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*If you would like a copy of the latest
OSQMRA News Letter
Congratulations to all our Orange Show
2009 USAC Western District Championship Drivers
at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
June 20, 2009
You Made Orange Show Proud!!!
Novice Training!!
Sunday, July 12th
9am - 12 noon
Questions, please contact:
Summer Series Race #2
(4 Race Series: June 13th, July 25th, August 8th & 22nd)
Congratulations and Thank You to all who participated and helped run the
1st Race of the series and make it Successful!!
And, thank you to our guests from Tuscon who came to race with and joined our club!
Open Practice Until 2:00pm
Sign-ins start at 2:00pm
Pit Meeting 2:45pm
USAC Format
No Qualifying
Practice
15 Lap Heat Race
Main Events
Awards
$20 Entry Fee
*Hoosier Tires Only (available at the track)
$75 fee to join USAC and Race all USAC Races!!
Everyone is Welcome!!
2009 USAC
Grand National Championship Race
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Registration & Info Link:
Club Race #5 / The Joyful Child Foundation Race
Charity Raffle
Thank you to all who participated in this Great Event!
We raised $345 for "The Joyful Child Foundation", whose motto is "Keeping Children Safe"
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The Joyful Child Foundation
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**A special Thank you**
to all our hard working members that made the race day great for everyone
and to our special guests from Phoenix who came to race with us!
Congratulations to 3 more new Track Record Holders!
Thank you to all our "Arrive & Drives"
We had almost 40 Arrive & Drives!
We have already had 4 new families join!
and quite a few more that are interested in joining!!
We made over $1000 for the Club!
Thank you to all our very hard working members that helped make this happen!
Congratulations to all our Club Race #4 Drivers
WE SET 10 NEW TRACK RECORDS AGAIN!!!
Every Race is unbelievably Exciting!!!
The Fastest Time in the Country
is now a
4.5910 in LtAA
by Keith Zimmerman
We had almost 60 Cars!
We thank all our guests from Tri-Valley, Baylands and Phoenix for coming to Race with US!
Congratulations to all our 1st time Winners and Speedy Track Record Setters!!
WOW!!!
What an Amazing Race this Weekend!!
Club Race #3
Orange Show Broke 8 Track Records!!
We had over 50 Cars!!
We had guests from Tri-Valley!
Our Snack Bar did Fantastic!
Everyone loved the Pre-Registration!
We had 3 New Drivers!
We had guests from the Long Beach Grand Prix come to watch!
We just keep getting better and better!!
Keith Zimmerman the "Fastest Quarter Midget Driver in the Country"!!!
4.6680 in Lt AA !!
Doug Lindow Lt "A" Engine / NC Chassis
"The Orange Show is the Best Show .... Brian & Julie"
Press Release:
ALL TIME FAST LAP 4.6680 IN LT. AA!
FIRST STOCKER INTO THE FOUR SECOND CLUB!
RECORDS CONTINUE TO FALL AT ORANGE SHOW!
The Orange Show track lived up to its billing as the “Fastest Track in the Country” at the April 25th race, the third event in the club’s point series. Keith Zimmerman put down an eye popping 4.6680 lap during qualifying in his Light AA to record the fastest time turned in the history of the sport. The crowd roared when Skyler Dale surprised everyone with an unbelievable [4.9850] qualifying lap to join the 4-Second Club in his Stocker. Six more drivers reset track records with new Jr Novice: Eric Greco 6.6700, Sr Novice: Tiffany Rose 5.892, Junior Honda: Luke Attridge 5.5970, Sr Honda: Cole Custer 5.2420, Hvy 160: Molly Putnam 5.2300, and Jr Half: Christine Breckenridge 4.8540 Fast Times to kick off a fabulous day of racing in sunny Southern California. The excitement continues to build for the Ernie Bose World Record Race to be held at the track in November and is open to all.
