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2012 News &
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2-15-12 NNKC invades Buttonwillow Pro-Kart South
Eight NNKC drivers made the long haul down to
Buttonwillow Raceway just outside of Bakersfield, CA for
the opening round of Skusa's Pro-Kart South event this
past weekend. It's the start of a new year and that
means news toys to roll out for the NKKC crew. Steve
Ryckenbosch rolled out a new chassis and motor package
in the stock moto class as did Garrett Dixon in the Tag
Jr. class. Garrett moved up to Tag Jr. this year and
Austin Dement moved up to Tag Sr.
To kick things off Garrett used his Energy/Swedetech
package to record a 5th place finish in the main event
of Tag Jr. Garrett qualified 4th out of 17 drivers and
brought home his maiden Jr. 2 race a top five finish. It
seems the increased speed and bigger chassis will have
little intimidation factor on young Garrett.
In Tag Masters, NNKC once again showed why it has two of
the best Masters Tag drivers in the country. Glen "the
stache" Mckinnon and Dave Harwin strapped up in Tag
Masters and were able to come home 2nd (Harwin) and 3rd
(Mckinnon) after a hard fought 20 laps on a very
demanding circuit. It was also very cool to see Harwin
rocking the number 2 national plate on his Tony Kart
this weekend, after earning it on the national circuit
last year.
In the 125 stock moto class John Morgan with the help of
Nevada Kartsport's Rodney Rivera would step out of his
comfort zone of Reno and make his first appearance in
Cali. John noted before the race that he had been
working out profusely for 125. He went on to say, "I
switched to a less filling beer and I stopped using my
treadmill as a coat rack. I haven't actually used the
treadmill yet, but it's ready to go when I make that
leap." Steve Ryckenbosch would join John in 125 rolling
out his brand new Zanardi kart and getting it shaken
down before the NNKC schedule starts. These two would
battle for 20 laps in the main event; John kept Steve
honest the entire race with Steve finishing first and
John right on his bumper in second. After the race both
drivers needed medical assistance and a shot of morphine
but came away with smiles on their faces.
Three Reno drivers would be entered in the ultra
competitive Tag Sr. class. With just under 30 entries of
Cali's best, Koerner, Dement and Peterson would have
their work cut out for them. Koerner would continue his
improvement as a driver in only his second year of
racing and looks to make huge strides this year with a
solid result against stiff competition. Dement would
show he has what it takes to run with big boys but
ultimately would succumb to a thrown chain in the main
event. Later Austin would state, "that curb wasn't there
the lap before." In all seriousness Austin had a top
five go-kart and will be a player this year, he was also
plagued by motor gremlins all weekend but still showed
great speed. Jess Peterson with the help of Cole Nelson
of Nevada Kartsport on the wrenches would continue to
show everyone why he's a hack. Peterson was making a run
into the top five late in the main event before being
punted by a complete bush leaguer. Peterson wasn't
available for comment after the race because he was too
busy looking for someone to yell at.
All in all the NNKC crew with the help of the Nevada
Kartsport shop had a good solid opening to the 2012
racing season. All the drivers showed good speed and
they all looked competitive against very strong
competition. It should be a good year for NNKC drivers
and steady improvement looks to be in the cards this
year. Remember any write-ups or stories you wish to post
to NNKC.com, simply email them to El Presidente Jess
Peterson. Until the next race, keep the chain oiled and
the tires new.
Sincerely,
The hack karter
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12-8-11
Northern Nevada Kart Club Banquet
The Northern
Nevada Kart Club is proud to announce that our Year-end awards
banquet will held on December 17th 5:00pm-8:00pm at the Grand
Sierra Resort and Casino. The banquet will
be in banquet rooms S2 and S3, these rooms are located right
around the bowling alley just like last year. The food will
consist of salads, pizza's and chocolate deserts.A bar will be present, for any of our legal aged members.
Following the
banquet bowling will played just like last year and the arcade
will be open for any of the kids.
The price for
entry into the banquet will be 20$ per person.
