National, Regional & Local Chapter News

AUTHOR: Danial Stalcup
EVENT: https://cadillacvclub.com/event-4880092

The NorCal Chapter of the Cadillac V-Club rally was a great success!  We had a fabulous time of relaxed driving, intense driving, good food, and socializing!

The rally began with great doughnuts and coffee from Johnny's Doughnuts.  We drove together to Point Reyes,  Marin French Cheese Company, Bodega Bay for lunch, Healdsburg for gas (and a car wash for Nick), then dinner in St. Helena.  

For the most part it all went smooth except for my broken splitter and curb rashed wheel, a quart of oil that had to be added to a member's car, and an ATS-V that started to overheat while idling!  It's part of the adventures!

The rally ended at Brasswood Bar and Kitchen where results of the poker run and raffle were revealed!  Rich Rose was one lucky member!  He not only won a raffle from last weeks event at Walnut Creek Cadillac, but at the rally he also won the poker pot of $140 as well as the raffle from our generous sponsors of the event P&S Detail Supply East Bay.  P&S gave the V-Club a detailing kit worth over $90 to go to a lucky winner. In this case VERY lucky winner - Rich Rose.  In addition, P&S gave every participant a bottle of their Dream Maker Gloss Amplifier spray.  Be sure to visit P&S on the web at https://psdetailproducts.com/ or at their Hayward retail location 20943 Cabot Blvd Hayward, CA 9454.

Thanks to our member Phillip Adams for putting this rally together.  He spent a lot of time on it, including testing the whole route!  His efforts are a perfect example of now individual members can have great contributions to the club.  

Be on the look out for another rally down towards Monterey in the future, we hope more of you can join.

Pictures from the event can be found at the dropbox link below:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/01868n6s26j4pqkz23tcy/h?dl=0&rlkey=mcvsszh6whnx3o6ry8b19vsk9

SOCAL Los Angeles Chapter - Richard (Rich) Cuellar and his 2 sons own and have operated a motorcycle rim manufacturing company in Southern California for the last 30 years. 

Rich currently resides in Pomona, California and drives a 2014 CTS-V Coupe.  After college Rich held the position of sales Engineer with a company that manufactures aerospace parts.  Previously he was a member of the 163rd fighter squadron, Ontario airport California for 7 years where they flew 106 delta daggers and F4C Phantoms from 1966-1973.

Rich had the opportunity to race motorcycles, cars and drag boats and he currently owns and races his CTS-V Coupe which he has owned for the past 8 years.  Even with a lot of performance improvements and chasis updates, it remain a very dependable daily driver. His passiion is to drive the canyons, compete in straight line racing events in addition to closed circuit road racing venues.

With the recent decision of the V-Club board to split the SOCAL membership into two Chapters: San Diego and Los Angeles, Rich is excited about the opportunity to plan and schedule events that will look forward to attending. 

Watch the Cadillac V-Club official event calendar for an upcoming activity to be published soon for each of these chapters.  

We are beyond excited to inform the V Series community that Cadillac and Michelin have two 2022 V Series Blackwing entries into this years One Lap of America!!

Each vehicle will be driven by one driver from Michelin and one from Cadillac, in stock form (minus rear seats in order to carry all our gear through the USA).  Mirza Grebovic is one of the GM Engineers that helped develop these amazing vehicles and they are going to do their best to do our teams and the vehicles justice!

The event kicks off today, Friday, April 29 with registration and Tech and the first driving events are starting Saturday.  Mirza will update the Blackwing Journal page in the members only section of CadillacVClub.com as well as on social media.

For further details on what the One Lap of America is, click on the link below, but in summary Mirza and his teammate will drive across numerous venues and hit various on-track events, skid pads, autocross and ovals all on the stock tires that can not be changed between events, including all the on road mileage, equaling to more than 3500 miles combined in 8 days! 

https://www.onelapofamerica.com/

CadillacVClub.com/LiveStream

This year 9 local Cadillac V-Club local chapters hosted holiday banquets for their members with the Las Vegas Chapter hosting the final banquet of the year this past week-end.

