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James Kuhns at Buttonwillow earlier this year, still at it after 45 years.
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July/August - 2011
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BUTTONWILLOW DOUBLE REGIONAL
WEIRD TALES AND MISADVENTURES
WITH CAL CLUB AND THE SCCA
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SRF Super Tour
Contender Says
He’ll Be Back!
Dear Cal Club,
My wife Wendy and I made our first
ever excursion out of the San Francisco
Region for the BF Goodrich Super Tour
Double National weekend at
Buttonwillow the last weekend of April,
and I felt compelled to write about our
great experience. We ran in Spec Racer
Ford out of Dave Harriman's HSE
Racing prep shop in San Jose.
First of all, the Buttonwillow facility
itself is top notch. We stayed in the RV
hookups area and were quite comfortable, and were very impressed with race
control, bathroom facilities, pro-shop,
cafe, etc.
Second, and most importantly, we
were blown away by how friendly and
welcoming everyone was. From the
guy at the gate, to the grid workers, to
everyone serving up food and drink at
the social, we were always greeted with
a friendly smile and a handshake. We
met some great people during our visit,
and are already thinking about when we
can make the trek down your way again.
Thanks for a great experience!
Eric Boucher
San Francisco region
Spec Racer Ford #61
In Memory of
Sally Hewitt
Sally Hewitt, wife of long time Cal
Club driver and instructor Scotty Hewitt,
passed away on Wednesday, July 13.
Sally fought a courageous battle
against cancer for the last nine years.
Besides being a devoted wife, she
was a race fan and a friend to everyone
she meet. She and Scotty had a long,
happy marriage and were each others
best friend.
Share your
passion with
the world at
www.calclub.com
Calclub seeks all top shelf in-car
camera footage, big and small, to post at
www.calclub.com for the world to see.
We know you have a few clips on file
of those special moments. How about a
crazy pass or quick move you made to
make it happen, or not.
This invitation goes to Cal Club
Specialties too, like our Emergency crew
as they pluck cars from the track. Let’s
get a GoPro mounted and capture some
killer footage. Let’s work together, be
creative, then share it with the world.
The bottom line is, the web page
needs the hottest shots you have. The
idea is to inspire those sitting at home
playing on computers to check it out at
www.calclub.com then come out to the
track and get involved real time.
Visit calclub.com and contact the
webmaster to submit your video.
Double Regional at
Buttonwillow
BUTTONWILLOW, May 21-22, 2011 Welcome back to Buttonwillow Raceway
Park for Cal Club's second Double
Regional of the year here. It was a big
weekend for Cal Club who hosted the
Pacific F2000 series with a rented race
group stretching club resources and the
race schedule beyond the norm with six
race groups. As expected, all Cal Club
Specialties and officials pulled through
in professional form and made it happen.
It was a great weekend and the track
never looked so good. The weather was
comfortable, warm at times, with an
occasional breeze. This was our final
race here before the summer break.
GROUP 1 - T1, AS, ITA, ITS, ITB,
S944, ITR
T1 - Seven winners emerged from
Saturday's Group 1. Kyle Kelley stood
tall on top of the podium after he
collected the the T1 win. William
Brinkop qualified first and held off
Kelley leading the first nine laps but
settled for second ahead of Robert Kahn
in third.
Kahn was the fastest T1 in Sunday's
qualifying session and took command of
the race pace with Brinkop in tow when
the green flag waved. Kelley moved
from fourth to second before he broke a
drive train component moving Brinkop
back to second and Jim Tway to third.
That's how they finished, Kahn first with
Brinkop in second and Tway in third.
Carl Fung and Brent Hicks finished
fourth and fifth. Kelley earned sixth
place points seven laps down.
ITA - This was a good weekend for ITA
with 16 strong entries. Naji Dahi
continues to win in ITA but this weekend
he had his hands full fighting off David
Varco and Preston Lerner. When the
checkered finally fell after many laps of
thrilling competition, Dahi was first
ahead of Varco and Lerner in second
and third.
Sunday's ITA race was one of the best
of the weekend as Dahi and Varco
wrestled for the lead while Todd
Launchbaugh, Wesley Molino and Derek
Wang battled for third. After 15 laps Dahi
had the field covered when he collected
the win with a slim 0.2 of a second
advantage over Varco at the finish.
Launchbaugh finished third securing the
final step on the box. Molino and Wang
rounded out the top five.
ITB - Welcome back to Vahe Basmadjian
who returned to competition to unseat
Rodger Ward as the top gun in ITB. Ward
was too strong on this day and hit all the
marks before he tallied the win Saturday
in his Shelby Charger. Basmadjian
settled for second but ready for a
rematch tomorrow.
Basmadjian picked up the pace
Sunday to give Ward a challenge for the
ITB trophy but his effort was short lived
when he fell out after three laps. Ward
raced to the checkered where he scored
his second win of the weekend extending
his point lead for the ITB championship.
AS, ITS, ITB, S944, ITR - Several single
car class winners made their mark on the
competition led by Chris Qualls who
won A Sedan. Jason Cress was hooked
Robert Green raced his Noble M400 to a pair of victories in ITE.
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up in his #39 Mazda RX-7 and set a pace
good enough to secure first in ITS.
Randy Bergum made the tow from
Arizona to nail the S944 win and finally,
Bryan Lampe was credited with the ITR
win after battling up front but sidelined
on lap 10.
Sunday, Cress was mixed up in the
middle of a 14 car ITA battle and raced
with the best of them before he collected
his second ITS win of the weekend.
Bergum too raced his Porsche through
the ITA gang to nail another S944 victory
to take back to Arizona.
GROUP 2 - SP, ITE, GT-L, GT-3, RS,
GT-1
SP - Robert Kelley was first to collect the
checkered where he claimed the overall
honor and S Production win ahead of
Bruce Powers who finished second in class
and third overall. Ron Bailey completed
the SP finishing order in third place.
Kelley qualified first Sunday and
took quick control of the SP race pace
ahead of Powers and Bailey. Bailey
was out after 10 laps as Kelley raced to
earn the class win ahead of Powers in
second. Bailey was credited with third.
ITE - Robert Green had his Noble M400
hooked up on Saturday. He was good
enough to be one of three cars on the lead
lap with a second overall finish and a
solid ITE win ahead of Paul Gassen and
Brian Lai in second and third positions.
Green continued his dominance in
ITE Sunday morning with another fast
time in qualifying. We had a driver
change with Cheuk Kit Lai climbing
behind the wheel of #01 Mazda with
teammate Brian Lai looking on from hot
pit. At the start Green wasted no time and
taking command of the race pace ahead
of Gassen and Lai. The trio raced in order
to the checkered where Green won again
ahead of Gassen in second and Lai in third.
GT-L - Paul Martin was our lone entry in
GT-L as he raced his #49 Toyota Tercel to
a pair of first place finishes plus a new
track record of 2:02.812 on Saturday.
GT-3 - Wayne Graham continues to
shape the race pace in GT-3 with another
class win and a sixth overall finish after
running as high as second.
Graham welcomed his son Scott to
test dad's skill in GT-3 on Sunday. Wayne
handed over the #6 bronze Mazda and
pulled out his red #6 rotary powered
machine to settle the score. Wayne clearly
had his program in order on this day as
he drilled the competition with not only a
class win but the overall victory too
eliminating any chance Scott might see
the top step on the podium. The father
and son duo happily conquered first and
second in class both sporting ear-to-ear
grins.
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Conner Ford wins
big in Pacific F2000
at Buttonwillow
BUTTONWILLOW, Calif. (May 22,
2011) – There was no touching Conner
Ford in this weekend’s pair of races for
the Pacific F2000 Championship
Presented by Corsa Car Care at
Buttonwillow Raceway in central
California. The 14-year-old phenom
from Carson City, Nev., qualified on pole
for both 25-minute races by a comfortable margin and was never seriously
challenged on either day. "It’s pretty cool
to be leading the championship," said
Ford. "I’ve never actually been in a real
championship [chase] before.
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Race Results - Double Regional
Buttonwillow Raceway Park 14CW - May 21-22, 2011
Saturday
Group 1
Paul Gassen raced his #49 Mustage to a pair of second place finishes in ITE.
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RS - Ed Lever set the RS race pace for 15
laps before he tallied the class win and a
new track record of 2:10.010 seconds.
