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NEWS
NORTHWEST SPORTS CAR
The official news source of SCCA’s Northwest Region — www.nwr-scca.org
SeptemberOctober 2007
WILD WEST FINDS SUCCESS BACK EAST
Cody Crane photo
Ron Sorem reports from Garfield County, Pages 15-19
CONES, CONES,
CONES — AND
MORE CONES
Autocrossers don’t slow down
much for summer.
Dick Willy reports, pages 2-10
What a way to wrap up summer
Karl Coleman is on his way to winning Street Touring X at the Packwood ProSolo in August.
A
ugust and September are insane months for Northwest Region Solo drivers, with Solo
Week (National Tour, Pro Solo and Evolution School), NWR Event No. 7, Canadian West Coast Nationals, Montana Divisional and finally, the Pro Solo Finale
and Solo Championships in Topeka,
Kan.
Solo Week
One of the big highlights of the Solo
calendar is Solo Week, which includes
the National ProSolo, Evolution School
and the National Tour, which were held
at Hampton Mills facility in Packwood
Aug. 17 to 26.
One hundred sixty entrants competed
in the ProSolo, with NWR members
dominating the trophy positions with six
class wins, seven seconds, six thirds,
two fourths and one fifth. In the Challenge, “Fast Mike” Lillejord finished
second, with Ryan Otis (Oregon Region) in third. Kristi Brown took second-place honors in the Ladies Challenge, with Laura Molleker in second
and Jodi Fordahl in third. Dieter Beldi
placed second in the Bonus Challenge.
See below for a complete listing of trophy winners.
The Evolution School is taught by
some of the best national drivers and
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Dancing with Cones
DICK WILLY
ASSISTANT RE, SOLO
features five separate classes based on
driving level and subject. The “Evo”
school is an excellent learning tool for
intermediate and advanced drivers. This
year’s school was held on Monday
through Thursday of Solo Week.
The National Tour began with Friday’s Test-n-Tune, followed by competition on Saturday and Sunday. First-heat
drivers on Sunday were “blessed” with
“Washington sunshine,” but the rest of
the weekend was dry. Two hundred
sixty three competitors enjoyed the
mountain scenery only our Packwood
site can provide, while attacking the
challenging course designed by Scott
Miller.
Fastest scratch time (109.289 sec) for
the weekend was recorded by Glen Barnhouse (Lolo, Mont.), driving a 2005 Red
Devil F500 in F Modified. Close on his
heels were NWR F Prepared co-drivers,
Greg Fordahl (109.713) and Leeds Gulick
(109.942). Among Stock category drivers
Kevin Dietz (Federal Way) was quickest
(go figure!) in Jerry Lee’s Corvette Z06,
with a time of 111.451 seconds.
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Denise Williamson photo
Many thanks to all of the many volunteers who made Solo Week a success.
Special mention is due to the event
chairs, course designers, and our Testn-tune co-chairs:
Pro Solo co-chairs: Kristi and
Keith Brown
Evolution School administrator:
Keith Brown
Test-n-tune co-chairs: Jackie
McInnis and Erika Cowen
National Tour co-chairs: Jess
Lynch and Brian Norton
Pro Solo course designer: Karen
Babb
National Tour course designer:
Scott Miller
Packwood
ProSolo trophy
winners
Super Stock
1. Kevin Dietz, 2003 Chevrolet
Corvette, 51.236
2. Christopher Cox, 2004 Porsche
GT3, 51.575
3. Glen Hernandez, 2006 Lotus Elise,
September-October 2007
52.689
4. Tom Kotzian, 2004 Porsche GT3,
53.103
A Stock
1. Scott McHugh, 1989 Chevrolet
Corvette, 52.885
2. Brian Mcgaha, 2006 Mitsubishi
Evolution, 53.652
3. John Stimson, 2007 Pontiac Solstice, 53.715
4. Alan Dahl, 2007 Pontiac Solstice,
53.737
B Stock
1. Matthew Braun, 2006 Mazda RX-8,
54.581
2. Glenn Austin, 2005 Nissan 350Z,
54.662
3. Joe Goeke, 2005 Mazda Rx8, 54.792
C Stock
1. Mike Lillejord, 2006 Pontiac Solstice, 54.180
2. Kyle Freiheit, 2006 Pontiac Solstice,
54.767
D Stock
1. Kinch Reindl, 1998 Acura Integra,
55.435
2. Ryan C. Eames, 2004 VW R32,
55.888
3. Curtis Eames, 2004 Volkswagen
R32, 55.968
G Stock
1. Dan Pedroza, 2007 MINI Cooper S,
55.364
2. Jake Nygaard, 2006 Mini Cooper S,
56.533
H Stock
1. James N. Wilson, 1998 Subaru Impreza L, 57.978
2. Scott Miller 2007 Scion tC, 58.139
Street Touring S
1. Kevin McCormick, 1989 Honda
Civic Si, 55.939
2. Katie Elder, 1989 Honda Civic Si,
57.582
Street Touring S2
1. Drew Hanft, 1995 Mazda Miata,
57.574
2. Donald Barnes, 1990 Mazda Miata,
57.972
Street Touring X
1. Karl Coleman, 2002 Subaru WRX,
54.794
2. Alec Osenbachm 2002 Subaru Impreza, 55.015
Tasha Mikko won Street Touring S Ladies when the National Tour rolled
through Packwood.
Street Touring Ultra
1. Ryan Otis, 2006 Subaru WRX STi,
53.621
2. James Paulson, 2006 Subaru WRX
STi, 54.351
3. Richard Willy, 2004 Subaru WRX
STi, 54.884
B Street Prepared
1. Tom Berry, 2006 Mitsubishi Evo 9,
49.696
2. Marshall Grice, 2006 Misubishi
Evolution, 50.683
C Street Prepared
1. Scott Fraser, 1991
52.079
2. Tom Kubo, 1991
52.726
3. Ron Bauer, 2007
52.823
4. Jim Daniels, 2007
52.868
Mazda Miata,
Mazda Miata,
Mazda MX-5,
Mazda MX-5,
D Street Prepared
1. Dudley Milder 2006 Mini Cooper
JC, 54.947
2. Rebecca Zacharda, 2006 Mini Cooper S, 55.894
Prepared Index
1. Keith Brown, 1990 Mazda Miata,
45.035 (DP 0.855)
2. Mark Smith, 1997 Chevrolet
Corvette, 46.216 (XP 0.880)
Street Modified
1. Navid Kahangi, 2006 Subaru WRX
STi, 50.996
2. Ron Pippin, 2006 Subaru STi,
51.972
Street Modified 2
1. Michael Feldpusch, 1997 Chevrolet
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Corvette, 52.274
2. Allan H. Densmore 2002 Chevy
Z06, 52.762
3. Cal Craner, 2002 Chevy Z06, 53.252
Ladies Class 1
1. Kristi Brown, 2007 MINI Cooper S,
44.838 (GS 0.790)
2. Laura Molleker, Subaru Impreza
WRX, 45.150 (AS 0.830)
3. Pamela Eames, 2004 VW R32,
45.253 (DS 0.793)
4. Jodi Fordahl, 1984 Porsche 944,
45.525 (ES 0.801)
5. Shalyn Morrow, 2006 Mini Cooper
S, 45.569 (GS 0.790)
Ladies Class 2
1. Christine Berry, 2006 Mitsubishi
Evolution 43.160 (BSP 0.848)
2. Kathy Wolfskill, 1991 Mazda Miata,
44.618 (CSP 0.841)
3. Amy Coleman, 2002 Subaru WRX,
45.565 (STX 0.804)
4. Danielle Paulson, 2006 Subaru
WRX STi, 45.657 (STU 0.824)
Bump Class 1
1. Kevin Youngers, 2007 Ford Mustang, 45.176 (FS 0.800)
2. Jerry Jenkins, 1994 Mazda Miata,
45.371 (ES 0.801)
Bump Class 2
1. Lorin Mueller, 2003 Ford Focus,
43.806 (FSP 0.811)
2. Larry Petrucci 1995 Pontiac Formula, 44.954 (ESP 0.830)
3. Doug Hebenthal, 2004 Porsche
GT3, 45.094 (ASP 0.858)
4. Bill Buetow, 2007 Porsche GT3,
45.437 (ASP 0.858)
5. Brad Owen, 1996 Pontiac Firebird,
45.478 (ESP 0.830)
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N ORTHWEST S PORTS CAR
NEWS
The official news
source of SCCA’s
Northwest Region
The official news source of SCCA’s Northwest Region — www.nwr-scca.org
January
2007
Northwest Sports Car News is published
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National Tour trophy winners
Super Stock
1. Kevin Dietz, 2003 Chevrolet Z06,
NWR, 111.451
2. Stacey Molleker, 2006 Dodge Viper,
NWR, 112.813
3. Christopher Cox, 2004 Porsche
GT3, SFR, 112.860
4. Tom Kotzian, 2004 Porsche GT3,
OR, 113.599
5. Pilar Miranda, 2004 Porsche GT3,
SFR, 114.419
6. Nathan Provo, 2003 Chevrolet
Corvette Z06, NWR, 114.696
Super Stock Ladies
1. Laura Molleker, 2006 Dodge Viper,
NWR, 113.560
2. Tristan Kotzian-Coulter, 2004
Porsche GT3, OR, 117.571
A Stock
1. Alan Dahl, 2007 Pontiac Solstice
GXP, NWR, 123.086
2. Stephen Hui, 2003 Porsche Boxster
S, NWR, 123.521
3. Andrew Howe, 2003 Porsche
Boxster S, OR, 124.180
B Stock
1. Joe Goeke, 2005 Mazda RX-8, NWR,
121.128
2. Matthew Braun, 2006 Mazda RX-8,
Detroit Region, 122.106
3. George Hudetz, 2004 Mazda RX-8,
OR, 122.425
4. Brian Coulson, 2007 Mazda RX-8,
Yellowstone Region, 123.121
B Stock Ladies
1. Anna Goeke, 2005 Mazda RX-8,
NWR, 119.550
C Stock
1. Mike Lillejord, 2006 Pontiac Solstice, NWR, 114.521
2. Kyle Freiheit, 2006 Pontiac Solstice,
NWR, 116.418
C Stock Ladies
1. Annie Bauer, 2006 Pontiac Solstice,
NWR, 123.685
D Stock
1. Kinch Reindl, 1998 Acura Integra,
119.103
2. Robert Luis, 2003 BMW 330i, SFR,
119.824
3. Steve Wynne, 2005 Dodge ACR
SRT-4, OR, 119.858
4. Pat Smith, 1997 Acura Integra Type
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R, 120.787
5. Ryan Eames, 2004 VW R32, Snake
River Region, 121.393
D Stock ladies
1. Pamela Eames, 2004 VW R32,
Snake River Region, 123.395
2. Joan Clark, 2007 Mazdaspeed 3,
Central Florida Region, 126.211
E Stock
1. Br yan Heitkotter, 1993 Toyota
MR2, SFR, 117.468
2. Jerry Jenkins, 1994 Mazda Miata,
OR, 117.482
3. Jodi Fordahl, 1984 Porsche 944,
NWR, 118.667
4. Gretchen Everett, 1984 Porsche
944, NWR, 119.912
5. L.C. Bohrer, 1988 Porsche 944,
NWR, 120.079
F Stock
1. Richard Smale, 2007 Ford Mustang
Shelby GT, NWR, 120.314
G Stock
1. Aaron Pailthorp, 2007 MINI Cooper
S, NWR, 122.616
2. Arthur Chan, 1991 BMW 318is,
122.668
G Stock Ladies
1. Kristi Brown, 2007 MINI Cooper S,
NWR, 127.691
H Stock
1. Scott Miller, 2007 Scion tC, NWR,
128.693
2. Des Toups, 2007 Mazda 3, NWR,
128.743
H Stock Ladies
1. Karina Miller, 2007 Scion tC, NWR,
130.447
Street Touring S
1. Kevin McCormick, 1989 Honda
Civic Si, SFR, 120.454
2. Doug Mikko, 2000 Subaru Impreza
2.5RS, NWR, 122.385
3. Charlie Davis, 1993 Acura Integra,
SFR, 122.490
Street Touring S Ladies
1. Tasha Mikko, 2000 Subaru Impreza
2.5RS, NWR, 129.141
Street Touring S2
1. Drew Hanft, 1995 Mazda Miata,
NWR, 124.002
2. Enrique Garcia, 1995 Mazda Miata,
NWR, 124.518
Street Touring S2 Ladies
1. Kim Littke, 1995 Mazda Miata,
NWR, 125.541
Street Touring Xtreme
1. Alec Osenbach, 2002 Subaru Impreza WRX, NWR, 120.298
2. Karl Coleman, 2002 Subaru WRX,
NWR, 120.564
3. Chase Guerlain, 2003 Mazdaspeed
Protege, OR, 124.307
Street Touring Xtreme
Ladies
1. Amy Coleman, 2002 Subaru WRX,
NWR, 125.434
Street Touring Ultra
1. James Paulson, 2006 Subaru WRX
STi, OR, 116.356
2. Ryan Otis, 2005 Subaru WRX STi,
OR, 117.233
3. Geoff Clark, 2003 Mitsubishi Evolution, NWR, 117.608
4. Karlton Lew, 2006 Subaru STi, SFR,
119.483
Street Touring Ultra Ladies
1. Danielle Paulson, 2006 Subaru
WRX STi, OR, 130.660
A Street Prepared
1. Geoff Newman, 2004 Porsche 911
GT3, NWR, 119.995
2. Mark Snell, 2006 Lotus Exige,
NWR, 120.285
3. Richard Coffey, 2004 Porsche GT3,
SFR, 120.507
4. Rob Boynton, 2002 Porsche GT2,
SFR, 120.673
A Street Prepared Ladies
1. Khuyen Khuong, 2007 Lotus Exige
S, New England Region, 123.618
5. Vince Russell, 1990 Mazda Miata,
SFR, 122.269
3. Sead Causevic, 1980 VW Scirocco,
123.581
1. Tami Daniels, 2007 Mazda MX-5,
OR, 115.108
2. Kathy Wolfskill, 1991 Mazda Miata,
Colorado Region, 115.166
1. Allan Densmor, 2002 Chevrolet
Z06, Snake River Region, 61.173 59.503
57.548, 121.977
2. Cal Craner, 2002 Chevy Z06, Yellowstone Region, 59.683 61.194 57.843,
122.098
C Street Prepared Ladies
D Street Prepared
1. Dudley Milder, 2006 Mini Cooper
JCW, OR, 116.702
2. Allan Zacharda, 2006 Mini Cooper S
JCW, OR, 118.942
3. Denny LaPlante, 1993 BMW 325 is,
NWR, 118.986
4. Arron Mauldin, 1997 Honda Del
Sol, OR, 119.508
D Street Prepared Ladies
1. Rebecca Zacharda, 2006 Mini Cooper S JCW, OR, 128.224
E Street Prepared
1. Larry Petrucci, 1995 Pontiac Formula Firebird, Arizona Region, 117.623
2. Philip Zhu, 2005 Subaru Impreza
WRX, 120.507
F Street Prepared
1. Lorin Mueller, 2003 Ford Focus,
SFR, 116.163
2. Jake Russell, 1981 VW Rabbit
Turbo Diesel, NWR, 119.928
F Street Prepared Ladies
1. Bonnie Mueller, 2003 Ford Focus,
OR, 120.178
X Prepared
1. Greg Fordahl, 1972 Porsche 914,
NWR, 109.713
2. Leeds Gulick, 1971 Porsche 914-6,
NWR 109.942
3. Keith Brown, 1990 Mazda Miata,
NWR, 113.522
C Prepared
A Street Prepared
1. Jason Braunberger, 1985 Chevrolet
Camaro Z28, OR, 115.965
C Street Prepared
1. Perry Keller, 1990 Honda Civic EX,
OR, 128.803
2. Troy Hobbs, 1961 VW Beetle,
130.871
1. Duncan Minalga, 2004 Mitsubishi
EVO RS, OR, 116.998
1. Scott Fraser, 1991 Mazda Miata,
SFR, 121.260
2. Jim Daniels, 2007 Mazda MX-5, OR,
121.422
3. Ron Bauer, 2007 Mazda MX-5,
NWR, 121.835
4. Jim McLaughlan, 1990 Mazda
Miata, 122.102
E Prepared
Street Modified
1. Navid Kahangi, 2006 Subaru WRX
STi, SFR, 117.247
2. Tony Lemon, 1996 Honda Civic,
NWR, 123.361
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Street Modified 2
A Modified
1. John Haftner, 1973 Super vee,
114.066
2. Ricardo Quinonez, 2007 Shark
Stealth, SFR, 116.842
B Modified
1. John Schultz, 2001 Radical
Prosport, Snake River Region, 117.020
D Modified
1. Alan Rae, 1991 Caterham Super 7,
NWR, 113.103
E Modified
1. Phill Akins, 1980 VW Jetta, OR,
123.660
2. Britain Smith, 1974 Porsche 914/6,
OR, 124.069
F Modified
1. Glen Barnhouse, 2005 Red Devil
F500, Big Sky Region, 109.289
2. William Schlaebitz, 2005 Red Devil
3. Sheldon Lemoine, 1990 KBS Mk V
F500, NWR 111.952
4. Ernest Fanthorpe, 1990 KBS Marc
V, NWR, 117.845
5. Mike Billings, 1968 Autodynamics
Solo Ve, Snake River Region, 121.337
F Modified Ladies
1. Angela Previte, 2005 Red Devil
2. Carol Wong, 1990 KBS MK V F500,
NWR, 134.377
3. Joanne Lai, 1990 KBS MK V F500,
137.939
Formula Junior
1. Robert Jacobson Jr., 1995 Margay,
149.161
Index Class 1
1. John Kimball, 1999 Mazda Miata,
NWR, 106.177 (CS 0.822)
2. Christopher Kmetz, 1999 Mazda
Miata, 108.503 (CS 0.822)
3. Kimball Ayer, 2002 Subaru WRX,
NWR, 108.557 (DS 0.804)
Fordahl Motorsports Championship Series event no. 7
Labor Day weekend traditionally fea- merton Sports Car Club on Monday. events. And, this year the Canadian
tures a triple header at Bremerton Mo- With SCCA National Championships Championships were held the same
torsports Park, with Porsche Club on only three weeks away, many Soloists weekend in Vancouver, B.C., and severSaturday, SCCA on Sunday, and Bre- heading to Topeka drive in two or three al NW Region drivers made the trip.
