Shawn

@MurrayB This is fantastic to be finally getting done...it has been a long road. It has been a while since I have been to a meeting, is there anywhere to read about exactly what is being done at the track, what parts are being repaired/resurfaced, etc? Also please include me on the list of potential helpers once repairs are complete. If I can, I will be there to help.

WSCC Annual Membership - 2023

Shawn Clarke Membership # 5540 Renewing #7 please

Paityn and I had an awesome time. I have been eagerly waiting years for when she would be old enough to co-drive with me as she only turned 16 this year and has been driving less than 6 months. Everyone was supper friendly and encouraging which really helped with her nerves. I know that she is going to give me a run for my money as she gets more experience. We think her last run would have been her fastest if she hadn't upshifted to 3rd at the north hairpin. The car is an auto and we were in manual mode but on her last run I told her to not worry about manually upshifting to 2nd the car will do it itself. However she thought at the hairpin she was in 1st and went to upshift to 2nd and as she put her foot to the floor she says "WHY'S IT NOT GOING?!?!" Myself I am so glad that I have the excuse of racing on all-season tires for why I am at the bottom of the timesheets. Damn I forgot how fast everyone is...and how poor my driving is. LOL. Regardless it was a lot of fun sliding the car around which proves you don't need anything really special to put a huge smile on your face at autoslalom.

Shawn Clarke #5540 Renewing #7 Paityn Clarke New membership purchased, don't know # yet #77 please

RS4 based on regular maintenance would be a deal killer for me (I actually passed on the opportunity to buy one and opted for my S4 instead). Gold R is a reactive system although in mine I did get the Competition Haldex controller that helped it a bit but at the end of the day at full lock the Haldex system is 50/50 split. Ignore all marketing material that says otherwise, as the only way they can claim more power goes to the back is that the fronts and on a near frictionless surface and therefore no actual work is being done by the front tires. My S4 with the Sport Differential is nice. Yes the car is nose heavy but under throttle you can get the backend moving however maybe not as much as you would like. It is not a steer by throttle kind of car. Too bad you didn't bring this topic up when there was still snow on the ground and you could have taken the car for a spin.

Shawn Clarke Member # 5540 Renewing 7 Michelle Price Member # 5540 Renewing 77 Please and thank-you

It is just a NA motor, no turbo, and it was available in the US...so it's probably just not really being run at events. It for sure is nothing to write home about but it's a decent DD.

Michelle's car is a 2012 VW Golf with the 2.5L engine (5 cylinders, 20 valves). Car is stock. I could not find where it would actually fit without using the top most catch all for SS. The car is basically a Jetta so I classed her in HS but not sure that is appropriate. Also I notice that the classing sometimes mentions the 2.5L and just that and sometimes as 2.5L 5-cyl.

clearly you have not met our resident Corvette owners.

Any modifications to the car?

Excellent. Modified group is filling out nicely.

Assuming the items you have changed on your car are all still SP legal then yeah it looks like you get to come play in ASP. I think last year both our cars got bumped up to ASP...I am in a 2012 S4. Our group is starting to fill out a bit this year so it should be some good battles ahead. Shawn

Trophies are based on the rule of 1/2 plus 1. This year we have 18 races, so that gives 10 races (18/2 + 1 = 10) that count for point towards the championship. First place gets 1000 points and everyone else gets points based on how close their PAX time is compared to the PAX time of 1st place. So you really don't need to win the most races to take 1st place in the championship. Additionally we take the best 10 races (for 2017 at least) so the more you race the more "drops" you get. Regarding the Novice group, we have not completed our 2017 Supplemental Regulations where this will be defined but I don't see this changing much. From the 2016 Supp Regs: Novice: A 'Novice' is defined as a competitor who competed in nine (9) or fewer autocross events prior to the start of the current season. Schools do not count as events. Novices must class themselves appropriately and identify themselves as Novices upon registration in order to compete in the Novice Championship, which is subject to the same scoring rules as the other class groups. You've raced 5 autoslaloms with us but if you have races in autoslalom anywhere else in any previous year they still count to that total. The idea is to properly classify those that have limited autoslalom experience. So the question goes back to you...do you qualify as a novice? Shawn

If you had a large fortune to start something like this up in Winnipeg you would definitely have a small fortune in end.