with food in Septem- ber. Look elsewhere for details of the rally and membership meeting. Now , once again, it is time to be thinking of next year’s officers. We need volunteers. Come, help with fill- ing these postions. See you at the meet- ing or a solo or rally. Charlene Bettinger, RE Boy, that time again. My article is due to Lawrence. I better get with it and get it done ASAP. This month, like the oth- ers, has been busy. We had another race at Hallett. The last for us this year. It was a good event, but not as well attended as we would have liked We continue to get better acquainted with our new Timing and Scoring software and continue to be short on workers. Plan next year to join us at Hallett. Speaking of next year, we have a tenta- tive Midiv schedule. There were a couple of problems, but, think we have them resolved. Hal has taken the tentative schedule and worked a tentative Solo II schedule. We have a Solo II at Greyhound Park to- day. The event was well attended and was a big course. I’m sure all had fun. I had to leave before the event was over, but believe we had about 110 entries. Great!! We got some new mem- bers, also. Things seem to be looking up. We had a Rally and had 10 entries. That was good for us. Unfor- tunately the party at Afton, did not get any takers except those who entered the rally or worked it. You who did not come missed out on come really good food cooked by Linda Timmons. She really puts on a good spread!! Even home- make ice cream. We will hold our Poker Rally and membership meeting ReFlections SCCA Wichita Region Spetember 2004 Volume 04, Issue 8 Witches Wail Special points of interest: ♦ BOD Meeting 9/8 ♦ Membership Meeting 9/22 ♦ Results, Calendars, and Schedules ♦ Mid Div Solo Salina Reports ♦ Stories by the Geis’s Inside this issue: ReFlections 1 August BOD Minutes 4 Solo Reports 12-16 Rally News 20 Racing 24 Pictures 26 Event Calendar 6-7
Transcript
RE Report
with food in Septem-ber. Look elsewhere for details of the rally and membership meeting. Now , once again, it is time to be thinking of next year’s officers. We need volunteers. Come, help with fill-ing these postions. See you at the meet-ing or a solo or rally. Charlene Bettinger, RE
Boy, that time again. My article is due to Lawrence. I better
get with it and get it done ASAP. This
month, like the oth-ers, has been busy.
We had another race at Hallett. The last for us this year. It
was a good event, but not as well attended
as we would have liked
We continue to get better acquainted with our new Timing and Scoring software and continue to be short on workers. Plan next year to join us at Hallett. Speaking of next year, we have a tenta-tive Midiv schedule. There were a couple of problems, but, think we have them resolved. Hal has taken the tentative schedule and worked a tentative Solo II schedule.
We have a Solo II at Greyhound Park to-day. The event was well attended and was a big course. I’m sure all had fun. I had to leave before the event was over, but believe we had about 110 entries. Great!! We got some new mem-bers, also. Things seem to be looking up. We had a Rally and had 10 entries. That was good for us. Unfor-tunately the party at Afton, did not get any takers except those who entered the rally or worked it. You who did not come missed out on come really good food cooked by Linda Timmons. She really puts on a good spread!! Even home-make ice cream. We will hold our Poker Rally and membership meeting
ReFlections
SCCA Wichita Region Spetember 2004 Volume 04, Issue 8
Witches Wail
Special points of interest:
♦ BOD Meeting 9/8
♦ Membership Meeting 9/22
♦ Results, Calendars, and Schedules
♦ Mid Div Solo Salina Reports
♦ Stories by the Geis’s
Inside this issue:
ReFlections 1
August BOD Minutes 4
Solo Reports 12-16
Rally News 20
Racing 24
Pictures 26
Event Calendar 6-7
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2004 TRIVIA POKER RALLY
By popular demand (well at least one person asked for it) the Trivia Poker Rally is back. In conjunction with our September meeting which is being held in Sedgwick County Park we are once again putting on a poker rally. Meet us at the southeast parking lot (enter the park from 13th and turn right). We use this starting location for those of you who want to team up but don’t want to leave your car across town. Reg-istration will be open by 6:00 with the rally starting at 6:30. We plan to be on the road for about an hour so we can all be back by 7:30 in time for the food to be served. For those who have never been on this event, it is a simple road rally with no timing. You will be expected to follow the course drawing a card at each check point you find. Put together a good poker hand and try to beat the other teams. We will also ask some simple trivia questions. For each correct answer you will be able to draw a card to replace those you have drawn and don’t like. Remember….
Club Meeting in Sedgwick County Park at 7:30
Rally registration at the southeast parking lot in the park at 6:00
Hotline: If you need further information on any event listed in this calendar, call the Club phone (788-6023) and leave a de-tailed message. Someone will return your call and attempt to answer your questions.
Membership Meetings: Membership meetings are held on the fourth (not necessarily the last) Wednesday of every month at 7:30 pm. Our meeting location is the Red Mesa Grill at 756 N. Tyler - just North of Central on Tyler.
Board of Directors Meetings: BoD meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month at 6:30. The meeting location is at the Sedgwick County Zoo Education Center. Enter the Zoo at the entrance near the Administration Building. Anyone inter-ested may attend any of these meetings.