Hope to see you
there,
Jess Peterson
NNKC President
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10-20-11 New & Improved NNKC website
Karters,
As we wind down the end of a great 2011 season, NNKC is
already looking to the 2012 kart season with the
launching of a new website,
www.nnkc.com.Our new and improved user friendly
website, created by Race Media Group, offers many cool
new features over our previous site. Some of the new
features include: News, Schedule, Results, Points,
Media, Driver Profiles, Forum, Contacts, Registration
info (possibility to add Online pre-registration), Track
Records, Former Track Champions, Track Personnel, Live
Facebook Updates, Live Twitter Updates (once we get a
twitter account), Leader Board (top five), Top Story,
Latest Announcements, Featured Video, Upcoming Events
and Current Track Weather, just to name a few. A
website like this is just what the club needs to put us
over the top. This is why the Reno kart track is one of
the most high profile venues on the West Coast!! Be on
the lookout for future emails from the club President as
well for Banquet info and other club activities like
bowling night. See you all soon!
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Update
10/13/11
The points from last race are update. One more to go
this Saturday. We will be racing on track 2 not track 1.
It is still the short track but the difference is we use
long 3 instead of short 3. see you all.
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Update 9/07/11
The original closure date was supposed to be September
12, 2011 (Monday). Now we have been informed that the
track is actually closing September 10, 2011 (Saturday)
for the air races. So our race is being cancelled on
that premise, our make-up date is October 15, 2011
(Saturday).
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Update 8/24/11
Make-up club race is this SATURDAY August 27th. This
race is the make-up one for earlier in the year that we
had to cancel due to weather. Our night race was
absolutely insane and produced some great racing and
some of the best kart counts in the region all year.
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Update 6/18/11
Desert Park Raceway is closed this week June 15-18 for
Airport Pilon School. Please do not try to enter track
during this time.
Desert Park Raceway will be under construction the first
and second week of July with seal coat installations. We
will post on our online forum the exact dates for this
once they become available to us. So please check your
emails and website frequently.
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Club Meeting Minutes, June 7, 2011 Meeting called to
order @ 7:00p.m
PRESIDENT’S STATEMENT:
So I think we can all agree that the weather in Reno
these last few months has been terrible. However I
believe summer is finally here and we can get to some
serious racing. I'd like to thank all of you who
attended and or helped with the SKUSA Pro-Kart event.
OLD BUSINESS:
The MG Whites will be the tire of use in all shifter and
TAG classes for the year of 2011. Tires are available
through Pete Morley or Ed Deidrich.
Club took in MORE donations for the sealcoat of our race
track. We need to stay on this, re-sealing the track
this year is paramount.
Concrete work was completed on turn 5 by Bill Dement
thank him when you get a chance.
Our last work day got the track looking pristine and we
also got the container by the generator organized and
cleaned out.
Big thank you to all of those people that helped at our
last workday, please be advised that workdays hour a
condition of your membership and year end points.
The Pro-Kart race took place two weekends ago...big
thank you goes to all those who raced and represented
NNKC well. We had a total of 14 members race and the
SKUSA people said we had the nicest facility in Region
11.
Please go visit NNKC.com and register on the forum, we
are trying to disperse more info on the website and in
general it's just a good place to go talk smack between
club races. Thank Nat and Travis for this when you see
them.
NEW BUSINESS:
IKF race is a month away needs workers to work the track
on all three days. Please contact Brian Rivera to let
him know if you can help out.
Rain race protocol and procedure: If race is called it
will be called by 7:30am either by a mass email, text,
the forum, facebook. If the day looks bad but not to bad
then we will push back the start time.
Rain makeup date for 6/5/11: Motion to change the rain
date to June 26,2011: Motion- Mike Arnold: Second- Gary
Guzeles: Vote-yes:8 no:10 didn’t pass; Vote to
reschedule the July 3 race and the rain date August 27
to June 25/26: Motion-Ray Second-Mike McMullen
Vote-Yes:9 No:7 passed; Vote to stick to the schedule:
Motion-Bill DeMent Second-Ed Diederich Vote: Yes-11 No-8
Passed. The decision was to stick to the schedule.
Getting 100 more hay bales for $1.00.
Work days: They are required. Must have two to get end
of year trophy.
