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July 2000INSIDE
- Solo II report
- MCO Highland Rally - October 2
- Mont Tremblant Renovations
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Special ThanksBev Millar and Ken BairdCollation and Distribution
Richard Muise, John BlouinCover photos
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2000 ExecutivePresident
Vice-President
Ronald WoltmanH: (613) 592-0141W: (819) 997-6988
Past PresidentJohn Blouin
H: (613) [email protected]
Directors
Sherissa MicroysH: (613) 822-7204
Jeff Watson(613) 726-2943
David Butler
H: (613) [email protected]
Jaak LaanH: (613) 835-3966W: (613) 943-2520
Sam MandiaH: (613) 745-4227W: (613) [email protected]
MembershipGordon Acorn and Helen Zhou
H: (613) 271-1161W: (613) 763-1155
Treasurer
Social Events
SecretaryChris Capowski
H: (613) 228-1180W: (613) 526-5202
LINK EditorChris Krepski
H: (613) [email protected]
Hotline(613) 788-0525
Website
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General MeetingsLouis's Steakhouse
1682 Cyrville Rd., Ottawa, ONFirst Tuesday of every month
All are welcome
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Editorial Exhaust
It's been a pretty fun season thus far. For
those of you who may not know, this year
I'm involved as a scrutineer for the Canada
GT Challenge Cup. Its a neat way to stay
involved in racing while I'm not driving
and learn about another aspect of the sport
Working as a scrutineer, I get to take a
pretty close look at the cars, and since it is
essentially a "run what you brung as long
as it's safe" series, the variety of cars and
the work that's been done to them is
amazing. What have I seen? More
Porsches than you can shake a stick at
Trans Am cars, stock cars, a Chevy-Nissan
hybrid, and recently, an Ultima GT.
Apparently it has something like 600 bhp
from a Chevy V8 and weighs around 1500
lbs. It looks sort of like a Lotus Elise with
a bit of Porsche 962 to make thingsinteresting . Unfortunately, with the
activities on the Sunday race day rained
out two weeks ago (it happened too with
our Solo II event), we couldn't see wha
the car was really capable of. Rumour ha
it Lew MacKenzie has one on order as
well. Will Klaus Bytzek and his 911 GT1
have someone else giving him a good run
since Jim Holtom and his Camaro? Stay
tuned and come to the Canaska Cup
weekend to find out.
The search for Link editors is still on!
Thus far, one person has expressed interes
in working on the Link. However, this
person will need help. So if you're
interested in being part of the editorial
staff, please contact me.
That's it for this month. See you at the
Canaska Cup event! Hopefully some o
you will have some stories and pictures to
share in print for next month.
Chris KrepskiEditor
Rob Microys4287 Owl Valley Drive
Gloucester, Ontario K1V 1L8H: (613) 822-7204W: (613) 765-5744C: (613) 761-0306
[email protected]@nortelnetworks.com
Robert BensonH: (613) 837-2051
Vacant
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2000 Calendar of Events
The Link editorial staff provides this calendar for your convenience.Although we attempt to ensure its accuracy, you should always verify
events with the event's organizers.