Feature Winners included:
Jr Novice Eric Greco
Jr Novice Jordan Balmer
Sr Novice Tiffany Rose
Jr Honda Luke Attridge
Sr Honda Bryan Tyson
Jr Stock Dean Thompson
Sr Stock Cole Custer
Lt Mod Dylan Attridge
Lt 160 Dylan Attridge
Hvy 160 Molly Putnam
Lt AA Daniel Williams
Jr Half Christine Breckenridge
Congratulations to all the 1st Time Racers:
Jr Novice Tyler Lynch
Sr Novice Tiffany Rose
Sr Novice Jeremy Doty
54 cars were entered in the event with an impressive showing in the Sr. Honda Class (13 Cars and Lower Mains!) and a full field of Junior Honda’s. A total of 12 Novices participated in Novice Races. Club membership continues to grow with many new families joining every week following a very strong Arrive & Drive Event with 86 participants, and a 4-day promotion booths at the Indy Car Grand Prix of Long Beach and the California Speedway NASCAR Race. Our next big Arrive & Drive is May 9th!
The next event is Club Race #4 on May 2nd. The race day format continues to improve with pre-registration available, great additions to the snack bar and spacious pit stalls. Please see the club’s website http://www.osqmra.com/welcome.html for more information. New membership registration is also available online at http://www.usacracing.com/quarter_midgets.html. The club’s four race Summer Series kicks off on June 13th.
We look forward to seeing you at the Orange Show!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
- To USAC for getting us in at the Long Beach Grand Prix!!! (Our location was absolutely the BEST! We were right where you come in and go out! Everyone saw US!)
- We handed out approx. 600 flyers!!! That is more than we handed out at the NASCAR Races!!
- Thank you to Don Wright and Mike Nehring for bringing their cars and the booth set up on Wednesday!
- Thank you to Barbara & Andrew Schankerman for working Thursday and Friday, and helping to coordinate!
- Thank you to Jack Crone for helping on Thursday and part of Friday!
- Thank you to Don & Maverick Wright for working Saturday and Sunday!
- Thank you to Rick and Wendy Williams for working on Saturday!
- Thank you to Mike Nehring for working on Sunday!
**Kevin Miller (USAC CEO) and Steve Lewis (Performance Racing Industry) were there on Sunday and were very impressed with Orange Show!!
Wow what a huge success!!!
We should have a very successful "Arrive & Drive" on Saturday, May 9th!!
You are all Awesome!
Thank you again for giving up your precious time to help make our club successful for all of US!!!!
We truly appreciate ALL OF YOU!!!
WOW!
What a great turn out for our "Fun Race"!!
We had more compliments than ever!
We are very happy that everyone enjoyed the USAC Racing Format, the cheap Racing Fees, the Speed of the Event, the Relaxed enjoying atmosphere and the Great Awards!
Also, what a great turn out again for our Fundraiser at the Claim Jumper! Again, we took up almost 1/2 the restaurant! All the parents got to sit together and all the children had a blast at their own tables. It was very nice for everyone to get together and enjoy each others company! We should try to do this more often.
Thank you to all who helped make this event fun and successful!
- Tom for setting up for the race day as always!
- Rhonda for making the snack bar such a great success with over $400 in sales, and we finished the race approximately 2:00pm! Thank you to Julie and Kim for helping in the Snack Bar too!
- Thank you to the Balmer family for bringing the wonderful Jensen Bakery sweets again! And, to Mary for the excellent Tuna Sanwiches!
- Barbara and Mary for doing Sign-ins and working the Tower, and to Leslie for helping in the Tower!
- Tabitha for doing an excellent job being Track Director, and Rich for helping!
- JD and Bob for Flagging!
- Staci Doty for helping set up for the Award ceremony! And, to the Balmer family for the adorable Checkered Flag Cookies for all the Drivers, the Cornell family for the Rain Forest Cafe cute Book Markers and Dinner, Chili's for the Free Driver's Dinner, and the Club for all the Hot Wheels for all our Drivers!
