The Observers Stand

Its been fun. No really it has. Despite  way more visits to the doctor and hospital than anybody should have in a lifetime these last two years really were fun. My second two years as your Regional Executive brought many highs and many lows. For a low how about despite being the RE I didn’t make it to the track this year once. Nope nary a single day spent enjoying SCCA race cars. No road racing. No solo. No rallycross. In fact thinking back I only remember getting to Mid-Ohio once back in 2018. Its been that kind of past few years for me. I can only hope the future treats me a little better. Now I did get a chance to go to one race this year and that was the Daytona 500 as a guest of Hendrick Motorsports and that was very cool. I watched both Gander RV Duels sitting on Jimmie Johnson’s and Alex Bowman’s pit boxes with Mr. Hendrick. Pretty much a once in a lifetime experience. I got to watch the NASCAR Xfinity Series race from the France Suite–the owners of Daytona and NASCAR with Dale Earnhardt Jr sitting next to me until his car won the race. The Daytona 500 was pretty cool too from the Ally Bank Suite with all the food and drink you could ever want and a police escort to and from the race itself. Highlights of a lifetime.

Yeah I guess my year wasn’t so bad after all. Despite my best efforts I fell short of my goals for a variety of reasons. None of them matter now. What OVR needs most is for more people to step forward and help. We’ve gotten excellent efforts from so many new people but we need more. If you want this club to continue at the levels we’ve had new people need to step forward and take part. There are so many things you can do to help. I hope you’ll consider spending some of your spare time and energy to keep us great. So my time is up and I hope you’ll welcome Suzy Hardesty as warmly to the RE position as you did for me. I’ll try and create some content as a temporary editor of this new online venture.