Sessions: You don’t need to be a board member to make
sessions. If you don’t follow the sessions then we will
kick you out for the day. It is a safety issue. No
driving in the pits. No short tracking. No driving
backwards on the track. Ask what track the people are
running. Look before entering the track. If you’re a jr
1 parent help your kid get on the track. Dogs need to be
on leash. Must have all driving gear on when in the
kart. If you see someone that you don’t recognize ask if
they are a club member and if not ask for the practice
fee.
LEASH ALL DOGS!!!
Class weights:
F-125: Todd Thompson motions to change weight to 400,
John Morgan seconds: Vote: Passed
TaG Novice: Motion by Ed Diederich for tag novice 370,
tag sr 355, tag masters 385 Second Bill Dement:
Vote-Passed
Clone: Did not change, not enough clone drivers at
meeting.
Seal donations: anyone please donate. We are asking for
$100 from each member. We are up to ~$3,500. We need
~$9,000.
Loans for Track Seal fund.
Interest 5% Paid by Oct 1, 2011
-Mike Arnold- $500.00
-Terry Webb- $1000.00
-Todd Thompson- $1000.00
-John Morgan- $1000.00
-Dana Bria- $1000.00
-Ed Deiderich- $1000.00
Buying Flags to support troops:
Voted to buy flags to send to Iraq to have troops that
were there when Osama was killed sign them then sell
them to the general public to raise money to buy webcams
to help keep families in contact with the troops
overseas. Motion to vote: Jess Peterson Second: Bill
DeMent Yes: All No: No one. Passed.
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Update 6/5/11
-Race #3 cancel due to bad weather
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Update 6/2/11
Race recap for club race#2 (posted in Points & Results).
Also for all the people that helped out with the workday
and getting the facilty ready for Pro-Kart thank you
very much. Special thanks to Bill Dement for the weeds
getting cut and the concrete work on turn 5. Next club
race is this weekend and we got the NFRA guys coming to
town this weekend to run with the clone guys. Also big
thank you to all the local guys who ran the Pro-Kart
race this last weekend, all the Reno guys running up
front made the club look like a bunch of badasses. I'll
see you guys on Sunday....
NNKC President...Jess Peterson
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Update 5/26/11
-Race 2 Results posted
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Update 5/17/11
-I got an overwhelming response to hold the make-up race
this Saturday May 21st.
I apologize for any inconveniences this causes anybody
who cannot make this date. Also there was a some
discussion to holding the race this Sunday but weather
looks to shaky to try it, so Saturday it is. Also I
would implore all of our members to go on NNKC forum and
register for the forum, it's a great place to get info
and ask questions.
NNKC President, Jess Peterson
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Update 5/15/11
-Race #2 cancel due to bad weather
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Update 4/20/11
-Race Recap & Results posted.
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Club Meeting Minutes, April 5, 2011 Meeting called to
order @ 7:00p.m
•OLD BUSINESS:
-The MG Whites will be the tire of use in all shifter
and TAG classes for the year of 2011. Tires are
available through Pete Morley or Ed Deidrich. Contact
them for any orders.
For the time being Whites or Yellow Mg's are acceptable
at the club races, at a later date we will discuss
switching everything over to the Whites.
-The club asks all members who are able to renew their
membership, or those seeking new membership into the
club, to do so tonight for 2011. Your support is greatly
appreciated.
We are up to 60 members, the board and I would like to
thank all you guys for your support.
-The Motorsports Expo Show went great this year; we
would Like to thank all of our volunteers and helpers
who made this possible. We really got some positive
exposure out of it.
We got some really good exposure off this event. I know
its tough to put on, but I believe that it's worth it.
Thank You again to everybody who helped and made that
event possible.
-Club took in MORE donations for the sealcoat of our
race track. Around $3,500+ has been taken in. We need to
stay on this; re-sealing the track this year is
paramount.
We've started buying product and this project looks like
it will get under way in the next 2-3 months. We can
still use some more money, but considering it's all
donations this is pretty awesome guys.
-Please REMEMBER that all karts this year must equipped
with bumpers that cover the rear tires (Plastic or Metal
is acceptable).
One race grace period for this will be implemented. We
will make bumpers mandatory for the second club race.
•NEW BUSINESS:
-The club asks all former members who are able to renew
tonight to please do so.
