From weslake1330 at gmail.com Tue Aug 3 12:12:21 2021 From: weslake1330 at gmail.com (Weslake1330) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 19:12:21 +0100 Subject: [Spridgets] British Public Information films - LBC content Message-ID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1onqlkdL1hk&list=PL16X_AqEPtslhvdJIzAhHWXDG50McMh6_&index=8 The guy at the end is driving a Mk 3 Ford Cortina - I had one that was similar. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dwoerpel at wi.net Tue Aug 3 16:26:28 2021 From: dwoerpel at wi.net (David Woerpel) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 17:26:28 -0500 Subject: [Spridgets] British Public Information films - LBC content In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Daniel, Love those Cortinas.? The Blunder series should have an American version for texting!? They could have made the series with Hyacinth Bucket of "Keeping up Appearances".?? Thanks for sending. Dave W. '59 :{) '59 MGA 1500 Burlington WI "Pay It Forward" On 8/3/2021 1:12 PM, Weslake1330 via Spridgets wrote: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1onqlkdL1hk&list=PL16X_AqEPtslhvdJIzAhHWXDG50McMh6_&index=8 > > > The guy at the end is driving a Mk 3 Ford Cortina - I had one that was > similar. > > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/dwoerpel at wi.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ryan.kubanoff at comcast.net Thu Aug 5 15:41:36 2021 From: ryan.kubanoff at comcast.net (Ryan) Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2021 17:41:36 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] 74 grill surround?? Message-ID: Was the grill surround painted satin black to match the grill or was it polished shiny? My bonnet lip was bright and shiny but the surround is satin black except for the very front edge?? Thanks Ryan Sent from my iPhone From jorkin at emory.edu Fri Aug 6 04:24:37 2021 From: jorkin at emory.edu (Orkin, Jack L) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2021 10:24:37 +0000 Subject: [Spridgets] [External] 74 grill surround?? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Yes, that is the way it is on my '74 also. Jack ________________________________ From: Spridgets on behalf of Ryan via Spridgets Sent: Thursday, August 5, 2021 5:41 PM To: Spridgets Subject: [External] [Spridgets] 74 grill surround?? Was the grill surround painted satin black to match the grill or was it polished shiny? My bonnet lip was bright and shiny but the surround is satin black except for the very front edge?? 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URL: From refisk at chartermi.net Fri Aug 6 06:15:39 2021 From: refisk at chartermi.net (Rick Fisk) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2021 08:15:39 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] 74 grill surround?? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3452D4AA-E3AE-4A76-B30E-1A67903DFB57@chartermi.net> That is correct for a '74. > On Aug 6, 2021, at 12:59 AM, Ryan via Spridgets wrote: > > ?Was the grill surround painted satin black to match the grill or was it polished shiny? My bonnet lip was bright and shiny but the surround is satin black except for the very front edge?? > Thanks > Ryan > > Sent from my iPhone > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/refisk at chartermi.net From stanbmason at aol.com Fri Aug 6 18:11:32 2021 From: stanbmason at aol.com (stanbmason at aol.com) Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2021 00:11:32 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Spridgets] Grattan Spridget Paddock Assignments References: <2124189000.61115.1628295092490.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <2124189000.61115.1628295092490@mail.yahoo.com> Criteria for 2021Grattan Parking (Revision 8/6/2021) This is our 10th year for the SMRS (Sprite MidgetRace Series).? We are very thankful forsome of our Texas friends who are bringing some very special one off SpritePrototypes as part of the celebration.?We have had a great turnout of 26 racing Spridgets and counting at thistime.? Our Spridget Paddock area islimited and I am asking that you unload your race car and place it under yourportable awning next to your enclosed trailer (this allows most racers to have10 foot to park your trailer perpendicular to road and 10 foot for your awning).? If you have an open trailer you can unloadyour car and gear with a 10-15 foot space perpendicular to road and locate yourtrailer in another area.? I am requestingthat you place your tow vehicles on the outside of the track so there will bemore room in the Spridget Paddock.? Allcrew cars will also be parked on the outside of the track.? The only exception will be those with specialexceptions.? A criteria for who will beallowed a parking site within the Spridget Paddock was necessary honoring thosethat have contributed to our club.? Wewere not able to expand our typical Paddock Space.? I know this is not what we had hoped for, butwith the increased numbers overall for Grattan it has made it necessary toestablish a criteria for paddocking in our traditional Spridget Area.? The attached map shows who will be givenspecial colored tags to enter the Spridget Paddock, which you will receive atregistration from your car.? Stan Masonwill be assisting with placing you into the appropriate Spridget Paddock location.? These decision were not easy and is not apersonal decision.? The following is thecriteria for those selected: ?????????SMRS Supporters (Awards, Poster, Sponsors) ?????????VSCDA Officers and Workers (position, eventchairmen) ?????????Open trailers (that eat up less room and can beplaced on row 2 west end) ?????????Texas Guests If there are any of the people listed on the map that wouldlike to be located outside track please let me know soon. All other Spridgets joining us will be located on theexterior of track at top of hill near the front straight. I appreciate everyone?s understanding in this unique year. ? I look forward to seeing everyone for this great event. ? Stan Mason -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Grattan Paddock Spridget Map 8.6.21.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 39736 bytes Desc: not available URL: From stanbmason at aol.com Fri Aug 6 18:19:06 2021 From: stanbmason at aol.com (stanbmason at aol.com) Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2021 00:19:06 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Spridgets] Fwd: Grattan Spridget Paddock Assignments In-Reply-To: <2124189000.61115.1628295092490@mail.yahoo.com> References: <2124189000.61115.1628295092490.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <2124189000.61115.1628295092490@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <52537708.54666.1628295547124@mail.yahoo.com> Criteria for 2021Grattan Parking (Revision 8/6/2021) This is our 10th year for the SMRS (Sprite MidgetRace Series).? We are very thankful forsome of our Texas friends who are bringing some very special one off SpritePrototypes as part of the celebration.?We have had a great turnout of 26 racing Spridgets and counting at thistime.? Our Spridget Paddock area islimited and I am asking that you unload your race car and place it under yourportable awning next to your enclosed trailer (this allows most racers to have10 foot to park your trailer perpendicular to road and 10 foot for your awning).? If you have an open trailer you can unloadyour car and gear with a 10-15 foot space perpendicular to road and locate yourtrailer in another area.? I am requestingthat you place your tow vehicles on the outside of the track so there will bemore room in the Spridget Paddock.? Allcrew cars will also be parked on the outside of the track.? The only exception will be those with specialexceptions.? A criteria for who will beallowed a parking site within the Spridget Paddock was necessary honoring thosethat have contributed to our club.? Wewere not able to expand our typical Paddock Space.? I know this is not what we had hoped for, butwith the increased numbers overall for Grattan it has made it necessary toestablish a criteria for paddocking in our traditional Spridget Area.? The attached map shows who will be givenspecial colored tags to enter the Spridget Paddock, which you will receive atregistration from your car.? Stan Masonwill be assisting with placing you into the appropriate Spridget Paddock location.? These decision were not easy and is not apersonal decision.? The following is thecriteria for those selected: ?????????SMRS Supporters (Awards, Poster, Sponsors) ?????????VSCDA Officers and Workers (position, eventchairmen) ?????????Open trailers (that eat up less room and can beplaced on row 2 west end) ?????????Texas Guests If there are any of the people listed on the map that wouldlike to be located outside track please let me know soon. All other Spridgets joining us will be located on theexterior of track at top of hill near the front straight. I appreciate everyone?s understanding in this unique year. ? I look forward to seeing everyone for this great event. ? Stan Mason -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Grattan Paddock Spridget Map 8.6.21.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 39736 bytes Desc: not available URL: From crusaderchuck55 at aol.com Sat Aug 7 01:28:13 2021 From: crusaderchuck55 at aol.com (crusaderchuck55 at aol.com) Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2021 07:28:13 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Spridgets] 3/4" brake master part References: <1945597795.553302.1628321293554.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1945597795.553302.1628321293554@mail.yahoo.com> Of all the stupid things....I have a 3/4" bore master cylinder that just did not work.? ?Took it apart to find its MISSING a part!? ?Does anyone have the little valve that sits all the way down in the bore that maintains residual pressure in the lines?? I have a new rubber piece that fits into the part , I'm missing the metal part that usually is stuck into the end of the spring...Chuck? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stanbmason at aol.com Tue Aug 10 01:32:35 2021 From: stanbmason at aol.com (stanbmason at aol.com) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 07:32:35 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Spridgets] Grattan Update SMRS References: <708391111.567499.1628580755591.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <708391111.567499.1628580755591@mail.yahoo.com> Spridget Peoples, I just wanted to provide an overview of our upcoming 10th Year of Sprite Midget Race Series (SMRS and end of season awards at Grattan this upcoming weekend.? We are going to have a great time on and off the track as usual.? This event is potentially the largest that VSCDA has had at Grattan.? It is also our largest SMRS turn out of 25 plus Spridgets Racing exceeding the previous 23 high during the MG event that gave us a windfall of Midgets.? In addition we have added a Street and Race Spridget Car Show Saturday along with a special street Spridget parade lap prior to exclusive Spridget Race on Saturday evening.? Parking this many race cars in our traditional Spridget Compound was not possible.? I issued a map of the Spridget Compound and race cars that will be parked in this area recently.? If you are not on that map then you will be located in a parking place by Kathy Newton.? Please thank her for the tough job she has of fitting everyone in.? I know this is not what we have traditionally experienced for some, but the growth of this event did not allow for all of us to be in the Spridget Compoound.? ?I would like to encourage everyone to come down to the Spridget Compound at the end of each Day where we have special celebrations planned:? ? - Friday evening we will open up the Cape of Good Hope Pub with recognition of our Healey Heroes and presentation by Steve Coleman on their Historic Sprite Prototypes? ? - Saturday evening Cape Of Good Hope again with Street and Race Spridget Car Show results along with Spridget Race 1st place results per class announced ? ? - Sunday Lunch at Cape Of Good Hope we will announce end of season awards and special awards (at this time I have not received the physical awards, but we will find away to distribute if they do not arrive in time) We are going to have lots of cars on the track for Group 2 and also in the Exclusive Sprite Midget Race.? Please keep the Vintage Spirit in mind and leave the Red Mist out!? I will have ballots for our special awards that will need to be completed by Saturday night.? The Jim Donato "Most Respected Driver Award" is the attitude we should carry out on the race track, which are identified below:?a.??????Criteria: A driver that exemplifies the meaningof a Vintage Sports Car Driver includes: Predictable: Stayson racing line and points racers by when being passed or when passing.? Makes sure that over taking driver knows ofhis presence when they are about to be passed and allows room and goodjudgement. Confident &Observant: Uses mirrors and is aware of others racing near them. Respectful: Confirmsthat their race car is mechanically sound and will not cause others to beinjured from improper maintenance.? Cansit down with other competitors and enjoy their company after any session. Objective: open toother?s comments, Drives Defensively, adjusts for conditions safely regardlessof other driver?s interaction. I look forward to seeing all of you again and enjoying your company!Stan Mason -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stanbmason at aol.com Tue Aug 10 01:34:31 2021 From: stanbmason at aol.com (stanbmason at aol.com) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 07:34:31 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Spridgets] Fwd: Grattan Update SMRS In-Reply-To: <1242638589.562464.1628580814137@mail.yahoo.com> References: <708391111.567499.1628580755591.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <708391111.567499.1628580755591@mail.yahoo.com> <1242638589.562464.1628580814137@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <773483635.531747.1628580871719@mail.yahoo.com> Spridget Peoples, I just wanted to provide an overview of our upcoming 10th Year of Sprite Midget Race Series (SMRS and end of season awards at Grattan this upcoming weekend.? We are going to have a great time on and off the track as usual.? This event is potentially the largest that VSCDA has had at Grattan.? It is also our largest SMRS turn out of 25 plus Spridgets Racing exceeding the previous 23 high during the MG event that gave us a windfall of Midgets.? In addition we have added a Street and Race Spridget Car Show Saturday along with a special street Spridget parade lap prior to exclusive Spridget Race on Saturday evening.? Parking this many race cars in our traditional Spridget Compound was not possible.? I issued a map of the Spridget Compound and race cars that will be parked in this area recently.? If you are not on that map then you will be located in a parking place by Kathy Newton.? Please thank her for the tough job she has of fitting everyone in.? I know this is not what we have traditionally experienced for some, but the growth of this event did not allow for all of us to be in the Spridget Compoound.? ?I would like to encourage everyone to come down to the Spridget Compound at the end of each Day where we have special celebrations planned:? ? - Friday evening we will open up the Cape of Good Hope Pub with recognition of our Healey Heroes and presentation by Steve Coleman on their Historic Sprite Prototypes? ? - Saturday evening Cape Of Good Hope again with Street and Race Spridget Car Show results along with Spridget Race 1st place results per class announced ? ? - Sunday Lunch at Cape Of Good Hope we will announce end of season awards and special awards (at this time I have not received the physical awards, but we will find away to distribute if they do not arrive in time) We are going to have lots of cars on the track for Group 2 and also in the Exclusive Sprite Midget Race.? Please keep the Vintage Spirit in mind and leave the Red Mist out!? I will have ballots for our special awards that will need to be completed by Saturday night.? The Jim Donato "Most Respected Driver Award" is the attitude we should carry out on the race track, which are identified below:?a.??????Criteria: A driver that exemplifies the meaningof a Vintage Sports Car Driver includes: Predictable: Stayson racing line and points racers by when being passed or when passing.? Makes sure that over taking driver knows ofhis presence when they are about to be passed and allows room and goodjudgement. Confident &Observant: Uses mirrors and is aware of others racing near them. Respectful: Confirmsthat their race car is mechanically sound and will not cause others to beinjured from improper maintenance.? Cansit down with other competitors and enjoy their company after any session. Objective: open toother?s comments, Drives Defensively, adjusts for conditions safely regardlessof other driver?s interaction. I look forward to seeing all of you again and enjoying your company!Stan Mason -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From weslake1330 at gmail.com Wed Aug 11 07:45:11 2021 From: weslake1330 at gmail.com (Weslake1330) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 14:45:11 +0100 Subject: [Spridgets] Australians only? - Carbon Fibre dash - RHD toggle switch - 4 Aux gauges Message-ID: Hi List, The 4 auxiliary gauge dash I made to be used as a mould for a carbon-fibre copy is finally with a Carbon-Fibre manufacturer. The plan is they will make and sell them and everyone gets the benefit of all the time and money I spent making the dash (though I guess I will sell it after I have my carbon dash and keep my old dash as a spare). Probably a decade ago when I first talked about doing this the interest was from the Australians. Well the company making the dashes will export to Australia. Not sure what the shipping cost will be but I'd guess it would be cost effective to have several dashes shipped together as they would go by volume rather than weight. Other news - no news on Samco hoses. Regards Daniel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From refisk at chartermi.net Wed Aug 11 07:58:49 2021 From: refisk at chartermi.net (Rick Fisk) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 09:58:49 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] Australians only? - Carbon Fibre dash - RHD toggle switch - 4 Aux gauges In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1F176E49-917D-46AB-A178-78B301C1B524@chartermi.net> Pictures, we like pictures. > On Aug 11, 2021, at 9:46 AM, Weslake1330 via Spridgets wrote: > > ? > Hi List, > > The 4 auxiliary gauge dash I made to be used as a mould for a carbon-fibre copy is finally with a Carbon-Fibre manufacturer. The plan is they will make and sell them and everyone gets the benefit of all the time and money I spent making the dash (though I guess I will sell it after I have my carbon dash and keep my old dash as a spare). > > Probably a decade ago when I first talked about doing this the interest was from the Australians. Well the company making the dashes will export to Australia. Not sure what the shipping cost will be but I'd guess it would be cost effective to have several dashes shipped together as they would go by volume rather than weight. > > Other news - no news on Samco hoses. > > Regards > > > Daniel > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/refisk at chartermi.net From tequila.brad at gmail.com Wed Aug 11 11:12:49 2021 From: tequila.brad at gmail.com (Brad Fornal) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 12:12:49 -0500 Subject: [Spridgets] Australians only? - Carbon Fibre dash - RHD toggle switch - 4 Aux gauges In-Reply-To: <1F176E49-917D-46AB-A178-78B301C1B524@chartermi.net> References: <1F176E49-917D-46AB-A178-78B301C1B524@chartermi.net> Message-ID: Pictures Guv'na, say no more, say no more, knowing wink!! On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 8:59 AM Rick Fisk via Spridgets < spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > Pictures, we like pictures. > > > On Aug 11, 2021, at 9:46 AM, Weslake1330 via Spridgets < > spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > > > > ? > > Hi List, > > > > The 4 auxiliary gauge dash I made to be used as a mould for a > carbon-fibre copy is finally with a Carbon-Fibre manufacturer. The plan is > they will make and sell them and everyone gets the benefit of all the time > and money I spent making the dash (though I guess I will sell it after I > have my carbon dash and keep my old dash as a spare). > > > > Probably a decade ago when I first talked about doing this the interest > was from the Australians. Well the company making the dashes will export > to Australia. Not sure what the shipping cost will be but I'd guess it > would be cost effective to have several dashes shipped together as they > would go by volume rather than weight. > > > > Other news - no news on Samco hoses. > > > > Regards > > > > > > Daniel > > ------------------------ > > > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/refisk at chartermi.net > > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/tequila.brad at gmail.com > -- DON JULIO 1942 http://tequilabrad.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From billyzoom at billyzoom.com Sat Aug 14 14:24:47 2021 From: billyzoom at billyzoom.com (Billy Zoom) Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 13:24:47 -0700 Subject: [Spridgets] Lawn Mower Racing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1BDA1F1B-3253-45AC-92D6-AD7003050E82@billyzoom.com> No bladed? Well that?s no fun! From jimndi at frontiernet.net Sun Aug 15 06:56:43 2021 From: jimndi at frontiernet.net (Jim) Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 08:56:43 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] dashboard switch References: <889415d4-a6a5-d5fa-5f19-b8396cd2e69e.ref@frontiernet.net> Message-ID: <889415d4-a6a5-d5fa-5f19-b8396cd2e69e@frontiernet.net> I'm Restoring a 1960 bugeye that I did not disassemble. I have 2 dashboards that each have a provision for a slide switch on the lower left underside of the dash. What is this switch used for and additionally where should the flasher unit be properly mounted? Thank You. Jim Fournier , Huguenot , NY From cosmicmag1380 at gmail.com Sun Aug 15 10:45:40 2021 From: cosmicmag1380 at gmail.com (CosmicMag1380) Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 12:45:40 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] dashboard switch In-Reply-To: <889415d4-a6a5-d5fa-5f19-b8396cd2e69e@frontiernet.net> References: <889415d4-a6a5-d5fa-5f19-b8396cd2e69e.ref@frontiernet.net> <889415d4-a6a5-d5fa-5f19-b8396cd2e69e@frontiernet.net> Message-ID: The slide switch is to turn off the dash lights. I don't remember for certain about the flasher mount but I want to say that there is a spring clip that it snaps into. Probably on the firewall somewhere. Kent On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 8:57 AM Jim via Spridgets wrote: > I'm Restoring a 1960 bugeye that I did not disassemble. I have 2 > dashboards that each have a provision for a slide switch on the lower > left underside of the dash. What is this switch used for and > additionally where should the flasher unit be properly mounted? Thank You. > > Jim Fournier , > > Huguenot , NY > > > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/cosmicmag1380 at gmail.com > -- Kent 1960 Bugeye 1983 Garage full of spridget parts! 2017 Home built shed full of excess spridget parts!!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pvanwig at mac.com Sun Aug 15 11:57:49 2021 From: pvanwig at mac.com (Paul Van Wig) Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 10:57:49 -0700 Subject: [Spridgets] dashboard switch In-Reply-To: References: <889415d4-a6a5-d5fa-5f19-b8396cd2e69e.ref@frontiernet.net> <889415d4-a6a5-d5fa-5f19-b8396cd2e69e@frontiernet.net> Message-ID: http://www.gerardsgarage.com/Garage/Tech/Cables_wires_lo2.htm Paul Van Wig Big Bear/Lakewood, CA [image: image.gif] [image: Mailtrack] Sender notified by Mailtrack 08/15/21, 10:57:42 AM On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 9:46 AM CosmicMag1380 via Spridgets < spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > The slide switch is to turn off the dash lights. I don't remember for > certain about the flasher mount but I want to say that there is a spring > clip that it snaps into. Probably on the firewall somewhere. > > Kent > > > On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 8:57 AM Jim via Spridgets < > spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > >> I'm Restoring a 1960 bugeye that I did not disassemble. I have 2 >> dashboards that each have a provision for a slide switch on the lower >> left underside of the dash. What is this switch used for and >> additionally where should the flasher unit be properly mounted? Thank You. >> >> Jim Fournier , >> >> Huguenot , NY >> >> >> ------------------------ >> >> spridgets at autox.team.net >> >> Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html >> Suggested annual donation: $12.75 >> >> Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets >> http://autox.team.net/archive >> >> Unsubscribe/Manage: >> http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/cosmicmag1380 at gmail.com >> > > > -- > Kent > 1960 Bugeye > 1983 Garage full of spridget parts! > 2017 Home built shed full of excess spridget parts!!! > > > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/pvanwig at mac.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: Screen Shot 2021-08-15 at 10.24.18 AM.png Type: image/png Size: 166139 bytes Desc: not available URL: From soavero at yahoo.com Mon Aug 16 04:55:21 2021 From: soavero at yahoo.com (Ron Soave) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 05:55:21 -0500 Subject: [Spridgets] Like old times! References: <903114C1-79EA-442A-B742-C10A0A6A73E1.ref@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <903114C1-79EA-442A-B742-C10A0A6A73E1@yahoo.com> Howard Collins made it out from Virginia Beach to Grattan Raceway in Michigan this weekend to watch the VSCDA vintage races along with the 10th anniversary of our Spridget race series. What a great pleasure to meet a 20+ year list mate, and looking forward to other opportunities to hang out. In the past this list had many such meet-ups, and it was great to do it again. We put on a pretty good show, thankfully! Great weekend!! Ron Soave From refisk at chartermi.net Mon Aug 16 05:03:25 2021 From: refisk at chartermi.net (Rick Fisk) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 07:03:25 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] Like old times! In-Reply-To: <903114C1-79EA-442A-B742-C10A0A6A73E1@yahoo.com> References: <903114C1-79EA-442A-B742-C10A0A6A73E1@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <240BB672-41BB-4B4B-B0A5-3BD1A9905B0D@chartermi.net> It was great to meet Howard and get lapped by Ron (again). We had two factory Sprite race cars with fuel injected A-series engines with 8 port heads brought up from Texas to take part in the festivities. We had a great turnout of Sprites and Midgets and a good time! Rick > On Aug 16, 2021, at 6:55 AM, Ron Soave via Spridgets wrote: > > ?Howard Collins made it out from Virginia Beach to Grattan Raceway in Michigan this weekend to watch the VSCDA vintage races along with the 10th anniversary of our Spridget race series. What a great pleasure to meet a 20+ year list mate, and looking forward to other opportunities to hang out. In the past this list had many such meet-ups, and it was great to do it again. We put on a pretty good show, thankfully! Great weekend!! > > Ron Soave > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/refisk at chartermi.net From soavero at yahoo.com Mon Aug 16 05:29:33 2021 From: soavero at yahoo.com (Ron Soave) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 06:29:33 -0500 Subject: [Spridgets] Like old times! In-Reply-To: <240BB672-41BB-4B4B-B0A5-3BD1A9905B0D@chartermi.net> References: <240BB672-41BB-4B4B-B0A5-3BD1A9905B0D@chartermi.net> Message-ID: <4C1CCC35-6AF3-435C-8D5F-5DEE182E5B6D@yahoo.com> The Sprites Rick mentions: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image0.jpeg Type: image/jpeg Size: 174115 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- Ron Soave > On Aug 16, 2021, at 6:03 AM, Rick Fisk wrote: > > ?It was great to meet Howard and get lapped by Ron (again). We had two factory Sprite race cars with fuel injected A-series engines with 8 port heads brought up from Texas to take part in the festivities. We had a great turnout of Sprites and Midgets and a good time! > > Rick > >> On Aug 16, 2021, at 6:55 AM, Ron Soave via Spridgets wrote: >> >> ?Howard Collins made it out from Virginia Beach to Grattan Raceway in Michigan this weekend to watch the VSCDA vintage races along with the 10th anniversary of our Spridget race series. What a great pleasure to meet a 20+ year list mate, and looking forward to other opportunities to hang out. In the past this list had many such meet-ups, and it was great to do it again. We put on a pretty good show, thankfully! Great weekend!! >> >> Ron Soave >> ------------------------ >> >> spridgets at autox.team.net >> >> Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html >> Suggested annual donation: $12.75 >> >> Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets http://autox.team.net/archive >> >> Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/refisk at chartermi.net > From soavero at yahoo.com Mon Aug 16 05:36:45 2021 From: soavero at yahoo.com (Ron Soave) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 06:36:45 -0500 Subject: [Spridgets] Like old times! In-Reply-To: <4C1CCC35-6AF3-435C-8D5F-5DEE182E5B6D@yahoo.com> References: <4C1CCC35-6AF3-435C-8D5F-5DEE182E5B6D@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <19F83DA6-446A-4A76-8D0D-3233D63E689A@yahoo.com> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image0.jpeg Type: image/jpeg Size: 168670 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- Ron Soave > On Aug 16, 2021, at 6:30 AM, Ron Soave via Spridgets wrote: > > ?The Sprites Rick mentions: > > > > Ron Soave > >> On Aug 16, 2021, at 6:03 AM, Rick Fisk wrote: >> >> ?It was great to meet Howard and get lapped by Ron (again). We had two factory Sprite race cars with fuel injected A-series engines with 8 port heads brought up from Texas to take part in the festivities. We had a great turnout of Sprites and Midgets and a good time! >> >> Rick >> >>>> On Aug 16, 2021, at 6:55 AM, Ron Soave via Spridgets wrote: >>> >>> ?Howard Collins made it out from Virginia Beach to Grattan Raceway in Michigan this weekend to watch the VSCDA vintage races along with the 10th anniversary of our Spridget race series. What a great pleasure to meet a 20+ year list mate, and looking forward to other opportunities to hang out. In the past this list had many such meet-ups, and it was great to do it again. We put on a pretty good show, thankfully! Great weekend!! >>> >>> Ron Soave >>> ------------------------ >>> >>> spridgets at autox.team.net >>> >>> Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html >>> Suggested annual donation: $12.75 >>> >>> Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets http://autox.team.net/archive >>> >>> Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/refisk at chartermi.net >> From healeyrik at gmail.com Mon Aug 16 09:07:33 2021 From: healeyrik at gmail.com (HealeyRick) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 11:07:33 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] Like old times! In-Reply-To: <19F83DA6-446A-4A76-8D0D-3233D63E689A@yahoo.com> References: <4C1CCC35-6AF3-435C-8D5F-5DEE182E5B6D@yahoo.com> <19F83DA6-446A-4A76-8D0D-3233D63E689A@yahoo.com> Message-ID: Looks like a fantastic time. Just love the works Sprites! Rick Neville Virus-free. www.avast.com <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 7:37 AM Ron Soave via Spridgets < spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > > > Ron Soave > > > On Aug 16, 2021, at 6:30 AM, Ron Soave via Spridgets < > spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > > > > ?The Sprites Rick mentions: > > > > > > > > Ron Soave > > > >> On Aug 16, 2021, at 6:03 AM, Rick Fisk wrote: > >> > >> ?It was great to meet Howard and get lapped by Ron (again). We had two > factory Sprite race cars with fuel injected A-series engines with 8 port > heads brought up from Texas to take part in the festivities. We had a > great turnout of Sprites and Midgets and a good time! > >> > >> Rick > >> > >>>> On Aug 16, 2021, at 6:55 AM, Ron Soave via Spridgets < > spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > >>> > >>> ?Howard Collins made it out from Virginia Beach to Grattan Raceway in > Michigan this weekend to watch the VSCDA vintage races along with the 10th > anniversary of our Spridget race series. What a great pleasure to meet a > 20+ year list mate, and looking forward to other opportunities to hang out. > In the past this list had many such meet-ups, and it was great to do it > again. We put on a pretty good show, thankfully! Great weekend!! > >>> > >>> Ron Soave > >>> ------------------------ > >>> > >>> spridgets at autox.team.net > >>> > >>> Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > >>> Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > >>> > >>> Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > >>> > >>> Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/refisk at chartermi.net > >> > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/healeyrik at gmail.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 at 19:05, Billy Zoom via Spridgets < spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > Next to the Starboard bonnet hinge! > > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/weslake1330 at gmail.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Screen Shot 2021-08-15 at 10.24.18 AM.png Type: image/png Size: 166139 bytes Desc: not available URL: From refisk at chartermi.net Mon Aug 16 10:40:16 2021 From: refisk at chartermi.net (Rick Fisk) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 12:40:16 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] dashboard switch In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1D7FA014-89EB-4B92-8BA5-5CE756896DBF@chartermi.net> My guess is that it was mounted on that side of the firewall for easy access as compared to under the dashboard. > On Aug 16, 2021, at 12:23 PM, Weslake1330 via Spridgets wrote: > > ? > I always wondered why the wiring has to pass through the bulkhead/firewall for the flasher can. Why can't the flasher can be on the opposite side of the bulkhead/firewall and that way the wires don't have to pass through it? I moved the flasher can on my Sprite for that very reason. > >> On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 at 19:05, Billy Zoom via Spridgets wrote: >> Next to the Starboard bonnet hinge! >> >> >> ------------------------ >> >> spridgets at autox.team.net >> >> Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html >> Suggested annual donation: $12.75 >> >> Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets http://autox.team.net/archive >> >> Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/weslake1330 at gmail.com > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/refisk at chartermi.