S1 - Stock 1 (AS, SS, FS)
#
T
Name
Car # Year Make/Model
Run 1 (c,g) Run 2 (c,g) Run 3 (c,g) Run 4 (c,g)
Points
1
T
Jerry Lee
122 2004 Corvette Z06 (SS)
39.161 (0,0) 38.076 (0,0) 37.527 (0,0) 37.163 (0,0)
100.000
2
T
Nathan Provo
147 2003 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 (SS)
38.147 (0,0) 38.197 (0,0) 39.621 (1,0) 39.212 (1,0)
97.421
S1L - Stock 1 Ladies (AS, SS, FS)
1
T
Jess Lynch
105 2006 Lotus Elise (SS)
40.518 (0,0) 40.178 (0,0) 39.340 (0,0) 39.429 (0,0)
100.000
S2 - Stock 2 (BS, CS, ES)
1
T
John Leuty
24 1990 Porsche 944S2 (BS)
43.216 (2,0) 40.057 (1,0) 37.946 (0,0) 37.227 (0,0)
100.000
2
T
Rich Blake
41
1994 Mazda Miata R (ES)
39.703 (1,0) 37.932 (0,0) 54.074 (1,1) 39.531 (1,0)
98.141
3
T
Glenn Austin
85
2005 Nissan 350Z (BS)
44.756 (3,0) 37.946 (0,0) 43.380 (3,0) 42.697 (2,0)
98.105
S2L - Stock 2 Ladies (BS, CS, ES)
1
T
Carol Leuty
24 1990 Porsche 944S2 (BS)
41.838 (0,0) 45.345 (2,0) 42.169 (1,0) 40.422 (0,0)
100.000
S3 - Stock 3 (DS, GS, HS)
1
T
Dieter Beldi
90
2007 Mazda MS3 (DS)
47.586 (0,1) 38.032 (0,0) 36.691 (0,0) 36.888 (0,0)
100.000
NS1 - Non Stock 1 (ASP, BSP, ESP)
1
T
Matt Lowell
91 1993 Porsche 911RSA (ASP)
37.973 (0,0) 37.734 (0,0) 37.489 (0,0) 38.382 (0,0)
100.000
2
T
Jack Esposito
96 1993 Porsche 911 RSA (ASP)
42.055 (0,0) 40.989 (1,0) 38.552 (0,0) 38.832 (0,0)
97.243
3
T
Dennis Fleischman
49
1997 Porsche 911 (ASP)
39.351 (0,0) 39.107 (0,0) 38.642 (0,0) 41.234 (1,0)
97.016
NS2 - Non Stock 2 (CSP, DSP, FSP)
1
T
Denny Laplante
63
1993 BMW 325is (DSP)
38.439 (0,0) 37.439 (0,0) 46.260 (4,0) 43.875 (3,0)
100.000
2
T
Nick Ruiz
3
2001 Ford Focus ZX3 (FSP)
42.499 (1,0) 40.693 (1,0) 38.273 (0,0) 38.396 (0,0)
97.821
NS3 - Non Stock 3 (all Prepared, all Mod and KARTS)
1
T
Craig Anderson
23
1955 Austin-Healey 100 (DP)
47.098 (0,0) 44.467 (0,0) 43.347 (0,0) DNS (0,0)
100.000
NS4 - Non Stock 4 (STS, STS2, STU, STX)
1
T
Geoff Clark
21
2003 Mitsubishi Evo (STU)
37.468 (0,0) 38.498 (1,0) 36.779 (0,0) 40.430 (2,0)
100.000
2
T
Alec Osenbach
5
2007 Subaru Impreza (STU)
38.648 (0,0) 42.158 (2,0) 39.538 (1,0) 37.612 (0,0)
97.785
3
T
Dick Willy
30
2004 Subaru WRX STi (STU)
40.389 (1,0) 37.895 (0,0) 39.349 (1,0) 41.790 (2,0)
97.055
4
T
Mike Duncan
44
1993 Mazda Miata (STS2)
48.960 (1,0) 38.597 (0,0) 40.693 (1,0) 38.077 (0,0)
96.591
NS4L - Non Stock 4 Ladies (STS, STS2, STU, STX)
1
T
Kim Littke
26
1995 Mazda Miata (STS2)
41.668 (1,0) 39.916 (0,0) 38.671 (0,0) 38.243 (0,0)
100.000
SM - Street Mod
1
T
Tony Lemon
40
1996 Honda Civic
47.990 (1,0) DNS (0,0) 47.358 (1,0) 46.070 (0,0)
100.000
2
T
Greg Downing
10
1989 Mazda 323 GTX
47.342 (0,0) 47.416 (0,0) 46.511 (0,0) 46.291 (0,0)
99.523
SM2 - Street Mod 2
1
T
Brett Wilson
24 1999 Mazda Miata
48.274 (1,0) 48.990 (2,0) DNS (0,0) DNS (0,0)
100.000
2
T
Rickey Carlson
96
1990 Mazda Miata
55.828 (1,0) 52.170 (0,0) 51.622 (0,0) 50.859 (0,0)
94.917
T - Street Tire Class
1
T
John Kimball
175 1999 Mazda Miata (CS)
71.849 (2,2) 47.002 (4,0) 73.080 (0,0) 38.726 (0,0)
100.000
1999 Mazda Miata 10AE (CS)
39.294 (0,0) 43.151 (2,0) 39.031 (0,0) 40.721 (1,0)
99.219
Christopher Kmetz 75
T
2
138 1990 Olds Calais Quad 442 (DSP)
41.026 (0,0) 39.256 (0,0) 40.944 (1,0) 39.084 (0,0)
99.084
Jason Spore
T
3
39.927 (0,0) 41.489 (0,0) 41.021 (0,0) 39.843 (0,0)
97.196
2000 Subaru Impreza RS (DSP)
60
Scott Gratton
T
4
TL - Street Tire Ladies
Jackie McInnes
362 1994 Mazda Miata (ES)
44.740 (2,0) 41.023 (0,0) 40.565 (0,0) 40.349 (0,0)
100.000
T
1
OPAX - Open PAX
1
T
Ron Bauer
190 2007 Mazda MX-5 (CSP)
43.650 (4,0) 35.996 (0,0) 35.771 (0,0) 35.196 (0,0)
100.000
177 2006 Pontiac Solstice (CS)
39.902 (2,0) 35.477 (0,0) 36.937 (1,0) 35.238 (0,0)
99.881
Kevin Dietz
T
2
3
T
Fastmike Lillejord
36.156 (0,0) 35.418 (0,0) 35.625 (0,0) 48.969 (2,1)
99.373
Kyle Freiheit
37.916 (0,0) 37.731 (1,0) 35.470 (0,0) 37.928 (1,0)
99.228
T
4
96.815
42.606 (1,0) 42.796 (3,0) 36.999 (0,0) 36.354 (0,0)
2007 Mazda MX-5 (CSP)
Jim Daniels
90
T
5
6
T
James Paulson
30
2006 Subaru WRX STi (STU)
40.843 (2,0) 36.761 (0,0) 36.403 (0,0) 46.732 (0,1)
96.684
OPAXL - Open PAX Ladies
128 1984 Porsche 944 (ES)
37.069 (0,0) 38.804 (1,0) 36.793 (0,0) 38.346 (1,0)
100.000
Jodi Fordahl
T
1
2
T
Gretchen Everett
82
1984 Porsche 944 (ES)
36.928 (0,0) 37.819 (0,0) 43.488 (2,0) 37.562 (0,0)
99.634
NSPAXL - Non-Stock Pax Ladies
1
T
Lou Ann Christensen 40
1996 Honda Civic (SML)
50.513 (0,0) 40.557 (0,0) DNS (0,0) 39.979 (0,0)
100.000
NOVAM - Novice AM
100.000
53.296 (0,0) 54.205 (1,0) 51.484 (0,0) 51.115 (0,0)
1999 BMW 325is
52
Sean Elliott
T
1
2
T
Shawn Greer
95
2000 Honda S2000
69.011 (0,1) 68.573 (1,1) 54.048 (0,0) 53.458 (0,0)
95.617
51
1987 Audi 4000cs
55.769 (0,0) 56.175 (0,0) 55.206 (0,0) 54.615 (0,0)
93.592
Bryce Bennett
T
3
4
T
Geri Joson
150 2007 Mazdaspeed 3
72.435 (1,1) 69.359 (1,1) 56.744 (0,0) 55.325 (0,0)
92.390
NOVPM - Novice PM
47.578 (0,0) 72.056 (4,1) 49.609 (1,0) 46.679 (0,0)
100.000
1999 Porsche 996
40
Kaj Lea
T
1
2
T
Aaron Heaton
250 2005 Mitsubishi Evo
54.135 (0,0) 61.078 (0,1) 69.762 (0,1) 51.557 (1,0)
90.539
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Championship Series points competition
With one event remaining, many of
the class championships are still in play.
Less than one point separates the class
leaders in S1, NS4 and Open PAX. And,
many of the other trophy positions are
still up for grabs, as well.
The final event (no. 8) on Oct. 21 will
provide some very heated contests for
final positions.
S1 - Stock 1 (AS, SS, FS) - Number of Entries: 45 - Average Per Event: 6.43
#
Name
EventsAttended Event 1
Event 2
Event 3
Event 4
Event 5
Event 6
Event 7
1
James Winstead
6 100.000
98.603
99.418
100.000
99.609
100.000
2
Jerry Lee
7 99.530
100.000
98.550
99.625
99.024
96.755
100.000
3
Nathan Provo
6 99.016
100.000
95.989
100.000
99.519
97.421
S1L - Stock 1 Ladies (AS, SS, FS) - Number of Entries: 7 - Average Per Event: 1.00
1
Jess Lynch
6 100.000
100.000
100.000
100.000
100.000
100.000
S2 - Stock 2 (BS, CS, ES) - Number of Entries: 42 - Average Per Event: 6.00
1
Mike Leuty
7 97.254
100.000
99.931
100.000
93.991
99.842
98.025
2
Bud Bohrer
6 98.095
94.955
99.037
96.288
94.277
94.027
3
Glenn Austin
6 100.000
93.457
98.221
97.800
85.991
98.105
S2L - Stock 2 Ladies (BS, CS, ES) - Number of Entries: 7 - Average Per Event: 1.00
1
Carol Leuty
7 100.000
100.000
100.000
100.000
100.000
100.000
100.000
S3 - Stock 3 (DS, GS, HS) - Number of Entries: 39 - Average Per Event: 5.57
1
Dieter Beldi
7 100.000
100.000
100.000
96.773
99.661
100.000
100.000
2
Aaron Pailthorp
7 97.505
96.688
97.744
97.167
99.301
98.567
95.151
S3L - Stock 3 Ladies (DS, GS, HS) - Number of Entries: 9 - Average Per Event: 1.29
1
Kristi Brown
4
100.000
100.000
100.000
100.000
NS1 - Non Stock 1 (ASP, BSP, ESP) - Number of Entries: 45 - Average Per Event: 6.43
1
Mark Snell
6 93.754
100.000
100.000
100.000
100.000
100.000
2
Dennis Fleischman
6 98.434
94.638
95.792
93.965
99.478
97.016
3
Steve Downing
7 97.111
93.315
93.128
93.970
84.540
97.854
94.414
NS1L - Non Stock 1 Ladies (ASP, BSP, BP, CP) - Number of Entries: 1 - Average Per Event: 0.14
1
Laura Molleker
1
100.000
NS2 - Non Stock 2 (CSP, DSP, FSP) - Number of Entries: 36 - Average Per Event: 5.14
1
Denny Laplante
6 100.000
100.000
100.000
100.000
99.896
100.000
2
Adam Grabowski
7 95.400
97.089
95.209
96.961
98.376
100.000
96.465
3
Nick Ruiz
7 90.932
96.618
94.973
96.583
98.253
98.547
97.821
NS3 - Non Stock 3 (all Prepared, all Mod and KARTS) - Number of Entries: 29 - Average Per Event: 4.14
1
Craig Anderson
5 84.761
86.912
90.115
88.801
100.000
NS4 - Non Stock 4 (STS, STS2, STU, STX) - Number of Entries: 85 - Average Per Event: 12.14
1
Geoff Clark
7 99.921
100.000
96.464
98.965
98.270
100.000
100.000
2
Karl Coleman
6 100.000
99.998
100.000
98.027
100.000
98.515
3
Ace Ventura
6 96.465
99.181
98.279
97.348
97.873
98.184
4
Drew Hanft
7 94.335
96.994
96.209
92.372
96.887
94.881
93.431
5
Dick Willy
6 91.782
96.141
92.886
96.970
97.896
97.055
89.619
86.180
89.086
86.478
90.237
6 86.831
6
Russell Hill
7
Alec Osenbach
5 99.649
100.000
98.793
97.067
97.785
NS4L - Non Stock 4 Ladies (STS, STS2, STU, STX) - Number of Entries: 16 - Average Per Event: 2.29
6 100.000
100.000
100.000
100.000
100.000
100.000
Amy Coleman
1
2
Kim Littke
7 92.460
98.315
97.244
98.818
97.709
94.519
100.000
SM - Street Mod - Number of Entries: 41 - Average Per Event: 5.86
1
Tony Lemon
6 100.000
96.656
100.000
100.000
100.000
100.000
2
Mike Matt
7 93.184
89.828
94.713
91.628
92.894
97.751
93.672
SM2 - Street Mod 2 - Number of Entries: 27 - Average Per Event: 3.86
100.000
99.078
100.000
100.000
99.366
100.000
7 87.293
Brett Wilson
1
2
Enrique Garcia
6
98.998
100.000
99.794
99.387
100.000
93.736
T - Street Tire Class - Number of Entries: 83 - Average Per Event: 11.86
Jason Spore
7 99.939
100.000
99.050
99.961
98.060
100.000
99.084
1
2
Keith Mandel
7 100.000
99.705
100.000
96.782
95.596
97.311
96.504
6 94.389
97.699
97.288
94.540
97.467
100.000
John Kimball
3
4
Brett Spore
7 92.665
97.388
97.497
92.707
96.021
98.250
96.552
5
Christopher Kmetz
6 92.536
97.893
91.581
96.875
98.745
99.219
6
Joel Ferguson
7 91.788
92.361
93.429
87.009
95.938
81.782
96.485
TL - Street Tire Ladies - Number of Entries: 11 - Average Per Event: 1.57
1
Erika Cowan
7 92.153
100.000
100.000
100.000
91.872
100.000
95.480
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Total Pts.