Yesterday's new track record wasn't
enough for Lever as he again set a new
best time before he collected his second
RS win of the weekend.
GT-1 - The final winner in this group
was Andy Porterfield who collected the
GT-1 win after setting a new track record
of 1:45.551. Porterfield fell ill during the
race and was way off his pace after he
set h is track record only finishing
14 laps.
GROUP 3 - SM, PRO7, SRX-7
SM - A 22 car Spec Miata field led by
Clement Lee, Grant Westmorland and
Eric Richter set a torrid pace. Lee led
every lap. Westmorland was out after 10
circuits when Richter moved to second
and Curtis Gong slid up to third. Lee led
the pack to the checkered where he
nailed another win along with a new
track record of 2:03.507 extending his
point lead. Richter finished second ahead
of Gong in third. David Varco and Todd
Launchbaugh rounded out the top five.
Lee was back on top Sunday with
another fast time in qualifying. It wasn't
surprising to see Lee lead every lap of the
race before he collected his second win of
the weekend. Westmorland finished
second by only 0.2 of a second.
Westmorland pulled out the stops trying to
get it done and set a new track record of
2:03.376. Varco reached the podium in third
with Richter and Gong in fourth and fifth.
PRO7 - Jim Rueff set fast time over Sheek
Lonny in Saturday's Pro7 qualifying. When
the green waved though, Lonny captured
the lead over Rueff and set the race pace. At
the checkered Lonny captured the class win
ahead of Rueff in second.
Rueff stepped it up Sunday and
qualified in first then led every lap before
claiming the first place trophy ahead of
Lonny in second and Allen Cosby
in third.
GROUP 5 - FA, S2, FM, CSR
FA - Chris Emanuel was the fast guy in
Group 5 as he raced to victory lane twice
in Formula Atlantic and secured the
overall bragging rights too, both
Saturday and Sunday. Emanuel crossed
the line with a fat gap on S2000 winner
Edward Guenther each time.
S2 - Edward Guenther continues to be
the man to beat in the S2 Cup Series as
he paraded his Swift to victory lane
Saturday afternoon with a new track
record of 1:44.205 defeating Doug Ota in
second and Joe Moran in third. Ota and
Moran were separated by just 0.31 of
a second.
Sunday morning Guenther was a no
show for qualifying with Moran setting
fast time. At the green Moran took
command of the race pace with Guenther
moving to second on the first lap.
Guenther stalked Moran for many laps
before getting by and leading the final
nine laps claiming victory with a 1.5
second margin of victory over Moran in
second and Ota in third.
FM - Dutch Schultz put in a solid
performance running second overall and
first in Formula Mazda at the checkered
ahead of second place finisher Ed Lever.
However, after a post race SCCA
Steward's ruling, Schultz was moved to
second in class handing the win over to
Lever. This gives Lever two wins for the
day after winning in RS.
Sunday was a new day for Schultz
as he focused on the task at hand. He
qualified first and took command of the
Formula Mazda race pace ahead of Lever
in second but dropped out after eight
laps. Lever took over the lead and
collected the win seven laps later.
CSR - The final winner each day in
Group 5 was CSR veteran Michael
Alfred who raced his Beasley B2 to two
victories in C Sports Racer.
GROUP 6 - SRF, SF, FV
SRF - SRF class veteran Mark Ballengee
played with his competition on Saturday
before he sealed the deal with another
class win. At the checkered Ballengee
enjoyed a 14.2 second advantage over
Doug Stewart in second place. But
Stewart had his hands full at the line with
Aaron Stein all over his case trying
to reclaim the runner-up position he
occupied earlier. Stein didn't have
enough and finished in third just 0.20 of
a second behind Stewart.
It was no surprise to see Ballengee at
the top of the chart Sunday morning with
fast time. From the start he looked like he
was on a Sunday drive and easily tallied
his second win of the weekend with a big
29 second advantage over Stein second.
Stein too enjoyed his own big advantage
over Stewart in third.
SF - Spec Ford point leader Arthur Beach
was on his game today as he piloted his
Crossle 32F back to the familiar place of
victory lane after 15 laps competition.
Beach solidly finished fourth overall and
was the top open wheel finisher. Roger
Simonian dropped off the pace from the start
and was out after seven laps with a DNF.
Beach was the lone Spec Ford entry
Sunday but that didn't keep him from
going after the another Spec Ford win.
He parked it after 10 laps though, still
enough laps to earn credit for the win.
FV - Two of our best Formula Vee drivers,
Mark Edwards and Charlie Turner,
showed up to play and battle. Edwards
was in his groove today and set the mark
in Saturday’s qualifying session then
took command of the race pace when the
green flag waved. Turner gave chase
but Edwards was able to maintain his
advantage to the checkered where he
collected the win over Turner in second.
Edwards has been unbeatable lately
and again dominated the Formula Vee
race pace Sunday defeating Turner.
Edwards enjoyed a comfortable gap over
Turner at the checkered.
Pos No.
1
79
2
67
3
35
4
73
5
82
6
90
7
41
8
10
9
66
10 4
11 39
12 82R
13 18
14 9
15 11
16 13
17 3
18 68
19 25
20 98
21 89
22 88
23 8
24 34
25 13
26 83
DNF 23
DNF 20
DNF 6
Class
T1
T1
T1
AS
ITA
ITA
ITA
ITA
ITA
ITA
ITS
ITA
ITB
ITA
ITA
S944
ITA
ITA
ITA
ITB
T1
T1
ITA
ITR
ITA
ITA
T1
T1
ITA
Name
Kyle Kelley
William Brinkop
Robert Kahn
Chris Qualls
Naji Dahi
David Varco
Preston Lerner
Wesley Molino
Derek Wang
Sky Chan
Jason Gress
Tsz Fung
Rodger Ward
David Knowles
James Whitton
Randy Bergum
Cheuk Kit Lai
Kent Littlehale
Vahe Babayans
Vahe Basmadjian
Brent Hicks
Carl Fung
Vincent Chao
Bryan Lampe
Todd Launchbaugh
Carl Johnk
Oli Thordarson
Jim Tway
Brandon Droese
Laps Best
15 01:50.9
15 01:52.1
15 01:53.2
15 01:57.0
14 02:05.3
14 02:06.3
14 02:06.6
14 02:07.5
14 02:06.9
14 02:08.7
14 02:06.1
13 02:10.4
13 02:12.5
13 02:12.0
13 02:11.7
13 02:12.0
13 02:12.8
13 02:13.8
13 02:13.6
13 02:14.2
13 02:13.7
12 02:01.2
12 02:21.7
9
02:01.9
9
02:05.8
8
02:11.7
2
01:55.3
2
01:54.5
1
02:24.6
Total
28:31.2
28:41.7
29:00.5
29:45.1
29:34.2
29:49.7
29:55.8
29:58.5
30:19.6
30:26.5
30:28.6
28:52.4
29:07.3
29:10.5
29:12.2
29:13.8
29:27.0
29:43.1
29:44.2
29:55.3
29:56.6
24:35.5
29:03.1
18:35.1
19:12.8
18:08.9
03:58.1
04:04.2
02:31.6
Diff
Group 2
Pos No.
1
68
2
42
3
71
4
49
5
68S
6
6
7
8
8
5
9
1
10 35
Class
SP
ITE
SP
ITE
GT-L
GT-3
RS
GT-1
ITE
SP
Name
Robert Kelly
Robert Green
Bruce Powers
Paul Gassen
Paul Martin
Wayne Graham
Edward Lever
Andy Porterfield
Brian Lai
Ron Bailey
Laps Best
16 01:54.0
16 01:58.3
16 01:59.6
15 02:03.8
15 02:02.8
15 01:55.8
15 02:10.0
14 01:45.6
14 02:09.7
10 02:06.6
Total
31:19.0
32:09.0
32:44.6
31:43.1
31:43.8
32:04.4
33:04.3
25:45.4
31:46.9
22:10.2
Diff
Group 4
Pos No.
