Friday's meeting included a big post mortem of what went right and wrong at the NHIS school and Regional. It sounds like the 2-day Super School was a huge success. You'll recall that it was closely scrutinized by skeptical club officials. As it turns out, those officials came away impressed and even said the school should be used as a model for other regions and divisions.

I wasn't at NHIS last weekend, but it sounds like there were some snafus on Tech and Registration hours. Those problems were dissected and noted so they won't re-occur next year (this was our first 2-day-school-plus-Regional in recent memory, so there were some logistical issues that didn't go smoothly).

On-site child care was available but went unused, partly because it was under-publicized. They will keep plugging away, however.

Here's a neat opportunity: The American Le Mans Series is coming to Lime Rock for the July 4 weekend. ALMS has a super media and public relations group that grinds out press releases during the event. They are looking for volunteer pit reporters to help them.

Volunteers, who must wear a fire suit (not a problem for us, but ALMS does supply suits if needed), go up and down pit lane during the race gathering info on teams, cars, problems, drivers, etc. They then radio this data to the press room, where the ALMS PR machine is hard at work on reports and press releases.

It sounds like a cool way to gain hot-pit access to a bigtime racing series. If you want to learn more, drop Kathy Barnes a line (kjbarnes22 AT snet.net).

/Steve U
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