On November 19th the Senior Tour Auto Racers closed their 2016 racing season with their annual banquet. This is STAR'S 18th season and it was great to see the members gathering together to close out the season in a fashionable way. It was great to see members from all over New England and Canada attend to bring the season to a close.
The banquet was held at Whites of Westport in Westport, Ma. Over 60 awards were presented to the Star Members for their dedication and true support of this great club. It has been an outstanding season for the Star Organization with unbelievable car counts every weekend. Star tours every weekend to the New England tracks to bring "Vintage Racing at its Best". As members sat down to a four coarse meal, they were entertained with a slide show of over 400 candid photos from all the tracks and shows for the 2016 season, photos never seen by the members. You could hear the laughter and jokes as the members let down their hair to have a great time!
STAR opened up its banquet with the introduction of the Officers and Board of Directors. It was great to see the present and the future officers in attendance.
Then the Board of Directors presented owner of ProNyne Motorsports Museum, Ric Mariscal with a donation towards the museum.
Now it was time for the awards presentations.
Appreciation Awards
Judy Poirier for her video tapes
David Mouthrop for his on track photos
Judy & Scott Poirier for Fifty/Fifty
STAR Toy Drive Award
Tammy Barboza
Rookie of the Year
Arthur Merchant Car #64
Most Events Attended Still and Running
Charlie Lima Car #2X
Facebook Cover Award
Curt Snow Car #110
Car That Traveled the Furthest Distance
Jocelyn Laliberte – Canada Car #61QC
Most Original Car
Curt Snow Car #110
Best Appearing Car
Scott Poirier Car #73
Sportsmenship Award
Charlie Lima
Best Crew Chief Award
Mark Villane
Facebook Shootout
James Allen Car #44
The Special Awards are covered and no one knows the results until the night of the banquet. The suspense of who would receive the award has always been thrilling!
Heat awards - they worked hard for these and the best man wins!!!! Point awards, Star is proud to say they had 3 Champions this year. Massachusetts Charlie Lima, Connecticut Scott Poirier and Massachusetts James Allen. STAR was challenged to a Face book Shootout and STAR accepted the challenge. So STAR did a 5 laps which was a five days, a lap a day shootout challenge with the three Champions. Congratulations to the winner of the Facebook Challenge James Allen – State of Massachusetts.
"Dash for Cash Raffle"
Congratulations to the following winners
Feature Winner = $500 – Charles Lima Massachusetts
Heat Winner = $200 – Rocky Cusanelli Sr. New Hampshire
Consi Winner = $100 – Tom Keesler Massachusetts
We would like to congratulate Member Rick MacDowell for selling the most tickets and he will receive a STAR jacket or 2 free tickets to 2017 banquet.
Star would like to thank all the members who brought raffles for our raffle tables. There was a huge selection of raffles for both ladies and men. Star would like to thank Lana Stearns for taking on the job of selling the raffle tickets. Also thank you to Tammy Barboza, Skip and Lana Stearns for taking on the job of distributing out the raffles.
So another year has ended and it is time to look forward to 2017!!!!