1
33
2
29
3
71
4
90
5
13
6
10
7
4
8
42
9
73
10 88
11 66
12 37
13 2
14 11
15 18
16 2
17 68
18 57
19 67
20 1
21 12
22 9
23 41
DNF 99
DNF 3
Class
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
PRO-7
SM
PRO-7
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
Name
Clement Lee
Eric Richter
Curtis Gong
David Varco
Todd Launchbaugh
Wesley Molino
Sean Bradley
Ethan Tufts
Ian Thomas
Mark Lange
Louis Wang
Darwin Felix
Tsz Fung
Mihai Mantea
Robert Lindsay
Sheek Lonny
Kent Littlehale
Jim Rueff
Tim LaFrance
Sky Chan
Grant Westmorland
Darren Richardson
Preston Lerner
Bill V Pharaoh Nelson
Cheuk Kit Lai
Laps Best
14 02:03.5
14 02:04.6
14 02:04.7
14 02:05.8
14 02:05.3
14 02:06.0
14 02:05.4
14 02:06.5
14 02:07.6
14 02:06.7
14 02:07.7
14 02:06.9
14 02:09.5
14 02:09.8
14 02:11.6
13 02:13.2
13 02:12.8
13 02:11.6
13 02:22.0
11 02:07.7
10 02:03.7
7
02:13.1
7
02:07.0
6
02:07.0
5
02:56.1
Total
30:53.3
31:02.2
31:07.8
31:17.4
31:19.6
31:35.8
31:38.3
31:41.0
31:48.3
31:40.7
32:00.3
32:13.8
32:17.3
32:21.5
32:45.0
31:07.5
32:08.3
32:45.1
34:06.1
25:30.7
22:28.4
17:46.9
23:26.4
32:26.8
17:02.5
Diff
Group 5
Pos No.
1
36
2
2
3
85
4
7
5
3
6
44
7
72
8
11
9
78
Class
FA
S2
S2
S2
FM
FM
CSR
S2
S2
Name
Chris Emanuel
Edward Guenther
Doug Ota
Joe Moran
Ed Lever
Dutch Schultz
Michael Alfred
Bob Lovenson
Kathy Allison
Laps Best
16 01:39.6
16 01:44.1
16 01:45.5
16 01:45.6
15 01:48.0
16 01:44.1
15 01:49.7
15 01:51.3
13 01:56.6
Total
27:06.2
28:13.9
28:36.9
28:37.2
27:31.7
28:03.4
28:10.9
28:20.4
27:23.1
Diff
Group 6
Pos No.
1
97
2
71
3
18
4
73
5
24
6
74
7
25
8
12
9
77
10 81
Class
SRF
SRF
SRF
SF
SRF
FV
FV
SRF
SRF
SF
Name
Mark Ballengee
Douglas Stewart
Aaron Stein
Arthur Beach
Dick Young
Mark Edwards
Charlie Turner
Pascal Donzel
Bruce Santourian
Roger Simonian
Laps Best
15 01:59.3
15 02:00.1
15 02:00.1
15 02:01.0
15 02:02.4
15 02:03.0
15 02:04.3
13 02:01.6
13 02:18.6
7
02:05.3
Total
30:11.5
30:25.8
30:26.0
30:42.6
31:02.6
31:30.2
31:35.4
27:16.4
31:06.9
16:15.4
Diff
Sunday
Group 1
Pos No.
1
35
2
67
3
20
4
73
5
88
6
82
7
90
8
13S
9
10
10 39
11 66
12 82R
13 4
14 11
15 13
16 9
17 6
18 18
19 3
20 25
21 68
22 89
23 8
24 79
DNF 98
Class
T1
T1
T1
AS
T1
ITA
ITA
ITA
ITA
ITS
ITA
ITA
ITA
ITA
S944
ITA
ITA
ITB
ITA
ITA
ITA
T1
ITA
T1
ITB
Name
Robert Kahn
William Brinkop
Jim Tway
Chris Qualls
Carl Fung
Naji Dahi
David Varco
Todd Launchbaugh
Wesley Molino
Jason Gress
Derek Wang
Tsz Fung
Sky Chan
James Whitton
Randy Bergum
Darren Richardson
Brandon Droese
Rodger Ward
Brian Lai
Vahe Babayans
Kent Littlehale
Brent Hicks
Vincent Chao
Kyle Kelley
Vahe Basmadjian
Laps Best
15 01:51.3
15 01:51.8
15 01:53.9
15 01:55.5
14 02:03.6
14 02:05.3
14 02:04.5
14 02:04.8
14 02:04.9
14 02:06.9
14 02:06.9
14 02:09.4
14 02:07.2
13 02:10.4
13 02:10.6
13 02:11.2
13 02:10.5
13 02:12.5
13 02:12.9
13 02:14.8
13 02:14.7
13 02:07.6
13 02:17.7
8
01:51.7
3
02:16.9
Total
28:37.1
28:37.4
29:31.8
29:57.8
29:21.4
29:29.4
29:29.8
29:30.8
29:33.3
29:56.9
30:04.7
30:32.5
31:27.9
28:46.7
28:48.3
29:02.0
29:18.6
29:21.5
29:46.2
29:49.1
30:06.6
30:11.8
30:30.8
15:11.3
07:04.6
Diff
Group 2
Pos No.
1
9
2
66
3
42
4
6
5
71
6
49
7
68
8
1
9
8
10 35
DNF 6
Class
GT-3
SP
ITE
GT-3
SP
ITE
GT-L
ITE
RS
SP
STU
Name
Wayne Graham
Robert Kelly
Robert Green
Scott Graham
Bruce Powers
Paul Gassen
Paul Martin
Cheuk Kit Lai
Edward Lever
Ron Bailey
Kenny Kun Yim
Laps Best
16 01:55.2
16 01:54.5
16 01:57.5
16 01:59.5
16 01:59.7
16 02:03.1
15 02:05.4
15 02:07.6
15 02:09.6
10 02:00.0
4
02:06.9
Total
31:38.7
31:50.2
32:01.8
32:28.8
32:59.2
33:30.1
32:03.1
32:51.1
32:53.6
21:11.0
10:14.5
Diff
Group 4
Pos No.
1
33
2
12
3
90
4
29
5
71
6
4
7
10
8
73
9
37
10 99
11 42
12 66
13 1
14 88
15 11
16 3
17 9
18 18
19 57
20 2
21 68
22 67
23 4
24 13
DNF 2
Class
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
PRO-7
PRO-7
SM
SM
PRO-7
SM
SM
Name
Clement Lee
Grant Westmorland
David Varco
Eric Richter
Curtis Gong
Sean Bradley
Wesley Molino
Ian Thomas
Darwin Felix
Bill V Pharaoh Nelson
Ethan Tufts
Louis Wang
Sky Chan
Mark Lange
Mihai Mantea
Cheuk Kit Lai
Darren Richardson
Robert Lindsay
Jim Rueff
Sheek Lonny
Kent Littlehale
Tim LaFrance
Allen Cosby
Todd Launchbaugh
Tsz Fung
Laps Best
15 02:03.5
15 02:03.4
15 02:03.8
15 02:05.2
15 02:05.4
15 02:04.7
15 02:04.5
15 02:06.0
15 02:06.0
15 02:06.0
15 02:06.7
15 02:08.4
15 02:08.5
15 02:06.9
15 02:09.5
15 02:09.9
14 02:10.9
14 02:10.9
14 02:10.6
14 02:14.5
14 02:15.7
13 02:20.6
12 02:15.7
8
02:05.4
5
02:09.2
Total
31:07.8
31:08.0
31:23.4
31:35.1
31:40.1
31:49.3
31:50.1
31:55.1
32:00.0
32:10.3
32:17.3
32:28.6
32:32.4
32:35.0
32:54.8
33:21.4
31:13.4
31:25.2
31:25.6
32:04.9
33:04.4
31:46.6
28:54.8
16:52.3
10:56.9
Diff
Group 5
Pos No.
1
36
2
2
3
7
4
85
5
3
6
11
7
72
8
44
Class
FA
S2
S2
S2
FM
S2
CSR
FM
Name
Chris Emanuel
Edward Guenther
Joe Moran
Doug Ota
Ed Lever
Bob Lovenson
Michael Alfred
Dutch Schultz
Laps Best
16 01:42.3
16 01:45.9
16 01:46.9
16 01:46.8
15 01:49.3
15 01:50.4
15 01:49.5
8
01:47.8
Total
27:49.0
28:52.0
28:53.4
28:53.7
27:52.9
28:18.9
28:37.6
14:30.1
Diff
Group 6
Pos No.
