5/26/08 Info on Next event June 21-22
NWAA Announces, LAPS FOR HUMANITY
Northwest Autosports Association In conjunctions with TLC Mustangs& Fords announce a fundraiser for the Tillamook chapter of Habitat for Humanity. All Proceeds from these events will be donated to Habitat for Humanity Saturday June 21 NWAA will host a Pay by-the-lap drivers skill day and practice autocross at the Tillamook Habitat for Humanity facility on HWY 101 in Tillamook (The old Safeway lot) these events are to help raise funds for and increase awareness of Habitat for Humanities efforts in the North Coast area.
All drivers are welcome to come and try it out. Most street-cars are fine for this activity. All cars will undergo a safety inspection, and a safety briefing for drivers is required. Experienced drivers will be available to act as advisors. ALL participants are required to have a valid State Drivers license; those under 18 are required to be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Loaner Helmets will be provided, Costs for this event are 3 dollars per lap, and registration is one can of food to be donated to the Tillamook food BankSunday June 22 NWAA Points event #4 of the 2008 Autocross Series. NWAA Class Champions compete for the Oregon State Championships in October. Technical inspection begin at 8 AM Drivers meeting @ 9:45 AM. First car on course at 10. ALL drivers meeting the Saturday qualifications are invited to enter. Registration is 25 dollars, plus one can of food or non-perishable food item.
DON’T WANT TO RACE? But want to come out and have some fun? RIDE ALONG!!! Make a donation to the Habitat for Humanity fund, and qualify for a free ride in one of the racecars!!! You will be required to sign an insurance waiver, be given safety instructions, loaned a helmet, and strapped into a car beside an EXPERIENCED driver for a serious thrill ride!! THESE OPPORTUNITIES ARE LIMITED so come early for best seats.Autocross is a moderate speed driver’s skill competition. Cars negotiate a pre set course outlined with highway safety cones in the fastest speed/shortest time possible. Cars run one at a time and are timed electronically, shortest time wins! For more information visit our web site, or call 503-861-9288
5/19/08
Event #3 is in the books results will be posted next week
3/29/08
So much has happened in the last few weeks, I must apologize for the late posting of results.
Our first event of 08 has come and gone and it was a smashing success, 24 drivers decent weather and much fun. Our thanks to the Port of Ilwaco for their hospitality!!
The bad news is, we had learned a few days prior to the season opener that our site at Deep River had been leased by Tillamook Fiber, however in talks with the site owner, it was felt that the new lease holder was supportive of our activities and we would continue to be able to use the site, at least until the 3rd quarter. Unfortunately as is often the case lawyers got involved, with the outcome being our use of Deep River is suspended for the duration of the lease (up to 2 years).
This leaves our season in a bit of a quandary, the May date is firm, and our April date is looking OK as we are in negotiations with several different sites for those events and feel at least one will likely be confirmed in the next few days.
Our mid summer dates are up in the air at this time but we plan having a full season, just be flexible as to the location, we will be trying out some new places!!
The main casualty of this is Come Home Alive driver’s school. Because we had rescheduled it once already, and we now no longer have a site and would have to re schedule it AGAIN to get a site suitable for the class. Add to that multiple schedule conflicts with other groups and overall uncertainty as to when where what, and the extreme late date, we felt it was necessary to cancel this years class. There WILL be a race that weekend, just not in Seaside or Deep River.
Driver’s school will be back next year for sure!!
Hang on for more news and information as we get it confirmed.
2/29/08
Winter has passed. spring is around the corner and our first event starts tomorrow!!!
10/21/07
WOW
Rarely in 20 odd years of autocross have I attended an event that has generated so much excitement, and interest. The smackdownd was a HUGE sucsess, 7 teams almost 70 cars three days of fun. congradulations to CARFREEKS.Net, who ran strong and came out on top in the final points.
The "PRO" class was marred by some confusion and controversy, but being as it was a first event, all players were good sports, and vowed to come back next year and settle the matter. AND THERE WILL BE A NEXT YEAR.
Look for the rules and class structures to change slightly, additional events, and allot more teams cars and parties.
By now class champions have gone and come home from the oregon shootout, congradulations too all.
