(Paraphrased with much respect to John Hughes, love that movie ...and I miss John Candy) 10/22/26 Prologue . This post is a place for me to toss down random thoughts on this subject over time, organize them, and mull them over. Call it my catharsis. I don't expect it to be interesting to anyone else but I'm making it so that I could get some thoughts from others (after all, the knowledge of the masses is, well, pretty massive!) Feel free to join in, here on or Facebook ! The SCCA Super Tour SMX/SM Class Ambassador You may be aware that the last few years I have been traveling with the SCCA Super Tours and Runoffs as "Class Ambassador" for Spec Miata and SMX/SM5. I am an ambassador/liaison/big brother/intermediary between the race directors and the drivers, teams, and families. Mazda provides funding for this role to improve the drivers' experiences. I think it has worked out tremendously well as we've noticed significant improvements all around over thes...
As told by J.J. Gertler of Hard Drive in the GEnie Automotive Forum, October 1991 Editorial Note. In 1992 I was a member and admin of GEnie's Automotive Roundtable, where I met JJ Gertler. By 1992, JJ and I were partners in an SCCA Showroom Stock effort in a Nissan NX2000. In fact, I had moved to Connecticut from Texas that year for this effort, along with the local sponsorship that came with it. This was our 1992 Runoffs effort. I've left those posts in their original formatting from the forum, for the sake of editing brevity. ************ Topic 2 Tue Oct 13, 1992 AUTO.RT [jj/CRX-Si] (Forwarded) Sub: Team GEnie at the Runoffs! The Team GEnie Nissan NX, driven by Greg Amy, will go for the national title at the SCCA Runoffs this week! Here's where we'll let you know what's going on (communications vagaries permitting). ------------ Category 28, Topic 2 Message 1 Tue Oct 13, 1992 AUTO.RT [jj/CRX-Si] (Forwarded) Well, here we are in Atlanta. We've had...