1
97
2
18
3
71
4
24
5
74
6
25
7
77
8
73
9
12
Class
SRF
SRF
SRF
SRF
FV
FV
SRF
SF
SRF
Name
Mark Ballengee
Aaron Stein
Douglas Stewart
Dick Young
Mark Edwards
Charlie Turner
Bruce Santourian
Arthur Beach
Pascal Donzel
Laps Best
15 01:59.7
15 02:01.1
15 02:02.2
15 02:02.5
15 02:05.2
14 02:08.6
13 02:15.0
10 02:03.2
9
02:02.1
Total
30:00.3
30:29.4
30:48.5
31:43.2
31:55.5
30:14.7
30:30.1
23:10.5
18:38.1
Diff
10.503
29.212
01:13.8
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
3 Laps
3 Laps
6 Laps
6 Laps
7 Laps
DNF
DNF
DNF
50.007
01:25.6
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
2 Laps
2 Laps
6 Laps
8.911
14.542
24.122
26.298
42.555
45.067
47.768
55.041
47.407
01:07.0
01:20.6
01:24.0
01:28.2
01:51.7
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
3 Laps
4 Laps
7 Laps
7 Laps
DNF
DNF
01:07.7
01:30.7
01:31.1
1 Lap
57.238
1 Lap
1 Lap
3 Laps
14.273
14.48
31.042
51.068
01:18.7
01:23.9
2 Laps
2 Laps
8 Laps
0.278
54.719
01:20.7
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
7 Laps
DNF
11.476
23.078
50.175
01:20.5
01:51.4
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
6 Laps
DNF
0.249
15.58
27.354
32.282
41.563
42.326
47.295
52.236
01:02.5
01:09.6
01:20.8
01:24.7
01:27.2
01:47.0
02:13.6
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
2 Laps
3 Laps
7 Laps
DNF
01:03.0
01:04.4
01:04.7
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
8 Laps
29.063
48.187
01:42.9
01:55.2
1 Lap
2 Laps
5 Laps
6 Laps
Hometown
Hunt. Beach
Merced,CA
Las Vegas,NV
Burbank
Long Beach
Bonita
Burbank
Glendora
Woodland Hills
Alhambra
Irvine
Montery Park
Prather,CA
San Diego
Porter Ranch
Gilbert, AZ
Los Angeles,CA
Saratoga,CA
Woodland Hills
Glendale,CA
Etiwanda, CA
Rancho Palos V
Temple City
Lakewood,CA
Glendora,CA
Cardiff by the S
Trabuco Canyon
Yorba Linda,CA
Goletta,CA
Color
Silver
Blue
Black
Yel/Blk
Black
Red
Red
Black
Navy
Green
REd
Red
Yellow
Hometown
Hunt. Beach
Santa Ana,CA
Palmdale,CA
Fallbrook,CA
Tustin, CA
Irvine,CA
La Jolla,CA
Newport Beach
Los Angeles, Ca
Pahrump,NV
Color
Blue
Red
Orange
Black
Blu/Yel
Bronze
Red
Grey
Silver
White
Club
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
72
Make
Monte Carlo
Noble M400
Merc Cougar
Ford Mustang
Toyota Tercel
Mazda RX7
Mazda Miata
Chevy Camaro
Mazda
Oldsmobile
Hometown
San Diego,CA
Santa Barbara
San Diego
Bonita,CA
Glendora,CA
Glendora
Los Angeles
Winnetka, CA
Anaheim Hills
Calabasas,CA
Woodland Hills
Long Beach,CA
Montery Park
Los Angeles,CA
San Dimas,CA
Long Beach,Ca
Saratoga,CA
Fountain Valley
Newport Beach
So El Monte
Chula Vista,CA
San Diego,CA
Burbank, CA
Walnut,CA
Los Angeles,CA
Color
Black
White
white
Red
Silver
Black
Orange
Red
Black
Red
Navy
Dk blu
Red
Grey
Silver
White
Black
Rd/Yel
Red
Green
Blu/Yel
Or/Sil
Red
Blue
Silver
Club
19
19
19/57
57
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
46
19
33
19
19
19
57/19
19
19
19
19
Make
1999 Mazda
Mazda Miata
1993 Mazda
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
1999 Mazda
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
1991 Mazda
1990 Mazda
1996 Mazda
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Mazda RX-7
Mazda Miata
Mazda RX-7
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
1990 Mazda
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Hometown
Hunt. Beach
Paradise Valley
Irvine, CA
Laguna Hills
La Jolla,CA
Santa Clemente
Camarillo,CA
Calabasas, CA
Calabasas, CA
Color
Bl/Teal
Red
Red
Yellow
Blu/wh
Blue
Yellow
Blue
Lt Blue
Club
19
2
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
Make
Star Pro-FM
Swift Db5
Swift DB2
Ford Carbir CS2
98 Star Mazda
Star Mazda
Beasley B2
Swift DB2
Swift DB-2
Hometown
Shafter,CA
Northridge, CA
Santa Barbara
Fillmore,CA
Tehachapi,CA
Los Angeles
Mission Viejo
Culver City,CA
Carlsbad, CA
Fresno,CA
Color
Rd/yel
Whi/Rd
Multi
Yellow
White
Yellow
Black
Whi/Red
R/W/B
Yellow
Club
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
SRF
19
33
Make
SRF
2008 SRF
1985 SRF
78 Crossle 32F
1985 SRF
08 Glamdring
Protoform P3
Hometown
Las Vegas,NV
Merced,CA
Yorba Linda,CA
Burbank, CA
Rancho Palos V
Long Beach,CA
Bonita,CA
Glendora,CA
Glendora,CA
Irvine,Ca
Woodland Hills
Montery Park
Alhambra,CA
Porter Ranch
Gilbert, AZ
San Diego,CA
Goletta,CA
Prather,CA
Los Angeles
Woodland Hills
Saratoga,CA
Etiwanda, CA
Temple City,CA
Hunt Beach
Glendale,CA
Color
Black
Blue
Blue
Yel/Blk
Blue
Black
Red
Silver
Black
REd
Navy
Red
Green
Wh/Blk
Rd/Gre
Or/Sil
Red
Yellow
Silver
Black
Black
Blue
Green
Silver
Yellow
Club
19
33
19
19
19
19
57
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
2
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
Make
Corvette
Corvete
Corvette
1996 Mustang
Chevy Z06
Nissan 200SX
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Mazda RX-7
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Porsche 944
Mazda Miata
Mazda RX-7
Charger/Shelby
Mazda
Scirocco 16V
Mazda Miata
Corvette Zo6
Mazda Miata
Chevy Corvette
VW GT1
Hometown
Santa Barbara
Hunt Beach
Santa Ana,CA
Irvine,CA
Palmdale,CA
Fallbrook,CA
Tustin, CA
Los Angeles,CA
La Jolla,CA
Pahrump,NV
El Monte
Color
Red
Blue
Red
Bronze
Orange
Black
Blu/Yel
Silver
Red
White
White
Club
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
72
19
Make
Mazda RX-7
Monte Carlo
Noble M400
Mazda RX7
Merc Cougar
Ford Mustang
Toyota Tercel
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Oldsmobile
Honda
Hometown
San Diego,CA
Chula Vista
Bonita,CA
Santa Barbara
San Diego,CA
Los Angeles
Glendora,CA
Anaheim Hills
Long Beach,CA
Walnut,CA
Winnetka, CA
Woodland Hills
So El Monte,CA
Calabasas,CA
Los Angeles,CA
Los Angeles,CA
San Diego,CA
San Dimas,CA
Fountain Valley
Long Beach,Ca
Saratoga,CA
Newport Beach
Bakersfield, CA
Glendora,CA
Montery Park
Color
Black
Blu/Yel
Red
White
white
Orange
Black
Black
Dk blu
Blue
Red
Navy
Green
Red
Grey
Silver
Or/Sil
Silver
Rd/Yel
White
Black
Red
White
Silver
Red
Club
19
57/19
57
19
19/57
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
46
19
19
33
19
19
19
19
Make
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
1993 Mazda
Mazda Miata
1999 Mazda
1991 Mazda
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
1996 Mazda
Mazda Miata
1990 Mazda
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
1990 Mazda
Mazda Miata
Mazda RX-7
Mazda RX-7
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Mazda Rx-7
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Hometown
Hunt Beach
Paradise Valley
Laguna Hills
Irvine, CA
La Jolla,CA
Calabasas, CA
Camarillo,CA
Santa Clemente
Color
Bl/Teal
Red
Yellow
Red
Bl/whi
Blue
Yellow
Blue
Club
19
2
19
19
19
19
19
19
Make
Star Pro-FM
Swift Db5
Ford Carbir CS2
Swift DB2
1998 Star Maz
Swift DB2
Beasley B2
Star Mazda
Hometown
Shafter,CA
Santa Barbara
Northridge, CA
Tehachapi,CA
Los Angeles
Mission Viejo
Carlsbad, CA
Fillmore,CA
Culver City
Color
Club
Red/yel 19
Multi
19
Wh/Rd
19
White
19
Yellow
19
Black
19
R/W/B
19
Yellow
19
White/Red SRF
Wh/Blk
Rd/Gre
Silver
Black
Black
Yellow
Blue
Blue
Dk Gre
White
Silver
Blue
Yellow
Blue
Red
Club
19
33
19
19
19
57
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
2
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
57
19
19
19
Make
Corvette
Corvete
Corvette
1996 Mustang
Nissan 200SX
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Mazda RX-7
Mazda Miata
Charger/Shelby
Mazda Miata
Porsche 944
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Scirocco 16V
VW GT1
Corvette Zo6
Chevy Z06
Mazda Miata
BMW 325i
Mazda Miata
Mazda RX7
Corvette Z06
Corvette
Mazda RX-7
SRF
Van Dieman
Make
SRF
1985 SRF
2008 SRF
1985 SRF
‘08 Glamdring
Protoform P3
SRF
78Crossle 32F
July/August - 2011
Cal Club News
Page 5
45 years of Weird Tales and
Misadventures with Cal Club and SCCA
With help from Bill Yates and Don Carnerie
By James Kuhns
tarting from the beginning of my
interest in car racing in 1962, I
went to my first car road race. The
"Times Grand Prix" at Riverside. I went
to every "Times" event after that and
later every pro race (Can-Am, USRRC,
and Trans Am)(Mustang, Camaro,
Charger, AMX factory era) at Riverside
and Stardust Raceway in Las Vegas. My
second race as a spectator was in 1963
when I went to the last Club race held at
Del Mar. Somewhere I still have the
program and poster for that event.
