Dear Fellow Members,

I would like to apologize to each and every member for not keeping up to date with things on this homepage. While the Forum is the focal point of our club, some members enjoy coming over to the homepage to only find nothing new and are disappointed. I hope to change that in the coming months with the help of various other members of the Board of Directors. Please be patient while we work on this project. In the end I know you will be pleased with what you see.

Last month we kicked off 2008 with our first meet of the year in Indianapolis. For those of you that couldn't attend you did miss a great meet. We certainly wished more members could have attended but with the current situation with gas prices we certainly understand. With the unification of the IRL and Champ Car I was hoping for a great second weekend of qualifications and we certainly were not disappointed. The accommodations John setup where much better than last year. We did make a few tweaks here and there with the timing of certain things that really helped out. But as usual it was a laid back weekend. Except Friday night when we went to the local indoor carting facility where I smoked the tires off everyone else. We went there last year but I think they must have upgraded their equipment because there was a lot more power available and the seatbelts where beefed up. Sorry I didn’t mean to rub it in the face of everyone else but it was so much fun. If I had a place like that by the house I think that could become a problem for me. I was awesome to see some old friends and make some new ones. I hope things work out next year that you will be able to make it

Next meet on the list is Carlisle. We are now only a few weeks away and once again I find myself running out of time to get my M up to par. This year is going to be extra special for me because we will have a bunch of new members in attendance. Every time I see new members at a meet that just reinforces my feeling that the club is continuing to grow and I don’t see that changing. I find myself talking about Carlisle in a lot of these messages and I apologize for that but since Carlisle is only 30 minutes away I just can’t help to talk about it whenever I get the chance. For those of you that are still on the fence please remember you need to make a decision soon as time is running out.

These monthly Presidential messages have been a great way for me to pass along information providing that I update it monthly. To avoid that in the future I will be making some major changes starting July 1. I won’t give up any more information on this at this point so you will just have to wait and see.

I hope to see you at a meet real soon.