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2000 Executive
President Rob Microys 4287 Owl Valley Drive Gloucester, Ontario K1V 1L8 H: (613) 822-7204 W: (613) 765-5744 C: (613) 761-0306 r.microys@home.com rmicroys@nortelnetworks.com Vice-President Ronald Woltman H: (613) 592-0141 W: (819) 997-6988 ronald.woltman@hrdc-drhc.gc.ca Past President John Blouin H: (613) 443-3507 blouin@magma.ca Directors David Butler H: (613) 596-5518 C: (613) 762-8268 debutler@magma.ca
Jaak Laan H: (613) 835-3966 W: (613) 943-2520 jaaklaan1@yahoo.com Sam Mandia H: (613) 745-4227 W: (613) 228-0250 fv1200@yahoo.com Sherissa Microys H: (613) 822-7204 s.microys@home.com
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General Meetings Louis's Steakhouse 1682 Cyrville Rd., Ottawa, ON First Tuesday of every month All are welcome M.C.O. P.O. Box 65006, Merivale Postal Outlet Nepean, ON K2G 5Y3 The LINK is the official publication of the Motorsport Club of Ottawa. The opinions expressed in the LINK do not necessarily reflect those of the LINK Editorial Staff or the Club's Executive. Though all efforts are made to ensure that facts stated in the articles herein are accurate, the individual contributors should check the accuracy of their articles prior to submission. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 18th day of every month.
In terms of racing enjoyment, this past month was a wonderful peak for me. Two Solo-II events (including my first bronze pin!!!), an EVCC event (less spectacular perhaps, but I had a good day in the sun), and finally the US Grand Prix in Indianapolis. A good way to round out the season, as most racing series are coming to an end. As horrible as it sounds, I'm sure by February, I'll be anxious for just about any kind of racing; I hope the winter (yuck) slalom will scratch that itch. Things are settling down in the Link. The transition is over, and Ayan and myself are getting into the swing of how it all comes together. As always, we are looking for the members of the club to help us the most by contributing to the Link. Photos, stories, jokes, reviews, reports -- anything is welcome. A bonus for contributors is that each article is worth worker points for those of you in the running for trophies at the upcoming MCO banquet (November 25th). This is also the last month with this cover. Next month will be the 2 colour cover that has been mentioned often this year, but was delayed until the November issue. Perhaps appropriately, as it will be distributed at the Annual General Meeting, where we will see the new club executive. The new cover will be cheaper to produce, which will directly effect the cash flow of the club. Until then, I hope you enjoy this edition of the Link. - Richard Muise
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2000 CASC-OR SOLO I EVENTS April 2nd Open House CSC Racing Products April 29th,30th School Mosport April 30th Lapping Day Mosport May 13th Event #1 SMP May 14th Event #2 SMP June 16th Lapping Evening SMP June 17th Event #3 SMP June 18th Event #4 SMP July 15th Event #5 Mosport July 16th Event #6 Mosport August 5th Event #7 St. Eustache. Que. August 6th Event #8 St. Eustache. Que. August 18th Lapping Day Mosport August 19th Event #9 Mosport August 20th Event #10 Mosport September 9th Event #11 SMP September 10th Event #12 SMP National and Regional Performance Rally Schedules http://www3.sympatico.ca/rally.cars/english.html The Link editorial staff provides this calendar for your convenience. Although we attempt to ensure its accuracy, you should always verify events with the event's organizers.
