We are happy to announce that we will be supporting Toys for Tots at our December Road Rally! Donations of new, unopened toys for all ages will be collected at the starting line of the rally for those that wish to participate. We also invite any other members that want to donate to swing by and check out the rally as well.
Our event start and donation dropoff location will be the Park N Ride off the 15 and 76 (3446-3546 Old Hwy 395, Fallbrook, CA 92028) between 9AM and 10AM on December 12.
We will be delivering all donations following the event.
Track Weekend at Chuckwalla
January 2-3, 2021
A full weekend of high performance driving to kick off the new year! $175 for either single day or $300 for the weekend, five run sessions per day. Come on out and kick off the new year!
Register here:
msreg.com/sdrtrackday121
More info on San Diego Region SCCA Track Days:
sdrscca.com/trackday/
Sign up for our Emailed Newsletter (be the first to know about upcoming events!):
sdrscca.com/mailinglist/
REMINDER: 2021 San Diego Region Board of Directors Election
All SDR members have until November 23rd to vote for the 2021 Board of Director Nominees. You should have also received an email reminder today with the link to the voting site on MSR.
The B.O.D. consists of 7 Directors. The following 3 Directors from 2020 are carrying over and will serve an additional one year term during 2021:
Ric Senior
Hank Yamfang
Eric Sakariasen
That leaves 4 Director spots to be filled for 2021, and 5 San Diego Region Members in good standing are running for election to the B.O.D. You will be asked to vote for up to 4 individuals from the following list:
Diane Bollenbecker
Peter Bollenbecker
Jeff Lonsdale
Nima Abrahim
Bob Silvestro
You must be an SCCA Member and a San Diego Region member in good standing to vote. Your vote, once cast, is final and may not be altered by anyone. Your vote is anonymous and details are not visible by anyone. Results of the vote are not available until the voting closes.
Please ensure you cast your vote while this event is open and be aware of the cutoff date and time. No votes will be accepted in any other manner or at any other time. Voting closes on November 23, 2020. Election results will be announced at the December 2020 B.O.D. meeting.
2020 Autocross Wrap Up
It’s been a challenging year losing out on time spent racing with friends. To add insult to injury, and though we’d seen it coming for quite some time, we also lost the stadium as our primary home. Now, at what would be the usual end of our season, we realize that there was no season having hosted only two events. As a result, we have decided that we will not be declaring champions for 2020, and we will not be planning for our annual banquet. It’s a difficult decision, but one also forced by the practicality of not being able to assemble as a group, and the idea of perhaps “asterisked” awards when there weren’t even enough events for a drop. 2020, you can go away now.
What next? Well, we are fortunate to have Lake Elsinore as our primary site and we are in constant contact about when we can restart events. We also continue to search for other available sites. If we’ve learned anything, we’ve got to be prepared for change, have options and be flexible. We have never stopped, and are working, to make autocross happen.
In the meantime, we do have a road rally on December 12, a track day weekend January 2-3, another road rally on February 14, and track day weekends in April and May on the schedule. So, we have opportunities to continue our friendships and love of cars and competition and we look forward to seeing you out there!
Road Rally registration is live for December 12!
www.motorsportreg.com/events/sdr-scca-december-road-rally-san-diego-solo-104325
SDR 2021 BOD Elections
The time has come to elect the 2021 Board of Directors for the San Diego Region. You should have now received an email with a link to vote electronically if SCCA has listed you as a member in good standing and that San Diego is your "Region of Record".
If you would like to know more about the current B.O.D., its duties and the Region's By-Laws, you can review the information on our website.
The B.O.D. consists of 7 Directors. The following 3 Directors from 2020 are carrying over and will serve an additional one year term during 2021:
Ric Senior
Hank Yamfang
Eric Sakariasen
That leaves 4 Director spots to be filled for 2021, and 5 San Diego Region Members in good standing are running for election to the B.O.D. You will be asked to vote for up to 4 individuals from the following list:
Diane Bollenbecker
Peter Bollenbecker
Jeff Lonsdale
Nima Abrahim
Bob Silvestro
Election Rules:
You must be an SCCA Member and a San Diego Region member in good standing to vote. Your vote, once cast, is final and may not be altered by anyone.
Your vote is anonymous and details are not visible by anyone. Once the voting opens no changes to the election process can be made. Results of the vote are not available until the voting closes.
Please ensure you cast your vote while this event is open and be aware of the cutoff time in the event. No votes will be accepted in any other manner or at any other time. Voting closes on November 23, 2020.
Election results will be announced at the December 2020 B.O.D. meeting.
Tentative schedule for Track Events and Road Rally, planning to add more road rallies in 2021. Track Events are tentatively full weekends, with January as a 2-day HPDE. We hope to add some track attack to the subsequent events - autocross style timed hot lap on the track. More to come!
Road Rally
- December 12, 2020
- February 13, 2021
Track Events
- January 2-3, 2021
- April 24-25, 2021
- May 29-30, 2021
Check out the write up of our inaugural Pie Run road rally on SCCA's Road Rally E-News! The end of the article said we'd have a next date by today. How does December 12 sound? Mark your calendars, more to come ... 😁
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😔 we just wanted one last tour around the parking lot...
www.nbcsandiego.com/news/sports/soon-to-be-demolished-one-last-look-inside-the-stadium/2419686/
SDR Autocross 2020 Update and 2021 Preliminary View
The Good, and Bad, and Good
First the good!
We are extending the validity of all Solo numbers purchased for 2020 through the end of 2021. No need to renew!
Now the bad…
As most of you know, our SDCCU lots and the Lake Elsinore lot have been unavailable to us. SDCCU is undergoing demolition and we will no longer to be able to rent lots at the site, confirmed by SDSU management. Not a surprise, but a sad and final nail in the coffin despite our repeated attempts to get any last SE lot events in that we could. Lake Elsinore remains a COVID test site and the City is not issuing event permits currently. Our outreach to numerous potential other sites have also not been fruitful, with many facilities simply not engaging. So, it appears we will have no additional autocross events in 2020 and effectively no “season” this year. Thanks COVID.
Now the good again!
What we are doing for autocross is reaching out to Lake Elsinore to “hold” some tentative dates for 2021, in the event that conditions return that allow us to run. We will of course continue seeking alternatives as well.
We are not giving up on our members or on having fun with cars. We are actively pursuing additional road rallies and track days, events that we can host, and expect that we will be having numerous events for each throughout 2021, and may yet have another for 2020. Stay tuned and stay connected!
Thank you everyone for coming out to our road rally event and for all the feedback so far. Sounds like it was more fun and challenging than expected and that we need more of these! Big thanks to our Rally Master Ric Senior, he's incognito in the Land Rover below, as he was while doing everything behind the scenes, including a pre-event check run at zero dark thirty in the morning.