Experimental Autocross competition (update)

A friend of mine and I maintain a website called nerdsracing.com, perhaps you've visited? Anyway we have a small group of folks that banter back and forth about stuff. Some of the bantering involved the formulation of a small autocross competition amongst ourselves.

5pts for each event attended, + 5pts. if trophied + 5 pts. for 1st in class X the number of unique autocross venues attended.

It seemed pretty cool, and so on a whim, after establishing a small set of rules (we didn't want to over regulate this schtuff), we sent out letters to see if we could get some year-end freebies.

Much to our surprise we did:

The Evolution Driving School was the first to offer stuff. They offered a free school to top male and female, a 50 discount to the second place male and female, plus all sorts of other swag, like shirts, stickers, etc.

Second to offer us stuff, was the folks (thanks Scott!) at Grassroots Motorsports Magazine. They have offered quite a few yearly subscriptions, plus t-shirts, license plate holders and a crap-load of stickers... STICKERS.

From there we had three more folks jump on board, EventPhotoNow.com, Terry Zorich is a former motorcycle track day guy who decided to try this... safer or something; anyway he's offered to give away prints or a CD of whomever he captures via digital camera to the top few competitors.

Both of two other sponsors have offered to help with both promotion and help with the year-end trophy costs... they are Brian Yoder, and his racing website, unclefestermotorsports.com, and Perry Aidelbaum, of autox4u.com

Being that this was the first year, some loop holes were exposed and some we decided that it'd be better left alone rather then write an entire rulebook... may open up a can of worms ya' know?

I'd also like to thank Honda-Tech and RJ for allowing me to use up some space here on the RR/Autocross forum to plug the SlideRule Cup.

Here are the standing to date: http://y3k.shacknet.nu:31338/cgi-bin/sliderule.cgi

Tad Kaminski 380 14 5320

Michael Louie 275 16 4400

Mary Wentzel 200 11 2200

Bruce Wentzel 185 10 1850

Karen Kraus 140 13 1820

Kevin Roche 215 8 1720

Derek Wyman 130 9 1170

Jeff Craven 160 5 800

Brian Vondran 130 6 780

Nicole Capobianco 95 8 760

Andy Leece 100 7 700

Michael Occhipinti 100 7 700

Matt Watkins 115 6 690

Markus Houser 95 7 665

Brian Yoder 120 5 600

Eric Brown 125 3 375

Don Ahart 75 4 300

Rob Leone 75 3 225

Mick Ricereto 55 4 220

Mike Shields 70 3 210

Alan Chin 75 2 150

Seth Wallace 50 3 150

Jeff Campbell 65 2 130

Grace Huntzinger 30 3 90

Tony Emrich 30 3 90

Jim Wakeman 40 2 80

Richard Levari 35 2 70

Jason Willett 20 3 60

Jill Canuso 30 2 60

Brandon Pintar 25 2 50

Bob Christensen 45 1 45

Josh Behler 15 3 45

Joe Graham 30 1 30

Patrick Weaver 25 1 25

Mark Clark 10 1 10

Jeremy Smith 0 0 0

Jim Thwaite 0 0 0

Greg Golden 0 0 0

Ben Harper 0 0 0

Elain Farrell 0 0 0

Jeff Jacobs 0 0 0

Lori Leone 0 0 0

Matt Clower 0 0 0

Perry Aidelbaum 0 0 0

John Dunnock 0 0 0

Andre Downey 0 0 0

Stas Zakharenko 0 0 0

It's too late to "officially" register for the competition this year (2004). We felt it only fair to the folks who signed up and to the sponsors to close the doors mid-way through the season. So look for this next year (2005).

For more details on the rules and other SlideRule stuff visit:
http://www.nerdsracing.com/sliderule.htm

For gramar, clarity and spelling...



Modified by emwavey at 5:47 PM 8/26/2004