November, 1964 I was a spectator at the
first American Road Race of Champions
(ARRC) and became a corner worker for
the Riverside events both in November
of 1966 and 1968.
The first ARRC (Runoffs) at
Riverside was bitter cold, the second was
not so bad and for the third event the
weather was great, although it turned
freezing cold the very next weekend for
the Rex Mays pro race.
Early in 1965 I started working with
San Diego/Cal Club races (this was
before you had to be a member to work
the races) and women were just starting
to be allowed on a hot track. I thought
that would be a great place to meet girls
and it was. I spent a lot of time working
Riverside Turn 6 as a Judge, a name later
changed to Driver Observer.
While watching the races I keep
saying to myself, "I am sure I can drive at
least as well as the front 25 percent of the
H Production class." My "bug eye"
Sprite would be in H Production. At the
time, Cal Club races had 25 or more H
Production cars in every event.
I joined Cal Club/SCCA in 1965 and
by 1967 I was ready to go racing with my
"bug eye" Sprite, the first car I ever
owned and the one I had driven to the
Times Grand Prix in 1963. Before I got
that Sprite, I owned motorcycles.
At my first driver's school, my car
kept overheating and I could find no
reason for this. To solve the problem I
bought a radiator and cap pressure checker,
and this is how I found out Sprites use
long-neck radiator caps, not the short
ones like the one my car had on it. Mind
you, I never had overheating problems
when I drove this car on the street, and I
had no idea there were long and short
neck radiator caps.
Going to my next driver's school at
Holtville in 1968, the first of many
memorable towing road trips that took
place. I lived in Los Angeles at the time
but one of my crew lived in San Diego.
So Dennis McGrew and I went through
San Diego to pick up Donald and then
drove old US-80 (pre I-8) to the track.
When starting down Mountain Springs
grade we hit high winds. The winds were
so strong that when it hit the side of the
van it jumped onto the shoulder of the
road. Dennis was asleep in the back and
the sudden move woke him up, at which
time he shouted, "what's going on?" I
replied, "nothing, go back to sleep,"
which he did not knowing how close to
the edge of the road we had gotten.
This was a precursor to the big accident
that happened almost 21 years later, in
the same area, more on that deeper in
this story.
My first race was at Santa Barbara in
1968. I finished 22nd in class with over
50 cars on Saturday. Then 15th on
Sunday, and I was hooked. I was building
my own engines and that year I finished
as high as 3rd. Things were looking
good.
Fluid catch tanks were required in
1969. Tech did not like what I was using
so for the Santa Barbara race in June,
1969, I tried a new system that Tech
thought was just fine. NOT SO!!! Every
S
It takes a dedicated team to make any racing effort successful. The crew of Kuhns Racing hangs out for a photo after James
put it in victory lane. (Standing left to right) Dennis McGrew, James Kuhns, Kittie Kuhns. (Sitting left to right) Don Carnerie,
Billy Yates.
time I went into a hard right hand corner,
oil would spill on the left front rotor,
causing the car to spin or at least try to
spin on the next brake application. This
race was a nightmare, but I did finish
21st and was rewarded with the "Rubber
Duck Award" by the Race Drivers'
Assoc. (The RDA has not existed for
decades.) This award was given to the
driver who had the most unusual; I would
say traumatic, things happen to him the
month before.
November, 1968, Stardust, Las Vegas
Can-Am - I was a Corner Worker when I
saw a huge cloud of dust on the front
straight. Jim Hall had flown over Loather
Motschenbacher. I still have a piece of
that Chaparral 2G and the "Auto Week"
issue that had the front page picture of
Jim and his car flying through the air, the
bottom of the car to the camera.
Times G.P., Sept./Oct., 1969 - The
winner of each support race was to
receive a toolbox and tools from one of
the event sponsors. This was my first
race using an engine built by a prep shop
and the car was fast, I was leading my
race by more than a half a lap on the next
to last lap. I could see those tools going
home with me but it was not to be. Going
into Turn 9 at Riverside with one lap to
go the engine stopped running. I coasted
into the pits, my dreams broken. On
removing the distributor cap, we found
the points rubbing block had broken off.
That set of points was the first item in my
collection box of "Failures."
July, 1970 - Going to the Olathe,
Kansas National Race. Remember this
was the day of "hippies," and that may
explain some of the weirdness that
follows. Donald and I were towing the
race car with a Chevy van that had the
engine between the seats. The van had a
6 cylinder engine, a tiny radiator, and no
air conditioning. The weather was sunny
and hot, I mean HOT! We drove the trip
on the red "hot" light. Red light comes
on, we slow down, red light goes off, we
speed up. On US-54 between the
Kansas/Oklahoma state line and Wichita,
Kansas, we were stopped by a Sheriff.
He was looking for a couple of AWOL
James Kuhns and Bear celebrating another win.
soldiers from Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. Here
we are in the "hippie' era, long hair, race
car on open trailer and in an old van.
After about a half hour we were deemed
okay. Just crazy racers going from
California to Kansas. After a long hot trip
we get to Olathe. It's Friday night, rookie
night for the local police. Of course,
we get stopped by 11 rookies and one
training officer. I was asked to get out of
the van, Donald was not. Now all the
time the police were talking to me,
Donald was rattling around in the back of
the van. I finally say to the Top Dog, "If
we are really as bad as you think we
might be, why haven't you gotten
my friend out of the van?" A look of
confusion all around, except for me,
almost made the whole thing worth
while. Olathe was my first National win,
beating all the local "hot shoes." I was in
euphoria for days. Sometimes things just
work out.
This next tale I am sure happened in
Olathe, Kansas in July of 1970. But I
have been told that "no, it happened at
Atlanta, November of 1970." Here's my
version. I had just won my first National
race and celebrating, I bought all the
pizza the crew could eat plus beer. I
ordered the pizza with everything on it
except anchovies. One of the crew, who
shall remain nameless said, "I want
anchovies," so we conceded the point.
While we are eating the pizza, the nameless person held up something from the
pizza and said, "what is this stuff?" To
which the reply was, "That is the
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Kuhns’ “Cactus Story,” a Triumph blew an engine dumping oil at PIR just as he
raced through flat out then spun connecting with a Saguaro cactus.