July 2000
MCO GENERAL MEETINGSFirst Tuesday of every month, 8:00 pmLouis's Steakhouse, 1682 Cyrville Road
MCO EXECUTIVE MEETINGSThird Tuesday of every month, 7:30 pm
Louis's Steakhouse, 1682 Cyrville Road
2000 CASC-OR REGIONAL ROAD RACINGApril 14,15 SMP HRC Driver SchoolsApril 21,23 SMP Spring FlingApril 28 Mosport Test DayApril 29,30 Mosport ALL Classes BARC
May 12 Mosport Test DayMay 13,14 Mosport ALL Classes BEMCMay 19-21 Mosport Trans-Am (CGTCC only)June 2 SMP Test DayJune 3,4 SMP ALL Classes CRDAJune 23 SMP Test Day DACJune 24,25 SMP ALL Classes DACJune 30, July 1,2 Mosport Vintage only VARACJuly 7 SMP Test DayJuly 8,9 SMP ALL Classes TLMC/MCOAugust 11 Mosport Test DayAugust 12,13 Mosport ALL Classes BARCAugust 26-27 Mosport CASCAR (CGTCC only)Sept 1 Mosport Test DaySept 2,3 Mosport (SCCA Nationals) CRDASept 15 Mosport Test DaySept 16,17 Mosport ALL Classes BEMCSept 29 Mosport Test DaySept 30,Oct 1 Mosport ALL Classes PMS/CASC
2000 CASC-OR SOLO I EVENTSApril 2nd Open House CSC Racing ProductsApril 29th,30th School MosportApril 30th Lapping Day MosportMay 13th Event #1 SMPMay 14th Event #2 SMPJune 16th Lapping EveningSMPJune 17th Event #3 SMPJune 18th Event #4 SMP
July 15th Event #5 MosportJuly 16th Event #6 MosportAugust 5th Event #7 St. Eustache. Que.August 6th Event #8 St. Eustache. Que.August 18th Lapping Day MosportAugust 19th Event #9 MosportAugust 20th Event #10 MosportSeptember 9th Event #11 SMPSeptember 10th Event #12 SMP
National and Regional Performance Rally Scheduleshttp://www3.sympatico.ca/rally.cars/english.html
2000 MCO SO LO II SERIESApril 16 Test Day NewbridgeM ay 7 School NewbridgeM ay 28 Event #1 NewbridgeJune 4 Event #2 NewbridgeJune 11 Event #3 Corel or NewbridgeJune 25 Event #4 Corel or NewbridgeJuly 16 Event #5 Corel or NewbridgeJuly 30 School NewbridgeAug 13 Event #6 NewbridgeAug. 27 Event #7 Corel or NewbridgeSept. 10 Event #8 NewbridgeSept. 17 Event #9 Corel or New bridgeOct.15 Event #10 Newbridge
**NEW** MCO HIGHLAND R ALLY AND RALLY SEM INARSunday, October 22.
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The VP Reportby Ron Woltman
It was the autumn of 1968. That was the first time I saw Le Circuit Mt.Tremblant. The occasion the second running of the Canadian GrandPrix. The inaugural event having been held the in Centennial Year atMosport. I was awestruck.
My buddy and I had hitchhiked up to this mystical track nestled in the
Laurentians. No hopping on the Metro to get to the track. Or watchingon TV. In fact, I stole into the circuit under cover of darkness in thetrunk of large Pontiac sedan! But somehow, some 60,000 plus peoplewere jammed into the place. I remember it as if were yesterday.
Fast-forward the tape to June 2000 and a quick bicycle tour of this oncegreat Grand Prix track. At first glance, especially in front of the nowderelict and abandoned tower the pits long since removed a feelingof sadness permeates the soul.
Not to mention -- surprise. What seemingly little work had been doneto up-grade the facility to a more modern and safer racetrack. The onlysound is the wind blowing though the uncut grass and many birch trees.The only telltale sign of work is that all of the guardrails have beenremoved.
What a contrast the to the sights and, especially the sounds of 1968. Irecall the wail of the Matra V12 as it howled through the trees along theback straight, as Steve and I trudged around the entire circuit, hearingthe cars, but only very rarely catching a glimpse of these magnificentFormula One machines. Machines I had only read about through themagic of Henry Manney III in the pages of Road & Track.Now as I sailed through corner one to the top, scanning the pavementfor that always elusive apex and down the hill on the other side, theasphalt covered in slippery sand, I could not help but wonder how agrid of three-abreast Grand Prix machines had once roared their waydown towards turn two and the esses. Awesome.
