Author page: Jeff Willert

Lakeshore Sports Car Club and Salt Creek Sports Car Club to partner to put on the April 2023 Drivers School weekend!

Lakeshore Sports Car Club along with the Salt Creek Sports Car Club will once again partner to put on the April 22-23 Drivers School weekend. This event will kickoff the 2023 racing season with a Drivers School program on Saturday and then a full program of wheel to wheel racing on Sunday. Look forward to a Driver’s License presentation then…

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2021 LSCC Wheel to Wheel Champions

Lakeshore Sports Car Club had three wheel to wheel class champions in 2021. Joshau Madell running in GT1 ran five of the eight races scoring four wins and one second to distance himself from Chicagoland’s Joshua Carlson who had two wins to his credit. Nicole Temple repeated as ITD champion running five events on the Midwestern Council schedule and winning…

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2021 LSCC Autocross Champion

Jim Platz defended his Autocross title from 2020 with three wins and a second in 2021. Jim was extremely close to having a perfect 2021 season but was edged out by a razor thin margin at the first event. Jim went on to win the next three events to seal the deal. Great job Jim!

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Lakeshore’s Missed Shift Newsletter

The Midwestern Council 2020 Annual Awards Banquet was a big success. It was held virtually on Saturday night January 23 due to Covid 19. You can watch the ceremonies from the Facebook live feed on the MCSCC Facebook page. Below are the Special Awards. Congratulations to all award recipients including Lakeshore’s Michael Palmer for winning the Rookie Worker of the…

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2020 Lakeshore Wheel to Wheel Champions

Lakeshore’s Callahan Kohls brought home the 2020 Spec Miata Championship in a very difficult class where wins can be by a fraction of a second.

Keeping it in the family, Callahan’s father Steven won the ITA championship also driving a Mazda Miata. You will often see these two nose to tail on the track swapping positions many times in a race.

The ITGT Championship was high drama for Lakeshore’s Joe Conway in 2020. Joe finished second at the July Blackhawk Farms race. Later that month he was testing at Road America and had an oil pump failure causing severe damage to his engine.

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2020 Lakeshore Autocross Champions

Lakeshore’s Michael Palmer brought home the D Stock Championship winning two out of the four events.

Lakeshore’s Randy Platz brought home the A Modified Championship piloting his 1973 Corvette.

Not to be out-done, Randy’s brother Jim brought home the Z Prepared Championship also driving a car manufactured in Bowling Green Kentucky.

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