Billy Yates (left) and Kuhns wrench on the set up at Holtville.
anchovies, you blockhead," or some
other four letter words to that effect. The
nameless person claims not to remember
this event. Some people always want
what they can not have.
Phoenix, Arizona National, Sept.,
1970 - I was working a night shift and
had to be there by 6 p.m. Sunday night.
So I flew from Phoenix to Burbank and
went to work. When I got off work the
next morning, I get a call from Billy, who
is my "always there" crew person. The
conversation went like this: Billy said,
"are you standing up?" I hesitated and
then said, "yes." Billy said, "sit down." I
said, "you lost the race car?" The story
goes something like this. Late Sunday
night, on US-60 (pre I-10) west of
Wickenburg, Arizona, the right spindle
broke on the trailer and the wheel
disappeared. (Today somewhere in
Arizona there is a wheel, tire, and hub
with broken spindle attached waiting to
be found.) Followed by a shower of
sparks Billy pulled onto the shoulder of
the road. Several other racers stopped to
help. The damage was being surveyed.
Billy and Donald were starting to realize
the trouble they were in, when a pickup
towing a huge open top trailer pulled up
and stopped. The pickup driver's offer
to help was accepted on the spot. The
people that had gathered pushed the
Sprite into the open top trailer, lifted the
broken trailer onto the top of the open
trailer, and everyone was off on a high
speed run to Burbank. It turned out the
driver of the pickup lived only about two
miles from Billy's place. The broken
trailer was repaired and gave many more
years of service. Forty plus years later
Billy still has the trailer with collection
of Sprites.
I drove my first American Road Race
of Champions (Runoffs) Thanksgiving
week of 1970, at Road Atlanta.
Everything was frozen, even the toilets.
Cars were almost impossible to start. Not
a good time to be had at the races. The
trip gets worse on the way home. When
we get to Abilene, Texas, the van blew its
engine. Bob Snow and family came by
and gave us a ride to town. There I
rented a U-Haul truck. We found a dirt
bank near the road that was the right
height, put the van into the truck, hooked
the trailer behind and took off for San
Diego at 50 mph top speed. The truck has
some kind of governor on it which made
for a long trip. I have a picture of this set
up that was taken west of Yuma at the
rest stop in the sand dunes on I-8.
Compared to 1970, 1971 was a dull
year. I did get a C Sports Racer. A couple
of events stand out. The first happened to
Billy and me in July of 1971. We were
on our way to Olathe, Kansas towing a
double decker trailer with the H
Production Sprite and the C Sports Racer
on it. It had rained during the night. The
rain had stopped, but the sides of the road
were still wet. Somewhere east of
Wichita, Kansas, on a two lane road we
ran out of gas (we always carry extra gas
in case something like this happens). The
road had a long sloping edge and as we
pulled over we were beginning to slide
down the slope. We got stopped before it
became a disaster, but there was no way
we were going to get the van and trailer
back on the road on our own. We were
thinking out the problem when some
guys with an empty hay truck stopped.
No problem, hook the van to the truck
and pull it out, hook the trailer to the
truck and pull it out. It worked and Billy
and I were on our way.
September, 1971, PIR, Arizona - The
next "happening" is the "Cactus Story."
We were running the old course, part of
which was outside the oval. At the time,
British Leylan was sponsoring factory
teams including a Triumph team run by
"Kas" Kastner. One of his cars was a
Triumph sedan, Heral, I believe, and it
blew it's engine during qualifying, at the
top of a rise that had a slight S curve on
the blind side. The flaggers had not seen
the oil; although there had been a lot of
smoke and later they were able to see the
oil when I pointed it out to them. No
"slippery" oil flag was out when I came
over the rise going flat out. Instantly I
was going backwards, crashing into a
Saguaro cactus. Now these cacti are
some of the biggest and tallest in the
world. My CSR, at the time, had an
aluminum body and that cactus was able
to bend almost every part of it. After
coming to a stop I was saying to myself,
"this is not good," when the cactus
attacked with a vengeance. The top of the
cactus broke off and fell across the roll
bar, missing me, but hitting the last
remaining part of the body that was not
bent. My friend Dennis Comstock, who
was driving the tow truck, thought this
was one of the funniest things he had
seen and he promptly created my
nickname, only a few people know.
"The Cactus Kid." The cactus did not
survive but I do have pictures.
For the ARRC (Runoffs) at Road
Atlanta in 1971 it was cold but not as bad
as in 1970. I did have a new van and we
got a 6th place in H Production.
May, 1972, Riverside National - We
had a major problem with the transmission
in CSR. Up to that time we had been
running the shift linkage off the back of
the car like Formula V's do. The chassis
and running components being a "Genie"
built by Huffaker. Anyway, the pinion
nut backed off and that caused big time
damage. To fix it, the decision was made
to do the Hewland/Webster conversion.
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components we needed. After getting the
parts, the rebuild was done with the
understanding that I, as the driver, would
go to bed around midnight and the crew
would finished the job. When the job was
finished at 4 a.m., I was the only one still
awake. We should have called it, but
no, I had to race. Because of fatigue, I
misjudged a corner marker in the esses,
clipping one of the notorious half-buried
tires, punctured the radiator and my race
was done in one lap. Sometimes you
have to know when to fold them.
November, 1972, ARRC (Runoffs),
Road Atlanta - We had stopped on the
way to the race to visit my family in
Missouri and it stated to snow. It was
decided that we had better cut the visit
short so as not to get snowbound. In
Georgia before we got to the track we
had a bit of deja vu. West of Gainsville,
on a twisty wet road, the right trailer
wheel decided it did not want to go any
further and it left us, to be eaten by
Kudzu. Of course we had no spare, so we
dragged the trailer down the road to a
near school yard and parked it. Then on
to the track, we borrowed Charlie
Kulmann's trailer and making two trips
got everything to the track. You might
think all we had to do was buy a wheel
and tire and we would be in business. But
no, this was in the south and Chevy bolt
pattern wheels were not that popular.
After we scrounged the area around
Atlanta, we finally found a wrecking
yard that had one.
One the way home after Road Atlanta
we had our next exciting moment. West
of Oklahoma City, Donald was driving. It
is still debated how it started, but this is
what happened next. Around 1 a.m. we
were coming up to the one mile long I-40
bridge that crosses over the Canadian
River, and we ended up backwards on the
leading edge of the icy bridge. There was
no severe damage, just a destroyed front
bumper and a bent trailer. Everything
still worked. This happened in the middle
of the night with almost nobody on the
road, but then cars started stacking up
and there was no way to drive off the
bridge going the wrong way. To this day
I do not know how I did it, but I drove the
van and trailer backwards, on ice, the
entire length of that bridge to where I
could turn the rig around. I do know my
right arm was killing me because of the
strain of the steering while looking
towards the rear of the van and trailer.
For the rest of the trip it was very quiet
inside the van.
In August of 1975 one of those things
happened that you don't want to believe
can happen. We went to Westwood,
Vancouver, B.C., Canada, for one of
those rare SCCA National races outside
the USA. We had qualified on the pole
and charged the battery before the race.
Things were looking good. Leading the
group into the last corner, on the first lap,
the engine stopped running. Dead
battery, one of the leads on the battery
charger was almost separated giving a
false impression the battery was charged.
Okay, that's racing, in two weeks we
would be in Portland, Oregon, for a race
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James Kuhns getting ready for his first race in 1968 at Santa Barbara
entered in H Production.
and we would make sure the charging
thing did not happen again.
I did some touring and spent time
with friends between races. Then
everything went sour. The day before
the Portland National race weekend, I
decided to go to the track and set up.
East of Delta Park, where the track is
located, there was a G.I. Joe's store with
a four-way stop intersection in front of
it. I'm going to make a left turn at the
intersection. I come to a stop. There is
no one close. I am making my turn when
I hear a crash and feel the van shutter. A
white Freightliner tractor had run the
stop sign and literally driven over the
race car and trailer. The tractor
destroyed the race car, trailer, and
totaled a GTO that was stopped at the
intersection. The truck driver said he
was injured and had to get medical help,
then disappeared. It turned out he had
no driver's license, no insurance,
already had an unresolved "hit and run"
in Oregon and, in theory, was driving
out of Alaska. The bank that owned the
truck said, "we're first," when it comes
to getting anything out of the sale of the
truck, and my insurance did not cover
loss of anything I was towing. The only
damage to the van was the rear bumper
torn off. It could have been a lot worse.
