The Pittsfield Winter Carnival, under the auspices of the
Pittsfield Department of Community Services, Parks and Recreation, presents...
Saturday
Feb. 12, 2000 - ICE TRIALS - Sunday Feb. 13, 2000
I'm burned out, time to call it an event… Here's the results: Saturday + Sunday
108
and 86 entrants respectively
Pictures of the 2000 event!
Links
to more Photos and Videos, etc. on entrants' sites: 1, 2, 3
Interested
in MoHud Solo 2 events?
What the heck is the Ice Trials? The Ice Trials has been held as a part
of the Pittsfield Winter Carnival (this is the 55th year!) since the
1950's. TR-3's and MGA's were seen at this event in days of old. The Berkshire
Motor Sports Club (now inactive with longtime members Peter Nixon, Eric Weiss,
Dave Hathaway, several others and myself assimilated into the SCCA) was the car
club involved till the late 1980's. More historical trivia will be added to
this site later.
Sanctioned by the Mohawk Hudson Region
of the Sports Car Club of America
as a Rally Cross.
A Rally Cross is a Solo 2 that's not on a paved surface. Want more? Download the rules below.
Where? On the frozen (12" minimum) surface of ONOTA LAKE, in PITTSFIELD Massachusetts. I'd call that an unpaved surface!
Runs start at 11:00 AM, maybe EARLIER! -- Be
there early for drive around (~9-~10:30AM). Why do we have drive arounds? Several reasons. To get you familiarized with the
course. To "condition" the course. And maybe most importantly, to
scare the ice fisherpersons away. We've had ice fishing holes drilled in the
course because "they didn't realize it was a race course". Before we
start the timed runs, a parade lap with all cars and drivers behind a slow
"pace car" will navigate the course for the benefit of those that did
not get a "familiarization lap".
To be held on Onota Lake at the end of Lakeway Drive in Pittsfield Massachusetts. Registration & Headquarters at the Controy Pavilion on Lakeway Drive.
Please note that the Lakeway Drive inhabitants have commented that we drive
faster than we should on their normally dead-end street. Please drive very,
very slowly when coming to and leaving the Pavilion. This is a
community-supported event and we don't want to loose
that support!
Click
away and learn more!
- Click here to go to the event flyer with all sorts of information in the format of a snail-mail flyer, cause that's just what it is!
- Click for a mapquest map, enter from the Pecks Road end (500 Lakeway Drive, Pittsfield, MA 01201 if the link doesn't work)!
- Click for various driving directions to the event here (my own).
- Check the event status here.
- Rallycross rules can be downloaded here.
- Class definitions are here.
· E-mailers: Please subscribe to the Ice-Trials mailer for up to the minute updates prior to the event. To do so, send a message "subscribe ice-trials" to majordomo@digest.net and make sure that you read the instructions in the reply messages and reply to them in the prescribed manner to authenticate your subscription!
· Pictures from previous events are on the web
· Pittsfield Winter Carnival website is at: pwc2000.html
· Historical pages of Ice Trials past!
Who
can you thank?
2000 ICE TRIALS EVENT CHAIRMEN:
Dave Kosla DKosla1023@aol.com
50 Maryland Avenue, Pittsfield, MA 01201 413-443-6152 - or-
Clark W. Nicholls CWNicholls@aol.com 65
Hartwood Road, Lee, MA 01238 413-243-3433
And
the Pittsfield Winter Sports Committee, an all volunteer organization, that
puts on the Pittsfield Winter Carnival, under the auspices of the Pittsfield
Department of Community Services, Parks and Recreation.
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