Solo II Events: Setup begins at 7:00 AM (please come help). Typically, registration is open between 8:30 AM and 12:30 PM, the drivers meeting is held at 9:30 AM and the first car is on the course by 10:00 AM. All drivers AND guests must sign the insur-ance waiver's). To pre-register your entry online, see our web site at: http://www.wichitascca.org/PreRegister.html You may also pre-register by phone by calling the Solo Chair.
Jr. Karts: The Wichita region has a great Junior Solo Karts pro-gram. Pre-registration is required for al Junior drivers. Contact Rick Knapp (722-2809) for more information
Interested in SCCA Road Racing? Call George Morrison at 722-2872 or attend a Membership Meeting and ask questions! Race workers are always needed and you can’t get any closer to the ac-tion.
Address Change? So you moved, changed your phone number, changed your e-mail address, whatever. Let us know!! Please notify the National office (in Topeka, KS), Charlene Bettinger (788-3942, [email protected]), and Lawrence Duty 316.283.6289. [email protected]
Email list: If you would like to participate in some electronic bench racing, subscribe to the Wichita Region SCCA email list. Send an email to [email protected] with the words “subscribe wichita-scca” in the body of the message. You will get an automatic reply with instructions to complete the process.
BOD members present: Charlene Bettinger, Dave Geis, Greg Laws, Andy Timmons, Kellie Barker, and Bill Preheim. Non-voting Club Officials present: John Houston, Carolyn Laws, Lawrence Duty, Amy Timmons, Bruce Sargent, Linda Timmons, Robert Foster, Bruce Bettinger, George Morrison, Scott Bettinger and Tom Urbanek. Visitors present: Lu Geis. Charlene Bettinger called the meeting to order. Secretary’s Report: July 14, 2004 BOD minutes were presented by Carolyn Laws. Dave Geis moved for the minutes to be accepted. Seconded by Andy Timmons. Motion passed. WAIL Report: Lawrence Duty presented the Wail report. Technical problems with a corrupt font file caused a delay in getting the Wail out. Web Report: Robert Foster presented the report. Hits continue to increase. Membership Report: Bruce Bettinger presented the report. There are 230 mem-bers with 204 voting members. Discussion occurred regarding promotion of member-ship. Merchandise Report: Charlene Bettinger has the inventory. Activities Report: Amy Timmons pre-sented the report. August 14 will be the Hot Springs Road Rally ending with a BB (for all members, not just rally entries) at Lake Afton. Solo II August 22 @ Greyhound Park. August 25 will be the membership meeting @ Red Mesa Grill. Linda Timmons discussed the budget for the September 22 Poker Rally prior to the membership meeting @ Sedgwick County Park. Greg Laws moved to approve the
budget for the Poker Rally as presented by Linda Timmons. Seconded by Bill Preheim. Passed. The Triva Poker Rally will be free to all entries. It will end at the club Member-ship Meeting and picnic. Everyone is en-couraged to attend the meeting & picnic at Sedgwick County Park regardless of entry into the rally. AVRG Report: George Morrison presented the report. He presented a tentitive schedule for 2005 Midwest Division. Rally events: Bruce Sargent presented the report. Lopin-A-Long Rally cost accounting was discussed by Charlene Bettinger. Hot Springs Rally on August 14. will end with a picnic @ Lake Afton. September 22 will be the Trivia Poker Rally. Bill Preheim is orga-nizing the Witches Ryde Rally in October. Solo II Report: Charlene Bettinger pre-sented the report. Greyhound Park has been obtained. Bill Preheim made a motion that a tentitive date of June 25/26 be scheduled for a Wichita/Salina Solo II Divisional in 2005. Seconded by Greg Laws. Motion passed. Details to be worked out with the Salina Region and subject to securing a Chair for the event. Treasurer’s Report: John Houston pre-sented the report. Bill Preheim moved to approve the Treasurer’s Report. Seconded by Dave Geis. Motion passed. New Business: Bruce Bettinger presented the Trivia Poker Rally budget. Dave Geis moved for the Trivia Poker Rally buget to be accepted. Seconded by Greg Laws. Motion passed. Greg Laws moved to wave the entry fees for the Trivia Poker Rally. Seconded by Dave Geis. Motion passed. Old Business: Charlene Bettinger reminded the BOD of need for several new officers for 2005. Motion to adjourn was made by Dave Geis, seconded by Kellie Barker.. Motion passed.
August BOD Minutes
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For Immediate Release
YOKOHAMA TO SPONSOR SCCA CLUB RACING WORKER OF THE YEAR PROGRAM; OFFERS GRAND PRIZE TRIP TO LE MANS
TOPEKA, Kan. (July 29, 2004) – Sports Car Club of America, Inc. announced today a new partnership between its Club Racing Worker of the Year program and Yokohama Tire Corporation. In addition to awarding all 13 Workers of the Year a set of Yokohama tires, one lucky winner (along with a guest) will travel to the 2005 24 Hours of Le Mans to be Yokohama’s guest for the event.
The SCCA Club Racing Worker of the Year program annually recognizes the outstanding efforts of individuals in 13 separate race worker specialties, including: Course Marshall, Emergency Services, Flagging & Communications, Grid, Paddock, Pit, Race Chair, Radio Tech, Registration, Scrutineer, Sound, Starter and Timing & Scoring.