597.630
596.729
591.945
600.000
595.052
576.679
573.574
600.000
599.661
586.972
400.000
593.754
579.323
569.792
100.000
599.896
584.291
582.795
450.589
597.156
596.540
587.330
572.737
572.730
528.431
493.294
600.000
586.605
596.656
563.842
598.444
591.915
598.034
590.302
581.383
578.415
576.849
557.010
587.633
OPAX - Open PAX - Number of Entries: 141 - Average Per Event: 20.14 (top)
Ron Bauer
6 100.000
100.000
100.000
100.000
1
Kevin Dietz
7 99.043
100.000
99.519
99.798
98.435
2
Fastmike Lillejord
7 98.506
99.611
99.540
99.440
99.378
3
4
Glen Hernandez
6 99.239
98.886
99.943
98.200
96.605
5
Kyle Freiheit
7 95.044
98.418
97.605
99.270
97.504
6
Joe Goeke
6 98.225
97.885
97.268
94.220
97.042
7
Jim Daniels
6 92.720
97.593
92.930
97.597
8
Brian Norton
6 95.278
95.421
96.559
96.810
94.837
9
Shelbi Zigler
6 95.015
95.569
96.299
93.028
96.490
10
Alan Dahl
7 90.716
96.566
90.097
91.177
96.436
11
Tim Irwin
7 91.871
90.521
93.697
91.295
90.500
12
Eric Hanson
6 92.745
89.905
93.184
91.414
88.400
OPAXL - Open PAX Ladies - Number of Entries: 36 - Average Per Event: 5.14
1
Jodi Fordahl
6 100.000
100.000
100.000
99.228
2
Annie Bauer
7 98.987
99.850
99.217
94.955
100.000
3
Gretchen Everett
7 97.663
97.023
96.265
99.235
98.293
NSPAX - Non-Stock Pax - Number of Entries: 8 - Average Per Event: 1.14
1
Sean Green
6 100.000
93.555
100.000
100.000
100.000
NSPAXL - Non-Stock Pax Ladies - Number of Entries: 14 - Average Per Event: 2.00
1
Brianne Green
6 95.663
96.314
100.000
100.000
100.000
2
Lou Ann Christensen
5 100.000
98.076
97.533
99.073
98.894
100.000
89.517
97.023
0.000
98.177
92.364
92.498
100.000
99.601
97.695
100.000
100.000
100.000
99.881
99.373
99.228
94.499
96.815
94.180
91.416
95.509
90.527
92.684
100.000
99.044
99.634
100.000
598.894
598.241
595.848
589.896
587.069
579.139
575.832
573.085
567.817
562.768
550.409
548.332
599.228
596.699
589.543
593.555
591.977
494.682
NWR competitors at the Canadian Championships include Denise Williamson (front row, far left), Tasha Mikko (back
row, far left), Amber Miller (front row, third from left) and Karina Miller (front row, far right).
Region’s autocrossers invade Canada
Northwest Region drivers did quite
well in the Canadian Championships,
bringing home the following trophies:
Mark Snell, first, A Super Stock
Val Korry, third, Super Sport
Jill Snell, second, A Super Stock
Ladies
Denise Williamson, first, E Stock
Ladies
Keith Brown, first, G Stock
Kristi Brown, first, G Stock Ladies
Scott Miller, first, H Stock
Karina Miller, first, H Stock Ladies
Peter Umino, second, B Street Prepared
Shane Jensen, first, Touring 1
Glen Hernandez, third, Touring 1
Doug Mikko, fourth, Touring 1
Tasha Mikko, first, Touring 1 Ladies
Kimm Jensen, second, Touring 1
Ladies
Karl Coleman, first, Touring 2
Amy Coleman, first, Touring 2
Ladies
Karl Coleman won the “Top Gun”
award for having the top PAX time for
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the event.
Amy Coleman reported: “VCMC put
on a spectacular event with lots of sponsors and prizes and a wonderful banquet. This club really went out of their
way to make us feel welcome at their
event. We ran on the brand new asphalt
at their driving facility, which was VERY
nice. They plan to expand this paved
surface for next year. Their club is topnotch and I encourage our autocross
community to look into attending
VCMC events in the future.”
Keith Brown, Annie Bauer,
Amy Coleman title at Topeka
John Steflik photo
Keith Brown brought home a first-place trophy in D Prepared from the 2007 SCCA Solo National Championships.
Forty-three Northwest Region members took the “Road to Topeka” for the
National Championships held a Heartland Park, Sept. 25-29. Congratulations
to our national Champions: Annie Bauer
(CSL), Amy Coleman (STXL) and Keith
Brown (DP)! Twenty trophies were
earned by Nor’westers. The complete
list of trophy winners follows.
Super Stock: third, Kevin Dietz;
13th, Glen Hernandez
A Stock: 10th, Alan Dahl
B Stock: eighth, Joe Goeke; 10th,
Glenn Austin
C Stock: second, Mike Lillejord
C Stock Ladies: first, Annie Bauer;
third, Shelbi Zigler
E Stock: eighth, Jodi Fordahl
G Stock Ladies: fourth Kristi Brown
Street Touring S2 Ladies: second,
Kim Littke
Street Touring Xtreme: fourth,
Karl Coleman
Street Touring Xtreme: first, Amy
Coleman
Street Touring Ultra: 13th, Geoff
Clark
F Street Prepared: 10th, Jake Russell
A Street Prepared: second, Geoff
Newman
C Street Prepared: eighth, Ron
Bauer
D Prepared: first, Keith Brown;
fifth, Chris Kmetz
F Prepared: second, Greg Fordahl
Thirteen Northwest Region members
took part in the ProSolo Finale on Sept.
21 and 22.
Keith Brown placed first in the Prepared Index class, a precursor to the
Solo National Championships. Mike
Lillejord was the sole NWR member to
advance in the Challenge, bowing out in
the second round.
Three of our Region’s most capable
ladies — Jodi Fordahl, Anna Goeke and
Annie Bauer — chose to compete in the
Open Classes, rather than the Ladies
Classes. Finishing positions are listed
below.
Super Stock: fifth, Kevin Dietz;
14th, Jerry Lee
B Stock: sixth, Joe Goeke
C Stock: third, Mike Lillejord;
fourth, Annie Bauer
E Stock: fifth, Jodi Fordahl; seventh,
Anna Goeke
Street Touring X: third, Karl Coleman: fourth, Alec Osenbach
C Street Prepared: sixth, Ron
Bauer; seventh, Jim Daniels
Prepared Index: first, Keith Brown
One Event: fifth, Gretchen Everett
Challenge Second Round: Mike
Lillejord
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Northwest Region team
autocross competition
New this year is team competition,
brainchild of Mark Snell. Four-member
teams accumulate points based on finishing position in class, with a bonus
point in each event for the closest winning margin, smallest variation in raw
times, and for fewest team penalties.
Through the first six events, team
Tight-N-Tidy leads team Dork by 2
points. (No, I didn’t make up these
names….) Totals are as follows:
Tight-N-Tidy: 175
Dork: 173
Top Loaders: 162
Apex Sharks: 135
Team members include:
Tight-N-Tidy: Karl Coleman, Amy
Coleman, Kevin Dietz, Annie Bauer
Dork: Dieter Beldi, Brett Wilson, Enrique Garcia, Ron Bauer
Top Loaders: Kristi Brown, Jodi
Fordahl, Gretchen Everett, Erika
Karl Coleman of team Tight-n-Tidy
discusses a run in Packwood.
Cowen
Apex Sharks: Scott Miller, Brett
Spore, Mike Leuty, Mark Snell
Babbs, Clark win
at NORPAC
Divisional No. 3,
Helena, Mont.
Four Northwest Region and four
Oregon Region members made the
trek to Helena for the last leg of the
Divisional Series on Sept. 15 and 16.
The event site is adjacent to the Helena Airport, and features a large,
rectangular patch of smooth, grippy
asphalt, with sections of runway and
taxiway, making for an entertaining
course.
Ron and Karen Babb won first and
second place in D Modified, while
Geoff Clark and Dick Willy took first
and second in Street Touring Ultra.
Also, Oregon Region members
Tom Kotzian and Doug Barrett
placed first and second in Super
Stock, Jim Daniels won C Street Prepared and Tami Daniels placed first
in CSP Ladies.
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How do we keep you happy?
R
ETAINING MEMBERS: Previously I talked about acquiring
new members in Northwest Region, SCCA. I need to take that one step
further and briefly talk about keeping
the members we now have. No venue
(Race, Rally, Time Trials or Solo) can
function without workers. In some instances we are fortunate to have competitors who will double as volunteer
workers. That is not always the case.
There is a core of faithful volunteers
that keep coming back ... sometimes for
decades as course workers. I applaud
those folks deeply.
We lose a few of people every year ...
both old-timers and newcomers. That’s
unfortunate. The issue is, how do we
keep them for the duration?
Some of what I have written was reinforced by Char McBee who wrote “To
Lead Is to Serve” (Library of Congress,
2002, TXU 574 712, ISBN 0-963860-2-2).
I got my copy through the National Office, SCCA.
LISTENING: Whether we are a
leader or a co-worker, it is very important to listen to what people have to say.
That is actually an art. One gets more
done by listening than talking. Many
good suggestions have come from
those working corners, road marshals,
working registration, etc. Volunteers
need to feel important. Every question
deserves an answer.
ATTITUDE: Our attitude as leaders
or as workers is all-important. A sense
of humor is a great thing but flippant remarks and non-factual answers are really uncalled for. Even long-time volunteers who have not worked a position
for a long time may need answers and
should not be taken for granted no matter how well you know them or how
dumb the question may sound.
PASSING THE BUCK: It is OK to
pass the question, decision or request
on to someone higher in the pecking
order of the organization if you don’t
know the answer or if you’re not comfortable making certain decisions.
There is usually someone out there
who can answer the question or resolve
the issue. Making up an answer is unacceptable. Blowing off the question doesn’t work either.
RETRAINING: There will always
be some “know-it-alls” in your midst;
those who use a lot of profanity, talk
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very loudly when not necessary or
those who come off as the source of all
information. They may belittle the leadership or co-workers. They downgrade
the system in front of others. That sort
of behavior needs to be curbed. It disenchants newcomers and makes our regulars wonder why they are there. Fortunately, most of members are not that
way, but one such person can do a lot of
damage to the mission.
The blow-hard needs to be taken
aside and retrained. If that doesn’t
work, maybe that person needs a different job.
In my view, we are very professional
and highly organized institution. Bad attitudes and bad manners take away
from that image. How does not being
professional look to others? How do
they perceive us?
SUPPORTING NEWER MEMBERS: We all need to treat each other
with a great deal of respect. Most of us
do. It is important to spend some time
with the new people coming into our
ranks so they understand what it is they
are to do. They will go home with a feeling of accomplishment and usually
come again. Pre-event training sessions
are really good. We usually try to put
new volunteers with experienced workers so the tasks are explained in detail.
Longtime volunteers need to be clear
on this issue.
The “team concept” is a good term.
We all work together to accomplish the
main mission. No one is any more important than anyone else. It takes all of
us to make it happen. We all need to feel
a part of the team. We all need to feel
that the mission outcome was well
done.
GOALS: Leadership at all levels
must set goals. This concept must be
passed on to the rank and file. Without
that, the mission is not clear at several
levels. The absence of goals leaves a
lack of direction and frustration with
membership.
FOLLOW-UP: When a good volunteer leaves it may be due to burnout or
even bad public relations somewhere
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along the line. Why not call them or
write them and encourage them back
into the club? Paying them a visit would
be even better. Again, it is very important to listen to what they have to say
and when they give reasons why they
may have left. Maybe there is a simple
fix that would solve their issues with us.
Maybe we are doing something wrong.
Maybe their feelings were hurt.
RECOGNITION: Everyone likes to
be recognized for his or her efforts.
Some don’t like to stand up in a crowd.
Whatever works for that person is important to them even if they shrug it
off.
HUMOR: A good laugh is great. It
lowers stress and breaks down walls
and apprehensions, especially for newcomers. Make sure the humor does not
take away from the message that was
intended. It cannot be degrading or embarrassing to the listener(s). Profanity
or off-color remarks are unacceptable
unless all within earshot are known to
be good with what you are saying. Be
very careful with this as it can create
problems for you, our membership, and
the club. Best just to avoid sensitive remarks.
REWARDS: Everyone who works
as a volunteer on any of our events
needs to feel rewarded. That can be a
Christmas party, door prizes, a T-shirt,
a goodie bag, etc. Free things are good.
Can we get sponsors for our get-together so that attendees don’t have to pay to
get in or eat? What about handouts on
the track; i.e.: water, snacks, lunches,
rain parkas, etc. Our annual awards are
a really good thing. Tell the volunteers:
“Good job”?
We talked about this last article, so I
won’t dwell on the subject. A verbal pat
on the back is better than nothing.