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Rally Affiliation
by Jaak Laan forward by Rob Microys There has been some continuing puzzlement as to the MCO's position towards becoming affiliated with Rally Sport Ontario (RSO) and Canadian Association of Rally Sport (CARS) and the financial arrangements that are in place between CASC-OR and these rally sanctioning bodies. Jaak's article, originally published in the June 2000 issue of The Link, describes the relationship between the organizations as it is in place today, and intention of the current executive, which the new executive in November will hopefully also support fully. As a side note there currently are a number of other dually affiliated clubs who use the formal agreement which exists between CASC-OR and RSO, including BEMC, TAC, PMSC, StCat. We hope that the members of the club intend on supporting this. The original article as printed follows There has been some confusing information about the allocation of membership fees with MCO affiliating with the national rally sanctioning body. The facts are relatively simple and are part of a formal arrangement made with the Canadian Automobile Sport Clubs (CASC-OR), the Canadian Association of Rally Sport (CARS) and their various regional organizations. First the facts... MCO (the club, not individual members) will pay $100 annually to join the national body, the Canadian Association of Rally Sport (CARS). $50 will then go from CARS to Rally Sport Ontario (RSO). As per a formal arrangement with CASC, affiliated clubs then decide independently whether to, and how, to split the members' CASC-OR fee so that their members can be officially part of rallies according to two possible options: (1) (PROPOSED) MCO would choose that the $15 CASC-OR fee be split ONLY for those members who choose to affiliate with RSO. In that case, for those members only, $7.50 would go to CASC and $7.50 to RSO. For the majority of MCO members who are not interested in rallying, ALL of their $15 would continue to go to CASC-OR as usual. OR, the other option... (2) (NOT being proposed) MCO could choose that the $15 is split equally for all members i.e. $7.50 to CASC-OR and $7.50 to RSO. Under Option 1, if five current members check off the rally option on their membership application form that would mean $37.50 less annually going from our
club to CASC-OR and instead going to support rallying. Those members would still be supporting CASC-OR with the other half of their fees. That would still leave CASC-OR receiving $2,512.50 from MCO members if we continue with having 170 members. Even if double that many people, say 10 MCO members, choose to support rallying, CASC-OR would still get $2,475 from us and RSO would get $75 from members' levies. As MCO membership has been growing, CASC will actually receive more money from us over the next year, not less. At the May Executive meeting, your Executive decided unanimously that MCO should affiliate with rallying according to Option 1 in time for our members to plan for the 2001 season. That will mean that this coming December, after the Annual General Meeting where members elect their next Executive, MCO will contact CARS, will submit the $100 for the calendar year 2001, and then will amend our MCO membership application form to allow members the option of directing $7.50 from their $15 CASC fee to rallying. The benefits to MCO members who choose the rally option will be that they will be able to earn points and compete in road rally championships such as the Yokohama Winter Rally series or the whole Ontario Road Rally Championship that has events throughout the year and also qualify for travel money and prizes. With MCO becoming rally affiliated those members who choose the rally support option can also apply for regional and national performance rally licences and compete in Canadian performance rallies as MCO members. MCO currently has one member from Ottawa who is competing in regional performance rallies but as we are not currently rally affiliated he and his navigator are members of another club that is rally affiliated and compete as members of that club. A couple of MCO members last winter joined other Ontario motorsport clubs so that they could qualify for championships, prizes and travel monies in road rallying. Hopefully, these members will choose to remain part of our club when we are rally affiliated in 2001. And a final opportunity for growth, should MCO members wish to organize rallies our events can end up being part of Ontario series.