“We’re pleased to have Yokohama Tires step in to sponsor the Yokohama Tire Worker of the Year program,” SCCA Vice President of Marketing Garret Mudd said. “Yokohama’s involvement has boosted the program. What better way to reward an outstanding road racing worker than to send them with a guest to the biggest sports car race in the world?”
“We’re proud to support the people who support our racers,” Yokohama Director of Marketing Communications Art Michalik said. “Without the dedication of SCCA workers, there wouldn’t be road racing in the United States. We’re proud to associate our name and products with the dedication and professionalism demonstrated by the SCCA Club Racing Workers of the Year.”
Yokohama Tire Workers of the Year candidates are nominated throughout the year by their peers, with the winners announced at the SCCA Club Racing Runoffs National Championships presented by Kohler, September 23 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. To nominate a candidate, either download the hard copy form or submit the online form at http://www.scca.com/Club/index.asp?reference=woy.
Winners of the 2004 Yokohama Tire Worker of the Year will each receive a set of Yokohama passenger, high performance or light truck tires. Of those winners, one will be selected for the grand prize, a trip to the 2005 24 Hours of Le Mans as a guest of Yokohama Tire with all travel expenses paid.
For more information about Yokohama Tire Corporation, visit www.yokohamatire.com.
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESD AY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY
1 2 3 4 RNI/HPT/KVRG
5 RNI/HPT/KVRG
6 7 SSC - Solo Steering Committee 7:00 pm, Tuesday Torre's Pizzeria 131 N. Rock Island
8 Wichita BOD
0 11 12
20 Valvoline Runoffs
MidOhio
21 Valvoline Runoffs
MidOhio
22 Valvoline Runoffs
MidOhio Wichita Club Meeting Rally Challenger
23 Valvoline Runoffs
MidOhio
24 Valvoline Runoffs
MidOhio
25 Valvoline Runoffs
MidOhio
26 Valvoline Runoffs
MidOhio
27 28 2 30
13 14 Solo Nationals Topeka
15 Solo Nationals Topeka
16 Solo Nationals Topeka
17 Solo Nationals Topeka
18 1 Solo II Raytheon
SEPTEMBER EVENTS 2004
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MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESD AY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY
1 2 SRC/MAM/MVRG
3 SRC/MAM/MVRG Solo II Strother
4 5 6 7 8 9 HPT/KVRG (Pro Event)
10 HPT/KVRG (Pro Event)
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 Wichita Club Meeting
28 29 30 RR/GIR/ST Rally Witch’s Ryde
31 RR/GIR/ST
11 12 13 Wichita BOD
14 15 16 SR*C/MMP/MS
17 SR*C/MMP/MS Solo II WGP
OCTOBER EVENTS 2004
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Rally Event Date Event Name - Chair(s) September 22, Wednesday Challenger - Bruce & Charlene Bettinger October 30, Saturday Witches Ryde - Bill Preheim
ClubRacing Hallett Motor Racing Circuit
April 17-18, Saturday/Sunday AVRG Regional/Drivers School at Hallet Motor Racing Circuit May 15-16, Saturday/Sunday AVRG Regional/National at Hallet Motor Racing Circuit
July 3-4, Saturday/Sunday AVRG Regional/National at Hallet Motor Racing Circuit Sept 20-26, Monday/Sunday Valvoline Runoffs - MidOhio
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2004 Participation Points
Rank total Person IROC Solo BoD Meeting Race Rally Wail
S = Drivers School Solotime=Divisional Solo II ProV = ProVee
R = Regional (MidAm) r = Regional (non-points) I = IT Tour
R* = Bonus Regional (MidAm) N = National C = HPCCC
GIR - Gateway International Raceway - St. Louis, MO HMRC - Hallett Motor Racing Circuit - Hallett, OK
HPT - Heartland Park Topeka - Topeka, KS MMP - Memphis Motor Sports Park - Memphis, TN
MAM - MidAmerica Motorplex - Glenwood, IA
Total Club Racing Events: S - 6 R -19 N -10 I -10 C -4 r -0 = 17 Weekends
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Event Date Location Event Chair(s) Solo Safety Steward
May 30, Sunday Raytheon Hal Larcher Edwin Martens
June 6, Sunday Boeing Kevin Anderson / Jared Anderson Brian Meyer
June 27, Sunday Strother Field - Winfield Bill Preheim / Bruce Sargent Bruce Bettinger
July 25, Sunday Wichita - Boeing N-Lot Frank Janssen Paul Sherman
Aug 22, Sunday Wichita Greyhound Park Bob Cummings / Darrin Teeter Jim Harrison
Sept 19, Sunday Raytheon ?? Jim French
Oct 3, Sunday Strother Field - Winfield ?? Dave Geis
Oct 17, Sunday Wichita Greyhound Park ?? Jim Pernice
Nov 7, Sunday Wichita - Boeing N-Lot Bruce Sargent / Bill Preheim Robert Foster
Solo Schedule
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Dave Gird was a lot quicker on his new Hoosiers running a 37.042 in taking A-Stock. Jeff Scher-muly won a large, yet Honda-free B-Stock class in his Yellow 911. Jim Pernice enjoyed the open course in his F-Stock Camaro by taking the class. Gary Bryant took H-Stock in his Prelude, just beating Lawrence Duty by 3 tenths. New driver Kelly Duty took the ladies class. George Pantchev won DSP in his newly painted Initial-D Corolla. FSP was the Renault GTA challenge with Bill Preheim throwing his Sprite
into the mix. Greg Laws finished first in the class, about a second and a half ahead of Bill who just beat out Jason Reyes and Ryan Kilby, both driving the Phrog. Mike Herrick won E Prepared in his recently completed '86 CRX. Chris Lawrie extended his lead in the hotly-contested Street Touring S class, fin-ishing just ahead of Tom Urbanek and Tim Harmon. No surprise that a WRX
won STX, driven by Andrew Auerbach. Kevin Anderson comes back to defeat Jared this time in the Silver Miata in STS2. I may have won Street Open in my Miata, but I discovered that having intimate knowledge of the course doesn't neces-sarily help as much as you'd think. I finsihed in about the same position overall as I normally do at 11th. Thanks again to everyone who made this a fun and safe event!
