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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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Summer Cruise to Iowa

Jun 30, 2020

Summer Cruise to Dubuque, IA – June 27-28, 2020Eight club members and five guests had a great cruise to our neighboring state of Iowa on Saturday, June 27.We started our cruise by traveling over to the Amana Colonies in Iowa where we had a great family style lunch. There was time after lunch for some of our members who like to antique shop and a few purchases were made! After lunch we took a short 10 minute drive to Larry Pacha's, one of our club member's house who has a great ...

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Cookout in Roanoke

Jun 16, 2020

Well Viper family....after all the virus mess and being unable to have our monthly meeting for 3 months we decided something had to be done. So we had a cookout at Dennis Rocke's home on Saturday June 6th. We had 24 Vipers and about 60 people that were able to get together and enjoy the folks and food. Thanks to our cruise director Bonnie for organizing this and thanks so much to Dennis and Eva Rocke for the use of their beautiful yard. It was o great to be able to see part of our Viper ...

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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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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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