FW: AMEC News - Voting results mean NO Street Legal Ballast; New Potential Tire Option for SS and SLM; Zoom meeting Monday 8/8
Casey Creamer
From: Dave Burnham (via MotorsportReg.com) [mailto:auto...@motorsportreg.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2022 1:41 PM
To: ca...@senecasaw.com
Subject: AMEC News - Voting results mean NO Street Legal Ballast; New Potential Tire Option for SS and SLM; Zoom meeting Monday 8/8
Hi All,
There are a lot of things going on in AMEC this summer in preparation for the 2023 ice racing season. Please read through this whole long email and comment back to me.
The re-vote on rule number 4 last month was very close again but we did have a clear winner this time. Adding of ballast in Street Legal classes will not be allowed. The votes were 16 against ballast 14 for ballast and one abstain.
The next AMEC meeting is Monday August 8th at 7:30 PM. It will be another zoom meeting the link is here:
https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/99654003425
Meeting ID: 996 5400 3425
We will need to place an order soon for ice racing tires for next winter. I know you don’t want to think about that now but we have to do it.
If you need more Pirelli big stud ice tires let me know.
The Stock Sportsman class guys have agreed to try a new tire to replace the old worn out Menard tires that most of them have been using. They want something cheaper than the Pirellis with a little less traction (so it’s easier on car components and reduces the advantage of having more power), and they didn’t want to have to build “screw” tires. They are proposing to use the Alpha Ice Cross tire in a 175/65/15 size. This tire will probably have more traction than a Menard but less than a Pirelli. It will have shorter studs than the Pirelli tires which will hopefully give the desired traction while having good longevity. Below is a photo.
Some of the Street Legal racers said they were thinking of moving to a class with more traction and this may be a good option for you racers also. There were rumors of trying to start a Miata SLM sub-class, this tire may be a good tire for it. They will cost $299.99 each which is probably 2/3rds the cost of the monster Pirelli tires that the other “big stud classes” are running. AMEC needs to put in a minimum order for 30 tires to get this price.
This is a relatively short tire which should allow it to fit cars with small wheel wells. It’s about ½” taller than a 13” Menard and substantially shorter than a 15” Menard. Other sizes are available from Alpha but we need an order of 30 tires per size, and we think having a standard size tire is best for everyone.
Stock Sportsman and Street Legal Class drivers that want to try this tire please tell me and please sign into the zoom meeting next Monday for the discussion. If you don’t participate don’t come crying to us that you could not get tires next winter. We will have another club vote to allow these tires in the big stud classes.
At the next meeting we will also go over our very successful Edinburg go-kart track autocross that was held a couple of weeks ago.
One other big thing we will be discussing at this next zoom meeting is workers’ jobs. It is time for the “younger/newer” AMEC members to step up and start working to help the club move forward. Some of us have been doing it for decades and frankly we are toast. Us old timers are willing to work for one more season and then we are done. So if you want this club to continue putting on ice races you need to volunteer. Below is a list of the jobs with descriptions. These need to be filled for next winter and beyond. If these positions do not have some new people signing on then we might not race, you just never know.
So please attend our next zoom meeting. If you can’t attend, email me what you want to do about tires and which job you want to take next season. I asked a bunch of questions in an email before our last zoom meeting in July and guess how many people replied….zero. I am not going to work hard at this if you won’t. It’s time to step up to the plate and take a swing. We will help you learn the jobs, the guys before us old timers helped us and we will do the same and that’s why AMEC has been around for 68 years.
Thanks,
Dave Burnham
AMEC President
E mail me at raci...@nycap.rr.com
Call me 518 875 6956 home
Or 518 322 5041 cell
These are the AMEC jobs that need to be filled, what is your choice?
The AMEC Officers:
·President: The President runs the monthly meetings and officiates over all important club business. The President’s most important job is probably making sure everything that needs to get done is completed. Delegating work is a good trait to embrace, and appointing people is another. The President often has to sign important paperwork like insurance policies or other letters of importance. The President usually writes club emails to keep the members informed of things. The President is usually the first point of contact for News Agencies, Town Officials, and people interested in Ice racing.
·Vice President: The Vice President takes the place of the President if they cannot make it to a meeting. The VP can be tasked with many important jobs and is a voting Officer for things that need to be decided that do not need a vote from the whole club. The VP works closely with the President to lead the club.
·Secretary: The Secretary takes the minutes of the monthly meetings and can be tasked with a variety of jobs. The Secretary is a voting Officer when a board vote needs to be taken. It’s important for the Secretary to attend the meetings.
·Treasurer: The Treasurer keeps track of all club finances and makes sure anything that needs to get paid gets paid. The Treasurer is a voting Officer as well.
The following jobs are not in any particular order but need to get done during an ice racing season.
·Plowing Coordinator: Someone needs to make sure we have enough plows to get a race track plowed for the weekend’s races.
·Plowman: Obviously we need people to plow the ice racing courses. Plowman are needed the day before events as well as on race-day. AMEC pays for fuel and food for track-plowing and pays the race entry fee for that weekend. It takes around 4 hours to plow a track depending on a lot of factors.
