Section 1 : Voted on by all racers

SoCal USRA Dues : Raise the annual membership fee to $32.00 (Five dollar increase) which would financially support rising costs of the banquet, awards, t-shirts, banners, postage, printing and contribute something financially towards the SoCal USRA website.

PASSED

Wing Racing Proposals

W1. Drop C 12 and Group 27 from the rotating class schedule because of a lack of participation, and move sprayglue 12 racing back to Saturday Morning. Note: This proposal would not affect the Western States Schedule where C12 and Group 27 would remain.

PASSED

W2. If W1 above fails then add Semi-Pro Group 7 onto the rotating schedule of classes

PASSED

W3. Allow any Group 12 (glue and sprayglue) chassis to be upgraded with any manufacturers “gear guard” strut. It is understood that on some chassis, this will require that both struts be replaced.

Upside: Fewer broken gears, long term less expense and more cars running at the end.
Downside: Racing wise none. Will make chassis non Nats legal.

 PASSED

W4. Do not allow any more proposals to eliminate or in any way harm the sprayglue 12 series.

Upside: No more wasting time on this non-issue. 407 total entries in 2005, 103 from the Sprayglue 12 class.
Downside: None

 PASSED

W5. Allow practice period between Semi-Pro and Pro 1 Motor Open races to be 15 minutes only.

Reasons: Both Pro and Semi-Pro racers should use the practice time before the Semi-Pro race, and then the Pro racers should just have a 15 minute tire testing period before their race. The current break between those two classes is too long.

 PASSED

W6. Have the Sprayglue 12 race at ALL rounds of the 2006 championship on Saturday mornings. Tech closes at 8:30am.

Reasons : Both Sprayglue and Group 12 entry levels are being hurt by having the Sprayglue 12 race on Friday nights. More racers would run both classes if both were on Saturday morning. Right now many racers have to make a choice about which one to race in.

 PASSED

Scale Racing Proposals

S1. Change the Western States points to be counted the same as any other race (Currently it is worth 1.5 times other round points)

Reasons: If you have bad luck or mechanical problems, this race can determine the outcome for the year. By not increasing the points or allowing it to be a drop, this race would not have such an impact for the other ten races. By making the points the same as any other round it will stop those that had a bad race from dropping out as the season goes along.

 FAILED

S2. Eliminate the Advanced Class.

Pro: The class does not get enough entries. It is a waste of time to have four races a day for them with 4-5 entries, plus it doesn’t accomplish anything as with the move-ups each year it’s just the amateur winners racing themselves over in a new class.

Con: If the advanced class continues, then we will continue to have only 4-5 entries per class and never grow the expert field, plus we will continue to have long days and nights.

  FAILED

S3. A class of racing (Amateur, Advanced, Expert) will have a separate race if there are 8 or more entrants, otherwise races may be combined in any or all classes. Ie. Amateur/Expert or Amateur/Advanced or Advanced/Expert or Amateur/Advanced/Expert.

Reasons: Whether the Advanced class is retained or not this will allow for speeding up the days racing by eliminating races where there are few entries. The downside is it will create more round robin races, and opportunities for a race within a class to be influenced by racers not in that class.

  PASSED

S4. Make all races one motor races.

Reasons: This will limit the amount of motors a racer will need to be competitive, it will possibly slow people down considering they won’t be running a motor that only goes fast for a heat or two. This should bring the field to a more even playing field. If the current status of allowing racers to run multiple motors in a race continues this will deter amateur and advanced racers from continuing racing and trying to financially compete each month. I feel we will lose racers throughout the year.

  FAILED

Scale Track Voting

Tracks that achieved at least 50% of the available votes that will be on the 2005 schedule ranked by popularity :
Buena Park
Greenflag Raceway
Fosters Raceway
Slotcarcity Las Vegas
Sam Browns in Pasadena
Cruzin in Arizona

Tracks that did not achieve at least 50% of the available votes that will not be on the 2005 schedule :
Hobbytown Fresno
Pacific Coast Hobbies

2006 Scale Western States
Buena Park and Fosters bid for the 2006 Western States with Buena Park winning the vote.
 

Wing Track Voting

  Tracks that achieved at least 50% of the available votes that will be on the 2005 schedule ranked by popularity :
Buena Park
Slotcarcity Las Vegas
Greenflag Raceway

The 2006 Wing Western States will be at Buena Park Raceway

2006 SoCal USRA Officers

Paul Sterrett was returned unopposed as SoCal USRA President for another year.
Brian Johnson was returned unopposed as SoCal USRA Treasurer for another year.
Chris Radisich remains as Immediate Past President for another year.

Scale Racing Positions :
Scale Tech Director : Steve Forsyth
Assistant Scale Tech Directors : T.J. Albu, James Grinstead, Jonathan Forsyth
Under 18 Committee Member : Zac Grinstead  (After vote between Alex Freund, Chris Rodriguez Jr and Zac Grinstead)
Scale Committee Member at large : Jerry Johnson (after vote between Jerry and Bill V)

Wing Racing Positions :
Wing VP : Josh Bauer
Tech Director : Bill Taylor
Assistant Tech Directors : Mike Graversen & Robert Park
Wing Member at Large : Randy Thompson