- We also had some families show up from our Arrive & Drive who bought cars and joined our club! Our Club just keeps growing and growing! We will have a 100 Car count at our Club Races before the season is over!
Next weekend is Easter! Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!
We will be having a Quarter Midget Booth on the April 18th weekend at Long Beach Grand Prix
Las Vegas is having a USAC Club Race on Arpil 18th at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It would be great for our Club to go and support the Las Vegas Club!
Our next Club Race #3 is Saturday, April 25th
Our next Arrive & Drive will be on May 9th, following the Long Beach Grand Prix
We will hold a Fun Race, like this one, over Labor Day weekend (which is the Orange Show Festival weekend), May 23rd. We are also trying to set up the RC cars (that did an exhibition for us a few weeks back) to come that day too, for an exhibition race.
We will do our best to try and have this fun and enjoying atmosphere on all our Race Days!!
Thank you to all our members that came and participated in this great event!
Thank You to all who came to Test Drive with US!!
Thank you to all our generous members that came to work our
successful Arrive & Drive!!
We had 68 Arrive & Drives!
The kids had a Blast!!
We have at least 5 New Families joining!
We made over $2,000 for our Club!!
Great Job Everyone!!!
For immediate release from Bob Putnam, Orange Show Quarter Midget Racing Association Publicity Director:
In continuing the more than 20 year history of the club’s invitational event which has roots in Pomona, OSQMRA will host the official Ernie BoseTM World Record race * for the second year in a row at their new track on the Orange Show Fairgrounds, November 6 – 8, 2009 as previously announced.
Ernie Bose stated, on March 17, 2009, “Its an honor that OSQMRA will continue the tradition of this event at one of the finest and fastest Quarter Midget tracks in the country.”
The new track at Orange Show has proven that the fastest QM racing in the country still resides in Southern California. The sports first 4 second lap was turned on May 18, 2008 by the clubs own Matthew Wright in a Lt B. The first 4 second record lap in Light 160, with a Honda Engine, was set by Jarid Blondel at last year's annual running of the "Ernie Bose World Record Race" at Orange Show.
All QM racers regardless of sanctioning body affiliation are welcome to attend and take their best shot at earning a "World Record Title" and "Commemorative Jacket".
Information is also available at www.osqmra.com
*Trademark patent processing
Congratulations once again to all our Orange Show Drivers!!
We had almost 50 Cars once again!
Super Job to our 1st time drivers
Matthew Bowen
Sage Elliott
Aiden Lange
and our Novice Graduate
Katelyn Williams
And, Congratulations to our 1st time Winners and Speedy Track Record Setters!!
Thank you to everyone for helping set up and cleaning up so quickly!!
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Great job again Tom LeMere for having the track all set up for our race day!!
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A super thank you to John Shafer (with some help from Tom) for spending so much time to organize and paint the preferred parking stalls and making them all feel like real VIPs. (John is still working on the Preferred Parking stalls to make it even better for the next race)
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And, to Rhonda for doing such a super job with our snack bar again! And, a huge thank you to Katie Custer for spending the entire day working in the snack bar! That was a huge help and we truly appreciated it!! And, thank you to Kim Shafer for helping in the snack bar, and to the Balmer family for bringing the awesome "Jensen Bakery" Pastries again - yummy yummy!, and to Mary for the excellent Tuna! I think you need to make more next time, we ran out too soon!
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The Snack Bar sold a little over $500 on Saturday! A bit less than normal, but we will take it! Thank you to all for supporting our Snack Bar! This is the biggest fundraiser we have!
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And, thank you to to Staci Doty and the snack bar who helped sell the T-shirts! We sold over $100 in T-shirts and Flags!!
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And, thank you to Staci for getting all the awards ready for our ceremony again! That is a huge help!
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And, thank you to Barbara, Mary, Leslie, Amber and Andrew for helping run our Tower! Thank you for everyone's patients with using the Moscore system for the Main Event for the 1st time. This will speed up our race day, once we get it down pat.