It's been over a month since we ran our July Solo, so I hope those of you who were there remember how much fun we had at one of the fastest courses of the year on the tight Boeing lot. Although I was the main course designer I certainly can only take about half the credit for the final design. As many course designers/event chairs have discovered, what you have on paper is often very different from how things end up. We started course setup around 6:30am and I apologize to everyone that it wasn't chalked by the time most people tried to start walking. Of course “I” knew how the course was supposed to go! Next time I do this I will wear a watch, because Paul Sherman kindly informed me that “you know it's 10a.m.” right around the time I noticed how many confused people were trying to figure out how to get out of the starting gate! Time really flies when you're having fun. Thanks so much to everyone who pitched in to make what I thought was a really fun course. Especially Ken Neely and Paul Sherman who weren't able to drive but helped out anyway. I also have to give credit to the event co-chair Hal Larcher who is always the first one there in the morning and takes the trailer back at the end of the day. The course proved to be in the 37 second range for the fastest fendered cars, enabling us to give everyone 5 runs. It featured 2 crossovers and an optional slalom and optional turnaround. Tom Zickuhr managed to beat everyone else with fend-ers with a 36.367. As for the speedy Formula cars--the Geis' were not alone this time. Robert Moore visited with his yellow Formula V to take F-Mod and FTD with a 34.867, beating Dave Geis by just 14 one-thousandths.
July 25th Solo Event Report - Richard Sirokman
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Wichita Solo II July 25th, 2004 Final Results, #0 - Boeing Solo 75200 Total Registered: 67, with Times: 66
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Driver Car Model Runs: 1-5 Total ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Super Stock' - Total Entries: 1 Trophies: 1 1T 36 Brian Cozine 99 Corvette 41.846+1 40.069 39.024+DNF 39.396 38.605 > 38.605 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'A Stock' - Total Entries: 1 Trophies: 1 1Tm 21 Dave Gird 91 Corvette ( 38.094 > 37.042 37.684 38.120 37.042 37.150 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'B Stock' - Total Entries: 6 Trophies: 2 1T 48 Jeff Schermuly 75 Porsche 911 42.268+DNF 41.961 40.504 40.132 40.037 > 40.037 - 2Tm 57 Bob Howard 87 Porsche 944 43.454 42.286 42.321+DNF 42.399 40.678 > 40.678 0.641 3 m 59 Chris Meisser 03 Nissan 350Z 45.812 42.743 41.792+1 > 41.636 41.636 41.569+1 0.958 4 71 Joe Schermuly 75 Porsche 911 43.324 43.459 42.445 > 41.936 41.936 42.187 0.300 5 58 Kyle Koser 87 BMW 325 is 50.874 44.843 44.233 > 43.591 43.591 43.821 1.655 6 75 Travis Howard 87 Porsche 944 47.851+1 45.423 > 44.248 46.050 44.248 44.436 0.657 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'C Stock' - Total Entries: 1 Trophies: 1 1T 68 David Guillams 99 Mazda Miata 46.004 46.751 46.445 45.598 44.722 > 44.722 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'D Stock' - Total Entries: 2 Trophies: 1 1Tm 7 Beau Boggess 02 Subaru Impr 45.531 41.340 40.036+1 39.013 37.904 > 37.904 - 2 74 Justin Mork 84 BMW 323i (o 44.701 > 43.802 42.906+1 44.646 43.802 43.110+1 5.898 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'E Stock' - Total Entries: 5 Trophies: 2 1Tm 40 Tom Zickuhr 88 Porche 924S 38.368+1 36.429 36.619 36.979 36.367 > 36.367 - 2T 79 Adrian Hicks 91 Toyota MR-2 50.673+DNF 42.381 50.039 42.281 41.291 > 41.291 4.924 3 65 Matthew Braun 79 Nissan 280Z 43.996 43.176 43.080 > 42.599 42.599 43.167+1 1.308 4 53 Mike Griffith 83 Porsche 944 48.900+DNF 44.932+DNF > 44.949 46.723+DNF 44.949 46.364+DNF 2.350 5 17 Bennie Rogers 79 Datsun 280Z 50.090 49.076 47.881 > 47.326 47.326 49.284 2.377 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'F Stock' - Total Entries: 4 Trophies: 2 1Tm 15 Jim Pernice 97 Chevy Camar 42.859 41.305 39.918 39.485+2 39.580 > 39.580 -
