to keep up with changes made
to the New Stuff page.
So quite a few months back, my aged IBM x330 server failed in an unrecoverable manner. I have a virtual server in the cloud, but circumstances require me to engage in a tedious conversion from Mason (the web templating system I used) to php, because Mason is seemingly now abandonware (which sucks because I really liked it). This will be slow at first, until I work out what kinds of scripts I might use to move the process along. In any case, as I write this, I am focusing on getting this one page working completely. Then I will start work on fixing the Race Tracks index, as that seems to be the most valued part of the site. As in the past, Track Maps are slowly migrating to OpenStreetMap and OpenHistoricalMap. And the related Ghost Tracks project is starting to produce YouTube videos on historic racing venues. I will be updating existing pages as well as adding new material for Ghost Tracks.
A lot of the lookups for hotels, directions, etc., are broken right now. I am currently thinking about the best way to remedy this. Whatever I do is going to be different so as to reduce potential for breakage.
The overhaul is going to take time. Please bear with us. In the meantime, click on the Site Updates link below to find out what has been done recently.
These pages are the successor to the "Unofficial SCCA Pages". I started working on those pages in the early 90s, in the early days of the web when the latest and greatest browser was Mosaic version 1.0, before it occured to Microsoft that there might be something in this Internet business. When the first official SCCA web site was awarded to another party, I took the best parts of what I'd done and transmuted it into this site. Work has gone forward in fits and starts, but I've been going at things pretty steadily for 3 years now. I "finished" the race track directory only to discover that it requires continuous updating, so I'm now making a long update slog through the directory I thought was finished.
The buttons on the left go to the major sections.
A running log of updates, changes, and additions is kept;
the
"See What's New"
button in the index takes you there,
and you can use the RSS Feed
to keep up with changes made
to the New Stuff page.
There is a simple search engine that can be used to find stuff; for example, if you wanted to find all the race schedules that refer to Laguna Seca, you could do a search for that string and you'd get such a list.
The Race Track button leads to our growing collection of information about race tracks all over the US and Canada. Some sections are devoted to the the major motorsports; you may see general info and info specific to various sanctioning bodies by selecting categories such as Racing, Rally, or Autocross. These sections do not contain detailed descriptions of the sanctioning bodies themselves, but have links to the Organization section. As time goes by, each sanctioning body will get a section under Organization, where you may find addresses, phone numbers, schedules, and membership information.
There are other things here too: Discussion areas and a photo and art gallery -- and even more stuff will show up in the near future. Check the buttons on the left edge of the screen to see what the major sections are.
Graphics design by Jim Burke, (jburke@urd.umass.edu). These pages are copyright 1996-2005 by Krusty Motorsports, 2006-2026 by NA Websites. Contributions remain the property of their original author. Many pages of this website are published under a Creative Commons License, check the license statement at the bottom of the individual page.
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