8/14/07
Smackdowns A-Comin!!!
OK Bible Creek is over, Rained out on Sunday but on Saturday yours truly re-set a record that has stood since 2000 (yeah!!!) among 8 other records to fall. Club members Emalee Newby and Charles Cope also set new course records in thier respective classes. So 3 out of 5 members entered set new records, and 3 0f the 10 total records were NWAA members, not too shabby. Sonny Smith set a new overall "door slammer" record with an incredible 2:06 run.
And now on to the Smackdown weekend, September 21-23.
During our early Promo for this event, a number of people in the racing comunity have expressed an interest in runing teams in the Smack Down, seperate from the UCF/TSDNW gang. A sort of "PRO" class. This seem only fair as a number of the guys from the other clubs are fairly new at autocross, and that is over 50% of the score, seems hardly fair to turn Them Pimm's and Charles Cope loose on them.
This event seems to be a prelude to a larger event next year that would be open to any club in a "round robin" style competition.
But send me an email and tell me what you think.
A site clean up day is scheduled for Saturday the 8th of September, and we will need volunteers to help out in keeping records and scoring the various clubs.
Road trip weekend is next weekend August 17-19th and our next meeting is Wednesday September 12th
6/06/07
Notice to all members wmc bible creek has moved to the following weekend because of endangered species issues? nwaa meeting will be moved to wednesday to facilitate club members travel to hillclimb.
next event coming up in one week Deep River should be a fun weekend.
5/26/07
Miscellaneous ramblings of the President
WOW!!!
This season is screaming along, we have had 2 events since my last post, and what events they were.
Ocean run 4 downtown Seaside, what can I say to describe it Awsome!!! 48 cars hundreds of spectators great weather, an event thta ran pretty much without a hitch, except for one timing light issue. Will it happen again? I dont know. there are many many aspects to consider, but we had a good safe event, with minimal complaints. could we do it again? sure. the convention center ahs given us a tenative date of MAY18 2008 But alot depends on other people. We have yet to have a student or students approach us about the project for next year, we need more support from the local school districts, and the city of seaside has to sign off on it, so we'll see.
Season opener @ Deep River, terrible weather, but still had 19 cars roll out for the opener at the river, great fun was had and a good course set by Bill Cardwell. Many thanks to Terry B Bill, Chris Newby And Chris Morley for showing up to help Bill out when he was short handed. And A HUGE THANKS to the gang from TSDNW who helped out all weekend.
Big NEWS the June event @ the River will be one of our biggest ever. The NW Datsun club will be our guest on Saturday the 16th. Dave the NW Datsuns president expects 25-30 classic Datsuns, which would make it one of our biggest ever events, all hands on deck for this one.
And Bigger Even Yet September will be the Ultimate Car forums VS TSDNW Smackdown challenge.
this 2 day event will include acceleration testing, a drift exibition and an autocross to determine the bragging rights on the NET for the whole winter. everyone who is anyone will be there.
Until next time SEE You at the track.
4/23/07
NOTICE: for this years Ocean Run in downtown Seaside, we will be running only 3 run groups. Registration will ONLY be in the AM. This is because we have to be off the site BEFORE 430 PM, and we cannot start before 10 AM (running) run groups will run/work as follows; group one runs, group 3 works, group 2 runs group 1 works, group 3 runs, group 2 works, this arrangement should allow us to switch run groups as fast as possible, on the "fly" There will be only a short 20 min break between group 2 and 3 for lunch so be prepared, there are multiple eateries within walking distance of the site, so if you are not running/working plenty of time to enjoy downtown Seaside.
Weather is looking great for the weekend so be prepared.
Ride along program: we will be accepting ride along from properly briefed and wavered spectators, this is a donation program for high school drivers Education. You as competitors are not required to take riders, it will be your choice yes or no you will just need to let the grid master know your intentions.
Details on specific run groups and times will be posted here Wednesday the
25th and emailed out to all pre registered entrants.
Course set up will begin @ 630 AM
Course should be set by 8 AM
Registration and tech 8:30 -9:45
Novice auto x 101 class 830 AM
Drivers meeting 9:55 AM
First car out group 1 10:15 AM
There will by driver introductions before each run group, so after coming to grid stay with your car.
