. If not, we have to try to sortout the correct tire pressures for therain tires, because right now driving inthe wet isn't much fun, and I used tobe pretty good when it rained. Well,that's my baptism by (lots of) waterinto Solo I. Hopefully, there'll be bet-

ter news next month.5. Parting Shot

Back in the 18th century, the pipingand other adornments, often expen-sive, on men's clothing were call"macaroni", as in the British satiricalditty of the time, "Yankee Doodle".For those who don't know, it went"Yankee Doodle came to London /riding on a pony / stuck a feather inhis hat / and called it Macaroni". Inthe less polite version, the feather wasplaced at the other end of the body ina certain orifice.

Sometime between then and the mid-dle of the 20th century, men's displaysof ostentatiousness were transferredfrom their clothing to their cars. Inthe 1950s, a car kept in pristine condi-tion was called a "cherry", and now,gussied-up Japanese compacts andsub-compacts are called "rice wag-ons". Maybe the old adage is true -the way to a man's heart really isthrough his stomach!

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MINUTES OF MEETINGM.C.O. Monthly General Meeting

June 4th 2002

Louis's Steak House, Ottawa, Ont.Prepared by John Powell, MCO Secretary

PRESENTExecutive: Ron Woltman, President; Ben-nett Leckie, Vice-President: Rick Miski-man, Open Wheel; Steve Greiner, Closed

Wheel; Craig Hamm, Rally; Jeff Graves,Solo I; Greg Kierstead, Solo II; RichardMuise Link Editor; John Powell, Secreta-ry.Members: Sufficient members were pres-ent for a quorum.Guests: Dave Lee, iPlay Network GamingLounge.

ABSENT WITH EXCUSESExecutive: Bob Benson, Treasurer; PaulSwinwood, Karting; Pat Weightman,Membership; Rob Microys, Website Ad-ministrator; Warren Haywood, Club Mer-chandise Co-ordinator.

NOTE The position of Public RelationsDirector is still vacant.

The President opened the meeting at ap-proximately 8:10 p.m. in the restaurantsection, and the following business wasconducted:

General- Prizes for the 50/50 draw including somepreviously cherished motoring books do-nated by Bill Hough, and some mountedmotoring prints donated by Sam Mandia.Proceeds will go towards the publishing

expenses for the Club's 50th Anniversarybook.- Guests included Dave Lee, a member ofNCMA(?), who will address the meetingon a new venture of interest to motor-sports fans.

- At this point, an Esteemed Member ofthe Executive arrived late and proceededto stumble over the donated prints.

- The Nokia phone left at the last meetingwas claimed by Bill Hough.

Solo IIGreg Kierstead reported the following:- The Ottawa Lynx have donated 200 tick-

ets for their home ball games. Some willbe available to workers at the Ted Powellrace meeting.

- The Club's second event drew about 38entries. The old tent was used as the de-fective new one had been returned toPrice Club for a refund.

- The OJOA Solo II, which we are organ-ising, will take place on July 20th . JeffGraves noted that we need about 20 vol-unteers to work the event, and that onlyworkers can compete.

- The next event is on Sunday (June 9th),organised by Mark Atos, and the nextPerformance Control School will be onAugust 18th.

- The storage shed for pylons, etc., willnow be at Richard Muise's, a more cen-tral location.

Solo IJeff Graves reported as follows:- The first two events attracted 41 entries

for Saturday and 38 for Sunday, withsome MCO members competing.

- On June 14th, the Friday prior to thenext events at Shannonville, HADA willhold a lapping evening.

- The following events will be at the Mo-sport Driver Development Track on July6th and 7th .

- Nick Berry asked what exactly was SoloI, and whether or not there was a SoloIII.

Ted Powell Summer Trophy RacesThere was a wide-ranging discussion on

this topic, led by Ron Woltman. Note:Much of this discussion dealt with pointscovered in previous meetings, and whichare contained in the appropriate minutespublished in the Link. Some of thesepoints have been omitted or summarisedfor the sake of brevity.- The CRDA meeting attracted 110 en-

tries, of which 27 were vintage, for a nettotal of 83.

- The treasurer has run scenarios for dif-ferent numbers of entries for the TPSTR,and despite an expected loss of around$3,000, the Executive has given a go-ahead. Ron noted that last year's loss

was mainly due to worker incentives,and was considered an investment. Weare cutting back this year, and althoughwe still expect to lose money, wewouldn't consider operating at a loss ona continuing basis.