CONCLUSIONS: Much of what I
have written is based McBee’s book but
a lot of it has to what I have observed
over several years in the sport. Bottom
line: Treat folks as you would like to be
treated. Remember when you first started out in this club? There were good coworkers and good leaders and then
some who were not. Which will you be?
I would like to hear your comments.
Please free to write or better yet e-mail
me at [email protected] or call 360352-3204.
Pomeroy will be Wild West’s new home
T
he Rally America Wild West Rally
moved to the small Eastern
Washington town of Pomeroy.
There were two reasons for the move.
First was Green Diamond Resources’
action in closing their roads to future rallies. The second, and most important
reason, was an invitation from Alesia
Ruchert from the Palouse Economic Development Council to put on a rally in
Garfield County. We have used Green Diamond Resource (Simpson Timber Co.)
roads for over 30 years under an annual
contact with them. It meant starting all
over. I took a trip over to the Palouse to
check out the roads they said were available on the map they sent. All of the
roads were county roads in excellent
condition. Some were way too fast and
others just right. I reported my findings
to the Wild West committee and Pacific
Rally Group. The trips to Pomeroy, the
Garfield County seat, began.
We had meetings with the county commissioners, the sheriff, the prosecuting
attorney, the county engineer and of
course, Ruchert. The best thing about
the folks in Pomeroy and Garfield County is they are very nice and very helpful.
Also, everyone knows everyone. In the
meetings, it was made very clear that the
welcome mat was out and if we put on a
good event we would be welcome to
make the Wild West Rally an annual
event in Pomeroy and Garfield County.
After numerous trips to Pomeroy to lay
out the course, make connections with
local businesses and meet as many of the
local folks as possible, we were asked to
bring a rally car to the Garfield County
Fair the weekend of Sept. 15. Three of
our rally teams stepped up to the plate
and had their cars on display. Paul Eklund’s yellow Subaru, Steve Greer’s wild
Irish green Subaru and Erik Lyden’s
newly built silver Subaru were the hit of
the fair. Ruchert said the attendance was
the best they have experienced in years.
Finally, after a limited amount of time
to plan, and numerous organizer meetings in my office, it was rally weekend.
The large group of volunteers from all
over Washington, Oregon and other
areas went to Pomeroy. We had press
from Walla Walla, Pullman, Pomeroy and
Lewiston, Idaho, come to take rides in
rally cars, take action photos and interview the rallyists on Friday’s press day.
The Lewiston TV station’s sports reporter showed up with a cameraman and
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ASSISTANT RE, RALLY
interviewed Steve and Kelly Greer and
Todd Hartmann and Shawn Callahan.
She also filmed many of the cars that
were available. The station ran the story
on their evening news. After tech at Tom
Herres’ Chevrolet dealership and registration at the Garfield County Fairgrounds, many of the folks headed to the
welcome party at one of our local sponsors, the Up and Up Bar and Grill. There
was lots of finger food and everyone had
a good time.
Saturday started with a Parc Expose in
a city parking lot behind the Up and Up.
The Up and Up had a breakfast buffet
and most of us ate heartily. The cars
started at 10 a.m. and headed for the first
stage east of Pomeroy. This was also the
morning spectator stage.
I went to the spectator area and found
around 100 folks waiting for the rally cars
to appear. The sheriff was also there with
a radar gun. Unfortunately two of the
crowd favorites, Steve Greer (rolled) and
Erik Lyden (hit a bank at the same instruction) did not make it to the spectator area. The fast car, according to Sheriff Larry Bowles, was Todd Hartmann at
99 and 120 mph.
The afternoon spectator area at an area
called New York Gulch was just as popular. Once again, Sheriff Bowles was using
his radar and once again, Hartmann was
fastest. The day ended with a barbecue at
the fairgrounds. Pomeroy Foods and the
Palouse Economic Development Council
provided finger food and Kim Craddock,
Northwest Region treasurer and PRG
head, and her family provided meats for
the barbecue. Lynn Needham finished
the scores and Eklund was first.
Sunday started at the Garfield County
Fairgrounds, the location for service and
many folks who were camping. The cars
headed southwest and ran three stages
twice.
The first stage was a clay road with little gravel and we were concerned that if
it rained the road would be impassable. It
did not rain.
The second stage climbed to more
than 3,700 feet and featured a fast finishing straight. The fastest car was clocked
at 108 mph.
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The third stage was shortened due to
concerns of a local but still featured a
good spectator area.
The weather was cold and there
weren’t as many spectators. Those who
did come had great show and when I followed the sweep team out I saw there
were many locals who were watching at
other locations.
The rally finished early Sunday afternoon and Subaru Northwest arranged
the awards dinner with the Sagebrush
Grill. The food was excellent. Needham,
once again, finished the scores quickly
and they were posted on time.
There were no queries and the awards
were made with special awards to Ruchert for all of her hard work and the people of Garfield County for being so great.
Two of the county commissioners, Dean
Burton and Butch Klaveano, had volunteered and were present so I presented
the award to them. Eklund and Jeff Price
won the award for the overall victory for
the two days of the Wild West Rally.
Monday was the meeting with county
commissioners and Grant Morgan, the
county engineer. I presented each of
them with a copy of the route book, supplemental regulations, the safety plan,
my welcome letter and service crew instructions so they could see what documents we used to put on the event. I also
gave a short report on the success of the
event.
They expressed their pleasure at how
professional all of the volunteers were,
including newly recruited local folks.
They were amazed to see 11 sweep vehicles with EMTs, medics and nurses on
board, including a number of local volunteers. They were pleased with the impressed with the good behavior of the
rally teams including the service crews.
A fairgrounds worker said that if the
other users left the place as nice as we
did, she wouldn’t have a job. The commissioners and the county engineer
agreed that they wanted us to return.
Conclusions
I have helped organize rallies here, in
Oregon, in Nevada and Jamaica. The
folks in Pomeroy and Garfield County
made the 2007 Wild West Rally one of
the easiest and most fun to organize of
any event I have worked on. We will return next year with a Rallycross in conjunction with their fair and the Wild
West Rally the following weekend.
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Northwest Region Time Trials Championship entrants (left to right) are Mark McCloskey, Scott Hicks, Matt
Chambers, Brian Holsten. Ed Allen, Mario Brown and Scott Norton.
Team Northwest Time Trialers return
with gold, silver, bronze from NorPac
T
he second annual NorPac Divisional Time Trials Championship was held on Sept. 15 and
16 at the Reno-Fernley Raceway in
Nevada. The event was again hosted
by the Reno Region. This year the event
included a PDX in addition to the Club
Trials and Track Trials championships.
The 65 entrants enjoyed “chamber of
commerce” weather over the two days of
racing and driving fun. The event used
the Reno-Fernley Raceway B and G
courses, which are two of the 15 different RFR track configurations. The PDX
and Club Trials used the G course and
the Track Trials used the more challenging and technical B course. There were
five Club Trials and eight Track Trials
champions decided this year.
The closest Time Trials race of the
weekend belonged to the Track Trials
TT-3 production class. The Northwest
Region’s Mario Brown won the NorPac
TT-3 Championship by a mere .047 seconds over Reno Region’s Jeffrey Denson. It doesn’t get much closer than that
folks! After being down by .2 of a second after day one, Brown found the
speed and the line needed to make up
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ASSISTANT RE, TIME TRIALS
the difference on day two. This race
group had everyone’s attention. The
combined times from the two days of
racing were used to decide the divisional championship in each class for both
the Club Trials and Track Trials events.
The overall fastest lap time of the
weekend belonged to the Northwest
Region’s own Brian “Big Dog” Holsten, driving the well prepared Mystic
Cobra Mustang. Brian turned in an extremely fast lap of 2:19.876 on the B
course and was clocked at 140 mph on
the front straight by radar gun. Brian’s
in-car video can be seen at
http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc
id=7856293404967793615&hl=en and
http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc
id=-2526683815933801224&hl=en.
This year, seven drivers from the
Northwest Region made the long (but
rewarding) trek to participate in this
popular and growing event. This year’s
representation of the NWR is more than
double from last year’s inaugural Time
Trials Championship event where
there were only three NWR drivers
making the long haul to participate and
represent our region.
This year, Northwest Region drivers
managed to place first (four times), second, third and fourth in Track Trials
competition. They were Holsten (first
place TT-1), Ed Allen (second place TT1), Brown (first place TT-3), Matt Chambers (third place TT-3), Scott Hicks
(fourth place TT-3), Scott Norton (first
place TT-4) and Mark McCloskey (first
place GT3).
All of these drivers would like to give
a very special “thank you” to the Reno
Region’s Dave and Carol Deborde for all
their hard work to put on this great
event and to all of the volunteers of the
event for their efforts in making it happen. They are all looking forward to
coming back again next year.
They would also like to see the number of Northwest Region drivers attending the 2008 NorPac Time Trials Championship grow as much as it did from
year one to year two!
Nominations for NWR board now open
NORTHWEST REGION STAFF
Nominations for officers on the Board
of Directors for Northwest Region,
SCCA are open during the month of October. Any member in good standing
with NWR-SCCA may nominate any
other member in good standing of NWR
for open positions on the BoD.
The positions open for election or reelection are: assistant regional executive (ARE), secretary, treasurer and two
members-at-large on that board.
AREs for Solo, Race, Time Trials and
Rally will be appointed by the RE after
the elections are final. Our newsletter
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displays the names of current officers.
Elections will occur in November and
winners will take office Jan. 1, 2008.
Elected positions are for two years.
Nomination must be in writing if not
made at the BoD meeting. E-mail nominations to Frank Hamilton or fax to 360352-0716.
Car counts drop, but season still successful
W
e have reached the end of
another race season. I won’t
say it was a great success as
our car counts were even lower than
usual for most events, but it was a good
season. I do, however, have to give a big
thank you to our Time Trial drivers as
they supported us in fine fashion. Especially the last event, where thanks to
Club Trials they outnumbered the racers, or at least came close to it.
We are always looking for ways to improve our program, so if you have any
ideas please get me your suggestions as
soon as possible. Please be aware that
since we have to have our schedule done
before December, suggestions may not
take effect this year but they will be
worked on for the following season.
A thanks to all our workers who
turned out to help us this year and those
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ASSISTANT RE, RACE
drivers who helped with the teardown of
Bremerton. This worked really well and
we will be asking you for your help
again next year as it makes everyone’s
life easier. We may also be willing to
give a free entry to any driver who is
willing to stay late and drive the forklift.
It takes about 3 hours to get all the barricades put away.
We have the annual Race Awards
Party coming up at 6 p.m. Nov. 17 at
Bison Creek Pizza in Burien. (If people
want it elsewhere, please get suggestions for next year to Sherri or I before
June 2008.)
Awards will be presented to class
champions, driver of the year, worker of
the year, novice of the year, most improved driver, the Bernie Doud Sportsmanship Award and the Pat Pigott
Award. We will also be giving awards to
workers who attended every day of
every event again this year and recognizing all of our specialty chiefs. Please
plan to attend.
The annual supplementals meeting is
scheduled for Oct. 22 at Andy’s Diner in
Seattle. If you have any changes, additions or questions about our supps, now
is the time to ask. If you can’t attend the
meeting, please send me an e-mail or
give me a call with your suggestions.
Play safe and have fun.
Contact Assistant Race RE Tom
Masterson at [email protected].
Root for the region at Runoffs
A
s this is being written, I should
be preparing for the Solo nationals and soon after the
Runoffs but again this year I will be in
Portland, Ore., tending to family business and I ask for your understanding.
Another column championed the 23
Oregon region racers who are going to
the Runoffs, and here is where the 10
from the Northwest Region get the tipof-the-helmet for attending the Runoffs
this year.
Tune in to Speed this November and
cheer for Ryan Ennis in the black No.
9 in E Production.
In Formula Ford, Larry Bangert
will do the honors in his No. 18 along
with one of “Jack’s Boys” Mark Keller
in his blue and orange No. 60. Formula
Vee finds Dennis Andrade in his blue
No. 87 hoping to crack the top 10.
FM has Lucian Pancea in the bluewhite-yellow No. 78 while T-2 has Ed
Zabinski looking to medal again in No.
79.
T-3 has Jerold Lowe in green No. 21
along with the irrepressible and humble
Scotty B. White in his T-1 black and
silver No. 35. GT-2 has “Gentleman”
Jim Walsh in his blue and white
Directly Duck
H. “DUCK” ALLEN
AREA 13 DIRECTOR
Porsche No. 96.
Of course, all eyes will be on SM No.
30 with NORPAC driver of the year Andrew Caddell, who is the defending
national champion, at the wheel. Caddell has been on the Pro-MX-5 circuit all
year. He is fresh off another win at the
season-ending round in Salt Lake City,
which clinched second place in season
points (and hopefully rookie of the
year).
The TV package for the Runoffs is
ready to be signed as this is written. It is
not ideal, with the same broadcast times
as this year, but it does allow Pro to go
on in 2008.
The budget for Pro is tracking close,
but President Jim Julow promised in the
last BOD call, no funds from Inc. (the
club side) will be used for Pro this year.
The budget for the club side is doing
well. The bottom line will be impacted
by Heartland Park not reaching the target for Run-Offs entries, but at year’s
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end, the budget should still finish in the
black.
On the subject of Heartland Park and
the Run-Offs, the gasoline vendor problem was not fixed as promised. Competitors won’t have 93-octane fuel, so they’ll
have to run the higher priced 100-octane. The situation, along with another
year of having no land-line for the RunOffs, makes Heartland Park something
less than the first-class facility the RunOffs requires. Stay tuned as the RunOffs bids go out in 2008.
A huge tip-of-the-helmet goes out to
the Reno Region for hosting the second
annual NORPAC Time Trials event in
Mid-September. Carol and Dave Deborde and Jim Gandy, please take a bow for
hosting this event for our division.
If you plan to attend the 2008 National
convention in San Antonio, register soon
as there is a shortage of rooms. This has
led to moving the 2009 convention to a
warmer desert-like setting closer to
Area 13. Tune in next month, after the
deal is signed, for the exact location, but
trust me, everyone will want to attend.
It is not too soon to start thinking
about Reno in January!
Until next month, Duck out.
2007 WILD WEST INTERNATIONAL RALLY
Pacific
Rally Group
takes its show
to Palouse Country
P
Shadd Foster and Pat Harris finished third overall after the first day of timed stages and eighth overall on day two.
story by Ron Sorem, contributing editor | photos by Cody Crane, contributing photographer
OMEROY — The banner
on the Web site reads: Wild
West Heads East! The 2007
version of Wild West accepted an invitation from the
“Friendly City of Pomeroy,” Garfield
County and the Economic Development
Council of the Palouse to bring Stage
Rally to the southeast corner of Washington Sept. 28-30. Pacific Rally Group
provided the organization, Rally America provided the sanction, Subaru Western Region provided the backing and
Pomeroy provided the hospitality.
I didn’t arrive in Pomeroy until toward
the end of the Press Stage, and had to
check-in, get waivered, etc., so I missed
the TV crew, but I heard about it the
next day while talking to one of the
many enthusiastic locals, who said they
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had tried repeatedly to get the news gal
into Paul Eklund’s car for a trip up the
hill. She wouldn’t do it, but her videographer caught a ride, to get the spot out to
viewers. There were several other
media teams present and all of them
took multiple rides in different cars.
