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Schedule here: https://www.scca.com/events/2004759-2024-tire-rack-scca-phoenix-national-tour-arizona-motorsports-park#event_details screen shot: scca runs this event so schedule is determined by them hope you are enjoying the event otherwise

And to clarify, this does count as your work assignment for the event. So if you want to be able to enjoy watching everyone else run without having to work this is how you can do that.

Mark, Friday is not a required day. It is an option to get your registration/check in, tech etc done prior to the first event day Saturday. It's also a chance to run the practice course and/or (if entered) the Evo Advantage school. National tour tech is different then local event tech so you will need to tech. I believe it is a self tech process so be prepared to fill out a piece of paper 🙂

Looking for some people willing to volunteer to help in the following areas at the upcoming tour. If you are interested and willing please email me at kvenisn@msn.com Tech Workers - Required coverage: Friday 3pm-6pm; Saturday 7am-8am, plus meet at 2:45 on Friday to train Check in workers (registration) - Required coverage: Friday 3pm-6pm; Saturday 7am-8am, plus meet at 2:45 on Friday to train Site Clean-up Worker (monitor trash cans and empty, restock TP in restroom facilities, this is for all 3 days but AMP also supports this) We may also need some people to help with Waiver/gate if we don't have enough people from our crew that covers our local events. Will update here if that is needed also. If you are interesting in any of these positions please let me know which positions and your availability. Thanks!

SCCA has announced their 2024 National Tour schedule and I'm excited to share that it includes a stop in Phoenix at AMP February 23-25: https://www.scca.com/articles/2018013-get-ready-2024-national-solo-schedules-announced If you've never done a National Tour this your chance to attend one locally.

The goal is to put on a school for people pretty new to the sport. Having said that we do need a critical mass to make the event work so if there are not enough "true novices" we will probably open it up to people with more experience. It's been a while since we put on a school and things do change over time so there's some uncertainty about what interest level will be etc but if everyone is flexible and understanding we'll figure things out, even things are a little bumpy at first. Ultimately the goal is to put this school on as a service to the region, not just this year but going forward. More to come.

The Phoenix AZ Solo Region (PASR) SC has reviewed the situation and made the decision to change the November 2 day event (originally scheduled for November 19 and 20) to a 1 day event Sunday November 13. The PASR has always strived to schedule it's events around potential conflicts but please bear in mind site availability can be a challenge and often books up well in advance so every effort is made to book early while doing our best to account for potential conflicts. It really is a difficult job for our Site Liaison to work through and generally will end up with some people impacted by conflicts. Additionally it is a lot of work for the various Chiefs to arrange coverage for their areas for a specific date and last minute changes can make this especially challenging. For all these reasons and more it will never be possible to avoid these conflicts and be a challenge to make a lot minute change so I'd like to give my personal thanks to all the people who worked behind the scenes to coordinate and make this change happen and to the entire SC for their flexibility in this matter.

Kind of a long shot but would like to borrow one of these for diagnostic purposes: Located on the passenger side of the engine compartment of a 1.6L NA Miata. Potentially needed in C or D run group if the new camshaft position sensor does not resolve my issue. The one I ordered has been delayed in shipping and now conveniently arrives Monday 😞

This would either require the people that do all the things to make these events happen to work 2 days over a weekend. When I first started autocrossing 20+ years ago I wondered why we didn't have more then one event a month. At that point the club was running split morning/afternoon event with TO's in the afternoon group. I figured out that if I registered for the afternoon and signed up to do teardown I could get 2 sets of runs, only eat up half my day and not have to do back to back run/work for 4 groups. That led to me being recruited into Asst Equipment Chief. Fast forward to today, I try to get there before gate open to make sure setup serves smooth, serve a event chair throughout the event and still find myself helping with teardown at the end. I no longer wonder why don't we do 2 event a month. This is not meant to sound like a rant or complaint but please remember this is an all volunteer run organization and we are constantly looking for volunteers to help cover critical areas. The only we we could put on more events is with more of these people. If anyone is interested please reach out to a member of the SC>

Classing corrections happen after the preregistration process. On-site registration will catch some of those but the I believe most corrections happen as part of the post event results posting process. Regarding work assignments leading you to be waitlisted, it is my understanding that MSR will show the work position as full/waitlisted in the registration page. At that point one should select an open position if they’d rather have that work position vs the one that is already filled. Also, keep in mind work assignments are not guaranteed as sometimes event logistics require us to adjust that. We are still adapting to differences in MSR vs our previous MTC based systems. Ultimately our goal is a process that enables smooth event operations while being as fair as possible considering limited supply vs demand. Lance has been doing a lot of work behind the scenes to enhance the process and I can’t express enough appreciation to all the people that are working and have been working registration. It is a very demanding assignment to balance what is needed to run a successful event and still be as accommodating and fair to all.

Draft results for the event are available via the Live Timing link on the home page. Please note for the most part we only have everyone's fastest time loaded but feel free to reply here with any timing correction requests. We are still working to get the results loaded to the normal results link on the web page but it may be Sunday or even Monday before that is resolved. Thanks, Kevin

Update on results. We are working on getting them up today but it may sometime this weekend. Once results are up please bear in mind they are draft results and based on the paper timing sheets so they may require more clean up then usual. Apologies for the delay and issues, our electronic timing and scoring system crashed and on top of that our Chief of Timing and scoring is out of town with limited phone and email access.

On October 4, 2021 the SCCA Board of Directors met, discussed, and approved the formation of Phoenix AZ Solo Region to conduct events in Maricopa County, AZ which has been ceded by Arizona Region for this purpose. Per SCCA Bylaws and Operations Manual the Region has been provided a Provisional Charter. More information will be forthcoming from the SCCA on this. In addition, we will be providing more information on how to join and support this new region. Communication channels will include this forum, our website, drivers meetings, email, Pylon Press and social media. For the reasons behind this change and the efforts to get us to this point are available in this forum post, August 2021 SC Meeting Minutes and the Phoenix AZ Solo Region Formation Announcement in the News section of the website. Many thanks to Kim Kemper, Chris Groppi and Steve Eymann for all the time and legwork that they have put into this process.

Due to the event being on Saturday versus Sunday registration will close one day earlier then originally listed on MotorsportsReg. It is now closing Wednesday Oct 13 at 11:59 PM MST. This is somewhat a moot point as the event is already full with people on the waitlist for the morning and the afternoon.

A big thanks to Lance for all his work handling both online registration and working Tech at the events. Registration can be a tough assignment as you have to deal with people who are sometimes disappointed that cannot get their run group preference, work preference or the like.