- We need MCO entries and workers, andcould still use a few pick-up trucks.Workers will be assisted at $30/night,but don't have to take it.

- We might consider a lapping event ifpossible, preferably after the race day,but there are issues to be addressed.

- In a discussion on worker souvenirs,such as Club zipper-pulls, the Lynx tick-ets and Sunoco gas coupons were alsoadded.

- Cindy Armstrong pointed out that whileracers know their costs, they should alsobe made aware that it costs organisersabout $30,000 to run a race, and they arewondering if it is worthwhile continuing.She has posted a discussion topic on theClub's forum asking for input from driv-ers and entrants, and will take their con-cerns to the ORO.

- In response to a question, Ron Woltmannoted that there will be camping at the

track, and that the east washrooms havebeen up-graded.Later in the meeting, thefollowing points were raised:

- J. R. Fortin suggested that, if finances al-low, we could offer tow money to com-petitors from Toronto. Ron Woltman re-viewed the organizational issues, and thepoint was not discussed any further.

- Jim Holtom then asked how much wewould lose if we cancelled now, and thenasked what would happen if we only got

50 entries. Ron replied that Bob Ben-son, who was absent, has the figures, andthat he didn't think the entries would bethat low.

- Ron then gave a brief report on the top-ics discussed at the recent ORO meeting,such as the state of present entry levelsand the losses incurred by race-organis-ing clubs. He also stressed that the Clubitself has never been larger nor healthier.

- Jim also asked about the possibility ofhaving kart races during the race meet-ing, and Ron replied that GunterSchmidt had advised us that such couldnot be allowed under our insurance poli-

cy. There followed a general discussionabout the pros and cons of karting eventsat Shannonville.

The LinkRichard Muise briefed the meeting as fol-lows- Richard had to twist a few arms at our

current printer to get the June Link to themeeting. The search for a new printerwill commence soon.

- There is an article in the June Link thatoutlines it's current status, including pro-duction and mailing costs, and membersare encouraged to read it. Richard and

the new editor (see below) are lookingfor ideas to reduce costs.- The new Link Editor will be Mark Atos.

Mark joined the Club as a result of com-peting in a Slush n' Slide, and now com-petes in Solo II. Richard will stay on toassist in the transition.

RaceSteve Greiner (Closed Wheel) commentedon the poor number of entries this year.Rick Miskiman (Open Wheel) stated thehe had nothing to add.iPlay Network Gaming LoungeRon Woltman invited Dave Lee to addressthe Club on his facility:- Dave explained that the gaming lounge

was in the Kanata/Stittsville area.- It has 32 gaming stations with pedals

and steering wheels, and all players canrace each other at the same time. Thereare also rally special stages.

- He would like to build up club commun-ities which will compete at his facility,and is looking to set up a free trial withcompetitions for prizes.

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ElectrathonRon Woltman called for volunteers towork this event on Saturday next from7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.. Don Tarte(?) com-mented that electric cars seem to have noproblem in getting funding from sponsors.RallyCraig Hamm's report was a summation ofhis column in the June Link. He addedthat, from his review of the newsletters

that he receives from other clubs, the Linkis the best of such publications. He closedby advising members that the Golden PineRally has been moved to October 5th2002.

The meeting was adjourned at approxi-mately 9:40 p.m. on a motion by NickBerry, seconded by Rick Miskiman.The 50/50 draw garnered the sum of$48.00, which will be used for expensesincurred in publication of The HonourableClub's 50th anniversary book on the histo-ry of MCO.

Main Street RacingUpdates

June 6, 2002From Front to Back to PlaceKen Baird, driver of the #2 CarQuest Pro-Truck, qualified third for the feature race,and quickly put his truck in front of thepack. Pulling away like he was unstoppa-ble, Ken suffered a flat tire, and his pitstop shuffled him to last position. Dem-onstrating that racing is a team sport, andeveryone's on the team, Ken's pit crew of

Leo and Chris was assisted by CarmenGriffith and Jack Bailey of Yendall's teamand Jody Rollow of the Moffitt team. Kenwas quickly back on the track, and backinto the fray, working his way to fifth

overall by the checkered flag. NorthGower's Steve Yendall won the feature,and, as one of the most popular ProTruckdrivers, crowned off a good night of rac-ing.

June 12, 2002First in the Feature, First inPoints, and No Flats!A warm and sunny evening was the firstportent of good things to come. Ken wasin the first heat race, starting at the veryback of the pack. A hard drive moved himall the way to second position by the endof the race.

