January: Race Results from the SCCA Citicorp Cam-Am Challenge Final at Riverside International Raceway, (qualified 20th) finished 17th position was Leonard Janke, Pender, NE driving a Lola T-332.
March: The running of the 11th Annual Nylon Run Rally. This is a rally put on by the female members of the Region.
June: It's Official! NRSCCA is no longer classified as a "small" Region. It moved to a "medium" Region (a Region with 100-199 members).
Patc Henry became Nebraska Region's first Race Steward. (Two years later Ken Foster became the second.)
August: We held a summer picnic complete with a pig roast.
September: John Bly was Rallymaster for the 10th running of Mac's Midnight Madness. It was about 300 miles long, started at midnight, and covered three or four states. The original "Mac" was Richard "Mac" McDowell, originally from Shreveport, who found himself stationed at Offutt Air Force Base in 1964 and joined Nebraska Region.
Nebraska Region had 17 drivers at the National Solo II Championships in Salina, Kansas. Molly Riley (Anderson) was the first NRSCCA member ever to bring home a first place trophy for Nationals.
October: John Tully finished fourth at CSPRRC Runoffs. We also had eight Regional drivers on the points list for MiDiv Inter-Regional Points.
February: A very popular pasttime in the NRSCCA was to run the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The Massacre was a national participation map rally on a Rand McNally road atlas with a course from one end of the coast to another, run with a set of what could only be called diabolical instructions. The contestants had approximately one month to answer a set of questions. Nebraska Region had about 10-12 members who ran this event every year for many years, and some of them even trophied!
April: On a Thursday morning during spring break, a new member was added: April Doctor. April didn't actually join SCCA until several years later, but her birth didn't inhibit her parent's participation in the club. April's first "SCCA road trip" was to the Des Moines Challenge at three months of age, along with her parents and Bill and Eileen Berg in the Berg's motor home, which parked for the night in Greg and Sam Scharnberg's driveway. Greg and Sam live outside the city and they have roosters ... 'nuff said.
May: News Release SCCA: "After more than 10 years of silence, Continental Divide Raceway is being reopened by Colorado Region." A driver's school / regional was held Juny 27-28. At that time, Colorado was still a part of MiDiv, so this was great news for our drivers.
September: At the National Solo II Championships in Salina, Kansas, NRSCCA had another driver, Gar Anderson, bring home a first place trophy.
December: The Governor's Cup was changed to the Workers Cup and Lance Kilgore was the first worker to receive it.
January: The year started off with an Ice-Khana at Dam Site 11 at 96th and Fort Streets.
April: Nebraska Region participated in the Omaha Auto Show.
August: The Des Moines/Nebraska Challenge was at Eppley Airfield and was put on by Molly Riley (Anderson) who was a former member of DMVR before moving to Omaha in the 1970's.
Nebraska Region held the MiDiv Solo II Championships in Lincoln, Nebraska at the Air Park. There were 22 NRSCCA drivers entered (out of a total of 117 entrants).
September: NRSCCA held a dual-driver Solo II at Southeast Community College. A dual-driver event teams a novice driver with an experienced driver and their times are added together.
January: The National Convention was on a Cruise Ship to the Bahamas. About the only meeting held was the R.E.'s meeting and the rest of the four day trip was just plain fun.
April: About 13 years previously, Jerry Miller talked a group of about eight to ten NRSCCA members into working the local Pine Wood Derby. Each year the SCCA would be asked to return and this year was no exception. John Bly judged the Pine Wood car show and he really got into doing that. He even decorated his own car (but didn't run it).
November: A new class of race car was introduced: Sports Renault. SCCA announced that the program went over the million dollar mark in the first two days.
December: The annual banquet was "hexed" and had to be rescheduled for January. If the ice storm that cancelled it originally wasn't enough, when the banquet was finally held in January at the Skyline Woods Country Club, they had only one working oven and, needless to say, the dinners weren't served exactly on time.
January: The Snoball Slalom was held at Dam Site 16 (Standing Bear Lake) and there were no problems with the ice this year. It was 16 inches thick!
April: NRSCCA held a "Split Rally" which started at both Lincoln and Omaha and ended in the middle at Louisville, Nebraska.
Back by popular demand was the Dual Driver event at Southeast Community College which again teamed up a novice driver with an experienced driver.
June: The NRSCCA was part of the Omaha Motor Sports Spree. We held a Solo II on the streets of downtown Omaha.
July: Nebraska won the "Challenge" with Des Moines Valley Region. We also had 21 members attend the MiDiv Solo II Runoffs and we had 7 members attend the National Solo II Runoffs.
Summer: Two new NRSCCA members came into the world: Tad Michael Asay (son of Thom and Michelle Asay) and Elizabeth Michelle Anderson (daughter of Mitch and Molly Anderson).
December: The annual banquet was held at the Evergreen Inn.
March: A group of NRSCCA members attended the MiDiv Convention in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
August: The club picnic was held at the "Kart Ranch" at 72nd and Q Streets. (The Kart Ranch is now Fun Plex but is under the same ownership.)
The MiDiv Solo II Divisionals were held in Topeka, Kansas.
September: NRSCCA sent in a proposal to hold the 1987 Solo II Divisionals. Also in September was "Mac's Midnight Madness" with rallymaster John Bly at the helm.
December: The annual banquet was held at Mr. C's Steak House.
June: Several of our Solo II drivers participated in "Waterloo Days" held in Waterloo, Iowa. This was a closed street solo, complete with working traffic lights which caused a few of the entrants to react by hitting their breaks when the lights turned red, only to hit their fists on the steering wheel when they realized they had just ruined their run.
July: Six Nebraska Region rally teams were running Divisional and National Rallys for points in 1987.
August: NRSCCA hosted the MiDiv Solo II Runoffs at the Lincoln Airport. There were a total of 201 entrants.
September: John Bly again was rallymaster for "Mac's Midnight Madness" Mark XIII. (The number of actual Mac's Midnight Madness events was a mystery most of the time, so if the numbers aren't consecutive, don't worry about it.)
August: A new procedure was put into place at Solo II events. The entrant must go through Tech first and then go to registration, eliminating problems with cars not knowing their classes or cars that failed to pass Tech.
September: You guessed it! By now, the running of Mac's Midnight Madness was an annual tradition and rallymaster John Bly was once again at the helm. Mac's was a mind-bender of a rally, starting at midnight and ending at breakfast. At four in the morning, the simplest of instructions felt like a trap.
March: Lanny Tejral (long time SCCA member) passed away from cancer. He drove a silver 1983 RX7 and was only in his mid-30's.
April: NRSCCA had a display in the Motor Sports Auto Show.
May: Nebraska Region had 19 members attend Mirror Khana XV (held in Salina, Kansas). Mirror Khana is as much of an annual tradition as Nebraska Region's Mac's Midnight Madness and continues to this day.
We had a wedding this month: Mark and Donna Ross.
August: Nebraska again won the NRSCCA/DMVR Challenge.