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/20/07
Event number 2 in the books, see the results page for info. Weather once again was awful, it finally cleared up late in the day for fun runs. 19 drivers braved the elements to test their skills. a good time was had by all, despite the weather.
Plans and goals now shift into high gear for drivers school weekend and the Ocean Run extravaganza. see the flyer page for more info, but you dont want to miss this weekend.
Registration for Ocean Run: We will accept entries, the day of the event IF
And only IF Our 60 car field is not full, pre registration recomended. if you show up and it's full, dont be mad at us.
Pray for Sunshine!!!!!!
3/5/07
Update:
Our first event has come and gone, still havent perfected the spread sheet for results but synopsis Ladies points leader Carolyn Anderson #2 Alicia Newby
Mens Points Leader Gregg Griffith #2 Bill Cardwell
Drivers school weekend!!!!! Autocross Downtown Seaside, Convention center!!!!
Drivers 16 to 21 please email for school applications now!!!
Car count for downtown autocross 60 cars max PRE REGISTRATION A MUST!!! contact us ASAP for your spot
Next event Saturday / Sunday March 17 -18 Port of Ilwaco BE There!!!
1/24/07
Wow, Season is fast approaching. Only one month away!!! Lots of exiting things happening. We have confirmed our first 2 dates at the Port of Ilwaco, and we will be holding a fundraiser for the Ilwaco Fire department on Sundays at both these events. You may not know, but the city of Ilwaco fire department itself caught fire this winter, and they lost almost all their equipment. NWAA is doing what it can to help pay for those replacements.
Additionally we are holding our first ever Points Championship series, and more details will be posted soon on our FAQ page, but make note of the weekends, cause you gotta do 6 out of 8 events to qualify, and you have to be a member, so get those renewals and new memberships in real quick.
The Tillamook site is still pending, as is our Seaside event site for the drivers school. keep your fingers crossed we will know by next months meeting for sure.
Deep River is still available, but we dont know for how long, so keep looking for good event sites.
11/16/06
Seaside Holiday parade!!! come kick off the Christmas season with NWAA. We will once again be entered in the Holiday parade the Saturday after Thanksgiving, meet @ Seaside Muffler on North Holladay street in Seaside @ 6PM Saturday the 25th bring your Santa hats.
Next years schedule is posted on the Calender page
10/23/06
Wow Summers over sorry I did not get news and results out sooner, but we had 3 events in 4 weeks and the start of school etc. too many things too little time.
Final results NWAA Sept 24 Auto X Deep River WA
Ryan mills S Stock Lotus Elise 1:38.359 TTOD 82.621
Steve Newby CSP RX7 1:40.797 84.467
Jeremy Pimm FSP Subaru Legacy 1:41.297 82.445 Top PAX
Gary Pimm D Mod Datsun 1:41.797 90.009
Brian Pimm FSP Subaru Legacy 1:42.187 83.180
Alex Padron SM2 Honda 1:43.219 88.149
Bill Cardwell ES MR2 1:44.357 84.111
Greg Griffith STX Subaru 1:44.969 84.395
Terry Bartoulous STS2 RX7 1:45.562
Chris Morley FSP AE 86 Toyota 1:47.853
Katrina Kangas STS2 RX7 1:50.641
Rae Dean FSP Subaru 1:52.750
Shane Ahers FSP Mazda 626 1:54.203
Sam Morley FSP Mazda 626 1:56.094
Alicia Newby STS2 Datsun RDSTR 2:00.703
Katie Shade ES RX7 2:02.110
Time only
Terry Bartoulous 1:45.563
K Shade 1:58.989
J Pimm 1:41.656
2006 PAX/RTP Index
"Racers Theoretical Performance"
This Index was developed by Rick Ruth and reflects study of results from over 200 nationwide Solo II events including, the Tire Rack® Solo II National Championships, National Tour, Chicago Region, Houston Region, Milwaukee Region, New England Region, Northern New Jersey Region, Philadelphia Region, Southeast Divisional Series, San Francisco Region, San Diego Region, South Jersey Region, Subaru CenDiv Series, Tri-State Sports Car Council, Texas Region, Wisconsin Autocrossers Inc., and several others.
