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Fall Cruise October 5&6

Oct 16, 2019

Fall Cruise 2019 is another great event for the books! 13 club members 23 total people and 12 Vipers headed to Central Southern IL on October 5 for the last cruise event of the year. We all met up in Champaign, IL to begin our journey to Effingham, IL. Our first stop was the Heartland Classics Car museum. Well, that turned out not like we had hoped for. Upon arrival, we couldn’t locate the museum, no one around to ask because the place looked like an abandoned car lot. Then a ...

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Autobahn Road Course September 16th

Sep 18, 2019

Our last  road course event for the year and the final day for the Triple Crown  was at Autobahn  Road Course Monday September 16th. Our day started with folks arriving around 7:30 with a drivers meeting at 8:30 with the track going hot at 9:00. The day was beautiful sunny with about 16 Viper drivers each getting 4-5  30 minute sessions. Track was a little crowded at times since we run with another group. There were 2-3 sessions in the morning with lunch at Noon and 2-3 more ...

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Madison Speedway Autocross September 7th

Sep 11, 2019

Our third autocross of the year was a success! We had to do this one a little different due to a noise ordinance that they are now enforcing. Folks started arriving about 10:00 to unload trailers and get ready for the day. Drivers meeting at 11:15 with the track going hot at 11:30. This year Mark outdid himself using the entire Madison Speedway track and runs taking from around 50 seconds to about a full minute. The track was fast and technical. We ended the day around 4:30  and folks ...

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Club Picnic Klairemont Kollections August 30th

Sep 06, 2019

Our Annual Picnic August 30th. We held our picnic this year at a car museum called Klairemont Kollections in downtown Chicago. We had about 85 people attend the event that lasted from Noon until 4:00. The club provided free admission to the museum and an awesome catered lunch at 1:00 that included a nice VOA of IL mug giveaway for all that attended and we even had some raffle prizes. The lunch included burgers and fried chicken with all the fixings. Folks were able to wander through the ...

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Longest Day/ Gingerman & Tire Rack

Sep 06, 2019

Another great Longest Day is in the books. We started off with folks arriving on Thursday August 15th many going out for dinner and to the famous Sherman's afterwards for too much ice cream. To bed early and up early on Friday and heading to Gingerman Raceway for the day of awesome Road Course. Drivers meeting at 8:30 with the track going hot at 9:00. We had a bit a a smaller than usual crowd but all that were there were able to get tons of track time for their enjoyment. We ran until 3:00 when ...

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Caterpillar Mossville Autocross July 27th

Jul 30, 2019

The first autocross of the year is in the books. It started off with folks arriving unloading trailers and getting ready for a day of fun and sun. Drivers meeting was a little late at 9:00 with the track going hot about 9:15. The track was longer than usual utilizing the whole parking lot and going from the usual about 40 second run to a 60 second run. It is hard to imagine how much more work it is driving a track that is one third longer than normal  We had 21 drivers for the ...

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Autobahn Road Course July 15th

Jul 24, 2019

Another great day at Autobahn... Day started out at 7:00 with registration for the day with drivers meeting at 8:00 with the track going hot at 8:30. We were running with laps with about 20 Viper drivers. There were 3 groups running 30 minute sessions. Weather turned out great a little warm but nice and sunny unlike June 24, Three sessions before lunch and 3 more sessions after lunch. There were a couple slight off track excursions but no issues. Another great day to hang out with fellow Viper ...

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Mt Rushmore/South Dakota Cruise

Jul 19, 2019

Mt Rushmore Summer Cruise, July 6-13, 201919 Vipers, 21 club members and their guests totaling 34 people had a great adventure and traveled outto South Dakota. Saturday morning, we all met at the Belvidere Oasis on I90 and headed to Rockford.Matt Schutte lead us to the Stagecoach Trail and had a nice ride through there and were in Iowa beforewe knew it. We stopped for lunch in Waterloo and headed back on the road to our hotel in Sioux City,IA. We all gathered for a nice dinner in the Crave ...

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