At Friday's ACCCC Board meeting, officers were elected. Marko returns for his third term as President. Under his watch, this chapter has experienced explosive growth in both the number of new members and the number of events offered to membership.

Thanks, Marko for stepping-up for another term!

In other Board elections, Bill Steineke was re-elected vice-president for a second term.

New board member Kyle Crews was elected Treasurer.

New board member Eric Roth was elected club secretary.

Thanks again to some of the new blood for taking on an increased role for the club. Your contribution of hard work will be compensated with more work. Well, that and the thanks and smiles from our members which is the very best part of the job.

Be forewarned a few of our dates are during the week, but you won't want to miss them...

Keep in mind that not all of the contracts have been signed yet. While these dates are not iron-clad, they are worth betting on.

Registration will open approx. 6-8 weeks before the event (and will be announced here). Final details are still being worked on.

April 1st, 2nd & 3rd.
Autobahn Country Club
Saturday - North Track
Sunday - South Track
Monday (optional) - full track

August 11, 12 & 13
Blackhawk Farms
Friday - Advanced driver day & Instructor Clinic. You must be approved to sign-up for the Friday event
Saturday & Sunday - The full, traditional ACNA Driving School experience. Plus a lot of fun at our "home" track.

September 1st - Friday
Autobahn Country Club - South Track
This will be an ADD (Advanced Driver's Day) ONLY. You must have a MINIMUM of 3 ACNA driving schools under your belt. There will be lot's of lapping time and roundtable discussions with senior instructors.

Same here - contracts have not been signed, but we are pretty sure of these dates:

April 15th - TireRack - South Bend, IN

May 27th - Maywood Park - Maywood, IL

June 24th - Maywood Park - Maywood, IL

July 22nd - Maywood Park - Maywood, IL

September 30th - TireRack - South Bend, IN

These are the dates we have form the folks in Michigan. We're not really sure of contract status, so consult their website or the ACNA website to be absolutely certain.

April 29&30 - Grattan
June 3&4 - Gingerman
August 5&6 - Waterord Hills

...it keeps getting scheduled for "Spring Break" time!!!!!!!

Maybe I shoulda made sure that one of teh new board members was someone with kids of school age....

Crap. Again.

jk, congrats all! Here's to another great season to look forward to.

work. Oh wait, I never work anyway. Never mind.

Thanks for the dates!!!

if I miss the morning portion of the sunday session, I'll still be able to participate for the rest of the weekend and the full track monday right?

While I would think an exception could be made, I can't really speak for Ken. As in life, the key to smooth sailing is communication.

Keep in mind that the dates we offer are not nessicarily our first choices. The venues give us a number of choices and, well sometimes they only give us one or two choices. Would we as a club rather have the event later in April? Perhaps, but for that to take place, ABCC would have to have an available date (which it did not). Then the other consideration is our neighboring chapters and their events. In the past, Grattan has been very popular with the Chicago folk, so it works out best to have a few weeks between events whenever possible.


So tell the kids that Spring break is goung to be a bit shorter because Daddy will be going to the track for three days. After all, you are lord and master at home, so the entire familiy cedes to your wishes, right?

...simple thing to schedule these events. Of course, I understand that.

Problem for me is that we've already bought our plane tickets for Spring Break, with the schedule having been finalized weeks ago. Nothing I can do at this point except enjoy the sunshine and relaxation in Palm Springs that weekend.

I'll suffer through, somehow. ;-)

PS: I'm still bummed about missing the event, though. Same as last year. :-P

to say nothing of the brake pad and tire costs associated with 3 days on the track. Small consolation, but it's the best I can do.