[Wichita-SCCA] EnduroCross Pax Results

Tue Oct 9 19:14:05 EDT 2007

There are new PAX Results for the EnduroCross.  My original program 
wasn't using the right index numbers.  There is a change in positions.  
Enjoy!

http://wichitascca.org/results/2007/09302007-ByPax.html

 Oooo  Guy Roberts 
(   )  Webmaster at wichitascca.org 
 ) /   #37 - 1994 Polo Green Corvette
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Horsepower is how fast you hit the Wall, Torque is how far you take it with you.

Greg Laws wrote:
> I can be there.  The diner is a small, impossible-to-find workingman's 
> joint located in a small parking lot behind other businesses.  It 
> takes an Indian guide to find it but they have good hamburgers and do 
> a nice lunchtime business at least.  It's been a few years since I was 
> last there.
>  
> The Wichita Region is currently dead in the water concerning a new 
> facility.  The Vrana family regretfully (and it was a most sincere 
> regret) cannot proceed in that direction at this time due in large 
> part to commitments that Othal had previously made but which came to 
> the attention of the Executor only as the estate was being settled.  
> We are on our own.
>  
> I've been told that the Mayor of Park City was quoted in the Wichita 
> Eagle as expressing interest in converting the now defunct Wichita 
> Greyhound Park facility into a motorsports facility.  What form that 
> might take is open to the imagination but my personal imagination 
> envisions perhaps an 1/8 mile dragstrip, perhaps something for the 
> Karting community, or maybe the existing 81 Speedway would want to 
> move to make use of the existing building as grandstand over a larger 
> circle track?  Whatever happens to the Greyhound Park facility we can 
> be sure that the use of the existing parking lots for Solo would be 
> far down on the list of priorities unless we can demonstrate a means 
> of generating a reliable income stream to at least help maintain the 
> asphalt of those parking lots.  It is one thing to keep using the lots 
> simply for parking where no one cares if the surface dissolves into 
> sand & potholes but it is another thing altogether to keep asphalt in 
> competition condition.  That takes money and commitment.
>  
> There are likely to be many stumbling blocks between where we are and 
> where we would like to be.   I will be most happy to attend this 
> meeting and I hope that others will be there as well.  It will take 
> coordination between all of the diverse automotive interest groups to 
> pull something together here and I feel that it is critical for the 
> survival of our club that we remain actively engaged in this process.
>  
> One final note here, a personal one.  It is with sincere regret and 
> great personal disappointment that I must in all honesty tell you, my 
> friends, that I cannot continue all the way down this path towards a 
> new facility as representative of the Wichita Region SCCA.  I am 
> honored to be able to attend this meeting and to do what I can to get 
> this ball rolling but others must step forward to carry on from here.  
> The simple truth is that Parkinson's is slowly eating away at my 
> cognitive abilities, the executive functions of my brain.  For those 
> interested, a new report has just been released that describes exactly 
> my situation: 
> http://www.financevisor.com/market/news_detail.aspx?rid=58026  As much 
> as I desire to lead the charge to provide a new solo facility, the 
> ability to do so is fading from my grasp.  For the same reason I will 
> be fading from the solo scene itself -- not for lack of desire but for 
> lack of ability to coordinate it all.  I tell you this only because it 
> means so much to me that we succeed and I do not wish to stubbornly 
> hold myself important when this might cause detriment to the club.  
> Younger, healthier individuals must take the fight from here.
>  
> I'm not sure what to do with the Phrog.  The effort to mount a 
> weekend's outing with it is becoming more and more difficult and there 
> is always sadness from loss of ability whenever I do take it out.  It 
> is a delightful car to drive and it is finally (as much as any race 
> car can be) debugged, solid, and fun.  I have recently become mentor 
> for a 12-yr old boy here in Winfield, Joseph Burgess, and will soon 
> become his Godfather.  Joseph, or "Joe", is bright, mechanically 
> adept, and in love with the Phrog.  Perhaps I will just store it away 
> until such time as he could bring it out on his own.  Or maybe I'll 
> continue to attend from time to time, at least until I use up my 
> existing tires and then store the car away for Joe.  Or it may be time 
> to just sell it and move on.  We'll see.
>  
> Life goes on.  I'll still be around, doing my thing for quite some 
> time yet.  I'm proud to be here, proud to be part of the Wichita 
> Region, and I wish only the best for all. 
>  
> Enjoy,
> Greg Laws
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