60 members, that's great for this time of year guys!!!
-A grace period of one race will be extended for the
rear bumpers, also MG Yellows will be allowed for the
first three races of the year. We've had some members
with extra sets and some people who have had difficulty
getting a hold of the Whites.
After input from various club members, we've decided to
allow Yellow's and Whites for the start of the season.
Also a one race grace period has been added to allow for
all racers to get the rear bumpers on there karts.
-FIRST CLUB RACE THIS WEEKEND APRIL 10TH. FIRST WORK DAY
APRIL 9TH 9:00AM-12:00AM.
The work day is Saturday, remember all club members must
participate in at least 2 work days throughout the race
year. Dan Harris will be leading this work day, and has
a list of things that need to be accomplished.
-Made contact and have started negotiations on new lease
for track.
Working on it...nothing new here.
-Is anyone interested in learning tech?
Got a list going, hoping to do this in the next couple
of months.
-Seal Coat donation list. Anymore donations from those
who have not had a chance to donate. We are asking for a
$100 from each member. If this cannot be made, any
donation is acceptable.
If you haven't pitched in yet, please do so.
-Please keep your dogs on a leash at all times when
bringing them to the track. For one reason or another
they have a wonderful way of ending up on the track when
not leashed.
Dogs must be leashed and tethered to something when out
at track. We love dogs at the track, just not when there
running down the front stretch.
-Also when viewing practice please stay behind the fence
at all times.
The fence is there for a reason, please stay behind it.
-First IKF race is in Redding and it is April 30th/May
1st, please attend this race. Redding has a wonderful
track and the series is really shaping up to be
something great.
IKF series is about to start, please support there
races.
-May 27th and 28th is Reno's Pro-Kart, Reno has had a
huge contingent racing this series so far and I'd like
to keep that up and show a good home crowd for our home
race.
I'm hoping we can have 15+ Reno racers show up for this
event.
-TAG Masters class is up for providing corner workers
for this race, we need 7 people total. 4 corner workers
and 3 grid persons. Please let me know if you are
bringing volunteers. Also if you can't bring a
volunteer, the track would be grateful if you would
contribute towards the corner workers pay for your class
day.
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Update 3/31/11
-This is an announcement for all club members and
affiliates who are racing the IKF Region 11 Elite
Championship Series beginning in Redding, California
April 30th - May 1st. The spec tire is the Bridgestone
YKC. The spec oil is Motul Grand Prix 2T and the spec
fuel is VP MS98L. The fuel and oil is racer supplied.
-MMS Kart shop must have all TIRE orders in before
Friday April 8th for this race. Please call Ed at the
shop 775-322-4549 to place your order as soon as
possible.
-I hope you notice that IKF has included the 4 cycle Box
Stock Clone class to it's schedule this year which
really shows how far this class has come. All you clone
drivers wanting to maybe go to a different track and
race at the regional level should take advantage of this
opportunity. There will be a strong contingent of Reno
drivers at this event. We expect 15+!!!
-More classes available that we run here in Reno include
Kid Kart, Jr 1-2 Cycle, IAME Cup and IAME Cup Masters (Parillas),
and Formula 80 Senior.
-For those that do not understand IAME Cup, IAME Cup is
an IAME engine only. So this class will have all Parilla
Leopards in it. One is a Senior Class, the other a
Masters class, just like we run here at NNKC with TaG
Senior and TaG Masters.
-registration form, You may print, fill out and send to
Shasta Kart Club address at bottom of form. You may also
pay through paypal for all your race fees. Shasta Kart
Club has a great facility and setup for an awesome
weekend of fun.
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Update 3/19/11
-Due to the weather and avoidance of wanting to annoy
everyone with holding a non points race is terrible
weather. The NNKC board of Directors has decided to
cancel the Tune-Up race scheduled for tomorrow March 20,
2011. There will be no make-up date for this race
because it is a non-points event.
-Also the grace period for converting over to the
Bumpers will be extended to the first NNKC race, after
much thought done by the board of directors.
-MG Yellow tires will be an acceptable substitute for
the MG Whites tires for some duration of the NNKC
season, but eventually MG Whites will be the mandatory
tire for all classes designated for it.