2T 12 Phillip Strauhs 83 Mercury Cap 46.587 45.955 44.243 44.285 43.725 > 43.725 4.145 3 64 Greg Mcgehee 86 Chevy Camar 45.423 44.775+1 45.184 44.003 43.814 > 43.814 0.089 4 2 Terry Nunemaker 98 Ford 45.690+1 47.542 46.071 > 45.403 45.403 46.086 1.589 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'G Stock' - Total Entries: 3 Trophies: 1 1Tm 14 Tom Dupler MINI Cooper S > 38.403 44.315 39.233 38.391+1 38.403 39.867 - 2 43 Jim Schoonover 02 Ford Focus 41.948 40.906 40.150 40.500 39.669 > 39.669 1.266 3 66 Elrond Driscoll 98 Plymouth Ne 46.731 46.078 45.762 45.232 44.354 > 44.354 4.685 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'H Stock' - Total Entries: 5 Trophies: 2 1Tm 27 Gary Bryant 88 Honda Prelu 41.618+1 41.093+DNF 40.956+DNF 41.036+1 40.669 > 40.669 - 2Tm 13 Lawrence Duty 02 MAZDA Prote 41.887 > 40.956 49.747 41.003+1 40.956 41.857 0.287 3 3 Bobby Clair 91 Honda Civic 44.867 44.157 > 42.531 42.576 42.531 42.891+1 1.575 4 24 Noell Johnson 91 Mazda Prote 45.628 45.022 43.874 > 42.838 42.838 43.640 0.307 5 m 47 Kelly Duty 02 Mazda Proto 58.691+DNF 64.804+DNF 57.677 54.021 51.720 > 51.720 8.882 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'B Street Prepared' - Total Entries: 1 Trophies: 1 1T 70 Tom Reed 98 BMW M Roads 41.743 40.027 > 39.328 40.818 39.328 39.883 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'C Street Prepared' - Total Entries: 2 Trophies: 1 1T 67 John Stegman 87 Honda CRX ( 40.240+2 40.140+1 40.090+1 41.249 39.707 > 39.707 - 2 72 Gary Blessing Jr 76 Lancia Scor 64.987 48.460+1 46.946 > 45.005 45.005 45.025 5.298 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'D Street Prepared' - Total Entries: 2 Trophies: 1 1Tm 34 George Pantchev 87 Toyota Coro 39.766 39.548 39.997 > 38.894 38.894 38.382+2 - 2 49 Jake Callstrom '75 Alfa Romeo 43.996 44.219 43.812 41.896 41.220 > 41.220 2.326 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'E Street Prepared' - Total Entries: 1 Trophies: 1 1Tm 28 Paul Foster 97 Chevy Camar 38.366 38.287+1 37.623 37.816+1 37.298 > 37.298 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'F Street Prepared' - Total Entries: 4 Trophies: 2 1Tm 51 Greg Laws 87 Renault GTA 37.608+2 37.609+1 37.689 37.215 37.039 > 37.039 - 2Tm 4 Bill Preheim 69 Austin Heal 39.761 39.297 39.215 > 38.617 38.617 1.578 3 76 Jason Reyes 87 Renault GTA 40.005 38.969 38.196+1 39.861+1 38.839 > 38.839 0.222 4 41 Ryan Kilby 87 Renault GTA 43.216 41.058 39.708+2 39.364 38.843 > 38.843 0.004 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'C Prepared' - Total Entries: 1 Trophies: 1 1Tm 42 Dave Estes 87 Ford Mustan 45.178+1 41.226+1 > 40.916 41.754 40.916
41.236 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'E Prepared' - Total Entries: 2 Trophies: 1 1Tm 22 Mike Herrick 86 Honda CRX ( 38.308 38.036+1 37.976+2 37.903 37.673 > 37.673 - 2 69 Mark Braun 88 Honda 43.738+1 43.163 41.260 41.235+1 40.885 > 40.885 3.212 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'F Modified' - Total Entries: 3 Trophies: 1 1T 63 Robert Moore Bobsy FV (yell 36.390 35.659+1 36.234 35.512 34.867 > 34.867 - 2 m 25 Dave Geis 82 Morton (blu 36.951 35.654 35.496 35.178 34.881 > 34.881 0.014 3 m 52 Lu Geis 82 Morton (blu 42.272 39.118 38.400 37.972 37.645 > 37.645 2.764 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Street Touring (Tire)' - Total Entries: 5 Trophies: 2 1Tm 50 Chris Lawrie 95 Acura Integ 38.254 > 37.709 38.415+1 37.939+1 37.709 37.487+1 - 2Tm 55 Tom Ubanek 92 Saturn 39.325 40.476 39.277 39.198 38.538 > 38.538 0.829 3 m 26 Tim Harmon 99 Ford Contou 40.232+1 39.743 39.147 39.145 39.035 > 39.035 0.497 4 30 Todd Heath 95 Honda Civic 42.126 41.790 43.043 41.503 41.401 > 41.401 2.366 5 73 Louise Lawrie 95 Acura Integ 48.700 46.064 45.142 43.213+DNF 43.180 > 43.180 1.779 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Street Touring X' - Total Entries: 3 Trophies: 1 1T 6 Andrew Auberach 02 Subauru 41.938 42.047 41.283 > 40.279 40.279 39.995+1 - 2 37 Howard Cravens 88 Nissan 300Z 44.148 44.984 44.144 > 43.499 43.499 43.962 3.220 3 35 Al Mileanski 03 Subaru WRX 46.433 47.954 44.865 > 44.477 44.477 52.768 0.978 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Street Touring 2' - Total Entries: 2 Trophies: 1 1T 19 Kevin Anderson 91 Mazda 40.790 47.259 > 40.300 41.218+1 40.300 45.679+1 - 2 m 39 Jared Anderson 91 Mazda 41.068 48.254+DNF 40.799 41.184 40.726 > 40.726 0.426 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Street Open' - Total Entries: 6 Trophies: 2 1T 61 Richard Sirokman 01 Mazda Miata 38.851 > 37.821 37.839+1 41.467 37.821 - 2T 46 James Monroe 87 Pontiac Fie 42.404+1 40.840 40.492+1 41.202 39.293 > 39.293 1.472 3 38 Mike Bundy 66 Ford Mustan 47.105 43.930 42.861 > 41.833 41.833 44.801+1 2.540 4 56 Darrell Burghardt 02 Pontiac Fir 50.424 46.499+1 47.063 45.759+DNF 44.493 > 44.493 2.660 5 8 Gregory Brink 96 Chevy S-10 47.850 46.350 45.629 45.048 44.840 > 44.840 0.347 6 18 Nick Blair 88 Nissan Puls > 46.566 46.651 47.678+1 45.847+2 46.566 47.544 1.726 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Street Modified II' - Total Entries: 6 Trophies: 2 1Tm 20 Richard Prestage 99 Corvette 38.694 37.852 37.197+2 > 37.669 37.669 58.146 -
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2Tm 16 Fergus Thorton 91 Acura NSX 42.345 42.337 40.732 39.792 38.633 > 38.633 0.964 3 m 1 Hal Larcher 99 Chevy S-10 40.045 40.045 40.328 > 39.550 39.550 0.917 4 m 11 Paul Gutierrez 96 Chevy Corve 43.202 40.771 42.735+2 41.556 40.726 > 40.726 1.176 5 m 32 Chris Gutierrez 96 Chevy Corve 48.637 46.505 > 45.168 45.729 45.168 46.258+DNF 4.442 6 m 96 Chris Gutierrez 96 Chevy Corve DNS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Fun Run/Grudge' - Total Entries: 1 Trophies: 1 1T 77 Hal Larcher 69 Austin Heal 42.774+DNF 42.725+1 40.824 > 40.346 40.346 40.422 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top Time of Day: FM 63 Robert Moore 34.867 Top Pax of Day : ES 40 Tom Zickuhr 29.239
I have often been accused of having tunnel vision when I’m driving around town and I have heard other women say the same thing. I got to thinking about this on the way home the other day and paid attention to the other drivers around me. The women were very focused, eyes straight ahead, the men were rubber necking in some cases ac-tually turning around and looking behind them as they drove down the street. I got to wondering if we could blame this behavior on our cavemen ancestors. Men were the hunters while were women the gatherers. I imagine it went
something like this.
Grog and friends head out to hunt one fine morning. They had had a hard night the night before drinking Rockmeister and working on Grogs new wheel. He had bought it from a guy for two pelts and a spearhead. It was as used Chevy Stonearado. Built like a rock. The guy said it was in good shape but a little rough around the edges, so
Grog and the boys had spent the night before discussing the best way to go about smoothing things out. After such an exhausting evening they decided to go after easier game such as saber-toothed jackrabbit. They set out with no particu-lar destination in mind just out looking to see what might come their way. They weren’t worried about finding their way since they were just going to the valley. Knowing the valley they were headed to was to the south they could just
head in northerly direction to get back to the cave. They wouldn’t really take note of what the trees or rocks looked like but were going to be looking in all directions for game.
Grog’s wife Merg knew she need to gather berries that morning so after cleaning up after the “work party” from the night before, repairing Grog’s spare loincloth and getting the kids off to Cro-Magnon Jr. High she was off on excit-
ing adventure to a new gathering spot. A friend had told her about a place to find berries and given her instructions on how to get there. If she remembered the directions all she had to do was head straight for the three sided rock with the
mammoth drawn on it, turn left till she came to tree that looked like a raptors head and make a sharp right till she came to the stream. She would have to concentrate hard on the trip since she hadn’t ever been there before. But with these landmarks in mind she thought she would be able to get there and back in time to fix supper for Grog and the kids. She kept her eyes straight ahead and paid now attention to things
that might distract her and make her lose her way.
That night over supper Merg told Grog about her great adventure to the new gathering spot how exciting it was and bout all the great berries
she found. Grog responded with the occasional grunt to make her think he was listening all the while thinking about his new wheel.
Of course this is just one theory. Does anyone have a better idea they would like to share? Here’s to differences.
