Action Pack Recap – Winter ’18/19

GTM veteran instructors return to SCCA’s Instructor Boot Camp to aid in training new Instructor Candidates and prepare them for the 2019 HPDE season. Congratulations to members Joe O and Baron M as they take on new responsibilities at SCCA and to Region-3 Chief Tania M (left) for passing the course and becoming a newly minted SCCA instructor!

“It was overall a good day that managed to be fun despite the busy schedule. In my opinion you don’t walk away from the experience truly prepared to sit in the right seat. Developing your instructor skills takes practice. Every situation – student, car, track, weather, state of mind – will always be different every time you get in in the right seat. What you do walk away with is an appreciation for how different sitting in the right seat truly is. Despite requiring a lot of faith to put your life in the hands of a stranger, its a complete mind set change of how you view the track and how you effectively and efficiently communicate with another person.” – Tania M

YIKES! – Member Judd G suffers an #epicfail on the way to the SCCA Adv. PDX. Hitting an unidentified-lying-object in the the early hours of the morning on his way to Summit Point, breaking the left front axle and puncturing his transmission.

Special thanks to member Dan S for sourcing a new 6-speed trans for Judd’s VW Jetta on short notice and establishing a new relationship for GTM with TLCT Motorworks out of Hagerstown, MD.

Check out the continuing coverage on Judd’s trans here.

Half-way across the world, some of the most exciting racing on TV: WRC Round 4: Corsica and F1 Bahrain GP happened while you were sleeping in. Tuning in with the free RedBullTV app you can (re)catch all of the action!

Over the years, the tiny island of Corsica has never failed to provide some of the best stories in the WRC! But be sure to ask member Sam H why “Indy Car is the best Racing on TV!” – meanwhile, we’re still waiting for the IMSA season to come into full swing, but so far 2019 is shaping up well.

Be sure to RSVP for our LeMans 2019 Viewing Party.
and check out TV Schedule for all the upcoming races.

GTM is a club, and clubs need help from their members to continue operating and existing. We’ve made a lot of great enhancements to our online and social media presence. We completely revamped the website, established an online picture warehouse, set up the slack chat system, and streamlined the event registration system, to name a few. We are a resourceful group and we take pride in the things we are able to accomplish with the limited resources we have.

But we can’t do it all alone. We need help.

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We can’t thank Melissa and Kevin from GearWrench enough for hosting us and we look forward to seeing them again later this season! Stay tuned for updates #summerbash5

“It was a great event and so nice meeting you, your colleagues and friends and the folks at GearWrench. All of us from CCA enjoyed the day. The tools are amazing, and the vast number of items are staggering. I think it would be great to have GearWrench at our car show!” – Van Vander Haar, Corvette Club of America.

Our BC Brewery Happy Hour was EXCELLENT! – With 20 self-service beers on tap, yummy food and great company we had a fantastic time sharing stories and making new plans with our friends from the Corvette Club of America. Pictures from this event are available via the Vault.

It wouldn’t be a proper season kick-off for GTM without our annual pilgrimage to the DC Auto Show. And in keeping with tradition we played a couple rounds of “I fits, I sits” with Brad N. For the record, he does fit in a Fiat 124 Spyder, just not with the top up or with any ability to use the pedals! #broomsticktest

IT EXISTS! – we got to see the long awaited for Toyota Supra up close – along with other vehicles like the new Jeep Gladiator and Ford Ranger (which we reviewed earlier this year). Pictures from this event are also available via the Vault.