-Motor sports Expo Show is next weekend and we still
need volunteers to man the both for Friday during the
day, contact Dan Harris or myself is you can help with
that. Also please spread the word that the race is
cancelled for tomorrow, I know an e-mail is going out
but not everyone checks there e-mail everyday, so spread
the word please.
Thanks,
NNKC President
Jess Peterson
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Club Meeting Minutes, March 1, 2011 Meeting called to
order @ 7:00p.m
•OLD BUSINESS:
-The MG Whites will be the tire of use in all shifter
and TAG classes for the year of 2011. Tires are
available through Pete Morley or Ed Deidrich. Contact
them for any orders.
-The club asks all members who are able to renew their
membership, or those seeking new membership into the
club, to do so tonight for 2011. Your support is greatly
appreciated.
-Dan Harris is in charge of the Motorsports Expo Show,
it's coming along nicely; volunteers and help is greatly
appreciated, see Dan for any questions you have.
-Club took in MORE donations for the sealcoat of our
race track. Around $2,500+ has been taken in. We need to
stay on this, re-sealing the track this year is
paramount.
-Please REMEMBER that all karts this year must equipped
with bumpers that cover the rear tires (Plastic or Metal
is acceptable). There will be NO grace period on this
rule, it is sport wide. The first race your kart MUST
have the necessary equipment to compete, THIS IS YOUR
RESPONSIBILTY, NO EXCEPTIONS!!!!
-Please make note that new schedule was posted and sent
out last newsletter.
-Also huge announcement, Tom Halbasch will be our Race
Director for 2011!!! Dave Brant will be flagging!!!
Shari Dow will do scoring!!! Sandy and Chelsi will do
Registration!!! Any kids hanging around the track not
being productive will be conned into one of our other
jobs!!!
•NEW BUSINESS:
-The club asks all former members who are able to renew
tonight to please do so.
Were up to 50 members, that is the highest in recent
memory at this time of year so we are looking good.
-I had a request to talk about clone rules a little bit,
this will be handled in the discussion.
All clone rules and standards were set and enforced last
year, this will stay the case this year. Any clone
questions please contact Travis Look, he's our go-to guy
on all things Clone.
-Tune-Up Race is March 20th (REMEMBER BUMPERS)
Warm-up race to shake off the dust, please remember
bumpers and helmet snells are up to date.
-All TAG and Shifters be advised of the new tires for
the Tune-Up race.
MG SK Whites are the tires that have been adopted for
all TAG and Shifter classes, orders can be processed
through Ed @ MMS (775) 750-5218 or Pete Morley @ (775)
351-2250. pete@racetechseatsna.com
-Hay bale day was a bust for the most part, the
weatherman was actually telling the truth or just got
lucky and he was right, it snowed. We will have another
day scheduled for this in the near future.
We are going to make progress on this before and during
the tune-up race.
-Made contact and have started negotiations on new lease
for track.
Its a work in progress, nothing exciting to report.
-Is anyone interested in learning tech?
The list keeps growing let me know if you want in.
-Seal Coat donation list. Anymore donations from those
who have not had a chance to donate. We are asking for a
$100 from each member. If this cannot be made, any
donation is acceptable.
The number keeps getting bigger, Scott threw in a 100$
at the meeting!!!
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Club Meeting Minutes, February 1, 2011 Meeting called
to order @ 7:00p.m
•PRESIDENT’S STATEMENT:
-I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of you
for putting your faith in me and electing me as your
President for the Year of 2011. I think we have a great
group of club members and board members who's only
aspirations are to take the club to new highs and also
have a good time while in the process. I'm looking
forward to meeting the new club members as well as
strengthen the existing relationships with current
members. All I can say is 2011 is shaping up to better
and definitely more fun for all those involved.
•OLD BUSINESS:
-MMS hours of operation are Tuesdays and Thursdays
10am-5pm. Also in case of emergency you can call Ed
directly and he'll accommodate.
-The club asks all members who are able to renew their
membership, or those seeking new membership into the
club, to do so tonight for 2011. Your support is greatly
appreciated.
-The club agreed to run all tracks except track 7. This
will be replaced with a long track.