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cosmicmag1380 at gmail.com Mon Aug 16 10:48:25 2021 From: cosmicmag1380 at gmail.com (CosmicMag1380) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 12:48:25 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] dashboard switch In-Reply-To: <1D7FA014-89EB-4B92-8BA5-5CE756896DBF@chartermi.net> References: <1D7FA014-89EB-4B92-8BA5-5CE756896DBF@chartermi.net> Message-ID: They put them inside the later models behind the dash and they were somewhat difficult to change... On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 12:40 PM Rick Fisk via Spridgets < spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > My guess is that it was mounted on that side of the firewall for easy > access as compared to under the dashboard. > > On Aug 16, 2021, at 12:23 PM, Weslake1330 via Spridgets < > spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > > ? > I always wondered why the wiring has to pass through the bulkhead/firewall > for the flasher can. Why can't the flasher can be on the opposite side of > the bulkhead/firewall and that way the wires don't have to pass through > it? I moved the flasher can on my Sprite for that very reason. > > On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 at 19:05, Billy Zoom via Spridgets < > spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > >> Next to the Starboard bonnet hinge! >> >> >> ------------------------ >> >> spridgets at autox.team.net >> >> Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html >> Suggested annual donation: $12.75 >> >> Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets >> http://autox.team.net/archive >> >> Unsubscribe/Manage: >> http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/weslake1330 at gmail.com >> > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/refisk at chartermi.net > > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/cosmicmag1380 at gmail.com > -- Kent 1960 Bugeye 1983 Garage full of spridget parts! 2017 Home built shed full of excess spridget parts!!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ron.corry.iol at gmail.com Mon Aug 16 11:02:53 2021 From: ron.corry.iol at gmail.com (Ron Corry) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 18:02:53 +0100 Subject: [Spridgets] Flasher Unit, was dashboard switch In-Reply-To: References: <889415d4-a6a5-d5fa-5f19-b8396cd2e69e.ref@frontiernet.net> <889415d4-a6a5-d5fa-5f19-b8396cd2e69e@frontiernet.net> <176133FE-EF88-4DB5-8B30-088488A5C19D@billyzoom.com> Message-ID: I moved mine inside too, thinking I could hear it ticking. Nah, I can't hear it and now it will be difficult to change if it becomes necessary. On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 at 17:23, Weslake1330 via Spridgets < spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > I always wondered why the wiring has to pass through the bulkhead/firewall > for the flasher can. Why can't the flasher can be on the opposite side of > the bulkhead/firewall and that way the wires don't have to pass through > it? I moved the flasher can on my Sprite for that very reason. > > On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 at 19:05, Billy Zoom via Spridgets < > spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > >> Next to the Starboard bonnet hinge! >> >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Screen Shot 2021-08-15 at 10.24.18 AM.png Type: image/png Size: 166139 bytes Desc: not available URL: From weslake1330 at gmail.com Mon Aug 16 14:41:56 2021 From: weslake1330 at gmail.com (Weslake1330) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 21:41:56 +0100 Subject: [Spridgets] dashboard switch In-Reply-To: <1D7FA014-89EB-4B92-8BA5-5CE756896DBF@chartermi.net> References: <1D7FA014-89EB-4B92-8BA5-5CE756896DBF@chartermi.net> Message-ID: So the factory thought it would break at regular intervals! Well the current replacements lasted a fraction of the time the first replacement did on mine but then I went digital and been blinking ever since. On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 at 17:40, Rick Fisk wrote: > My guess is that it was mounted on that side of the firewall for easy > access as compared to under the dashboard. > > On Aug 16, 2021, at 12:23 PM, Weslake1330 via Spridgets < > spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > > ? > I always wondered why the wiring has to pass through the bulkhead/firewall > for the flasher can. Why can't the flasher can be on the opposite side of > the bulkhead/firewall and that way the wires don't have to pass through > it? I moved the flasher can on my Sprite for that very reason. > > On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 at 19:05, Billy Zoom via Spridgets < > spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > >> Next to the Starboard bonnet hinge! >> >> >> ------------------------ >> >> spridgets at autox.team.net >> >> Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html >> Suggested annual donation: $12.75 >> >> Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets >> http://autox.team.net/archive >> >> Unsubscribe/Manage: >> http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/weslake1330 at gmail.com >> > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/refisk at chartermi.net > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From weslake1330 at gmail.com Mon Aug 16 14:43:34 2021 From: weslake1330 at gmail.com (Weslake1330) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 21:43:34 +0100 Subject: [Spridgets] Flasher Unit, was dashboard switch In-Reply-To: References: <889415d4-a6a5-d5fa-5f19-b8396cd2e69e.ref@frontiernet.net> <889415d4-a6a5-d5fa-5f19-b8396cd2e69e@frontiernet.net> <176133FE-EF88-4DB5-8B30-088488A5C19D@billyzoom.com> Message-ID: I can't much of anything inside my car but when I had a motorbike I fitted a beeper to the indicator and when I get even older than I am now I might do the same with the Sprite, since I haven't found brighter bulbs to be much brighter. On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 at 18:03, Ron Corry wrote: > I moved mine inside too, thinking I could hear it ticking. Nah, I can't > hear it and now it will be difficult to change if it becomes necessary. > > > On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 at 17:23, Weslake1330 via Spridgets < > spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > >> I always wondered why the wiring has to pass through the >> bulkhead/firewall for the flasher can. Why can't the flasher can be on the >> opposite side of the bulkhead/firewall and that way the wires don't have to >> pass through it? I moved the flasher can on my Sprite for that very reason. >> >> On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 at 19:05, Billy Zoom via Spridgets < >> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: >> >>> Next to the Starboard bonnet hinge! >>> >>> >>> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It was great to meet Howard and get lapped by Ron (again).? We had two factory Sprite race cars with fuel injected A-series engines with 8 port heads brought up from Texas to take part in the festivities.? We had a great turnout of Sprites and Midgets and a good time! Rick > On Aug 16, 2021, at 6:55 AM, Ron Soave via Spridgets wrote: > > Howard Collins made it out from Virginia Beach to Grattan Raceway in Michigan this weekend to watch the VSCDA vintage races along with the 10th anniversary of our Spridget race series. What a great pleasure to meet a 20+ year list mate, and looking forward to other opportunities to hang out. In the past this list had many such meet-ups, and it was great to do it again. We put on a pretty good show, thankfully!? Great weekend!! > > Ron Soave > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/refisk at chartermi.net ------------------------ spridgets at autox.team.net Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html Suggested annual donation: $12.75 Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets http://autox.team.net/archive Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/miniac7 at aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dtwoerpel at gmail.com Sun Aug 15 12:02:38 2021 From: dtwoerpel at gmail.com (David Woerpel) Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 13:02:38 -0500 Subject: [Spridgets] dashboard switch In-Reply-To: <889415d4-a6a5-d5fa-5f19-b8396cd2e69e@frontiernet.net> References: <889415d4-a6a5-d5fa-5f19-b8396cd2e69e.ref@frontiernet.net> <889415d4-a6a5-d5fa-5f19-b8396cd2e69e@frontiernet.net> Message-ID: <16bf6343-8e29-3ab4-f69d-ef38eb710a77@gmail.com> Jim, As Kent said, the slide switch operates the instrument lights.? It's also has been known to scratch a knee upon egress for us taller folk. The flasher unit is a silver canister affixed near the passenger side (on a Left Hand Drive car) bonnet hinge see photo attached.? I could have made the label a bit larger. Hope this helps. Dave '59 {) '59 MGA 1500 Burlington WI "Pay It Forward" On 8/15/2021 7:56 AM, Jim via Spridgets wrote: > I'm Restoring a 1960 bugeye that I did not disassemble. I have 2 > dashboards that each have a provision for a slide switch on the lower > left underside of the dash. What is this switch used for and > additionally where should the flasher unit be properly mounted? Thank > You. > > Jim Fournier , > > Huguenot , NY > > > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/dwoerpel at wi.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Engine 3M - Copy.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 1168460 bytes Desc: not available URL: From derf247 at gmail.com Tue Aug 17 08:24:47 2021 From: derf247 at gmail.com (Derf Kristian) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 09:24:47 -0500 Subject: [Spridgets] dashboard switch In-Reply-To: <16bf6343-8e29-3ab4-f69d-ef38eb710a77@gmail.com> References: <889415d4-a6a5-d5fa-5f19-b8396cd2e69e.ref@frontiernet.net> <889415d4-a6a5-d5fa-5f19-b8396cd2e69e@frontiernet.net> <16bf6343-8e29-3ab4-f69d-ef38eb710a77@gmail.com> Message-ID: Is that a Smith's electric turbocharger? On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 8:14 AM David Woerpel via Spridgets < spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > Jim, > > As Kent said, the slide switch operates the instrument lights. It's > also has been known to scratch a knee upon egress for us taller folk. > The flasher unit is a silver canister affixed near the passenger side > (on a Left Hand Drive car) bonnet hinge see photo attached. I could > have made the label a bit larger. > > Hope this helps. > Dave > '59 {) > '59 MGA 1500 > Burlington WI > > "Pay It Forward" > > > > On 8/15/2021 7:56 AM, Jim via Spridgets wrote: > > I'm Restoring a 1960 bugeye that I did not disassemble. I have 2 > > dashboards that each have a provision for a slide switch on the lower > > left underside of the dash. What is this switch used for and > > additionally where should the flasher unit be properly mounted? Thank > > You. > > > > Jim Fournier , > > > > Huguenot , NY > > > > > > ------------------------ > > > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > > http://autox.team.net/archive > > > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/dwoerpel at wi.net > > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/derf247 at gmail.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From refisk at chartermi.net Tue Aug 17 08:57:14 2021 From: refisk at chartermi.net (Rick Fisk) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 10:57:14 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] dashboard switch In-Reply-To: <16bf6343-8e29-3ab4-f69d-ef38eb710a77@gmail.com> References: <16bf6343-8e29-3ab4-f69d-ef38eb710a77@gmail.com> Message-ID: This one has been sitting on my desk for years. ? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image0.jpeg Type: image/jpeg Size: 79901 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- > On Aug 17, 2021, at 9:13 AM, David Woerpel via Spridgets wrote: > > ?Jim, > > As Kent said, the slide switch operates the instrument lights. It's also has been known to scratch a knee upon egress for us taller folk. > The flasher unit is a silver canister affixed near the passenger side (on a Left Hand Drive car) bonnet hinge see photo attached. I could have made the label a bit larger. > > Hope this helps. > Dave > '59 {) > '59 MGA 1500 > Burlington WI > > "Pay It Forward" > > > >> On 8/15/2021 7:56 AM, Jim via Spridgets wrote: >> I'm Restoring a 1960 bugeye that I did not disassemble. I have 2 dashboards that each have a provision for a slide switch on the lower left underside of the dash. What is this switch used for and additionally where should the flasher unit be properly mounted? Thank You. >> >> Jim Fournier , >> >> Huguenot , NY >> From springer.mike51 at gmail.com Tue Aug 17 10:41:43 2021 From: springer.mike51 at gmail.com (Michael MacLean) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 09:41:43 -0700 Subject: [Spridgets] dashboard switch In-Reply-To: References: <16bf6343-8e29-3ab4-f69d-ef38eb710a77@gmail.com> Message-ID: That same slide switch is used for the big Healeys BN1/2 also. Have you priced one of these simple slide switches lately? https://mossmotors.com/switch-panel-light-2?assoc=139854 Mike MacLean On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 7:57 AM Rick Fisk via Spridgets < spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > This one has been sitting on my desk for years. ? > > > > > On Aug 17, 2021, at 9:13 AM, David Woerpel via Spridgets < > spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > > > > ?Jim, > > > > As Kent said, the slide switch operates the instrument lights. It's > also has been known to scratch a knee upon egress for us taller folk. > > The flasher unit is a silver canister affixed near the passenger side > (on a Left Hand Drive car) bonnet hinge see photo attached. I could have > made the label a bit larger. > > > > Hope this helps. > > Dave > > '59 {) > > '59 MGA 1500 > > Burlington WI > > > > "Pay It Forward" > > > > > > > >> On 8/15/2021 7:56 AM, Jim via Spridgets wrote: > >> I'm Restoring a 1960 bugeye that I did not disassemble. I have 2 > dashboards that each have a provision for a slide switch on the lower left > underside of the dash. What is this switch used for and additionally where > should the flasher unit be properly mounted? Thank You. > >> > >> Jim Fournier , > >> > >> Huguenot , NY > >> > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/springer.mike51 at gmail.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From grunthaner at gmail.com Thu Aug 19 03:54:36 2021 From: grunthaner at gmail.com (Linda Grunthaner) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 05:54:36 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] Like old times! In-Reply-To: <4C1CCC35-6AF3-435C-8D5F-5DEE182E5B6D@yahoo.com> References: <240BB672-41BB-4B4B-B0A5-3BD1A9905B0D@chartermi.net> <4C1CCC35-6AF3-435C-8D5F-5DEE182E5B6D@yahoo.com> Message-ID: Wow that Spridget is beautiful! So happy to hear of the list reunion/first meet. Linda 62 Sprite Pinky On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 7:30 AM Ron Soave via Spridgets < spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > The Sprites Rick mentions: > > > Ron Soave > > > On Aug 16, 2021, at 6:03 AM, Rick Fisk wrote: > > > > ?It was great to meet Howard and get lapped by Ron (again). We had two > factory Sprite race cars with fuel injected A-series engines with 8 port > heads brought up from Texas to take part in the festivities. We had a > great turnout of Sprites and Midgets and a good time! > > > > Rick > > > >> On Aug 16, 2021, at 6:55 AM, Ron Soave via Spridgets < > spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > >> > >> ?Howard Collins made it out from Virginia Beach to Grattan Raceway in > Michigan this weekend to watch the VSCDA vintage races along with the 10th > anniversary of our Spridget race series. What a great pleasure to meet a > 20+ year list mate, and looking forward to other opportunities to hang out. > In the past this list had many such meet-ups, and it was great to do it > again. We put on a pretty good show, thankfully! Great weekend!! > >> > >> Ron Soave > >> ------------------------ > >> > >> spridgets at autox.team.net > >> > >> Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > >> Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > >> > >> Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > >> > >> Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/refisk at chartermi.net > > > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/grunthaner at gmail.com > -- "Pay if forward" in honor of Frank Clarici III, Spritenut -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From grunthaner at gmail.com Thu Aug 19 03:57:57 2021 From: grunthaner at gmail.com (Linda Grunthaner) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 05:57:57 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] dashboard switch In-Reply-To: References: <889415d4-a6a5-d5fa-5f19-b8396cd2e69e.ref@frontiernet.net> <889415d4-a6a5-d5fa-5f19-b8396cd2e69e@frontiernet.net> Message-ID: Wow that is a great page of wire locations (insert clapping icon here). I have a slide switch on my pink Sprite. Since I rarely drive her at night I never knew what it was for. Spritely Motoring, Linda 62 Sprite Pinky On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 1:58 PM Paul Van Wig via Spridgets < spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > http://www.gerardsgarage.com/Garage/Tech/Cables_wires_lo2.htm > > Paul Van Wig > > Big Bear/Lakewood, CA > > [image: image.gif] > [image: Mailtrack] > Sender > notified by > Mailtrack > 08/15/21, > 10:57:42 AM > > On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 9:46 AM CosmicMag1380 via Spridgets < > spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > >> The slide switch is to turn off the dash lights. I don't remember for >> certain about the flasher mount but I want to say that there is a spring >> clip that it snaps into. Probably on the firewall somewhere. >> >> Kent >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 8:57 AM Jim via Spridgets < >> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: >> >>> I'm Restoring a 1960 bugeye that I did not disassemble. I have 2 >>> dashboards that each have a provision for a slide switch on the lower >>> left underside of the dash. What is this switch used for and >>> additionally where should the flasher unit be properly mounted? Thank >>> You. >>> >>> Jim Fournier , >>> >>> Huguenot , NY >>> >>> >>> ------------------------ >>> >>> spridgets at autox.team.net >>> >>> Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html >>> Suggested annual donation: $12.75 >>> >>> Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets >>> http://autox.team.net/archive >>> >>> Unsubscribe/Manage: >>> http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/cosmicmag1380 at gmail.com >>> >> >> >> -- >> Kent >> 1960 Bugeye >> 1983 Garage full of spridget parts! >> 2017 Home built shed full of excess spridget parts!!! >> >> >> ------------------------ >> >> spridgets at autox.team.net >> >> Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html >> Suggested annual donation: $12.75 >> >> Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets >> http://autox.team.net/archive >> >> Unsubscribe/Manage: >> http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/pvanwig at mac.com >> > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/grunthaner at gmail.com > -- "Pay if forward" in honor of Frank Clarici III, Spritenut -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I have a buddy > that has raced lawn mowers for years and today I got to see some mower > racing, actually practicing. > > Action photos to follow. > > Regards > > > Daniel > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/grunthaner at gmail.com > -- "Pay if forward" in honor of Frank Clarici III, Spritenut -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Ron Soave > On Aug 23, 2021, at 9:30 PM, Rick Fisk via Spridgets wrote: > > ?Just found out that Rick Bastedo passed away from the covid virus on the 14th. :-( > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/soavero at yahoo.com From Zormecteon at comcast.net Mon Aug 23 23:00:26 2021 From: Zormecteon at comcast.net (Bill L.) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 22:00:26 -0700 Subject: [Spridgets] RIP Rick Bastedo In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4410688943.20210823220026@comcast.net> Hello, Crap! -- Best regards, Bill mailto:Zormecteon at comcast.net He who smiles in a crisis has found someone to blame. From dtwoerpel at gmail.com Tue Aug 24 06:49:31 2021 From: dtwoerpel at gmail.com (Dave and Terri Woerpel) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 07:49:31 -0500 Subject: [Spridgets] RIP Rick Bastedo In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Terri and I are stunned. Our sincere sympathies to the family. We fondly remember Rick and son at the Midget 50th at Road America. Not so fondly remembered is that we were both desperate for petrol and paid $9 at the track ;-) Rick was a good person and we're glad to have gotten to "play" together. RIP Rick. Please, if you haven't been vaccinated, do so ASAP. Dave W '59 :() '59 MGA 1500 Burlington WI "Pay It Forward" On Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 9:30 PM Rick Fisk via Spridgets < spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > Just found out that Rick Bastedo passed away from the covid virus on the > 14th. :-( > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/dwoerpel at wi.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From oldsaabguy at comcast.net Tue Aug 24 06:51:28 2021 From: oldsaabguy at comcast.net (JMFangio) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 07:51:28 -0500 Subject: [Spridgets] RIP Rick Bastedo In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4E96DC81-E468-48AF-805C-0F4096488891@comcast.net> Well shit. I know nothing about him other than the name and that he posted frequently enough. Lester > On Aug 23, 2021, at 9:30 PM, Rick Fisk via Spridgets wrote: > > Just found out that Rick Bastedo passed away from the covid virus on the 14th. :-( > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/oldsaabguy at comcast.net From crusaderchuck55 at aol.com Tue Aug 24 07:15:28 2021 From: crusaderchuck55 at aol.com (crusaderchuck55 at aol.com) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 13:15:28 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Spridgets] Losses! References: <2119027228.1016945.1629810928421.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <2119027228.1016945.1629810928421@mail.yahoo.com> Well I guess it's time to suggest that everyone seriously consider vaccination!We have lost enough list members to other ailments.? ?It would be sad to loose any more due to a virus that vaccination could prevent or at the worst lessen the illness.Got her your shots and come home and have a shot!Chuck -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pvanwig at mac.com Tue Aug 24 09:01:20 2021 From: pvanwig at mac.com (Paul Van Wig) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 08:01:20 -0700 Subject: [Spridgets] RIP Rick Bastedo In-Reply-To: <4E96DC81-E468-48AF-805C-0F4096488891@comcast.net> References: <4E96DC81-E468-48AF-805C-0F4096488891@comcast.net> Message-ID: RIP On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 5:55 AM JMFangio via Spridgets < spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > Well shit. I know nothing about him other than the name and that he > posted frequently enough. > > Lester > > > > > On Aug 23, 2021, at 9:30 PM, Rick Fisk via Spridgets < > spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > > > > Just found out that Rick Bastedo passed away from the covid virus on the > 14th. :-( > > ------------------------ > > > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/oldsaabguy at comcast.net > > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/pvanwig at mac.com > -- Paul Van Wig Sent from tiny little buttons -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Great conversations over breakfast trying to explain some > Wisconsin stuff. > > Chris > > > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/trevor.jessie at gmail.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stanbmason at aol.com Thu Aug 26 06:15:01 2021 From: stanbmason at aol.com (stanbmason at aol.com) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:15:01 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Spridgets] Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Results and 10th Anniversary References: <1862906608.596282.1629980101493.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1862906608.596282.1629980101493@mail.yahoo.com> Spridgetites, Below is our end of season report.? Attached are the end of series results and a great shot of awards presented with a back drop of a Austin Healey Sprite Prototype Lucas Fuel Injection. Enjoy?Stan 2021 Sprite Midget RaceSeries End of Season Report & Overview of 60th Spridget Reunion(revised August 25, 2021) - Overall - It is hard to believe that we have been doing this great fun on and off the track for 10 years as the Sprite Midget Race Series.? Before the SMRS we would be excited if we had 5 Spridgets racing for the weekend.? This year we experienced 21 to 28 Spridget to play with at each race. The 10 th Anniversary was planned to be special and it lived up to that expectations.? Record turnout for all of our races and finished with traditional Grattan Finale.? The end of season awards were exceptional and would have never been possible without Dave Kessinger and his vision.? We enjoyed having new Spridget racers from Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kansas & Texas join us and share our passion on and off the track.? It was so exciting to have the 2 World Class Restored Sprite Prototypes all the way from Texas join us.? We exceeded our high water mark of having more Spridgets than Formula Vees at several races this season. - Grattan ? We were told that we would have less area in the overall paddock.? This discourage some from coming and actually resulted in smaller numbers than what was originally anticipated.? We were able to hold on to our traditional Spridget Paddock location, but with the additional Spridget Racers coming in we needed to have other locations to place everyone.? I appreciate everyone?s patience in trying to organize this special event.? Friday was a humid hot day ending with the Cape of Good Hope Pub Toasting followed by our Texas friends Steve and Mike Coleman?s presentation and display of 2 Historic circa 1967-68 Sprite Prototypes made at the Geoff and Donald Healey?s Cape Works in Warwick England.? The research and details the Coleman?s have put into these cars makes me very appreciative of their passion to show these great restored cars to us in the MidWest.? I consider them true Ambassadors of the Austin Healey Marque and more specifically Sprites.? Hearing these cars on the track as I was passed will always be one of my favorite memories.? Saturday was the busiest of the weekend with the Spridget Race moved to Saturday from our traditional Sunday morning race.? Brat Lunch was well supported with Carl and Bob at Chef Helm both days.? A parade lap at 2:30 for Street Spridgets.? The Sprite / Midget Street and Race Car Show was held during the day with Rob Brackett taking the lead.? Awards were presented that evening for Sprite Street - Rob Brackett, Race Sprite - Gary Perser, Race Midget - Mark Maehling and Best Of Show - Rob Brackett.? 1 st place per class Spridget Race position were announced.? Sunday we enjoyed our Brat Lunch followed by our annual awards listed below and attached.? ?Compiling end of season results from the weekend is always an added frustration and even thought I try to double check before the presentation, there always seems to be some oversight that occurs.? Our special 10 year celebration at Grattan had some first time racers joining in the fun.? I felt it would not be fair for those that were going for season points to be penalized from those that just entered this race, so I only gave position points to those that had at least entered 1 series race prior to Grattan.? This means that you may see double entries for those that only attended Grattan. I overlooked announcing Ellie Lynch?s 3 rd place in Bug Eye 2M2.? This is especially embarrassing knowing the praise I gave her after she came off the track on Sunday with a 1:38 ET in her first time racing at Grattan.? I announced Jeff Carloss?s 1 st place in Bug Eye 2E, after looking more closely to points awarded from the 3 sessions I realized that there was actually a tie for 1 st with Rick Fisk.? Rick deserves special mention since he started the first race at Gingerman with a 1275 in Bug Eye 2M2 and then bought a 948 from me and did well enough at Black Hawk and Grattan to manage a 1 st place in 2E (maybe I should have kept that engine!). ??Please see attached results in this email. - Sponsors - We are very fortunate this year to have several sponsors: - Dave Kessinger ? providing T-Shirts, Spridget Signs and the Fantastic Iceberg Awards. - Clancy Schmidt ? free entrance to next race drawing (if you have his A-Arm sticker on the side of you race Spridget) along with monetary donations and Spridget paddock signs. - Winners Circle ? Jeff Porada for his donation - Jeff Carloss ? for his continued support of providing his artistic work and providing free SMRS posters - Colin?s Classics ? Cana and Colin Comer 2021 sticker contribution - Driver Incidents Spridgets and Group 2 ? As the VSCDA Group 2 representative I can say in recent history we have had some of the least Driver Incidents involving the Driver Committee.? I am concerned that this is no longer true and in fact we now have the most incidents.? I am working to understand this better with data provided by Gary Kropf.? I am compiling these results and will share by the end of the year in hopes of understanding where we are going wrong.? We have 2 more races with VSCDA the ELVF at Road America and Blacktober at Black Hawk.? The early data I have seen seems to indicate that passing safely is our biggest challenge. We need to return to our Vintage Values and if you are uncertain of a pass wait until you are confident you can make a clean pass.? When in traffic especially around unknown drivers, having a defensive posture is always the right approach to keep your car and others from being damaged.? The Jim Donato Most Respected Driver Criteria below should always be our guide.? There is no better feeling when racing to trust the person you are going wheel to wheel with and giving room by both drivers. ?I believe we all (including myself) need to have a reset button with Vintage Values of having fun over Red Mist! - Race Attendance ? As you can see from the chart below we exceeded the most racing Spridgets in the history of SMRS attendance at all 3 tracks.? Gingerman had it?s largest with a real abundance of Driver School Spridgets.? Black Hawk almost doubled it?s largest attendance.? Grattan was also a big number exceeding our previous record of 23 in 2015 where Grattan was the MG Focus when we picked up quite a few Midgets.? We continue to have the largest numbers in Spridget Vintage Racing and probably SCCA based on my viewing of Vintage Magazines and club race lists.? The Yellow highlighted areas are SMRS Tracks where we determine our end of season results with the total for the season in the last row. ? | Race Track | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | | Gingerman | 14 | 14 | 12 | 16 | 9 | 12 | 18 | 17 | 0 | 21 | | Blackhawk | 13 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 9 | 26 | | Grattan | 17 | 14 | 20 | 23 | 15 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 12 | 28 | | ELVF 60th | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 47 | ? | ? | ? | | Blacktober | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 15 | ? | | SMRS Total | 44 | 39 | 43 | 53 | 36 | 38 | 46 | 49 | 21 | 75 | ? 6. ??????Season Overall Winners? (requires having a perfect score of 48 points from at least2 of the 3 race weekends) ? | 2013 | Cana Comer | | 2014 | Greg Cory and Nathan Burress | | 2015 | Colin Comer and Randy Byboth | | 2016 | None qualified | | 2017 | Ashley Burress, Nathan Buress and Jim Donato | | 2018 | Ashley Burress and Ron Soave | | 2019 | Doug Bruce and Jim Donato | | 2020 | John Salisbury | | 2021 | John Salisbury, Doug Bruce & Nathan Burress | ?7.???????Special Spirit and DriverAwards: Gary Kropf Spirit Award (started in 2015 in honor of Gary?sattitude that we all admire). This Huge piston award wasdonated by Paul Fitzsimmons and polished up with name tags by Charlie Hall?svision of this spirit award. a.??????Previous Winners: 2015 Salisbury, 2016 Donato,Salisbury, 2017 Soave, Kelly, Mason, 2018 Kropf, Salisbury, Hall, 2019 Bruce,2020 cancelled. b.?????Criteria:?Promotes the Vintage Spirit, Assists others within the paddock, withrepairs, parts, advice and encourages racer in making next session.? Quick to organize group activities with raceand banquet.? Volunteers with other VSCDAactivities and committees. c.??????This year?s winner was Charlie Hall ?Jim Donato Most Respected Driver (started in 2016 in honor ofJim?s contribution and example of a great respected driver) Criteria: Adriver that exemplifies the meaning of a Vintage Sports Car Most Respected ??Driver includes: Predictable (Stayson racing line and points racers by when being passed or when passing.? Makes sure that over taking driver knows theyare about to be passed and allows room and good judgement), Confident &Observant (Uses mirrors and is aware of others racing nearby) Respectful(Confirms that their race car is mechanically sound and will not cause othersto be injured from improper maintenance.?Can sit down with other competitors and enjoy their company after anysession) Objective (open toother?s comments) Drives Defensively (adjusts for conditions safely regardlessof other driver?s interaction). Previous Winners: 2016 Namesake Jim Donato, 2017 Mal Fay, 2018Ashley Burress, 2019 Buzz Merchlewitz. This year?s winner was JohnSalisbury 8.???????Spridget Contributors toVSCDA (we appreciate our group?sunselfish contribution to VSCDA and the Sprite Midget Race Series making us oneof the best groups within VSCDA for volunteering their time and making thisclub continue to thrive for our enjoyment (I was at Gingerman and Grattan and apologizeif I missed any names): a.???????Ron Soave and Jeff Porasik for both Blackhawk Events as EventChairmen.? Don Kelly and Doug Bruce asEvent Chairman for Grattan. b.??????Dave Young, Paul Fitzsimmons and Gerry Brasil, Brad Carloss, CarlGoodwin? ?for their contributions to Scrutineering /Tech Barn c.???????Stacey Donato for her overall running of VSCDA registration andall that she does along with her family from her Mom and Dad on down to herdaughter.? Registration assistance fromJan and Jeff Freers, Cheryl Carloss & Janet Carloss. d.??????Charlie Hall, Gary Kropf, Roger Heil & Jim Donato for DriversCommittee.? Gary Kropf initiated theDriver?s Committee Summary of actions, which is greatly appreciated and timeconsuming.? I think measuring somethingas important as safety is the key to reducing incidents and allowing us toimprove. e.??Doug Bruce for Homologations and Corner / Paddock Worker SpriteDoor Annual Award selected for the best Grattan worker selected by their peers.? f. Tom Wilcox for taking the lead at Blackhawk and taking care of saleof regalia, organizing Spridget Paddock and Brat Lunch g. Jim Donato as VSCDA Vice President h. Bob Danielson continuing to support the Donato Most RespectedDriver Award that he crafted and provide updated driver plaque. i. Charlie Hall continuing support of the Kropf Piston SpiritAward that he initiated and continues to provide updated plaques for. j. Stan Mason as VSCDA Group 2 Representative and SMRS lead. 9. End Of Season Awards -Every driver that met the 2 race weekend or more requirementsreceived awards if they attended Grattan finale. Results are attached to thisemail. 