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Solo:
Solo Events Champion overall winner of the winter and summer series Order of the Bent Valve 2nd overall winner of the summer and winter series Dow's Lake winner of the summer Solo series Bridgestone Blizzak Cup winter solo champion Novice Slalom Champion most points by a novice solo competitor Solo Fanatic one who has put forth more than required, for the love of the sport
Workers:
Gary Hunt Memorial worker of the year Top Female Worker Female with the most worker points Order of the Holed Piston top novice worker The Golden Pen most LINK contributions
Rally:
Rally Driver Trophy best achievement by rally driver L. Smith Trophy best achievement by rally navigator
Racing:
MCO Racing Champion Race driver of the year, usually the one who has the most points Frank Hick's Sedan through sheer dedication and perseverance, obtained reasonable success in a closed wheel series Frank Hick's Formula through sheer dedication and perseverance obtained reasonable success in a formula series Hard Luck a member who perseveres against all odds Frank Hick's Technical one who shows good sportsmanship in contributing to the sport Paddock engineer a crew member who contributes to the success of club competitors Dewar Trophy novice race driver of the year
Other:
Ladies Cup top female competitor in solo, rally, or racing Annual achievement notable achievement by a member in competition or furthering the club Ted Powell Award not awarded very often, given for lifetime achievement and outstanding contributions to motorsport
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odometer reading. You then compare it to the instructions, and calculate your correction factor that you will use for every instruction for the rest of the rally. We will explain how to do this during the pre-event seminar. This is the only calculation required, but it is CRITICAL or you WILL get lost. You just keeping multiplying every distance reading in the instructions by this correction factor. You also work ahead so you're not scrambling when the turns are close. The Highland Rally is designed for people who have never done this before, so we will not be trying to trick you in any way. You still will have to pay attention to the navigation and go through all the usual steps. You still will have to follow your navigator's instructions with good humour. You may still have to forgive your navigator for errors and be patient as they figure out where they went wrong. And hopefully your navigator will not have to forgive you for any driving errors.
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Butler. While the weather was atrocious, the entries were good and everyone had fun, including yours truly, who acted as a checkpoint. And, I did not get lost. If you read early Links you will find I got lost in my very first rally. However, many of the novice rallyists from the hightech firm of LEARNIX did. Methinks the rally was trifle too difficult. Next time - go easy on the beginners so they will come back. Just finished running the EVCC ELECTROTHON at Paul Swinwood's Quyon go-kart track. Only four entries, unfortunately, and only two starters. One more joined the fray with 20 minutes left in the one-hour event. But, everyone had fun - we had a 'dice' for the leadsort of a tortoise and
hare kind of thing. The tortoise won by the way. (see photos below - Ed) Much thanks to Bob McLeod (older ex-member), Sam Mandia, Richard Muise and Dave Butler (albeit a wee tardy himself). We are going to do it again next June at Capital City Speedway. If you have not participated -- do so - it's way cool. Remember --- get involved and stand for office. It's your club.
Below: This was the second place entry. It started very strongly, lapping vehicle #46 roughly every 4 laps, but it ran ot of juice about mid-way through the event. A number of driver changes didn't seem to help. This dark blue electric beast seems to echo the lines of the Silk-Cut Jaguars at Le Mans. Above: This was the winner of the EVCC. A well made, sleek three-wheeler, it won the race, despite being lapped repeatedly during the first half of the race. Style-wise, it was reminiscent of the rocket-powered Bonneville Salt Flats record holders.
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Solo-I