Brown Gulch road was the Press
Stage on Friday. Just up the hill about a
mile, just above the fairgrounds. Several
of the competitors on the Press Stage
had been in town the previous weekend
for a parade during the Garfield County
Fair. Pomeroy’s paper had articles and
descriptions (including a better map
than mine) of the stages, and directions
for spectating. Walla Walla’s Sunday
paper had a front-page, full-width,
above-the-fold, picture of the Press
Stage hairpin... Lewiston television had
several spots, and an article on their
Web site. PRG’s own Alan Perry was the
media wrangler for Wild West, and onsite Web reporter, posting updates
throughout the event, on times, incidents, conditions, and competitor comments.
Saturday, Wild West carried the title
of the Jerry Moon Sou’wester Regional
Rally as a Coefficient 3. All of Saturday’s
roads were north of town, south of the
Snake River. Wild West 2007 just
scratched the surface in a wealth of possibilities. Top speed approaching Spectator One, at 6.34 miles into “Malone,”
SS1 and SS3, (verified by an ear-to-eargrinning sheriff) was 102 mph, in a VW
Golf GTI, by Todd Hartmann and
Shawn Callahan, coming down the hill
into an acute right (with guardrails and
a ditch on exit — don’t ask me how I
know about the ditch...)
“Connell Hill” was SS2 and SS4, and
included some very fast “drive-by” cows
early in the stage. Different from the
“Flying Finish Cows” on Malone, who
needed soothing white-noise from a
generator, the Connell Hill Cows were
right on the fence, feeding on hay,
watching the cars blow the slobber off their neighbors’ noses.
Apparently different cows.
In the middle of “Connell
Hill,” at 2 miles from the
start flag, the instruction
reads: (Double Caution)
Slight Crest, into 90 Left,
around Barn, into HPR, Off
Camber. “Around Barn”?
Yes, over crest into square
left, between a big
red
barn
wall and
a big
Driving a 1970 BMW 2002 in the G2 class, Mark Fox and Jake Blattner took
second in G2 on day one and third on day two.
brown dirt wall there is a 12-foot wide
road. This looks more like 6-foot wide
and blind at speed. “Don’t Cut!!!” A
half-mile climb through
several kinks reaches
“Mountain Top” and the
instruction: “Keep Right
over Crest, Off Camber”
— a recurring theme —
followed by a “Triple
Caution 90 Left, Road
Drops” ... with exposure.
From here to FF the
road is ver y
w i d e ,
slightly
Wild West Rally
winner Paul Eklund
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crowned, a bit marbley and very fast.
Ser vice was available at the fairgrounds after each pair of stages in the
morning, and each three-stage loop in
the afternoon.
Spectator areas on Saturday just kept
getting more crowded. On “New York,”
SS5 and SS8, in the afternoon, the first
run had half a dozen cars for “000.” Second run, as “New York, New York”, I
lost count. There were folks in lawn
chairs from a half-mile before, to a bit
after the turn, behind the fence, on the
hill, enjoying a great panoramic of
“slight downhill, into one-right, drops,”
then briefly out of sight around a “Double Caution long hairpin right, with exposure both sides,” opening into a long
sweeping run up and over the crest, disappearing into the wheat fields. There
were only a few seconds from the last
view of one car over the crest until another car arrived to do it again. The
wind acted as natural air conditioning
and cleared the dust. Elevation varied from just under 1,200 feet at the
start to 1,927 on top of the wheat
ABOVE: The Subaru Impreza wagon of Erik Lyden and Kathryn Hansen went wide and plowed hard into a bank in an
explosion of Palouse dirt. BELOW: Momentarily distracted by the Lyden-Hansen accident, the Subaru Impreza coupe
of Steve Greer and Kelly Greer hit the same bank and rolled.
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fields, to just over 1,200 at the finish, in
9.32 miles.
“Willow Gulch,” covering 7.17 miles
for SS6 and SS9, began uphill and continued in “looser gravel,” gaining nearly
400 feet in the first 2.4 miles, then
steadily descending to a deep dip at
Breakdown Gulch, climbing again to a
“double caution crest” and sharp drop
into a slightly relocated Flying Finish —
to avoid both the snakes and the cars.
A very short transit along Meadow
Creek Road led to “Heaton Gulch,” SS7
and SS10, shortest stage of the day, at
4.57 miles. Elevation gain was nearly
1,000 feet, with a sharp drop over blind
crest to the Flying Finish, and a Quiet
Zone passing homes for the shy mile
from FF to Main Street, Pomeroy.
Sunday was the Lewis and Clark
Stages Regional Rally at Coefficient 2.
Sunday’s roads, south of Pomeroy, have
been seen by a few TSD rallies in recent
years, but not always in this direction
and definitely not at these speeds.
Marengo Road’s twisting pavement
climbed to “Oliphant” eastbound, SS1
and SS4. Twisting along the edge of the
plateau offered occasional views down
to the Tucannon River. Flying Finish
was just short of the Tumalum CreekSmith Grade to Linville-Neibel-Bartels
intersection from No Alibi. Elevation
ranged from a high of just under 3,000,
to a low of just over 2,200.
“Linville Gulch,” SS2 and SS5, runs a
quick 4.47 miles along Bartels-Linville
Ridge to past the radio towers, south of
Tatman Mountain (3,565 feet), just near
the corner of Columbia County, finishing at Mountain Road. Flying Finish
eastbound was flat over a small crest,
after climbing through left-right section
lines and dipping in and out of small
coulees. Top speed Sunday coming into
this as FF5 (again courtesy of the
Garfield County sheriff) was 108 mph,
by No. 223 Malcolm Davies and Bruce
Parker in an Eagle Talon, followed by
107 mph, in No. 233, with Paul Eklund
and Jeff Price in the 2004 Subaru STi,
who by this time had dialed it back a bit
to be certain of a finish. (He won both
days, and overall).
The Start for “Tatman,” SS3 and SS6,
had to be moved down hill, past the
houses (last-minute changes) which
dropped a fantastic, scary-fast-downhill,
but I wouldn’t want to explain why there
was a car in the guy’s house either... The
extended transit from original ATC3
started on dirt, fairly smooth, dropping
through square corners until opening
for a short straight where the road disappeared “right-over-crest into sharpleft drops.” The surface changed to
stone, twisting down through a cut in
the rock and clinging to the edge of a
draw before a tight left at the edge of a
rancher’s lawn, then on past two more
homes, to the new ATC. This downhill
should become a new 4-mile stage in the
future, stopping before the houses. The
revised Tatman became about 4.4 miles
of smooth, flat-out gravel, passing spectator at near top speed 3.28 before FF.
Sunday morning’s light moisture
dried out quickly. The second run of the
three stages saw 2-minute dust windows
for the first time of the weekend.
Course opening was well protected.
Rick Schmeling and Richard Kasten ran
the Mazda RX-7 as “0.” Lee Sorenson
(Sacramento,
Calif.)
and
Walt
The Greer and Lyden Subarus await Sweep after crashing on the same corner on day one of Wild West.
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Wendolowski (Salem, Ore.) ran the Impreza 2.5 wagon as “00” (trading stage
times with the RX-7, so not exactly “slow
pace”). I ran with Walt’s wife Zoe (as in
Zoh, not Zo-ee) in the Legacy Sport as
“000,” pulling double duty as “advance”
and “find someplace to do a HAM relay.”
Since Wild West chief of operations,
John Nispel, was a stage captain for this
event, banner guard was placed, but little of the banner could be set before I
got there as “000,” and even more had
been blown down by the persistent
wind. Unfortunately, course opening
cars didn’t get any spectating time on either day.
Radio communication was troublesome in the steep, narrow, coulees in
this new venue. There was always a
good spot for “Mountain Top” Lee
Chambers, but he couldn’t bend it over
the ridge into the bottom, to reach both
start and finish. Saturday morning was
just northeast of the fairgrounds, so
radio was good, with “Mountain Top”
actually on the mountain top, in the middle of one stage, with nearly line of sight
to the fairgrounds and service. Saturday
afternoon was another story.
The first stage, “New York,” anticipated needing a relay and he was in place.
“Relay One” could hit start but couldn’t
hit finish, an extra “sweep” Ham was
sent into the stage to find a high spot,
while I went on along the route, retying
banner guard, and doing a radio check
every half mile... I lost the first relay,
lost the second relay, couldn’t hear Finish. I continued to Finish, where Jeff
switched over to his hand-held (his mobile wouldn’t get beyond the bumper)
then backtracked into the stage a couple
of miles, to get the second relay, and get
him to move further along the stage to
hit Finish, and Relay One. Viola! Two relays, and another HAM at spectator, for
good measure. It worked, and with that
experience, it wasn’t too surprising that
the same thing happened on the next
stage, “Willow Gulch,” and again on the
last, “Heaton.” All three stages operated
with two relays.
Sunday Communication wasn’t quite
as challenging, but we needed two relays on Oliphant, one relay on Linville.
The shortened Tatman had radio communication from Start to Finish, with
“spectator” along for the ride. “Mountain Top” couldn’t hit Service, so they
sent a radio up the hill north of Highway
12, who could hit Tatman Mountain, setting up a relay for Service.
Attrition is a relative term. There were
Ron Sorem photo
The Wild West Rally has been invited to return next year to Pomeroy in
Garfield County.
two big offs on the first stage Saturday...
“K” right, through a stop sign, don’t cut
because of mailboxes, small crest...
probable air. The Subaru Impreza of
Erik Lyden and Kathryn Hansen hit the
berm VERY hard with left front tire
(pushed nearly into firewall) and
launched into field — 60 feet without
tracks! Did I mention this was a fast
stage? Did not roll, but very hard compression. Driver was very sore later in
the day. Co-driver cut her chin on the
helmet strap somehow and the HANS
worked.
Next car at the same intersection,
Steve Greer and Kelly Greer in another
Impreza, came upon the scene. Both
driver and co-driver were apparently distracted by the first off and missed the
turn, tank slapped rear corner, spun into
berm, snap rolled and landed on hood,
then came to rest on driver door. The
Greers were OK, but at this point there
were apparently still no “OK” signs or
triangles out, although road marshals
were on the scene.
Both crews indicated they were all
right, and both cars were well off into
the field, away from the road. There
were now two cars, four crew, no red
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cross, don’t know about “OK” signs...
Stage was never stopped. After last car,
Sweep went in per usual, and about the
same time one of the “non-injured” decided she was injured, and then full Ecrew, sheriff, fire department and ambulance responded — eventually to town,
then to Lewiston (and back for dinner).
Saturday started with 23; down to 19
by mid afternoon; finished with 14 —
the two big offs, one minor off and the
rest were mechanical. Sunday started
18 and finished 16, both due to mechanical problems — one axle, one unknown
power issue.
Overall acceptance by the town, the
county, the Palouse Economic Development Council, law enforcement, fire and
rescue, eateries, etc. was very enthusiastic. Wild West 2008 will happen again
in Pomeroy, one week earlier, and with a
RallyX at the Fairgrounds the preceding
weekend, during the Garfield County
Fair. (Rally will be the weekend following the Fair, so plan ahead.)
Complete results, photos and links at
www.wildwestrally.org.
View the gallery of Cody Crane’s photos at www.wildwestrally.org/cgal.html
Caddell takes second in MX-5 Cup series
SCCA STAFF REPORT
TOOELE, Utah — Andrew Caddell of
Graham, 2006 Spec Miata Runoffs
champion, battled back from a poor
start to win his second SCCA Pro Racing SIRIUS Satellite Radio MX-5 Cup
race of the season and secure second in
the championship.
Bob Michaelian of Seal Beach, Calif.,
and Todd Buras of Melbourne, Fla.,
completed the top three in the final MX5 Cup race of the season on Sept. 15,
part of the Sunchaser 1000 weekend at
Miller Motosports Park.
Starting from his second pole of the
season, Caddell’s race got off to a rough
start when he missed a shift in his No.
30 Team MER-AimSport-Pinnacle
Mazda MX-5 and fell back to fifth on the
opening lap.
“I missed a shift on the start and I
think I might have caused that wreck
on the front straightaway. I got the third
gear shift and then the third to fourth
gear shift didn’t go in. It was a fight
from there, I was all the way back to
fifth.”
Caddell was lucky however, compared to Jesse Combs, of Woodlands,
Texas, in the No. 7 Coolgas Ltd.-Alara
Racing MX-5, who made heavy contact
with the guardrail on the front straight
at the start of the race. The No. 83
Hooverspeed MX-5 of Kim Ouye from
Monterey, Calif., and the No. 14
Hooverspeed MX-5 of Simona DeSilvestro, from Thun, Switzerland, got together at the start, bumping into
Combs and sending him off course at
speed. Ouye and De Silvestro also
veered off course in the opposite direction, making contact with the opposite
barrier. All three drivers were OK, but
out of the race before turn one.
While his teammate, and new MX-5
Cup champion, Jason Saini took over
the lead of the race, Caddell took advantage of scuffles in front of him to work
his way back up to third on lap five,
when the only full-course caution of the
race would come out for debris on the
front straight.
On the lap eight restart, the No. 80
Hooverspeed-MobiTV MX-5 of Matt
Cross of from Folsom, Calif., became
the new race leader with MER teammates Saini and Caddell hot on his
heels. It was at that point that Saini’s
transmission became stuck in fourth
gear and the No. 28 Autobarn MazdaSaferacer.com MX-5 started to fall back.
Caddell took over the reins with gusto,
passing Cross for the lead the next lap
heading into Turn One and never looking back, setting the Hawk Hot Lap of
the race, a 3:23.144 (79.891 mph).
“I was picking people off one by one,”
Caddell said. “I got by Jason (Saini)
when he started having trouble with his
transmission, then I got by (Matt)
Cross. I had a run on Matt and he
moved back over. I just dove in there
and took a chance. He was making the
track pretty narrow, but I had to get by
him, because I knew once I got by him
we had the better car.
“It feels great. That was probably the
most exciting race and the most frustrating race at the same time. We’re
coming back next year and we’re going
to the Runoffs this year, too.”
With the win, Caddell secured his
runner-up status in the championship,
41 points behind champion Saini.
Malkhassian was the benefactor of a
late-race incident between Cross and
the No. 31 Team MER-Feed the Need
MX-5 of Frankie Muniz of Los Angeles.
The two came together in turn one
while battling for second on lap 10. As
both cars slid off course, Malkhassian
breezed through for the second spot.
While Malkhassian crossed the line
in second, race officials deemed some
of his earlier race actions too aggressive and disqualified him, as well as
Mark Jenkins from the race.
With fierce battles raging throughout
the field, Michaelian had one of the quietest races on the track, starting third
and finishing second following
Malkhassian’s disqualification. It was a
career-best grid and finishing position
for the No. 19 HooverspeedShozilla.com MX-5 driver who got
caught behind Caddell on the start of
the race and fell back to ninth, but kept
his nose clean throughout the 11-lap,
49.346-mile race for his first podium finish.
“I got held up a little bit on the start
and shuffled back,” Michaelian said.
“There was a lot of action going on
ahead of us though, so we got helped
out by some attrition. I’ve got to thank
Jason Hoover for giving me such a good
car that was consistent throughout the
race. There were no mistakes on our
part and we just drove it home to the
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finish.