10. Classifications - Iwould like to revise our SMRS classifications for the 2022 season and I haveseveral thoughts of how we can improve.?If you have some thoughts of how we can group Spridgets for faircompetition I would like to hear from you.?Our criteria up to this time has been to follow VSCDA requirements,which include conformance to SCCA 1972 GCR/PCS guidelines and exceptions asspelled out by VSCDA.? Even under theseconditions there is varying shades of gray that we need to clarify for fairclassifications. ????? 11. SMRS Past / Future - Like all organizations including SMRS wewill only be successful if we have new people stepping up to fill positions.? I have been at the helm for the past 10 yearsand will step down on or before 2026.? Itwould be nice to have someone that is retired or will retire in the future topick up this baton before my departure.? Maybeeven mirror me and assist before 2026.? Ihave started a job description / overview of what I currently do.? I know there are others out there that cantake SMRS to a higher level learning from our past and improving thefuture.? If you have an interest now orin the future please let me know. ?12.? VSCDA Upcoming 2021events: 1.????? Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival Road America September17-19 2.????? Blackhawk Farms Octoberfest, October 16-17 ?? Thanks for a Great 10thSeason and Enjoy a Spridgetly Life of Relative Speed! Stan Mason -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Attached are the end of series results and a great shot of awards presented with a back drop of a Austin Healey Sprite Prototype Lucas Fuel Injection. Enjoy?Stan 2021 Sprite Midget RaceSeries End of Season Report & Overview of 60th Spridget Reunion(revised August 25, 2021) - Overall - It is hard to believe that we have been doing this great fun on and off the track for 10 years as the Sprite Midget Race Series.? Before the SMRS we would be excited if we had 5 Spridgets racing for the weekend.? This year we experienced 21 to 28 Spridget to play with at each race. The 10 th Anniversary was planned to be special and it lived up to that expectations.? Record turnout for all of our races and finished with traditional Grattan Finale.? The end of season awards were exceptional and would have never been possible without Dave Kessinger and his vision.? We enjoyed having new Spridget racers from Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kansas & Texas join us and share our passion on and off the track.? It was so exciting to have the 2 World Class Restored Sprite Prototypes all the way from Texas join us.? We exceeded our high water mark of having more Spridgets than Formula Vees at several races this season. - Grattan ? We were told that we would have less area in the overall paddock.? This discourage some from coming and actually resulted in smaller numbers than what was originally anticipated.? We were able to hold on to our traditional Spridget Paddock location, but with the additional Spridget Racers coming in we needed to have other locations to place everyone.? I appreciate everyone?s patience in trying to organize this special event.? Friday was a humid hot day ending with the Cape of Good Hope Pub Toasting followed by our Texas friends Steve and Mike Coleman?s presentation and display of 2 Historic circa 1967-68 Sprite Prototypes made at the Geoff and Donald Healey?s Cape Works in Warwick England.? The research and details the Coleman?s have put into these cars makes me very appreciative of their passion to show these great restored cars to us in the MidWest.? I consider them true Ambassadors of the Austin Healey Marque and more specifically Sprites.? Hearing these cars on the track as I was passed will always be one of my favorite memories.? Saturday was the busiest of the weekend with the Spridget Race moved to Saturday from our traditional Sunday morning race.? Brat Lunch was well supported with Carl and Bob at Chef Helm both days.? A parade lap at 2:30 for Street Spridgets.? The Sprite / Midget Street and Race Car Show was held during the day with Rob Brackett taking the lead.? Awards were presented that evening for Sprite Street - Rob Brackett, Race Sprite - Gary Perser, Race Midget - Mark Maehling and Best Of Show - Rob Brackett.? 1 st place per class Spridget Race position were announced.? Sunday we enjoyed our Brat Lunch followed by our annual awards listed below and attached.? ?Compiling end of season results from the weekend is always an added frustration and even thought I try to double check before the presentation, there always seems to be some oversight that occurs.? Our special 10 year celebration at Grattan had some first time racers joining in the fun.? I felt it would not be fair for those that were going for season points to be penalized from those that just entered this race, so I only gave position points to those that had at least entered 1 series race prior to Grattan.? This means that you may see double entries for those that only attended Grattan. I overlooked announcing Ellie Lynch?s 3 rd place in Bug Eye 2M2.? This is especially embarrassing knowing the praise I gave her after she came off the track on Sunday with a 1:38 ET in her first time racing at Grattan.? I announced Jeff Carloss?s 1 st place in Bug Eye 2E, after looking more closely to points awarded from the 3 sessions I realized that there was actually a tie for 1 st with Rick Fisk.? Rick deserves special mention since he started the first race at Gingerman with a 1275 in Bug Eye 2M2 and then bought a 948 from me and did well enough at Black Hawk and Grattan to manage a 1 st place in 2E (maybe I should have kept that engine!). ??Please see attached results in this email. - Sponsors - We are very fortunate this year to have several sponsors: - Dave Kessinger ? providing T-Shirts, Spridget Signs and the Fantastic Iceberg Awards. - Clancy Schmidt ? free entrance to next race drawing (if you have his A-Arm sticker on the side of you race Spridget) along with monetary donations and Spridget paddock signs. - Winners Circle ? Jeff Porada for his donation - Jeff Carloss ? for his continued support of providing his artistic work and providing free SMRS posters - Colin?s Classics ? Cana and Colin Comer 2021 sticker contribution - Driver Incidents Spridgets and Group 2 ? As the VSCDA Group 2 representative I can say in recent history we have had some of the least Driver Incidents involving the Driver Committee.? I am concerned that this is no longer true and in fact we now have the most incidents.? I am working to understand this better with data provided by Gary Kropf.? I am compiling these results and will share by the end of the year in hopes of understanding where we are going wrong.? We have 2 more races with VSCDA the ELVF at Road America and Blacktober at Black Hawk.? The early data I have seen seems to indicate that passing safely is our biggest challenge. We need to return to our Vintage Values and if you are uncertain of a pass wait until you are confident you can make a clean pass.? When in traffic especially around unknown drivers, having a defensive posture is always the right approach to keep your car and others from being damaged.? The Jim Donato Most Respected Driver Criteria below should always be our guide.? There is no better feeling when racing to trust the person you are going wheel to wheel with and giving room by both drivers. ?I believe we all (including myself) need to have a reset button with Vintage Values of having fun over Red Mist! - Race Attendance ? As you can see from the chart below we exceeded the most racing Spridgets in the history of SMRS attendance at all 3 tracks.? Gingerman had it?s largest with a real abundance of Driver School Spridgets.? Black Hawk almost doubled it?s largest attendance.? Grattan was also a big number exceeding our previous record of 23 in 2015 where Grattan was the MG Focus when we picked up quite a few Midgets.? We continue to have the largest numbers in Spridget Vintage Racing and probably SCCA based on my viewing of Vintage Magazines and club race lists.? The Yellow highlighted areas are SMRS Tracks where we determine our end of season results with the total for the season in the last row. ? | Race Track | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | | Gingerman | 14 | 14 | 12 | 16 | 9 | 12 | 18 | 17 | 0 | 21 | | Blackhawk | 13 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 9 | 26 | | Grattan | 17 | 14 | 20 | 23 | 15 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 12 | 28 | | ELVF 60th | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 47 | ? | ? | ? | | Blacktober | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 15 | ? | | SMRS Total | 44 | 39 | 43 | 53 | 36 | 38 | 46 | 49 | 21 | 75 | ? 6. ??????Season Overall Winners? (requires having a perfect score of 48 points from at least2 of the 3 race weekends) ? | 2013 | Cana Comer | | 2014 | Greg Cory and Nathan Burress | | 2015 | Colin Comer and Randy Byboth | | 2016 | None qualified | | 2017 | Ashley Burress, Nathan Buress and Jim Donato | | 2018 | Ashley Burress and Ron Soave | | 2019 | Doug Bruce and Jim Donato | | 2020 | John Salisbury | | 2021 | John Salisbury, Doug Bruce & Nathan Burress | ?7.???????Special Spirit and DriverAwards: Gary Kropf Spirit Award (started in 2015 in honor of Gary?sattitude that we all admire). This Huge piston award wasdonated by Paul Fitzsimmons and polished up with name tags by Charlie Hall?svision of this spirit award. a.??????Previous Winners: 2015 Salisbury, 2016 Donato,Salisbury, 2017 Soave, Kelly, Mason, 2018 Kropf, Salisbury, Hall, 2019 Bruce,2020 cancelled. b.?????Criteria:?Promotes the Vintage Spirit, Assists others within the paddock, withrepairs, parts, advice and encourages racer in making next session.? Quick to organize group activities with raceand banquet.? Volunteers with other VSCDAactivities and committees. c.??????This year?s winner was Charlie Hall ?Jim Donato Most Respected Driver (started in 2016 in honor ofJim?s contribution and example of a great respected driver) Criteria: Adriver that exemplifies the meaning of a Vintage Sports Car Most Respected ??Driver includes: Predictable (Stayson racing line and points racers by when being passed or when passing.? Makes sure that over taking driver knows theyare about to be passed and allows room and good judgement), Confident &Observant (Uses mirrors and is aware of others racing nearby) Respectful(Confirms that their race car is mechanically sound and will not cause othersto be injured from improper maintenance.?Can sit down with other competitors and enjoy their company after anysession) Objective (open toother?s comments) Drives Defensively (adjusts for conditions safely regardlessof other driver?s interaction). Previous Winners: 2016 Namesake Jim Donato, 2017 Mal Fay, 2018Ashley Burress, 2019 Buzz Merchlewitz. This year?s winner was JohnSalisbury 8.???????Spridget Contributors toVSCDA (we appreciate our group?sunselfish contribution to VSCDA and the Sprite Midget Race Series making us oneof the best groups within VSCDA for volunteering their time and making thisclub continue to thrive for our enjoyment (I was at Gingerman and Grattan and apologizeif I missed any names): a.???????Ron Soave and Jeff Porasik for both Blackhawk Events as EventChairmen.? Don Kelly and Doug Bruce asEvent Chairman for Grattan. b.??????Dave Young, Paul Fitzsimmons and Gerry Brasil, Brad Carloss, CarlGoodwin? ?for their contributions to Scrutineering /Tech Barn c.???????Stacey Donato for her overall running of VSCDA registration andall that she does along with her family from her Mom and Dad on down to herdaughter.? Registration assistance fromJan and Jeff Freers, Cheryl Carloss & Janet Carloss. d.??????Charlie Hall, Gary Kropf, Roger Heil & Jim Donato for DriversCommittee.? Gary Kropf initiated theDriver?s Committee Summary of actions, which is greatly appreciated and timeconsuming.? I think measuring somethingas important as safety is the key to reducing incidents and allowing us toimprove. e.??Doug Bruce for Homologations and Corner / Paddock Worker SpriteDoor Annual Award selected for the best Grattan worker selected by their peers.? f. Tom Wilcox for taking the lead at Blackhawk and taking care of saleof regalia, organizing Spridget Paddock and Brat Lunch g. Jim Donato as VSCDA Vice President h. Bob Danielson continuing to support the Donato Most RespectedDriver Award that he crafted and provide updated driver plaque. i. Charlie Hall continuing support of the Kropf Piston SpiritAward that he initiated and continues to provide updated plaques for. j. Stan Mason as VSCDA Group 2 Representative and SMRS lead. 9. End Of Season Awards -Every driver that met the 2 race weekend or more requirementsreceived awards if they attended Grattan finale. Results are attached to thisemail. 10. Classifications - Iwould like to revise our SMRS classifications for the 2022 season and I haveseveral thoughts of how we can improve.?If you have some thoughts of how we can group Spridgets for faircompetition I would like to hear from you.?Our criteria up to this time has been to follow VSCDA requirements,which include conformance to SCCA 1972 GCR/PCS guidelines and exceptions asspelled out by VSCDA.? Even under theseconditions there is varying shades of gray that we need to clarify for fairclassifications. ????? 11. SMRS Past / Future - Like all organizations including SMRS wewill only be successful if we have new people stepping up to fill positions.? I have been at the helm for the past 10 yearsand will step down on or before 2026.? Itwould be nice to have someone that is retired or will retire in the future topick up this baton before my departure.? Maybeeven mirror me and assist before 2026.? Ihave started a job description / overview of what I currently do.? I know there are others out there that cantake SMRS to a higher level learning from our past and improving thefuture.? If you have an interest now orin the future please let me know. ?12.? VSCDA Upcoming 2021events: 1.????? Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival Road America September17-19 2.????? Blackhawk Farms Octoberfest, October 16-17 ?? Thanks for a Great 10thSeason and Enjoy a Spridgetly Life of Relative Speed! Stan Mason -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Attached are the end of series results and a great shot of awards presented with a back drop of a Austin Healey Sprite Prototype Lucas Fuel Injection. Enjoy Stan 2021 Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Report & Overview of 60th Spridget Reunion (revised August 25, 2021) 1. Overall - It is hard to believe that we have been doing this great fun on and off the track for 10 years as the Sprite Midget Race Series. Before the SMRS we would be excited if we had 5 Spridgets racing for the weekend. This year we experienced 21 to 28 Spridget to play with at each race. The 10th Anniversary was planned to be special and it lived up to that expectations. Record turnout for all of our races and finished with traditional Grattan Finale. The end of season awards were exceptional and would have never been possible without Dave Kessinger and his vision. We enjoyed having new Spridget racers from Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kansas & Texas join us and share our passion on and off the track. It was so exciting to have the 2 World Class Restored Sprite Prototypes all the way from Texas join us. We exceeded our high water mark of having more Spridgets than Formula Vees at several races this season. 2. Grattan ? We were told that we would have less area in the overall paddock. This discourage some from coming and actually resulted in smaller numbers than what was originally anticipated. We were able to hold on to our traditional Spridget Paddock location, but with the additional Spridget Racers coming in we needed to have other locations to place everyone. I appreciate everyone?s patience in trying to organize this special event. Friday was a humid hot day ending with the Cape of Good Hope Pub Toasting followed by our Texas friends Steve and Mike Coleman?s presentation and display of 2 Historic circa 1967-68 Sprite Prototypes made at the Geoff and Donald Healey?s Cape Works in Warwick England. The research and details the Coleman?s have put into these cars makes me very appreciative of their passion to show these great restored cars to us in the MidWest. I consider them true Ambassadors of the Austin Healey Marque and more specifically Sprites. Hearing these cars on the track as I was passed will always be one of my favorite memories. Saturday was the busiest of the weekend with the Spridget Race moved to Saturday from our traditional Sunday morning race. Brat Lunch was well supported with Carl and Bob at Chef Helm both days. A parade lap at 2:30 for Street Spridgets. The Sprite / Midget Street and Race Car Show was held during the day with Rob Brackett taking the lead. Awards were presented that evening for Sprite Street - Rob Brackett, Race Sprite - Gary Perser, Race Midget - Mark Maehling and Best Of Show - Rob Brackett. 1st place per class Spridget Race position were announced. Sunday we enjoyed our Brat Lunch followed by our annual awards listed below and attached. Compiling end of season results from the weekend is always an added frustration and even thought I try to double check before the presentation, there always seems to be some oversight that occurs. Our special 10 year celebration at Grattan had some first time racers joining in the fun. I felt it would not be fair for those that were going for season points to be penalized from those that just entered this race, so I only gave position points to those that had at least entered 1 series race prior to Grattan. This means that you may see double entries for those that only attended Grattan. I overlooked announcing Ellie Lynch?s 3rd place in Bug Eye 2M2. This is especially embarrassing knowing the praise I gave her after she came off the track on Sunday with a 1:38 ET in her first time racing at Grattan. I announced Jeff Carloss?s 1st place in Bug Eye 2E, after looking more closely to points awarded from the 3 sessions I realized that there was actually a tie for 1st with Rick Fisk. Rick deserves special mention since he started the first race at Gingerman with a 1275 in Bug Eye 2M2 and then bought a 948 from me and did well enough at Black Hawk and Grattan to manage a 1st place in 2E (maybe I should have kept that engine!). Please see attached results in this email. 3. Sponsors - We are very fortunate this year to have several sponsors: * Dave Kessinger ? providing T-Shirts, Spridget Signs and the Fantastic Iceberg Awards. * Clancy Schmidt ? free entrance to next race drawing (if you have his A-Arm sticker on the side of you race Spridget) along with monetary donations and Spridget paddock signs. * Winners Circle ? Jeff Porada for his donation * Jeff Carloss ? for his continued support of providing his artistic work and providing free SMRS posters * Colin?s Classics ? Cana and Colin Comer 2021 sticker contribution 1. Driver Incidents Spridgets and Group 2 ? As the VSCDA Group 2 representative I can say in recent history we have had some of the least Driver Incidents involving the Driver Committee. I am concerned that this is no longer true and in fact we now have the most incidents. I am working to understand this better with data provided by Gary Kropf. I am compiling these results and will share by the end of the year in hopes of understanding where we are going wrong. We have 2 more races with VSCDA the ELVF at Road America and Blacktober at Black Hawk. The early data I have seen seems to indicate that passing safely is our biggest challenge. We need to return to our Vintage Values and if you are uncertain of a pass wait until you are confident you can make a clean pass. When in traffic especially around unknown drivers, having a defensive posture is always the right approach to keep your car and others from being damaged. The Jim Donato Most Respected Driver Criteria below should always be our guide. There is no better feeling when racing to trust the person you are going wheel to wheel with and giving room by both drivers. I believe we all (including myself) need to have a reset button with Vintage Values of having fun over Red Mist! 2. Race Attendance ? As you can see from the chart below we exceeded the most racing Spridgets in the history of SMRS attendance at all 3 tracks. Gingerman had it?s largest with a real abundance of Driver School Spridgets. Black Hawk almost doubled it?s largest attendance. Grattan was also a big number exceeding our previous record of 23 in 2015 where Grattan was the MG Focus when we picked up quite a few Midgets. We continue to have the largest numbers in Spridget Vintage Racing and probably SCCA based on my viewing of Vintage Magazines and club race lists. The Yellow highlighted areas are SMRS Tracks where we determine our end of season results with the total for the season in the last row. Race Track 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Gingerman 14 14 12 16 9 12 18 17 0 21 Blackhawk 13 11 11 14 12 12 12 14 9 26 Grattan 17 14 20 23 15 14 16 18 12 28 ELVF 60th 47 Blacktober 15 SMRS Total 44 39 43 53 36 38 46 49 21 75 6. Season Overall Winners (requires having a perfect score of 48 points from at least 2 of the 3 race weekends) 2013 Cana Comer 2014 Greg Cory and Nathan Burress 2015 Colin Comer and Randy Byboth 2016 None qualified 2017 Ashley Burress, Nathan Buress and Jim Donato 2018 Ashley Burress and Ron Soave 2019 Doug Bruce and Jim Donato 2020 John Salisbury 2021 John Salisbury, Doug Bruce & Nathan Burress 7. Special Spirit and Driver Awards: Gary Kropf Spirit Award (started in 2015 in honor of Gary?s attitude that we all admire). This Huge piston award was donated by Paul Fitzsimmons and polished up with name tags by Charlie Hall?s vision of this spirit award. a. Previous Winners: 2015 Salisbury, 2016 Donato, Salisbury, 2017 Soave, Kelly, Mason, 2018 Kropf, Salisbury, Hall, 2019 Bruce, 2020 cancelled. b. Criteria: Promotes the Vintage Spirit, Assists others within the paddock, with repairs, parts, advice and encourages racer in making next session. Quick to organize group activities with race and banquet. Volunteers with other VSCDA activities and committees. c. This year?s winner was Charlie Hall Jim Donato Most Respected Driver (started in 2016 in honor of Jim?s contribution and example of a great respected driver) Criteria: A driver that exemplifies the meaning of a Vintage Sports Car Most Respected Driver includes: Predictable (Stays on racing line and points racers by when being passed or when passing. Makes sure that over taking driver knows they are about to be passed and allows room and good judgement), Confident & Observant (Uses mirrors and is aware of others racing nearby) Respectful (Confirms that their race car is mechanically sound and will not cause others to be injured from improper maintenance. Can sit down with other competitors and enjoy their company after any session) Objective (open to other?s comments) Drives Defensively (adjusts for conditions safely regardless of other driver?s interaction). Previous Winners: 2016 Namesake Jim Donato, 2017 Mal Fay, 2018 Ashley Burress, 2019 Buzz Merchlewitz. This year?s winner was John Salisbury 8. Spridget Contributors to VSCDA (we appreciate our group?s unselfish contribution to VSCDA and the Sprite Midget Race Series making us one of the best groups within VSCDA for volunteering their time and making this club continue to thrive for our enjoyment (I was at Gingerman and Grattan and apologize if I missed any names): a. Ron Soave and Jeff Porasik for both Blackhawk Events as Event Chairmen. Don Kelly and Doug Bruce as Event Chairman for Grattan. b. Dave Young, Paul Fitzsimmons and Gerry Brasil, Brad Carloss, Carl Goodwin for their contributions to Scrutineering / Tech Barn c. Stacey Donato for her overall running of VSCDA registration and all that she does along with her family from her Mom and Dad on down to her daughter. Registration assistance from Jan and Jeff Freers, Cheryl Carloss & Janet Carloss. d. Charlie Hall, Gary Kropf, Roger Heil & Jim Donato for Drivers Committee. Gary Kropf initiated the Driver?s Committee Summary of actions, which is greatly appreciated and time consuming. I think measuring something as important as safety is the key to reducing incidents and allowing us to improve. e. Doug Bruce for Homologations and Corner / Paddock Worker Sprite Door Annual Award selected for the best Grattan worker selected by their peers. f. Tom Wilcox for taking the lead at Blackhawk and taking care of sale of regalia, organizing Spridget Paddock and Brat Lunch g. Jim Donato as VSCDA Vice President h. Bob Danielson continuing to support the Donato Most Respected Driver Award that he crafted and provide updated driver plaque. i. Charlie Hall continuing support of the Kropf Piston Spirit Award that he initiated and continues to provide updated plaques for. j. Stan Mason as VSCDA Group 2 Representative and SMRS lead. 9. End Of Season Awards -Every driver that met the 2 race weekend or more requirements received awards if they attended Grattan finale. Results are attached to this email. 10. Classifications - I would like to revise our SMRS classifications for the 2022 season and I have several thoughts of how we can improve. If you have some thoughts of how we can group Spridgets for fair competition I would like to hear from you. Our criteria up to this time has been to follow VSCDA requirements, which include conformance to SCCA 1972 GCR/PCS guidelines and exceptions as spelled out by VSCDA. Even under these conditions there is varying shades of gray that we need to clarify for fair classifications. 11. SMRS Past / Future - Like all organizations including SMRS we will only be successful if we have new people stepping up to fill positions. I have been at the helm for the past 10 years and will step down on or before 2026. It would be nice to have someone that is retired or will retire in the future to pick up this baton before my departure. Maybe even mirror me and assist before 2026. I have started a job description / overview of what I currently do. I know there are others out there that can take SMRS to a higher level learning from our past and improving the future. If you have an interest now or in the future please let me know. 12. VSCDA Upcoming 2021 events: 1. Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival Road America September17-19 2. Blackhawk Farms Octoberfest, October 16-17 Thanks for a Great 10th Season and Enjoy a Spridgetly Life of Relative Speed! Stan Mason -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ezanner at gmail.com Thu Aug 26 06:21:44 2021 From: ezanner at gmail.com (Erick Zanner) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 08:21:44 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Results and 10th Anniversary In-Reply-To: References: <1862906608.596282.1629980101493.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1862906608.596282.1629980101493@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Well said! Agreed! EZ On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 8:19 AM Charles Hall III wrote: > A special thanks to Stan Mason, for whom without his tireless dedication > none of this would occur. > > > > Thank you Stanley > > > > *From:* stanbmason at aol.com > *Sent:* Thursday, August 26, 2021 8:15 AM > *To:* allmedsys at bwig.net; andrew.more.fsae at gmail.com; > attlastt at frontier.net; bmwwxman at gmail.com; bravenrace at yahoo.com; > buckleyproperties at gmail.com; bugeyedave at aol.com; buks62500 at yahoo.com; > cana.comer at gmail.com; ccstickleback at yahoo.com; Charles Hall III < > charlie at charles-hall.com>; chia219 at comcast.net; > christopher.beukema at gmail.com; cjracr at hotmail.com; clancy at sunflower.com; > colin at colinsclassicauto.com; cseifert at tombrowninc.com; > d.walters at lackstrim.com; dbkessinger at comcast.net; dbrown07 at aol.com; > dbruce at taborbruce.com; deikis at gmail.com; derekchima at hotmail.com; > devildogracing9 at gmail.com; dick at mgcarclub.com; dlee1967 at sbcglobal.net; > dsweet3193 at aol.com; dwoerpel at wi.net; dynamic881961 at yahoo.com; > edwardhinsa at gmail.com; edwforrest at gmail.com; ellie at stagecraftplayers.com; > ezanner at gmail.com; fishnet at essex1.com; gary.perser at gmail.com; > happykozfam at comcast.net; hcgracing at aol.com; jbtruck at dwave.net; > jdonato at donatoandsonsmotors.com; jeff.bakker at yahoo.com; jeff at mozer.com; > k_hund59 at yahoo.com; kekjacobsen at yahoo.com; kered_2004 at yahoo.com; > kirkkos at yahoo.com; larsmg at aol.com; maxspeedwell773 at gmail.com; > mccormackr at hss.edu; mg72racer at juno.com; mgvadick at aol.com; > mmaehling at comcast.net; mowogbill at yahoo.com; nadadawgracing at yahoo.com; > pauljharris914 at yahoo.com; ptgbhtl at aol.com; racingred69midget at rogers.com; > refisk at chartermi.net; rfheil at aol.com; rickdmichalek at gmail.com; > rob.futcher at yahoo.com; ron.bartell at comcast.net; saeppli at aol.com; > salisje at comcast.net; sarl45 at hotmail.com; scthsc47 at gmail.com; > skip.meyer at ymail.com; slugthemtrhd at suddenlink.net; soavero at yahoo.com; > spridget72 at yahoo.com; spridget at aol.com; spridgetech at ameritech.net; > spridgets at autox.team.net; steve.bisson at yahoo.com; steve at onecoleman.com; > steve at skunkriverresto.com; stevebest3131 at gmail.com; > stevewright9928 at gmail.com; stine.jason at gmail.com; swindrace at aol.com; > swope66 at aol.com; ta.wilcox57 at gmail.com; tcspeedwell at gmail.com; > ted at hoyes.com; terry at toyshop-resto.com; thadevans at windstream.net; > thershey at frontiernet.net; tim at mcginleyinc.com; tlcnam at aol.com; > tmoran at moranconstruction.com; tom.daly at westsidevw.com; > viggen at bellsouth.net; w1979mgb at comcast.net; walt at freckmannart.com; > wc at spridget.com; wrtr at aol.com; wsthompson at thicko.com > *Subject:* Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Results and 10th > Anniversary > > > > Spridgetites, > > > > Below is our end of season report. Attached are the end of series results > and a great shot of awards presented with a back drop of a Austin Healey > Sprite Prototype Lucas Fuel Injection. > > > > Enjoy > > Stan > > > > > > *2021 Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Report & Overview of 60th > Spridget Reunion (revised August 25, 2021)* > > > > 1. *Overall* - It is hard to believe that we have been doing this > great fun on and off the track for 10 years as the Sprite Midget Race > Series. Before the SMRS we would be excited if we had 5 Spridgets racing > for the weekend. This year we experienced 21 to 28 Spridget to play with > at each race. The 10th Anniversary was planned to be special and it > lived up to that expectations. Record turnout for all of our races and > finished with traditional Grattan Finale. The end of season awards were > exceptional and would have never been possible without Dave Kessinger and > his vision. We enjoyed having new Spridget racers from Pennsylvania, > Virginia, Kansas & Texas join us and share our passion on and off the > track. It was so exciting to have the 2 World Class Restored Sprite > Prototypes all the way from Texas join us. We exceeded our high water mark > of having more Spridgets than Formula Vees at several races this season. > 2. *Grattan ? *We were told that we would have less area in the > overall paddock. This discourage some from coming and actually resulted in > smaller numbers than what was originally anticipated. We were able to hold > on to our traditional Spridget Paddock location, but with the additional > Spridget Racers coming in we needed to have other locations to place > everyone. I appreciate everyone?s patience in trying to organize this > special event. Friday was a humid hot day ending with the Cape of Good > Hope Pub Toasting followed by our Texas friends Steve and Mike Coleman?s > presentation and display of 2 Historic circa 1967-68 Sprite Prototypes made > at the Geoff and Donald Healey?s Cape Works in Warwick England. The > research and details the Coleman?s have put into these cars makes me very > appreciative of their passion to show these great restored cars to us in > the MidWest. I consider them true Ambassadors of the Austin Healey Marque > and more specifically Sprites. Hearing these cars on the track as I was > passed will always be one of my favorite memories. Saturday was the > busiest of the weekend with the Spridget Race moved to Saturday from our > traditional Sunday morning race. Brat Lunch was well supported with Carl > and Bob at Chef Helm both days. A parade lap at 2:30 for Street > Spridgets. The Sprite / Midget Street and Race Car Show was held during > the day with Rob Brackett taking the lead. Awards were presented that > evening for Sprite Street - Rob Brackett, Race Sprite - Gary Perser, Race > Midget - Mark Maehling and Best Of Show - Rob Brackett. 1st place per > class Spridget Race position were announced. Sunday we enjoyed our Brat > Lunch followed by our annual awards listed below and attached. Compiling > end of season results from the weekend is always an added frustration and > even thought I try to double check before the presentation, there always > seems to be some oversight that occurs. Our special 10 year celebration at > Grattan had some first time racers joining in the fun. I felt it would not > be fair for those that were going for season points to be penalized from > those that just entered this race, so I only gave position points to those > that had at least entered 1 series race prior to Grattan. This means that > you may see double entries for those that only attended Grattan. I > overlooked announcing Ellie Lynch?s 3rd place in Bug Eye 2M2. This is > especially embarrassing knowing the praise I gave her after she came off > the track on Sunday with a 1:38 ET in her first time racing at Grattan. I > announced Jeff Carloss?s 1st place in Bug Eye 2E, after looking more > closely to points awarded from the 3 sessions I realized that there was > actually a tie for 1st with Rick Fisk. Rick deserves special mention > since he started the first race at Gingerman with a 1275 in Bug Eye 2M2 and > then bought a 948 from me and did well enough at Black Hawk and Grattan to > manage a 1st place in 2E (maybe I should have kept that engine!). > Please see attached results in this email. > 3. *Sponsors* - We are very fortunate this year to have several > sponsors: > > > 1. *Dave Kessinger ?* providing T-Shirts, Spridget Signs and the > Fantastic Iceberg Awards. > 2. *Clancy Schmidt ?* free entrance to next race drawing (if you > have his A-Arm sticker on the side of you race Spridget) along with > monetary donations and Spridget paddock signs. > 3. *Winners Circle ?* Jeff Porada for his donation > 4. *Jeff Carloss ?* for his continued support of providing his > artistic work and providing free SMRS posters > 5. *Colin?s Classics ?