Now, all the trees and embankment are gone and one can actually see
from the bottom of two to the back straight. Yes, most of the forest ismissing from at drivers right at corner seven past the cut-off for theshort track. Clearing it seems, with the view to provide for safer run-off zones. Furthermo re, a number of places on the track have been dugup to remove old and rusty culverts, and re-filled with sand and landfill, made up of mostly crushed beer bottles. But that for the most partmarks the only work on the track per se.
As one pedals through eight towards the carousel, now with improvedline of sight, ones mind casts back to your first quick lap round theplace, wondering what might be lurking ahead on the track behind thetrees as the car yumped at the bump at eight!
Around the carousel and up the back straight not a sound except theheavy heaving of my lungs breathing hard as I pedal up the long
straight. And again, surprise and amazement as you cast your eyes todrivers right and look all the way back to the bottom of two!
Huffing and puffing up the hill towards the oft-named bridge, nowblacked out, and stopping for a quick look at the faded and nearcrumbling tower standing above it all in the distance.
A quick run up to Namerow, then down the hill towards the faded startfinish line, casting a glance at your first campsite by the birches ondrivers left. Twenty-five minutes!
Not as quick as Denny Hulme for sure winner of that 1968 race in aMcLaren but a whole lot more nostalgic.
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July 2000
Solo II Season WellUnderway
by Jaak Laan
Event One
The Solo II season started off with a bang onMay 28. We held our first event at Newbridgeand we had 51 competitors! Scrutineering wasoverwhelmed with it being the first event ofthe year when everyone must get checked, buta number of capable people jumped in to helpKevin Gibson.
As a result of some friendly communicationsover the last few months with the MontrealSolo II club, 12 of their members showed up inconvoy. These people are from the ClubAutosport des Laurentides (C.A.D.L.) whohave invited us to their September 3 event inBlainville, just north of Montreal at the formerTransport Canada test facility. Well get their
member's rate for the entry fee and a chance tochallenge a whole new slate of drivers. One ofthe most interesting aspects of going there willbe to drive at their rather spectacular venuewithin the 4 mile 36 degree banked test oval.
With all of these competitors and someadvance media notice we even had a crowd ofpeople come to check out what this racingaround parking lot stuff is all about. A numberof people who took our Performance GroundSchool have since joined the club and startedparticipating in Solo II.
As Event Organizer, everything was going tomy plan until I arrived at the facility to startsetting up. Thats either sad or funny. I hadspent some significant time designing the thirdSolo II course of my life, the first being forTest and Tune that we never used and theother being for the School. Upon arrival wefound that one part of the parking lot was notuseable for safety reasons because of detritusleft behind by some corporate festivities. Forsome reason unknown to me, I had drawn up a
back up course and brought copies of that aswell. First decision as a motorsport EventOrganizer in my life, and it was a safetyone...ditch the long course, run with thealternate course. Whew!
Because of the volume of entrants we werehalf an hour late getting started, then we hadsome computer problems which managed to be
fixed although we had to revert to a stopwatchfor a while. In the end we put 51 cars through5 runs which is a credit to the workers at theevent and also people being keen to line upand get their run in when it was time to gettheir run in.
The cars that were present included the eventwinning highly modified BMW 3 series fromMontreal, a Porsche 928, a 68 Mustang, aturbo Volvo, stock Jettas and Civics andeverything in between. The podium ended upbeing two-thirds MC O but the top spot w ent tothe wickedly well driven aforementioned
Bimmer.
Event Two
The second Solo II event was the followingweekend and was run by Gordon Acorn.Thirty-six entrants were there which wasrather good considering the expected unevenweather. We started off cold, then it rainedand thundered and lightninged and then it gotcolder. Some people were out in shorts and t-shirts expecting a high of 18 degrees but itonly got up to 9 degrees.
Miatas, Mustangs, Preludes, RX-7s and anElan were some of the cars that were there. AsI keep telling people, part of the fun of Solo IIis watching the performance of a whole varietyof cars up close and seeing the differences intheir abilities on different parts of the course.Then switching courses during lunch added tothe variety.