·Snow Cat Chief: This person coordinates the storage, repairs, and transportation of the club snow cat. This would include making sure the trailer that is used to transport the snow cat is in good working order. They also need to make sure the trailer registration is up to date and that the trailer is inspected. This person does not necessarily need to tow the rig to/from races.
·Corner-Worker Chairman: This person is in charge of making sure we have corner workers for each ice race. This person does not necessarily need to be a corner-worker.
·Corner Worker: We need 3-8 Corner Workers for each ice race. A Corner Worker generally waives flags at one of the flag stations on the ice race course. This person needs to learn the nuances of working a corner. This job involves being out on the ice during heat races. Corner Workers must be reliable and commit to working at least 5 days before a race.
·Communications Chief: This person makes sure all the club radios are ready to go, charged and working for each event. At each event, radios are given out to officials and corner workers as needed. Then gathered back up and charged for the next event. The radios are essential at every race, so it’s helpful for this person to be close to where we race, so someone can easily grab the radios from the Chief in an emergency.
·Club Equipment Coordinator: This person is in charge of the club pylons, fire extinguishers, flags, and anything else we need to race. This person also makes sure the tools get to the races and that the tools get picked up after each race. It’s helpful for this person to be close to where we race, so someone can easily grab the radios from the Coordinator in an emergency.
·Banquet Coordinator: AMEC usually holds two banquets a year. The first is the Annual Meeting on the first Saturday of January. The other is the ice racing awards banquet which is held after the season is over. This job includes taking charge of finding a venue to hold these events and making sure there are people to work or anything needed for each banquet. Tasks include finding a venue, arranging food, and taking head counts.
·Trophy Chairman: This job includes planning ahead of time for trophies, and taking notes during the season for special awards . The chairman needs to coordinate the photos for the placards and ensure the trophies to be ready for the banquet.
·Motorsports Registration Chief: This job involves setting up the MotorsportsReg event registrations on-line for each AMEC event. This includes club membership and non-ice racing events.
·Membership and Car Number Coordinator: This person sends out the notice that dues are due and keeps track of who is an AMEC membership. This job is tied in with assigning race car numbers, which involves a lot of emailing and explaining the numbering scheme to people. This person also gets a lot of questions from new people.
·Website Chief: This job would be good for a person that knows how to do web design and update the AMEC website. At its simplest this person would post updates to the page; we can train someone to do this. If this person has more web design skills, the entire page could be updated.
·Face book Chief: This person updates the AMEC Face book page and fields messages sent to the club via Face book. This person needs to check the page every day and moderate the posts.
·Insurance Chief: Arranges for race-event insurance.
·20-20 Coordinator: This job takes a person to help people that want to try the 20-20. The 20-20 participants are usually first-time racers and they have no idea what to do and have a lot of questions to answer before and during race-day. You would also make sure the 20-20 participants are ready to drive, and that they have signed the waivers. They also hold a Drivers Meeting before they go out on the track.
·Street Legal Coordinator: This is an important job and will take a lot of time on the phone and online with emails replying to street legal racers with questions. This would also be the person to enforce Street Legal Class rules and impose penalties.
·“Big Stud” Class Coordinator: This person is the first point of contact for racers in the Big Stud Classes. They address all issues within these classes. This would also be the person to enforce Class rules and impose penalties.
·Insurance Waiver Chief: This job entails making sure all racers and workers have signed the insurance waiver on race day.
·Advertising Chief: This person would help promote AMEC ice racing through social media or other means.
·Video Chief: We often make multiple videos for our year-end banquet. If one or more people were involved in this, it would spread the work load out. Gathering of videos throughout the season is an important part of this position.
·AMEC Photographer: We need photos for our awards placards. This person should be good at photography and have their own equipment. They should make sure we have a photograph of every racer and worker so we are covered for the banquet trophies. It’s important for this person to attend the first couple races of each season so we have photos of all potential award winners.
·Rules Chief: We need a person to go through the AMEC rule book before each season and make changes. The rules are maintained on Microsoft Word.
·Race Tire Chief: This person would be in charge of coordinating tire orders for the “Big Stud Classes”.
·Ice Reporter for Lake Algonquin and/or Warner Lake and/or Lake George and/or Caroga Lake and/or Pecks Lake and/or Chazy Lake: Each lake needs to be checked on a weekly basis. These workers take responsibility for their lake to provide a weekly report on the ice conditions. AMEC can train these people.
·EMT: This person must be an EMT. This person performs EMT duties on race-days.
·EMT Chief: This person makes sure we have an EMT at each ice race. This finds a replacement EMT if our usual EMT is not able to attend a race.
·Scorer: This person scores the races on race-day. The scorer utilizes a computer spreadsheet to enter the car numbers and the spreadsheet automatically calculates the results and creates the grid order for each round. This person must be very proficient at entering numbers with a keypad. Alternate scoring methods can be used if using the computer spreadsheet isn’t feasible/possible.
·Score Calculator: The existing system utilizes a computer spreadsheet to automatically calculate the scores. Proficiency with spreadsheets is required in order to operate the spreadsheet and make any necessary changes. The spreadsheets are maintained in Google Sheets.
·Safety Steward: Would be in charge of making sure all races are safe to proceed.
Dave Burnham Citroen
559 Youngs Road
Delanson, NY 12053
(518) 875 695
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