In the Feature Race of the evening, Kenstarted in fifth. He quickly moved up tosecond behind Matt Moffitt's MTM Rac-ing's #46. These two ProTrucks movedaway from the pack and lead the way forthe next 12 laps when a caution wascalled. It wasn't past halfway so the Pro-Trucks doubled up to restart. Ken had theoutside pole with Matt on the inside as thegreen flag waved and they were racing

again. This time Ken got the lead and heldit to the end, Matt challenging him all theway. It was great racing and great fun, andno flat tires. Three races this season hadKen in the lead until a flat sent him to thepits, so this win was especially sweet.

All the North Gower racers did well lastnight. Steve Yendall's ProTruck #1 wasgoing well, just caught in a lot of trafficall evening. Dave Watchorn and MartinWalter were up to their normal tricks ofentertaining the crowds while gatheringup more wins. They apparently were try-ing to show that you can fit five cars wide

around some the corners during the fea-ture. We know they did it with three com-ing in for the finish line with Chris Dun-ham. The cheers from the stands showed

the enthusiasm the Mini Stocks generate,especially with such a race to the finish.Good racing. Earl Wylie was having ahard luck night after an altercation withthe wall, but he had some good racing uptill then, racing in the top three in the Pro-Stock class.

June 19, 2002A Rookie Debut for Greg Wil-

liams and the CarQuest #2 Pro-Truck

Wednesday, June 19 was a Great SummerDay and a Great Day to Start Racing.Greg Williams, owner of G. W. Roofing,got his chance, as Ken Baird, 1st in pointsin the ProTruck Series, let one of his mainsponsors take the wheel. Greg is son ofIvor Williams, the great Ottawa racer fromthe days when the track was at LansdownePark, and you could see the resemblanceas Greg kept up with the pack in both theheat and Feature races at Ottodrome Wed-nesday Night. Greg will race againthroughout the summer taking turns withKen Baird for the Driver's seat. MainStreet Racing of North Gower congratu-lates Greg on a job well done.

Main Street Racing's sponsors this yearare Main Street Automotive, and CAR-QUEST, Class 8 Collision, Shell Oil Ther-moshell, G. W. Roofing, Bernhard TurboTrans, Kemco Radiator, Irish Rose ATVNature Trails, Carleton Pumping Service,Barry Horricks and WineMakers of NorthGower.

Check out www.ottodrome.com for racinghighlights, and www.mainstreetottawa

.com/status.html for all the latest racingnews from Ken and Main Street Racing.

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2002 Canadian Grand Prixby Richard Muise

The Speed of Sound

The Montreal Formula-1 GP was one oftwo bookend events I plan on attendingthis year at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. Thesecond race weekend comes in Augustwhen CART visits the track. This is thefirst year that both Formula-1 andCART are on the same track in thesame year. I intend to watch both fromthe same stadium seats on the entry tothe hairpin.

Due to work constraints, I was not ableto go on Friday, so Saturday was myfirst full day. The first cars on trackwere the Formula-1 practice. We gotthere just at the end, the cool-down lap,so we had to wait for 30 minutes beforethe second 45-minute practice began.

The full power scream of a modern For-mula-1 car at the top of the rev-limit is be-

yond comprehension to anyone that hasnot had a chance to experience it firsthand. The sound builds quickly as the carsare moving at a measurable fraction of thespeed of sound. The area around the hair-pin also baffles some of the sound untilthe car emerges from the straight into theopen area of the hairpin.

The sound is about the loudest sound I'veheard and would be comparable to a jet attake off. Without ear protection, you willdamage your hearing. It's an immensesound hammering on your eardrums. Asthe cars enter the hairpin area they begin

the 5 or 6 downshifts necessary for thelow speed in the hairpin. And nothing cancapture the sound of the downshifts - theyare brutal. You can feel the downshift inyour solar-plexus, makes your heart beatskip to the beat of a transmission so bru-tally engaged it must violate the law mu-tual exclusion in quantum mechanics. Thegears are just a cloud of probability. Or atleast a cloud that can transmit 850 horse-power.

After the second practice, the rain started.It never got too heavy (and it cut down theheat a little), but it was enough to dampen

the track for the rest of the afternoon mak-ing for difficult track conditions.

All hail ye gods of horsepower.

The Vintage CanAm race was in the earlyafternoon. I had been looking forward toseeing these, the ultimate muscle cars, formonths since I learned they would bethere from one of the organizers (BobArmstrong). Similar to the LeMans cars,and in fact some were ex-LeMans cars,CanAm was a series in North America

during the late 1960's through early1970's, consisting of massive displace-ment, massive horsepower/torque engineswith some bodywork wrapped around.

