Pan Am SCCA -

20th Annual Fast Five Runoffs - Setup Update03 May 2012

We have changed the setup time on Friday from 2pm to 9am.  If you are able to help setup it would be greatly appreciated so we can have a smooth event on Saturday.

20th Annual Fast Five Runoffs18 April 2012

20th Annual

2012 FAST FIVE RUNOFFS

presented by

Date: 5/05/12 - 5/06/12

Where: Cohen Stadium

Event Information and Details

Entry Fees:

• $55 for both days (SCCA Members) includes one free meal and one raffle ticket
• $35 for one day (SCCA Members) does not include meal / raffle ticket.
• $65 for both days (Non-SCCA Members) includes one meal free ticket and one raffle ticket
• $45 for one day (Non-SCCA Members) does not include free meal / raffle ticket 
• No late entries will be taken on Saturday morning after the first car on is out on course.  However, they sign up on Saturday morning (after the first runs have started) to compete on Sunday. 

Course Setup: We will be setting up the Saturday course on Friday, starting around 9am.  We will be setting up the Sunday course on Sunday morning starting at 6:30am.  We could really use volunteers on both days to help set up quickly and efficiently.

Registration & Technical Inspection: Sat - 6:45am - 8:30am  /  Sun - 7:00am - 9:30am

Course Walking: Fri - 5pm to Dusk / Sat - 6am to 8:45a / Sun - 8am to 9:30am 

Mandatory Drivers Meeting:  *Sat - 9:00am / Sun - 9:45am

* On Sunday morning there will be an awards presenation for the 4/17/12 PAR solo event.

First Car on Course: Sat - 9:30am / Sun - 10:15am

Number of Runs: Each competitor will receive six (6) total runs on each day of competition.  Only, the first four (4) runs (from each day) will be scored towards your possible eligiblity into the FAST FIVE Runoffs on Sunday (provided that you are competing on both days) and/or towards each day of competition.

FAST FIVE Runoffs Challenge:  "Two-Day" competitor's quick timed runs (from each day of competition) in agregiate will be PAXED to determine the top five driver's who will advance into the FAST FIVE Runoffs on Sunday.  These five driver's will then have all their times "erased" and will have just "One Timed" run to determine their placement and a 2012 FAST FIVE Champion.  These five individual's runs (raw Times) will once again be PAXED to determine the victor.

PAR Class Year-End Points:  Each competitor in the FAST FIVE will accrue points towards their year-end score for each day of competion. Effectively, a driver has a chance to score points for two separate days of competion - each day will counted as one totally separate event.

Lunch*, Awards Presenation & Hoosier Tire "Goodies" Raffle: aprox. 2:45pm - 4pm (after all the run groups have completed their Sat timed runs)

Where: CiCi's Pizza - Transmountain Rd location

*All competitors registered and competing on both days (Sat & Sun) of the FAST FIVE will be given one free lunch ticket and one raffle ticket ticket and are included with your "two-day" entry fee and are courtesy of CiCi's Pizza (Thanks to Karl Bush) Pan Am Region SCCA and Hoosier Racing Tire (Thanks to Jeff Speer).  Additional "lunch" tickets may be purchased (at the Saturday Driver's Meeting) for $5.00 each.  The purchase price for each additional "raffle" ticket is $2.00 each and may also be purchased at the luncheon.  The awards for Saturday's FAST FIVE competition will also be presented during the  luncheon at Cici's Pizza.

Course Pickup: Sunday aftenoon at the commencement of the FAST FIVE Runoffs. All competitors are encouraged and expected to help with this task. Thank You.

Supplemental Rules

Two-Driver Cars: Each driver must run in separate groups.  No exceptions.

Passengers:

• May ride provided that they meet the following critera:
• Must sign waiver & Temporay SCCA Weekend Membership form
• Must be twelve (12) years of age and up - must sign waiver,  temporary SCCA Weekend Membership & have a parental consent form filled out & signed by guardian or parent.
• May not ride during the FAST FIVE Runoffs challenge
• May not ride during the same run group as scheduled or before your scheduled run group --- as to have an advantage of prerunning or having foreknowledge of the course over your class and/or competition.

Work Assignments: All competitors will be expected to work their assigned task duties on each day of competition, or forfeit all of their run times and/or disqualification from the event.

Vehicle Inspection

• Leaks: All oil, fuel and coolant leaks must be fixed be competiing.  If a leak should arise during competition, it must be fixed before proceeding on to the next run.  A "Five Minute Mechanical" may be taken provided that the Grid Master is informed by the competitor that needs to take the time to fix a problem.
• Excessive Noise & Exhaust Note: All competition vehicles must have a "reasonably quiet" mufflers (including all turbocharged and supercharged cars).  All vehicles competing in stock, all ST classses must have their original catalytical convertors in their stock locations or as otherwise stated in the 2011 SCCA Solo Rulebook.  All vehicles will be inspected during the technical inspection for these exhaust system reqiuirements.  If car in question, exceeds these exhaust requirements and noise restrictions, the technical insoector must inform the competitor of the violation(s) and ask the competitor to "fix" or "make" the     required and/or necessary adjustments to comply with the rules.  100dbs limit will be observed and enforced.
• Batteries: Must securely fastened.  If a battery is relocated beyond the factroy installed location, it must be held in place in a enclosed battery box (if it is a battery that is not a gel-filled battery or non-maintance battery).  
• Tires:  Tires to used for competition must be presented at tech for inspection and be "marked" by the technical inspector as passed & legal for competition.  Tires  will be inspoected for having measurable tread (DOT tires) or tread depth holes (full racing slicks), no cracking on sidewalls or bead areas, no cords showing and/or sidewall separations (visible bulges).

General Requirements

• Pets: Must be kept on leases at all times and not allowed in the grid area during or at the start of competition. 
• Trash: All trash is the sole responsibilty of each and every competitor.  The club is not responsible to pickup trash, it's everyone's duty.  Please keep the site clean. Trash that is left behind, could harm and destroy our relationship with facility management and our continued use of the site.  Please help us in this maintaining cleaniness at the event site.

UPDATE:

The FAST FIVE WILL STILL BE HELD as originally scheduled with the following changes:

We recently informed by the management at Cohen Stadium that there will a "Cinco de Mayo" celebration event that is already booked on Saturday afternoon that starts at 2pm, but they have given us till 2:30pm to have everything picked up and off the site.  So on order to meet that time frame we will pick up the course before we go to lunch at CiCi's Pizza.  This also means we will need help setting up the course on Sunday morning, as well as the possible clean up of broken beer bottles that sometimes occur after concerts at Cohen.

Hoosier Racing Tire is our main title sponsor for the 2012 FAST FIVE Runoffs has supported and sponsored this event since 1996. During these hard economic times, they have had to make "cut-backs" in their support and sponsorship of many other Motorsport events across the country, but have always been very gracious to us, the Pan Am Region in their continued sponsorship support of our FAST FIVE event. This really speaks volumes of Jeff Speer and all the great folks at Hoosier Racing Tire.

Please take the time and send out a "Thank You" email to Jeff Speer thanking them for their support of our event. His email address is:   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 Please visit their website by "clicking" on the Hoosier Logo on the homepage of www.panamscca.org to link to them or you can go directly to their website at: www.hoosiertire.com for all your racing tire needs.  They are really nice people to deal with and have tires for all different levels of racing!!!
Thanks Hoosier.

Thank you all for your understanding, participation and cooperation in helping us to pull-off the 20th running of the FAST FIVE Runoffs this May 5th & 6th. I hope to see all of you on this upcoming and exciting weekend of racing.