by Jaak Laan Six MCO members participated in the August 7 and 8 Solo I events at the exTransport Canada test facility now run by PMG Technologies at Blainville, just north of Montreal. Results, general information and even maps to get there are at www.soloontario.com . PMG's website with photos is at http://www.pmgtest.com/. This event was supposed to have been held at the Ste. Eustache track, but Blainville worked out well, at least for novices like me. I had never been there, and the speeds were pretty high - which meant the opportunity to learn heavier braking from higher speeds. The track was laid out beginning with cones on the huge paved test area, and then streaked slightly downhill (I think I was doing about 140 km/h) on a straight towards an almost 180 degree corner onto the concrete straight. We were able to use most of one straight of the 5.5 mile banked oval track. Runoff room at the end of the straight if you didn't make the 180 degree turn was the banking (tempting!). I hit 170 km/h in my wee stock Civic, and was still accelerating before having to brake to about 20 km/h for the corner. The track then scooted through a sea of cones, marking out some interesting corners, back to the start/finish line. Grip is good on the whole track, perhaps because it is nice and flat and
clean. Despite being warned about it, I did not experience extra tire wear. The long straight was concrete and was actually rather surprisingly undulating. When I got it up to 170 km/h at the end it seemed to smooth out, but more likely I was just a tad distracted by picking my braking point! I think it would be pretty frightening to come off that 35 degree banking in some fast car and whistle down those narrow straights. I am told that some character called Eddie Irvine had some difficulty at this venue, scraping the side of an XJ-R on the guardrail during a Jaguar press day at the time of the Canadian GP this year made me respect the place. It is an interesting facility what with tight security...we had to be escorted 2 km in to our paddock five cars at a time etc. Depending on how you drive, it is about 1.5 to 1.75 hours from Ottawa. The L.A.P.S. (l'Association des Pilotes Solo) people who ran the event for the interprovincial gang were very nice folk and seemed to be well organized. After the first run they used their computer to slot people into a run order with fastest going first. Then they used the huge open paddock area to line us up in side by side rows of five cars each. Each five car row went out on the track together. While most of the real race cars from Ontario didn't make the trip, the field was brightened up by a new black Corvette which arrived on a black trailer pulled by a black ML55 Mercedes sport ute. That
Corvette just accelerated like wild fire. But I probably had as much fun on 2% of his budget! Perhaps most unusually there were I believe 5 brightly coloured T-Rex trikes. These things cost something like $38,000 and have mid engined Kawasaki bike motors (163 hp for 900 lbs.) with 6 spd. sequential transmissions and very open bodys. Your legs go over the open suspension pieces and you can see ground around your knees. Huge single rear wheels (315 width) which they kept smoking off the line. Scary creatures. They are street legal in Quebec but I don't think I would want to be passing a semitrailer truck on the inside with one of these things looking up at the truck's whirling hubs. Would be fun to try on a track though. T-Rex site at http://www.go-t-rex.com/ Having done the Solo I driving school, a lapping day and two Solo I events this year to try it out I can recommend it to others. It is a great opportunity to drive on race tracks at the lowest cost. These people are very good drivers with some pretty hot cars but everybody seems to be treated the samewe're all there to race. I used my stock old Civic on worn street tires and I was as welcomed as anybody. I'll be back for more!
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A brief regular meeting will take place at 8pm, followed by the annual general meeting. During this the actions of the past executive will be ratified and voting on any new issues will occur. If you would like to propose any changes to the bylaws or issues for voting, you must submit the exact wording to the Link Editors by Sept 18th, to be printed in the October issue. They can be reached at link@mco.org. If you require a copy of the bylaws please contact one of the executive members on the inside of the front cover. Attendance at this meeting is MANDATORY, as we require a minimum of 33% of the members to be present for a quorum. As many of you know, we have had difficulty in achieving even this small number in past years and resulted in a massive phone campaign and a second meeting. Anyone living more than 80km from the City of Ottawa may vote by proxy. A form has been included in this issue of the Link.