“This is a great series, so a big thanks
to Mazda for doing this. I definitely
want to run this MX-5 again next year.”
The No. 56 BSI-Team Garcia-MOMOJoe Gibbs MX-5 of Todd Buras from
Melbourne, Fla., and the No. 88 DEXWestern Companies-RPM MX-5 of Salt
Lake City driver Pratt Cole exchanged
positions several times on the final lap,
before Buras, who started from pit lane,
claimed the third-place spot. Cole’s
fourth-place was enough to leap-frog
him to a fourth-place finish in the championship.
Saini nursed his ailing car to a fifthplace finish. Saini clinched the championship in the previous round in TroisRivieres, Quebec, and has won himself
a ride with a Mazda team in next year’s
SCCA SPEED Touring Car Championship.
Starting 29th on the grid, Charles Espenlaub, of Lutz, Fla., charged through
the field and picked up an impressive 22
positions to finish sixth.
Barry Fromberg, Andrew Carbonell,
Rick Bellew and “Grey’s Anatomy” star
Patrick Dempsey completed the top 10.
It was the first top-10 finish for
Dempsey.
Following his incident with Muniz,
Cross continued on to finish 10th on the
track, but following the race, officials
penalized Cross three positions for
blocking, while in the lead.
The penalty dropped Cross to sixth in
the final championship standings, a single point behind Combs, who finished
the season in fifth. Carbonell,
Fromberg, Michaelian and Buras filled
out the top 10 in the championship.
Shortly after technical inspections
concluded, the first annual MX-5 Cup
Pit Crew Challenge took place. Teams
could enter two crew members per car,
who were given the task of installing
the flywheel and transmission without
power equipment and then driving the
car under its own power across the finish line, 20 feet away. Getting the job
done in 6.09 minutes was Alara Racing’s
Jacob Oberg and Mike Yoes, who each
won a Skip Barber Racing School courtesy of Mazda.
All races from the 2007 SCCA Pro
Racing SIRIUS Satellite Radio Mazda
MX-5 Cup season will be broadcast on
SPEED. Check www.mx-5cup. com for
a TV schedule to be posted shortly.
Caddell second at Runoffs
SCCA STAFF REPORT
TOPEKA, Kan. — After finishing runner-up in last year’s Spec Miata race, the
2007 SCCA National Championship
Runoffs Presented by AT&T was sweet
redemption for Brad Rampelberg of San
Jose, Calif., who took the win Oct. 13
over defending Champion Andrew Caddell of Graham. Steve Ott, of Missouri
City, Texas, finished third.
Polesitter Caddell took the early lead
in his No. 30 Saferacer.com Mazda
Miata with the No. 4 HooverSpeed
Mazda Miata of Rampelberg hot on his
tail. For the next two laps, the pair circulated the track glued to each other’s
bumper. On lap four, heading onto the
front straight, Caddell had a slight bobble, giving Rampelberg the momentum
into Turn One, where he would take
over the lead.
“We had a good start,” Rampelberg
said. “Steve Gorriaran gave me a couple
bumps and moved me ahead. I thought
I was going to be able to move past Andrew, so I started to move down, but
then I saw him there and gave him some
room. Andrew led the first couple of
laps, but there was a little river running
down the apex of Turn 14 and I was
squaring it off just a little bit differently
than Andrew and getting on the power
quicker. I think he just got off and on it
once and I was able to get the run on
him on the outside going into Turn
One.”
Shortly thereafter, Chris James’ No.
11
Saferacer.com/SpecMiata.com
Mazda Miata and Andrew Rushing’s No.
33 Applied Racing Tech Mazda Miata
needed to be removed from the Turn
Nine area after separate incidents
brought them to a stop near the wall.
The clean-up required the race to be
black-flagged to allow safety vehicles on
the course.
When green-flag racing resumed, 10
minutes remained on the race clock.
Rampelberg maintained the lead on
the restart, with Caddell hot on his
heels. The pair immediately began to
pull a gap on the rest of the field. Caddell waited until the last lap to make his
move, attempting to take advantage of a
slide by Rampelberg in Turn Nine, but
ended up mirroring his competitor in
more spectacular fashion, sliding completely off the track.
“Andrew was able to go through the
faster stuff a little bit faster than me, so
I knew that was the one place he was
going to try me,” Rampelberg said. “On
the last lap, I knew I had to get through
those final corners well. I got it turned
in at Ten, there was mud on the track
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and I started sliding. I was thinking,
‘This is bad news.’ I gathered it up and I
saw Andrew sliding across my mirrors
and ending up in the dirt and I thought,
‘I got it.’ ”
Caddell returned to the track, but had
lost too much ground to catch Rampelberg, who claimed the Spec Miata National Championship. Cadell would finish 1.252 seconds behind Rampelberg in
second. Ott, in the No. 26 DriverSource/APEX HyPerformance Mazda
Miata finished third after starting seventh.
Steven Gorriaran, of Providence, R.I.,
and Matthew Reynolds, of Boerne,
Texas, completed the top five. Mark
Hoover, of Cameron Park, Calif., earned
the Sunoco Hard Charger Award for advancing 16 positions during the race in
his No. 96 Planet Miata/boxracing.com
Mazda Miata.
With the Spec Miata Championship,
Rampelberg now has a chance to win a
new Mazda MX-5 Cup car and Mazdaspeed parts package courtesy of
Mazda, enabling him to enter the SCCA
Pro Racing SIRIUS Satellite Radio
Mazda MX-5 Cup. Rampelburg will compete against other Mazda champions for
the prize in an off-season shootout.
Caddell won an MX-5 Cup ride for
2007 and finished second in points.
Walsh second
in Runoffs debut
Redmond racer recounts trip to podium
STORY AND PHOTOS
BY JIM WALSH
Contributing reporter
TOPEKA, Kan. — It’s been a long
road from Redmond to here. Seven
SCCA National races got me the NORPAC GT2 Divisional Championship
and an invite to the SCCA National
Championship Runoffs in Topeka.
The August Last Chance National in
Topeka let me see the track for the
first time. Tuesday, Oct. 2 in test week,
I saw the track for the second time.
Then I was off for some personal travel (my sister’s wedding), and back in
town Sunday, Oct. 7, in time to register
and run a single qualifying session
each day from Monday through
Thursday. Two days off, waiting and
watching other races, then at the track
at 6:30 a.m., to ensure the car is ready,
especially with the on and off rain and
mixed weather forecast for the race,
Sunday, Oct. 14.
This was my first Runoffs, and I
made some rookie mistakes in qualifying. Three of the four sessions were
“split sessions” with the GT1 cars,
though we were given 10 minutes
each, the checkered flag seemed to fly
at about the 7-minute mark, always
when I seemed to be heading down
the front straight on a flyer with open
track (finally!) ahead of me. In the final
qualifying session, I missed a shift at a
critical point on my fastest lap, but still
improved a tenth of a second, which
was enough to move me from seventh
to fifth in the incredibly tight GT2 field.
The 8 a.m. GT2 warmup was dry,
but there was a threatening weather
system on the radar. I was feeling
good, feeling relaxed, went out to get
the feel for the track and the car again,
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as it’d been three days since I was on
track. With a 10-minute session, I only
got four laps.
Came in, took a fuel sample in to
make sure we were clear, it came back
fine, looked like the fuel testing problems from earlier in the week were
solved. I heard from one of the fuel
testers that a tank of contaminated fuel
had been delivered early in the week
which had caused a lot of the problems, but they didn’t overturn the
DQ’s of all five unleaded fuel runners
on Monday, so I’m not sure if that was
a rumor or fact.
I have to thank Bill Meyers and Bill
Gail for the weather help, and Jeff Lin
and Dave Sauntry for getting us in
touch with them. Bill Meyers got up at
an unreasonably early hour on the
weekend to give us a personalized
weather forecast, so we were confident
running dry tires for the race, in some
pretty threatening weather conditions,
with a major storm passing us only a few
miles to the west shortly before the race.
Meyers called my crew chief as I was in
pregrid, and again at the start of the race,
with fresh updates. I also need to thank
my No. 1 fan, my wife Penny, my crew
Greg Fordahl and Dave Welch, Sebastian
Gard and the Live Search marketing
team for giving me the best-looking car
of the 700-plus competing at the Runoffs,
Yokohama Tire for awesome Advan tires
and great support and advice throughout
the entire year, and all my supporters
who’ve helped in innumerable ways.
The race itself seemed to go by in a
blur. On pole was last year’s winner Wayland Joe, in another Porsche GT3 Cup,
with Jim Goughary in a Nissan tubeframe to his left. The second row was
Tom Patton, many folk’s choice for this
year’s championship, in a tubeframe V8
Sunbeam Tiger that’s a monster on the
straights, and has surprisingly good
brakes and handling, and to his left Tony
Rivera in a Panoz Esperante GTS. I started in fifth place, on the right side of the
third row, with Mark Plummer in another Panoz Esperante beside me. Behind
me was Jeffrey Moore in a Porsche GT3
Cup, and beside him was Gerald Mason
in a Nissan tubeframe car.
We had two pace laps, I worked hard
to get heat into my tires and brakes —
the Yokohama slicks have great grip and
will last through the race if I don’t overheat them, but they can feel pretty squirrely on the first lap or two before they’re
up to temperature.
The pace car turned into the pits, and
we went around the last two corners
onto the front straight, with crew chief
Fordahl on the radio carefully watching
the starter, who he knew had a tendency
to throw the green early. “GREEN
GREEN GREEN” on the radio and I got
a good start, pulling away from Mark
Plummer on my left and gaining on
Rivera, but with the V8 in the Panoz he
was beside me entering “Alpha,” the
kink before turn 1. I saw Patton lift early,
so I thought I might get a run down the
inside, but when we crested the hill, Patton was only a few feet from the right
edge of the track, no room to squeeze in,
so I had to tuck in behind him. Rivera
and Plummer in two Panozes kept in it,
with Plummer trying to get between Patton on the right and Rivera on the left,
but carrying more speed than both of
them. I’m not sure if he locked up his
brakes or not, but I think he tagged
Rivera in the back right and definitely
got Patton in the back left. I saw Patton
spinning to the left, and Rivera spinning
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to the right in front of Patton’s car. I
tucked to the far right edge of the track,
with Rivera coming across sideways
right in front of me. I tapped the brakes
to avoid him, and the outward momentum in the right-hander pulled Rivera
back to the left, and I was by without a
scratch, in third place!
Joe and Goughary had gotten through
cleanly in front of the melee, so I was 4
or 5 seconds back with a bad run out of
turn 2, but I hunkered down and worked
on chasing down Goughary in his Nissan. Those tubeframe cars are awful fast,
but I was thinking that with pressure on
him, he might overdrive his tires.
I didn’t know how banged up the three
cars were, or whether they were back on
course, as turn 1 is over the hill so my
crew couldn’t see from pit lane. When it
was announced over the P.A. that the
three cars were off and heavily damaged, my crew was expecting a fullcourse yellow, which was finally thrown
near the end of the second lap. We then
had four very long laps behind the pace
car. I was working constantly to keep the
heat in my tires to get a good restart.
Every time the pace car would come
around the back part of the track, I’d be
sure that the cars must have been pulled
away by now, but it was turn down the
On the GT2 podium, Jim Walsh (left), winner Wayland Joe and third-place finisher Jeffrey Moore are nothing but
smiles.
front start to start another lap.
Finally, the lights on the pace car were
off, and we restarted, I expected Wayland Joe to take off as soon as he hit the
front straight and not wait for the green
flag, which is exactly what happened,
but Goughary was right behind, and I
was on Goughary’s heels, so we all had a
good run when the green flew, with no
chance for overtaking. I started pushing
hard on Goughary, he was running fast
for a few laps and I was working hard to
keep up, but I stayed within a second or
two of him the entire time. I finally got
right on him and I could tell that his tires
were starting to go, and he was starting
to have problems keeping his line
through the corners.
I was relentless, trying to push him
into making a mistake, and if that wouldn’t happen, into using his car up. It was
clear that it was only a matter of time before I’d be able to make a move, but
Heartland Park is a difficult track to pass
on, and the spots I’d eyed as possible
passing points can usually be readily defended, so I knew I might only have one
chance to make a pass stick — otherwise I’d tip my hand in a particular corner, and not get that chance again. I
wanted to be confident I’d be able to get
fully alongside Goughary going into the
corner, and I’d be able to make the pass
stick, so I let him slow me down for a
couple of laps, but I stayed hard on him,
making him work hard, and I’d also
turned my lights on to keep him distracted in his rear view mirror.
He was definitely slowing down in
turns 1 and 8, the two fastest corners on
the track, so I’d have to hang back a bit
to get a run so I wouldn’t catch him too
early in the corner. As we were heading
down the front straight and through the
kink, I saw smoke from his right side,
looked like his engine was going! I
slowed down as I didn’t want to get
caught out in oil on the track (which
often accompanies a blown engine), but
the track looked dry. I got through fine,
and I was now in second place! I kept it a
little slower through there the next couple of laps in case there was a little oil on
the track (there’s nothing worse that hitting oil, I’d spun in oil at 151 mph at California Speedway last year, and it’s a totally helpless feeling), and this was the
fastest point on the racetrack.
I started pushing again, but as the laps
wound down, it was clear I wouldn’t be
able to catch Joe unless his car broke or
he went off track, so I backed off a bit to
make sure I didn’t make a stupid mistake and throw away second place, as
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third was well behind me.
I had a little miscommunication with
my crew, and misunderstood the times
they were giving me, and I didn’t realize
that Moore was now closing on me by a
couple of seconds a lap. I finally clued in
when I saw him right behind me, with a
lap and a half to go. Quick wakeup call! I
couldn’t do a complete flyer as I had to
take a defensive line entering corners,
but keep my eyes on Moore in the corners to see if he was attempting a move.
I managed to keep him behind me on
the last lap, and when I was still ahead of
Moore for the final turn entering the
front straight, I knew I’d take the checkered for second. I crossed the line 3.4
seconds behind Joe (who’d also slowed
his pace), with Moore about half a second behind me.
It was then a blur of directions from
SCCA officials — pulling the car into a
special area, getting an interview on
Speed Channel, then off to the winner’s
podium for interviews over the track P.A.
system, medal presentations, trophy presentations, pictures with what seemed
like a dozen different sponsor hats on,
then champagne to spray on each other.
After all this adrenaline, it was off to
the technical impound building, where
they took fuel samples from the top
finishing cars, did some other miscellaneous inspections, and my crew chief
and I sat around waiting, and waiting,
and more waiting. I finally got word that
there were some protests filed because
of the first-lap incident, I was called to
give a witness statement and a copy of
my video to the officials, and then more
waiting.
I finally got word that the first two cars
were free to leave Tech so positions one
and two were final, but that the thirdplace car had to stay.
After heading out for lunch, packing
up the transporter, watching a few races,
I finally got a call at 4:33 p.m. (about six
hours after the end of the race) that the
cars were free to leave tech. At 5:10 p.m.,
the results were official, with no changes
resulting from all the protests. So I
stopped by Driver’s Services, picked up
the trophy and medal, and we all headed
off for dinner, a well-earned beer and a
good night’s sleep.
So that’s it for the 2007 SCCA season.
