Call to Order
The Kansas City Region SCCA General Meeting was called to order by RE Bill Johnson at Conroy’s on April 4, 2023 at 7:33 pm.
Members present: Bill Johnson, Chris Kern, Jon Griffith, Ed Nicholson, Jeremy Scotton, Al Hermanns, Steve Fudge, Charlie Clark, Guy Watney, April Turner, Bill Bauman, Janet Bauman, Phil Meredith, James Young, Tara Young, Dick Berger, Greg Cheney, Max Bear, Niles Davis, Courtney Japhet, Jonathon Robert Dan Squires, Tricia Squires, Mark Macoubrie, Tim Friest, Lenard Holsworth, Josh Holsworth, Jessica Dorn, Jeremy Salenius and Steve Johnson.
SECRETARY’S REPORT: (Ed Nicholson)
Dick made a motion to approve the minutes; Jessica seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
TREASURER’S REPORT: (Jessica Dorn)
March 2023
| Starting Cash | $25,136.57 |
| Starting CD | $83,428.50 |
| Ending CD | $93,710.85 |
| Ending Cash | $10,856.94 |
| Ending Balance | $104,567.79 |
Niles made a motion to approve the treasurers report; Greg seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
MEMBERSHIP REPORT: (Paula Diehl)
Bill gave report we have 639 members, 14 new members.
WEB REPORT: (Paula Diehl)
Placed here for boards convenience since was not provided last evening.
Below are site analytics for kcrscca.org for the period 2/5/23-3/6/23. Percent increase/decrease is over the reference period 1/5/23-2/4/23
Total Visitors: 9,170 | +33.8%
The number of visitors that accessed the website.
Daily average: 306
Sessions: 10,020 | +39%
A session starts when a visitor accesses the website and ends when he or she leaves it.
Daily average: 334
Total Page Impressions: 31,830 | +24.3%
How often the pages of the website are visited. Only pages that contain text and were fully loaded are counted.
Page Impressions Per Session: 3.42 | -7.1%
The average number of pages of the website that are visited per session.
Top 5 Most Frequently Visited Pages:
- Home page
- /solo/live/results_live
- /autocross/autocross-schedule-and-results
- /our-racing/road-racing
- /our racing/rallycross
Bounce Rate: 2.68% | -4.3%
How many visitors left the website right after the landing page without any further interaction with the website.
Top 5 Key Words:
The keywords/phrases with which the website was most commonly found in search engines.
- rally cross
- events calendar
- road rally
- autocross schedule
- road racing
All Pages of Origin:
Where site visitors came from, i.e. whether they were transferred to the website from search engines, social networks or online directories, for example.
- Direct: 33.64% | +65.2%
- Search engines: 49.27% | -5%
- Social networks: .16% | +57.6%
- Others: 16.92% | +29.7%
SOLO REPORT: (Al Hermans)
T&T and Event #1 were held on March 25 & 26. 58 people were at the T&T and 112 came to Event #1. Both days started a bit damp and chilly and while the T&T warmed up nicely, the chilly stayed for Event #1. Both days courses were fun if you stayed on the pavement. Not so much if you went off as the grass was a slippery muddy mess. The results are posted on the website but there are a couple of issues that need to be resolved.
Registration for the MiDiv (Events 2 & 3) being held on April 29 & 30 is open now. There are currently 145 entries shown in MSR (two-day entries are listed twice). Registration and tech will start at 5:30 PM on April 28. You can also check in on Saturday or Sunday morning by appointment.
All coming regional events are listed in MSR through the end of the season. They will open 4 or so weeks ahead of time. All event dates have been reserved at MCC.
The Street Survival school is open. It is capped at 24 students and will be held on August 26. We will need instructors and volunteers, especially at registration and tech. If you want to instruct, there is an online tutorial that is required to be taken. For those unsure, we are not teaching technique, just guiding them through some basic exercises. Having a rapport with the students is as important, if not more so, than driving skills. Spread the word amongst friends, neighbors, schoolmates, etc. Street Survival will be sending out an email blast to past students and others in their database soon.
RALLY CROSS REPORT: (Niles)
Summary of April 2nd event at I-35 Speedway:
- 38 drivers
- 8 runs total (4 morning, 4 afternoon)
- All in all good event with many folks reporting that they had a great time!
- A vehicle broke a balljoint on course which took time to remove from the course, but is a part of racing. Big thanks to Mark Macoubrie for allowing the use of his truck and trailer to remove the vehicle from the course.
Event Issues
- Axware crashed twice during the event with no warning. Rebooting the software fixed this issue in the moment, however this is something that needs to be resolved, as it causes unnecessary event slowdown.
- One of our antenna tripods for the start/finish is missing a bolt for one of its supports and as a result, had fallen down during the event. This tripod either needs repaired or replaced.
- During the van cleanout, Niles found KCRX Stickers in a tote. This tote was not present in the van for the event. Stickers were offered as something to purchase on MSREG, however we were unable to provide them. Does anyone know where they are?
- There were not enough wristbands in the trailer for the event. The program’s understanding is that there were more than enough wristbands for AX. Does anyone know where those wristbands are before putting in an order for more?
Van Issues
- When driving on rough roads, the steering wheel wobbles aggressively.
- Van needs shocks, bounces driver nearly out of their seat when hitting rough bumps.
- The CEL and SRS lights are on. These need to be diagnosed.
- In the morning, when ambient temps were around 40 degrees, driving 75 mph up to Winston was fine. Temp gauge stayed just below 210. On the way back, driving 75 mph would cause the temp gauge to rise up to 240. Hills would exacerbate this issue. If the heat is turned up to full blast, the temp would return to below 210. The program is worried that extended periods of the van running at or around 240 will cause issues similar to what happened before, with the van blowing out a heater valve.
Van issues to be addressed for the check engine.
We are keeping BHR on as a sponsor to thank them for their past sponsorship and continuing support.
KVRG REPORT: (Chris Kern)
Sups are done and approved Heartland and Ozark, rolling along fine tuning the event. Need help in all worker facets of the event.
Need help for the upcoming events at both events. Grand Prix with bus stop. Will be having a drag event this year with traffic in the paddock.
Shall we offer an autocross entry for those who work the race at Heartland?
There will be a Midiv TT at Heartland.
Guy: Summit has banned EV’s from their track. Chris, discussion is going on at SCCA about EV’s in racing. Some tracks are taking a different view on EV’s from that of the SCCA.
There is a book from the KCRSCCA archives if you are interested come look at it. There are four of these books and they are a fascinating window into our past.
Old Business
Looking for a region social director if anyone is interested in taking on this please let us know.
New Business
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DATES
Next solo – April 29 & 30 Blue River.
Rally X – April 16 at Gran Valley.
Road racing – Heartland Park May 19 – 21.
Track Night in America – April 27.
Time Trials – May 20 & 21 Heartland Park.
Call for motion to adjourn
Dick made a motion to adjourn and Niles second motion passed. Meeting ended at 9:06.