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their yard for parking, about $15 to $40 per day. I imagine from the air, you wouldn't be able to see any grass for at least a mile around the track. Sunday had terrible weather, never quite raining, but constantly cold and damp, and I wondered what was the record for the coldest F1 race. The stands, being at a permanent facility, had more room than the temporary stands at the Toronto Molson Indy. But 8 hours is a long time to be sitting in any stands. barely make out the south-end grandstands. And to walk around the entire course is a long, long hike. The qualifying was interesting, with McLaren using a high-speed draft from Mika to catapult DC into second place on the grid. But it was all Schumacher's weekend, starting with winning the pole position. The crowd, both at the track, and on the local news reports, where very much behind Michael. Later Saturday was a Porsche Pirella Supercup race, the first of the two scheduled during the weekend. This was the first race on the new course. Mario Andretti and Little Al drove, but were not very competitive (they were not running for points, and were really just celebrity drivers for the race). Again Sunday we left for the track very early, trying to get there when some parking was still available. We parked on a front lawn about 6 blocks from the track. Most of the homeowners around the IMS track rent out There were two races Sunday morning, the second Porsche Pirelli Supercup race, and the Ferrari Challenge. Both races provided some good racing, the wet weather accounting for a few drivers missing their lines. The Ferrari race was entirely amateurs, in the sense that there was no prize money, and most of the drivers owned the car they drove. Some went home with some expensive damage to repair About an hour before the F1 race started was the drivers' parade. Michael easily got the most fanfare, but interestingly both Jacques and DC were a close second and third, followed by a smattering of applause for the current champion Mika. Our seats were at the far north end of the track, and we could watch everything from the end of the front straight through turn-6 of the 13turn course. If we had had seats another 150 feet to our right (closer to the first turn), I think we would have been able to see the back straight and turn 7 as well. The race itself was lots of fun. For those of you that have not had the pleasure of attending the Montreal GP, F1 races are painfully loud, and you need ear protection! Michael had a good race, winning from the pole. But for me, the best racing was the dice between Jacques and Heinz-Harold Frentzen. Jacques almost had a podium finish, but was not able to complete and hold the pass for third place, and was less than a second adrift at the checkered flag. I'm looking forward to going again. I didn't get an opportunity to see the IMS museum, and I think I'll try for different seats closer to the track. And I'm definitely going back for the Indy500 in the coming years.
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For Sale/Wanted
THREE HAASE PRO SERIES BLIZZARDS 1. Ready to Race 125 cc Shifter Kart TM 125 cc engine. Only 8 hours testing. Mint condition. Raced 3 times. Engine rebuilt June 2000 Purchased from PTK Racing October 1998. Ready to race price new: $ 11,000 Will sell for: $ 7,900 Will sell chassis ready for your own motor for $ 2,999 2. Ready to Race 80 cc Shifter Kart Honda CR 80 engine. Only 6 hours testing. As new. Raced 4 times. Purchased from PTK Racing April 2000 Ready to race price new: $ 8,900 Will sell for: $ 6,995 3. Chassis for 80 cc Shifter, F-100 or InterContinental engines 8 races only. Will sell for $ 1,799. Can add engine to suit Call: Jeff at (613) 726-2943; Email: jeff.watson@sympatico.ca EMPLOYMENT Race team looking for 2 individuals to aid with Year 2000 CASCAR team running CARQUEST Series and Formula 1200 team. The main focus for these individuals will be on helping team with marketing responsibilities for the team's various sponsors. This is a PAID position. You will also be shown the ropes on how to attain and retain sponsors in the racing world. Excellent opportunity for someone who is trying to get involved in the racing industry. Contact Dave Connelly (613) 623-8379 or e-mail connellyracing@hotmail.com See the team's website at www.connellyracing.com
VW RACING PARTS FOR SALE Bilstein racing shocks and springs, Neuspeed sway bars, ARP hardware, Heads (2.0L 16 Valve), Schrick Cams, Techtonics Lifters, Lightened Flywheel, Kevlar Clutch (for 8 valve shaft). Other racing and stock parts available. Call Sean 836-3766 for details and prices. TIRES WANTED Eight (yep, thats right, 8) used FF dry racing tires. Please call Robert Chartrand @ 725-9229. FOR SALE Yamaha Seca 650. Mint condition. Always stored indoors. $1,200. 19,000 km. 550 lbs+73 hp = 12.83 1/4 mile. Shaft drive, four into two chrome exhaust and new tires. Includes luggage rack, removable windscreen, $250 one piece rain suit, three helmets including a $550 Arai. Not licenced for two years. Contact Jaak Laan at (613) 943-2520 or Email: jaaklaan1@yahoo.com WHEELS FOR SALE 4 6X14" alloy wheels from Datsun 280ZX. Also 4 5.5X14" wheels from Toyota Corolla GTS. Will fit other cars with 4X11? bolt pattern. Must sell. Call Frank at 613-722-1580 evgs.
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