BMW CCA CLUB RACING
		News from Tech - Jim Fluckey

   Allow me to introduce myself ... 

Most of you do not know me and I hope we all get a chance to meet at our races. This has been a transition year for Club Racing and I realize many issues are weighing on your collective minds. A little background on me maybe helps where we are coming from with the tech program.

I have been actively involved in amateur and professional racing for thirty odd years. I have done everything from Midwest bullring sprints to CART Indy cars. I found out early in my career I was a much better tech than a driver. I have several University Degrees in technology areas and cad-cam programming. I moved to Phoenix with the idea of retiring but that fell by the wayside. I was enlisted to take over the tech job late last year and have been at a dead run since. The advantage of me being a former outsider and having no previous agenda and completely outside any political loop will work to your benefit.

National staff and your CRAC team have given me the mandate to stop class creep and to hold the line on buying a win with dollars. I am fully aware that this mandate will help some but hurt others The other main mandate is to stabilize the rules package for several years. I am fully aware this is going to be a tortuous process for us all in the beginning but here again it will work to everyone's benefit in the long run.

Rest assured I will not turn anyone away from the race track on a given weekend for a non-compliant car but we will re-classify as required. We will be spot checking different items or multiple items as the need arises. The only exception will be sponsor decals. You will not be allowed to participate or get thru tech until they are in place. Plan ahead please.

My onsite or regional inspectors do not have the authority to allow a variance in the rules or issue an "on the spot clarification", please don't ask them to.

Let's remember this Club Racing thing is supposed to be a fun thing for us. The SCCA GCR is thicker than some phone books and we should not need that for our amateur racing program.

 

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