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Women VS Men—By Lu Geis
Volume 04, Issue 8 Page 19
Remember that all of my RE Reports ended with, “Are we havin’ fun yet?” Since it’s been one of “those years,” I de-cided do a little addition to see just how much fun this year has been.
We’ll start out with the Rally experiences to get the ball rolling. The first Rally of the year promised to be a great time until we made exactly no (zero, zilch, nada, not even one) checkpoints. Hmmm, not much fun there. For the second
Rally of the year, I was going to just work since my navigator was at her job. Guess what? They were all self-controls, so I just headed for home grumbling to myself. Add another zero fun point for Rally.
The third Rally! Woohoo! With Bobert Foster as navigator, we finished in a four-way tie for 6th place! Add ‘em up for
a ***Rally fun factor of 1 out of 3***.
Things weren’t working out too well on the Race side either. The first race was great. We decided to work corners in-stead of the usual tech/impound and had a blast. Then a few days before the second race of the year, I came down with pneumonia. Nope, no fun point there. On the day before the third and last race at Hallett, I was in the Wesley ER with
a broken bone in my foot and one in my ankle. Maybe that should count as a negative fun factor point? But the first race fun still made it a ***Race fun factor of 1 out of 3***.
I started out with very high hopes for the Solo season. Rick Knapp had made us a new exhaust system and fabricated a rear anti-roll bar over the winter - more power and no more understeer! Of course, more air out of the exhaust means
more air into the carb, right? So in go bigger custom-made venturis. But. . . .
The bad thing about having a dedicated race car is that the only way to tune it under load is at the “track.” After 5 events of trying to get the carb re-jetted for the bigger venturis with no luck, I finally gave up and put the old venturis
and jets back in. 0 for 5 so far for Solo.
We got to Boeing at our usual oh-dark-thirty for the 6th event and got permission to do some skidpad runs to help scrub in the first ever set of sticker tires. The first timed run was good (except for sliding on the new tires), but then
the usual luck held out. Note to self - make sure the air cleaner is fully seated on the top of the carburetor. The car was only running on 2 cylinders for the rest of my runs because the idle circuit had gotten some dirt sucked into it L. (On the good side of running on only two cylinders, I still managed to set the Fastest Time of Day for the event. Then I got
accused of disabling a couple of cylinders for “traction control” on the sandy surface J.) Although it started out as a good day, the stress and exasperation involved made it a 0 for 6 for Solo.
The 7th Solo of the year finally had everything in place. The car ran great and the left foot/ankle was healed enough to
take off the walking cast to be able to push in the clutch (ouch). Yep, we’re havin’ fun now. One out of seven!!!
But wait; there’s more. Off we go to Salina the next week for the 8th Solo of our year. 300’ into the first run I found out that I couldn’t get the car into third gear!!!! I knew exactly what was wrong, but it usually takes two people an hour
or more to get everything set just right on the weird Jamar shifter mechanism (see photo) so we loaded up and came home. That brought the total ***Solo fun factor to 1 out of 8*** for the year as of mid-August.
After taking the rear of the car apart again, putting dimples in the shifter hockey stick to keep the set screws in place,
fixing the massive tranny fluid leak after I got the gasket in crooked, adjusting the shifter, and making sure the air cleaner is on it’s base, I think it may be ready to try again. Maybe. I hope. We’ll see.
With the final count of 3 “good” events out of 14, you’d think that we would be ready to toss in the towel. Nope,
there’s still a slim chance that the year can be salvaged <g>. Maybe. I hope. We’ll see.
Are We Havin’ Fun Yet? - Dave Geis
Volume 04, Issue 8 Page 20
RALLY NEWS
Saturday, 30 October 2004
Wichita Region of the Sports Car Club of America
PRESENTS
WITCH’S RYDE’ Road Rally
This T.S.D. rally, traditionally held in October, has been a Regional, Divisional, as well as a National Rally. This year's regional club event will start in the north-east of Wichita (details are not determined as of this writing, but will be included in next month's Wail, also posted on the web). The rally route will end at a Picnic/Barbeque/Halloween Party. Anticipate bur-gers, brats, and beer festivities. Halloween costumes are optional, but will be rewarded. This will be a T.S.D. (Time-Speed-Distance) Rally geared for the novice participant. I hope to make it interesting for the expert as well. Look for a Rally Participant Instructional School announcement on the web at www.wichitascca.org. Registration should start at 8:30 am, with the first car off at 9:30. There will be a short lunch break with food options available. The Rally will be on paved roads only, travel about 250 miles, and take approxi-mately six hours. Hope to see you there! Bill Preheim
