Southern S/ss Association

[Rusty Gillis]

I want to thank Jim for all the hard work putting this together and everybody else that worked. I had a great time. The last time my car ran Super Stock was 1974. I almost loaded up after my first time run when I was .6 over the index and breaking up all the way down the track. I sat out the second qualifying run but after retarding the timing a little I was only .3 over the index on my second qualifying run and not breaking up as bad.
I got quicker every round until I broke out.
Thanks

[Jim Wahl]

Thanks to all who came out and shared a great day with us! Yeah, it was hot! It's a good thing I have A/C in the race car! Congrats also to Dana Summerton, who won the Perfect Light award in the third round! This 17 year old is gunna be tough! Tina is probably still smiling. On the way home I was thinking, I am so thankful that Jim Woods (our new Association President!) worked so hard to make this happen. Jim made hundreds of phone calls and emails for us to be able to do what we have only dreamed of doing in the past. Hopefully this was just a beginning, and what a great one it was! I want to thank all of you for electing me VP of the Southern Stock/Super Stock Association. It is a great honor and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I will do my best to help Jim continue to make these races the most FUN you have ever attended. Please email me with your suggestions, comments and ideas for future races. It's up to all of us to help promote these races, so if you had a good time, tell another racer and get them to come out to the next one!

Special thanks to Gene and Lakeland Motorsports Park for hosting our first of many races. Also to the many worker who helped with the track prep, staging lanes, ticket booth, concession stand and medic for no pay!

After elections at the meeting on Sunday, here are your officers of the Southern Stock/Super Stock Association:

President and Race Director..........Jim "Tanker" Woods
VP........................................... Jim "What round is it?" Wahl
Sec/Treasurer..............................Tina "I don't have a pencil" Summerton
Photographer/News Letter.............Sean "Where's my camera" Hanning
Co Race Director..........................Tom "Super Wagon" Ward

More to come!!!!!

Jim Wahl
jimwahl@embarqmail.com

[Sean Haning]

I believe this event was posted on wagonsofsteel.com:






Who wants to buy a bye run?

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Pics still loading, more later.

[Sean Haning]

A big thanks for nothing,(and me getting home at 10:45 last night) to this guy. I used to think that car was cool:

[Sean Ward]

All the pics are great and once again i just want to say what a great time i had can't wait for the next one hurry up

[Joe Pinkston]

First off, let me say that I'm sorry for being a .90 racer hijacking this thread. I would love to race a stocker , but right now the .90 classes fit my budget a little better. Anyway, I am glad I was there to witness the first race of the Southern S/SS Association. Other than the clean up that was required after the first pair of bracket cars went down the track (and I realize that is something that will happen from time to time and can't be helped), what a great day it was. Jim Woods deserves a big "thank you" for organizing the association and promoting the race yesterday. Gene Garmany and the staff at Lakeland Motorsports Park did an outsanding job of being the host track for the first race and making it run smoothly throughout the day.And last, but certainly not least, John "Hammer" Leichtamer. That man teched all the cars and then worked the staging lane area all afternoon, and I know he had to be tired at the end of the day. A great job was done by everyone involved in this effort.

I'm just glad I got to be there to see it happen and improve my image by hanging out with my "low life" Mopar friends from Grand Island.

Also, I should say "thanks" to Sean Haning for photographing the race and posting the great pictures here for everyone to see. That must be a tough camera you have because I see that you got Sean Ward in a couple of the pictures and the camera still worked after that. Simply amazing.

All of you involved should be very proud of what you have created, and best of luck to you in making this organization a success.

[Bob Braun]

Just wanted to thank all involved for putting on a Outstanding event, and I look forward to the next one.

Thanks Again
Bob Braun SS/2813

[Gary Smith]

Again, a HUGE thanks to Jim Woods and hats off to the rest of the crew!!! No politics, no protesting, no fuel check, no scales, no hassles!!! For those who missed it, you REALLY missed it!

C'mon....almost $5 per gallon on diesel, then get treated like our division people and Glendora are doing us favors? Screw that, I'm going where the fun is!!!!!

And Lakeland wasn't all bad. I've experienced a lot worse. Besides, I don't remember meeting a track staff as friendly and helpful. Like Jim says, the more we support this program, the better it will get.

I had a ball!! maybe that's why I drove so bad LOL!! Enjoyed meeting Smitty, Hammer, Merrill, Pat "I'm trying not to hit your bumper" Clifford, Reggie Winkles and the other stick racers. Smitty, I still have your shoe polish. Jim Wahl needs to give me a wake up call next time, or get me a GPS for Christmas (you know what I'm talking about HA HA HA!!).

[John Leichtamer Jr]

SPORTSMAN OF THE RACE AWARD.

If there was an award for sportsman of the race it would be John Boyer, John showed what all the racers where like at the race. He came to race and was not taking any freebe. Thanks John for being a CLASS RACER.

HAMMER

[icebrrrg]

Thanks to Jim Woods, Hammer, Gene and Trish from Lakeland Motorsports Park, Gospeed Chaplain Joe Sannutti and everyone else who contributed to making this special event! My brother Paul and I enjoyed hanging out with Reggie Winkles, Rusty Gillis, Gary Smith, Robert Hardee, Mark Ruset and so many other great people! Congratulations to winner John Boyer and runner-up Jay Slane. Great performances from a number of other racers including low qualifier Doug Patrick, Dana Summerton, Rusty Gillis and Rebel Kidd.

Paul and I are excited about this series and hope to have our car ready for the next one! We especially appreciate Jim Woods for his vision and his labor to make this happen.

Mark Berg
I/S 2665