As stated before, due to scheduling conflicts, we were unable to secure Zephyrs for a June event. We are hoping to make that up with our July Mega-Event:

Coming July 10th and 11th to Zephyr Field, Delta will be hosting an entire weekend of autocross and drift.

Saturday the 11th will feature autocross in the morning and afternoon and then an open drift event beginning around 3pm.

Sunday the 12th will be a normal autocross.

More details for the races are below.Drivers will see a brand new course on both Saturday and Sunday. Weekend series trophies will be awarded for those competing both days.

continue reading "Delta Region SCCA Autocross and Drift Event - July 10th and 11th"

Local racers had a strong showing at the Southern States Championship in Blytheville, AR last weekend:

Due to safety concerns with the event site at Belle Chasse, the Intermediate School and Regional Autocross scheduled for June 5/6, 2010 has been cancelled.  Due to scheduling conflicts with the event site at Zephyrs, we cannot reschedule this event to that site. 

The Delta Board will continue to work with the Naval Air Station to attempt to get the brush and trees removed, but until such time as they do, we will not utilize that facility for any Delta events.  The safety concerns are just too high.

Thanks to the people who came out and helped us run the grid at the Charity Challenge: Benson Young, Brett Mount, Amber Dorsey, Bill Sims, Brandon Travaso, Ed Rode, Jack Heaton and Walter Smith. Grid ran fairly smoothly and safely. Several drivers came up to thank us for helping out, and one even went out of his way to tell us how much he appreciated the hand signals and time warnings to going out on course. He said, “Only SCCA runs a grid that smoothly…who are you guys with? (sees our shirts)…OH you ARE SCCA!”

Also, thanks to Mitchell Mark for organizing the Exotic Chase Cars at the event. Drivers took their sports cars around the track with passengers who paid a $20 donation to St. Mary’s Residential Training School. Mitchell and his group raised $1500 for the cause.

Delta Region has again agreed to bring volunteers to help with grid at the
Charity Race. We will need:

2 volunteers on Friday, April 16th
5 volunteers on Saturday, April 17th
5 volunteers on Sunday, April 18th.

continue reading "Volunteers Needed for Charity Race"

Our fearless leader took 1st in CSP at the Mineral Wells National Tour!

Darren is following up a 2nd place finish at the Dixie National Tour earlier in the month. Nice driving Darren!

Results :http://www.scca.com/newsarticle.aspx?hub=3&news=3879&archive=true

Fourth
Grand Bayou Charity Challenge
presented by the Christopher Hecker Foundation to benefit
St. Mary’s Residential Training School
of Alexandria, Louisiana
www.stmarys-rts.org

April 16-18, 2010

continue reading "Grand Bayou Charity Challenge, April 16-18, 2010"

(Note: this is a non-SCCA event being held by Circuit Grand Bayou. Please support local motorsports)
We want to invite everyone and thier friends to the next three “solo” events on March 14, and May 9 and July 18, 2010. The gates and registration will open at 10:00 am and the track will be open for track walks until 11:00 am. Cars and trucks will be “quick teched” from 10 am until 11:30. “quick tech” forms and information sheets can be sent to you with a request from info@circuitgrandbayou.com

At 11:00 am we will be hosting a “chalk talk” in the drivers lounge. The chalk talk will give participants some helpful hints on navigating the track in a smoother, safer and quicker manner. The drivers meeting will follow at 11:30 and the first car out will be at noon. We will run until 4pm.

The concession stand will open from 11:00 until 1:00 at each event.

Feel free to check our events calendar at www.circuitgrandbayou.com. On our site you can register your email address and get updates and our monthly newsletter to keep up to date on our activities.

Again, thank you for getting this venue off to a good start and we look forward to seeing you soon!

BE SAFE,

Chris Wilken
Circuit Grand Bayou, Operations

Belated report:

After being thwarted by weather, Mardi Gras, and football, Delta successfully completed its 2009 trailer day.

The first part of the operation was to remove and sort through the accumulated detritus of the past few seasons. We are saddened to report the demise of the following items:

• A small army of broken pop-up tents
• Several spools of ethernet cable (more on that in a second)
• Two generations of obsolete timing and scoring system and several spools of obsolete cable
• The old broken PA system
• A PVC pipe cable bridge that hasn’t been used in over three years
• The bulletin board for the side of the trailer
• About 8 garbage cans of general trash

So much more room now!

We’ve also made some significant improvements elsewhere, which will make set up and tear down much faster:

• Trailer is now wired for power. One plug does it all.
• The new PA system is integrated into the trailer.
• Timing, scoring, and registration are now 100% wireless.

Superbowl Champions! Wow!
Delta Region SCCA is prouder than ever to call New Orleans home.