Stätus Josh

Greetings everyone! I have been working hard to get a lot of fun and exciting events lined up for you all. I hope that you can come to many of them. The Club is growing rapidly. We are up to around 150 members now!

I am very excited to let you all know that the Seattle Audi Club and the Northwest Quattro club have started a relationship to cross promote each others events and join together for some dual events.

<b>****Seattle Audi Club Lunch*****</b>
<b>What:</b> Seattle Audi Club Lunch
<b>When:</b> Saturday, April 21st at NOON
<b>Where:</b> Red Hook Brewery in Woodinville <a href="Http://www.redhook.com/brewpubs/woodinville/map.html">Http://www.redhook.com/brewpubs/woodinville/map.html</a>
<b>Cost:</b> Please bring <b>CASH</b>. Due to the large size of the group I have been told that we HAVE to put it all on one check. So, please please please bring enough cash to cover your meal.
<b>RSVP:</b> send your RSVP to <a href="mailto:joshd@s4.org">Joshd@s4.org</a>

<b>****Northwest Quattro Club + Seattle Audi Club TOUR!****</b>
<b>What:</b> The NW Region Audi Quattro Club and Seattle Audi Club would like to welcome you for this first time dual meet We are going to start from Barrier Motors in Bellevue at 9am Saturday April 28th. Our friends at Barrier are going to open their doors a little earlier that normal for us at about 8am and plan to have donuts and coffee available to get us kick started at this early hour. The route is still being finalized with the goal to be a local tour east of Bellevue. We hope to tour some twisty spots with a couple rest stops thrown in. Please plan on bringing a sack lunch to enable us to keep the group together and to keep the time frame of the event to a reasonable length. Family and friends are encouraged to come along! For those of you planning to attend that have Motorola Talk About radio's, bring them along and stay in touch.
<b>When: </b>Saturday, April 28th
<b>Where:</b> Meet at Barrier Motors in Redmond between 8-9am. Route to be decided
<b>Cost:</b> Free
<b>RSVP:</b> Contact Pete Kunzler if you are planning to tag along at <a href="pck@gte.net">pck@gte.net</a> or 360-805-9630

<b>****Dyno Day****</b>
<b>What:</b> All wheel drive dyno reserved for two consecutive saturdays!! 45-60 minutes per car on the dyno. HP/Torque mapping, 0-60 runs, 1/4 mile, etc...
<b>When:</b> May 5th and May 12th (10 per day)
<b>Where:</b> FAME Automotive in Redmond
<b>Cost:</b> approx. $100 per car
<b>RSVP:</b> send your RSVP to <a href="mailto:joshd@s4.org">Joshd@s4.org</a> (I need to schedule each person in so sign up ASAP!) Limit is 10 cars per day!

<b>****Bremerton Lapping Day (NW Quattro Club Event)****</b>
<b>What:</b> Open lapping day at Bermerton Raceway! This is a NW Quattro Club event. This is for Imtermediate and advanced drivers only (no beginners).
<b>When:</b> Friday, May 25th
<b>Cost:</b> $65 per car (Quattro Club membership required)
<b>RSVP:</b> Please go to <a href="http://www.nwquattroclub.org">http://www.nwquattroclub.org</a> for more info

<b>****SIR Lapping Day****</b>
<b>What:</b> The Seattle Audi Club has rented SIR once again for an all day lapping day!! This is through the ProFormance Race School. Last time we had two run groups and over 3.5 hours of track time for each group!!! This event is of course Rain or Shine
<b>When: </b>Monday June 4th
<b>Where:</b> SIR of course
<b>Cost:</b> Cost will be between $160-$200 per person depending on the total number of participants. The more people, the less it will cost each of us. You can also reserve an instructor for $125 for half the day or $250 for the entire day.
<b>RSVP:</b> Please RSVP to <a href="mailto:joshd@s4.org">joshd@s4.org</a> ASAP! Space is limited to 40 cars!!

<b>****Other Upcoming events!****</b>
Go Karting event at SyCart in Tukwilla! Date and Details to be announced
PIR lapping day (Northwest Quattro Club event) July 20th
Seattle area Audi show! TBA

<b>****New Mailing List****</b>
I have set up a new mailing list to make it easier to manage the 150+ people on this list. Go to <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seattleaudiclub">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seattleaudiclub</a> to change your email address or remove yourself from the list. If you are NOT on this list please add yourself!!

<b>****Sponsors****</b>
<b>University Audi</b> - Great cars, great service and the highest customer satisfaction of any Audi dealer in the NW!! Contact Brian at 206.755.1633 or 206.634.3322 brian@uvwaudi.com
<b>PreGrid Motorsports</b> - Your aftermarket source! They offer H&R, UUC, Neuspeed, Fikse and more. Talk to Brad for a 10-15% discount. 425.861.6509 http://www.pregridmotorsports.com
<b>StonGard</b> - The best form of paint protection! more info at <a href="http://www.stongard.com">http://www.stongard.com</a> or 425.646.0670 Talk to Kim for a 15% discount
<b>ProFormance Race School</b> - The official race school of the Seattle Audi Club. <a href="http://www.proformanceraceschool.com">http://www.proformanceraceschool.com</a> Talk to Donna or Don Kitch.
<b>Audiworld.com</b> - They supply us with free web space! Please visit their site and support their advertisers!!

Sorry for the length! I hope that you all are excited about the upcoming events. As always, please let me know if you have any questions. Also, please remember to get your RSVPs in ASAP!


<b>Josh Decker
Seattle Audi Club President
<a href="JoshD@S4.org">JoshD@S4.org</a>
<a href="http://seattle.audiworld.com">http://seattle.audiworld.com</a>
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