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And, to Doug and Scott for doing Tech and scales, JD for Flagging, Sal and Tabitha for Track Directing and all who helped Judge!
**Once again, we had some new families come out to our race on Saturday, and they loved it!! They took applications home and are looking for cars to join our club!!
Thank you again to:
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All our Preferred Parking Owners for donating to our club, which has now paid off our Track Loan!! No more debt, and in less than 1 year!!
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All those who worked their butts off at the NASCAR Race at California Speedway! We did such a good job, it looks like we might be getting a bonus too! We should be recieving a check for $3500, which gives us what we needed, and we have now ordered a new 20'x20' Tech Shed w/ two roll up doors! We should have this by club race #3 on April 25th!! (It will be delivered to the Track. We will need to do the installation. If you are willing to help install the Tech Shed, please let us know).
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The Dotys and the Balmers for taking the Arrive & Drive cars home to work on them to get them ready for our big "Arrive & Drive" in less than 2 weeks! We still need more cars, equipment, and all the help we can get. This is a big fundraiser for our club, huge publicity and potential new members! We need everyone's Help! March 29, 2009 8am-6pm.
Our Club has a lot to be grateful for and incredibly appreciative!
This time last year, we were racing on a flat track in the infield of the big Speedway.
We are now sitting with one of the best Quarter Midget Racing Facilities in the Country
and with the most hard working, caring club members, you could ask for!!
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!!!
Orange Show has voted USAC in as their sanctioning body
for more information regarding USAC please go to
.25 program
for Orange Show Membership info, click on Club Info Tab
(you do not have to be a member of OSQMRA to Race with Us,
just join USAC, on-line, for $75 and you can race all our events!)
http://www.usacracing.com/quarter_midgets/new_member.html?id=111
**You do not have to be a member of USAC to Race our "Ernie Bose World Record Race"
Everyone is Welcome to Race with Us!!
CONGRATULATIONS ORANGE SHOW!!!
WHAT A HUGE SUCCESS THE NASCAR RACE WAS FOR OUR CLUB!!!!
Our Quarter Midget Booth was a huge Success!!
Don Wright (who worked three 11 hour days), Rick, Wendy & Daniel Williams (who worked two days) and
Mike Wright worked and handed out almost
600 club flyers for our "Arrive & Drive" on March 29th!
**A Huge Thank you to Joe Custer for getting Orange Show this Quarter Midget Booth!
Our Food Booth (The Dog House) was a HUGE SUCCESS!!!!
We sold over $30,000 of Food & Drinks!!
(wouldn't we love to have a snack bar day like this at our track!)
We also made over $200 in TIPS!!
That is over $3,200 for our Club!!
(This is double what we made last year!)
We also sent many families with children to our Quarter Midget Booth!
This $3,200 along with Jimmy Foddrill's donation of $3500 can buy our Club's Tech Shed!!!
Thank you again to all the following for working your butt's off and giving up your precious weekend
to promote our great sport, grow our club, and make enough money so our club can have a new Tech Shed!!!
Congratulations to our Orange Show Drivers at Vallejo
Jr Honda
Clayton Ruston 3rd Place
Courtney Crone 6th Place
Jr Stock
Courtney Crone 8th Place
2009 OS Preferred Parking Available
Contact:
This was on the 3rd page of today's (1/12/09) San Bernardino Sun News Paper
Youths hit the tracks in San Bernardino
Posted: 01/11/2009 04:38:35 PM PST
(there are a few mistakes, but we love the coverage!!)
CONGRATULATIONS OSQMRA!!!
What a Fantastic "Arrive & Drive"!!!!
41 Drivers!!
raised over $1,500
quite a few families were very interested in joining our Club!!
A HUGE THANK YOU to all our members that gave up their precious Sunday and worked their butts off for our Club!!
We truly needed all the Help we could get, as everyone there could see.
