Event 7 and 8 Venue Change
Event 7 and 8 will not be held at Coca Cola this year.
Since the Coburg site has not yet been leased, we get to enjoy this large expanse of pavement once more time.

2010 Year End Awards Banquet
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Saturday, November 13th at The Hilton
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Larison Rock 2010

Well, another year is in the books. This one started out with a wet spring, to put it mildly. Our hill cleanup was devoted to moss eradication, mostly.  Even the usually dry ditches had lots of water in them. At least we didn't have any fire danger this year. Turnout was down a little due to our wonderful economy. I missed seeing some old, familiar faces. Nathan Korstad let me drive his VW again this year. What a blast. It's even fast in the rain! Too bad I didn't have the camera going for my first run, a 118 with a spin! Turn 4 was very interesting. As I was passing the #4 sign, I was giving throttle when all of a sudden I was going 90 degrees to the right, then 90 to the left, now 45 to right, and another 45 to the left. I am squeezing more throttle and the car straightens out and here we go. My first thoughts were to save the run and I kept charging. My good friend Ruben rewarded me with a time slip at the top that he wrote SLOW on. Thanks, buddy. In case anybody thought it was timer error, I backed that run up with a 115, before the road dried out for the afternoon. It was fun being "King of the Hill" for the morning. Too bad the sun came out letting all the fast guys nail me after lunch. Bonnie let me run first on Saturday, in case I had to bail on short notice for our son Evan and his wife Brooke. They were expecting twins any day. I made it through the weekend. The babies were born on July 7th. A boy and a girl. Everybody is well. The babies are a blast and really cute. They have my nose, lol. Sorry, kids.

Back to the hill. I was hoping to use the hot tub for my lower back issues. The box with the pump timer was locked the whole weekend. I assumed it was broken. It wasn't until I was checking out to think to ask the manager about it. Her reply? Oops, I forgot to unlock it. It works fine. GRRRRRRR! As far as problems on the hill, things were pretty normal. Our only incidents happened after the finish line. Hopefully, both cars will be back. I am considering adding caution tape to the left side of the road at the finish as a visual element. It most certainly is not a catch fence, so don't try it.

We gave out a new trophy this year, the "Flying Tortoise Award". It is for the driver with the slowest trap speed going by the work truck, won by the birthday girl Marie Sherman in her street car. If you want to be in the running for it next year, I suggest going by work truck casually, in 2nd gear doing the queen wave to the workers in the truck. Kidding, just drive normally. The speed is what it is. I think we need to address the campground area for next year. Cars should be allowed next to the tents if they are camping there. And, this is a big one. Anyone working on either work truck, if you need to respond to an incident, do NOT allow spectators to jump on and go to the scene to take pics. It happened at Peggy's accident and I
was shocked. They got in the way and it could have been a safety issue. Only designated workers are to be on the trucks when they need to roll, period.

A funny thing happened at the Saturday night party. I was sitting with Lorin Mueller and Brad was about to give away a book about autocrossing. I asked Lorin if it was a good book. He was telling me that it was pretty good, but was meant for novices, mostly. Brad pulled Lorin's number, of course. In case you didn't know it, Lorin competes nationally in SCCA and is pretty darn good at it.

Anybody given a conditional pass at tech inspection this year should deal with whatever we found and didn't like. We kept notes, in case you are wondering. (hint) No second chances on the same issues next year, sorry. I think our timer worked flawlessly this year. Thank you to all involved. Thank you to the safety crew. We could not pull this off without you. And a big thank you to Bonnie and Jim for once again running the best hillclimb in the northwest. Let's do this again next year.

By David Lumbra

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