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2012 Membership
Please send in Your 2012 Membership Dues

The 2012 Autocross Season is just around the corner! If you become a member now, your car # will be reserved in the computer for the ‘12 competition series. Also, you will benefit from the reduced entry fee at the events.

The funds are important to the Club in order to pay several costly expenditures during the year. Insurance premiums, Trophies, Web site and Trailer storage fees just to name a few! This year we offer on-line payment. Thank You, for supporting your club.

We have our membership pre-pay set up online through AXWare club store.
https://axwaresystems.com/axorm/loginuser.php
After you login select from the drop down menu My Controls > Club Store

We are offering a pre-pay discount of 10 events for the price of 7 which includes Rapide PAX. The Pre-pay offer can be done at the same link and at the same time.

Posted by Equipe Rapide on 2012/1/3 19:26:51 (22 reads)

Prez Sezz

Hello Fellow Autocrossers,

2011 was a great year for Equipe Rapide and for autocrossing in the metroplex. We conducted our regular 10 event schedule and had a total of 223 unique competitors who took around 1400 runs on the course. During those runs they hit 490 cones, most of which were hit by Jeremy Foley. On top of our regular series we hosted five private events. The 2011 season could not have been such a success without the hard work and dedication of the board of directors John Garcia, Kim Whitener, Katelyn Johnson, David Whitener, Damon Bottorff, Danny Mehl, Mike McShane, Jim Bunch, and me.

The annual awards ceremony was held on Saturday December 5th at the Grapevine ELKS Lodge. The food was good and the party was fun. Katelyn Johnson won the balloon car race and the basket of chocolate. Screaming slingshot monkeys made a cameo and were flying across the room all evening long. They got more vigorous when certain people picked up their trophies. Thanks to Steve Eberlein, Carroll Trego, Greg Piper, and Todd Eaddy for donating door prizes.

We have our membership pre-pay set up online through AXWare club store. https://axwaresystems.com/axorm/loginuser.php
After you login select from the drop down menu My Controls > Club Store

We are offering a pre-pay discount of 10 events for the price of 7 which includes Rapide PAX. Membership is required for the pre-pay and it is only available till the first event on February 26th. For those less committed, registration is available for individual events. The individual events are not open for registration yet but will be available a couple of weeks before the first event.

2011 presented us with a situation at the HEB ISD. They were debating on whether they should rent Pennington Field for motorsports activities in the future. Due to the hard work of autocross groups including Equipe Rapide, SCCA, NTAX, and the BMW club we were able to retain Pennington field for autocross use. Our three conditions were that we limit noise, not start before 10 AM, and obtain a permit from the city of Bedford. All of these conditions were met with ease. Our 100 dBa sound policy and other local autocross clubs policies were enforced throughout the year and there were few if any instances where competitors were over the limit

For 2012 we are excited to have a new venue. Equipe Rapide opened the door to autocrossing at Resistol Arena in Mesquite. We will be hosting Challenge Cup #1 on February 26th and Challenge Cup #2 on March 25th. Resistol Arena is concrete and similar in size to Pennington. We have set the remainder of our schedule for 2012 which includes autocrosses at Pennington Field and Mineral Wells. The calendar can be seen at www.autocross.com/er

I am looking forwards to my second year as president of Equipe Rapide. I appreciate all those who offered words of encouragement and helped me in the past. The positive energy and enthusiasm that you all bring to the events makes this sport stand out among motorsports. You are a great bunch of guys and gals and I am eager to see you all again.

Sincerely,


Andy Cost
President – Equipe Rapide





 Next Event
February 26, 2012

Challenge Cup #1

Resistol Arena
1818 Rodeo Dr.
Mesquite, TX Airpark

Registration Open

Entry List

Our insurance has recently changed their policy for karts.

Kid karts and adult karts are now approved again. Participants under the age of 16 must notify us a week in advance of the event date.

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 2012 Pre-Registration
What a deal! You can save on event registrations fees if you pre-pay for the season. You get 10 events for the price of 7 events plus you get to pick and reserve your worker assignment. Click for details

 Tire Contingency
Discount Tire will be sponsoring ER events this year. For each event that you use Falken, Kumho, Hoosier or Yokohama tires you can enter the drawing for a set of tires. All you have to do to qualify is put the correct Kumho, Hoosier, Falken, or Yokohama sticker on both sides of the car along with a matching Discount Tire sticker and you are set to win. Stickers available at Tech inspection. A competitor can only win one set of tires from Discount Tire per year regardless of which club's raffle they entered. **New for 2011: Winners must have proof of purchase of specified tire purchased thru Discount Tire.
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 Novice Program
Equipe Rapide looks forward to introducing you to the sport of autocrossing. The Novice Program is intended for people with little or no autocross experience. Our program includes a course walk with a National Champion caliber instructor. The instructor will provide tips and suggestions on the best way to plan and remember the course. During the drivers meeting a short review will be provided on how to do your work assignment. Read more...

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