I rented a single axle enclosed trailer,
loaded everything (tools, engine,
transmission, wheel and what was left
of the car and trailer) into it, closed the
trailer door and called it a day. I hired a
lawyer, who put a lean against the
driver's property and inheritance and as
the lawyer said he might, the driver
promptly declared bankruptcy. I never
found out if the driver was caught.
So here I am, no race car, no trailer,
no insurance money, and a sponsor who
bailed out. One good thing came out of
this. I had been talking of building a race
car and if I wanted to keep racing I was
going to have to do it. And so I built my
first race car from the ground up.
May, 1976 - We're at PIR and there is
rain like you would not believe could
happen in Arizona. Race cars had to be
trucked across the Gile River to get out
of the track. Big rigs were trapped for
days. I was now living in San Diego and
the roads south of Phoenix were closed.
The bridge between Buck Eye and Gile
Bend weas gone, as was the bridge
between Chandler and Maricopa. I would
have to go through Blythe to get home.
At Indio I headed to Anza and on to
Agunga. where the road to Temecula was
washed out, forcing a detour to Warner
Springs, past Mt. Palomar, through
Escondido and home. Everything was
okay until I got to Oak Grove. There
were huge amounts of water crossing
over State-79. The water was spread out
and not too deep, so I went for it. It
wasn't until I was committed that I
realized the right shoulder of the road
was washed away and the water was
tearing at the asphalt. I was sweating
blood for a few moments, but I got
through and home with no more problems.
October, 1977 - This ARRC at Road
Atlanta is one I would like to forget.
Donald and I had worked late on the race
car and we're dead tired when we got to
the motel. We parked the van right in
front of our motel door and went to bed.
During the night someone broke into the
van and stole my camera with lens, CB
radio, special made Bell helmet, tools,
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we never heard a thing, which the Police
said may have been a good thing, as
there had been an armed robbery at a
convenience store up the street and the
bad boys had shot the clerk. We were
able to borrow enough stuff to race.
Anyone who knows me very well
knows I like trains, railroads, and that
I have a Large Scale railroad in my
backyard. This adventure happened
because of that obsession. Going home
from Road Atlanta, Donald and I had
been checking out Civil War battle fields
(another interest of mine) when we saw
a green steam locomotive parked across
a large open area near the Chattanooga,
Tenn., depot. I knew the locomotive had
to be the one Southern Railroad used to
pull excursions, and I had to see it up
close. We proceeded to drive across the
open area, not realizing that at one time
warehouses had been there and the
columns of those buildings had not been
completely removed. We could not see
those remains because of the weeds. The
van cleared but the trailer did not,
catching the axle squarely in the center.
The trailer jumped up and over the
stump of a column. The trailer axle now
had a very large amount of toe-in. The
solution: I had Donald lay on the tongue
of the trailer and watched as I repeatedly
backed the trailer into the stump. We did
such a good job that when I got home
and checked the toe of the trailer, I found
it to be near perfect. Bad luck again
followed by good luck.
An unexpected thing happened in
1980. I was named SCCA/San Diego
Region "Driver of the Year." That was a
good thing after all the weird luck we had
been having.
July, 1983 - At Carlsbad Raceway I
had my worst racing accident. The car
had a brake failure going over the "flat"
and into a sharp right down hill corner. I
got the car turned and hit the tire barrier,
tail first. LUCKY! LUCKY! I was at
speed when I hit the wall and really rang
my bell. The corner worker, who had
been standing on the wall near where I
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hit, came over and asked me if I was
okay. I said, "just let me sit here for a few
moments." I got out of the car under
my own power but it was not a good
experience. When the car was on the
"hook" I walked over to see it and
applied the brakes. The brakes were rock
hard. I made the effort to find out what
had happened and found that silicone
brake fluid, which I was using at the
time, had a window of temperature
where it became a compressible fluid. I
never used silicone brake fluid again,
synthetic, yes, but not silicone. The car
had to be rebuilt from the roll bar back.
In 1985, with a lot of help from
friends I put together my first D Sports
Racer and in October at Carlsbad, I had
my first race in the DSR, and I won.
September, 1986 - At Sears Point I
won the Pacific Road Race of
Champions in DSR
March 31, 1988 - Remember at the
beginning of this story I told you about
driving old US-80, now replaced by I-8
and the wind. Well, it all came back in
spades on this date. My friend Kerry
Rauch, who worked for Trick Gasoline,
had no one to sell fuel at Holtville that
weekend. So I stepped up to help her
out. Friday afternoon on I-8 at
Mountain Springs grade the wind was
very gusty and at the last sharp corner
going down it caught the sides of the
van and trailer and over the edge we
went. My dogs, van, trailer, and me (the
race car was not with me) ended up
deep in the boulders. I am not going
into great detail here other than I was
found three days later by the San Diego
County Sheriff's helicopter. It took
eight hours for the rescuers to get me
out of the wreck. Some of you may
remember the event was dramatized on
the TV show, "Rescue 911". As a result
of this accident if anyone wants to have
a contest on who has the most scars, let
me know, I will win.
My first race after the accident was
November 11, 1989 at Holtville. This
goes to show you can't keep a racer
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Cal Club Double Regional at Fontana
Best show from biggest class - Spec Miata 21 strong
FONTANA, Calif., June 11-12, 2011 Cal Club's final 2011 visit to California
Speedway is in the can leading into the
summer break.
This was the final "in town" event of
the year where most have about a one
hour drive, or even less for some.
Six race groups made up the race
program this weekend with the Pacific
F2000 pro series joining us again.
Good weather, great competition,
and it just doesn’t get any better than
what we had this weekend.
GROUP 1 - FF, SRF, FV
SRF - The first race of the weekend was
one of the oddest of all time for Cal Club
with just three cars on track and just one
SRF entry. Never have SRF entries been
low here much less a single entry. Aaron
Stein would've never dreamed he'd be the
only SRF at California Speedway. But he
was. Points were up for grabs too. It was
a bonus points day for Stein and a missed
opportunity for his competiton. Stein
wasted no time tallying two first place
finishes, two checkered flags and two
trophies. What else could this multi-SRF
champion do? Take it all and move on to
the next race, like he did.
FV - You only need two cars to have a
great race in Formula Vee when Charlie
Turner and Mark Edwards show up.
These two guys have hammered out
several strong battles this year and again
demonstrated why you never miss a
Formula Vee race, especially here at
California Speedway. The two raced their
brains out on Saturday when Turner set
fastest race lap. At the checkered though
it was Edwards in first ahead of Turner.
Edwards backed up his win from
yesterday with another victory Sunday
but Turner did all he could to squeeze
every bit of momentum he could from his
Protoform P3. At the checkered he came
up a little short, like 0.3 of a second
short, but good enough for second. Their
friendly rivalry continues... stay tuned.
GROUP 2 - T1, ITS, ITA, HP, S944,
SRX-7, SSC, ITC
T1 - Cal Speedway is a favorite race
circuit for T1 Corvette drivers for
obvious reasons as they get to unleash
their horsepower. On Saturday they
mixed it up with each other and lapped
traffic. They muscled their way around
much slower cars for 14 laps before Las
Vegas driver Robert Kahn settled the
score with a win defeating Jim Tway by
22.8 seconds. Kyle Kelley finished third
ahead of Brent Hicks in fourth.
Kahn backed up his victory from
yesterday with another win Sunday over
Tway with a slim 3.5 second advantage at
the checkered. Hick punched in a third
place finish filling the T1 box with
Kelley out after one lap with a DNF.
ITS - Rick Parker made the tow from
Arizona and cleaned house with two
wins in ITS, unchallenged. He finished
third overall both days chasing the faster
Corvettes.
ITA - Darren Murdock out of Las Vegas
was back to take control of ITA after
winning both days in his Honda Civic.
Murdock defeated Carl Johnk who
scored a pair of second place finishes and
Mark Homer filled the box both days
in third.
HP - Cory Markos raced his #43 Honda
Civic to a pair of victories ahead of the
Honda Fit piloted by Carl Young. The
pair finished in the same exact overall
order both days, Markos in 8th and
Young in 18th.
S944 - Frank Hanrahan made the jump
from open to closed wheel in good form
with two wins in S944 defeating class
Tyler Vance leads a tough field in Spec Miata before he collected the win on
Saturday.