There are a couple other races left, including the Illgen 4-hour Enduro at Laguna Seca On Oct. 27 and 28, where I’m
the defending Production and overall
winner (with co-driver Fordahl), but I’m
not sure yet if I’ll head there to run it.
Overall, including other series this
year (SCCA Regional and Porsche
Club), I’ve had 17 races, 14 poles, 13
wins and three second places. The only
non-podium finish all year was a fourth
place when I had contact with a (formerly) off-course car while leading the race,
and I’ve had zero mechanical failures all
year. It’s hard to imagine a more successful season.
Jim Walsh credits crew chief Greg Fordahl (left) and Dave Welch (right) for
preparing his Porsche for the Runoffs.
Find more online
The full race will be broadcast on
Speed Channel at 10 a.m. PST Jan. 2.
Find
the
full
schedule
at
www.scca.com/eventitems.aspx?item=3
60&event=5643&hub=1.
Find
race
results
at
www.scca.com/documents/resultfiles/5643_GT2_RaceFinal.pdf, with a
lapchart (positions after each lap) at
www.scca.com/documents/resultfiles/5643_GT2_RaceChart.pdf and the
official
race
writeup
at
www.scca.com/newsarticle.aspx?hub=1
&news=3199.
New members join Northwest Region’s ranks
New members joining us since the beginning of the third quarter of this year
are:
First Gear members
Bill Mann, Sammamish
Sean Michael Elliott, Issaquah
Sam Bigelow, Lacey
Ian Davis, Lacey
John Kabigting, Kent
Collin Williams, Spanaway
Regular members
Steve Clinton, Renton
Blake Boyle, North Bend
Shawn David Kyes, Olympia
Burce Smith, Shelton
William McCarthy, Seattle
Ronald Dyck, Steinbach, Manitoba
Dan Jones, Everett
Brian Davis Sims, Edmonds
Shirley Smrz, Coeur d’Alene, ID
Jack Zarowny, North Vancouver, B.C.
Jens Darsell, Richland
Mark Uhlmann, Burnaby, B.C.
Peter Umino, Newcastle
Cale Galbreath, Everett
Stephen Light, Bellevue
Serge-Andre Meunier, Seattle
Jeff Horttor, Tacoma
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Brandon Drew Davis, Olympia
Edward Allen, Olympia
Scott Harper, Bonney Lake
Brian Nash, Edmonds
Scot McKinley, Belmont, CA
Craig Shrontz, Seattle
Jeff Grant, Vancouver, B.C.
Michael Ainsworth, Vancouver, B.C.
Roland Nakahara, Snohomish
Thomas Campbell, Enumclaw
Ben Kurtz, Redmond
Spouse Members
Kirk Engle, Lynnwood
Betty Jo O’Sage, Tacoma
Weather, stewards confound
NayKid’s Road Atlanta round
BY TOM MOORE
NayKid Racing
BRASELTON, Ga. — Road Atlanta
proved to be one of the brightest and
worst moments of the 2007 SCCA
SPEED World Challenge GT season for
NayKid Racing.
The team of Cindi Lux (Aloha, Ore.)
and Scotty B. White (Lake Tapps) quickly found their groove at the fast and
technical Road Atlanta facility. From
early in the weekend both Lux’s No. 2
Dodge-Mintex Brakes-MOMO Dodge
Viper Competition Coupe and the No. 3
Corsa Performance-Forgeline Dodge
Viper Competition Coupe of White
raced within the top-10 of the GT field
and they found themselves there again
in the one-hour SCCA SPEED GT at the
Petit Le Mans.
After qualifying with a season-best of
10th for Lux and 11th for White, the pair
of NayKid Dodge Viper Comp. Coupes
looked set to capitalize on the momentum that has been growing in recent
races. But, just like at the most recent
event at Mosport International Raceway, the weather would play a major
role. After an on-again, off-again race
through torrential downpours, Lux took
the checkered flag in 13th while White
was awarded 16th after an accident resulting from the rain.
With the top qualifying positions the
Northwest-based team looked expectantly towards the Oct. 5, hour-long afternoon race on the 2.54 mile, 12-turn facility. That anticipation turned to concern as storm clouds gathered. The traditional World Challenge standing start
was the first sign that the race would be
plagued by mayhem. On the first lap a
multi-car accident placed the full field
under caution for the next seven laps.
Lux had gained one spot as the cars
slowly passed under the yellow flag after
one lap. While she sat in ninth, White
had gone off track and fell to 22nd before returning to the pavement as the
first lap came to a close. The early race
slowdown would magnify problems for
the remainder of the show.
Just as the remaining cars in the GT
field took the green flag restarting the
race, the clouds opened up, dropping
massive amounts of rain on the competitors, all of whom were on racing slicks.
While the front straightaway remained
dry, turns three through 10 were under
a deluge. Race officials made no call to
return to a yellow flag condition nor, as
several drivers requested, a red flag
halting the race as it stood. This left cars
spinning in the heavy rain.
Among those suffering the most was
White’s No. 3 Dodge Viper. Turn three
would be the final resting place for
White’s V10-powered machine for the
weekend. White made heavy contact
with the wall as he and three others
struggled with their high-horsepower
entries just past the fast right-hander
that makes Road Atlanta’s turn one.
As White approached the third corner, not even his multi-time championship winning skill could rescue the
car from the inevitable. All four of the
cars racing went off, though none made
contact with the other three on track.
Though one of the hardest impacts of
his career, White walked away from his
car sore, but unhurt.
His ride was not so lucky. The NayKid
crew will need to work long hours to
have the car ready for the season-finale
at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on Oct.
21.
Meanwhile, further up the track, Lux
fought her hydroplaning machine as the
rain intensified. A genius pit call by Fred
Lux brought the No. 2 into the pits immediately. Lux and three other teams
switched to rain tires while the remaining field gambled on waiting out the
rain. While White was out of the race,
the call to put Lux on grooved tires
looked to give the team one secure topspot in the final standings. Now running
as high as sixth, this belief was strengthened by the eyewitness accounts of the
carnage around the track.
Then came more controversy. SCCA
Pro Racing officials called for a red flag
stopping the race. While not controversial in and of itself, the red flag led to an
unprecedented decision to allow teams
to work on their cars, including changing to rain tires. Red flag rules typically
prevent work from being performed on
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the cars and the brilliant call to put Lux
on rain tires was negated.
Further controversy erupted when officials then declared that, on the restart,
the field would be placed back to the
running order as it had been prior to the
red flag. Lux, who had reached as high
as sixth just before pitting for rain rubber, would be doubly punished for the
smart race strategy call. With approximately 10 minutes of racing left in the
timed event, Lux had little time to regain
the positions lost. She would finish as
the last of 13 cars still running from the
original 26 that started the race. A good
finish but not as good as it should have
been had traditional racing rules been
followed during the red-flag conditions.
“What an absolutely crazy race,” said
Lux. “It was more of a crash fest of very
expensive race cars versus good old
fashion World Challenge racing. When
we got the first restart the skies just
opened up on the backstraight and it
was treacherous. Everybody was hydroplaning all over the place and cars
were crashing everywhere. But when
the SCCA finally decided to red flag the
race they allowed competitors to work
on cars. Not only is that never done in
motorsports, it really hurt us as we already had pitted for rain tires and were
in sixth. As a driver it is just frustrating.
To see everything that had fallen into
place from all hard work and smart calls
by the team fall apart so quickly because of a sanctioning body decision is
just hard to comprehend.”
The 2007 SPEED World Challenge
GT season will conclude on Oct. 21 at
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, Calif. A favorite track of both Lux
and White, the team hopes to put the results on the board that their recent performances have suggested.
“We are really looking forward to getting to our home track in Laguna and
seeing what we can show there,” White
said. “We’re starting to figure these
things out. These Dodge Vipers are really starting to run well for NayKid.
Overall it was a pretty good weekend.
Everyone is really confident and we are
really pleased with the speed we are
showing.”
NayKid heads ‘home’
Laguna Seca comes as Viper program surges
BY TOM MOORE
NayKid Racing
MONTEREY, Calif. — NayKid Racing’s first season back in the SCCA
Speed World Challenge comes to an end
on Sunday, Oct. 21, at Mazda Raceway
Laguna Seca.
Cindi Lux of Aloha, Ore., and Lake
Tapps Scotty B. White’slimited schedule
with a pair of Dodge Viper Competition
Coupes started off slowly but gained momentum quickly as the NayKid Racing
team became more knowledgeable of the
V10-powered
machines.
Entering
NayKid Racing’s sixth and final race of
the season on Oct. 21 at the team’s adopted “home” track in Monterey, Calif., the
energy and excitement are high for the
two Northwest-based drivers. Recent
events at North America’s premier road
courses have shown the program on an
upsurge that the team hopes to culminate in its best performance of the season at this weekend SPEED World Challenge GT race on the Monterey Peninsula.
Since a less-than-satisfactory debut on
the tight confines of the Long Beach
Grand Prix street course, the No. 2
Dodge-Mintex Brakes-MOMO Dodge
Viper Competition Coupe of Lux and the
No. 3 Corsa Performance-Forgeline
Dodge Viper Comp. Coupe of White
have shown impressive speed on the natural terrain courses. Most recently, at
Road Atlanta, the team regularly ran in
the top-10 of practice, qualifying and the
race before a sudden rainstorm and red
flag put White off-course and Lux out of
contention for a top-10. The Laguna Seca
race, the final event to be held on the
Monterey Sports Car Championship
weekend, has drawn the largest SPEED
GT entry list of the season. The additional competition and major status of the
event is just the kind of scenario that Lux
and White covet.
“Taking our momentum from the last
few races will be an important shot in the
arm for Laguna,” Lux said. “Both Scotty
and I have a ton of time at this track, but
just not in Viper Comp. Coupes. It’s kind
of funny, it was a year ago at this race that
Scotty, Fred and I attended as observers
and decided to join the Series. One year
later, here we are ready to throttle-up and
get our first top-ten finish.”
Both Lux and White are pleased that
their final opportunity to secure a top finish comes at Laguna Seca. The front-engine, American supercar is better
matched to the long, flowing road course
than the narrow street tracks, raising the
team’s expectations. Further buoying
the anticipation of the one-hour race is
that each driver has extensive time on
Laguna Seca’s 2.238-mile, 11-turn track.
The venue was a regular stop for White
while contesting the SoPac Division T1
championship in SCCA Club Racing. He
helped use the track to spur an impressive four SoPac titles in five seasons.
Lux’s experience at the track is nearly as
strong and, combined; the two feel confident that they will have their best results
of the season this weekend.
“Our welcome back to SPEED GT has-
n’t been filled with all the glory we hoped
for, especially my personal results,”
White said. “But it’s been fun and it feels
great to be back home on the West Coast
at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. I love
this track and Cindi and I have always
had a lot of fun during our race weekends here in Monterey. I know we’ll see
a lot of friends and family here and being
at a track where I can remember which
way the next corner goes ought to be a
big help!”
Lux currently has the team’s best results with an 11th at Mosport International Raceway and 13th (twice, Miller
and Road Atlanta). She also won the Piloti Rookie of the Race for highest placing first-year driver at the Miller event.
White’s speed and racecraft has been impressive with just bad luck harming his
overall results. White has regularly raced
into the top-10 before misfortune has
taken its toll. He earned the Sunoco Hard
Charger Award for most positions gained
at Miller Motorsports Park on his way to
a 15th- place result and matched that at a
rain-soaked Mosport event where drying
conditions destroyed his wet-weather
tires and dropped him from a certain top10.
“Fred, Matt and the guys have really
been starting to get these Dodge Vipers
dialed in and I just hope we can finally
showcase some of the speed we have
found on a nice, dry track we are familiar
with,” said White. “Stay tuned!”
The SPEED GT race from Laguna
Seca can be seen at 4:30 p.m. (ET) Saturday, Oct. 28, on SPEED Channel.
Pierson (RX-7) and myself (Porsche
928) have teamed up and will be driving
this race to benefit the United Way.
We’re seeking pledges for the United
Way, with 100 percent of the contributions going directly to the United Way.
(We were going to go racing anyway, so
we might as well do it for a good cause.)
We will be driving both 928s with Pierson, myself and Mark Kibort (SFR
SCCA member) driving the red 928 and
Osage, Conover and Olson driving the
blue 928.
Anyone interested in pledging can
find a link at www.nwracersgroup.com.
We are estimating between 100 and 120
laps. No pledge amount is too small.
After the race, we will post the results
and all contributions will be paid directly to the United Way.
Local racers plan to tackle Laguna enduro
BY CHUCK BRIGGS
NW Racers Group
We’re just not ready to call it an end to
the racing season!
Five local SCCA drivers have decided
to drive our first endurance race (4
hours) at Laguna Seca on Oct. 28. Ken
Osage (Porsche 928), Ken Olson (Shelby Cobra), Dave Conover (Miata), Dick
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Gran Prix Imports Oregon 1000
BY RON SOREM
Contributing editor
WILSONVILLE, Ore. — The Oregon
Region SCCA presented three regional
tour rallies as the Oregon 1000 Rally, presented by Gran Prix Imports of
Wilsonville on Sept. 21-23.
Thirteen teams ran the Tire Warm-up
and Odo Check south on the freeway to
Keizer (Salem), then east toward Silverton, following Howell Prairie Road into
Stayton’s Pioneer Park for a brief stop.
Continuing south, crossing the North
Santiam River, smoke could be seen in
the distance. Odd. A brush fire on the
first TSD section had engulfed the roadway, and the first checkpoint location,
forcing an impromptu Free Zone and a
re-group control. This is a road rally,
right?
The route continued east and south
through rolling foothills to the first of
many of the Willamette valley’s picturesque covered bridges, meandering
along Crabtree Creek at a brisk pace to
Larwood Covered Bridge, just downstream from the point where Roaring
River flows into Crabtree Creek. Off to
meet in Waterloo, at the Mini Mall...
uber-mini, no Napolean, or Napoleon —
either Dynamite or Bonaparte. The rally
was following part of the old California
Trail, and the Santiam Wagon Road.
After a few more covered bridges we
crossed Highway 20 near Narrows Oregon, and began climbing Scott Mountain
Road.
“What Dead End?” TSD section
climbed up West Brush Creek Road (the
routebook states: “Not sure why they
think it’s a dead end”), followed Cougar
Ridge (near Bald Mountain — how many
of these are there?), and dropped into the
Shotgun Creek drainage on narrow twisting pavement through the forest. Sweet
roads! Our team suffered from a mis-set
clock on a CarZeroTime reference:
Clock set to top of minute... CZT was at
bottom = 50 early.
After working our “run/work” checkpoint and having plenty of time to contemplate the error, we continued to the
Earnest Covered Bridge, traveled along
the Mohawk River, skirted Springfield
and headed south on I-5 for the transit to
Cottage Grove for snacks and fuel.
“London to Oakland?” TSD followed
the twisting Shoestring Road from Lon28 Northwest Sports Car News
Three days,
three rallies,
1,000 kilometers
don Oregon, over London Hill, into Shoestring Valley along Scott Valley Road,
through Elkhead Oregon, into Driver
Valley with a couple of tricky hairpins
and narrow sections where the flooding
and erosion left single lanes only. No
“Valley Girls” here, just two friends working the next checkpoint — they gave us a
3! Oakland Oregon is a Historic District
just east of Sutherlin and I-5. A quick
transit down the freeway to Roseburg
brought a welcomed Hotel and an excellent banquet topped off with early scores
and local dairy’s vanilla ice cream.
Day One covered 213 miles (343 km)
through eleven scored controls in six
hours. Winning Friday’s sections were
April Smith and Marcus Song with 23
points, only 4/100ths ahead of fellow
Timewise competitors Dan Comden and
Hans Andomeit.
Day Two brought renewed vigor
for all... The Odo-Tire Warmup ran
south to Riddle. Our first mistake was
along a wide paved road, with double
yellow center stripe — the stripe disappeared and a wide section of pavement
curved right — into a gate for the Nickel Mountain mines. The main road dove
off a blind crest to the left — into a
checkpoint. The hesitation while determining the actual rally road caused several teams to be late, under full power, at
checkpoint one.
Winding along Cow Creek (at 54, then
51, 49, 48, and 46 mph) the scenery of
the pines and live oaks soothed the cut of
the first points for the day. Turning onto
the narrow paved forest roads into the
woods, the route climbed the Back Country Byway toward Anaktuvuk Saddle
(oddly Alcan sounding), Mt Bolivar
(4319), and began dropping into Eden
Valley Camp on the South Fork of the Coquille River (which empties into the Pacific at Bandon). By the way, CAST 31
was a challenge. The CAST 27 through
Island Camp was great fun, after the
checkpoint, at a “bit over” CAST in the
Free Zone.
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19.01 into the “Are We There Yet?”
TSD section brought us to Curry County
Oregon, who it seems hasn’t been inclined to pave their road, so 10 miles of
gravel at reduced speed through abundant twists and drops returned to pavement at Illahe, and an overhead view of
the Rogue River. At Agness, the rally
took a break from the dust and enjoyed
Jerry’s Rogue Jets (www.Roguejets.com
on the Rogue since 1958), for an up-close
and wet 20-mile trip upriver to Blossom
Rapids, passing Illahe (now above us),
Tacoma Rapids, into the Wild Rogue
Wilderness, Paradise Lodge, Half Moon
Bar Lodge, and the Devil’s Staircase. The
jet boats share the river with rafts,
kayaks, fishing parties, and wildlife... We
saw deer, herons, and the rare raft bare
(think full moon), kept at bay with a
drenching torrent from our boat — to
the delight of all. Downstream speeds of
up to 53-mph, then drying out over
lunch. We think the operator was a bit
disappointed in our collective response
to all the twists and turns, dips and braking — until he was reminded that we
were the rally group, and we’d been
doing that all day long.
Agness toward the Ocean challenged
drivers and navigators to resist an after
lunch nap. Local traffic kept some of us
busy filling out Time Allowances, and
CASTs of 36, 37, & 38 were more than
enough to keep crews attentive on the
twisting two-lane.
Highway 101 north brought photo-ops
and grins as rallyists “mixed it up” with a
Mercedes, a Viper, and a Corvette on the
twisting, bumpy coastal highway into
Port Orford, for a big spaghetti dinner
and moonlight views of the bay from the
Castaway-by-the-Sea motel, after 160
miles (258km) in 8 hours.
Saturday winners were Ron Sorem and
Max Vaysburd, squeezing a mere 22
points out of the old Alfa, 17 fewer than
Smith and Song in second.
Sunday was a new day. Pancake
breakfast in Port Orford, then north
along the coast, with a short stop at Bandon State Park beach, then a view of
Haystack Rock and Face Rock (all in brilliant sunlight, but on a TSD section with
little opportunity for photos), before turning inland, along the Coquille River to
Broadbent. Excitement along the way included a “Pause 0.10 at 15MPH” in traffic,
on a blind curve, just feet before a checkpoint... lots of laughs at lunch about this!
Following the Middle Fork now, to Remote Oregon and the Sandy River Covered Bridge. A rest stop and photo-op
here, preceded 10 miles of Sandy Creek
Road, bringing three checkpoints on a
beautiful twisting hill climb. Weaver Road
continued along a ridge for another 14
miles with three more well placed controls, providing lateral Gs and big grins,
or nausea, depending on your likes or dislikes.
Oregon 1000 transits can be trying.
Dropping off Reston Ridge on the old
Coos Bay Wagon Road, brought warm
brakes through the hairpins. “Through
the Lookingglass” transit referred to the
creek, as we didn’t really pass through
the town or travel upon the road, of the
same name. Continuing north through
Melrose along the Umpqua River to
Sutherlin, the rally headed north on I-5 to
Cabin Creek for lunch.
“The Long and Winding Road” TSD
section brought another six checkpoints
in 38 miles of twisting hills, meandering
river routes, and sharp drops into the
Coyote Creek drainage. The end of section afforded a short break for ice cream
cones, then back on the road north for
Veneta and Franklin and the bonus
round.
“Bonus Points” TSD began near
Cheshire, skirted Cox Butte, and zigzagged through farm fields between the
Willamette River and Long Tom Creek —
passing the 1000-km mark before the
final checkpoint, complete with a printed
target time in the instructions. Only one
team managed to zero the target time:
Steve Perret and Kathryn Hansen, capping 270 miles (436km) in 8 hours.
The Sunday win and overall three-day
prize went again to April Smith and Marcus Song (in the Team Mitsubishi Outlander) with 25 for the day, 87 for the
weekend, running E-Class (Unlimited
equipment). Perret and Hansen took
home First L-Class (Limited equipment
or Calculator class) with 265 for the weekend. Paul Eklund, R. Dale Kraushaar, and
Kala Rounds took home First S-Class
(Stock, no equipment, SOP) with 232.
All three first place finishers and several other participants took full advantage
of 644 miles (1,037 km) of “seat time” on
Oregon 1000 in preparation for the February 2008 Alcan 5000 Rally.
Complete results and links to photos
at www.oregonrally.com click on Road
Rally.
Mountains to the
Sea Rally a fun tour
BY RON SOREM
Contributing editor
MILWAUKIE, Ore. — The Cascade
Sports Car Club, Geargrinders RoadRally division presented their annual
touring rally from Portland to the Pacific Ocean, including the famous
Beach Barbecue Party, and continued
this year as part of the Triple Threat
Rally Weekend, Aug 17-19. The 42nd
running of the famous and familyfriendly touring rally included a Friday
Nighter road rally and a Sunday SCCA
RallyCross event hosted by the Oregon Rally Group.
Rallymasters Reid Trummel and
John Olson brought forth an outstanding tour, complete with a recommended overnight stop in Astoria, to enjoy
“three days during the middle of Oregon’s 20 days of summer!” The Triple
Threat Rally contest combined all
three events with trophies awarded to
the top five finishers. For the TSD rallies, both the driver and navigator received Triple Threat Rally contest
points.
Ron Sorem and Josh Sorem got together again in their traditional rally
roles with Ron driving and Josh navigating in Seat of the Pants class, without the rally computer, intent on enjoying the view and the friendly rally atmosphere. Unable to run the Friday
Nighter and the RallyCross, we would
compete only in Mountains to Sea
“Masters” — running for the fun of it.
The odo check ran down I-205 and I5, to the rest area just south of
Wilsonville. Stock odo and a basic
clock would make timing and
mileages a bit hit and miss — the odo
is “close,” the speedo is “way off.”
The first TSD section ran down the
freeway one exit, then to the farm
roads towards Champoeg Park, following the Willamette south into St.
Paul for the first “trap” (something
unusual for MTS). Mission Road was
the second “Mission” possible. The
first occurence led five teams to a
Route Control. The course continued,
with opposing rally traffic, to the
“Stockyards Checkpoint” at 27.67
miles.
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North of Newberg the second TSD
climbed to Bald Peak State Park and
the first of many Do-It-Yourself-Checkpoints. Leaving the park, we missed
the next instruction and went sightseeing through the flower farms, following Main Road Determinants until
a “Leftmost” would have put us on
Highway 219 at 35 mph. Rejected! Retracing the route to Balk Peak, we
found our oversight (thumb over instruction?), filled out our Time Declaration and continued “on course”
through Gaston, Forest Grove and
Banks (complete with tractor pull).
North again to a DIYC and break in
Vernonia, before winding along Highway 47 and Apiary Road to Old Rainier
and a full checkpoint. We were very
late. Darned speedo!
Alston-Mayger started a long section of CAST 35 in a 45 mph zone —
very frustrating — then 30, 40 and 20
to a DIYC in Clatskanie. MTS had
reached the Columbia River and our
next TSD was up-close — twisting
along the levees and dunes at CAST
31.
West on Highway 30, over the ridge
at Bradley Wayside, and descending
into the mist of coastal weather. North
toward Aldrich Point for one checkpoint, then crossing Highway 30 for
one last trap — intended or not, several cars “refused” an MRD and took
“early” at the next checkpoint. A final
DIYC then the transit through Astoria
to Fort Stevens State Park and the
Peter Iredale Shipwreck Finish Party.
MTS covered 186 miles, with nine
controls, in roughly six hours.
MTS results were posted within an
hour of last car. Congratulations to
April Smith and Kevin Poirier, for first
overall with 22 points; Johdi Masterman and Steven Smith, for first SOP;
Monika and Matt Tabor for first Masters; and John and Linda McKean for
first Novice. First Vintage and third
Novice to Brian and Ruby Bauske in
their 1964 Mercedes-Benz 230SL.
Thanks again to Rallymasters John
Olson and Reid Trummel and the entire Cascade Sports Car Club “geargrinders” staff for another fine Mountains to The Sea Rally.
Contact Northwest Region officials
REGIONAL EXECUTIVE
Frank Hamilton, P.O. Box 14388,
Tumwater, WA 98511-4388; home: 360352-3204; [email protected]
SECRETARY
Mary Lee
TREASURER
Kim Craddock, 1106 Mellen St.,
Centralia, WA 98531; work: 360-3302101; home: 360-273-7310;
[email protected]
ASSISTANT REGIONAL
EXECUTIVE FOR RACING
Tom Masterson, 1616 Gregory
Way, Bremerton WA 98337; 360-4796082; [email protected]
ASSISTANT REGIONAL
EXECUTIVE FOR SOLO
Dick Willy, 10624 Rainier Ave. S.,
Seattle, WA 98178; 206-772-1228;
[email protected]
ASSISTANT REGIONAL
EXECUTIVE FOR TIME
TRIALS
Mark McCloskey, 1060 Hillandale
Drive, Port Orchard, WA 98366;
360-620-2462;
[email protected]
BOARD MEMBERS
AT-LARGE
Sherri Masterson, 1616 Gregory
Way, Bremerton WA 98337; 360-4796082; [email protected]
Dick Willy, 10624 Rainier Ave. S.,
Seattle, WA 98178; 206-772-1228;
[email protected]
Lou Ann Christensen, 15346 SE
307th St., Kent, WA 98042; 425-6817623; [email protected]
Kevin Dietz, [email protected]
REGIONAL ASSOCIATES
(non-voting)
Membership Director
Esther Sicks, P.O. Box 506,
Port Orchard, WA 98366;
[email protected]
Region Archivist
Frank and Joan Manley, 301
160th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 980084343; home: 425-747-3407;
[email protected]
NWR Webmaster
Joe Goeke, 13253 Holmes Point
Drive, NE, Kirkland, WA. 98034; 425442-4617; [email protected]
NWR Race Registrar
Sherri Masterson, 1616 Gregory
Way, Bremerton, WA 98337; phone 360479-6082, fax 360-478-7973, e-mail
[email protected].
NWR Competition Director
Michael Lord, 18245 SE 313th St.,
Auburn, WA 98092; Phone 253-6300476, fax 253-630-0746, e-mail
[email protected].
Northwest Sports Car
News Editor
Kurt Batdorf, 11220 Walker Road,
Mount Vernon, WA 98273; home 360707-2882; [email protected] or
[email protected]
DIVISION CONTACTS
(www.norpacscca.org)
Area 13 Director
Howard “Duck” Allen, P.O. Box
2336, Portland, OR 97208; 503-246-4852
(home and fax); [email protected]
NorPac Executive Steward
Gary Meeker, 149 Sir Francis
Court, Capitola, CA 95010;
home: 831-475-4130; fax: 831-462-5187;
[email protected]
SCCA gear NWR Good Buy
now online TRAILER
Get in gear — SCCA gear, that is. Find
the complete collection of SCCA merchandise
online
at
www.sccacollection.com.
Place orders by calling 888-267-2187
toll-free 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern
Time, Monday through Friday; e-mail
[email protected]; fax to 888-4529197 or 248-799-4169; or by regular mail
to SCCA Merchandise Collection, P.O.
Box 185, Southfield, MI 48037-0185.
1979 Calkins (6x14) double-axle, lowslung enclosed trailer. Good for open
wheel race cars. Old, needs some TLC, no
leaks. $500 or best offer. Call Chuck
Boyce, 360-790-4666 or e-mail
[email protected].
Northwest Region members can submit non-commercial classifieds for no
charge. Please limit your ad to 50
words and submit it to
[email protected]
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Submit your nominations
for NWR awards banquet
BY FRANK HAMILTON
Regional Executive
Annual banquets are forthcoming.
Each venue has its own banquet before
the NWR banquet. Some awards are
exclusive to venues and others are
NWR-wide. This means that nominations for the traditions awards need to
be made. Any NWR region member in
good standing may make a nomination
for each of these awards.
Awards that need to be awarded
through NWR are:
Stan Burnett Inspirational
Award: This award goes to an individ-
ual who exhibits the determination, energy, loyalty, sensitivity and love that
Stan showed in his life.
Mary Pang Award: A volunteer
worker who has preformed as an “Unsung Hero” in the background without
much fanfare and whose actions have
benefited the region.
Frank and Joan Manley Award:
This award goes to a region member
who exhibits the qualities and enthusiasm and willingness to be involved in
NWR activities.
All awards relate to activities occurring in year 2007. Each venue will have
additional awards to present. NWR
nominations should be sent to the RE.
A selection committee will be
appointed.
Each nomination should be accompanied with a letter of nomination explaining why that person (or those persons)
should get the award.
The Joe Henderson Award: This
trophy goes to a member of NWR and
active SCCA member who has been involved in long and meritorious service
to NWR, SCCA National and has
served in a leadership role. The recipient must be elected by the previous recipients of this award. Some years it
has not been awarded.
Rallycross National Championship near
SCCA STAFF REPORT
Be part of the first RallyCross National Championship Oct. 26-28 at Motorsports Park Hastings, Neb. The first
2007 National RallyCross Champions
will be crowned at this event!
In 2007, RallyCross National events
were held in many regions as part of the
Inter-Divisional Series. This year’s comSeptember-October 2007
petition is part of SCCA’s championship
month and will determine the first
SCCA National RallyCross Champions.
Entry eligibility now includes not only
those who have run this year’s Inter-Divisional National RallyCross events, but
also those who have previously run RallyCross National Challenge events in
2005 or 2006, or entered three 2007
SCCA Regional and/or Divisional Rallywww.nwr-scca.org
Cross events. Eligibility and registration
information is found at www.scca.com/
event.aspx?hub=2&event=5645.
Motorsports Park Hastings management has worked hard on the course,
preparing the grassy fields for competition. The paddock is paved and there
are bathrooms and showers. Spaces
exist with 30-amp electrical hookups for
30 RVs.
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