* Cana and Colin Comer 2021 sticker > contribution > > > 1. *Driver Incidents Spridgets and Group 2* ? As the VSCDA Group 2 > representative I can say in recent history we have had some of the least > Driver Incidents involving the Driver Committee. I am concerned that this > is no longer true and in fact we now have the most incidents. I am working > to understand this better with data provided by Gary Kropf. I am compiling > these results and will share by the end of the year in hopes of > understanding where we are going wrong. We have 2 more races with VSCDA > the ELVF at Road America and Blacktober at Black Hawk. The early data I > have seen seems to indicate that passing safely is our biggest challenge. > We need to return to our Vintage Values and if you are uncertain of a > pass wait until you are confident you can make a clean pass. When in > traffic especially around unknown drivers, having a defensive posture is > always the right approach to keep your car and others from being damaged. > The Jim Donato Most Respected Driver Criteria below should always be our > guide. There is no better feeling when racing to trust the person you are > going wheel to wheel with and giving room by both drivers. I believe we > all (including myself) need to have a reset button with Vintage Values of > having fun over Red Mist! > 2. *Race Attendance* ? As you can see from the chart below we exceeded > the most racing Spridgets in the history of SMRS attendance at all 3 > tracks. Gingerman had it?s largest with a real abundance of Driver School > Spridgets. Black Hawk almost doubled it?s largest attendance. Grattan was > also a big number exceeding our previous record of 23 in 2015 where Grattan > was the MG Focus when we picked up quite a few Midgets. We continue to > have the largest numbers in Spridget Vintage Racing and probably SCCA based > on my viewing of Vintage Magazines and club race lists. The Yellow > highlighted areas are SMRS Tracks where we determine our end of season > results with the total for the season in the last row. > > > > *Race Track* > > *2012* > > *2013* > > *2014* > > *2015* > > *2016* > > *2017* > > *2018* > > *2019* > > *2020* > > *2021* > > *Gingerman* > > 14 > > 14 > > 12 > > 16 > > 9 > > 12 > > 18 > > 17 > > 0 > > 21 > > *Blackhawk* > > 13 > > 11 > > 11 > > 14 > > 12 > > 12 > > 12 > > 14 > > 9 > > 26 > > *Grattan* > > 17 > > 14 > > 20 > > 23 > > 15 > > 14 > > 16 > > 18 > > 12 > > 28 > > *ELVF 60th* > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 47 > > > > > > > > *Blacktober* > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 15 > > > > *SMRS Total* > > 44 > > 39 > > 43 > > 53 > > 36 > > 38 > > 46 > > 49 > > 21 > > 75 > > > > 6. *Season Overall Winners* (requires having a perfect score of 48 > points from at least 2 of the 3 race weekends) > > 2013 > > Cana Comer > > 2014 > > Greg Cory and Nathan Burress > > 2015 > > Colin Comer and Randy Byboth > > 2016 > > None qualified > > 2017 > > Ashley Burress, Nathan Buress and Jim Donato > > 2018 > > Ashley Burress and Ron Soave > > 2019 > > Doug Bruce and Jim Donato > > 2020 > > John Salisbury > > 2021 > > John Salisbury, Doug Bruce & Nathan Burress > > > > 7*.* *Special Spirit and Driver Awards*: > > *Gary Kropf Spirit Award* (started in 2015 in honor of Gary?s attitude > that we all admire). This Huge piston award was donated by Paul > Fitzsimmons and polished up with name tags by Charlie Hall?s vision of this > spirit award. > > a. Previous Winners: 2015 Salisbury, 2016 Donato, Salisbury, 2017 > Soave, Kelly, Mason, 2018 Kropf, Salisbury, Hall, 2019 Bruce, 2020 > cancelled. > > b. Criteria: Promotes the Vintage Spirit, Assists others within the > paddock, with repairs, parts, advice and encourages racer in making next > session. Quick to organize group activities with race and banquet. > Volunteers with other VSCDA activities and committees. > > *c.* This year?s winner was Charlie Hall > > > > *Jim Donato Most Respected Driver *(started in 2016 in honor of Jim?s > contribution and example of a great respected driver) > > Criteria: A driver that exemplifies the meaning of a Vintage Sports Car > Most Respected Driver includes: > > *Predictable* (Stays on racing line and points racers by when being > passed or when passing. Makes sure that over taking driver knows they are > about to be passed and allows room and good judgement), > > *Confident & Observant* (Uses mirrors and is aware of others racing > nearby) > > *Respectful* (Confirms that their race car is mechanically sound and will > not cause others to be injured from improper maintenance. Can sit down > with other competitors and enjoy their company after any session) > > *Objective* (open to other?s comments) Drives Defensively (adjusts for > conditions safely regardless of other driver?s interaction). > > *Previous Winners:* 2016 Namesake Jim Donato, 2017 Mal Fay, 2018 Ashley > Burress, 2019 Buzz Merchlewitz. > > This year?s winner was John Salisbury > > > > 8. *Spridget Contributors to VSCDA* (we appreciate our group?s > unselfish contribution to VSCDA and the Sprite Midget Race Series making us > one of the best groups within VSCDA for volunteering their time and making > this club continue to thrive for our enjoyment (I was at Gingerman and > Grattan and apologize if I missed any names): > > a. Ron Soave and Jeff Porasik for both Blackhawk Events as Event > Chairmen. Don Kelly and Doug Bruce as Event Chairman for Grattan. > > b. Dave Young, Paul Fitzsimmons and Gerry Brasil, Brad Carloss, Carl > Goodwin for their contributions to Scrutineering / Tech Barn > > c. Stacey Donato for her overall running of VSCDA registration and > all that she does along with her family from her Mom and Dad on down to her > daughter. Registration assistance from Jan and Jeff Freers, Cheryl Carloss > & Janet Carloss. > > d. Charlie Hall, Gary Kropf, Roger Heil & Jim Donato for Drivers > Committee. Gary Kropf initiated the Driver?s Committee Summary of actions, > which is greatly appreciated and time consuming. I think measuring > something as important as safety is the key to reducing incidents and > allowing us to improve. > > e. Doug Bruce for Homologations and Corner / Paddock Worker Sprite Door > Annual Award selected for the best Grattan worker selected by their peers. > > f. Tom Wilcox for taking the lead at Blackhawk and taking care of sale of > regalia, organizing Spridget Paddock and Brat Lunch > > g. Jim Donato as VSCDA Vice President > > h. Bob Danielson continuing to support the Donato Most Respected Driver > Award that he crafted and provide updated driver plaque. > > i. Charlie Hall continuing support of the Kropf Piston Spirit Award that > he initiated and continues to provide updated plaques for. > > j. Stan Mason as VSCDA Group 2 Representative and SMRS lead. > > *9. End Of Season Awards* -Every driver that met the 2 race weekend or > more requirements received awards if they attended Grattan finale. Results > are attached to this email. > > *10*. *Classifications* - I would like to revise our SMRS classifications > for the 2022 season and I have several thoughts of how we can improve. If > you have some thoughts of how we can group Spridgets for fair competition I > would like to hear from you. Our criteria up to this time has been to > follow VSCDA requirements, which include conformance to SCCA 1972 GCR/PCS > guidelines and exceptions as spelled out by VSCDA. Even under these > conditions there is varying shades of gray that we need to clarify for fair > classifications. > > *11. SMRS Past / Future* - Like all organizations including SMRS we > will only be successful if we have new people stepping up to fill > positions. I have been at the helm for the past 10 years and will step > down on or before 2026. It would be nice to have someone that is retired > or will retire in the future to pick up this baton before my departure. > Maybe even mirror me and assist before 2026. I have started a job > description / overview of what I currently do. I know there are others out > there that can take SMRS to a higher level learning from our past and > improving the future. If you have an interest now or in the future please > let me know. > > > > *12. VSCDA Upcoming 2021 events*: > > 1. Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival Road America September17-19 > > 2. Blackhawk Farms Octoberfest, October 16-17 > > > > Thanks for a Great 10th Season and Enjoy a Spridgetly Life of Relative > Speed! > > Stan Mason > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ezanner at gmail.com Thu Aug 26 08:54:13 2021 From: ezanner at gmail.com (Erick Zanner) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 10:54:13 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Results and 10th Anniversary In-Reply-To: <1862906608.596282.1629980101493@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1862906608.596282.1629980101493.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1862906608.596282.1629980101493@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: What is the ?Clancey Schmidt adjustable a-arm? for Spridgets? Any pictures? EZ On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 8:15 AM wrote: > Spridgetites, > > Below is our end of season report. Attached are the end of series results > and a great shot of awards presented with a back drop of a Austin Healey > Sprite Prototype Lucas Fuel Injection. > > Enjoy > Stan > > > *2021 Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Report & Overview of 60th > Spridget Reunion (revised August 25, 2021)* > > > 1. *Overall* - It is hard to believe that we have been doing this > great fun on and off the track for 10 years as the Sprite Midget Race > Series. Before the SMRS we would be excited if we had 5 Spridgets racing > for the weekend. This year we experienced 21 to 28 Spridget to play with > at each race. The 10th Anniversary was planned to be special and it > lived up to that expectations. Record turnout for all of our races and > finished with traditional Grattan Finale. The end of season awards were > exceptional and would have never been possible without Dave Kessinger and > his vision. We enjoyed having new Spridget racers from Pennsylvania, > Virginia, Kansas & Texas join us and share our passion on and off the > track. It was so exciting to have the 2 World Class Restored Sprite > Prototypes all the way from Texas join us. We exceeded our high water mark > of having more Spridgets than Formula Vees at several races this season. > 2. *Grattan ? *We were told that we would have less area in the > overall paddock. This discourage some from coming and actually resulted in > smaller numbers than what was originally anticipated. We were able to hold > on to our traditional Spridget Paddock location, but with the additional > Spridget Racers coming in we needed to have other locations to place > everyone. I appreciate everyone?s patience in trying to organize this > special event. Friday was a humid hot day ending with the Cape of Good > Hope Pub Toasting followed by our Texas friends Steve and Mike Coleman?s > presentation and display of 2 Historic circa 1967-68 Sprite Prototypes made > at the Geoff and Donald Healey?s Cape Works in Warwick England. The > research and details the Coleman?s have put into these cars makes me very > appreciative of their passion to show these great restored cars to us in > the MidWest. I consider them true Ambassadors of the Austin Healey Marque > and more specifically Sprites. Hearing these cars on the track as I was > passed will always be one of my favorite memories. Saturday was the > busiest of the weekend with the Spridget Race moved to Saturday from our > traditional Sunday morning race. Brat Lunch was well supported with Carl > and Bob at Chef Helm both days. A parade lap at 2:30 for Street > Spridgets. The Sprite / Midget Street and Race Car Show was held during > the day with Rob Brackett taking the lead. Awards were presented that > evening for Sprite Street - Rob Brackett, Race Sprite - Gary Perser, Race > Midget - Mark Maehling and Best Of Show - Rob Brackett. 1st place per > class Spridget Race position were announced. Sunday we enjoyed our Brat > Lunch followed by our annual awards listed below and attached. Compiling > end of season results from the weekend is always an added frustration and > even thought I try to double check before the presentation, there always > seems to be some oversight that occurs. Our special 10 year celebration at > Grattan had some first time racers joining in the fun. I felt it would not > be fair for those that were going for season points to be penalized from > those that just entered this race, so I only gave position points to those > that had at least entered 1 series race prior to Grattan. This means that > you may see double entries for those that only attended Grattan. I > overlooked announcing Ellie Lynch?s 3rd place in Bug Eye 2M2. This is > especially embarrassing knowing the praise I gave her after she came off > the track on Sunday with a 1:38 ET in her first time racing at Grattan. I > announced Jeff Carloss?s 1st place in Bug Eye 2E, after looking more > closely to points awarded from the 3 sessions I realized that there was > actually a tie for 1st with Rick Fisk. Rick deserves special mention > since he started the first race at Gingerman with a 1275 in Bug Eye 2M2 and > then bought a 948 from me and did well enough at Black Hawk and Grattan to > manage a 1st place in 2E (maybe I should have kept that engine!). > Please see attached results in this email. > 3. *Sponsors* - We are very fortunate this year to have several > sponsors: > 1. *Dave Kessinger ?* providing T-Shirts, Spridget Signs and the > Fantastic Iceberg Awards. > 2. *Clancy Schmidt ?* free entrance to next race drawing (if you > have his A-Arm sticker on the side of you race Spridget) along with > monetary donations and Spridget paddock signs. > 3. *Winners Circle ?* Jeff Porada for his donation > 4. *Jeff Carloss ?* for his continued support of providing his > artistic work and providing free SMRS posters > 5. *Colin?s Classics ?* Cana and Colin Comer 2021 sticker > contribution > 4. *Driver Incidents Spridgets and Group 2* ? As the VSCDA Group 2 > representative I can say in recent history we have had some of the least > Driver Incidents involving the Driver Committee. I am concerned that this > is no longer true and in fact we now have the most incidents. I am working > to understand this better with data provided by Gary Kropf. I am compiling > these results and will share by the end of the year in hopes of > understanding where we are going wrong. We have 2 more races with VSCDA > the ELVF at Road America and Blacktober at Black Hawk. The early data I > have seen seems to indicate that passing safely is our biggest challenge. > We need to return to our Vintage Values and if you are uncertain of a > pass wait until you are confident you can make a clean pass. When in > traffic especially around unknown drivers, having a defensive posture is > always the right approach to keep your car and others from being damaged. > The Jim Donato Most Respected Driver Criteria below should always be our > guide. There is no better feeling when racing to trust the person you are > going wheel to wheel with and giving room by both drivers. I believe we > all (including myself) need to have a reset button with Vintage Values of > having fun over Red Mist! > 5. *Race Attendance* ? As you can see from the chart below we exceeded > the most racing Spridgets in the history of SMRS attendance at all 3 > tracks. Gingerman had it?s largest with a real abundance of Driver School > Spridgets. Black Hawk almost doubled it?s largest attendance. Grattan was > also a big number exceeding our previous record of 23 in 2015 where Grattan > was the MG Focus when we picked up quite a few Midgets. We continue to > have the largest numbers in Spridget Vintage Racing and probably SCCA based > on my viewing of Vintage Magazines and club race lists. The Yellow > highlighted areas are SMRS Tracks where we determine our end of season > results with the total for the season in the last row. > > > *Race Track* > *2012* > *2013* > *2014* > *2015* > *2016* > *2017* > *2018* > *2019* > *2020* > *2021* > *Gingerman* > 14 > 14 > 12 > 16 > 9 > 12 > 18 > 17 > 0 > 21 > *Blackhawk* > 13 > 11 > 11 > 14 > 12 > 12 > 12 > 14 > 9 > 26 > *Grattan* > 17 > 14 > 20 > 23 > 15 > 14 > 16 > 18 > 12 > 28 > *ELVF 60th* > > > > > > > 47 > > > > *Blacktober* > > > > > > > > > 15 > > *SMRS Total* > 44 > 39 > 43 > 53 > 36 > 38 > 46 > 49 > 21 > 75 > > 6. *Season Overall Winners* (requires having a perfect score of 48 > points from at least 2 of the 3 race weekends) > 2013 > Cana Comer > 2014 > Greg Cory and Nathan Burress > 2015 > Colin Comer and Randy Byboth > 2016 > None qualified > 2017 > Ashley Burress, Nathan Buress and Jim Donato > 2018 > Ashley Burress and Ron Soave > 2019 > Doug Bruce and Jim Donato > 2020 > John Salisbury > 2021 > John Salisbury, Doug Bruce & Nathan Burress > > 7*.* *Special Spirit and Driver Awards*: > *Gary Kropf Spirit Award* (started in 2015 in honor of Gary?s attitude > that we all admire). This Huge piston award was donated by Paul > Fitzsimmons and polished up with name tags by Charlie Hall?s vision of this > spirit award. > a. Previous Winners: 2015 Salisbury, 2016 Donato, Salisbury, 2017 > Soave, Kelly, Mason, 2018 Kropf, Salisbury, Hall, 2019 Bruce, 2020 > cancelled. > b. Criteria: Promotes the Vintage Spirit, Assists others within the > paddock, with repairs, parts, advice and encourages racer in making next > session. Quick to organize group activities with race and banquet. > Volunteers with other VSCDA activities and committees. > *c. *This year?s winner was Charlie Hall > > *Jim Donato Most Respected Driver *(started in 2016 in honor of Jim?s > contribution and example of a great respected driver) > Criteria: A driver that exemplifies the meaning of a Vintage Sports Car > Most Respected Driver includes: > *Predictable* (Stays on racing line and points racers by when being > passed or when passing. Makes sure that over taking driver knows they are > about to be passed and allows room and good judgement), > *Confident & Observant* (Uses mirrors and is aware of others racing > nearby) > *Respectful* (Confirms that their race car is mechanically sound and will > not cause others to be injured from improper maintenance. Can sit down > with other competitors and enjoy their company after any session) > *Objective* (open to other?s comments) Drives Defensively (adjusts for > conditions safely regardless of other driver?s interaction). > *Previous Winners:* 2016 Namesake Jim Donato, 2017 Mal Fay, 2018 Ashley > Burress, 2019 Buzz Merchlewitz. > This year?s winner was John Salisbury > > 8. *Spridget Contributors to VSCDA* (we appreciate our group?s > unselfish contribution to VSCDA and the Sprite Midget Race Series making us > one of the best groups within VSCDA for volunteering their time and making > this club continue to thrive for our enjoyment (I was at Gingerman and > Grattan and apologize if I missed any names): > a. Ron Soave and Jeff Porasik for both Blackhawk Events as Event > Chairmen. Don Kelly and Doug Bruce as Event Chairman for Grattan. > b. Dave Young, Paul Fitzsimmons and Gerry Brasil, Brad Carloss, Carl > Goodwin for their contributions to Scrutineering / Tech Barn > c. Stacey Donato for her overall running of VSCDA registration and > all that she does along with her family from her Mom and Dad on down to her > daughter. Registration assistance from Jan and Jeff Freers, Cheryl Carloss > & Janet Carloss. > d. Charlie Hall, Gary Kropf, Roger Heil & Jim Donato for Drivers > Committee. Gary Kropf initiated the Driver?s Committee Summary of actions, > which is greatly appreciated and time consuming. I think measuring > something as important as safety is the key to reducing incidents and > allowing us to improve. > e. Doug Bruce for Homologations and Corner / Paddock Worker Sprite Door > Annual Award selected for the best Grattan worker selected by their peers. > f. Tom Wilcox for taking the lead at Blackhawk and taking care of sale of > regalia, organizing Spridget Paddock and Brat Lunch > g. Jim Donato as VSCDA Vice President > h. Bob Danielson continuing to support the Donato Most Respected Driver > Award that he crafted and provide updated driver plaque. > i. Charlie Hall continuing support of the Kropf Piston Spirit Award that > he initiated and continues to provide updated plaques for. > j. Stan Mason as VSCDA Group 2 Representative and SMRS lead. > *9. End Of Season Awards* -Every driver that met the 2 race weekend or > more requirements received awards if they attended Grattan finale. Results > are attached to this email. > *10*. *Classifications* - I would like to revise our SMRS classifications > for the 2022 season and I have several thoughts of how we can improve. If > you have some thoughts of how we can group Spridgets for fair competition I > would like to hear from you. Our criteria up to this time has been to > follow VSCDA requirements, which include conformance to SCCA 1972 GCR/PCS > guidelines and exceptions as spelled out by VSCDA. Even under these > conditions there is varying shades of gray that we need to clarify for fair > classifications. > *11. SMRS Past / Future* - Like all organizations including SMRS we > will only be successful if we have new people stepping up to fill > positions. I have been at the helm for the past 10 years and will step > down on or before 2026. It would be nice to have someone that is retired > or will retire in the future to pick up this baton before my departure. > Maybe even mirror me and assist before 2026. I have started a job > description / overview of what I currently do. I know there are others out > there that can take SMRS to a higher level learning from our past and > improving the future. If you have an interest now or in the future please > let me know. > > *12. VSCDA Upcoming 2021 events*: > 1. Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival Road America September17-19 > 2. Blackhawk Farms Octoberfest, October 16-17 > > Thanks for a Great 10th Season and Enjoy a Spridgetly Life of Relative > Speed! > Stan Mason > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From refisk at chartermi.net Thu Aug 26 09:37:05 2021 From: refisk at chartermi.net (Rick Fisk) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 11:37:05 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Results and 10th Anniversary In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9FAB20FC-31D9-4D95-9F72-5C735341764C@chartermi.net> Allows for easy camber adjustment and eliminates the stupid threaded lower fulcrum pin. > On Aug 26, 2021, at 10:54 AM, Erick Zanner wrote: > > ? > What is the ?Clancey Schmidt adjustable a-arm? for Spridgets? Any pictures? > EZ > >> On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 8:15 AM wrote: >> Spridgetites, >> >> Below is our end of season report. Attached are the end of series results and a great shot of awards presented with a back drop of a Austin Healey Sprite Prototype Lucas Fuel Injection. >> >> Enjoy >> Stan >> >> >> 2021 Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Report & Overview of 60th Spridget Reunion (revised August 25, 2021) >> >> Overall - It is hard to believe that we have been doing this great fun on and off the track for 10 years as the Sprite Midget Race Series. Before the SMRS we would be excited if we had 5 Spridgets racing for the weekend. This year we experienced 21 to 28 Spridget to play with at each race. The 10th Anniversary was planned to be special and it lived up to that expectations. Record turnout for all of our races and finished with traditional Grattan Finale. The end of season awards were exceptional and would have never been possible without Dave Kessinger and his vision. We enjoyed having new Spridget racers from Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kansas & Texas join us and share our passion on and off the track. It was so exciting to have the 2 World Class Restored Sprite Prototypes all the way from Texas join us. We exceeded our high water mark of having more Spridgets than Formula Vees at several races this season. >> Grattan ? We were told that we would have less area in the overall paddock. This discourage some from coming and actually resulted in smaller numbers than what was originally anticipated. We were able to hold on to our traditional Spridget Paddock location, but with the additional Spridget Racers coming in we needed to have other locations to place everyone. I appreciate everyone?s patience in trying to organize this special event. Friday was a humid hot day ending with the Cape of Good Hope Pub Toasting followed by our Texas friends Steve and Mike Coleman?s presentation and display of 2 Historic circa 1967-68 Sprite Prototypes made at the Geoff and Donald Healey?s Cape Works in Warwick England. The research and details the Coleman?s have put into these cars makes me very appreciative of their passion to show these great restored cars to us in the MidWest. I consider them true Ambassadors of the Austin Healey Marque and more specifically Sprites. Hearing these cars on the track as I was passed will always be one of my favorite memories. Saturday was the busiest of the weekend with the Spridget Race moved to Saturday from our traditional Sunday morning race. Brat Lunch was well supported with Carl and Bob at Chef Helm both days. A parade lap at 2:30 for Street Spridgets. The Sprite / Midget Street and Race Car Show was held during the day with Rob Brackett taking the lead. Awards were presented that evening for Sprite Street - Rob Brackett, Race Sprite - Gary Perser, Race Midget - Mark Maehling and Best Of Show - Rob Brackett. 1st place per class Spridget Race position were announced. Sunday we enjoyed our Brat Lunch followed by our annual awards listed below and attached. Compiling end of season results from the weekend is always an added frustration and even thought I try to double check before the presentation, there always seems to be some oversight that occurs. Our special 10 year celebration at Grattan had some first time racers joining in the fun. I felt it would not be fair for those that were going for season points to be penalized from those that just entered this race, so I only gave position points to those that had at least entered 1 series race prior to Grattan. This means that you may see double entries for those that only attended Grattan. I overlooked announcing Ellie Lynch?s 3rd place in Bug Eye 2M2. This is especially embarrassing knowing the praise I gave her after she came off the track on Sunday with a 1:38 ET in her first time racing at Grattan. I announced Jeff Carloss?s 1st place in Bug Eye 2E, after looking more closely to points awarded from the 3 sessions I realized that there was actually a tie for 1st with Rick Fisk. Rick deserves special mention since he started the first race at Gingerman with a 1275 in Bug Eye 2M2 and then bought a 948 from me and did well enough at Black Hawk and Grattan to manage a 1st place in 2E (maybe I should have kept that engine!). Please see attached results in this email. >> Sponsors - We are very fortunate this year to have several sponsors: >> Dave Kessinger ? providing T-Shirts, Spridget Signs and the Fantastic Iceberg Awards. >> Clancy Schmidt ? free entrance to next race drawing (if you have his A-Arm sticker on the side of you race Spridget) along with monetary donations and Spridget paddock signs. >> Winners Circle ? Jeff Porada for his donation >> Jeff Carloss ? for his continued support of providing his artistic work and providing free SMRS posters >> Colin?s Classics ? Cana and Colin Comer 2021 sticker contribution >> Driver Incidents Spridgets and Group 2 ? As the VSCDA Group 2 representative I can say in recent history we have had some of the least Driver Incidents involving the Driver Committee. I am concerned that this is no longer true and in fact we now have the most incidents. I am working to understand this better with data provided by Gary Kropf. I am compiling these results and will share by the end of the year in hopes of understanding where we are going wrong. We have 2 more races with VSCDA the ELVF at Road America and Blacktober at Black Hawk. The early data I have seen seems to indicate that passing safely is our biggest challenge. We need to return to our Vintage Values and if you are uncertain of a pass wait until you are confident you can make a clean pass. When in traffic especially around unknown drivers, having a defensive posture is always the right approach to keep your car and others from being damaged. The Jim Donato Most Respected Driver Criteria below should always be our guide. There is no better feeling when racing to trust the person you are going wheel to wheel with and giving room by both drivers. I believe we all (including myself) need to have a reset button with Vintage Values of having fun over Red Mist! >> Race Attendance ? As you can see from the chart below we exceeded the most racing Spridgets in the history of SMRS attendance at all 3 tracks. Gingerman had it?s largest with a real abundance of Driver School Spridgets. Black Hawk almost doubled it?s largest attendance. Grattan was also a big number exceeding our previous record of 23 in 2015 where Grattan was the MG Focus when we picked up quite a few Midgets. We continue to have the largest numbers in Spridget Vintage Racing and probably SCCA based on my viewing of Vintage Magazines and club race lists. The Yellow highlighted areas are SMRS Tracks where we determine our end of season results with the total for the season in the last row. >> >> Race Track >> 2012 >> 2013 >> 2014 >> 2015 >> 2016 >> 2017 >> 2018 >> 2019 >> 2020 >> 2021 >> Gingerman >> 14 >> 14 >> 12 >> 16 >> 9 >> 12 >> 18 >> 17 >> 0 >> 21 >> Blackhawk >> 13 >> 11 >> 11 >> 14 >> 12 >> 12 >> 12 >> 14 >> 9 >> 26 >> Grattan >> 17 >> 14 >> 20 >> 23 >> 15 >> 14 >> 16 >> 18 >> 12 >> 28 >> ELVF 60th >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 47 >> >> >> >> Blacktober >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 15 >> >> SMRS Total >> 44 >> 39 >> 43 >> 53 >> 36 >> 38 >> 46 >> 49 >> 21 >> 75 >> >> 6. Season Overall Winners (requires having a perfect score of 48 points from at least 2 of the 3 race weekends) >> 2013 >> Cana Comer >> 2014 >> Greg Cory and Nathan Burress >> 2015 >> Colin Comer and Randy Byboth >> 2016 >> None qualified >> 2017 >> Ashley Burress, Nathan Buress and Jim Donato >> 2018 >> Ashley Burress and Ron Soave >> 2019 >> Doug Bruce and Jim Donato >> 2020 >> John Salisbury >> 2021 >> John Salisbury, Doug Bruce & Nathan Burress >> >> 7. Special Spirit and Driver Awards: >> Gary Kropf Spirit Award (started in 2015 in honor of Gary?s attitude that we all admire). This Huge piston award was donated by Paul Fitzsimmons and polished up with name tags by Charlie Hall?s vision of this spirit award. >> a. Previous Winners: 2015 Salisbury, 2016 Donato, Salisbury, 2017 Soave, Kelly, Mason, 2018 Kropf, Salisbury, Hall, 2019 Bruce, 2020 cancelled. >> b. Criteria: Promotes the Vintage Spirit, Assists others within the paddock, with repairs, parts, advice and encourages racer in making next session. Quick to organize group activities with race and banquet. Volunteers with other VSCDA activities and committees. >> c. This year?s winner was Charlie Hall >> >> Jim Donato Most Respected Driver (started in 2016 in honor of Jim?s contribution and example of a great respected driver) >> Criteria: A driver that exemplifies the meaning of a Vintage Sports Car Most Respected Driver includes: >> Predictable (Stays on racing line and points racers by when being passed or when passing. Makes sure that over taking driver knows they are about to be passed and allows room and good judgement), >> Confident & Observant (Uses mirrors and is aware of others racing nearby) >> Respectful (Confirms that their race car is mechanically sound and will not cause others to be injured from improper maintenance. Can sit down with other competitors and enjoy their company after any session) >> Objective (open to other?s comments) Drives Defensively (adjusts for conditions safely regardless of other driver?s interaction). >> Previous Winners: 2016 Namesake Jim Donato, 2017 Mal Fay, 2018 Ashley Burress, 2019 Buzz Merchlewitz. >> This year?s winner was John Salisbury >> >> 8. Spridget Contributors to VSCDA (we appreciate our group?s unselfish contribution to VSCDA and the Sprite Midget Race Series making us one of the best groups within VSCDA for volunteering their time and making this club continue to thrive for our enjoyment (I was at Gingerman and Grattan and apologize if I missed any names): >> a. Ron Soave and Jeff Porasik for both Blackhawk Events as Event Chairmen. Don Kelly and Doug Bruce as Event Chairman for Grattan. >> b. Dave Young, Paul Fitzsimmons and Gerry Brasil, Brad Carloss, Carl Goodwin for their contributions to Scrutineering / Tech Barn >> c. Stacey Donato for her overall running of VSCDA registration and all that she does along with her family from her Mom and Dad on down to her daughter. Registration assistance from Jan and Jeff Freers, Cheryl Carloss & Janet Carloss. >> d. Charlie Hall, Gary Kropf, Roger Heil & Jim Donato for Drivers Committee. Gary Kropf initiated the Driver?s Committee Summary of actions, which is greatly appreciated and time consuming. I think measuring something as important as safety is the key to reducing incidents and allowing us to improve. >> e. Doug Bruce for Homologations and Corner / Paddock Worker Sprite Door Annual Award selected for the best Grattan worker selected by their peers. >> f. Tom Wilcox for taking the lead at Blackhawk and taking care of sale of regalia, organizing Spridget Paddock and Brat Lunch >> g. Jim Donato as VSCDA Vice President >> h. Bob Danielson continuing to support the Donato Most Respected Driver Award that he crafted and provide updated driver plaque. >> i. Charlie Hall continuing support of the Kropf Piston Spirit Award that he initiated and continues to provide updated plaques for. >> j. Stan Mason as VSCDA Group 2 Representative and SMRS lead. >> 9. End Of Season Awards -Every driver that met the 2 race weekend or more requirements received awards if they attended Grattan finale. Results are attached to this email. >> 10. Classifications - I would like to revise our SMRS classifications for the 2022 season and I have several thoughts of how we can improve. If you have some thoughts of how we can group Spridgets for fair competition I would like to hear from you. Our criteria up to this time has been to follow VSCDA requirements, which include conformance to SCCA 1972 GCR/PCS guidelines and exceptions as spelled out by VSCDA. Even under these conditions there is varying shades of gray that we need to clarify for fair classifications. >> 11. SMRS Past / Future - Like all organizations including SMRS we will only be successful if we have new people stepping up to fill positions. I have been at the helm for the past 10 years and will step down on or before 2026. It would be nice to have someone that is retired or will retire in the future to pick up this baton before my departure. Maybe even mirror me and assist before 2026. I have started a job description / overview of what I currently do. I know there are others out there that can take SMRS to a higher level learning from our past and improving the future. If you have an interest now or in the future please let me know. >> >> 12. VSCDA Upcoming 2021 events: >> 1. Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival Road America September17-19 >> 2. Blackhawk Farms Octoberfest, October 16-17 >> >> Thanks for a Great 10th Season and Enjoy a Spridgetly Life of Relative Speed! >> Stan Mason -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Attached are the end of series >> results and a great shot of awards presented with a back drop of a Austin >> Healey Sprite Prototype Lucas Fuel Injection. >> >> Enjoy >> Stan >> >> >> *2021 Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Report & Overview of 60th >> Spridget Reunion (revised August 25, 2021)* >> >> >> 1. *Overall* - It is hard to believe that we have been doing this >> great fun on and off the track for 10 years as the Sprite Midget Race >> Series. Before the SMRS we would be excited if we had 5 Spridgets racing >> for the weekend. This year we experienced 21 to 28 Spridget to play with >> at each race. The 10th Anniversary was planned to be special and it >> lived up to that expectations. Record turnout for all of our races and >> finished with traditional Grattan Finale. The end of season awards were >> exceptional and would have never been possible without Dave Kessinger and >> his vision. We enjoyed having new Spridget racers from Pennsylvania, >> Virginia, Kansas & Texas join us and share our passion on and off the >> track. It was so exciting to have the 2 World Class Restored Sprite >> Prototypes all the way from Texas join us. We exceeded our high water mark >> of having more Spridgets than Formula Vees at several races this season. >> 2. *Grattan ? *We were told that we would have less area in the >> overall paddock. This discourage some from coming and actually resulted in >> smaller numbers than what was originally anticipated. We were able to hold >> on to our traditional Spridget Paddock location, but with the additional >> Spridget Racers coming in we needed to have other locations to place >> everyone. I appreciate everyone?s patience in trying to organize this >> special event. Friday was a humid hot day ending with the Cape of Good >> Hope Pub Toasting followed by our Texas friends Steve and Mike Coleman?s >> presentation and display of 2 Historic circa 1967-68 Sprite Prototypes made >> at the Geoff and Donald Healey?s Cape Works in Warwick England. The >> research and details the Coleman?s have put into these cars makes me very >> appreciative of their passion to show these great restored cars to us in >> the MidWest. I consider them true Ambassadors of the Austin Healey Marque >> and more specifically Sprites. Hearing these cars on the track as I was >> passed will always be one of my favorite memories. Saturday was the >> busiest of the weekend with the Spridget Race moved to Saturday from our >> traditional Sunday morning race. Brat Lunch was well supported with Carl >> and Bob at Chef Helm both days. A parade lap at 2:30 for Street >> Spridgets. The Sprite / Midget Street and Race Car Show was held during >> the day with Rob Brackett taking the lead. Awards were presented that >> evening for Sprite Street - Rob Brackett, Race Sprite - Gary Perser, Race >> Midget - Mark Maehling and Best Of Show - Rob Brackett. 1st place >> per class Spridget Race position were announced. Sunday we enjoyed our >> Brat Lunch followed by our annual awards listed below and attached. >> Compiling end of season results from the weekend is always an added >> frustration and even thought I try to double check before the presentation, >> there always seems to be some oversight that occurs. Our special 10 year >> celebration at Grattan had some first time racers joining in the fun. I >> felt it would not be fair for those that were going for season points to be >> penalized from those that just entered this race, so I only gave position >> points to those that had at least entered 1 series race prior to Grattan. >> This means that you may see double entries for those that only attended >> Grattan. I overlooked announcing Ellie Lynch?s 3rd place in Bug Eye >> 2M2. This is especially embarrassing knowing the praise I gave her after >> she came off the track on Sunday with a 1:38 ET in her first time racing at >> Grattan. I announced Jeff Carloss?s 1st place in Bug Eye 2E, after >> looking more closely to points awarded from the 3 sessions I realized that >> there was actually a tie for 1st with Rick Fisk. Rick deserves >> special mention since he started the first race at Gingerman with a 1275 in >> Bug Eye 2M2 and then bought a 948 from me and did well enough at Black Hawk >> and Grattan to manage a 1st place in 2E (maybe I should have kept >> that engine!). Please see attached results in this email. >> 3. *Sponsors* - We are very fortunate this year to have several >> sponsors: >> 1. *Dave Kessinger ?* providing T-Shirts, Spridget Signs and the >> Fantastic Iceberg Awards. >> 2. *Clancy Schmidt ?* free entrance to next race drawing (if you >> have his A-Arm sticker on the side of you race Spridget) along with >> monetary donations and Spridget paddock signs. >> 3. *Winners Circle ?* Jeff Porada for his donation >> 4. *Jeff Carloss ?* for his continued support of providing his >> artistic work and providing free SMRS posters >> 5. *Colin?s Classics ?* Cana and Colin Comer 2021 sticker >> contribution >> 4. *Driver Incidents Spridgets and Group 2* ? As the VSCDA Group 2 >> representative I can say in recent history we have had some of the least >> Driver Incidents involving the Driver Committee. I am concerned that this >> is no longer true and in fact we now have the most incidents. I am working >> to understand this better with data provided by Gary Kropf. I am compiling >> these results and will share by the end of the year in hopes of >> understanding where we are going wrong. We have 2 more races with VSCDA >> the ELVF at Road America and Blacktober at Black Hawk. The early data I >> have seen seems to indicate that passing safely is our biggest challenge. >> We need to return to our Vintage Values and if you are uncertain of a >> pass wait until you are confident you can make a clean pass. When in >> traffic especially around unknown drivers, having a defensive posture is >> always the right approach to keep your car and others from being damaged. >> The Jim Donato Most Respected Driver Criteria below should always be our >> guide. There is no better feeling when racing to trust the person you are >> going wheel to wheel with and giving room by both drivers. I believe we >> all (including myself) need to have a reset button with Vintage Values of >> having fun over Red Mist! >> 5. *Race Attendance* ? As you can see from the chart below we >> exceeded the most racing Spridgets in the history of SMRS attendance at all >> 3 tracks. Gingerman had it?s largest with a real abundance of Driver >> School Spridgets. Black Hawk almost doubled it?s largest attendance. >> Grattan was also a big number exceeding our previous record of 23 in 2015 >> where Grattan was the MG Focus when we picked up quite a few Midgets. We >> continue to have the largest numbers in Spridget Vintage Racing and >> probably SCCA based on my viewing of Vintage Magazines and club race >> lists. The Yellow highlighted areas are SMRS Tracks where we determine our >> end of season results with the total for the season in the last row. >> >> >> *Race Track* >> *2012* >> *2013* >> *2014* >> *2015* >> *2016* >> *2017* >> *2018* >> *2019* >> *2020* >> *2021* >> *Gingerman* >> 14 >> 14 >> 12 >> 16 >> 9 >> 12 >> 18 >> 17 >> 0 >> 21 >> *Blackhawk* >> 13 >> 11 >> 11 >> 14 >> 12 >> 12 >> 12 >> 14 >> 9 >> 26 >> *Grattan* >> 17 >> 14 >> 20 >> 23 >> 15 >> 14 >> 16 >> 18 >> 12 >> 28 >> *ELVF 60th* >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 47 >> >> >> >> *Blacktober* >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 15 >> >> *SMRS Total* >> 44 >> 39 >> 43 >> 53 >> 36 >> 38 >> 46 >> 49 >> 21 >> 75 >> >> 6. *Season Overall Winners* (requires having a perfect score of >> 48 points from at least 2 of the 3 race weekends) >> 2013 >> Cana Comer >> 2014 >> Greg Cory and Nathan Burress >> 2015 >> Colin Comer and Randy Byboth >> 2016 >> None qualified >> 2017 >> Ashley Burress, Nathan Buress and Jim Donato >> 2018 >> Ashley Burress and Ron Soave >> 2019 >> Doug Bruce and Jim Donato >> 2020 >> John Salisbury >> 2021 >> John Salisbury, Doug Bruce & Nathan Burress >> >> 7*.* *Special Spirit and Driver Awards*: >> *Gary Kropf Spirit Award* (started in 2015 in honor of Gary?s attitude >> that we all admire). This Huge piston award was donated by Paul >> Fitzsimmons and polished up with name tags by Charlie Hall?s vision of this >> spirit award. >> a. Previous Winners: 2015 Salisbury, 2016 Donato, Salisbury, 2017 >> Soave, Kelly, Mason, 2018 Kropf, Salisbury, Hall, 2019 Bruce, 2020 >> cancelled. >> b. Criteria: Promotes the Vintage Spirit, Assists others within >> the paddock, with repairs, parts, advice and encourages racer in making >> next session. Quick to organize group activities with race and banquet. >> Volunteers with other VSCDA activities and committees. >> *c. *This year?s winner was Charlie Hall >> >> *Jim Donato Most Respected Driver *(started in 2016 in honor of Jim?s >> contribution and example of a great respected driver) >> Criteria: A driver that exemplifies the meaning of a Vintage Sports Car >> Most Respected Driver includes: >> *Predictable* (Stays on racing line and points racers by when being >> passed or when passing. Makes sure that over taking driver knows they are >> about to be passed and allows room and good judgement), >> *Confident & Observant* (Uses mirrors and is aware of others racing >> nearby) >> *Respectful* (Confirms that their race car is mechanically sound and >> will not cause others to be injured from improper maintenance. Can sit >> down with other competitors and enjoy their company after any session) >> *Objective* (open to other?s comments) Drives Defensively (adjusts for >> conditions safely regardless of other driver?s interaction). >> *Previous Winners:* 2016 Namesake Jim Donato, 2017 Mal Fay, 2018 Ashley >> Burress, 2019 Buzz Merchlewitz. >> This year?s winner was John Salisbury >> >> 8. *Spridget Contributors to VSCDA* (we appreciate our group?s >> unselfish contribution to VSCDA and the Sprite Midget Race Series making us >> one of the best groups within VSCDA for volunteering their time and making >> this club continue to thrive for our enjoyment (I was at Gingerman and >> Grattan and apologize if I missed any names): >> a. Ron Soave and Jeff Porasik for both Blackhawk Events as Event >> Chairmen. Don Kelly and Doug Bruce as Event Chairman for Grattan. >> b. Dave Young, Paul Fitzsimmons and Gerry Brasil, Brad Carloss, >> Carl Goodwin for their contributions to Scrutineering / Tech Barn >> c. Stacey Donato for her overall running of VSCDA registration and >> all that she does along with her family from her Mom and Dad on down to her >> daughter. Registration assistance from Jan and Jeff Freers, Cheryl Carloss >> & Janet Carloss. >> d. Charlie Hall, Gary Kropf, Roger Heil & Jim Donato for Drivers >> Committee. Gary Kropf initiated the Driver?s Committee Summary of actions, >> which is greatly appreciated and time consuming. I think measuring >> something as important as safety is the key to reducing incidents and >> allowing us to improve. >> e. Doug Bruce for Homologations and Corner / Paddock Worker Sprite Door >> Annual Award selected for the best Grattan worker selected by their peers. >> f. Tom Wilcox for taking the lead at Blackhawk and taking care of sale of >> regalia, organizing Spridget Paddock and Brat Lunch >> g. Jim Donato as VSCDA Vice President >> h. Bob Danielson continuing to support the Donato Most Respected Driver >> Award that he crafted and provide updated driver plaque. >> i. Charlie Hall continuing support of the Kropf Piston Spirit Award that >> he initiated and continues to provide updated plaques for. >> j. Stan Mason as VSCDA Group 2 Representative and SMRS lead. >> *9. End Of Season Awards* -Every driver that met the 2 race weekend or >> more requirements received awards if they attended Grattan finale. Results >> are attached to this email. >> *10*. *Classifications* - I would like to revise our SMRS >> classifications for the 2022 season and I have several thoughts of how we >> can improve. If you have some thoughts of how we can group Spridgets for >> fair competition I would like to hear from you. Our criteria up to this >> time has been to follow VSCDA requirements, which include conformance to >> SCCA 1972 GCR/PCS guidelines and exceptions as spelled out by VSCDA. Even >> under these conditions there is varying shades of gray that we need to >> clarify for fair classifications. >> *11. SMRS Past / Future* - Like all organizations including SMRS >> we will only be successful if we have new people stepping up to fill >> positions. I have been at the helm for the past 10 years and will step >> down on or before 2026. It would be nice to have someone that is retired >> or will retire in the future to pick up this baton before my departure. >> Maybe even mirror me and assist before 2026. I have started a job >> description / overview of what I currently do. I know there are others out >> there that can take SMRS to a higher level learning from our past and >> improving the future. If you have an interest now or in the future please >> let me know. >> >> *12. VSCDA Upcoming 2021 events*: >> 1. Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival Road America September17-19 >> 2. Blackhawk Farms Octoberfest, October 16-17 >> >> Thanks for a Great 10th Season and Enjoy a Spridgetly Life of Relative >> Speed! >> Stan Mason >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image0.jpeg Type: image/jpeg Size: 122734 bytes Desc: not available URL: From refisk at chartermi.net Thu Aug 26 10:52:42 2021 From: refisk at chartermi.net (Rick Fisk) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:52:42 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Results and 10th Anniversary In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks Stan! Rick > On Aug 26, 2021, at 8:22 AM, Erick Zanner wrote: > > ? > Well said! > Agreed! > EZ > >> On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 8:19 AM Charles Hall III wrote: >> A special thanks to Stan Mason, for whom without his tireless dedication none of this would occur. >> >> >> >> Thank you Stanley >> >> >> >> From: stanbmason at aol.com >> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2021 8:15 AM >> To: allmedsys at bwig.net; andrew.more.fsae at gmail.com; attlastt at frontier.net; bmwwxman at gmail.com; bravenrace at yahoo.com; buckleyproperties at gmail.com; bugeyedave at aol.com; buks62500 at yahoo.com; cana.comer at gmail.com; ccstickleback at yahoo.com; Charles Hall III ; chia219 at comcast.net; christopher.beukema at gmail.com; cjracr at hotmail.com; clancy at sunflower.com; colin at colinsclassicauto.com; cseifert at tombrowninc.com; d.walters at lackstrim.com; dbkessinger at comcast.net; dbrown07 at aol.com; dbruce at taborbruce.com; deikis at gmail.com; derekchima at hotmail.com; devildogracing9 at gmail.com; dick at mgcarclub.com; dlee1967 at sbcglobal.net; dsweet3193 at aol.com; dwoerpel at wi.net; dynamic881961 at yahoo.com; edwardhinsa at gmail.com; edwforrest at gmail.com; ellie at stagecraftplayers.com; ezanner at gmail.com; fishnet at essex1.com; gary.perser at gmail.com; happykozfam at comcast.net; hcgracing at aol.com; jbtruck at dwave.net; jdonato at donatoandsonsmotors.com; jeff.bakker at yahoo.com; jeff at mozer.com; k_hund59 at yahoo.com; kekjacobsen at yahoo.com; kered_2004 at yahoo.com; kirkkos at yahoo.com; larsmg at aol.com; maxspeedwell773 at gmail.com; mccormackr at hss.edu; mg72racer at juno.com; mgvadick at aol.com; mmaehling at comcast.net; mowogbill at yahoo.com; nadadawgracing at yahoo.com; pauljharris914 at yahoo.com; ptgbhtl at aol.com; racingred69midget at rogers.com; refisk at chartermi.net; rfheil at aol.com; rickdmichalek at gmail.com; rob.futcher at yahoo.com; ron.bartell at comcast.net; saeppli at aol.com; salisje at comcast.net; sarl45 at hotmail.com; scthsc47 at gmail.com; skip.meyer at ymail.com; slugthemtrhd at suddenlink.net; soavero at yahoo.com; spridget72 at yahoo.com; spridget at aol.com; spridgetech at ameritech.net; spridgets at autox.team.net; steve.bisson at yahoo.com; steve at onecoleman.com; steve at skunkriverresto.com; stevebest3131 at gmail.com; stevewright9928 at gmail.com; stine.jason at gmail.com; swindrace at aol.com; swope66 at aol.com; ta.wilcox57 at gmail.com; tcspeedwell at gmail.com; ted at hoyes.com; terry at toyshop-resto.com; thadevans at windstream.net; thershey at frontiernet.net; tim at mcginleyinc.com; tlcnam at aol.com; tmoran at moranconstruction.com; tom.daly at westsidevw.com; viggen at bellsouth.net; w1979mgb at comcast.net; walt at freckmannart.com; wc at spridget.com; wrtr at aol.com; wsthompson at thicko.com >> Subject: Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Results and 10th Anniversary >> >> >> >> Spridgetites, >> >> >> >> Below is our end of season report. Attached are the end of series results and a great shot of awards presented with a back drop of a Austin Healey Sprite Prototype Lucas Fuel Injection. >> >> >> >> Enjoy >> >> Stan >> >> >> >> >> >> 2021 Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Report & Overview of 60th Spridget Reunion (revised August 25, 2021) >> >> >> >> Overall - It is hard to believe that we have been doing this great fun on and off the track for 10 years as the Sprite Midget Race Series. Before the SMRS we would be excited if we had 5 Spridgets racing for the weekend. This year we experienced 21 to 28 Spridget to play with at each race. The 10th Anniversary was planned to be special and it lived up to that expectations. Record turnout for all of our races and finished with traditional Grattan Finale. The end of season awards were exceptional and would have never been possible without Dave Kessinger and his vision. We enjoyed having new Spridget racers from Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kansas & Texas join us and share our passion on and off the track. It was so exciting to have the 2 World Class Restored Sprite Prototypes all the way from Texas join us. We exceeded our high water mark of having more Spridgets than Formula Vees at several races this season. >> Grattan ? We were told that we would have less area in the overall paddock. This discourage some from coming and actually resulted in smaller numbers than what was originally anticipated. We were able to hold on to our traditional Spridget Paddock location, but with the additional Spridget Racers coming in we needed to have other locations to place everyone. I appreciate everyone?s patience in trying to organize this special event. Friday was a humid hot day ending with the Cape of Good Hope Pub Toasting followed by our Texas friends Steve and Mike Coleman?s presentation and display of 2 Historic circa 1967-68 Sprite Prototypes made at the Geoff and Donald Healey?s Cape Works in Warwick England. The research and details the Coleman?s have put into these cars makes me very appreciative of their passion to show these great restored cars to us in the MidWest. I consider them true Ambassadors of the Austin Healey Marque and more specifically Sprites. Hearing these cars on the track as I was passed will always be one of my favorite memories. Saturday was the busiest of the weekend with the Spridget Race moved to Saturday from our traditional Sunday morning race. Brat Lunch was well supported with Carl and Bob at Chef Helm both days. A parade lap at 2:30 for Street Spridgets. The Sprite / Midget Street and Race Car Show was held during the day with Rob Brackett taking the lead. Awards were presented that evening for Sprite Street - Rob Brackett, Race Sprite - Gary Perser, Race Midget - Mark Maehling and Best Of Show - Rob Brackett. 1st place per class Spridget Race position were announced. Sunday we enjoyed our Brat Lunch followed by our annual awards listed below and attached. Compiling end of season results from the weekend is always an added frustration and even thought I try to double check before the presentation, there always seems to be some oversight that occurs. Our special 10 year celebration at Grattan had some first time racers joining in the fun. I felt it would not be fair for those that were going for season points to be penalized from those that just entered this race, so I only gave position points to those that had at least entered 1 series race prior to Grattan. This means that you may see double entries for those that only attended Grattan. I overlooked announcing Ellie Lynch?s 3rd place in Bug Eye 2M2. This is especially embarrassing knowing the praise I gave her after she came off the track on Sunday with a 1:38 ET in her first time racing at Grattan. I announced Jeff Carloss?s 1st place in Bug Eye 2E, after looking more closely to points awarded from the 3 sessions I realized that there was actually a tie for 1st with Rick Fisk. Rick deserves special mention since he started the first race at Gingerman with a 1275 in Bug Eye 2M2 and then bought a 948 from me and did well enough at Black Hawk and Grattan to manage a 1st place in 2E (maybe I should have kept that engine!). Please see attached results in this email. >> Sponsors - We are very fortunate this year to have several sponsors: >> Dave Kessinger ? providing T-Shirts, Spridget Signs and the Fantastic Iceberg Awards. >> Clancy Schmidt ? free entrance to next race drawing (if you have his A-Arm sticker on the side of you race Spridget) along with monetary donations and Spridget paddock signs. >> Winners Circle ? Jeff Porada for his donation >> Jeff Carloss ? for his continued support of providing his artistic work and providing free SMRS posters >> Colin?s Classics ? Cana and Colin Comer 2021 sticker contribution >> Driver Incidents Spridgets and Group 2 ? As the VSCDA Group 2 representative I can say in recent history we have had some of the least Driver Incidents involving the Driver Committee. I am concerned that this is no longer true and in fact we now have the most incidents. I am working to understand this better with data provided by Gary Kropf. I am compiling these results and will share by the end of the year in hopes of understanding where we are going wrong. We have 2 more races with VSCDA the ELVF at Road America and Blacktober at Black Hawk. The early data I have seen seems to indicate that passing safely is our biggest challenge. We need to return to our Vintage Values and if you are uncertain of a pass wait until you are confident you can make a clean pass. When in traffic especially around unknown drivers, having a defensive posture is always the right approach to keep your car and others from being damaged. The Jim Donato Most Respected Driver Criteria below should always be our guide. There is no better feeling when racing to trust the person you are going wheel to wheel with and giving room by both drivers. I believe we all (including myself) need to have a reset button with Vintage Values of having fun over Red Mist! >> Race Attendance ? As you can see from the chart below we exceeded the most racing Spridgets in the history of SMRS attendance at all 3 tracks. Gingerman had it?s largest with a real abundance of Driver School Spridgets. Black Hawk almost doubled it?s largest attendance. Grattan was also a big number exceeding our previous record of 23 in 2015 where Grattan was the MG Focus when we picked up quite a few Midgets. We continue to have the largest numbers in Spridget Vintage Racing and probably SCCA based on my viewing of Vintage Magazines and club race lists. The Yellow highlighted areas are SMRS Tracks where we determine our end of season results with the total for the season in the last row. >> >> >> Race Track >> >> 2012 >> >> 2013 >> >> 2014 >> >> 2015 >> >> 2016 >> >> 2017 >> >> 2018 >> >> 2019 >> >> 2020 >> >> 2021 >> >> Gingerman >> >> 14 >> >> 14 >> >> 12 >> >> 16 >> >> 9 >> >> 12 >> >> 18 >> >> 17 >> >> 0 >> >> 21 >> >> Blackhawk >> >> 13 >> >> 11 >> >> 11 >> >> 14 >> >> 12 >> >> 12 >> >> 12 >> >> 14 >> >> 9 >> >> 26 >> >> Grattan >> >> 17 >> >> 14 >> >> 20 >> >> 23 >> >> 15 >> >> 14 >> >> 16 >> >> 18 >> >> 12 >> >> 28 >> >> ELVF 60th >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 47 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Blacktober >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 15 >> >> >> >> SMRS Total >> >> 44 >> >> 39 >> >> 43 >> >> 53 >> >> 36 >> >> 38 >> >> 46 >> >> 49 >> >> 21 >> >> 75 >> >> >> >> 6. Season Overall Winners (requires having a perfect score of 48 points from at least 2 of the 3 race weekends) >> >> 2013 >> >> Cana Comer >> >> 2014 >> >> Greg Cory and Nathan Burress >> >> 2015 >> >> Colin Comer and Randy Byboth >> >> 2016 >> >> None qualified >> >> 2017 >> >> Ashley Burress, Nathan Buress and Jim Donato >> >> 2018 >> >> Ashley Burress and Ron Soave >> >> 2019 >> >> Doug Bruce and Jim Donato >> >> 2020 >> >> John Salisbury >> >> 2021 >> >> John Salisbury, Doug Bruce & Nathan Burress >> >> >> >> 7. Special Spirit and Driver Awards: >> >> Gary Kropf Spirit Award (started in 2015 in honor of Gary?s attitude that we all admire). This Huge piston award was donated by Paul Fitzsimmons and polished up with name tags by Charlie Hall?s vision of this spirit award. >> >> a. Previous Winners: 2015 Salisbury, 2016 Donato, Salisbury, 2017 Soave, Kelly, Mason, 2018 Kropf, Salisbury, Hall, 2019 Bruce, 2020 cancelled. >> >> b. Criteria: Promotes the Vintage Spirit, Assists others within the paddock, with repairs, parts, advice and encourages racer in making next session. Quick to organize group activities with race and banquet. Volunteers with other VSCDA activities and committees. >> >> c. This year?s winner was Charlie Hall >> >> >> >> Jim Donato Most Respected Driver (started in 2016 in honor of Jim?s contribution and example of a great respected driver) >> >> Criteria: A driver that exemplifies the meaning of a Vintage Sports Car Most Respected Driver includes: >> >> Predictable (Stays on racing line and points racers by when being passed or when passing. Makes sure that over taking driver knows they are about to be passed and allows room and good judgement), >> >> Confident & Observant (Uses mirrors and is aware of others racing nearby) >> >> Respectful (Confirms that their race car is mechanically sound and will not cause others to be injured from improper maintenance. Can sit down with other competitors and enjoy their company after any session) >> >> Objective (open to other?s comments) Drives Defensively (adjusts for conditions safely regardless of other driver?s interaction). >> >> Previous Winners: 2016 Namesake Jim Donato, 2017 Mal Fay, 2018 Ashley Burress, 2019 Buzz Merchlewitz. >> >> This year?s winner was John Salisbury >> >> >> >> 8. Spridget Contributors to VSCDA (we appreciate our group?s unselfish contribution to VSCDA and the Sprite Midget Race Series making us one of the best groups within VSCDA for volunteering their time and making this club continue to thrive for our enjoyment (I was at Gingerman and Grattan and apologize if I missed any names): >> >> a. Ron Soave and Jeff Porasik for both Blackhawk Events as Event Chairmen. Don Kelly and Doug Bruce as Event Chairman for Grattan. >> >> b. Dave Young, Paul Fitzsimmons and Gerry Brasil, Brad Carloss, Carl Goodwin for their contributions to Scrutineering / Tech Barn >> >> c. Stacey Donato for her overall running of VSCDA registration and all that she does along with her family from her Mom and Dad on down to her daughter. Registration assistance from Jan and Jeff Freers, Cheryl Carloss & Janet Carloss. >> >> d. Charlie Hall, Gary Kropf, Roger Heil & Jim Donato for Drivers Committee. Gary Kropf initiated the Driver?s Committee Summary of actions, which is greatly appreciated and time consuming. I think measuring something as important as safety is the key to reducing incidents and allowing us to improve. >> >> e. Doug Bruce for Homologations and Corner / Paddock Worker Sprite Door Annual Award selected for the best Grattan worker selected by their peers. >> >> f. Tom Wilcox for taking the lead at Blackhawk and taking care of sale of regalia, organizing Spridget Paddock and Brat Lunch >> >> g. Jim Donato as VSCDA Vice President >> >> h. Bob Danielson continuing to support the Donato Most Respected Driver Award that he crafted and provide updated driver plaque. >> >> i. Charlie Hall continuing support of the Kropf Piston Spirit Award that he initiated and continues to provide updated plaques for. >> >> j. Stan Mason as VSCDA Group 2 Representative and SMRS lead. >> >> 9. End Of Season Awards -Every driver that met the 2 race weekend or more requirements received awards if they attended Grattan finale. Results are attached to this email. >> >> 10. Classifications - I would like to revise our SMRS classifications for the 2022 season and I have several thoughts of how we can improve. If you have some thoughts of how we can group Spridgets for fair competition I would like to hear from you. Our criteria up to this time has been to follow VSCDA requirements, which include conformance to SCCA 1972 GCR/PCS guidelines and exceptions as spelled out by VSCDA. Even under these conditions there is varying shades of gray that we need to clarify for fair classifications. >> >> 11. SMRS Past / Future - Like all organizations including SMRS we will only be successful if we have new people stepping up to fill positions. I have been at the helm for the past 10 years and will step down on or before 2026. It would be nice to have someone that is retired or will retire in the future to pick up this baton before my departure. Maybe even mirror me and assist before 2026. I have started a job description / overview of what I currently do. I know there are others out there that can take SMRS to a higher level learning from our past and improving the future. If you have an interest now or in the future please let me know. >> >> >> >> 12. VSCDA Upcoming 2021 events: >> >> 1. Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival Road America September17-19 >> >> 2. Blackhawk Farms Octoberfest, October 16-17 >> >> >> >> Thanks for a Great 10th Season and Enjoy a Spridgetly Life of Relative Speed! >> >> Stan Mason -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From refisk at chartermi.net Thu Aug 26 12:33:04 2021 From: refisk at chartermi.net (Rick Fisk) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 14:33:04 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] Fidanza Aluminum Flywheel for 1275 A-series for sale Message-ID: Hi guys, I have a spare brand new Fidanza aluminum flywheel for the 1275 that I would like to sell. I have gone back to running a 948 in my race Bugeye and don't need this flywheel. $350 delivered to your door. Rick -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image0.jpeg Type: image/jpeg Size: 133807 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- From ezanner at gmail.com Thu Aug 26 13:06:25 2021 From: ezanner at gmail.com (Erick Zanner) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:06:25 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Results and 10th Anniversary In-Reply-To: References: <1862906608.596282.1629980101493.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1862906608.596282.1629980101493@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I thought they we?re free to race Spridgets???? On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 2:57 PM Don Kelly wrote: > Erick you can get directly from Clancy or Winners Circle. I don't know the > price. > Don Kelly > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 8:21 AM Erick Zanner wrote: > >> Well said! >> Agreed! >> EZ >> >> On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 8:19 AM Charles Hall III < >> charlie at charles-hall.com> wrote: >> >>> A special thanks to Stan Mason, for whom without his tireless dedication >>> none of this would occur. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thank you Stanley >>> >> >>> >>> *From:* stanbmason at aol.com >>> *Sent:* Thursday, August 26, 2021 8:15 AM >>> *To:* allmedsys at bwig.net; andrew.more.fsae at gmail.com; >>> attlastt at frontier.net; bmwwxman at gmail.com; bravenrace at yahoo.com; >>> buckleyproperties at gmail.com; bugeyedave at aol.com; buks62500 at yahoo.com; >>> cana.comer at gmail.com; ccstickleback at yahoo.com; Charles Hall III < >>> charlie at charles-hall.com>; chia219 at comcast.net; >>> christopher.beukema at gmail.com; cjracr at hotmail.com; clancy at sunflower.com; >>> colin at colinsclassicauto.com; cseifert at tombrowninc.com; >>> d.walters at lackstrim.com; dbkessinger at comcast.net; dbrown07 at aol.com; >>> dbruce at taborbruce.com; deikis at gmail.com; derekchima at hotmail.com; >>> devildogracing9 at gmail.com; dick at mgcarclub.com; dlee1967 at sbcglobal.net; >>> dsweet3193 at aol.com; dwoerpel at wi.net; dynamic881961 at yahoo.com; >>> edwardhinsa at gmail.com; edwforrest at gmail.com; ellie at stagecraftplayers.com; >>> ezanner at gmail.com; fishnet at essex1.com; gary.perser at gmail.com; >>> happykozfam at comcast.net; hcgracing at aol.com; jbtruck at dwave.net; >>> jdonato at donatoandsonsmotors.com; jeff.bakker at yahoo.com; jeff at mozer.com; >>> k_hund59 at yahoo.com; kekjacobsen at yahoo.com; kered_2004 at yahoo.com; >>> kirkkos at yahoo.com; larsmg at aol.com; maxspeedwell773 at gmail.com; >>> mccormackr at hss.edu; mg72racer at juno.com; mgvadick at aol.com; >>> mmaehling at comcast.net; mowogbill at yahoo.com; nadadawgracing at yahoo.com; >>> pauljharris914 at yahoo.com; ptgbhtl at aol.com; racingred69midget at rogers.com; >>> refisk at chartermi.net; rfheil at aol.com; rickdmichalek at gmail.com; >>> rob.futcher at yahoo.com; ron.bartell at comcast.net; saeppli at aol.com; >>> salisje at comcast.net; sarl45 at hotmail.com; scthsc47 at gmail.com; >>> skip.meyer at ymail.com; slugthemtrhd at suddenlink.net; soavero at yahoo.com; >>> spridget72 at yahoo.com; spridget at aol.com; spridgetech at ameritech.net; >>> spridgets at autox.team.net; steve.bisson at yahoo.com; steve at onecoleman.com; >>> steve at skunkriverresto.com; stevebest3131 at gmail.com; >>> stevewright9928 at gmail.com; stine.jason at gmail.com; swindrace at aol.com; >>> swope66 at aol.com; ta.wilcox57 at gmail.com; tcspeedwell at gmail.com; >>> ted at hoyes.com; terry at toyshop-resto.com; thadevans at windstream.net; >>> thershey at frontiernet.net; tim at mcginleyinc.com; tlcnam at aol.com; >>> tmoran at moranconstruction.com; tom.daly at westsidevw.com; >>> viggen at bellsouth.net; w1979mgb at comcast.net; walt at freckmannart.com; >>> wc at spridget.com; wrtr at aol.com; wsthompson at thicko.com >>> *Subject:* Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Results and 10th >>> Anniversary >>> >>> >>> >>> Spridgetites, >>> >>> >>> >>> Below is our end of season report. Attached are the end of series >>> results and a great shot of awards presented with a back drop of a Austin >>> Healey Sprite Prototype Lucas Fuel Injection. >>> >>> >>> >>> Enjoy >>> >>> Stan >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> *2021 Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Report & Overview of 60th >>> Spridget Reunion (revised August 25, 2021)* >>> >>> >>> >>> 1. *Overall* - It is hard to believe that we have been doing this >>> great fun on and off the track for 10 years as the Sprite Midget Race >>> Series. Before the SMRS we would be excited if we had 5 Spridgets racing >>> for the weekend. This year we experienced 21 to 28 Spridget to play with >>> at each race. The 10th Anniversary was planned to be special and it >>> lived up to that expectations. Record turnout for all of our races and >>> finished with traditional Grattan Finale. The end of season awards were >>> exceptional and would have never been possible without Dave Kessinger and >>> his vision. We enjoyed having new Spridget racers from Pennsylvania, >>> Virginia, Kansas & Texas join us and share our passion on and off the >>> track. It was so exciting to have the 2 World Class Restored Sprite >>> Prototypes all the way from Texas join us. We exceeded our high water mark >>> of having more Spridgets than Formula Vees at several races this season. >>> 2. *Grattan ? *We were told that we would have less area in the >>> overall paddock. This discourage some from coming and actually resulted in >>> smaller numbers than what was originally anticipated. We were able to hold >>> on to our traditional Spridget Paddock location, but with the additional >>> Spridget Racers coming in we needed to have other locations to place >>> everyone. I appreciate everyone?s patience in trying to organize this >>> special event. Friday was a humid hot day ending with the Cape of Good >>> Hope Pub Toasting followed by our Texas friends Steve and Mike Coleman?s >>> presentation and display of 2 Historic circa 1967-68 Sprite Prototypes made >>> at the Geoff and Donald Healey?s Cape Works in Warwick England. The >>> research and details the Coleman?s have put into these cars makes me very >>> appreciative of their passion to show these great restored cars to us in >>> the MidWest. I consider them true Ambassadors of the Austin Healey Marque >>> and more specifically Sprites. Hearing these cars on the track as I was >>> passed will always be one of my favorite memories. Saturday was the >>> busiest of the weekend with the Spridget Race moved to Saturday from our >>> traditional Sunday morning race. Brat Lunch was well supported with Carl >>> and Bob at Chef Helm both days. A parade lap at 2:30 for Street >>> Spridgets. The Sprite / Midget Street and Race Car Show was held during >>> the day with Rob Brackett taking the lead. Awards were presented that >>> evening for Sprite Street - Rob Brackett, Race Sprite - Gary Perser, Race >>> Midget - Mark Maehling and Best Of Show - Rob Brackett. 