We wouldn't have been able to have done this "Arrive & Drive" so successfully if it weren't for all the Help we had!
There are so many to thank who gave us so much needed Help!
A Special Thank You to:
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Tom LeMere for getting our helping set everything up, bringing the cars out of storage, and working on all the cars!
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Scott Breckenridge, Toby Cornell, Mike Wright, Chris Doty, Craig Dale, Mike Nehring and Rich Ruston, for helping work on the cars, being a Handler, also donating their own cars and equipment, for the drivers!
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All those who jumped in to quickly work on our House Car Engines that broke down during the event!
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Our New Member Jacob Balmer for helping bring all the cars out of storage, being a Handler for the drivers, and helping put all the cars back in storage at the end of the very long day!
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Rhonda LeMere and Mary Breckenrige for working the Snack Bar for the entire day!
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Kim Garvy for doing sign-ins for the entire day!
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Stacie Doty for helping with set up in the morning, T-shirts, EZ-ups, and Photos!
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Jennifer Greco, and Amber Ruston for helping with dressing the drivers and photos!
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Keith Zimmerman for Flagging all Day!
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All those who did some great exhibition racing for the guests!
Thank You to all who came to participate in the Special Presentation with the "Victory Junction Gang Camp"!
John Gilmore from Victory Junction Gang Camp accepting a Donation Check for $1,342 from Orange Show Drivers
 
It was a very successful day. We should all feel very proud of what we accomplished!
We spread the news about Quarter Midget Racing!
We Publicized our Club in the Media!
We raised needed money for our Club!
We helped a lot of children have the time of their lives getting to drive a race car!
And, We sent a medically ill child to a very special camp!
Thank you again to all who care so much about your Club!!
A Memorial Fund has been set up for Jeff Schankerman, in care of Barbara Schankerman (thanks to Chris Swanson).
If you were considering helping out the Schankerman Family (Barbara, Aaron & Andrew) you might want to donate through the Memorial Fund.
Through the Memorial Fund your Donation is Tax-deductible (Barbara and the boys receive 100% of the donation).
Again, they truly appreciate the kind emails, signing of the guest book, phone calls, and some have sent some food, cards and gifts, which are all truly needed and appreciated very much.
Memorial Fund for the Schankerman Family
Barbara Schankerman's Husband had a Heart Attack and passed away Dec. 15, 2008
Jeff Schankerman was 44 years old
 
Jeff Schankerman with son Andrew at Pomona Track Jake Swanson and Jeff Schankerman 2008 Win at Ventura Speedway
Their family is devastated and in shock.
The Schankerman Family has given a tremendous amount of time to Quarter Midgets at Pomona and Orange Show, Region 11 and the California Monza. They have worked at every Grands they ever attended. Jeff was the first to utilize World Formula Power in a Half Midget at the 2003 Grands at Mini Indy. He did extensive research and testing with Hansen Racing Products to utilize the billet gearbox for the World Formula for Quarter Midget Racing. Jeff provided the #88 Ford Focus Midget to several young drivers giving them their first Focus rides, including: Danny Stratton, AJ Supan, Nick Carlsen and Jake Swanson. Jeff was an auditor for the US Government until he left to start his own Company - 1st Propane.
Please Remember them in your thoughts and prayers at this very difficult time during the Holidays.
If you feel so inclined, their family could probably use some Help in the next few weeks.
Jeff ran their Propane business, which will now suffer tremendously.
Barbara and the boys could probably use Grocery and Restaurant Gift Cards, or any monetary amount
to help them with their bills (in lieu of Flowers) while they try to pull their lives back together.
I will send information regarding a Remembrance Service as soon as I here.
Please take a moment to pass on your memories of Jeff, for the family, in the Guest Book
Barbara Schankerman
PO Box 291136
Phelan, CA.
92329
(760)949-1955
2008 Silver State "WINTER NATIONALS"
December 3-7, 2008
State Line
(Primm, behind Buffalo Bills)
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