Taking the damp track just after lunch,they had one or two pace laps before astanding start. Rumbling by on the pace

laps, they were everything I was expect-ing. The ground vibrates and the air is fil-led with a rumbling roar as they idled by.The pole car was a Porsche 917-30, which

made around 1100hp in qualifying trimback in its hey-day. The other cars includ-ed Lolas and McLarens and one Shadow.

But the cars were not set up for the rain,so the race was much slower than itshould have been. As they started to putthe power down out of the hairpin, theywould tip-toe out - I would guess myHonda would be about as fast at this pointbecause I won't overpower the tire grip asmuch as these monsters.

More than one car got sideways even withpartial throttle getting on the power at the

hairpin. One of the McLarens, formerlydriven by Bruce himself hit the wall incorner-5 on the first lap. Not the kind ofthing you'd want to do in a quarter-mil-lion-dollar museum piece.

Following the CanAm race was the Fer-rari Challenge qualifying session. 45 mi-nutes of watching a large field of Ferrari360 Modena GT's. As with the CanAmcars, the drivers were having trouble inthe rain and there were a number of spins,including a big one on the final lap rightinto the pit wall. The last time I saw thisseries (2000 US GP), there was a combi-nation of 348's, 355 and a small handful of360's. This year it was entirely 360's, allfitted with the F1 paddle shifter option.

The final event of the day was the Formu-la 1600 race. Two MCO members, LewMacKenzie and John Restemeyer, were inthe field. The only other driver I recog-nized was Ashley Taws. I don't have theresults for the MCO members, but I knowthat Ashley had a hard time, spinningtwice, falling only one spot from her sixthplace on the grid to finish seventh.

Sunday had a few activities, however, was late due to delays in getting throughthe subway system. When I arrived, thedebris from the Ferrari Challenge racewas being cleaned up (by our friends aBurstall Conrad). Add two more cars tothe carnage of the previous day.

The F1 drivers parade was next. TheFerrari's had a very mixed reactionfrom the crowd, the hard-drinking Ital

ians in front of me were happy, but thecouple from Virginia were booing witha light bible-belt accent. Despite his results of the last 4 years, Jacques Villeneuve still had a wave of cheers.

It was about 90 to 120 minutes beforepit lane opened for the warm up lapand the grid form-up. At 1:00pm, therace started. We were assailed with 71laps of the sights and sounds of up to

22 cars running at full bore like a pack ofbanshees.

Alas, as per his usual, Jacques dropped

out with engine problems early in therace. Watching the top 6 drivers (FerrariWilliams and McLaren) fight for the win not really dicing it, but making incremental gains over the laps and in the pit stops- taking in the full ambiance of the Formula-1 race, it's a fabulous way of spending a weekend.

The only other comment is to gripe abouthe stupidly high prices at the track. In aninexplicable twist, I am terribly disap

pointed with the BAR team, sometimewith Jacques and I don't smoke (LuckyStrikes), yet I love the team colors for

BAR. I looked at getting a nice breastpocket button-shirt - $160. I didn't botheasking if that included tax, it was pointless at that price. I left with the sameclothes I went with. More than I can sayabout the young Italians in front of me but that's another story.

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Solo II - Running the Showby Mark Atos

There's no better way to learn about a sportthan to become involved. Unless thatsport is, oh, say, whatever that spo rt iscalled that Matadors do, or maybe a sportlike skeleton (there's something about hur-tling face first down an icy track, flat onyour stomach, that has no appeal to me).

That 's why I volunteered to organizeMCO's Solo II event number three, heldJune 9 at Jetform Park. Okay, so I didn'treally volunteer to organize the wholething, I really had intended only to designthe course map. Then I was informed thatI'd be managing the whole shebang.

Not that that perturbed me much, because Iknew that as Solo II Director, Greg Kier-stead would have most of the informationI'd need. The first step was to read the ev-er popular PowerPoint presentation SCCA

Solo II Course Design Version 3.1. This isa must read for any course designer, andeven an enjoyable and helpful read forcompetitors. I urge you to seek out a copyof this tome, and peruse it at your own

pleasure.