Entrants; First Warren H. Meyer. member and Stan Smith, Guest Only One incorrect answer at instruction #24. Second Bruce Bettinger, member Lost most of the route. No other entries. Bruce Sargent, Rally Master. Charlotte Sargent, Rally Chairman. Lopin-A-Long Road Rally 14 July 2004. Cat A Finish Order; First; car #2, Richard Bireta and David Bireta 328 Second; Car #4, Judi Pfautz and Keith Pfautz 578 Third; Car # 3, Warren Meyer and Stanley Smith 826 Cat B Finish Order; First; Car #5, Greg Laws and Carolyn Laws 1000 {16:21} Second; Car #1, Kelly Duty and Lawrence Duty 1000 {18:20} Third; Car # 6, Kevin Anderson and Steven Sanborn 1000 {20:21} Bruce Sargent, Rally Master. Charlotte Sargent, Rally Chairman. Bruce Bettinger, Safety Steward. Charlene Bettinger, Registrar. Bruce and Charlotte Sargent Won the First Annual Memorial Lake Garnett Race Road Rally 21 July 2004. They thought they had a strangle hold on 29th! There were 31 entries in spite of lousy weather!! The Wichita Eagles Rader and Berry were second in the Media Challenge category of that same Road Rally. They stated they want to win it next year!! Thus, they want to learn all there is to know about Road Rallying! Let's all help them learn so they can fulfill that dream!!!! Wichita Region has the challenge to make a comeback in Road Rallying. After all, you don't want any other SCCA Region to have better events and entry list's {consistently} in any category then our own Wichita Region, do you??? Work to make ALL our events entry friendly. Registration time's such that everyone can be included, not excluded by early closure times. None entrants running registration might help entry level along with less ME and a lot more US in our attitude's. SMILE more and show that YOU enjoy their presence! There are SmileS a mile wide between the ESSE's, remember? Road Rally... Auto Cross... Road Race... Socials... Meetings..., it's all the same when people care about each other and enjoy just being there!!! Bruce T Sargent
Volume 04, Issue 8 Page 22
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THE MID-AM CHAMPIONSHIP Official Points Standings
August 2, 2004
American Sedan TOTAL
# 2 Scott Bettinger Wich Mustang 33
Showroom Stock C TOTAL
# 1 Candace Gerber Neb Dodge Neon 60
# 2 Paul Sherman Wich Dodge Neon 60
Spec Miata TOTAL
# 16 Rick Harris Wich Mazda Miata 12½
31 Scott Patton Wich Mazda Miata 5
The MIDWEST DIVISION I.T. TOUR
Official Points Standings
August 2, 2004
IMPROVED TOURING A TOTAL
# 5 Mitch Johnson Wich Honda CRX 12
IMPROVED TOURING B
# 7 Mike Lauer Wich Ford Pinto 12
10 Bernie Mermis Wich Alfa Romeo 7
IMPROVED TOURING C
# 5 Connie Barker Wich Ford Fiesta 9
7 Ray Barker Wich Ford Fiesta 7
SPEC MIATA
# 15 Rick Harris Wich Mazda Miata 54
42 Scott Patton Wich Mazda Miata 1
Showroom / Touring / American Sedan Scott Bettinger (Wich) outran AS points leader Jeff Kopp (KC) at Heartland Park. Kopp still leads the points handily, but Bettinger jumped past Mark Kutina (KC) for second place. ~~ Candy Gerber (Neb) made the only Showroom or Touring start, winning at HPT to tie Paul Sherman (Wich) at 60 points each in SSC. By Rocky Entriken
Pix by Steve Fairhurst www.alectophoto.com
FYI Since there is some required lead time to get a Novice Permit, car, suit, etc., we need to get the word out re our 10/16 Drivers' School. Please pass the word and put something in The Wail if possible. Thank you.
For anyone interested in getting into road racing, our 10/16-17 event includes an SCCA Driv-ers' School in addition to a High Performance Car Control Clinic and the Mid-Am Bonus Races. Also Memphis BBQ. Let me know if you need an Entry Form
Watch out Rachael’s 300 ZX is almost ready for SOLO
Dave’s Rear End We did fine on I-70 but they charged extra at the toll booth for all the wheels
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It has been quite busy around our household over the last month. Our oldest daughter is off to KU, and we attended a lot of car events. First was the Mid-Div Solo in Topeka, that was a lot of fun although I did not do very well there. The weather was not too bad but it did rain on us and made the early heats ex-citing. But did end up with enough points to be second in the Division I think, they have not officially posted that anywhere I can find. Went to two cars shows and we have been working hard to have my youngest daughters car ready so she could drive to school all by herself this year. What a scary thought, thank good-ness we have been through that once now and maybe have some inkling of what to look out for. We also went to the SOLO at WGP, wow there were a lot of cars and people there. I was excited to be there that day because Greg Laws has asked me to co-drive the Phrog at the Nationals and this was my first oppor-tunity to try it out. It was much faster than I anticipated and have to learn way more about how it handles I think to really make it go. And Greg did not even look all that worried when he handed over the keys! Once again want to thank all the people that put in a lot of hours to make our Solo program work, but would expecially like to thank Hal and Kim! We missed the Lake Rally and pic-nic and felt bad about because we had looked forward to that one. But are get-ting ready for the upcoming rallies that are scheduled. I would like to encourage everyone in Solo and Racing to come out and have some fun. If you are like me you may not be competitive, but we have a good time in spite of our lack of skill. I am trying to round out my participation in all the areas of our club. I have yet to get to do much with racing but hope to yet this year. I found pic-tures of people racing, sorry the only car I knew for sure was Paul’s, please let me know about yours if you have any and would be glad to show them. Now I am getting ready for the Nationals, and I know I will see a bunch of you there, good luck and be safe!