1st place >>> per class Spridget Race position were announced. Sunday we enjoyed our >>> Brat Lunch followed by our annual awards listed below and attached. >>> Compiling end of season results from the weekend is always an added >>> frustration and even thought I try to double check before the presentation, >>> there always seems to be some oversight that occurs. Our special 10 year >>> celebration at Grattan had some first time racers joining in the fun. I >>> felt it would not be fair for those that were going for season points to be >>> penalized from those that just entered this race, so I only gave position >>> points to those that had at least entered 1 series race prior to Grattan. >>> This means that you may see double entries for those that only attended >>> Grattan. I overlooked announcing Ellie Lynch?s 3rd place in Bug Eye >>> 2M2. This is especially embarrassing knowing the praise I gave her after >>> she came off the track on Sunday with a 1:38 ET in her first time racing at >>> Grattan. I announced Jeff Carloss?s 1st place in Bug Eye 2E, after >>> looking more closely to points awarded from the 3 sessions I realized that >>> there was actually a tie for 1st with Rick Fisk. Rick deserves >>> special mention since he started the first race at Gingerman with a 1275 in >>> Bug Eye 2M2 and then bought a 948 from me and did well enough at Black Hawk >>> and Grattan to manage a 1st place in 2E (maybe I should have kept >>> that engine!). Please see attached results in this email. >>> 3. *Sponsors* - We are very fortunate this year to have several >>> sponsors: >>> >>> >>> 1. *Dave Kessinger ?* providing T-Shirts, Spridget Signs and the >>> Fantastic Iceberg Awards. >>> 2. *Clancy Schmidt ?* free entrance to next race drawing (if you >>> have his A-Arm sticker on the side of you race Spridget) along with >>> monetary donations and Spridget paddock signs. >>> 3. *Winners Circle ?* Jeff Porada for his donation >>> 4. *Jeff Carloss ?* for his continued support of providing his >>> artistic work and providing free SMRS posters >>> 5. *Colin?s Classics ?* Cana and Colin Comer 2021 sticker >>> contribution >>> >>> >>> 1. *Driver Incidents Spridgets and Group 2* ? As the VSCDA Group 2 >>> representative I can say in recent history we have had some of the least >>> Driver Incidents involving the Driver Committee. I am concerned that this >>> is no longer true and in fact we now have the most incidents. I am working >>> to understand this better with data provided by Gary Kropf. I am compiling >>> these results and will share by the end of the year in hopes of >>> understanding where we are going wrong. We have 2 more races with VSCDA >>> the ELVF at Road America and Blacktober at Black Hawk. The early data I >>> have seen seems to indicate that passing safely is our biggest challenge. >>> We need to return to our Vintage Values and if you are uncertain of >>> a pass wait until you are confident you can make a clean pass. When in >>> traffic especially around unknown drivers, having a defensive posture is >>> always the right approach to keep your car and others from being damaged. >>> The Jim Donato Most Respected Driver Criteria below should always be our >>> guide. There is no better feeling when racing to trust the person you are >>> going wheel to wheel with and giving room by both drivers. I believe we >>> all (including myself) need to have a reset button with Vintage Values of >>> having fun over Red Mist! >>> 2. *Race Attendance* ? As you can see from the chart below we >>> exceeded the most racing Spridgets in the history of SMRS attendance at all >>> 3 tracks. Gingerman had it?s largest with a real abundance of Driver >>> School Spridgets. Black Hawk almost doubled it?s largest attendance. >>> Grattan was also a big number exceeding our previous record of 23 in 2015 >>> where Grattan was the MG Focus when we picked up quite a few Midgets. We >>> continue to have the largest numbers in Spridget Vintage Racing and >>> probably SCCA based on my viewing of Vintage Magazines and club race >>> lists. The Yellow highlighted areas are SMRS Tracks where we determine our >>> end of season results with the total for the season in the last row. >>> >>> >>> >>> *Race Track* >>> >>> *2012* >>> >>> *2013* >>> >>> *2014* >>> >>> *2015* >>> >>> *2016* >>> >>> *2017* >>> >>> *2018* >>> >>> *2019* >>> >>> *2020* >>> >>> *2021* >>> >>> *Gingerman* >>> >>> 14 >>> >>> 14 >>> >>> 12 >>> >>> 16 >>> >>> 9 >>> >>> 12 >>> >>> 18 >>> >>> 17 >>> >>> 0 >>> >>> 21 >>> >>> *Blackhawk* >>> >>> 13 >>> >>> 11 >>> >>> 11 >>> >>> 14 >>> >>> 12 >>> >>> 12 >>> >>> 12 >>> >>> 14 >>> >>> 9 >>> >>> 26 >>> >>> *Grattan* >>> >>> 17 >>> >>> 14 >>> >>> 20 >>> >>> 23 >>> >>> 15 >>> >>> 14 >>> >>> 16 >>> >>> 18 >>> >>> 12 >>> >>> 28 >>> >>> *ELVF 60th* >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 47 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> *Blacktober* >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 15 >>> >>> >>> >>> *SMRS Total* >>> >>> 44 >>> >>> 39 >>> >>> 43 >>> >>> 53 >>> >>> 36 >>> >>> 38 >>> >>> 46 >>> >>> 49 >>> >>> 21 >>> >>> 75 >>> >>> >>> >>> 6. *Season Overall Winners* (requires having a perfect score of >>> 48 points from at least 2 of the 3 race weekends) >>> >>> 2013 >>> >>> Cana Comer >>> >>> 2014 >>> >>> Greg Cory and Nathan Burress >>> >>> 2015 >>> >>> Colin Comer and Randy Byboth >>> >>> 2016 >>> >>> None qualified >>> >>> 2017 >>> >>> Ashley Burress, Nathan Buress and Jim Donato >>> >>> 2018 >>> >>> Ashley Burress and Ron Soave >>> >>> 2019 >>> >>> Doug Bruce and Jim Donato >>> >>> 2020 >>> >>> John Salisbury >>> >>> 2021 >>> >>> John Salisbury, Doug Bruce & Nathan Burress >>> >>> >>> >>> 7*.* *Special Spirit and Driver Awards*: >>> >>> *Gary Kropf Spirit Award* (started in 2015 in honor of Gary?s attitude >>> that we all admire). This Huge piston award was donated by Paul >>> Fitzsimmons and polished up with name tags by Charlie Hall?s vision of this >>> spirit award. >>> >>> a. Previous Winners: 2015 Salisbury, 2016 Donato, Salisbury, 2017 >>> Soave, Kelly, Mason, 2018 Kropf, Salisbury, Hall, 2019 Bruce, 2020 >>> cancelled. >>> >>> b. Criteria: Promotes the Vintage Spirit, Assists others within >>> the paddock, with repairs, parts, advice and encourages racer in making >>> next session. Quick to organize group activities with race and banquet. >>> Volunteers with other VSCDA activities and committees. >>> >>> *c.* This year?s winner was Charlie Hall >>> >>> >>> >>> *Jim Donato Most Respected Driver *(started in 2016 in honor of Jim?s >>> contribution and example of a great respected driver) >>> >>> Criteria: A driver that exemplifies the meaning of a Vintage Sports Car >>> Most Respected Driver includes: >>> >>> *Predictable* (Stays on racing line and points racers by when being >>> passed or when passing. Makes sure that over taking driver knows they are >>> about to be passed and allows room and good judgement), >>> >>> *Confident & Observant* (Uses mirrors and is aware of others racing >>> nearby) >>> >>> *Respectful* (Confirms that their race car is mechanically sound and >>> will not cause others to be injured from improper maintenance. Can sit >>> down with other competitors and enjoy their company after any session) >>> >>> *Objective* (open to other?s comments) Drives Defensively (adjusts for >>> conditions safely regardless of other driver?s interaction). >>> >>> *Previous Winners:* 2016 Namesake Jim Donato, 2017 Mal Fay, 2018 Ashley >>> Burress, 2019 Buzz Merchlewitz. >>> >>> This year?s winner was John Salisbury >>> >>> >>> >>> 8. *Spridget Contributors to VSCDA* (we appreciate our group?s >>> unselfish contribution to VSCDA and the Sprite Midget Race Series making us >>> one of the best groups within VSCDA for volunteering their time and making >>> this club continue to thrive for our enjoyment (I was at Gingerman and >>> Grattan and apologize if I missed any names): >>> >>> a. Ron Soave and Jeff Porasik for both Blackhawk Events as Event >>> Chairmen. Don Kelly and Doug Bruce as Event Chairman for Grattan. >>> >>> b. Dave Young, Paul Fitzsimmons and Gerry Brasil, Brad Carloss, >>> Carl Goodwin for their contributions to Scrutineering / Tech Barn >>> >>> c. Stacey Donato for her overall running of VSCDA registration >>> and all that she does along with her family from her Mom and Dad on down to >>> her daughter. Registration assistance from Jan and Jeff Freers, Cheryl >>> Carloss & Janet Carloss. >>> >>> d. Charlie Hall, Gary Kropf, Roger Heil & Jim Donato for Drivers >>> Committee. Gary Kropf initiated the Driver?s Committee Summary of actions, >>> which is greatly appreciated and time consuming. I think measuring >>> something as important as safety is the key to reducing incidents and >>> allowing us to improve. >>> >>> e. Doug Bruce for Homologations and Corner / Paddock Worker Sprite >>> Door Annual Award selected for the best Grattan worker selected by their >>> peers. >>> >>> f. Tom Wilcox for taking the lead at Blackhawk and taking care of sale >>> of regalia, organizing Spridget Paddock and Brat Lunch >>> >>> g. Jim Donato as VSCDA Vice President >>> >>> h. Bob Danielson continuing to support the Donato Most Respected Driver >>> Award that he crafted and provide updated driver plaque. >>> >>> i. Charlie Hall continuing support of the Kropf Piston Spirit Award that >>> he initiated and continues to provide updated plaques for. >>> >>> j. Stan Mason as VSCDA Group 2 Representative and SMRS lead. >>> >>> *9. End Of Season Awards* -Every driver that met the 2 race weekend or >>> more requirements received awards if they attended Grattan finale. Results >>> are attached to this email. >>> >>> *10*. *Classifications* - I would like to revise our SMRS >>> classifications for the 2022 season and I have several thoughts of how we >>> can improve. If you have some thoughts of how we can group Spridgets for >>> fair competition I would like to hear from you. Our criteria up to this >>> time has been to follow VSCDA requirements, which include conformance to >>> SCCA 1972 GCR/PCS guidelines and exceptions as spelled out by VSCDA. Even >>> under these conditions there is varying shades of gray that we need to >>> clarify for fair classifications. >>> >>> *11. SMRS Past / Future* - Like all organizations including SMRS >>> we will only be successful if we have new people stepping up to fill >>> positions. I have been at the helm for the past 10 years and will step >>> down on or before 2026. It would be nice to have someone that is retired >>> or will retire in the future to pick up this baton before my departure. >>> Maybe even mirror me and assist before 2026. I have started a job >>> description / overview of what I currently do. I know there are others out >>> there that can take SMRS to a higher level learning from our past and >>> improving the future. If you have an interest now or in the future please >>> let me know. >>> >>> >>> >>> *12. VSCDA Upcoming 2021 events*: >>> >>> 1. Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival Road America September17-19 >>> >>> 2. Blackhawk Farms Octoberfest, October 16-17 >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks for a Great 10th Season and Enjoy a Spridgetly Life of >>> Relative Speed! >>> >>> Stan Mason >>> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From refisk at chartermi.net Thu Aug 26 15:27:50 2021 From: refisk at chartermi.net (Rick Fisk) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 17:27:50 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Results and 10th Anniversary In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Cheaper if you buy directly from Clancy. > On Aug 26, 2021, at 2:57 PM, Don Kelly wrote: > > ? > Erick you can get directly from Clancy or Winners Circle. I don't know the price. > Don Kelly > >> On Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 8:21 AM Erick Zanner wrote: >> Well said! >> Agreed! >> EZ >> >>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 8:19 AM Charles Hall III wrote: >>> A special thanks to Stan Mason, for whom without his tireless dedication none of this would occur. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thank you Stanley >>> >>> >>> >>> From: stanbmason at aol.com >>> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2021 8:15 AM >>> To: allmedsys at bwig.net; andrew.more.fsae at gmail.com; attlastt at frontier.net; bmwwxman at gmail.com; bravenrace at yahoo.com; buckleyproperties at gmail.com; bugeyedave at aol.com; buks62500 at yahoo.com; cana.comer at gmail.com; ccstickleback at yahoo.com; Charles Hall III ; chia219 at comcast.net; christopher.beukema at gmail.com; cjracr at hotmail.com; clancy at sunflower.com; colin at colinsclassicauto.com; cseifert at tombrowninc.com; d.walters at lackstrim.com; dbkessinger at comcast.net; dbrown07 at aol.com; dbruce at taborbruce.com; deikis at gmail.com; derekchima at hotmail.com; devildogracing9 at gmail.com; dick at mgcarclub.com; dlee1967 at sbcglobal.net; dsweet3193 at aol.com; dwoerpel at wi.net; dynamic881961 at yahoo.com; edwardhinsa at gmail.com; edwforrest at gmail.com; ellie at stagecraftplayers.com; ezanner at gmail.com; fishnet at essex1.com; gary.perser at gmail.com; happykozfam at comcast.net; hcgracing at aol.com; jbtruck at dwave.net; jdonato at donatoandsonsmotors.com; jeff.bakker at yahoo.com; jeff at mozer.com; k_hund59 at yahoo.com; kekjacobsen at yahoo.com; kered_2004 at yahoo.com; kirkkos at yahoo.com; larsmg at aol.com; maxspeedwell773 at gmail.com; mccormackr at hss.edu; mg72racer at juno.com; mgvadick at aol.com; mmaehling at comcast.net; mowogbill at yahoo.com; nadadawgracing at yahoo.com; pauljharris914 at yahoo.com; ptgbhtl at aol.com; racingred69midget at rogers.com; refisk at chartermi.net; rfheil at aol.com; rickdmichalek at gmail.com; rob.futcher at yahoo.com; ron.bartell at comcast.net; saeppli at aol.com; salisje at comcast.net; sarl45 at hotmail.com; scthsc47 at gmail.com; skip.meyer at ymail.com; slugthemtrhd at suddenlink.net; soavero at yahoo.com; spridget72 at yahoo.com; spridget at aol.com; spridgetech at ameritech.net; spridgets at autox.team.net; steve.bisson at yahoo.com; steve at onecoleman.com; steve at skunkriverresto.com; stevebest3131 at gmail.com; stevewright9928 at gmail.com; stine.jason at gmail.com; swindrace at aol.com; swope66 at aol.com; ta.wilcox57 at gmail.com; tcspeedwell at gmail.com; ted at hoyes.com; terry at toyshop-resto.com; thadevans at windstream.net; thershey at frontiernet.net; tim at mcginleyinc.com; tlcnam at aol.com; tmoran at moranconstruction.com; tom.daly at westsidevw.com; viggen at bellsouth.net; w1979mgb at comcast.net; walt at freckmannart.com; wc at spridget.com; wrtr at aol.com; wsthompson at thicko.com >>> Subject: Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Results and 10th Anniversary >>> >>> >>> >>> Spridgetites, >>> >>> >>> >>> Below is our end of season report. Attached are the end of series results and a great shot of awards presented with a back drop of a Austin Healey Sprite Prototype Lucas Fuel Injection. >>> >>> >>> >>> Enjoy >>> >>> Stan >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 2021 Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Report & Overview of 60th Spridget Reunion (revised August 25, 2021) >>> >>> >>> >>> Overall - It is hard to believe that we have been doing this great fun on and off the track for 10 years as the Sprite Midget Race Series. Before the SMRS we would be excited if we had 5 Spridgets racing for the weekend. This year we experienced 21 to 28 Spridget to play with at each race. The 10th Anniversary was planned to be special and it lived up to that expectations. Record turnout for all of our races and finished with traditional Grattan Finale. The end of season awards were exceptional and would have never been possible without Dave Kessinger and his vision. We enjoyed having new Spridget racers from Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kansas & Texas join us and share our passion on and off the track. It was so exciting to have the 2 World Class Restored Sprite Prototypes all the way from Texas join us. We exceeded our high water mark of having more Spridgets than Formula Vees at several races this season. >>> Grattan ? We were told that we would have less area in the overall paddock. This discourage some from coming and actually resulted in smaller numbers than what was originally anticipated. We were able to hold on to our traditional Spridget Paddock location, but with the additional Spridget Racers coming in we needed to have other locations to place everyone. I appreciate everyone?s patience in trying to organize this special event. Friday was a humid hot day ending with the Cape of Good Hope Pub Toasting followed by our Texas friends Steve and Mike Coleman?s presentation and display of 2 Historic circa 1967-68 Sprite Prototypes made at the Geoff and Donald Healey?s Cape Works in Warwick England. The research and details the Coleman?s have put into these cars makes me very appreciative of their passion to show these great restored cars to us in the MidWest. I consider them true Ambassadors of the Austin Healey Marque and more specifically Sprites. Hearing these cars on the track as I was passed will always be one of my favorite memories. Saturday was the busiest of the weekend with the Spridget Race moved to Saturday from our traditional Sunday morning race. Brat Lunch was well supported with Carl and Bob at Chef Helm both days. A parade lap at 2:30 for Street Spridgets. The Sprite / Midget Street and Race Car Show was held during the day with Rob Brackett taking the lead. Awards were presented that evening for Sprite Street - Rob Brackett, Race Sprite - Gary Perser, Race Midget - Mark Maehling and Best Of Show - Rob Brackett. 1st place per class Spridget Race position were announced. Sunday we enjoyed our Brat Lunch followed by our annual awards listed below and attached. Compiling end of season results from the weekend is always an added frustration and even thought I try to double check before the presentation, there always seems to be some oversight that occurs. Our special 10 year celebration at Grattan had some first time racers joining in the fun. I felt it would not be fair for those that were going for season points to be penalized from those that just entered this race, so I only gave position points to those that had at least entered 1 series race prior to Grattan. This means that you may see double entries for those that only attended Grattan. I overlooked announcing Ellie Lynch?s 3rd place in Bug Eye 2M2. This is especially embarrassing knowing the praise I gave her after she came off the track on Sunday with a 1:38 ET in her first time racing at Grattan. I announced Jeff Carloss?s 1st place in Bug Eye 2E, after looking more closely to points awarded from the 3 sessions I realized that there was actually a tie for 1st with Rick Fisk. Rick deserves special mention since he started the first race at Gingerman with a 1275 in Bug Eye 2M2 and then bought a 948 from me and did well enough at Black Hawk and Grattan to manage a 1st place in 2E (maybe I should have kept that engine!). Please see attached results in this email. >>> Sponsors - We are very fortunate this year to have several sponsors: >>> Dave Kessinger ? providing T-Shirts, Spridget Signs and the Fantastic Iceberg Awards. >>> Clancy Schmidt ? free entrance to next race drawing (if you have his A-Arm sticker on the side of you race Spridget) along with monetary donations and Spridget paddock signs. >>> Winners Circle ? Jeff Porada for his donation >>> Jeff Carloss ? for his continued support of providing his artistic work and providing free SMRS posters >>> Colin?s Classics ? Cana and Colin Comer 2021 sticker contribution >>> Driver Incidents Spridgets and Group 2 ? As the VSCDA Group 2 representative I can say in recent history we have had some of the least Driver Incidents involving the Driver Committee. I am concerned that this is no longer true and in fact we now have the most incidents. I am working to understand this better with data provided by Gary Kropf. I am compiling these results and will share by the end of the year in hopes of understanding where we are going wrong. We have 2 more races with VSCDA the ELVF at Road America and Blacktober at Black Hawk. The early data I have seen seems to indicate that passing safely is our biggest challenge. We need to return to our Vintage Values and if you are uncertain of a pass wait until you are confident you can make a clean pass. When in traffic especially around unknown drivers, having a defensive posture is always the right approach to keep your car and others from being damaged. The Jim Donato Most Respected Driver Criteria below should always be our guide. There is no better feeling when racing to trust the person you are going wheel to wheel with and giving room by both drivers. I believe we all (including myself) need to have a reset button with Vintage Values of having fun over Red Mist! >>> Race Attendance ? As you can see from the chart below we exceeded the most racing Spridgets in the history of SMRS attendance at all 3 tracks. Gingerman had it?s largest with a real abundance of Driver School Spridgets. Black Hawk almost doubled it?s largest attendance. Grattan was also a big number exceeding our previous record of 23 in 2015 where Grattan was the MG Focus when we picked up quite a few Midgets. We continue to have the largest numbers in Spridget Vintage Racing and probably SCCA based on my viewing of Vintage Magazines and club race lists. The Yellow highlighted areas are SMRS Tracks where we determine our end of season results with the total for the season in the last row. >>> >>> >>> Race Track >>> >>> 2012 >>> >>> 2013 >>> >>> 2014 >>> >>> 2015 >>> >>> 2016 >>> >>> 2017 >>> >>> 2018 >>> >>> 2019 >>> >>> 2020 >>> >>> 2021 >>> >>> Gingerman >>> >>> 14 >>> >>> 14 >>> >>> 12 >>> >>> 16 >>> >>> 9 >>> >>> 12 >>> >>> 18 >>> >>> 17 >>> >>> 0 >>> >>> 21 >>> >>> Blackhawk >>> >>> 13 >>> >>> 11 >>> >>> 11 >>> >>> 14 >>> >>> 12 >>> >>> 12 >>> >>> 12 >>> >>> 14 >>> >>> 9 >>> >>> 26 >>> >>> Grattan >>> >>> 17 >>> >>> 14 >>> >>> 20 >>> >>> 23 >>> >>> 15 >>> >>> 14 >>> >>> 16 >>> >>> 18 >>> >>> 12 >>> >>> 28 >>> >>> ELVF 60th >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 47 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Blacktober >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 15 >>> >>> >>> >>> SMRS Total >>> >>> 44 >>> >>> 39 >>> >>> 43 >>> >>> 53 >>> >>> 36 >>> >>> 38 >>> >>> 46 >>> >>> 49 >>> >>> 21 >>> >>> 75 >>> >>> >>> >>> 6. Season Overall Winners (requires having a perfect score of 48 points from at least 2 of the 3 race weekends) >>> >>> 2013 >>> >>> Cana Comer >>> >>> 2014 >>> >>> Greg Cory and Nathan Burress >>> >>> 2015 >>> >>> Colin Comer and Randy Byboth >>> >>> 2016 >>> >>> None qualified >>> >>> 2017 >>> >>> Ashley Burress, Nathan Buress and Jim Donato >>> >>> 2018 >>> >>> Ashley Burress and Ron Soave >>> >>> 2019 >>> >>> Doug Bruce and Jim Donato >>> >>> 2020 >>> >>> John Salisbury >>> >>> 2021 >>> >>> John Salisbury, Doug Bruce & Nathan Burress >>> >>> >>> >>> 7. Special Spirit and Driver Awards: >>> >>> Gary Kropf Spirit Award (started in 2015 in honor of Gary?s attitude that we all admire). This Huge piston award was donated by Paul Fitzsimmons and polished up with name tags by Charlie Hall?s vision of this spirit award. >>> >>> a. Previous Winners: 2015 Salisbury, 2016 Donato, Salisbury, 2017 Soave, Kelly, Mason, 2018 Kropf, Salisbury, Hall, 2019 Bruce, 2020 cancelled. >>> >>> b. Criteria: Promotes the Vintage Spirit, Assists others within the paddock, with repairs, parts, advice and encourages racer in making next session. Quick to organize group activities with race and banquet. Volunteers with other VSCDA activities and committees. >>> >>> c. This year?s winner was Charlie Hall >>> >>> >>> >>> Jim Donato Most Respected Driver (started in 2016 in honor of Jim?s contribution and example of a great respected driver) >>> >>> Criteria: A driver that exemplifies the meaning of a Vintage Sports Car Most Respected Driver includes: >>> >>> Predictable (Stays on racing line and points racers by when being passed or when passing. Makes sure that over taking driver knows they are about to be passed and allows room and good judgement), >>> >>> Confident & Observant (Uses mirrors and is aware of others racing nearby) >>> >>> Respectful (Confirms that their race car is mechanically sound and will not cause others to be injured from improper maintenance. Can sit down with other competitors and enjoy their company after any session) >>> >>> Objective (open to other?s comments) Drives Defensively (adjusts for conditions safely regardless of other driver?s interaction). >>> >>> Previous Winners: 2016 Namesake Jim Donato, 2017 Mal Fay, 2018 Ashley Burress, 2019 Buzz Merchlewitz. >>> >>> This year?s winner was John Salisbury >>> >>> >>> >>> 8. Spridget Contributors to VSCDA (we appreciate our group?s unselfish contribution to VSCDA and the Sprite Midget Race Series making us one of the best groups within VSCDA for volunteering their time and making this club continue to thrive for our enjoyment (I was at Gingerman and Grattan and apologize if I missed any names): >>> >>> a. Ron Soave and Jeff Porasik for both Blackhawk Events as Event Chairmen. Don Kelly and Doug Bruce as Event Chairman for Grattan. >>> >>> b. Dave Young, Paul Fitzsimmons and Gerry Brasil, Brad Carloss, Carl Goodwin for their contributions to Scrutineering / Tech Barn >>> >>> c. Stacey Donato for her overall running of VSCDA registration and all that she does along with her family from her Mom and Dad on down to her daughter. Registration assistance from Jan and Jeff Freers, Cheryl Carloss & Janet Carloss. >>> >>> d. Charlie Hall, Gary Kropf, Roger Heil & Jim Donato for Drivers Committee. Gary Kropf initiated the Driver?s Committee Summary of actions, which is greatly appreciated and time consuming. I think measuring something as important as safety is the key to reducing incidents and allowing us to improve. >>> >>> e. Doug Bruce for Homologations and Corner / Paddock Worker Sprite Door Annual Award selected for the best Grattan worker selected by their peers. >>> >>> f. Tom Wilcox for taking the lead at Blackhawk and taking care of sale of regalia, organizing Spridget Paddock and Brat Lunch >>> >>> g. Jim Donato as VSCDA Vice President >>> >>> h. Bob Danielson continuing to support the Donato Most Respected Driver Award that he crafted and provide updated driver plaque. >>> >>> i. Charlie Hall continuing support of the Kropf Piston Spirit Award that he initiated and continues to provide updated plaques for. >>> >>> j. Stan Mason as VSCDA Group 2 Representative and SMRS lead. >>> >>> 9. End Of Season Awards -Every driver that met the 2 race weekend or more requirements received awards if they attended Grattan finale. Results are attached to this email. >>> >>> 10. Classifications - I would like to revise our SMRS classifications for the 2022 season and I have several thoughts of how we can improve. If you have some thoughts of how we can group Spridgets for fair competition I would like to hear from you. Our criteria up to this time has been to follow VSCDA requirements, which include conformance to SCCA 1972 GCR/PCS guidelines and exceptions as spelled out by VSCDA. Even under these conditions there is varying shades of gray that we need to clarify for fair classifications. >>> >>> 11. SMRS Past / Future - Like all organizations including SMRS we will only be successful if we have new people stepping up to fill positions. I have been at the helm for the past 10 years and will step down on or before 2026. It would be nice to have someone that is retired or will retire in the future to pick up this baton before my departure. Maybe even mirror me and assist before 2026. I have started a job description / overview of what I currently do. I know there are others out there that can take SMRS to a higher level learning from our past and improving the future. If you have an interest now or in the future please let me know. >>> >>> >>> >>> 12. VSCDA Upcoming 2021 events: >>> >>> 1. Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival Road America September17-19 >>> >>> 2. Blackhawk Farms Octoberfest, October 16-17 >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks for a Great 10th Season and Enjoy a Spridgetly Life of Relative Speed! >>> >>> Stan Mason -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ezanner at gmail.com Thu Aug 26 15:50:11 2021 From: ezanner at gmail.com (Erick Zanner) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 17:50:11 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Results and 10th Anniversary In-Reply-To: <002001d79ac2$ac791bb0$056b5310$@gmail.com> References: <002001d79ac2$ac791bb0$056b5310$@gmail.com> Message-ID: Always support Winners Circle!! On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 5:38 PM wrote: > Rick, you do realize Jeff from Winner?s Circle is on this email thread. > ?How To Win Friends and Influence People? > > > > *Don Kelly* > > *Devil Dog Racing * > > VSCDA Grattan Vintage GP Co-Chair > > 231-499-5159 > > DevilDogRacing9 at gmail.com > > > > *From:* Rick Fisk > *Sent:* Thursday, August 26, 2021 5:28 PM > *To:* Don Kelly > *Cc:* Erick Zanner ; Charles Hall III < > charlie at charles-hall.com>; allmedsys at bwig.net; andrew.more.fsae at gmail.com; > attlastt at frontier.net; bmwwxman at gmail.com; bravenrace at yahoo.com; > buckleyproperties at gmail.com; bugeyedave at aol.com; buks62500 at yahoo.com; > Cana Comer ; Matthew Meixner < > ccstickleback at yahoo.com>; chia219 at comcast.net; > christopher.beukema at gmail.com; cjracr at hotmail.com; clancy at sunflower.com; > colin at colinsclassicauto.com; Craig Siefert ; > d.walters at lackstrim.com; Greensburg Minuteman Press < > dbkessinger at comcast.net>; dbrown07 at aol.com; Doug Bruce < > dbruce at taborbruce.com>; John Deikis ; > derekchima at hotmail.com; dick at mgcarclub.com; dlee1967 at sbcglobal.net; > dsweet3193 at aol.com; dwoerpel at wi.net; dynamic881961 at yahoo.com; Edward > Hinsa ; edwforrest at gmail.com; > ellie at stagecraftplayers.com; fishnet at essex1.com; gary.perser at gmail.com; > happykozfam at comcast.net; hcgracing at aol.com; jbtruck at dwave.net; Jim Donato > ; jeff.bakker at yahoo.com; Jeff Carloss < > jeff at mozer.com>; k_hund59 at yahoo.com; kekjacobsen at yahoo.com; > kered_2004 at yahoo.com; kirkkos at yahoo.com; larsmg at aol.com; > maxspeedwell773 at gmail.com; mccormackr at hss.edu; mg72racer at juno.com; > mgvadick at aol.com; mmaehling at comcast.net; mowogbill at yahoo.com; > nadadawgracing at yahoo.com; pauljharris914 at yahoo.com; ptgbhtl at aol.com; > Roger Williams ; rfheil at aol.com; > rickdmichalek at gmail.com; rob.futcher at yahoo.com; ron.bartell at comcast.net; > saeppli at aol.com; John Salisbury ; sarl45 at hotmail.com; > scthsc47 at gmail.com; skip.meyer at ymail.com; slugthemtrhd at suddenlink.net; > Ron Soave ; spridget72 at yahoo.com; spridget at aol.com; > Rod Hahnemann ; spridgets at autox.team.net; Stan > Mason ; steve.bisson at yahoo.com; Steve Coleman < > steve at onecoleman.com>; steve at skunkriverresto.com; stevebest3131 at gmail.com; > stevewright9928 at gmail.com; Jason Stine ; > swindrace at aol.com; swope66 at aol.com; ta.wilcox57 at gmail.com; Tom Colby < > tcspeedwell at gmail.com>; ted at hoyes.com; terry at toyshop-resto.com; Thad > Evans ; thershey at frontiernet.net; > tim at mcginleyinc.com; tlcnam at aol.com; tmoran at moranconstruction.com; > tom.daly at westsidevw.com; viggen at bellsouth.net; w1979mgb at comcast.net; > walt at freckmannart.com; wc at spridget.com; wrtr at aol.com; > wsthompson at thicko.com > *Subject:* Re: Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Results and 10th > Anniversary > > > > Cheaper if you buy directly from Clancy. > > > > On Aug 26, 2021, at 2:57 PM, Don Kelly wrote: > > ? > > Erick you can get directly from Clancy or Winners Circle. I don't know the > price. > > Don Kelly > > > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 8:21 AM Erick Zanner wrote: > > Well said! > > Agreed! > > EZ > > > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 8:19 AM Charles Hall III > wrote: > > A special thanks to Stan Mason, for whom without his tireless dedication > none of this would occur. > > > > Thank you Stanley > > > > *From:* stanbmason at aol.com > *Sent:* Thursday, August 26, 2021 8:15 AM > *To:* allmedsys at bwig.net; andrew.more.fsae at gmail.com; > attlastt at frontier.net; bmwwxman at gmail.com; bravenrace at yahoo.com; > buckleyproperties at gmail.com; bugeyedave at aol.com; buks62500 at yahoo.com; > cana.comer at gmail.com; ccstickleback at yahoo.com; Charles Hall III < > charlie at charles-hall.com>; chia219 at comcast.net; > christopher.beukema at gmail.com; cjracr at hotmail.com; clancy at sunflower.com; > colin at colinsclassicauto.com; cseifert at tombrowninc.com; > d.walters at lackstrim.com; dbkessinger at comcast.net; dbrown07 at aol.com; > dbruce at taborbruce.com; deikis at gmail.com; derekchima at hotmail.com; > devildogracing9 at gmail.com; dick at mgcarclub.com; dlee1967 at sbcglobal.net; > dsweet3193 at aol.com; dwoerpel at wi.net; dynamic881961 at yahoo.com; > edwardhinsa at gmail.com; edwforrest at gmail.com; ellie at stagecraftplayers.com; > ezanner at gmail.com; fishnet at essex1.com; gary.perser at gmail.com; > happykozfam at comcast.net; hcgracing at aol.com; jbtruck at dwave.net; > jdonato at donatoandsonsmotors.com; jeff.bakker at yahoo.com; jeff at mozer.com; > k_hund59 at yahoo.com; kekjacobsen at yahoo.com; kered_2004 at yahoo.com; > kirkkos at yahoo.com; larsmg at aol.com; maxspeedwell773 at gmail.com; > mccormackr at hss.edu; mg72racer at juno.com; mgvadick at aol.com; > mmaehling at comcast.net; mowogbill at yahoo.com; nadadawgracing at yahoo.com; > pauljharris914 at yahoo.com; ptgbhtl at aol.com; racingred69midget at rogers.com; > refisk at chartermi.net; rfheil at aol.com; rickdmichalek at gmail.com; > rob.futcher at yahoo.com; ron.bartell at comcast.net; saeppli at aol.com; > salisje at comcast.net; sarl45 at hotmail.com; scthsc47 at gmail.com; > skip.meyer at ymail.com; slugthemtrhd at suddenlink.net; soavero at yahoo.com; > spridget72 at yahoo.com; spridget at aol.com; spridgetech at ameritech.net; > spridgets at autox.team.net; steve.bisson at yahoo.com; steve at onecoleman.com; > steve at skunkriverresto.com; stevebest3131 at gmail.com; > stevewright9928 at gmail.com; stine.jason at gmail.com; swindrace at aol.com; > swope66 at aol.com; ta.wilcox57 at gmail.com; tcspeedwell at gmail.com; > ted at hoyes.com; terry at toyshop-resto.com; thadevans at windstream.net; > thershey at frontiernet.net; tim at mcginleyinc.com; tlcnam at aol.com; > tmoran at moranconstruction.com; tom.daly at westsidevw.com; > viggen at bellsouth.net; w1979mgb at comcast.net; walt at freckmannart.com; > wc at spridget.com; wrtr at aol.com; wsthompson at thicko.com > *Subject:* Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Results and 10th > Anniversary > > > > Spridgetites, > > > > Below is our end of season report. Attached are the end of series results > and a great shot of awards presented with a back drop of a Austin Healey > Sprite Prototype Lucas Fuel Injection. > > > > Enjoy > > Stan > > > > > > *2021 Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Report & Overview of 60th > Spridget Reunion (revised August 25, 2021)* > > > > 1. *Overall* - It is hard to believe that we have been doing this > great fun on and off the track for 10 years as the Sprite Midget Race > Series. Before the SMRS we would be excited if we had 5 Spridgets racing > for the weekend. This year we experienced 21 to 28 Spridget to play with > at each race. The 10th Anniversary was planned to be special and it > lived up to that expectations. Record turnout for all of our races and > finished with traditional Grattan Finale. The end of season awards were > exceptional and would have never been possible without Dave Kessinger and > his vision. We enjoyed having new Spridget racers from Pennsylvania, > Virginia, Kansas & Texas join us and share our passion on and off the > track. It was so exciting to have the 2 World Class Restored Sprite > Prototypes all the way from Texas join us. We exceeded our high water mark > of having more Spridgets than Formula Vees at several races this season. > 2. *Grattan ? *We were told that we would have less area in the > overall paddock. This discourage some from coming and actually resulted in > smaller numbers than what was originally anticipated. We were able to hold > on to our traditional Spridget Paddock location, but with the additional > Spridget Racers coming in we needed to have other locations to place > everyone. I appreciate everyone?s patience in trying to organize this > special event. Friday was a humid hot day ending with the Cape of Good > Hope Pub Toasting followed by our Texas friends Steve and Mike Coleman?s > presentation and display of 2 Historic circa 1967-68 Sprite Prototypes made > at the Geoff and Donald Healey?s Cape Works in Warwick England. The > research and details the Coleman?s have put into these cars makes me very > appreciative of their passion to show these great restored cars to us in > the MidWest. I consider them true Ambassadors of the Austin Healey Marque > and more specifically Sprites. Hearing these cars on the track as I was > passed will always be one of my favorite memories. Saturday was the > busiest of the weekend with the Spridget Race moved to Saturday from our > traditional Sunday morning race. Brat Lunch was well supported with Carl > and Bob at Chef Helm both days. A parade lap at 2:30 for Street > Spridgets. The Sprite / Midget Street and Race Car Show was held during > the day with Rob Brackett taking the lead. Awards were presented that > evening for Sprite Street - Rob Brackett, Race Sprite - Gary Perser, Race > Midget - Mark Maehling and Best Of Show - Rob Brackett. 