One of the course designs had an interestinginfinity symbol shape in the middle andmany of us wondered what would happen ifyou went fast enough...would you vaporize?Would you be in Solo II never never landforever?
Event Three
Our first Miata Invitational event with theUnderground Miata Network and any otherMiatas that wanted to come out and playstarted off cold, windy and rainy. The forecastfor the rest of the day was worse. Despite this,
12 cars from the Miata Club came out and sixof them competed in the autocross. We hadsome 36 cars in total. Brad Merkel was Chief,Miata Liaison for that event and he haddesigned a course naturally geared for Miatas.There were two very tight corners perfect forflinging those Miatas around (and any spareElans) and this was also done intentionally aswe wanted safety to be numero uno issue withsome newcomers.
A large crew of MCO people ran the eventand it is great to see people pleasantly kickingin help in the things they are capable of doing.Our club members can run great events.
The weather actually went against the forecastand moved from rain, to mist to just cloudyand the track dried throughout the day as aresult and times improved . Our original planwas to have three runs in the morning and thenhave a late lunch and a short lunch break,change the course and have another three inthe afternoon. What with our usual high techtiming hiccups and our 10 AM start time weended up with only two runs before lunch.Needing three runs on each course we decidedto just keep the same course and aim for 5runs for the day and then fun runs whichworked out.
Having had three events now it seems at leastto me that our idea (applauded at the time) ofgiving people a bit of a break and starting laterthan last year (as we did not have to be off thelot by 3 PM anymore) might need adjusting.Im already getting up at 5 AM so I hesitate tosuggest moving the start time up by an hour,but starting at 9 A M might be the only way toget 3 runs in in the morning and be able toswitch to another course design for theafternoon.
The Miata Invitational worked despite theweather. We hooked some new people andoffered them the opportunity to play with theirtoys. I should note that while spending mostof the day working the Start Box I enforcedthe lucky enough to have a Miata, you runwith your top down bud rule...as one Miatadriver said... is there any other way?? We
had a M iata Paddock area set up and for me itwas nice chance to drool. Speaking ofdrooling, we even had a bit of a show withsome demos of a SLK230 electro-hydraulically retractable hardtop...remindedme of a cross between airplane flaps and thatnew Santana song Smooth.
Richard Mu ise
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July 2000
MCO HighlandRally
by Jaak Laan
Jim Morrow has been working hard on MCO'sRally Seminar and 1st MCO Highland Rallywhich will happen Sunday, October 22. He's
lined up a start and finish point and a room inwhich to hold the morning rally seminar aswell as the venue for telling the tall storiesafter. He's designed the route and the seminaroutline as well.
The seminar and the rally will be free forMCO m embers. While we will publicize theopportunity to non-members (and charge thementry fees) we will reserve first spaces forMCO mem bers. As entry will be limited wewill encourage people to register asap.
On the Victoria Day long weekend Jim drove
Black Knight Racing's Impreza 2.5RS and Inavigated as we did our first run through of theplanned route. While this may be a road/TSDrally I can promise you that the driving willrequire attention and it will be fun as the roadsinclude every variety from highways to verynarrow cottage roads. ANY car/truck/van cangetaround the route but the more fun to drive yourvehicle the better.
The navigation is not hard and the emphasis ison driving enjoyment. This is a DRIV EXstyle road rally focussing on driving, not a
NAVEX style which would focus onnavigation. It is the closest you can get to therallying feeling that you dream about withoutthe expense, danger and commitment ofperform ance rallying. It is pretty neatwhipping around corners with your navigatorwarning you of events ahead...just like thosein-car camera shots you see on TSN and
Speedvision.
There will be Fall colours all about and tallstories at the restaurant at the end. End yoursummer racing season with an introduction toa different form of motorsports.
After attending the seminar and participatingin this event you will be ready to do the
Yokohama Winter Rally series events. We didour first events the hard way...you have theopportunity to do it the right way by firstdoing the MCO Rally Seminar and MCOHighland Rally.
President's Report
By the time you read this, we're getting reallyclose to (or have already enjoyed) the CanaskaCup TLMC/MCO Shannonville RaceWeekend. I'd like to take this opportunity tothank all the people who have put in the workbefore the event and those who committed towork at the race and make this event happen.I'm hoping that you all have a great weekend.See you all there!
I never would have believed that Ontario had aMonsoon S eason until this year. This has beenone of the rainiest Junes on record, in case youreally didn't notice, or have been living on themoon. Almost all of the slalom events so farthis year have involved getting wet by the rain,and for the first time in many race team'sknown history, the road racing at S hannonvillegot shut down because of the rain and standingwater on the track. It's a shame. The firstsession on the rain soaked track was the closedwheel GT class warm-up. Bob Armstrong inhis Nissan NX2000 w as pretty much in a classof his own as he started lapping cars during the10 minute warm-up, we figure if the OntarioChallenge Cup race were held in the rain that
morning, he may have well lapped the fieldtwice. Oh well - the race was not to be. Thestanding water posed to great a risk, especiallyto the open wheel cars. The event was haltedto allow trace facility workers to attempt topump out the newly formed lakes. But to noavail, whatever they could pump out just keptfilling back in. By late morning the track hadpretty much dried except for corners 1, 2 and
14, which still had significant amounts ofstanding water, or rivers crossing them. At 1p.m., the stewards shut the event down, andwe all packed up and w ent home... bummer.
Continuing of the theme of rain cancelledevents, the 4th Solo II event this year was alsoshut down due to the liquid sunshine problem.Kudos to Mark Wilson and his hardy band oforganizers for attempting to hold the event,and making it out to the Alcatel Parking lot inthe rain. From what I understand, largeamounts of standing water were the norm,considering that Ottawa broke a 12 hour
rainfall record at morning. An event will berescheduled in the very near future, stay tunedto the website and the Link for details.
On an organizational topic, the Club is stilllooking for an Editor(s) for our newsletter.Chris Krepski has done a terrific job over thepast couple years and I thank him for theefforts that he has put in. Chris has done agreat job, and has a couple of trophies fromCASC-OR to prove it - Thanks Chris! I knowthat there are some seemingly pretty big bootsto fill, but if you are interested, please contactChris to help transition in a new team for The
Link.
That's it from me for now. So in the meantime, may your shiny side stay up and yourbumper be free of small mamm als. ;)
Rob M icroys
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The New MosportUnveiled Internationally
by Sherissa Microys
Spectators packed their RVs, tents and chairs,sometimes ten deep, around the upgradedMosport track on the weekend of May 19-21.It was a great event with eleven races,featuring the BF Goodrich Trans-Am Series, ofwhich one competitor was a MCO m ember.
It was Mosport's third event of the year.Competitors at the two previous CASC-ORregional events had the honour of being thefirst to drive on the revised track layout.Modifications made over the past winterinclude new pits, timing building on theopposite side of the track, many widenedcorners, most notably 4 and 5, and numerousupgrades to public facilities. I think theirwashrooms may be nicer than mine at home.
Rob and I counted as many as 20 MCO
members at the May event, about half asspectators taking in the great racing, someworking (Canada GT Challenge Cup officials,pit marshalling, and medical) and somedriving. Len Clue and Don Blewett finishedseventh in their heavily modified Nissan 240SS CGTC C GT2 car sporting a new flashy redpaint job. Jim Holtom, who joined MCO thisyear, made his debut in the Trans-Am serieswith his SCADAPack Corvette. Unfortunatelyengine troubles prevented him from finishingbut he definitely held his own for the first twothirds of the race. It was impressive to tellpeople that he is an MCO m ember. Ken Baird
also made a debut in the ChampCar serieshaving moved from closed wheel sprints, healso did not finish.
Rounding out the Trans-Am weekend were 10supporting races. Speedvision Cup was alittle tamer than last year, but they still seem tothink they are bumper cars, great for spectatorsbut probably not so good for the team budgets.Also out were Spec Racer Ford Pro Series,U.S. F2000, ISSECO Kumho F1200 ProSeries, MBNA Cup Lites, Canadian
ChampCar Lites, Canadian Formula Ford, andCanada GT Challenge Cup.
All were exciting to watch. I spent most of thetime at corner four where you can see all theway around five now with the trees removed.There was a lot of passing and rubbing thatoccurred in that corner. The wider trackallows for a lot more action but just tight
enough too make it very difficult andsometimes unsuccessful. I highly recomm endthis as a great spot to spectate at for future races.
June ExecutiveMeeting Minutes
Started:20:05. Ended: 21:20
In attendance: Rob and Sherissa Microys, JeffWatson, Ron Woltman, Gord Acorn, Helen
Zhou, Chris Krepski, Jaak Laan, Rob Benson,Baz Chiu, Dave Butler.
Absent: Chris Capowski, Sam M andia.
Canaska Cup Weekend:Sherissa Microys has ordered a hundred MCOiron-on/sew-on patches to ident ify clubvolunteers at events, such as the upcomingCanaska Cup race in Shannonville. The idea isto create arm bands eventually, but, for the race,the patches may simply be pinned to volunteersT-shirts
Thanks to al l who have pledged tovolunteerBUT! We still need one tow-truckass i s t ant and another f ront -ga teattendantOrganisers will e-mail lists of dutiesto volunteers.
New Link Covers:Kudos to our esteemed (past) editor, ChrisKrepski, for mocking-up two proposals for ournewsletters new cover. Executive approvedvarious design elements (fonts, paper colour,text, etc).
So far one person has expressed interest inbecoming the new Editor. How ever, this personwill need help if he is to take on the task.Contact Chris K repski if you're interested.
Membership:86 single, 53 family, 25 social, and 8 junior fora grand total of 172 paid members, of which 135are CASC members.
Gord Acorn is lookin into creating an addresslist of executive, current, and past mem bers.
Karting:The issue of on-site ambulances and findindates that don't conflict with other events arposing difficulties in organizing karting eventsFor the same reason, the budget hasnt yet beefinalised. If all goes well, expect to see one otwo races near the end of the season .
Sponsorship:The letter proposing a marketing agreemenbetween the club and a potential sponsor (omemorandum of understanding (MOU)) is doneBasil Chiu will merge a list of interestedbusinesses (supplied by Rob Microys) with thform letter. Ron Woltman will then visit eacbusiness in person to meet the faces, pitch thsales, and start negotiation.
Mont-Tremblant:Ron Woltman visited the track rcently. Hreports very little construction work has beedone. The most theyve done, he says, is rip ou
the existing guard rails, clear-cut the trees fromthe infield, and turn soil in a few odd places. Ihis opinion (and he admits its uninformed), thtrack wont be ready for its September 30 date.
Rallying:Jaak Laan has organised the Highland Rally foSaturday, October 21, 2000. He needs foucheck-point workersthats it! Each worker wiwork a point for about an hourTheres a FREone-hour navigation seminar, for neophytes, jusbefore the event, which starts at noon.
Solo II:
MCO needs one to three people to organise thJune 25 event, and one in July. Jaak says onperson can do it, but three people each doing third of the job is much more enjoyablefovolunteersGord will be responsible for timinand scoring. But if you want to race, then youneed: one to three bodies to organise, three ttransport equipment, and one registrar
Event Start Time: Discussion about startinevents at 9 am instead of 10 am. Starting at 9:0allows competitors to get more runs in during thmorning, but is harder on volunteers. ContacJaak.
The C lub Autosport des Laurentides (CADL) hainvited MCO to the Blainville test track oSeptember 10. Contact Jaak about driving dowin a convoy. He also reminds you that eachregion has its own set of rules.
Budget:Our cash flow is currently about -$600, but whave a $1500 bill to pay soon
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