At each local chapter banquet, one lucky member had the opportunity to win a two person multi-day ticket package to attend a Cadillac V-Corral/Suite event at IMSA Weathertech Championship races in 2022.  These ticket packages are valued at $500 each.  V-Club Chapters located in the Pacific Northwest and Pacific Southwest gave away a door prize trip to the Laguna Seca IMSA event scheduled for April 29 - May 1, 2022 and Chapters located in the South Central and Atlantic Northeast will gave away a door prize trip to the Rolex 24 Hour IMSA event in Daytona scheduled for January 27-30, 2022.  The winners of these ticket packages valued at $500 each were:

Seattle/Portland Chapter - Diana Spisak, Renton, WA
Norcal Chapter - Frank Revuelta, Redwood City, CA
Socal Chapter - Jake Jordan, Corona, CA
Las Vegas Chapter - Stacy Martin, Las Vegas, NV
OKC Chapter - Jason Austin, Yukon, OK
DFW Chapter - Ray Beougher, Double Oak, TX
Houston Chapter - Earl Parmer, Houston, TX
Austin/San Antonio Chapter - Martin Jackson, San Antonio, TX
Detroit Chapter - Jeremy Stanke, Commerce Township, MI

Today via a drawing held on Random.org, the Cadillac V-Club continued our holiday celebration by selecting the two "grand prize" winners.

Grand Prize #1 Winner: Ben Remak, Seattle/Portland Chapter - Washington

Ben was selected via a random draw on Random.org from among the local chapter members who RSVP'd to attend a holiday banquet and attended the banquet.

Grand Prize #2 Winner: John Sketoe, South Central Region - Arkansas

John was selected via a random drawing on Random.org from among all regional V-Club members and those local chapter members who were unable to attend a local chapter holiday banquet this year.

Both of these grand prize winners will receive a full tuition paid trip to the two-day Cadillac V-Performance Academy located at Spring Mountain Motor Resort and Country Club in Pahrump, NV. 

These two grand prizes combined with the local chapter Cadillac V-Corral ticket package door prizes provided an opportunity for every Cadillac V-Club member to win a prize during our annual holiday celebration. The total value of all prizes being awarded exceeds $11,500. 

Recipients of prize certificates are responsible for associated travel arrangements and expenses. Prize certificates are not transferable to any non-member of the Cadillac V-Club and must be used during the calendar year 2022. Should the events be cancelled for any unforseen reason, a best effort will be made to provide tickets to an alternate venue at a future date.

Congratulations to each of these prize winners!

Andre Leighton has been attending Cadillac V-Club DFW Chapter local events for the last two years and is our local chapter "official photographer".  He has taken hundreds of photos that are published on his SmugMug website that are available for purchase and download for a nominal fee.  You have the option to purchase a single photo can download an entire "low resolution" event gallery for non-commercial use for a very low price.

You can view his gallery via this link: https://cadillacvclub.com/Media

We are pleased to announce two new local chapters of the Cadillac V-Club have been chartered effective as of Tuesday, June 8, 2021.  The Detroit Chapter will be led by Brad Doerr and the Oklahoma City Chapter will be led by Felicia Smith.

Brad is currently a chassis engineer at Roush Industries and has worked in the auto industry for 18 years.  He was a GM employee for 11 years and worked in multiple roles on the Alpha platform. Brad and his wife Holly have been married for 9 years and have one son, Gregory.  They have owned a 2011 CTS-V Wagon for 10 years.  Brad enjoys racing and participates in track days and auto crosses with his CTS-V.

Felicia Smith is in technical services for an oil field company named TTS in Newcastle Oklahoma. Felicia and her husband Aaron Smith have been married for 5 years. She owns a 2009 CTSV that currently runs 8’s on the stock 1.9 liter blower. Her husband has a fully built 2650 Denali, and they also plan to start their third build being a 2004 Cadillac XLR. The two have been racing for years and together they build and maintain all of their vehicles out of their home shop.

With the launch of these two new chapters, the V-Club now has 10 chapters and over 400 members spread across 28 different states.