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SS |
0.840 |
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ASP |
0.852 |
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XP |
0.868 |
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AM |
1.000 |
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AS |
0.831 |
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BSP |
0.843 |
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BP |
0.862 |
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BM |
0.944 |
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BS |
0.822 |
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CSP |
0.838 |
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CP |
0.856 |
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CM |
0.909 |
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CS |
0.813 |
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DSP |
0.829 |
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DP |
0.853 |
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DM |
0.885 |
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DS |
0.798 |
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ESP |
0.828 |
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EP |
0.858 |
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EM |
0.881 |
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ES |
0.806 |
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FSP |
0.814 |
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FP |
0.863 |
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FM |
0.887 |
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FS |
0.805 |
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GP |
0.844 |
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FSAE |
0.948 |
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GS |
0.794 |
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STS |
0.797 |
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HS |
0.780 |
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STS2 |
0.802 |
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F125 |
0.937 |
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STX |
0.804 |
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FJ1 |
0.781 |
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STU |
0.820 |
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FJ2 |
0.796 |
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SM |
0.845 |
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FJ3 (FJB) |
0.830 |
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SM2 |
0.854 |
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FJ4 (FJA) |
0.837 |
Final results October 8th NWAA Deep River Very wet conditions
Steve Newby, Subaru WRX STX 1:38.953 79.558
Bill Cardwell, Eagle Talon STX 1:46.016 85.236
Greg Griffith, Subaru WRX STX 1:46.360 85.513
Jeremy Pimm, Subaru Legacy FSP 1:45.797 86.118
Noel Morley, Nissan 300 ZX G Stock 1:49.813 87.191
Kean Randal, Mazda RX7 E Stock 1:50.312 88.470
Alicia Newby, Datsun 2000 STS2 2:02.040 97.876
Katie Shade, Mazda RX7 E Stock 2:01.766 98.143
Chris Newby, Mazda RX 7 STS2 2:18.718 111.215
8/12/06
Next event is set for Deep River lot on September 23- 24 our road trip weekend is tenatively set for September 15-17, SCCA will be in town for rally cross Aug 20th and September 17th, lots happening.
Well time flies in the summer. Since last post we have had 2 major events and 2 meetings. Our new meeting place is the Rolling Thunder restaurant at the foot of 10th street in Astoria, right on the Waterfront. Great place, with a motor sports theme, and good food (BBQ) Last 2 meeting there have been very popular Look for an NWAA display area where members can post pictures and trophies etc soon.
Last meeting Aug 11th Membership voted to raise enty fees to 20 and 25 dollars respectivly in response to low car counts at this summers events. We have added pre registration as an option, and kept that at the previous amount's. We need to up our car counts to 20-30 cars to keep going, bring out your freinds and lets race. Watch web site for PAYPAL link to be up next week.
8/4-6 Bible Creek Hill climb WMC:
Many members from NWAA participated, in fact there were more NWAA members on the hill than WMC members, Good weekend no injuries, but more wrecks than any one can remember see the WMC page for results
The Clatsop fairgrounds event was a real eye opener, although we had a small turnout, we got a much faster than expected course out of the space, and all had fun.
7/15-16 Results:
Neal Stanley A Modified 44:941 TTOD
Gary Pimm OSPU 50:410 Pax 42:596
Earl Stanton STS2 51:089 Pax 40:973
Brian Pimm FSP 50:112 Pax 40:791
Steve Newby CSP 48:554 Pax 41.514
Mark Stefanelli CSP 53:746 Pax 45:039
Terry Bartolous SS 50:012 Pax 42:010
Alex Padron SM2 50:153 Pax 42:830
Chris Newby STS2 60:124 Pax 48:219
Jeremy Pimm FSP 50:406 Pax 40:526
Alicia Newby CSP 55:485 Pax 46:496
Tyler Trotter STS 50:550 Pax 40:228
Kean Randal STS 52:847 Pax 42:119
Carolyn Anderson GS 65:143 Pax 51:723
Katrina Kangas HS 55:614 Pax 43:382
Many Many fun runs and NFP runs ensued too many to list.
