KMiller

Darin, please don't bring in road racing rules when you seem to have no idea of all classes. I am able to travel anywhere in North America with both my cars and race in a long established classes, with exception of tires. That's why I have built the cars the way I did. If you guys have issues with tin tops, that's the clubs fault by not adhering to established rule sets and take the do what we want attitude. Its not always better to go this route. Simply do a little homework. Not chiming in on TA as I don't follow it so have no idea, except you need to set goals first and work backwards to figure out how to accomplish the goals step by step. As for some comments here, they not true such as Mat saying the word BOLD stand. It was a voting process and not everyone agrees and has the freedom to pick their own. It should not be seen as a personal attack. I disagreed with how many abstained from voting, but again that is their choice must be respected. This bickering looks bad on the club.

Give me a call. Might be able to help out this weekend. 306-591-7038.

I would like to apologize to the club for loosing my cool on the last club Zoom meeting with Jay. In the future I will do my best to try to remain calm and will follow as per Matt by raising my hand when I have a comment to make and not just chime in.

By the looks of this, are there no track repairs being done this season. ????

Sounds good Jay, looks like things are going in the right direction finally.

Sorry for late reply have been away. $200 for all 4

I have a set of Yokohama Envigor 205/45r17 tires that were taken off a Miata, they have slight cupping but have 70% tread to go.

I too spend my money in town, my gas ( except for my VP), food and lodging is there. I am not a big camper but understand the fun and the comradery that this brings and is an important and necessary part of the sport. In my eyes it is hard to promote smaller grids as not much fun for spectators to watch 4-10 cars drive around. But then we have another issue and that is how to grow the grids to have a "show" to promote. Kind of chicken and the egg thing. And then that brings another issue to light and that is the big elephant here. With the track in poor shape, looking run down, its hard to get someone to spend the time, effort and "money" into a race car. The reality is until you fix the track and can get the hidden cars back out and the grid numbers up, improve the show, then the people will come. YES I have been through this before and invested my own time and lots of money into the kart track I first built and owned. Kart, cars bikes makes no difference, all the same problem. When the track was first there, I grew the club from 5 to over 65 racers in 3 years. Had held IKF divisional event to draw in close to 100 from Alberta and Manitoba. Then the crap hit the fan. I bought out the track and rebuilt the club again. Ever year till I sold it our average race entry climbed until sold the track and again crap hit the fan. This was not me doing it and this is not about my ego. My approach was the difference. I took every chance I could to promote the sport, car shows , show and shines ect and the word got out. What I believe needs to happen is the club to make improvements to start. This will do 2 very important first steps. One, show the town of Gimli commitment and 2, show commitment to the racers and get the cars out of the garages and back on track. This will attract out of town racers that will spend money in the town and again show that the club is invested in the community. I also know it is a scary thought to dig into the clubs coffers to make an investment that maybe be only short termed. There are business owners in the club and they all know, no risk NO reward. So what happens if the track gets sold and you lose your spot to race. The money came from racing anyways. If the club grows in membership you gain the money back in the short term. If it doesn't you have a bigger issue and that will simply be, with out the track can the club survive? No venue no club, pretty simple. For the 40-60,000 won't matter if you need to start again. A track from scratch will be minimum 10 plus million for the basics and by waiting will just go up in price. Try to save what you have and I believe a business plan based on trying to sway the town, show commitment and grow your support should have already been done. That my $5 worth. I will shut up about this now. I have said my piece. Hope to see you all shortly.

I agree with that point of view. However the article does not relate that at all. I hope for motorsports sake's, Gimli stays alive long after i am gone.!!!

I may be reading this wrong, but not sure how Jim thinks this is good news, I am confused and concerned about the future of the track. I would say that the news is very "interesting" for sure.

There is a very good boost product called "Boostane" that will raise your octane . It is used by Drag guys and street muscle car guys. You need to add only 4 1/5 oz to 65l to raise from 91 to 94. The trick is you need the Professional version and not the premium to do this. I know it is available in Regina for about $400 for 5 gallons. You guys can do the math. VP additive and Torco are garbage. Tested them before myself, you need a lot of this to get the level up even one to two points. A whole can for 25l so the cost to go up 3-4 points will be about $100. Not worth it. There is my 5 cents worth for anyone who cares.

All the cool guys are from Saskatchewan!!

I am unable to attend this weekend. One, I can't get time from work as others would like some time this week off as with Covid, we are running very limited staff. I had to give up a race this month. Two, car still broken from race track. Parts to arrive hopefully by Friday. I was trying to get out there to help , but couldn't leave till Saturday morning and unless I get up at 2am and drive out there, I wouldn't arrive to be much help till afternoon sometime. I hate excuses but unfortunately I am being the A hole this time. As I alwaya have said, excuses are like a holes, everyone has one. Sorry guys.

I will be there.

To Matt and Scott. I would like to make a motion or proposal to the open wheel guys to run "2 " 22 lap or minute races rather than 3 races per race day. One race in the morning before lunch and one mid afternoon. Practice as usual Saturday morning and qualifying and just a warm up Sunday which is what is run now. The extra time to fix the formula cars is key in trying to keep grid numbers up. With the roughness of the present track, the formula cars as we all know are more delicate than the sedans.