I printed out about ten copies of the map ofthe Jetform Park parking lot, so that Icould create a tonne of maps, and have acouple of the venerable Solo II competi-tors pick the one that they thought would

be the best. (Hey, this was my f irst timeever laying out a track, I wanted options.)So I sat down one evening, about a week

before the event, and taped my pages tothe t ab l e , p i cked up t he penc i l , and

promptly took a smoke break. AaarghThis can't be happening. Designer 's

block?!?!?

Three or four days later (coming down tothe wire now) I sat down again, and gave itmy all. It took me most of a couple ofhours to do, but it was fun, and I finally

had a course map that I could work from.Comments from Alan Pepper, Greg K, anda few others I'm sure I'm forgetting, pro-vided impetus to make the course safer,and probably a little more fun.

There, I thought, that's that, I've got thecourse layout. I'm good to go. Of course,I haven't mentioned yet the four thousande-mails that I sent out to other club mem-

bers requesting their assistance the day ofthe race. I needed to get a registrationgroup, a timing group, cone schleppers,scruitineers, and set-up and tear-down vol-unteers. It's no small task, finding thatmany people, but, without the help of eachand every one of them, there wouldn't have

been a Solo II that day.

Now, we've got our volunteers, and we'vegot our course map, so we're good to go...

Not.

I went drag racing at Luskville on the Sat-urday night before the event, and arrived

home at about 11:30. (This seems to be agrowing trend with me, either having todrive 120 km the morning of an event, orstaying out late the night before) Fortu-nately, I took one last look at my map.Unfortunately, several of my scale meas-urements were incorrect. I had used therecommended circle diameters as radii, re-sulting in what would have been a veryfast course. I wanted a combination of fast

and technical, so back to the drawingboard I went again. 1:30 AM, I decided itwas done, I was going to bed, because Ihad to get up early to get the cones fromthe MCO shed, and do all the set up at thePark. Then I remembered that I'd have tomake photocopies of the map for all thecompetitors. Well, that sucked, because Idon't have my own personal photocopier athome.

Imagine the look on the Security Guard'sface, when I show up at Place Du Portageat six in the morning, and tell him I'm justgoing up to make some photocopies, andto check my e-mail, since I had failed towrite down the combination to the lockthat keeps MCO's pylons being stolen.

And, wasn't it lucky that Richard happenedto see me before he left for Montreal, sincethe combination I had taken from my e-mail wasn't opening the lock. Turns out,one of the numbers was off by ten. I stillhaven't rechecked the e-mail to decide who

to blame.

The day ended up going off without ahitch. There were a few more off coursesthan I would have like, but hey, that's rac-ing, right?

Thanks to everyone who helped me putthat day together, and to all the competi-tors for making it a success.

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1995 Champ Car Light, 1996 Rear Suspension &Wings, Spare 1995 Front Wing (complete), SpareGoosenecks (2) & Rear Uprights (4), 5sp Gear BoxWith 12 Gear Sets, 16 Wheels, 4 Orig. Formula Re-nault With New Avon Radial Rains, 4 New WeldWheels With New Goodyear Rains, 8 3 Piece Pana-sports With Avon Slicks (used) 2 damaged OuterRims. many Used Avon's & Goodyear Slicks, Pensk-ie Triple Adjustable + 3 Original Shocks (Blistens?maybe), 6 Springs 2x700, 2x550, 1x600, 1x500, 2Bat-tery's, 2 Fuel Pressure Regulators, 2 CompleteExhaust Systems Incl. 2 Headers & 1 Supertrapp, 2Rear Sway Bars 1 Tee 1 V, STACK 8100 Data Withcable & Eu-rocom 486 Laptop, 8 New Spare ControlArms(wish-bones), 2 Slightly Bent, Various SparePushrods & Tie Rods, 2 Spare Front Wheel Brgs, 3CV Boots, 2 Lever Jacks, 1 Front, 1 Rear. With CCLrace prepared 2.0L Neon DOHC 0 Laps.

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This is your chance to drive a real race car. This car isextremely well sorted by Mortimer Racing and is aRegional B Class winner. I am only selling this car to

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Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 2

Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 2

Formula 2000 School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3

Ted Powell Summer Trophy Races

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3

Rally Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 4

MCO Executive Meeting Minutes. . . . . . . page 5

CRDA Shootout Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 6

Miscellaneous Rumblings II. . . . . . . . . . . page 7

MCO General Meeting Minutes . . . . . . . . page 9

Main Street Racing Updates. . . . . . . . . . page 10

2002 Canadian Grand Prix . . . . . . . . . . . page 11

Solo II - Running the Show. . . . . . . . . . . page 13

Classified Advertisements . . . . . . . . . . . page 14

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