1st place per > class Spridget Race position were announced. Sunday we enjoyed our Brat > Lunch followed by our annual awards listed below and attached. Compiling > end of season results from the weekend is always an added frustration and > even thought I try to double check before the presentation, there always > seems to be some oversight that occurs. Our special 10 year celebration at > Grattan had some first time racers joining in the fun. I felt it would not > be fair for those that were going for season points to be penalized from > those that just entered this race, so I only gave position points to those > that had at least entered 1 series race prior to Grattan. This means that > you may see double entries for those that only attended Grattan. I > overlooked announcing Ellie Lynch?s 3rd place in Bug Eye 2M2. This is > especially embarrassing knowing the praise I gave her after she came off > the track on Sunday with a 1:38 ET in her first time racing at Grattan. I > announced Jeff Carloss?s 1st place in Bug Eye 2E, after looking more > closely to points awarded from the 3 sessions I realized that there was > actually a tie for 1st with Rick Fisk. Rick deserves special mention > since he started the first race at Gingerman with a 1275 in Bug Eye 2M2 and > then bought a 948 from me and did well enough at Black Hawk and Grattan to > manage a 1st place in 2E (maybe I should have kept that engine!). > Please see attached results in this email. > 3. *Sponsors* - We are very fortunate this year to have several > sponsors: > > > 1. *Dave Kessinger ?* providing T-Shirts, Spridget Signs and the > Fantastic Iceberg Awards. > 2. *Clancy Schmidt ?* free entrance to next race drawing (if you > have his A-Arm sticker on the side of you race Spridget) along with > monetary donations and Spridget paddock signs. > 3. *Winners Circle ?* Jeff Porada for his donation > 4. *Jeff Carloss ?* for his continued support of providing his > artistic work and providing free SMRS posters > 5. *Colin?s Classics ?* Cana and Colin Comer 2021 sticker > contribution > > > 1. *Driver Incidents Spridgets and Group 2* ? As the VSCDA Group 2 > representative I can say in recent history we have had some of the least > Driver Incidents involving the Driver Committee. I am concerned that this > is no longer true and in fact we now have the most incidents. I am working > to understand this better with data provided by Gary Kropf. I am compiling > these results and will share by the end of the year in hopes of > understanding where we are going wrong. We have 2 more races with VSCDA > the ELVF at Road America and Blacktober at Black Hawk. The early data I > have seen seems to indicate that passing safely is our biggest challenge. > We need to return to our Vintage Values and if you are uncertain of a > pass wait until you are confident you can make a clean pass. When in > traffic especially around unknown drivers, having a defensive posture is > always the right approach to keep your car and others from being damaged. > The Jim Donato Most Respected Driver Criteria below should always be our > guide. There is no better feeling when racing to trust the person you are > going wheel to wheel with and giving room by both drivers. I believe we > all (including myself) need to have a reset button with Vintage Values of > having fun over Red Mist! > 2. *Race Attendance* ? As you can see from the chart below we exceeded > the most racing Spridgets in the history of SMRS attendance at all 3 > tracks. Gingerman had it?s largest with a real abundance of Driver School > Spridgets. Black Hawk almost doubled it?s largest attendance. Grattan was > also a big number exceeding our previous record of 23 in 2015 where Grattan > was the MG Focus when we picked up quite a few Midgets. We continue to > have the largest numbers in Spridget Vintage Racing and probably SCCA based > on my viewing of Vintage Magazines and club race lists. The Yellow > highlighted areas are SMRS Tracks where we determine our end of season > results with the total for the season in the last row. > > > > *Race Track* > > *2012* > > *2013* > > *2014* > > *2015* > > *2016* > > *2017* > > *2018* > > *2019* > > *2020* > > *2021* > > *Gingerman* > > 14 > > 14 > > 12 > > 16 > > 9 > > 12 > > 18 > > 17 > > 0 > > 21 > > *Blackhawk* > > 13 > > 11 > > 11 > > 14 > > 12 > > 12 > > 12 > > 14 > > 9 > > 26 > > *Grattan* > > 17 > > 14 > > 20 > > 23 > > 15 > > 14 > > 16 > > 18 > > 12 > > 28 > > *ELVF 60th* > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 47 > > > > > > > > *Blacktober* > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 15 > > > > *SMRS Total* > > 44 > > 39 > > 43 > > 53 > > 36 > > 38 > > 46 > > 49 > > 21 > > 75 > > > > 6. *Season Overall Winners* (requires having a perfect score of 48 > points from at least 2 of the 3 race weekends) > > 2013 > > Cana Comer > > 2014 > > Greg Cory and Nathan Burress > > 2015 > > Colin Comer and Randy Byboth > > 2016 > > None qualified > > 2017 > > Ashley Burress, Nathan Buress and Jim Donato > > 2018 > > Ashley Burress and Ron Soave > > 2019 > > Doug Bruce and Jim Donato > > 2020 > > John Salisbury > > 2021 > > John Salisbury, Doug Bruce & Nathan Burress > > > > 7*.* *Special Spirit and Driver Awards*: > > *Gary Kropf Spirit Award* (started in 2015 in honor of Gary?s attitude > that we all admire). This Huge piston award was donated by Paul > Fitzsimmons and polished up with name tags by Charlie Hall?s vision of this > spirit award. > > a. Previous Winners: 2015 Salisbury, 2016 Donato, Salisbury, 2017 > Soave, Kelly, Mason, 2018 Kropf, Salisbury, Hall, 2019 Bruce, 2020 > cancelled. > > b. Criteria: Promotes the Vintage Spirit, Assists others within the > paddock, with repairs, parts, advice and encourages racer in making next > session. Quick to organize group activities with race and banquet. > Volunteers with other VSCDA activities and committees. > > *c.* This year?s winner was Charlie Hall > > > > *Jim Donato Most Respected Driver *(started in 2016 in honor of Jim?s > contribution and example of a great respected driver) > > Criteria: A driver that exemplifies the meaning of a Vintage Sports Car > Most Respected Driver includes: > > *Predictable* (Stays on racing line and points racers by when being > passed or when passing. Makes sure that over taking driver knows they are > about to be passed and allows room and good judgement), > > *Confident & Observant* (Uses mirrors and is aware of others racing > nearby) > > *Respectful* (Confirms that their race car is mechanically sound and will > not cause others to be injured from improper maintenance. Can sit down > with other competitors and enjoy their company after any session) > > *Objective* (open to other?s comments) Drives Defensively (adjusts for > conditions safely regardless of other driver?s interaction). > > *Previous Winners:* 2016 Namesake Jim Donato, 2017 Mal Fay, 2018 Ashley > Burress, 2019 Buzz Merchlewitz. > > This year?s winner was John Salisbury > > > > 8. *Spridget Contributors to VSCDA* (we appreciate our group?s > unselfish contribution to VSCDA and the Sprite Midget Race Series making us > one of the best groups within VSCDA for volunteering their time and making > this club continue to thrive for our enjoyment (I was at Gingerman and > Grattan and apologize if I missed any names): > > a. Ron Soave and Jeff Porasik for both Blackhawk Events as Event > Chairmen. Don Kelly and Doug Bruce as Event Chairman for Grattan. > > b. Dave Young, Paul Fitzsimmons and Gerry Brasil, Brad Carloss, Carl > Goodwin for their contributions to Scrutineering / Tech Barn > > c. Stacey Donato for her overall running of VSCDA registration and > all that she does along with her family from her Mom and Dad on down to her > daughter. Registration assistance from Jan and Jeff Freers, Cheryl Carloss > & Janet Carloss. > > d. Charlie Hall, Gary Kropf, Roger Heil & Jim Donato for Drivers > Committee. Gary Kropf initiated the Driver?s Committee Summary of actions, > which is greatly appreciated and time consuming. I think measuring > something as important as safety is the key to reducing incidents and > allowing us to improve. > > e. Doug Bruce for Homologations and Corner / Paddock Worker Sprite Door > Annual Award selected for the best Grattan worker selected by their peers. > > f. Tom Wilcox for taking the lead at Blackhawk and taking care of sale of > regalia, organizing Spridget Paddock and Brat Lunch > > g. Jim Donato as VSCDA Vice President > > h. Bob Danielson continuing to support the Donato Most Respected Driver > Award that he crafted and provide updated driver plaque. > > i. Charlie Hall continuing support of the Kropf Piston Spirit Award that > he initiated and continues to provide updated plaques for. > > j. Stan Mason as VSCDA Group 2 Representative and SMRS lead. > > *9. End Of Season Awards* -Every driver that met the 2 race weekend or > more requirements received awards if they attended Grattan finale. Results > are attached to this email. > > *10*. *Classifications* - I would like to revise our SMRS classifications > for the 2022 season and I have several thoughts of how we can improve. If > you have some thoughts of how we can group Spridgets for fair competition I > would like to hear from you. Our criteria up to this time has been to > follow VSCDA requirements, which include conformance to SCCA 1972 GCR/PCS > guidelines and exceptions as spelled out by VSCDA. Even under these > conditions there is varying shades of gray that we need to clarify for fair > classifications. > > *11. SMRS Past / Future* - Like all organizations including SMRS we > will only be successful if we have new people stepping up to fill > positions. I have been at the helm for the past 10 years and will step > down on or before 2026. It would be nice to have someone that is retired > or will retire in the future to pick up this baton before my departure. > Maybe even mirror me and assist before 2026. I have started a job > description / overview of what I currently do. I know there are others out > there that can take SMRS to a higher level learning from our past and > improving the future. If you have an interest now or in the future please > let me know. > > > > *12. VSCDA Upcoming 2021 events*: > > 1. Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival Road America September17-19 > > 2. Blackhawk Farms Octoberfest, October 16-17 > > > > Thanks for a Great 10th Season and Enjoy a Spridgetly Life of Relative > Speed! > > Stan Mason > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From refisk at chartermi.net Thu Aug 26 15:56:23 2021 From: refisk at chartermi.net (Rick Fisk) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 17:56:23 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Results and 10th Anniversary In-Reply-To: <002001d79ac2$ac791bb0$056b5310$@gmail.com> References: <002001d79ac2$ac791bb0$056b5310$@gmail.com> Message-ID: <25F825D5-07A4-4668-BF81-A54BA59C3AAD@chartermi.net> So it's not ok to state the truth? I support Jeff and have bought parts from him a number of times and probably will buy more. I even have a 1992 paper Winners Circle catalog. But my budget is not unlimited and I have to be careful with my race money. Jeff's price for these a-arms is way less than the Bugeyeguy though. ? > On Aug 26, 2021, at 5:38 PM, devildogracing9 at gmail.com wrote: > ? > Rick, you do realize Jeff from Winner?s Circle is on this email thread. ?How To Win Friends and Influence People? > > Don Kelly > Devil Dog Racing > VSCDA Grattan Vintage GP Co-Chair > 231-499-5159 > DevilDogRacing9 at gmail.com > > From: Rick Fisk > Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2021 5:28 PM > To: Don Kelly > Cc: Erick Zanner ; Charles Hall III ; allmedsys at bwig.net; andrew.more.fsae at gmail.com; attlastt at frontier.net; bmwwxman at gmail.com; bravenrace at yahoo.com; buckleyproperties at gmail.com; bugeyedave at aol.com; buks62500 at yahoo.com; Cana Comer ; Matthew Meixner ; chia219 at comcast.net; christopher.beukema at gmail.com; cjracr at hotmail.com; clancy at sunflower.com; colin at colinsclassicauto.com; Craig Siefert ; d.walters at lackstrim.com; Greensburg Minuteman Press ; dbrown07 at aol.com; Doug Bruce ; John Deikis ; derekchima at hotmail.com; dick at mgcarclub.com; dlee1967 at sbcglobal.net; dsweet3193 at aol.com; dwoerpel at wi.net; dynamic881961 at yahoo.com; Edward Hinsa ; edwforrest at gmail.com; ellie at stagecraftplayers.com; fishnet at essex1.com; gary.perser at gmail.com; happykozfam at comcast.net; hcgracing at aol.com; jbtruck at dwave.net; Jim Donato ; jeff.bakker at yahoo.com; Jeff Carloss ; k_hund59 at yahoo.com; kekjacobsen at yahoo.com; kered_2004 at yahoo.com; kirkkos at yahoo.com; larsmg at aol.com; maxspeedwell773 at gmail.com; mccormackr at hss.edu; mg72racer at juno.com; mgvadick at aol.com; mmaehling at comcast.net; mowogbill at yahoo.com; nadadawgracing at yahoo.com; pauljharris914 at yahoo.com; ptgbhtl at aol.com; Roger Williams ; rfheil at aol.com; rickdmichalek at gmail.com; rob.futcher at yahoo.com; ron.bartell at comcast.net; saeppli at aol.com; John Salisbury ; sarl45 at hotmail.com; scthsc47 at gmail.com; skip.meyer at ymail.com; slugthemtrhd at suddenlink.net; Ron Soave ; spridget72 at yahoo.com; spridget at aol.com; Rod Hahnemann ; spridgets at autox.team.net; Stan Mason ; steve.bisson at yahoo.com; Steve Coleman ; steve at skunkriverresto.com; stevebest3131 at gmail.com; stevewright9928 at gmail.com; Jason Stine ; swindrace at aol.com; swope66 at aol.com; ta.wilcox57 at gmail.com; Tom Colby ; ted at hoyes.com; terry at toyshop-resto.com; Thad Evans ; thershey at frontiernet.net; tim at mcginleyinc.com; tlcnam at aol.com; tmoran at moranconstruction.com; tom.daly at westsidevw.com; viggen at bellsouth.net; w1979mgb at comcast.net; walt at freckmannart.com; wc at spridget.com; wrtr at aol.com; wsthompson at thicko.com > Subject: Re: Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Results and 10th Anniversary > > Cheaper if you buy directly from Clancy. > > > On Aug 26, 2021, at 2:57 PM, Don Kelly wrote: > > ? > Erick you can get directly from Clancy or Winners Circle. I don't know the price. > Don Kelly > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 8:21 AM Erick Zanner wrote: > Well said! > Agreed! > EZ > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 8:19 AM Charles Hall III wrote: > A special thanks to Stan Mason, for whom without his tireless dedication none of this would occur. > > Thank you Stanley > > From: stanbmason at aol.com > Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2021 8:15 AM > To: allmedsys at bwig.net; andrew.more.fsae at gmail.com; attlastt at frontier.net; bmwwxman at gmail.com; bravenrace at yahoo.com; buckleyproperties at gmail.com; bugeyedave at aol.com; buks62500 at yahoo.com; cana.comer at gmail.com; ccstickleback at yahoo.com; Charles Hall III ; chia219 at comcast.net; christopher.beukema at gmail.com; cjracr at hotmail.com; clancy at sunflower.com; colin at colinsclassicauto.com; cseifert at tombrowninc.com; d.walters at lackstrim.com; dbkessinger at comcast.net; dbrown07 at aol.com; dbruce at taborbruce.com; deikis at gmail.com; derekchima at hotmail.com; devildogracing9 at gmail.com; dick at mgcarclub.com; dlee1967 at sbcglobal.net; dsweet3193 at aol.com; dwoerpel at wi.net; dynamic881961 at yahoo.com; edwardhinsa at gmail.com; edwforrest at gmail.com; ellie at stagecraftplayers.com; ezanner at gmail.com; fishnet at essex1.com; gary.perser at gmail.com; happykozfam at comcast.net; hcgracing at aol.com; jbtruck at dwave.net; jdonato at donatoandsonsmotors.com; jeff.bakker at yahoo.com; jeff at mozer.com; k_hund59 at yahoo.com; kekjacobsen at yahoo.com; kered_2004 at yahoo.com; kirkkos at yahoo.com; larsmg at aol.com; maxspeedwell773 at gmail.com; mccormackr at hss.edu; mg72racer at juno.com; mgvadick at aol.com; mmaehling at comcast.net; mowogbill at yahoo.com; nadadawgracing at yahoo.com; pauljharris914 at yahoo.com; ptgbhtl at aol.com; racingred69midget at rogers.com; refisk at chartermi.net; rfheil at aol.com; rickdmichalek at gmail.com; rob.futcher at yahoo.com; ron.bartell at comcast.net; saeppli at aol.com; salisje at comcast.net; sarl45 at hotmail.com; scthsc47 at gmail.com; skip.meyer at ymail.com; slugthemtrhd at suddenlink.net; soavero at yahoo.com; spridget72 at yahoo.com; spridget at aol.com; spridgetech at ameritech.net; spridgets at autox.team.net; steve.bisson at yahoo.com; steve at onecoleman.com; steve at skunkriverresto.com; stevebest3131 at gmail.com; stevewright9928 at gmail.com; stine.jason at gmail.com; swindrace at aol.com; swope66 at aol.com; ta.wilcox57 at gmail.com; tcspeedwell at gmail.com; ted at hoyes.com; terry at toyshop-resto.com; thadevans at windstream.net; thershey at frontiernet.net; tim at mcginleyinc.com; tlcnam at aol.com; tmoran at moranconstruction.com; tom.daly at westsidevw.com; viggen at bellsouth.net; w1979mgb at comcast.net; walt at freckmannart.com; wc at spridget.com; wrtr at aol.com; wsthompson at thicko.com > Subject: Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Results and 10th Anniversary > > Spridgetites, > > Below is our end of season report. Attached are the end of series results and a great shot of awards presented with a back drop of a Austin Healey Sprite Prototype Lucas Fuel Injection. > > Enjoy > Stan > > > 2021 Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Report & Overview of 60th Spridget Reunion (revised August 25, 2021) > > Overall - It is hard to believe that we have been doing this great fun on and off the track for 10 years as the Sprite Midget Race Series. Before the SMRS we would be excited if we had 5 Spridgets racing for the weekend. This year we experienced 21 to 28 Spridget to play with at each race. The 10th Anniversary was planned to be special and it lived up to that expectations. Record turnout for all of our races and finished with traditional Grattan Finale. The end of season awards were exceptional and would have never been possible without Dave Kessinger and his vision. We enjoyed having new Spridget racers from Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kansas & Texas join us and share our passion on and off the track. It was so exciting to have the 2 World Class Restored Sprite Prototypes all the way from Texas join us. We exceeded our high water mark of having more Spridgets than Formula Vees at several races this season. > Grattan ? We were told that we would have less area in the overall paddock. This discourage some from coming and actually resulted in smaller numbers than what was originally anticipated. We were able to hold on to our traditional Spridget Paddock location, but with the additional Spridget Racers coming in we needed to have other locations to place everyone. I appreciate everyone?s patience in trying to organize this special event. Friday was a humid hot day ending with the Cape of Good Hope Pub Toasting followed by our Texas friends Steve and Mike Coleman?s presentation and display of 2 Historic circa 1967-68 Sprite Prototypes made at the Geoff and Donald Healey?s Cape Works in Warwick England. The research and details the Coleman?s have put into these cars makes me very appreciative of their passion to show these great restored cars to us in the MidWest. I consider them true Ambassadors of the Austin Healey Marque and more specifically Sprites. Hearing these cars on the track as I was passed will always be one of my favorite memories. Saturday was the busiest of the weekend with the Spridget Race moved to Saturday from our traditional Sunday morning race. Brat Lunch was well supported with Carl and Bob at Chef Helm both days. A parade lap at 2:30 for Street Spridgets. The Sprite / Midget Street and Race Car Show was held during the day with Rob Brackett taking the lead. Awards were presented that evening for Sprite Street - Rob Brackett, Race Sprite - Gary Perser, Race Midget - Mark Maehling and Best Of Show - Rob Brackett. 1st place per class Spridget Race position were announced. Sunday we enjoyed our Brat Lunch followed by our annual awards listed below and attached. Compiling end of season results from the weekend is always an added frustration and even thought I try to double check before the presentation, there always seems to be some oversight that occurs. Our special 10 year celebration at Grattan had some first time racers joining in the fun. I felt it would not be fair for those that were going for season points to be penalized from those that just entered this race, so I only gave position points to those that had at least entered 1 series race prior to Grattan. This means that you may see double entries for those that only attended Grattan. I overlooked announcing Ellie Lynch?s 3rd place in Bug Eye 2M2. This is especially embarrassing knowing the praise I gave her after she came off the track on Sunday with a 1:38 ET in her first time racing at Grattan. I announced Jeff Carloss?s 1st place in Bug Eye 2E, after looking more closely to points awarded from the 3 sessions I realized that there was actually a tie for 1st with Rick Fisk. Rick deserves special mention since he started the first race at Gingerman with a 1275 in Bug Eye 2M2 and then bought a 948 from me and did well enough at Black Hawk and Grattan to manage a 1st place in 2E (maybe I should have kept that engine!). Please see attached results in this email. > Sponsors - We are very fortunate this year to have several sponsors: > Dave Kessinger ? providing T-Shirts, Spridget Signs and the Fantastic Iceberg Awards. > Clancy Schmidt ? free entrance to next race drawing (if you have his A-Arm sticker on the side of you race Spridget) along with monetary donations and Spridget paddock signs. > Winners Circle ? Jeff Porada for his donation > Jeff Carloss ? for his continued support of providing his artistic work and providing free SMRS posters > Colin?s Classics ? Cana and Colin Comer 2021 sticker contribution > Driver Incidents Spridgets and Group 2 ? As the VSCDA Group 2 representative I can say in recent history we have had some of the least Driver Incidents involving the Driver Committee. I am concerned that this is no longer true and in fact we now have the most incidents. I am working to understand this better with data provided by Gary Kropf. I am compiling these results and will share by the end of the year in hopes of understanding where we are going wrong. We have 2 more races with VSCDA the ELVF at Road America and Blacktober at Black Hawk. The early data I have seen seems to indicate that passing safely is our biggest challenge. We need to return to our Vintage Values and if you are uncertain of a pass wait until you are confident you can make a clean pass. When in traffic especially around unknown drivers, having a defensive posture is always the right approach to keep your car and others from being damaged. The Jim Donato Most Respected Driver Criteria below should always be our guide. There is no better feeling when racing to trust the person you are going wheel to wheel with and giving room by both drivers. I believe we all (including myself) need to have a reset button with Vintage Values of having fun over Red Mist! > Race Attendance ? As you can see from the chart below we exceeded the most racing Spridgets in the history of SMRS attendance at all 3 tracks. Gingerman had it?s largest with a real abundance of Driver School Spridgets. Black Hawk almost doubled it?s largest attendance. Grattan was also a big number exceeding our previous record of 23 in 2015 where Grattan was the MG Focus when we picked up quite a few Midgets. We continue to have the largest numbers in Spridget Vintage Racing and probably SCCA based on my viewing of Vintage Magazines and club race lists. The Yellow highlighted areas are SMRS Tracks where we determine our end of season results with the total for the season in the last row. > > Race Track > 2012 > 2013 > 2014 > 2015 > 2016 > 2017 > 2018 > 2019 > 2020 > 2021 > Gingerman > 14 > 14 > 12 > 16 > 9 > 12 > 18 > 17 > 0 > 21 > Blackhawk > 13 > 11 > 11 > 14 > 12 > 12 > 12 > 14 > 9 > 26 > Grattan > 17 > 14 > 20 > 23 > 15 > 14 > 16 > 18 > 12 > 28 > ELVF 60th > > > > > > > 47 > > > > Blacktober > > > > > > > > > 15 > > SMRS Total > 44 > 39 > 43 > 53 > 36 > 38 > 46 > 49 > 21 > 75 > > 6. Season Overall Winners (requires having a perfect score of 48 points from at least 2 of the 3 race weekends) > 2013 > Cana Comer > 2014 > Greg Cory and Nathan Burress > 2015 > Colin Comer and Randy Byboth > 2016 > None qualified > 2017 > Ashley Burress, Nathan Buress and Jim Donato > 2018 > Ashley Burress and Ron Soave > 2019 > Doug Bruce and Jim Donato > 2020 > John Salisbury > 2021 > John Salisbury, Doug Bruce & Nathan Burress > > 7. Special Spirit and Driver Awards: > Gary Kropf Spirit Award (started in 2015 in honor of Gary?s attitude that we all admire). This Huge piston award was donated by Paul Fitzsimmons and polished up with name tags by Charlie Hall?s vision of this spirit award. > a. Previous Winners: 2015 Salisbury, 2016 Donato, Salisbury, 2017 Soave, Kelly, Mason, 2018 Kropf, Salisbury, Hall, 2019 Bruce, 2020 cancelled. > b. Criteria: Promotes the Vintage Spirit, Assists others within the paddock, with repairs, parts, advice and encourages racer in making next session. Quick to organize group activities with race and banquet. Volunteers with other VSCDA activities and committees. > c. This year?s winner was Charlie Hall > > Jim Donato Most Respected Driver (started in 2016 in honor of Jim?s contribution and example of a great respected driver) > Criteria: A driver that exemplifies the meaning of a Vintage Sports Car Most Respected Driver includes: > Predictable (Stays on racing line and points racers by when being passed or when passing. Makes sure that over taking driver knows they are about to be passed and allows room and good judgement), > Confident & Observant (Uses mirrors and is aware of others racing nearby) > Respectful (Confirms that their race car is mechanically sound and will not cause others to be injured from improper maintenance. Can sit down with other competitors and enjoy their company after any session) > Objective (open to other?s comments) Drives Defensively (adjusts for conditions safely regardless of other driver?s interaction). > Previous Winners: 2016 Namesake Jim Donato, 2017 Mal Fay, 2018 Ashley Burress, 2019 Buzz Merchlewitz. > This year?s winner was John Salisbury > > 8. Spridget Contributors to VSCDA (we appreciate our group?s unselfish contribution to VSCDA and the Sprite Midget Race Series making us one of the best groups within VSCDA for volunteering their time and making this club continue to thrive for our enjoyment (I was at Gingerman and Grattan and apologize if I missed any names): > a. Ron Soave and Jeff Porasik for both Blackhawk Events as Event Chairmen. Don Kelly and Doug Bruce as Event Chairman for Grattan. > b. Dave Young, Paul Fitzsimmons and Gerry Brasil, Brad Carloss, Carl Goodwin for their contributions to Scrutineering / Tech Barn > c. Stacey Donato for her overall running of VSCDA registration and all that she does along with her family from her Mom and Dad on down to her daughter. Registration assistance from Jan and Jeff Freers, Cheryl Carloss & Janet Carloss. > d. Charlie Hall, Gary Kropf, Roger Heil & Jim Donato for Drivers Committee. Gary Kropf initiated the Driver?s Committee Summary of actions, which is greatly appreciated and time consuming. I think measuring something as important as safety is the key to reducing incidents and allowing us to improve. > e. Doug Bruce for Homologations and Corner / Paddock Worker Sprite Door Annual Award selected for the best Grattan worker selected by their peers. > f. Tom Wilcox for taking the lead at Blackhawk and taking care of sale of regalia, organizing Spridget Paddock and Brat Lunch > g. Jim Donato as VSCDA Vice President > h. Bob Danielson continuing to support the Donato Most Respected Driver Award that he crafted and provide updated driver plaque. > i. Charlie Hall continuing support of the Kropf Piston Spirit Award that he initiated and continues to provide updated plaques for. > j. Stan Mason as VSCDA Group 2 Representative and SMRS lead. > 9. End Of Season Awards -Every driver that met the 2 race weekend or more requirements received awards if they attended Grattan finale. Results are attached to this email. > 10. Classifications - I would like to revise our SMRS classifications for the 2022 season and I have several thoughts of how we can improve. If you have some thoughts of how we can group Spridgets for fair competition I would like to hear from you. Our criteria up to this time has been to follow VSCDA requirements, which include conformance to SCCA 1972 GCR/PCS guidelines and exceptions as spelled out by VSCDA. Even under these conditions there is varying shades of gray that we need to clarify for fair classifications. > 11. SMRS Past / Future - Like all organizations including SMRS we will only be successful if we have new people stepping up to fill positions. I have been at the helm for the past 10 years and will step down on or before 2026. It would be nice to have someone that is retired or will retire in the future to pick up this baton before my departure. Maybe even mirror me and assist before 2026. I have started a job description / overview of what I currently do. I know there are others out there that can take SMRS to a higher level learning from our past and improving the future. If you have an interest now or in the future please let me know. > > 12. VSCDA Upcoming 2021 events: > 1. Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival Road America September17-19 > 2. Blackhawk Farms Octoberfest, October 16-17 > > Thanks for a Great 10th Season and Enjoy a Spridgetly Life of Relative Speed! > Stan Mason -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From miniac7 at aol.com Thu Aug 26 16:07:56 2021 From: miniac7 at aol.com (miniac7 (null)) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:07:56 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Results and 10th Anniversary In-Reply-To: <25F825D5-07A4-4668-BF81-A54BA59C3AAD@chartermi.net> References: <25F825D5-07A4-4668-BF81-A54BA59C3AAD@chartermi.net> Message-ID: <5EFB9024-14E5-49DB-AD26-C8848331AFC7@aol.com> With plenty of Clancy?s comic relief thrown in at no extra charge. He?s a good egg. Howard Collins > On Aug 26, 2021, at 5:59 PM, Rick Fisk via Spridgets wrote: > > ? > So it's not ok to state the truth? I support Jeff and have bought parts from him a number of times and probably will buy more. I even have a 1992 paper Winners Circle catalog. But my budget is not unlimited and I have to be careful with my race money. Jeff's price for these a-arms is way less than the Bugeyeguy though. ? > >>> On Aug 26, 2021, at 5:38 PM, devildogracing9 at gmail.com wrote: >>> >> ? >> Rick, you do realize Jeff from Winner?s Circle is on this email thread. ?How To Win Friends and Influence People? >> >> Don Kelly >> Devil Dog Racing >> VSCDA Grattan Vintage GP Co-Chair >> 231-499-5159 >> DevilDogRacing9 at gmail.com >> >> From: Rick Fisk >> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2021 5:28 PM >> To: Don Kelly >> Cc: Erick Zanner ; Charles Hall III ; allmedsys at bwig.net; andrew.more.fsae at gmail.com; attlastt at frontier.net; bmwwxman at gmail.com; bravenrace at yahoo.com; buckleyproperties at gmail.com; bugeyedave at aol.com; buks62500 at yahoo.com; Cana Comer ; Matthew Meixner ; chia219 at comcast.net; christopher.beukema at gmail.com; cjracr at hotmail.com; clancy at sunflower.com; colin at colinsclassicauto.com; Craig Siefert ; d.walters at lackstrim.com; Greensburg Minuteman Press ; dbrown07 at aol.com; Doug Bruce ; John Deikis ; derekchima at hotmail.com; dick at mgcarclub.com; dlee1967 at sbcglobal.net; dsweet3193 at aol.com; dwoerpel at wi.net; dynamic881961 at yahoo.com; Edward Hinsa ; edwforrest at gmail.com; ellie at stagecraftplayers.com; fishnet at essex1.com; gary.perser at gmail.com; happykozfam at comcast.net; hcgracing at aol.com; jbtruck at dwave.net; Jim Donato ; jeff.bakker at yahoo.com; Jeff Carloss ; k_hund59 at yahoo.com; kekjacobsen at yahoo.com; kered_2004 at yahoo.com; kirkkos at yahoo.com; larsmg at aol.com; maxspeedwell773 at gmail.com; mccormackr at hss.edu; mg72racer at juno.com; mgvadick at aol.com; mmaehling at comcast.net; mowogbill at yahoo.com; nadadawgracing at yahoo.com; pauljharris914 at yahoo.com; ptgbhtl at aol.com; Roger Williams ; rfheil at aol.com; rickdmichalek at gmail.com; rob.futcher at yahoo.com; ron.bartell at comcast.net; saeppli at aol.com; John Salisbury ; sarl45 at hotmail.com; scthsc47 at gmail.com; skip.meyer at ymail.com; slugthemtrhd at suddenlink.net; Ron Soave ; spridget72 at yahoo.com; spridget at aol.com; Rod Hahnemann ; spridgets at autox.team.net; Stan Mason ; steve.bisson at yahoo.com; Steve Coleman ; steve at skunkriverresto.com; stevebest3131 at gmail.com; stevewright9928 at gmail.com; Jason Stine ; swindrace at aol.com; swope66 at aol.com; ta.wilcox57 at gmail.com; Tom Colby ; ted at hoyes.com; terry at toyshop-resto.com; Thad Evans ; thershey at frontiernet.net; tim at mcginleyinc.com; tlcnam at aol.com; tmoran at moranconstruction.com; tom.daly at westsidevw.com; viggen at bellsouth.net; w1979mgb at comcast.net; walt at freckmannart.com; wc at spridget.com; wrtr at aol.com; wsthompson at thicko.com >> Subject: Re: Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Results and 10th Anniversary >> >> Cheaper if you buy directly from Clancy. >> >> >> On Aug 26, 2021, at 2:57 PM, Don Kelly wrote: >> >> ? >> Erick you can get directly from Clancy or Winners Circle. I don't know the price. >> Don Kelly >> >> On Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 8:21 AM Erick Zanner wrote: >> Well said! >> Agreed! >> EZ >> >> On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 8:19 AM Charles Hall III wrote: >> A special thanks to Stan Mason, for whom without his tireless dedication none of this would occur. >> >> Thank you Stanley >> >> From: stanbmason at aol.com >> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2021 8:15 AM >> To: allmedsys at bwig.net; andrew.more.fsae at gmail.com; attlastt at frontier.net; bmwwxman at gmail.com; bravenrace at yahoo.com; buckleyproperties at gmail.com; bugeyedave at aol.com; buks62500 at yahoo.com; cana.comer at gmail.com; ccstickleback at yahoo.com; Charles Hall III ; chia219 at comcast.net; christopher.beukema at gmail.com; cjracr at hotmail.com; clancy at sunflower.com; colin at colinsclassicauto.com; cseifert at tombrowninc.com; d.walters at lackstrim.com; dbkessinger at comcast.net; dbrown07 at aol.com; dbruce at taborbruce.com; deikis at gmail.com; derekchima at hotmail.com; devildogracing9 at gmail.com; dick at mgcarclub.com; dlee1967 at sbcglobal.net; dsweet3193 at aol.com; dwoerpel at wi.net; dynamic881961 at yahoo.com; edwardhinsa at gmail.com; edwforrest at gmail.com; ellie at stagecraftplayers.com; ezanner at gmail.com; fishnet at essex1.com; gary.perser at gmail.com; happykozfam at comcast.net; hcgracing at aol.com; jbtruck at dwave.net; jdonato at donatoandsonsmotors.com; jeff.bakker at yahoo.com; jeff at mozer.com; k_hund59 at yahoo.com; kekjacobsen at yahoo.com; kered_2004 at yahoo.com; kirkkos at yahoo.com; larsmg at aol.com; maxspeedwell773 at gmail.com; mccormackr at hss.edu; mg72racer at juno.com; mgvadick at aol.com; mmaehling at comcast.net; mowogbill at yahoo.com; nadadawgracing at yahoo.com; pauljharris914 at yahoo.com; ptgbhtl at aol.com; racingred69midget at rogers.com; refisk at chartermi.net; rfheil at aol.com; rickdmichalek at gmail.com; rob.futcher at yahoo.com; ron.bartell at comcast.net; saeppli at aol.com; salisje at comcast.net; sarl45 at hotmail.com; scthsc47 at gmail.com; skip.meyer at ymail.com; slugthemtrhd at suddenlink.net; soavero at yahoo.com; spridget72 at yahoo.com; spridget at aol.com; spridgetech at ameritech.net; spridgets at autox.team.net; steve.bisson at yahoo.com; steve at onecoleman.com; steve at skunkriverresto.com; stevebest3131 at gmail.com; stevewright9928 at gmail.com; stine.jason at gmail.com; swindrace at aol.com; swope66 at aol.com; ta.wilcox57 at gmail.com; tcspeedwell at gmail.com; ted at hoyes.com; terry at toyshop-resto.com; thadevans at windstream.net; thershey at frontiernet.net; tim at mcginleyinc.com; tlcnam at aol.com; tmoran at moranconstruction.com; tom.daly at westsidevw.com; viggen at bellsouth.net; w1979mgb at comcast.net; walt at freckmannart.com; wc at spridget.com; wrtr at aol.com; wsthompson at thicko.com >> Subject: Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Results and 10th Anniversary >> >> Spridgetites, >> >> Below is our end of season report. Attached are the end of series results and a great shot of awards presented with a back drop of a Austin Healey Sprite Prototype Lucas Fuel Injection. >> >> Enjoy >> Stan >> >> >> 2021 Sprite Midget Race Series End of Season Report & Overview of 60th Spridget Reunion (revised August 25, 2021) >> >> Overall - It is hard to believe that we have been doing this great fun on and off the track for 10 years as the Sprite Midget Race Series. Before the SMRS we would be excited if we had 5 Spridgets racing for the weekend. This year we experienced 21 to 28 Spridget to play with at each race. The 10th Anniversary was planned to be special and it lived up to that expectations. Record turnout for all of our races and finished with traditional Grattan Finale. The end of season awards were exceptional and would have never been possible without Dave Kessinger and his vision. We enjoyed having new Spridget racers from Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kansas & Texas join us and share our passion on and off the track. It was so exciting to have the 2 World Class Restored Sprite Prototypes all the way from Texas join us. We exceeded our high water mark of having more Spridgets than Formula Vees at several races this season. >> Grattan ? We were told that we would have less area in the overall paddock. This discourage some from coming and actually resulted in smaller numbers than what was originally anticipated. We were able to hold on to our traditional Spridget Paddock location, but with the additional Spridget Racers coming in we needed to have other locations to place everyone. I appreciate everyone?s patience in trying to organize this special event. Friday was a humid hot day ending with the Cape of Good Hope Pub Toasting followed by our Texas friends Steve and Mike Coleman?s presentation and display of 2 Historic circa 1967-68 Sprite Prototypes made at the Geoff and Donald Healey?s Cape Works in Warwick England. The research and details the Coleman?s have put into these cars makes me very appreciative of their passion to show these great restored cars to us in the MidWest. I consider them true Ambassadors of the Austin Healey Marque and more specifically Sprites. Hearing these cars on the track as I was passed will always be one of my favorite memories. Saturday was the busiest of the weekend with the Spridget Race moved to Saturday from our traditional Sunday morning race. Brat Lunch was well supported with Carl and Bob at Chef Helm both days. A parade lap at 2:30 for Street Spridgets. The Sprite / Midget Street and Race Car Show was held during the day with Rob Brackett taking the lead. Awards were presented that evening for Sprite Street - Rob Brackett, Race Sprite - Gary Perser, Race Midget - Mark Maehling and Best Of Show - Rob Brackett. 1st place per class Spridget Race position were announced. Sunday we enjoyed our Brat Lunch followed by our annual awards listed below and attached. Compiling end of season results from the weekend is always an added frustration and even thought I try to double check before the presentation, there always seems to be some oversight that occurs. Our special 10 year celebration at Grattan had some first time racers joining in the fun. I felt it would not be fair for those that were going for season points to be penalized from those that just entered this race, so I only gave position points to those that had at least entered 1 series race prior to Grattan. This means that you may see double entries for those that only attended Grattan. I overlooked announcing Ellie Lynch?s 3rd place in Bug Eye 2M2. This is especially embarrassing knowing the praise I gave her after she came off the track on Sunday with a 1:38 ET in her first time racing at Grattan. I announced Jeff Carloss?s 1st place in Bug Eye 2E, after looking more closely to points awarded from the 3 sessions I realized that there was actually a tie for 1st with Rick Fisk. Rick deserves special mention since he started the first race at Gingerman with a 1275 in Bug Eye 2M2 and then bought a 948 from me and did well enough at Black Hawk and Grattan to manage a 1st place in 2E (maybe I should have kept that engine!). Please see attached results in this email. >> Sponsors - We are very fortunate this year to have several sponsors: >> Dave Kessinger ? providing T-Shirts, Spridget Signs and the Fantastic Iceberg Awards. >> Clancy Schmidt ? free entrance to next race drawing (if you have his A-Arm sticker on the side of you race Spridget) along with monetary donations and Spridget paddock signs. >> Winners Circle ? Jeff Porada for his donation >> Jeff Carloss ? for his continued support of providing his artistic work and providing free SMRS posters >> Colin?s Classics ? Cana and Colin Comer 2021 sticker contribution >> Driver Incidents Spridgets and Group 2 ? As the VSCDA Group 2 representative I can say in recent history we have had some of the least Driver Incidents involving the Driver Committee. I am concerned that this is no longer true and in fact we now have the most incidents. I am working to understand this better with data provided by Gary Kropf. I am compiling these results and will share by the end of the year in hopes of understanding where we are going wrong. We have 2 more races with VSCDA the ELVF at Road America and Blacktober at Black Hawk. The early data I have seen seems to indicate that passing safely is our biggest challenge. We need to return to our Vintage Values and if you are uncertain of a pass wait until you are confident you can make a clean pass. When in traffic especially around unknown drivers, having a defensive posture is always the right approach to keep your car and others from being damaged. The Jim Donato Most Respected Driver Criteria below should always be our guide. There is no better feeling when racing to trust the person you are going wheel to wheel with and giving room by both drivers. I believe we all (including myself) need to have a reset button with Vintage Values of having fun over Red Mist! >> Race Attendance ? As you can see from the chart below we exceeded the most racing Spridgets in the history of SMRS attendance at all 3 tracks. Gingerman had it?s largest with a real abundance of Driver School Spridgets. Black Hawk almost doubled it?s largest attendance. Grattan was also a big number exceeding our previous record of 23 in 2015 where Grattan was the MG Focus when we picked up quite a few Midgets. We continue to have the largest numbers in Spridget Vintage Racing and probably SCCA based on my viewing of Vintage Magazines and club race lists. The Yellow highlighted areas are SMRS Tracks where we determine our end of season results with the total for the season in the last row. >> >> Race Track >> 2012 >> 2013 >> 2014 >> 2015 >> 2016 >> 2017 >> 2018 >> 2019 >> 2020 >> 2021 >> Gingerman >> 14 >> 14 >> 12 >> 16 >> 9 >> 12 >> 18 >> 17 >> 0 >> 21 >> Blackhawk >> 13 >> 11 >> 11 >> 14 >> 12 >> 12 >> 12 >> 14 >> 9 >> 26 >> Grattan >> 17 >> 14 >> 20 >> 23 >> 15 >> 14 >> 16 >> 18 >> 12 >> 28 >> ELVF 60th >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 47 >> >> >> >> Blacktober >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 15 >> >> SMRS Total >> 44 >> 39 >> 43 >> 53 >> 36 >> 38 >> 46 >> 49 >> 21 >> 75 >> >> 6. Season Overall Winners (requires having a perfect score of 48 points from at least 2 of the 3 race weekends) >> 2013 >> Cana Comer >> 2014 >> Greg Cory and Nathan Burress >> 2015 >> Colin Comer and Randy Byboth >> 2016 >> None qualified >> 2017 >> Ashley Burress, Nathan Buress and Jim Donato >> 2018 >> Ashley Burress and Ron Soave >> 2019 >> Doug Bruce and Jim Donato >> 2020 >> John Salisbury >> 2021 >> John Salisbury, Doug Bruce & Nathan Burress >> >> 7. Special Spirit and Driver Awards: >> Gary Kropf Spirit Award (started in 2015 in honor of Gary?s attitude that we all admire). This Huge piston award was donated by Paul Fitzsimmons and polished up with name tags by Charlie Hall?s vision of this spirit award. >> a. Previous Winners: 2015 Salisbury, 2016 Donato, Salisbury, 2017 Soave, Kelly, Mason, 2018 Kropf, Salisbury, Hall, 2019 Bruce, 2020 cancelled. >> b. Criteria: Promotes the Vintage Spirit, Assists others within the paddock, with repairs, parts, advice and encourages racer in making next session. Quick to organize group activities with race and banquet. Volunteers with other VSCDA activities and committees. >> c. This year?s winner was Charlie Hall >> >> Jim Donato Most Respected Driver (started in 2016 in honor of Jim?s contribution and example of a great respected driver) >> Criteria: A driver that exemplifies the meaning of a Vintage Sports Car Most Respected Driver includes: >> Predictable (Stays on racing line and points racers by when being passed or when passing. Makes sure that over taking driver knows they are about to be passed and allows room and good judgement), >> Confident & Observant (Uses mirrors and is aware of others racing nearby) >> Respectful (Confirms that their race car is mechanically sound and will not cause others to be injured from improper maintenance. Can sit down with other competitors and enjoy their company after any session) >> Objective (open to other?s comments) Drives Defensively (adjusts for conditions safely regardless of other driver?s interaction). >> Previous Winners: 2016 Namesake Jim Donato, 2017 Mal Fay, 2018 Ashley Burress, 2019 Buzz Merchlewitz. >> This year?s winner was John Salisbury >> >> 8. Spridget Contributors to VSCDA (we appreciate our group?s unselfish contribution to VSCDA and the Sprite Midget Race Series making us one of the best groups within VSCDA for volunteering their time and making this club continue to thrive for our enjoyment (I was at Gingerman and Grattan and apologize if I missed any names): >> a. Ron Soave and Jeff Porasik for both Blackhawk Events as Event Chairmen. Don Kelly and Doug Bruce as Event Chairman for Grattan. >> b. Dave Young, Paul Fitzsimmons and Gerry Brasil, Brad Carloss, Carl Goodwin for their contributions to Scrutineering / Tech Barn >> c. Stacey Donato for her overall running of VSCDA registration and all that she does along with her family from her Mom and Dad on down to her daughter. Registration assistance from Jan and Jeff Freers, Cheryl Carloss & Janet Carloss. >> d. Charlie Hall, Gary Kropf, Roger Heil & Jim Donato for Drivers Committee. Gary Kropf initiated the Driver?s Committee Summary of actions, which is greatly appreciated and time consuming. I think measuring something as important as safety is the key to reducing incidents and allowing us to improve. >> e. Doug Bruce for Homologations and Corner / Paddock Worker Sprite Door Annual Award selected for the best Grattan worker selected by their peers. >> f. Tom Wilcox for taking the lead at Blackhawk and taking care of sale of regalia, organizing Spridget Paddock and Brat Lunch >> g. Jim Donato as VSCDA Vice President >> h. Bob Danielson continuing to support the Donato Most Respected Driver Award that he crafted and provide updated driver plaque. >> i. Charlie Hall continuing support of the Kropf Piston Spirit Award that he initiated and continues to provide updated plaques for. >> j. Stan Mason as VSCDA Group 2 Representative and SMRS lead. >> 9. End Of Season Awards -Every driver that met the 2 race weekend or more requirements received awards if they attended Grattan finale. Results are attached to this email. >> 10. Classifications - I would like to revise our SMRS classifications for the 2022 season and I have several thoughts of how we can improve. If you have some thoughts of how we can group Spridgets for fair competition I would like to hear from you. Our criteria up to this time has been to follow VSCDA requirements, which include conformance to SCCA 1972 GCR/PCS guidelines and exceptions as spelled out by VSCDA. Even under these conditions there is varying shades of gray that we need to clarify for fair classifications. >> 11. SMRS Past / Future - Like all organizations including SMRS we will only be successful if we have new people stepping up to fill positions. I have been at the helm for the past 10 years and will step down on or before 2026. It would be nice to have someone that is retired or will retire in the future to pick up this baton before my departure. Maybe even mirror me and assist before 2026. I have started a job description / overview of what I currently do. I know there are others out there that can take SMRS to a higher level learning from our past and improving the future. If you have an interest now or in the future please let me know. >> >> 12. VSCDA Upcoming 2021 events: >> 1. Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival Road America September17-19 >> 2. Blackhawk Farms Octoberfest, October 16-17 >> >> Thanks for a Great 10th Season and Enjoy a Spridgetly Life of Relative Speed! >> Stan Mason > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/miniac7 at aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From trevor.jessie at gmail.com Fri Aug 27 12:49:01 2021 From: trevor.jessie at gmail.com (Trevor Jessie) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 14:49:01 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] I'm looking for some datsun transmission parts Message-ID: I tore into a datsun gearbox that I've been keeping for spares. To my surprise it is actually in decent shape except there is some significant rust on first and reverse and the reverse idler gear. 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WaSent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message --------From: Trevor Jessie Date: 8/27/21 4:37 PM (GMT-08:00) To: rich_ball Cc: Spridgets Subject: Re: [Spridgets] I'm looking for some datsun transmission parts This is an FL box.? I'm not sure of all the differences between the boxes.? This is only the second one I've had apart.On Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 6:39 PM rich_ball wrote:Trevor,60A or 60L?? I may have them for a 60L.Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone-------- Original message --------From: Trevor Jessie via Spridgets Date: 8/27/21 11:53 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Spridgets Subject: [Spridgets] I'm looking for some datsun transmission parts I tore into a datsun gearbox that I've been keeping for spares. To my surprise it is actually in decent shape except there is some significant rust on first and reverse and the reverse idler gear. 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Dave had them air shipped and I received them just prior to leaving Thursday Morning for Grattan.? Mark Maehling went out of his way to pick up other items from Dave prior to Grattan to make this a great Grattan. As many of you know 948cc Bug Eyes were the only engines allowed in SCCA H Production Class up until recent years.? Many thought that 948 were diminishing in Vintage Racing.? We proved that all wrong when we had the largest gathering of 948s at any Vintage event that I am aware of, with a Grand Total of 6 of us. Thanks to all again that made this such a special event in so many ways. Enjoy a Spridgetly Life!!Stan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 2021 Grattan Prototype Coupe.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 237219 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I counted SEVEN 948 Bugeyes: > Green #4, Stan Mason > Blue #9, Don Kelly > Blue #65 Rick Fisk > White #18 Steve Meyers > Blue #59 Jeff Carloss > Yellow #68 Craig Seifert > Blue #88 Gary Perser > > Seven, count ?em! They were all there; I saw each on track. Don?t sell this historic occasion short. Hurrah! for the keepers of the flame, the Authentic 948 Bugeye. Long may the few remaining cars live. > Gary Perser > >>> On Aug 28, 2021, at 3:21 AM, stanbmason at aol.com wrote: >>> >> ? >> I thought I would provide an update, pics from Chauncey Moran along with youtube video of that fabulous Sprite Prototype at Grattan. >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p5xWqHiXLY >> >> I wanted to recognize Dave Kessinger and Mark Maehling for getting the stunning awards and Tshirts out in time for Grattan. Because of Covid19 and other issues the awards were coming in later than anticipated and I was uncertain if we would have them for the end of season awards at Grattan. Dave had them air shipped and I received them just prior to leaving Thursday Morning for Grattan. Mark Maehling went out of his way to pick up other items from Dave prior to Grattan to make this a great Grattan. >> >> As many of you know 948cc Bug Eyes were the only engines allowed in SCCA H Production Class up until recent years. Many thought that 948 were diminishing in Vintage Racing. We proved that all wrong when we had the largest gathering of 948s at any Vintage event that I am aware of, with a Grand Total of 6 of us. >> >> Thanks to all again that made this such a special event in so many ways. >> >> Enjoy a Spridgetly Life!! >> Stan >> <2021 Grattan Prototype Coupe.jpg> >> <2021 Spridget Gaggle Grattan.jpg> >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From grunthaner at gmail.com Sat Aug 28 14:58:46 2021 From: grunthaner at gmail.com (Linda Grunthaner) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 16:58:46 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] RIP Rick Bastedo In-Reply-To: References: <4E96DC81-E468-48AF-805C-0F4096488891@comcast.net> Message-ID: Oh no I'm so sorry to hear this. Tragic. Linda 62 California Sprite, Pinky On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 11:01 AM Paul Van Wig via Spridgets < spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > RIP > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 5:55 AM JMFangio via Spridgets < > spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > >> Well shit. I know nothing about him other than the name and that he >> posted frequently enough. >> >> Lester >> >> >> >> > On Aug 23, 2021, at 9:30 PM, Rick Fisk via Spridgets < >> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: >> > >> > Just found out that Rick Bastedo passed away from the covid virus on >> the 14th. :-( >> > ------------------------ >> > >> > spridgets at autox.team.net >> > >> > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html >> > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 >> > >> > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets >> http://autox.team.net/archive >> > >> > Unsubscribe/Manage: >> http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/oldsaabguy at comcast.net >> >> ------------------------ >> >> spridgets at autox.team.net >> >> Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html >> Suggested annual donation: $12.75 >> >> Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets >> http://autox.team.net/archive >> >> Unsubscribe/Manage: >> http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/pvanwig at mac.com >> > -- > Paul Van Wig Sent from tiny little buttons > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/grunthaner at gmail.com > -- "Pay if forward" in honor of Frank Clarici III, Spritenut -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From grunthaner at gmail.com Sat Aug 28 15:15:09 2021 From: grunthaner at gmail.com (Linda Grunthaner) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 17:15:09 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] Losses! In-Reply-To: <2119027228.1016945.1629810928421@mail.yahoo.com> References: <2119027228.1016945.1629810928421.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <2119027228.1016945.1629810928421@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Chuck I agree. Linda 62 California Sprite, Pinky On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 9:15 AM crusaderchuck55--- via Spridgets < spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > Well I guess it's time to suggest that everyone seriously consider > vaccination! > We have lost enough list members to other ailments. It would be sad to > loose any more due to a virus that vaccination could prevent or at the > worst lessen the illness. > Got her your shots and come home and have a shot! > Chuck > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/grunthaner at gmail.com > -- "Pay if forward" in honor of Frank Clarici III, Spritenut -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dtwoerpel at gmail.com Sat Aug 28 15:25:42 2021 From: dtwoerpel at gmail.com (David Woerpel) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 16:25:42 -0500 Subject: [Spridgets] Losses! In-Reply-To: References: <2119027228.1016945.1629810928421.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <2119027228.1016945.1629810928421@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1f4de16c-c1af-928a-acf8-968abefb05ca@gmail.com> Amen, Chuck. Dave W Burlington WI On 8/28/2021 4:15 PM, Linda Grunthaner via Spridgets wrote: > Chuck I agree. > Linda > > 62 California Sprite, Pinky > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 9:15 AM crusaderchuck55--- via Spridgets > > wrote: > > Well I guess it's time to suggest that everyone seriously consider > vaccination! > We have lost enough list members to other ailments. ?It would be > sad to loose any more due to a virus that vaccination could > prevent or at the worst lessen the illness. > Got her your shots and come home and have a shot! > Chuck > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/grunthaner at gmail.com > > > > > -- > "Pay if forward" in honor of Frank Clarici III, Spritenut > > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/dwoerpel at wi.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From grunthaner at gmail.com Sat Aug 28 16:48:41 2021 From: grunthaner at gmail.com (Linda Grunthaner) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 18:48:41 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] Kent's Bugeye restoration In-Reply-To: References: <09506D48-9BEA-4C23-A26F-5DC9C130CEE9@comcast.net> Message-ID: Hi Kent, Sounds like the engine has some potential. You might want to add the thread I started in: https://www.ahexp.com/forum/the-sprite-forum.6/my-new-1960-bugeye-build.233472/. This way we can continue to see the updates in order with a photo build. Keep us posted either way. I haven't touched any of my fleet because I needed to paint the house and garage this summer inbetween summer teaching. But I did have just enough time to get back into surfing and with a new longboard I'm doing better than ever in life. I'm going to be catching waves after teaching this fall till my wetsuit gets too cold. Enjoy your Bugeye, safety fast, Linda 62 California Sprite, Pinky On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 10:05 AM Kent McLean via Spridgets < spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > Compression Test: > I did a compression test. The starter pull knob wouldn't pull, so I pulled > it at the solenoid. The engine turned over slower than I expected without > plugs, but I got readings. Dry: 1-4 - 45, 60, 40, 40. Ugh. Wet: 125, 125, > 75, 75. I may have squirted too much oil in the first two, but no matter. I > see a rebuild in my future. Or maybe an upgrade to a 1275cc. Now that I > know the condition of the engine at 83,238 miles, it is time. > > On a related note, my 3 sons (in their 30s) paid me a visit yesterday. > They wanted to see the Bugeye. The oldest, the smart one (or maybe the > smart-aleck one), commented that if I sold the big Healey, the Bugeye, the > Wrangler, and the motorcycles, I could afford to good Bugeye and be driving > it this summer. There's truth to that, but the Wrangler is my snowplow, I > _need_ at least one motorcycle, but for a brief moment I thought, Yeah, I > could get a runner out of the rest of them. But where's the fun in that? > > > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/grunthaner at gmail.com > -- "Pay if forward" in honor of Frank Clarici III, Spritenut -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From grunthaner at gmail.com Sat Aug 28 16:52:17 2021 From: grunthaner at gmail.com (Linda Grunthaner) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 18:52:17 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] 1960 Bugeye In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Kent excellent video, keep them coming and yes keep one thread. The barn is perfect for the build. I'm super happy for you. Linda 62 California Sprite, Pinky On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 2:46 PM Kent McLean via Spridgets < spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote: > I used a leaf blower to blow the detritus out of the car. My first task > was to see if the engine is frozen or if it can turn over (by hand). I took > the spark plugs out (breaking one with my non-rubber-cushioned socket) and > poured some ATF into the cylinders and sprayed some PB Blaster into the > spark plug holes. Fastforward 3 days; rocking the car in gear shows some > movement of the crankshaft pulley, so I'm thinking the engine isn't frozen. > Next step is to get a battery hooked up, spritz some gas into the carbs and > see if it'll fire. > > Spark plugs: I went on-line to see who had what. Most of them doubled in > price with shipping. But I found one locally - at Home Depot, in their lawn > mower parts! Champion-made Eco-Clean RN9YC. We'll see if it works. > > Lastly, banging one's head on the bonnet gets old quick, so I took the > bonnet off and set it aside. I'm blessed with a barn with a loft. Storing > the bonnet meant getting if from the car bay and up into the loft. My Warn > Pullzall winch to the rescue. It helped get the Bugeye onto the trailer. It > did good getting it up into the loft. Expensive, but it beats a come-along > or block-and-tackle. They make a battery powered one for more money. > > > Q. Being new to starting my own build, should I continue with this email > thread, or start a new one with each new posting? > > ------------------------ > > spridgets at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation: $12.75 > > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/spridgets > http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/grunthaner at gmail.com > -- "Pay if forward" in honor of Frank Clarici III, Spritenut -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ryan.kubanoff at comcast.net Sun Aug 29 07:59:26 2021 From: ryan.kubanoff at comcast.net (Ryan Kubanoff) Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 09:59:26 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Spridgets] Brake and fuel line questions Message-ID: <385366324.612296.1630245566705@connect.xfinity.com> I cleaned my hard brake and fuel lines and they appear to be in good condition. However since I am in the middle of a complete restoration should I replace them anyway? I believe they are original but have never had any problems with the brakes. Complicating this is that I do not have a pipe bender and I am scared of crimping them when bending by hand. Where or what part numbers are the pipe retaining clips? Also it appears that the original owner cut and crimped the return line from the expansion tank. Is there a reason for this and can I do it better? What did you do about this since I no longer have the charcoal canister. Thanks in advance, Ryan 74 midget -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jorkin at emory.edu Sun Aug 29 09:10:22 2021 From: jorkin at emory.edu (Orkin, Jack L) Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 15:10:22 +0000 Subject: [Spridgets] [External] Brake and fuel line questions In-Reply-To: <385366324.612296.1630245566705@connect.xfinity.com> References: <385366324.612296.1630245566705@connect.xfinity.com> Message-ID: Ryan, if the charcoal cannister is gone and you don't intend to replace it, you can just remove all the hard pipe from the front to the rear under the car. The vapor separation tank will then just vent under the boot floor behind the RR tire. If you are concerned about crud or critters getting into the system, you can leave a suifficient length of hard pipe in the back and attach a small air filter to the end of it. It's no different than what you have now except for the length of hard pipe. You'll save a few oz. ? (Or, you could crimp it shut in the back but would have to ensure you have a vented gas cap, but you probably already have that if your car is running OK.) Jack ________________________________ From: Spridgets on behalf of Ryan Kubanoff via Spridgets Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2021 9:59 AM To: spridgets Subject: [External] [Spridgets] Brake and fuel line questions I cleaned my hard brake and fuel lines and they appear to be in good condition. However since I am in the middle of a complete restoration should I replace them anyway? I believe they are original but have never had any problems with the brakes. Complicating this is that I do not have a pipe bender and I am scared of crimping them when bending by hand. Where or what part numbers are the pipe retaining clips? Also it appears that the original owner cut and crimped the return line from the expansion tank. Is there a reason for this and can I do it better? What did you do about this since I no longer have the charcoal canister. Thanks in advance, Ryan 74 midget -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kentmclean at comcast.net Mon Aug 30 15:57:28 2021 From: kentmclean at comcast.net (Kent McLean) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 17:57:28 -0400 Subject: [Spridgets] Kent's Bugeye restoration In-Reply-To: References: <09506D48-9BEA-4C23-A26F-5DC9C130CEE9@comcast.net> Message-ID: <651CF0E3-E5E1-4F2D-BAD9-D1EEF4E36699@comcast.net> Linda wrote: > Hi Kent, > Sounds like the engine has some potential. You might want to add the thread I started in: https://www.ahexp.com/forum/the-sprite-forum.6/my-new-1960-bugeye-build.233472/ . This way we can continue to see the updates in order with a photo build. > Keep us posted either way. I haven't touched any of my fleet because I needed to paint the house and garage this summer inbetween summer teaching. Ha. I promised to paint the house before I started on the Bugeye. We had 35" of rain in July. Needless to say, that job stalled, the Bugeye stalled. I gotta light a fire under my butt before October makes it too cold to paint. Wasn't it Shakespeare's Richard III that said, "A round tuit, A round tuit, My kingdom for a round tuit." or something to that effect. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: