$3.00December 2010 The Offi cial Magazine of Oregon Region SCCA December 2010 The Offi cial Magazine of Oregon Region SCCA

Loud Pedal

Street Survival

Also Inside this Issue:Double Regional Races• Awards Banquet• Vintage Points• NORPAC •

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CONTENTSRallying with Chris & Kristen Page 4The Twisty Bits Page 5October Double Regionals Page 6Annual Awards Banquet Page 10NORPAC Page 13Final Solo Points Page 14Tire Rack Street Survival Page 16Final Vintage Points Page 20Classifi eds Page 23

Loud PedalThe Membership Magazine of Oregon Region Sports Car Club of America

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Road Racing Chiefs Course Marshal Mike GunnipEmergency Ben Hockman 503-645-4755 Flagging & Comm Ken Killam 503-970-5644Medical TBD Paddock/HotPits Del Bockman 503-515-5977Pre-Grid Julie Winslow 360-513-6728Sound Judge Sherm Egge egge5@hotmail.comRadio Tech Ric Farrar 503-245-2506Registration (pre-race) Karen McCoy 503-224-9469Registration (at track) Win Casey 503-297-4049Chief Starter Dwain Panian 503-285-0989Asst. Chief Starter Tim Stanley 503-693-8139 Tech Inspection Rick BahrTiming and Scoring Randi Graffy Driver Services/Trophies K.Macfarlane karimac@qwestoffice.net

StewardsGary Meeker - NorPac Executive Steward gmeeker@earthlink.netJeffrey Niess - OR Deputy Executive Steward niess@comcast.netBen Bradley - Norpac RallyCross Steward bradley@reed.eduHoward Allen howduck@qwest.netSteve Archer mikah@comcast.netBill Bachofner wgbach@comcast.netTodd Butler todd@coho.netBill Carr bcarr@varicast.comWin Casey msiltd@integraonline.comErin Ebelmesser lylaskye@msn.comGail Fetterman gailfetterman@comcast.netDave Franks franks97@verizon.netSpencer Gorham sgorstew@aol.comDon Holland hollanddl@verizon.netBob Mead ramead@q.comDan Mullin danm356@yahoo.comAlan Robinson robinsah@engr.orst.eduLewis Scott 503-646-3840Don Smethers don@smethers.comDave Shively mos33c20@centurytel.netGary Van Horn gvanhorn@minetfiber.comSkip Yocom rampant53@gmail.com

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On the Cover: Seattle’s Val Korry took fi rst overall and in class at the last regional race of the year at Portland International Raceway in October. Ron Coelho photo.

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Rallying with Chris & Kristen

Chris Hale, Rally Manager and Kristen E. TaborEmail: chale@nwscan.net

Awards Banquet set for December 18

Chris Hale, Rally Manager and Kristen E. TaborEmail: chale@nwscan.net

Awards Banquet set for December 18

Well, we made it through another year. The weather has started turning all winter-like, it’s dark when we get up in the morn-ing and dark when we get home from work in the evening. The radio stations have been playing Christmas music since mid-November, so it must be time for our end-of-the-year column.

A few quick items: ORG and Cascade are holding their joint rally awards on Decem-ber 18 at Otto and Anna’s Schnitzel Haus up

in Multnomah Village starting at 6:30pm. This is German restaurant, so you might want to check the ORG website, as there will be a limited menu to order from, and it’s always nice to have an idea what you want to order. We will have the big room this year, so there should be enough room for all of us!

Big congrats go the RallyCross winners for 2010—I’m having trouble getting the results off the website today, so please

check the full results are up on the ORG website.

I don’t have the overall Friday Nighter series points totals, but from the scores I have seen, it looks

like the series was hotly contested!

We’ll be giving out the Adelaide Zink Ral-ly Worker of the year award for 2010 at the rally awards banquet. I can’t tell you who won, because they might read this before the banquet, but I can tell you that this per-son worked very very hard for RallyCross, stage rally, and Road Rally all year. They are a volunteer extraordinaire, and very worthy of this trophy.

Now for the equipment check department: be sure to review the rally rules for 2011 in whatever discipline you enjoy. It always sucks to be caught out at your fi rst event when your car won’t pass the tech inspec-tion!

And in the “looking forward to next year” department, it looks like we’ve got a full schedule of rally fun on deck! The RallyCross department is hammering out their schedule; looks like we’ll be hosting a National RallyCross weekend probably in June.

Stage Rally has Oregon Trail staying in May, and we’re looking at staying at PIR for Friday and in the Dufur/The Dalles area for the weekend. OTR RallyMaster Mike Nagel is raring to get back into the orga-nizing saddle and, from what I hear, has some good ideas for fi ne-tuning the 2011 event based on what we learned in 2010. The Mt Hood Rally is still on the calendar for October, and we’re looking at adding some more stage rally events. Road Rally is aiming for our usual full slate of rallies, including our usual Rally Against Parkin-son’s, and Cascade as always is gearing up for their Friday Nighter series.

It’ll be a busy year, and as always, keep an eye on the ORG website for more info! Have a safe and happy holiday season, ev-eryone!

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So the world driver’s championship for 2010 is history, the F1 international travel-ing circus has fi nished its rounds, and Se-bastian Vettel is the youngest-ever World Champion.

Kudos to Seb; he was almost always the quickest and the winner, whenever he could bring the car home. Except for a couple of mechanical failures, and perhaps some youthful errors in judgment, he would have won easily. Vettel will win, how many ti-tles? He’s 23.

Our hopes were for Mark Webber, his Red-Bull teammate, the consummate Aussie whose championship hopes ran full, until qualifying at the fi nal Abu Dhabi round. Twenty-ten was Mark’s best chance for the crown to date, and at 34, he won’t have so many chances in the years to come. But…let’s not forget his compatriot Jack Brab-ham; didn’t he win at 41?

Alonso, maybe the best racer of all, lost out due to an unlucky pit stop strategy. He’ll be back. Hamilton and Button, 2008 and 2009 champs, were on the podium in Abu Dhabi for a one-two-three sweep by the most recent title holders.

Back in America, NASCAR has also com-pleted its championship chase. Jimmie Johnson managed a FIFTH consecutive championship, coming from behind at the last race. Denny Hamlin led into the fi nal, but an early scuffl e cost him the chance for the title. Kevin Harvick was in the mix and fi nished just behind Johnson, Harvick spin-ning Kyle Busch in the closing laps. Talk about a long season! Guess they do get paid pretty well for it…

Brief quiz: Vettel, Webber and Hamlin…each has something in common with your writer. Send us an email with your guesses; the fi rst three readers who guess all three answers will win a $10 Starbucks card. This is no multiple-choice exercise, either;

you have to guess out of thin air! And no…it’s not that each driver’s surname has six letters…as does your correspondent’s. It’s a little tougher than that.

But, not that tough. Winners’ names will be published in the next Loud Pedal; if there are no winners we’ll reveal the an-swers.

The Twisty Bits

Closer to home, it’s off-season for Or-egon Region. Life goes on, planning for next year’s events. We’re working on our schedule for 2011 and have gone through several drafts; as you might expect the overall season doesn’t change much, with a start in mid-March, running through ear-ly October. (Continued on page 18)

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October Double Regional Races

The last double regional races of the Oregon Region SCCA season fell on a rainy weekend in October that challenged the determination and persistence of workers, crews, and drivers.

Bruce Wilson solidifi ed his claim on the Spec Miata Championship, while Chris Jackson accomplished the same in claim-ing the Spec Racer Ford title.

Wilson’s season-long effort also earned him the “Regional Driver of the Year” honors at the annual awards banquet held this past month in Portland.

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A complete list of class and awards win-ners can be found beginning on page 10, while event pictures follow on page 8. Complete standings and results are at www.oregonscca.com.

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Bruce Wilson #68 (top left) found the wet weather not conducive to optimum adhesion, resulting in a spin at the Festival Curves at Port-land International Raceway. He went on to clinch the champion-ship in the double regional races. Ken Dwinell photo.

Robert Beauchemin #31 drove his Mini to fi rst place fi nishes in both regional VP1 races (top right). Ron Coelho photo.

Ken Sutherland #94 (center left) fi nished off the season in style with fi rst place Spec Miata fi nishes in both races. #8 Chris Jackson (center right) took second and fi fth place fi nishes in Spec Racer Ford on his way to the regional class championship. Ron Coelho photos.

Wayne Clark #40 (bottom left) receives some much-needed assis-tance from one of the many corner workers braving the elements during the race weekend. Doug Russell #84 (bottom right) took fi rst place fi nishes in both races for the SP911 class championship. Doug Berger photos.

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More than 140 region members attended the well-planned awards banquet featuring great food and ambiance at the Portland Airport Shilo Inn.

2011 Board Members (top left) were introduced, including (from left) new Regional Executive An-drew Foley, Director 1 Kimberly Kuzma McFarland, Rally Director Chris Hale, Assistant Regional Executive Dan Mullin, Director 2 Peggy Gaston, and Road Racing Director Jim Murray.

Steve Gattrell (top right) took home the Crew Chief of the Year Award.

David Cormier (center left) took home the lion’s share of hardware, with class titles in PCA 1 and SPO, the NorPac Division Cham-pionship in GT2, the National Driver of the Year Award, as well as a special trophy from fellow SPO competitor Monte Shelton.

Eddie Nakato (center right) claimed the NorPac Division Championship in SSB.

Spec Miata was the usual hard fought championship. Among those on hand to collect their trophies (bottom left,) were champion Bruce Wilson, along with Matt Shultz, Ken and Emma Sutherland, Kyle Keenan standing in for Gary Bockman, and Robert Linse.

Jim Graffy and Robert Linse (bottom right) took home fi rst and second place trophies in the ITA class championship.

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Award Winners

Road Race Winners

Workers of the Year: Emergency Services -- Craig Trotter

Emergency Rookie of the Year -- Nici Howland Flagging -- Hugh Figueroa

Communications -- Cierra Newhouse Pace Car -- Bud Mansur

Pit & Paddock -- Jason Collins Pre-Grid -- Becky Phelan

Registration -- Karen McCoy Sound -- Bob Putnam

Starter -- Kimberly Kuzma McFarland Tech -- Doug James

Timing/Scoring -- Steve Spring Race Ops Appreciation -- Gail Fetterman

Westfield Cars Perpetual Vintage Award -- Tim ScottNovice Driver of the Year -- Thomas MicichNational Driver of the Year -- David Cormier

Pro Driver of the Year -- Todd HarrisRegional Driver of the Year -- Bruce Wilson

Inspirational Driver of the Year -- Gordon JonesDanny Frasier Memorial Award -- Cierra Newhouse

Regional Executive Award -- Todd ButlerRookie Flagger of the Year -- Christina Fougere

Stewards Recognition -- Win Casey & Karen McCoyCrew Chief of the Year -- Steve Gatrell

Robert Dratwa Memorial Worker of the Year -- Bonnie AarsethLew Scott Individual Achievement Award -- Dwain Panian

CP1Frank McKinnon

F500Lance Spiering

GT2Greg Pierson

ITA1. Jim Graffy

2. Robert Linse

ITS1. Mark LaCombe

2. Lyall Edey3. Jeffrey Smith

PCA1David Cormier

SM1. Bruce Wilson

2. Gary Bockman3. Robert Linse

SP911Doug Russell

SPO1. David Cormier2. Monte Shelton

SRF1. Chris Jackson

2. Steve Fogg3. John Tipton

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Award Winners

Road Race Winners

Welcome from RJ Gordy & Todd Butler, SCCA Area Directors RJ shared his vision for the future of Northern Pacific Division. He & Todd gave us some good information about NORPAC’s standing in SCCA. There are 114 Regions and 9 Divisions in SCCA, and ours is the only Division without a championship event or a meeting. NORPAC had the highest average entries per Regional Road Race event in 2010! Road Racing Stewards Gary Meeker commended the NORPAC stewards for a great job this year. He then discussed some issues the stewards would work on in 2011. Gary announced Jim Rogaski will be Chief Steward at 2011 Runoffs! Speaking of the Runoffs, there were 604 entries this year; only 18 of those were from Northern Pacific Division There were 533 workers in attendance; only 23 of those were from Northern Pacific Division Maybe we can have more in 2011! What do we market? How Do We Do It? Randy Unsbee, Loud Pedal editor, gave us some outstanding tips on marketing and obtaining sponsorships. He shared important pointers about how to market ourselves and why we should do it, especially during bad economic years. How to Run a Region in These Hard Times Representatives from Reno, Oregon, and San Francisco Regions shared success stories of how they managed to continue operating over the last couple of years. Of course, there were also some pitfalls everyone had to work around. “Give ‘Em the Pickle” Customer Service An outstanding video featuring Robert Farrell of Farrell’s restaurant. The four components of customer service: Service, Attitude, Consistency, Teamwork. There were workshops in Solo, RallyX, and Time Trials that I wasn’t able to attend because they overlapped with road race seminars. But feedback on those was very positive.

Please try to attend in 2011! Tentative date is October 29 at the Atlantis, Reno. It was definitely worth the trip!

Karen McCoy

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Final Solo Points

End of year awards banquet for RallyCross and CSCC Road Rally - Dec 18, 20102010 Season awards for ORG RallyCross and CSCC Road Rally

Event 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Pnts/Ttl

SS 8 Denis Cornforth 10 20 20 20 20 20 20 - 13 133/143 SS 21 Steve Barnes 13 16 16 13 16 13 - 20 20 114/127 SS 121 James Shepherd 20 13 13 16 13 16 - 16 16 110/123 SS 108 Jessi Cornforth - 5 10 - - 10 16 - 10 51/ 51 SS 7 Chris Nolke 16 10 - - - - - - - 26/ 26 SS 51 Mark Morford - 8 - - - - - - - 8/ 8 SS 17 Fred Nolke - 6 - - - - - - - 6/ 6

AS 99 Randy Free - 20 - - - - - - - 20/ 20

BS 21 Chuck Spittal - 20 20 - 20 - - 20 20 100/100 BS 7 Adan Espino - 13 - 20 - - - - - 33/ 33 BS 89 Nick Trujillo - - - - 16 - - 16 - 32/ 32 BS 33 Keith Maher 20 - - - - - - - - 20/ 20 BS 11 Tricia Kandoll - 16 - - - - - - - 16/ 16 BS 1 Nathan Kandoll - 10 - - - - - - - 10/ 10

CS 56 Nick Bender 20 20 16 20 - 16 16 16 20 128/144 CS 11 William Randleman 13 - - 16 20 20 20 - - 89/ 89 CS 6 Andy Lee 16 16 - - - - - 20 - 52/ 52 CS 46 Misty Bender - - - 13 16 - - - - 29/ 29 CS 17 Bruce Harmon - - 20 - - - - - - 20/ 20 CS 0 Jeremy Paquet - - - - - - - - 16 16/ 16 CS 4 JP Stein - 13 - - - - - - - 13/ 13 CS 73 Eric Keerbs 10 - - - - - - - - 10/ 10 CS 7 Kenny Burch - 10 - - - - - - - 10/ 10

DS 53 Keith Gover - 16 - - - 20 20 20 20 96/ 96 DS 86 Larry Fenley - 20 - - - - - - - 20/ 20 DS 98 Matt Zacharda - - - - - - - 16 - 16/ 16

ES 44 Bud Bohrer - - - - - 20 16 - - 36/ 36 ES 90 Bryan Wells - - - - - 16 13 - - 29/ 29 ES 95 Andy Howe - - - - - - 20 - - 20/ 20 ES 200 David Whitman - 20 - - - - - - - 20/ 20

ESL 90 Mariah Wells - - - - - 20 20 - - 40/ 40

FS 19 Brian Matlock 20 20 - 20 20 - - 20 20 120/120 FS 99 Carol Christensen 16 16 20 - - 20 20 - - 92/ 92 FS 185 Kyle Simmonds 13 - - - - - - - - 13/ 13 FS 85 Annie Simmonds 10 - - - - - - - - 10/ 10

FSL 9 Kristi Brown - - - - - 20 - - - 20/ 20

GS 15 Jon Balgley 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 - - 140/140 GS 7 Dominic Stone 16 16 16 - - - - - - 48/ 48 GS 26 Len Wolford 13 13 - - - - - - - 26/ 26

HS 56 Chuck Hergert 20 20 20 - - 20 20 - - 100/100

HSL 13 Debbie Keller - - - - - - - - 20 20/ 20

BSP 12 Barry Cogut - - 13 20 16 20 16 20 20 125/125 BSP 36 Steve Krygier 20 20 10 16 20 16 20 - - 122/122 BSP 1 Jason Sampson 13 16 8 - - - - - - 37/ 37 BSP 46 Gerry Goggins 16 13 - - - - - - - 29/ 29 BSP 179 Robert Steck - - 20 - - - - - - 20/ 20 BSP 79 Bob Ocker - - 16 - - - - - - 16/ 16 BSP 42 Peter Bigler - 10 - - - - - - - 10/ 10

BSPL 339 Linda Mackey 20 20 - - - - - - - 40/ 40

CSP 4 Travis Gripp - 20 - - - - - 20 - 40/ 40

DSP 32 Michael Gatza 20 20 20 - - 20 20 - - 100/100 DSP 1 Travis Walter 13 - 16 - - 16 13 20 20 98/ 98 DSP 77 Jack Satta 10 13 - - - 13 16 - 16 68/ 68 DSP 11 Chris Giles 16 - - - - - - - - 16/ 16 DSP 22 Kraig Kerr - 16 - - - - - - - 16/ 16 DSP 46 Michael Duffy - 10 - - - - - - - 10/ 10

FSP 171 Patrick McCarthy - - - - - - - 20 20 40/ 40 FSP 71 Aaron McCarthy - - - - - - - 16 16 32/ 32

XP 41 Britain Smith 20 20 20 13 20 - 20 20 - 133/133 XP 14 Alan Wizemann - - - 8 16 - - - - 24/ 24 XP 21 Duke Langley - - - 20 - - - - - 20/ 20 XP 4 Doug Skinner - - 16 - - - - - - 16/ 16 XP 121 Tonya Langley - - - 16 - - - - - 16/ 16 XP 87 Chad Olerich - - - 10 - - - - - 10/ 10 XP 44 Chuck West - 1 - - - - - - - 1/ 1

DP 41 Derek Loree 20 20 20 20 16 20 20 20 20 140/176 DP 96 Keith Brown - - - - 20 - - - - 20/ 20 DP 6 John Banton - - 16 - - - - - - 16/ 16 DP 141 Patrick Brenner 16 - - - - - - - - 16/ 16

EP 19 Dan Kuehn 13 16 20 20 20 16 20 16 20 132/161 EP 9 George Wilder 16 20 16 16 16 20 16 20 16 124/156 EP 7 Josh Hopwood 20 - - - - - - - - 20/ 20

FP 59 Cary Kutter 20 20 - 20 20 16 20 - - 116/116 FP 28 Leeds Gulick - - - - - 20 - - - 20/ 20

AM 77 Neal Stanley - - - 20 20 - - - - 40/ 40

AML 199 Carol Wong - - - - - 20 - - - 20/ 20

CM 70 Andy Howe - - 20 20 20 - - - - 60/ 60 CM 43 Chuck Jarvie - 20 16 - 16 - - - - 52/ 52

CML 70 Heather Howe - - - 20 20 - - - - 40/ 40 DM 11 Jason Hvam - 20 - - - - - - - 20/ 20 EM 89 Nathan Korstad - - 20 - - - - - - 20/ 20 EM 68 Jennifer Ocker - - 16 - - - - - - 16/ 16

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Final Solo Points ST 5 Scott McCusker 20 16 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 140/176 ST 23 Brad Czopek 16 20 - 16 16 16 16 16 16 116/132 ST 90 Sam Boyce 6 8 16 8 10 10 13 10 8 75/ 89 ST 123 Leah Nagengast 13 13 - 6 13 13 10 6 6 74/ 80 ST 32 Tyler Rakes 10 6 10 10 8 8 8 5 10 64/ 75 ST 13 James Keller - 10 13 13 - - - 13 13 62/ 62 ST 15 Brendan Hughes 8 - - - - - - 8 - 16/ 16 ST 707 Erik Beaulieu - - - - - - - - 5 5/ 5

STS 325 Jeff Petersen 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 16 20 140/176 STS 532 Morgan Petersen 10 - 16 - - 16 16 20 16 94/ 94 STS 15 Michael Pinto 16 13 - - 13 13 - - - 55/ 55 STS 12 Van Havig - 16 - 16 16 - - - - 48/ 48 STS 314 Audra Degg 13 5 - - - 10 - - - 28/ 28 STS 3 Richard Cohn-Lee - 6 - - - - - - 13 19/ 19 STS 116 David Russell - - - - - - - - 10 10/ 10 STS 253 James Weidenbaur - 10 - - - - - - - 10/ 10 STS 315 John Russell - - - - 10 - - - - 10/ 10 STS 25 Todd Averitt - 8 - - - - - - - 8/ 8 STS 111 Adam Duesfeldt - 4 - - - - - - - 4/ 4

STR 93 Brian Clemons 20 20 20 16 16 20 20 - - 132/132 STR 193 Morris Green 16 16 16 20 20 16 16 - - 120/120 STR 116 David Russell - - - - - 13 - - - 13/ 13 STR 134 Edwin Moeller - - - - - 10 - - - 10/ 10

STX 425 Phil Nishikawa 16 20 20 16 16 - - 20 20 128/128 STX 85 Robert Pendergest - - - 20 20 - - - - 40/ 40 STX 17 George Hudetz 20 - - - - - - - - 20/ 20 STX 21 Craig Christakos 13 - - - - - - - - 13/ 13

STU 31 Des Toups - - - - - 20 - - - 20/ 20 STU 147 John Russell 20 - - - - - - - - 20/ 20

SM 52 Dallas Cutler 16 20 16 20 20 20 20 - - 132/132 SM 13 Dan Hall 20 16 20 16 16 16 16 20 20 128/160 SM 113 Bernadette Kuehn - - - 13 13 10 10 16 16 78/ 78 SM 9 Sam Hatago 4 6 13 10 10 8 8 13 13 75/ 85 SM 521 Chris Nigh - - - - - 13 13 - - 26/ 26 SM 152 Jordan Huffman 6 13 - - - - - - - 19/ 19 SM 44 Jesse Burkett 8 10 - - - - - - - 18/ 18 SM 72 Nathan Feigion 13 - - - - - - - - 13/ 13 SM 196 Shane Kienholz 10 - - - - - - - - 10/ 10 SM 87 Steven Kraft - 8 - - - - - - - 8/ 8 SM 828 Brian Work - 5 - - - - - - - 5/ 5 SM 96 Bryan Simmons 5 - - - - - - - - 5/ 5 SSM 42 Jared Still 13 20 - - - - - 20 20 73/ 73 SSM 87 Chad Olerich - - 20 - 13 - - - - 33/ 33 SSM 7 Greg Olsen - - - 20 10 - - - - 30/ 30 SSM 21 Duke Langley - - - - 20 - - - - 20/ 20 SSM 20 Nathan Kandoll 20 - - - - - - - - 20/ 20 SSM 121 Tonya Langley - - - - 16 - - - - 16/ 16 SSM 38 Tricia Kandoll 16 - - - - - - - - 16/ 16

SSML 871 Jami Olerich - - 20 20 20 - - - - 60/ 60

SMF 198 Becky Zacharda 6 20 16 16 16 13 13 16 20 117/136 SMF 13 Perry Keller 20 5 20 10 20 16 16 10 6 112/123

SMF 98 Allan Zacharda 5 16 13 20 13 10 - 20 16 108/113 SMF 65 Gilbert Calkins 16 6 10 13 10 20 20 8 13 102/116 SMF 126 Matt Allmaras 8 4 - 8 - 8 10 - - 38/ 38 SMF 196 Shane Kienholz - 10 - - - - - 13 8 31/ 31 SMF 96 Bryan Simmons - 8 - - - - - 6 10 24/ 24 SMF 53 Keith Gover 13 - - - - - - - - 13/ 13 SMF 950 Tom Kotzian - 13 - - - - - - - 13/ 13 SMF 31 James Keller 10 - - - - - - - - 10/ 10 SMF 52 John Stiner - - - - - - - 5 - 5/ 5 SMF 55 Christian Peters 4 - - - - - - - - 4/ 4 SMF 523 Kathy Averitt - 3 - - - - - - - 3/ 3

SMFL 113 Andrea Keller - - 20 - - - - - - 20/ 20

PES 95 Jerry Jenkins 20 20 13 20 20 20 16 13 20 136/162 PSS 180 Ryan Otis 4 16 16 16 13 13 20 10 13 107/121PSTR 93 James Paulson 16 13 4 2 6 16 10 20 16 97/103PSMF 98 Tom Kotzian 13 - 5 5 - 8 13 - 10 54/ 54PSTX 42 Adam Ruff 8 - 20 6 8 - - - 5 47/ 47 PDP 190 Ron Bauer - - 10 10 16 6 - - - 42/ 42PSTX 171 George Hudetz - - 2 1 10 4 5 - 8 30/ 30PSTX 71 Karl Coleman - - 8 8 4 - 8 - - 28/ 28 PAS 36 Liz Bacon 10 6 1 - - - - 8 - 25/ 25PSTR 193 Brian Clemons - - - - - - - 16 6 22/ 22 PSS 80 Dan Bullis 3 8 3 3 5 - - - - 22/ 22 PDP 90 Jim Daniels - - 6 13 3 - - - - 22/ 22 PES 70 Andy Howe 5 10 - - - - - - - 15/ 15 PDP 96 Keith Brown - - - - - 10 - - - 10/ 10PSTR 142 Dennis Healy 6 - 1 1 - - - - - 8/ 8 PES 195 Kyra Jenkins - - - - - 2 6 - - 8/ 8 PDP 6 John Banton - 5 - - - - - - - 5/ 5 PSTX 425 Phil Nishikawa - - - - - 1 4 - - 5/ 5 PDP 9 Ryan Brakefield - 4 - - - - - - - 4/ 4 PBS 170 Mark DeRegt - - - - - 3 - - - 3/ 3 PDSP 19 Nic Armstrong - - - - - 1 - - - 1/ 1 PSS 2 Val Korry - - - 1 - - - - - 1/ 1

TDS 37 Russ Rainforth 20 20 20 - - 20 20 20 20 140/140 TDS 7 Tina Rainforth 13 16 16 - - 16 16 16 16 109/109 TCS 97 Rick Moore - 13 13 20 16 13 13 13 10 101/111 TDS 22 Scott Turner 10 8 10 13 20 8 8 10 13 84/100 TBS 43 Chuck Jarvie 16 - - 16 - 10 4 8 8 62/ 62 TCS 73 Eric Keerbs - 6 8 10 13 6 6 5 6 55/ 60 TAS 7 Paul Spencer - 5 - 8 - - - 6 - 19/ 19 TBS 42 Dennis Healy - 10 - - - - - - - 10/ 10 TDS 122 Matthew Turner - - - - - 5 5 - - 10/ 10 TDS 117 Kim LaFever - 4 - 5 - - - - - 9/ 9 TBS 143 Christina Billings - - - 6 - - - - - 6/ 6 TBS 111 Adam Dyment - 3 - - - - - - - 3/ 3 TBS 217 Greg Rollin - 2 - - - - - - - 2/ 2

WES 95 Kyra Jenkins 20 20 16 16 20 - - 20 20 132/132 WES 70 Heather Howe 13 13 13 - - - 20 - - 59/ 59 WDP 90 Tami Daniels - - 20 20 16 - - - - 56/ 56WSTR 3 Danielle Paulson 16 16 - - - - - - - 32/ 32 WSS 80 Lacey Otis 10 - - - - 5 - - - 15/ 15 WBS 42 Christina Billings - - 10 - - - 3 - - 13/ 13

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by Jim Weidenbaum

The Oregonian recently ran a front-page article talking about declines in auto-relat-ed deaths in the state. Buried at the end of the article was a caveat: the rate of fatali-ties fell among all categories of drivers – except for teens!

Fortunately, there is a group of dedicated volunteers within the SCCA and Friends of PIR (FOPIR) who are working hard to change that last, unfortunate statistic.

Bright and early on an October Sunday morning, a crew of 25 volunteers from SCCA Solo2, SCCA Club Racing, and oth-er FOPIR affiliated clubs came together to put on an all day Tire Rack Street Survival event for 26 young drivers.

This fall’s Tire Rack Street Survival event was the fifth held at PIR since the program was introduced into the Region in 2008. The program seems to get better each time: Gary Bockman provides simply outstanding classroom instruction, Andy Howe set up the varied driving exercis-

es, Chuck Jarvie served as Safety Stew-ard, Win Casey manned the gate, Kathy Weidenbaum worked registration in the tower, and 20 driving instructors provided one-on-one in-car student instruction. Tire

Rack Street Survival offers a terrific com-bination of classroom learning combined with in-car learning.

Our resident driving sage, Gary Bockman, describes in easy to understand language, the what’s and why’s of car control. These classroom lessons are immediately rein-forced by real world driving drills.

Students, driving their own vehicles, run through driving exercises, with an experi-enced instructor in the passenger seat, un-til the new skill becomes second nature.

Driving drills include:

• ABS/threshold braking exercise allows students to feel what happens when they stand on their brakes at highway speeds

• Car control exercise using a slalom course, initially run with generous spac-ing, then with tighter spacing to expose students to feel the car’s suspension “ro-tate” under power

• Maximum braking while turning exercise – shows students that they can maintain control of their vehicle under maximum braking, enabling them to steer around an object versus fixating on it (and hitting it)

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Emergency lane change exercise (single and double lane changes) teaches students how to maintain control if at the last min-ute they need to swerve at speed

• Skid control – running a wet skid pad both clockwise and counter-clockwise allows students to see how their car re-sponds at the limit – does it understeer or oversteer – and how to control it

• Combined driving drill (don’t call it an autocross, although it really looks like one) to pull all of the day’s learning together

Street Survival is a great program … and at $75 for the day, including lunch and an SCCA membership, it’s an amazing value.

The low price is only possible due to an all-volunteer local effort and the generous underwriting of the SCCA Foundation, BMWCCA Foundation, and Tire Rack. Every Tire Rack Street Survival event is evaluated by students and parents; we con-sistently score over 9 on a 10 scale by both groups.

Street Survival does fall critically short in an important way: it needs greater commu-nity awareness. Our October event could have easily accommodated another dozen students, but we had no more takers.

Oregon Region SCCA: we need your help! As members of the Oregon “car guy and gal” community, please talk up Street Survival among friends and family with young drivers (15 – 24).

Please consider what happens in the absence of taking this course the first time your young driver is faced with an emergency driving situation?

Do you think (s)he knows what to do … or do you know (s)he knows exactly how to handle it? I urge you to sign up your kids for a future Street Survival (www.streetsurvival.org) class and/or attend Todd Harris’ Pro Drive program and equip your young driver with po-tentially life saving driving skills be-fore they are needed.

Thank you again to the many volun-teers and PIR staff who make Street

Tire Rack Street Survival Survival possible.

Tire Rack Street Survival’s 2011 schedule will be set after consulting with tentative 2011 Club racing dates, Solo2 Regional racing schedules, PCA/BMWACA HPDE events, SAT test dates, homecoming ac-tivities, and zodiac signs.

Photos opposite page (Monte Olsen pho-tographer): Joseph Olsen puts his F150 (with stability controls on!) through the paces of the October Tire Rack Street Survival school

Coach Mick Posner with Street Survival student Joseph Olsen

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We’re working on an event at Oregon Raceway Park again, and at this writ-ing there are still a couple of asterisks on

the schedule, but it’s pretty well finished. We’ll post it and publish it in these pages, as soon as practical. Rose Cup weekend is, relatively, a week later than in recent years; that much we know.

Our entry counts at the end of 2010 fell right off a cliff. We were caught by sur-prise, frankly, as the September and Oc-tober events have been fairly strong in re-cent years. Did you all want to run straight through, the “no chicane” course?

Whether low entry counts are the result of economic conditions or lack of interest, no one knows. The first is out of our hands; the second bears hearing.

During the year we were talking with driv-ers and working with ideas to improve our race weekends, and for 2011 are propos-ing a number of changes to our race week-ends. The plan is, our “standard” weekend event for 2011 will be a two-day double regional. These will be structured so that one regional will run on Saturday, one on Sunday; a driver can enter Sunday’s event if he/she has other (family) plans on Satur-day, for example.

Each weekend will feature 100 minutes of track time; and a “one-day” entry will be available at a reduced cost.

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To make this happen, we plan to change our race groups to combine existing run groups into a “six race” format.

In recent years we have normally run sev-en race groups; combining into six groups gives us the flexibility to run two regionals in a two-day weekend.

Initially, we will combine groups 6 and 7, just as we have combined groups 2 and 4 in the past; different groups may be com-bined depending on entry counts as the year progresses; but we expect that six run groups will be the norm.

The goal is to improve scheduling, make more use of our track time (fewer groups means fewer breaks), and give more rac-ing opportunities to our drivers.

The group combinations may be adjusted depending on demand and entry counts by run group. Any combinations, of course, will conform to GCR and will be approved by the stewards.

We would maintain three-day race week-

ends for March (due to the licensing school); for May (Regional/National or Rational); June, (Rose Cup); and July (double National) as these events demand more track time.

We’re planning to run the two-day events whenever possible, because the Fridays are tougher for drivers and workers.

We’re eager for next season! As always, thanks to all our chiefs and workers for the

camaraderie, good spirit and hard work that we enjoy and appreciate.

We look forward to the future. Happy Holidays! Please email or call if you have opinions, comments, suggestions…or complaints…

More comments or questions? 541 788 2797 or jmmurrayjr@aol.com

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