Mike

Less than a week till our next race weekend at GMP! For those that haven't done so please sign up soon. msreg.com/GMP-2025-Event2 Here's the planned schedule for the weekend. Please note we are going to try something a bit different on Friday for the Test'nTune group during the Open Lapping. All registered Road Racers are welcome to participate in the 1 hour Test'nTune session from 2-3pm on Friday. This is open for registered road racers with caged cars only and will be open for both Open Wheel and Sedan entries at the same time assuming the track doesn't get too full (if it does we will look at separating the groups). Following this session we anticipate running just Green wristband racers till the end of the day. If a road race entry is looking for additional track time they can also join the green group of open lapping by adding open lapping to their MSR registration however they will need to follow the passing and track rules in place for the Green Group during open lapping. WSCC Event 2 - public schedule.pdf

Check out the promo video that was provided to us following our event #1. Special thanks and shout out to Edward van Zyl for his fabulous photography and editing skills. https://youtu.be/vdY9yBkEjm0 Feel free to contact him if you have questions or are looking for additional footage/pictures. Edward van Zyl edward@d3d.ca Creating stories frame by frame.

Here's some links to pictures from our recent GMP Ribbon Cutting Ceremony to celebrate our recent track resurfacing and improvement project. Appreciation to all the RM and Town of Gimli dignitaries that came out to join us in this celebration. Thanks to Rayme Thomson for the photography work: https://rthomsonphoto.smugmug.com/Freelance/WSCC-Ribbon-Cutting-Ceremony/n-dSCv6N As well big thanks to Edward van Zyl and his great photography work of the event: Instagram@d3d_visions link to the Ribbon cutting video : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16XYW5I5KHi9ueZyLk93pcW3ULim0-YNS?usp=sharing link to the pictures: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sAm4iCilMFhmI-3Z_ntHzJnIu1D2nSVe?usp=sharing

Attached is a pdf version of our Aficionado Spring Edition....enjoy! Hardcopies will be available at tomorrow's club meeting at the Irish Club and possibly at the next GMP event & Autocross event (limited quantities left...) Aficionado -2025 Spring Edition - Final.pdf

Big thanks to both Bryce & Wayne for this. Hard to imagine how we would operate without great volunteers dedicated to making our weekends a success. Great to see all the Open Wheel cars out racing again. Congrats as well to car #2 for starting the season with a clean sweep of 6 wins! I will do my best to ensure that next event will not be the same result. Lol.

Unfortunately the value of a car often goes down when it is turned into a caged race car mainly due to the limited number of potential buyers. Having said that if you find the perfect buyer that's looking for a ready to go BRZ race car you might get what you want. Typically a person gets a percentage of what they invested into building a well modified race car...sometimes a high percentage and sometimes low! Lol. Its an awesome looking car with what looks like a full road race legal cage. Get your return on investment out of it by advertising it at the track while putting down nice lap times! (I inserted your facebook pic in my post)

Here's our weekend schedule for our first race weekend. Friday HPDE & Open Lapping has been moved up one hour. HPDE @ 10am and Drivers Meeting @ 10:45am Note: on Saturday we are planning a ribbon cutting ceremony at 12 noon to celebrate our recent track improvement initiatives along with special guests from the RM and Town of Gimli. Just prior to the noon ceremony we would like all the sedan and open wheel cars to assemble on the straightaway for a group photo. As well, you may notice that on Saturday we are holding 3 sedan races however we plan on only 2 open wheel races. on 2025 Event 1 - GMP Race Daily Schedule.docx

Paint Party #2 was a success and the GMP road course now has a fully painted track edge with FIM approved paint. Big shout out to Steve Leiding, Wayne Schellekens and Helmut Friedrich who came out to join me along with Riley from the MRA club who also rounded up several more bike race volunteers as the day went on. Its no easy task to paint 2 coats of a 4" line over 3 miles long. An additional comment...only those people who volunteered to help paint the track will be allowed to comment on the "straightness" of the lines. All other comments or feedback will be gleefully ignored! Lol. Paint Party #3 will be scheduled likely later in June to paint the curbing and the pit stalls. Stay tuned.

Attached are the Road Race Supp Regs for our 2025 Road Race season. Feel free to contact me if you have questions, race@wscc.mb.ca WSCC 2025 Race Supplementary Regulations - Ver 1.1.pdf

Its tough enough to apply the 4" track edge line straight so we will only be providing refreshments AFTER that has been applied 😀

Nice helmet Jason. Unfortunately for most of our current regulations the 2010 expired several years ago. At the end of this year it sounds like the SA2015 will unfortunately also be expired as well. Too bad because I'm sure its still quality safe helmet.

We are looking for a few volunteers to help us finish painting the track on Friday May 23. Please contact me and let me know if you can help out. This past Wednesday we were able to make a lot of progress on getting GMP ready for the first race weekend. Unfortunately we ran out of track primer paint with 90% of the track edge painted with the first coat and 20% painted with the special FIM paint. We also mounted the rest of our many sponsor signs as well as put a fresh coat or red/white on most of the concession building. Its looking good! Big shout out to Johnny Armatas for bringing out his professional crew to help get that work done along Greg Eastwood, Steve Leiding, Brian Wiebe, Wayne Kehler and myself. The planned completion paint party will have several guys from the MRA club helping out however we still need a couple more to be able to complete everything on the 23rd so please consider stopping by to help out...all supplies, training and refreshments will be covered ; )

If you passed your Grade 2 paint by number course you are eligible to advance to this level of painting. You will however be closely watched until proven that your 4” wide roller doesn’t start painting 5”….😁

Apologies for short notice on this! We are looking for any and all volunteer workers that would like to assist with putting down the white FIM track paint this Wednesday (May 7). We plan to be on site at GMP at 9:30am to start and the more volunteer workers the better as we plan on painting a 4" stripe over 3 miles long! Big thanks to Greg Eastwood for securing/ordering the special paint and to Johnny Armatas who is providing both his expertise and the necessary tools of the trade to help make this happen. Join the work party and help us make our GMP track look great again. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thanks! Mike

The Open Wheels cars are returning to GMP! Here are some of them that will be hitting the track May 2 during our special "season opener shakedown test'n'tune session".