-Dan Harris will be in charge of the Motorsports Expo
Show (More on this in a few)
-Club took in MORE donations for the sealcoat of our
race track. Around $2,000 has been taken in. We need to
stay on this, re-sealing the track this year is
paramount.
-Brian has also been in contact with NFRA. They will run
1 race with us next year and will try for 2 races at
their December scheduling meeting.
•NEW BUSINESS:
-The club asks all former members who are able to renew
tonight to please do so.
We picked up 8 membership that night, thank you to all
who signed up and got your money in.
-Tires for 2011...Let the brawl commence.
The club meeting vote was unanimous for a change over to
MG's SK Whites for the upcoming season in all TAG and
Shifter classes. Also MG partnered with SKUSA has a club
support program that gives money back to the club itself
for running MG's and buying sets. Also this helps out
the guys that are going run the Pro-Kart series this
year, this thing looks like a win-win for everybody
involved. I really appreciate the club's participation
in this discussion, with the e-mails and the meeting
participation, this was truly a club wide vote.
-2011 Scheduling. New dates are on the flyer and also
the new schedule will be sent off with an e-mail
tomorrow with the newsletter.
The club schedule has been modified, so please look at
the new schedule attached and make adjustments. Sorry
for the mix-up but some of our dates overlapped with
some of the other races in the Region, I'm sorry for
this and I hope it doesn't cause to much trouble for
anyone.
-Dan Harris would like to talk more about the
Motorsports Expo show. The date has been changed Dan is
on top of it. The motorsports expo show dates were moved
to March 25, 26, and 27. Yes, the tickets that were
handed out are still valid according to the promoter. If
you wish to volunteer to run the booth for a couple of
hours please talk to Dan Harris.
-Brian, Dan, and Jess spent an eventful Saturday morning
at the bank getting all the club's finances squared
away, and were looking pretty good for the upcoming
year. The clubs books are looking pretty good this year
so far and it's only February. Were still about 2,000$
dollars short on the track re-sealing fund, so please if
you haven't donated yet please contact me, every club
member should pitch in on this.
-Made contact and have started negotiations on new lease
for track. It's a work in progress but everything is
coming along nicely, I'll keep you guys posted.
-Jr. 1 Dads... Clones or Comers?
Jr.1 dad's voted to stay with Comer with a spec gear.
I'd also like to thank the Jr.1 dad's for really
discussing the issue and coming to a sound decision.
Club participation is what we need for these big
decisions and it worked well here.
-Is anyone interested in learning tech?
We got a few more people signed up for this, were still
trying nail down the date but this class is going
happen.
-Seal Coat donation list. Anymore donations from those
who have not had a chance to donate. We are asking for a
$100 from each member. If this cannot be made, any
donation is acceptable.
This has to get done this year, were 20 to 30 people
away from donating to this thing to get it done, so if
you havent got your money in, please do so. This is a
donation and we are a non-profit, so this can be written
off as a charitable contribution since tax season is
right around the corner.
-Dave "Mini Me" Brant would like to talk about the
NASCAR simulator at Scheel's.
Dave Jr. works at Scheel's at the NASCAR simulator and
they have tournaments all the time and the prize is a
gift certificate to Scheel's, if your interested in
doing this contact Dave Sr. or Dave Jr. Also if you do
go in there, don't do anything to get Dave Jr. fired.
-Also huge announcement,
Tom Halbasch will be our Race Director for 2011!!! Tom
is lending us a hand this year RD, he's got years of
experience and in generally is just a fun guy to be
around. Were looking forward to having Tom on the crew
this year.
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Club Meeting Minutes, January 4, 2011 Meeting called
to order @ 7:00p.m.
•PRESIDENT’S STATEMENT:
-I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of you
for putting your faith in me and electing me as your
President for the Year of 2011. I think we have a great
group of club members and board members who's only
aspirations are to take the club to new highs and also
have a good time while in the process. I'm looking
forward to meeting the new club members as well as
strengthen the existing relationships with current
members. All I can say is 2011 is shaping up to better
and definitely more fun for all those involved.
•OLD BUSINESS:
-MMS hours of operation are Tuesdays and Thursdays
10am-5pm. Also in case of emergency you can call Ed
directly and he'll accommodate.
