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Fall Cruise October 2-5th 2020

Oct 14, 2020

Our Fall cruise is in the books! What a great ending for a not so great year. The cruise started out with everyone meeting at our usual spot in Champaign,Illinois, and once everyone had arrived, we headed southward.We started out with a pit stop along the way to grab some lunch and fuel in Greensburg, Indiana, where the Studemann's from Michigan joined us. (They live in Michigan and belong to the Illinois Region). We left there at 3:00 to go to our next stop which was the "Creation Museum." It ...

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Madison Speedway Autocross Sept 26th

Oct 13, 2020

What a beautiful day for the final autocross of the season at the Madison Speedway. We started out with folks arriving about 10:30 unloading trailers and getting ready for the day. Drivers meeting at 11:30 with the track going hot soon after. We had a bit of a smaller crowd but it was a great time. Everyone was able to get 24 runs with a break in the middle for lunch.  At the end of the day we awarded trophies including the Triple-Cross trophy to Shawn Rockwell and also to Shawn went ...

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Autobahn Road Course 9-14

Sep 17, 2020

The final Road course of the season is in the books now. We were at Autobahn in Joliet. We had a lower number of drivers this time but those that were able to make it had a great time. The day started a little cool in the 50's but warmed up nicely into the 70's. The Driver's meeting was at 8:15 with the track going hot at 8:30. Drivers were able to take advantage of 5 -30 minute sessions with a break in between for lunch. This was also the final event for the coveted "Triple Crown". It was very ...

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Blackhawk Raceway August 29th

Sep 03, 2020

Well our third road course track event was last Saturday August 29th at Blackhawk Farms Raceway in South Beloit, IL. Drivers started arriving around 7:30 to unload trailers and get ready for the day's event. Driver's meeting was at 8:30 with the track going hot at 9:00. We had four run groups and only 16 drivers so everyone was able to do 5 sessions each with virtually no traffic on the track to contend with and drivers were able to get many clean runs without having to slow down for slower ...

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Longest Day.. Gingerman/Wings August 14 & 15

Aug 21, 2020

Another awesome Longest Day event with Gingerman Raceway and Wings Stadium for the autoross part of the weekend. We started Friday at Gingerman in South Haven, Michigan with folks arriving around 7:30 to unload trailers and get ready for the drivers meeting at 8:30 with the track going hot at 9:00. We had around 18 drivers with 4 Run groups. Two advanced, one intermediate and one Rookie groups. Each group had an opportunity to run in five 20 minute sessions. We also had a special guest Ralph ...

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MIS Autocross August 1st

Aug 11, 2020

Our second autocross of the year was on August 1st and what a beautiful day it was at MIS. We had a smaller crowd with 14 drivers but everyone had a good time. Drivers started arriving around 10:00 to unload trailers and get ready for the day. The track went hot at 11:45 with 2 of the run groups having 6 laps before we broke for lunch. After lunch everyone had an opportunity to run several laps and wrapped up the day about  4:00 when we awarded trophies for the day. Thanks to Chris ...

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Caterpillar Mossville Autocross July 25th

Jul 27, 2020

Our first autocross of the year was Saturday July 25th and what a day it was. We had a great turnout with 21 drivers and a nice warm day(90degrees) at the Mossville Caterpillar. We started with folks arriving about 8:00 unloading trailers. Drivers meeting about 8:45 with the track going hot at 9:00.  We ran three sessions of 6 for a total of 18 runs breaking for lunch in the middle about 11:30 for Firehouse subs provided by the club. We had a couple of slight hiccups with a couple ...

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Autobahn Road Course 7-13

Jul 24, 2020

Our first road course of the season turned out to be a beautiful day at Autobahn in Joliet. Folks started arriving about 7:30 to unload trailers and for a drivers meeting at 8:15. The track went hot at 8:30. Everyone had the opportunity to run 5 or 6 30 minute sessions. We had a little lighter Viper crowd this time with about 15 drivers . Lunch was about 11:30  with the sessions resuming after lunch. We wrapped up about 3:30 with trophies being awarded at 4:00. A great time with ...

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Our first road course of the season turned out to be a beautiful day at Autobahn in Joliet. Folks started arriving about 7:30 to unload trailers and for a drivers meeting at 8:15. The track went hot at 8:30. Everyone had the opportunity to run 5 or 6 30 minute sessions. We had a little lighter Viper crowd this time with about 15 drivers . Lunch was about 11:30  with the sessions resuming after lunch. We wrapped up about 3:30 with trophies being awarded at 4:00. A great time with great friends.

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