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The VCMC Motorsport Club was one of the first Canadian clubs to use MotorsportReg.com, even before we built Canadian dollar functionality. Based out of Vancouver, BC, they have a strong and growing program with a very holistic view on how to nurture people into passionate, competitive drivers.

Carol Wong has been involved with VCMC for the last 12 years. She started out as a novice autocrosser and later joined the executive team as the Treasurer. She’s recently started doing lapping days and is now in her first year of club racing and endurance road racing. When she’s not volunteering for VCMC, she works as a software developer. We recently chatted with her about what it takes to run awesome events.

Racing enthusiasts have been waiting all summer for the premiere of RUSH! 

Ron Howard's movie about the intense rivalry between Niki Lauda and James Hunt, defined Formula One in the 1970's and premieres this Friday.  In the unlikely event you have no idea what I'm talking about, here's a sneak peek.

Ahoy Maties! 

To celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day, we asked ourselves what kind of car would a pirate drive?

Last week we read an interesting article from the Associated Press that suggests that according to the latest stats from the Federal Highway Administration, American's love affair with cars is over.

Can this really be true?  Here are the stats:

• After rising for decades, the collective miles people drive peaked in August 2007
• During the "Great Recession" the collective miles driven dropped sharply and has plateaued ever since
• Vehicle miles traveled during the first half of 2013 were down slightly, continuing the trend
• Average miles per individual peaked in July 2004 at just over 900 miles per month
• By July 2012, the average miles per individual declined 9% to 820 miles per month
• Percentage of people in their teens, 20s and 30s with driver's licenses has been dropping significantly

So what exactly is going on here? Here's what the researchers say.

We hope today is the first day of a long holiday weekend where you get some much needed time off to to sit back, relax and simply enjoy doing nothing! 

Wait a minute?  Sit back, relax and do nothing?  That's not your style.  There must be a motorsport event in your area that you can attend...  

Of course there is!  In fact we have 57 events listed on our calendar just for this weekend.  So what are you looking for?

• Drivers school?  WE'VE GOT IT!
• Autocross or Solo?  WE'VE GOT IT!
• Motorcycle school? WE'VE GOT IT!
• Open track? WE'VE GOT IT!
• Karting? WE'VE GOT IT!
• Festival or social event? WE'VE GOT IT!
• Events in Canada? WE'VE GOT IT!

We've got something for everyone.  So get off the couch, check out our calendar, put some air in the tires, and go have some fun this weekend.

Bill Correll from the SCCA Kansas City Region SOLO program has some of the most creative registration forms we’ve seen here at MotorsportReg. He takes full advantage of all the tools and features we offer and uses them in ways that we hadn’t even thought of.

He got his start in autocross in the late 60’s and mid 70’s and then took some time off to go back to college along with working a full time job with Ford Motor Company.  In 1999 he bought a new Mustang Cobra and in 2000 attended the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving 4 day Grand Prix Road Race School. Later that year he got back into autocross and retired from Ford in 2005. He was the region's Solo Chair from 2007 through 2009 and a member of the region’s Solo Advisory Committee, as chair, from 2007 through 2008. He was also the Chief of Registration for solo from 2008 through 2011 and Chief of Waivers in 2008. He has since stepped down as the Chief of Registration and lets someone else handle the actual onsite parts of registration but keeps the MSR event set up piece of the process.  We recently chatted with him about his club and those incredible registration forms he creates.

MSR: SCCA Kansas City Region runs SOLO events, rally cross and a few road rallies and races.  What are the highlights of your season?

Bill: For the solo group the highlight of the season is our "Halloweenie" autocross event. The club furnishes hamburgers, hot dogs, and drinks. The entrants and their guests bring chips, desert, etc. Many of the people wear costumes and decorate their cars. We give out prizes for people and car costumes and also collect money for a local charity.  After the event, we donate the leftover food and drinks to a church or community food pantry or kitchen.

Has this ever happened to you?

You're one of those savvy organizers who uses our deferred payment processing feature because:

1. It saves you time from having to process refunds if an attendee cancels,
2. It encourages attendees to register earlier and more often because there's no penalty for canceling, and
3. It gives you more visibility into who's attending your event because of #2 above.

But when you sit down to finally process payments, a handful of credit cards always fail for one reason or another.  And now all that time you saved from not having to handle refunds is spent chasing down payments from attendees with failed credit cards.

Welcome to our new home! 

After 195 blog posts dating all the way back to February 2006, we thought it was time for a little update.  So we pulled out our Q-tips and went to work.  We're looking for high marks from the judges.  So take a little look around and let us know what you think! 

The Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG) is the second oldest vintage/historic car racing organization in North America, having held at least one track event for each of the 46 continuous race seasons. Tom Franges started vintage car racing in 1990.  He served on the CSRG Board of Directors for 4 two-year terms and spent 3 years as its President.  He is currently the Race Director, a position he’s held since 2009.  We chatted with Tom about what it takes to put on vintage motorsport events.

In case you missed it the first time around, we're bringing back our very popular webinar, 7 Killer Tips on Filling Your Events.  It  doesn’t matter if you’re running a club race, autocross, concours,  rally, driver school or anything in between, this free webinar will provide  you with 7 things you can do TODAY that will help fill your events.