-The club asks all members who are able to renew their
membership, or those seeking new membership into the
club, to do so tonight for 2011. Your support is greatly
appreciated.
-The club agreed to run all tracks except track 7. This
will be replaced with a long track.
-Dan Harris will be in charge of the Motorsports Expo
Show (More on this in a few)
-Members did a great job conducting themselves this last
season. What I saw was lots of enthusiasm and
excitement. We need to keep that up.
-Club took in MORE donations for the sealcoat of our
race track. Around $2,000 has been taken in. We need to
stay on this, re-sealing the track this year is
paramount.
-New board members were elected last meeting.
•NEW BUSINESS:
-The club asks all former members who are able to renew
tonight to please do so.
The Club picked up 3 more memberships that night,
looking strong and were way ahead of last years re-up at
this point.
-NNKC Awards Banquet Saturday December 11, 2010 from
5pm-8pm at Grand Sierra Resort Crystal Ballroom; was a
complete success and all those who attended had a great
time, I'm the sure the bowling for the kids and alcohol
for the adults helped everyone get into a very festive
spirit.
Everyone said the banquet went very well, most likely
this is what we will do for this years banquet
-Brian has also been in contact with NFRA. They will run
1 race with us next year and will try for 2 races at
their December scheduling meeting.
The NFRA guys are wonderful and Brian has been in
contact with them, it sounds like we have two races with
these guys. We have a one race commitment from these
guys for sure, but two sounds like it might happen.
Brian and Jess are trying to get these dates locked
down, so when the NFRA guys come to town they are well
received.
-Tires for 2011
VERY IMPORTANT!!! If you are an 80 driver or Tag driver
please voice your opinions on this topic. The club would
like to switch all TAG and 80 classes over to MG's. A
lot of our TAG guys are committed to running SKUSA in
the upcoming season and our 125 guys already run MG's,
and we had some 80 guys wanting MG's this year. The
board did not feel comfortable taking a vote on such an
important matter without more attendance at the meeting.
However WE WILL be taking a vote next meeting on this
topic. Also if you can't make the meeting, send Jess an
e-mail and voice yourself that way.
-2011 Scheduling. Finalized.
Schedule is done and printed up, e-mail will be going
out with full schedule.
-Dan Harris would like to talk more about the
Motorsports Expo show.
Dan has this thing pretty much on lock, we need
volunteers to work show like last year. Also set-up guys
and tear down guys for our both, we get good exposure
form this and got a few members from it last year, so
it's worth the time and effort. Contact Dan Harris for
information...
-We need a race director for the year...Any Takers?
It wasn't decided who would RD but we have volunteers
who are willing to do it. They are Ed Deiderich, Jess
Peterson, and Brian Rivera... If you would like to throw
you hat in the ring, let us know.
-Track clean-up Dates and track configuration schedule.
It's coming with the schedule to be sent out. (Nat: see
DRIVER page)
-Made contact and have started negotiations on new lease
for track.
Everything seems cool on this front so far, will update
club as information becomes available.
-Jr. 1 Dads... Clones or Comers?
The comer dads are discussing this amongst themselves
and will have an answer for the club next meeting.
-Is anyone interested in learning tech? IKF has training
being conducted for this in January. Ed will be going to
the IKF meeting this weekend in Ontario, CA. Would
anyone like to bring up issues that he should bring to
the National IKF board?
Multiple club members expressed interest in gaining
certification in this area. Ed will see if IKF's tech
guy will fly up to Reno and give a one day tech seminar
at MMS, the more people we get the cheaper it is for
everyone. Also to have multiple guys that can do tech at
the club is a huge plus, karting has always had a
constant shortage of qualified tech personnel. (Nat: $50
for 2 Cycles Tech, $50 for 4 Cycles Tech, and $75 for
both classes)
-Seal Coat donation list. Anymore donations from those
who have not had a chance to donate. We are asking for a
$100 from each member. If this cannot be made, any
donation is acceptable.
We received another 200$ in donations for seal coating
from Bruce Garafola and Greg Hanson. Our total is now
around 2,500$ for seal coating, were half way there
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