Sorry folks, not what I wanted to be writing again but the rain last night really killed us. I visited the lot this afternoon and you sink into the ground just walking on it.

This is about a half throttle launch on the small lot. Picture this times 15-20 cars times 4 runs. We’d have trenches Bruce could lay some Natural Gas piping in.

Sorry folks, mother nature just isn’t working with us this weekend. Hopefully some folks will find their outlet at the MMSC and FMC events this weekend.

Well, another change of plans. Ian Pearce and I visited the site this morning and there’s absolutely no point in having a work party tomorrow. The entire lot is still covered in snow and even with the warmer temperatures its unlikely to thaw enough to be movable, plus with the snow its hard to find the spots that need to be worked on anyway.

The Small lot is flatter, but people have been in there as well and its covered in ~2″ ice that breaks apart just walking on it. Its sharded up in such a way that its very possible for it to wreck tires and cause other mayhem.

50% of the lot is covered in this:

Both lots are pretty much guaranteed to break cars at the moment unfortunately.

There’s really nothing we can do tomorrow so consider the event 100% cancelled at this time. Stay tuned for the next event on February 16th!

Okay folks, here’s the story. Forecast for tonight is 60% chance of Rain, 0 degrees tomorrow and 6 degrees and early morning rain on Sunday. Thats going to make for a soft lot and I’m just not comfortable that we won’t wreck the small lot and not be able to fix it if we run.

I don’t want to cancel another event, but I think at this point its more important to try and save the rest of our season, so to that end we’re going to have a work party on Sunday in the Scotia big lot to try and fix up what we did so we can run there on the 16th. I think everyone agrees we’d much rather be in the large lot than the small one anyway.

So calling all able bodied rallycrossers to come out to Scotia on Sunday at 10:30 or so. Bring boots, gloves and shovels/rakes/hoes. If we can pull things down and even them out mechanically we will but we may be resorting to good ‘ol manpower to fix the worst of it.

Ahh Global Warming. Remember when we were all ice racing it Wittenberg this time of year? (Okay, so I don’t, but I understand that’s what people did! 🙂 )

Okay folks, AMP isn’t usable. Dave Hull visited yesterday and the ground is just too soft. Meanwhile I visited Scotia Speed World and the large lot is in really rough shape after our last event, so unfortunately it is unusable as well and will remain so until we get a thaw enough to do some levelling.

We have changed the venue of Sunday’s event to the Scotia Speed World small lot. HOWEVER, we are currently forcast for 30% chance of rain on Friday and 60% chance of rain on Sunday. If either or both of these forcasts are likely we probably won’t be able to run Sunday. We don’t want to ruin the last lot we have for the remainder of the season. I’ll hopefully be able to do a site visit on Friday and update on the conditions and give a go/no-go Friday evening. Stay tuned!

From event organizer Ming Duc-Wong here:

[important]UPDATE: With the news of Arnold Hoar’s passing, it has been decided to postpone this event to a later date. Condolences to the Hoar family and friends.[/important]

Updates on a new date will be posted as soon as they are available.

It’s that time of the year again! Assuming there’s still snow, MMSC will be holding a Rallycross event on Sunday, January 26th at the Magic Mountain parking lot. Pre-registration is available here: http://www.mmsc.ca/rally/rallycross-on-line-entry-form/ Let’s have some fun in the snow! Details below:

MMSC Rallycross #1: Sunday, January 26th, 2014

Location: Magic Mountain Parking Lot
Price: $20/entry

Schedule:
7:00am-9:00am Course Setup
8:30am-9:30am Registration
9:45am Driver’s Meeting
10:00am First Car on Course
2:30pm End of Event & Clean-Up

Classes:
Prepared**
All Wheel / 4 Wheel Drive
Front Wheel Drive
Rear Wheel Drive

* “Normal” #13 or #15 studded snow tires are allowed in all classes. No other types of studded tires are allowed with approval by the organizer.

** including (a) Rally and Race prepared vehicles, (b) vehicles with other than OEM (as the vehicle in question came from the factory) drive train (engine, transmission, rear ends, etc…) and or suspension modifications, (c) vehicles that have had parts removed that cause a weight reduction (seats, carpets, headliners, air conditioning, ABS, etc…)