Dennis Baer Photo
Jeff Walker (center) won Sunday in
Spec Miata, flanked by Clement Lee
(left) and Tyler Vance. Allan Coy Photo
point leader Randy Bergrum who settled
with a pair of second place finishes. The
points race is now on with Hanrahan a
S944 championship contender.
SRX-7 - Devin Dahn led a three car
contingent of SRX-7 drivers from
Arizona. Saturday Gary Boyle turned in
the fastest race lap but couldn't beat Dahn
who tallied the win. Boyle finished
second ahead of Steve Bodeman in third.
Sunday the trio mixed it up again but
Dahn couldn't be stopped as he captured
his second win of the weekend with
Boyle scoring another second place
finish with Bodeman in third again.
SSC, ITC, AS - Derek Ferretti raced his
#5 Acura to victory in SSC Saturday
with a 20th overall finish. Sunday,
Calvin Liu jumped behind the wheel of
the #5 Acura and won SCC with a 17th
overall finish.
As expected the ITC winner was
Honda
Civic
driver
Hartoyo
Gandasetiawan. He pushed his machine
to two wins in class and seals his
ITC championship chase.
Chris Qualls was credited with
winning A Sedan Saturday after parking
it on lap 10 with problems.
GROUP3 - GT1, SP, GT3, ITE, STU, GTL
GT - Andy Porterfield, the lone GT-1
entry, was the force to contend with in
Group 3 as he pushed his Camaro to the
checkered each day tallying two GT-1
wins with a giant advantage each day
over SP winner, Paul Fairchild.
SP - Just as easily as Porterfield won,
Fairchild raced his Porsche to victory
twice in SP. Saturday he defeated Robert
Kelley and Ron Bailey who filled the SP
podium in second and third. Andy Chan
finished fourth. Sunday, Kelley was out
after two laps as Bailey zeroed in on
second position trailed by Chan at the
checkered in third.
GT3 - A three car battle for top GT-3
was a good show as usual, especially
when you have names like Graham and
Gray on the entry list. But this weekend
we had two Graham's, father and son duo
of Wayne and Scott. Wayne looked good
on Saturday from the green until the
advantage swung Gray's way with
victory and fastest lap. Wayne finished
second with Scott pushing his Mazda
to the checkered in third.
Sunday controversy surrounded GT-3
after the disqualification of Wayne by
event officials. Scott was credited with
win so at least it stays in the family.
ITE - Robert Green has his Noble
M400 hooked up and on track as he raced
to a pair of first place finishes in ITE
along with two third overall results. At
the checkered each day Paul Gassen
raced his Mustang to the checkered and
Dave Tweedie #66 ahead of rookie Eahab El Naga #28. Tweedie scored two wins in
CSR and El Naga was victorious twice in DSR.
Dennis Baer Photo
tallied second in class.
STU - Bryan Lampe and Gene Rolfe set
the stage in STU for a showdown between
BMW and Mazda. Lampe's BMW was
too much for Rolfe's Mazda. Lampe raced
to a pair of wins ahead of Rolfe in second
spot each day, respectively.
GT-Lite - John Bower had problems with
his Nissan Sentra on Saturday and
accepted a DNF in GT-Lite. But Sunday
he put in 13 good laps and collected the
first place trophy.
GROUP 4 - CSR, FA, FS, FM, DSR, S2
CSR - Dave Tweedie was fastest all
weekend in CSR. Saturday, he captured
the glory with the class win and overall
bragging rights. Bob Majorino and
Michael Alfred were left to settle the
score for second position. At the
checkered it was Majorino in second
ahead of Alfred in third.
Tweedie's hands were full Sunday as
he fought off a challenge from Majorino.
After 15 laps Tweedie collected another
win but with a slim 4.5 second advantage
over Majorino in second. Alfred filled
the final step on the CSR box in third.
FA, FS - Vince Gaddini in FA and Renny
Damon in FS made the trip from Auburn,
Calif., each representing their class in
good form. Both raced clean and strong
and collected two wins each in their team
Pro Mazda entries.
FM - A three car line up in Formula
Mazda with Steve Brown, Brad Drew
and Patrick Wesslink set the stage for a
good race. The battle brewed from the
start. On lap 11, Wesslink was out. Brown
and Drew diced hard to the checkered. At
the flag it was Brown over Drew by a
scant 0.174 of a second with the win.
The table reversed Sunday when
Drew finished first by 20 seconds over
Brown in second.
DSR - Eahab El Naga was quickest in
DSR and defeated The Cactus Kid
(James Kuhns) Saturday with a three lap
cushion. El Naga put in a solid seventh
overall finish.
The DSR bar was raised when Henry
Botkin showed and turned out to be the
man to beat in this group. El Naga raised
his game too but couldn't match Botkin's
speed. After 15 laps Botkin scored the
DSR win plus the overall win ahead of El
Naga in second and The Cactus Kid in third.
S2000 - Seven entries made up the S2 Cup
Series race Saturday with Joe Moran on
top of the box both days defeating rival
Edward Guenther. Saturday, Paul
Frucbrom finished third and Sterling
Ellsworth raced his way to the final step
on the victory podium on Sunday.
GROUP 5 - SPEC MIATA
SM - Spec Miata set the stage for the best
race of the day as fierce battles broke out
throughout the field from the start. It was
no surprise to see a gang of big names up
front. Teenager Tyler Vance, Grant
Westmorland, Jeff Walker and point
leader Clement Lee all vying for the win.
It came down to the last half of the final
circuit around California Speedway to
determine who was going to win as the
bump drafting masters shuffled and
jogged for position. It was Vance who
wrestled the win away from 20 of his
competitors with a 0.4 of a second
advantage over Westmorland in second
and Walker in third. Lee finished fourth
with Elliott Skeer rounding out the top five.
Day two the battle continued up front
with the top five from yesterday. They
diced and negotiated for the ultimate
position to be able to make a last lap pass
for the win. As the top five approached
the checkered it was Walker who
managed to win with a 1.49 second
advantage over Lee in second. Vance
trailed by only 0.05 of a second to
secure third. Westmorland finished
fourth and Skeer was fifth again.
The top five finished within a slim 1.9
second gap.
Cal Club News
July/August - 2011
Race Results - Double Regional
Autoclub Speedway - June 11-12, 2011
Saturday
Group 1
Pos No.
1
18
2
74
3
25
Class
SRF
FV
FV
Name
Aaron Stein
Mark Edwards
Charlie Turner
Laps Best
13 02:01.3
13 02:02.6
13 02:03.5
Total
29:43.0
30:16.5
30:24.2
Diff
Group 2
Pos No.
1
35
2
20
3
79
4
89
5
8
6
5
7
83
8
43
9
3
10 8S
11 11
12 74
13 6
14 21
15 13
16 1
17 19
18 77
19 4
20 5
21 9
22 73
23 56
Class
T1
T1
T1
T1
ITS
ITA
ITA
HP
ITA
S944
ITA
ITA
ITA
SRX-7
S944
ITA
SRX-7
HP
SRX-7
SSC
ITC
AS
ITA
Name
Robert Kahn
Jim Tway
Kyle Kelley
Brent Hicks
Rick Parker
Darren Murdock
Carl Johnk
Cory Markos
Mark Homer
Frank Hanrahan
James Whitton
Michael Chiappetta
Brandon Droese
Devin Dahn
Randy Bergum
Cheuk Kit Lai
Gary Boyle
Carl Young
Steve Bodeman
Derek Ferretti
H. Gandasetiawan
Chris Qualls
Derek Wang
Laps Best
14 01:49.7
14 01:49.9
14 01:49.9
13 01:55.8
13 02:00.1
13 02:05.2
13 02:05.6
13 02:06.5
13 02:06.8
12 02:09.2
12 02:08.7
12 02:10.3
12 02:09.0
12 02:10.4
12 02:09.5
12 02:09.6
12 02:10.3
12 02:10.1
12 02:12.2
12 02:15.8
11 02:20.5
9
01:57.2
7
02:06.6
Total
29:25.3
29:48.1
30:23.6
29:30.5
30:02.2
31:10.1
31:14.8
31:18.5
31:23.0
29:44.7
29:45.0
30:00.2
30:00.8
30:02.6
30:03.5
30:05.7
30:07.2
30:11.2
30:28.2
31:19.0
29:37.8
22:23.5
19:03.2
Diff
Group 3
Pos No.
1
5
2
318
3
10
4
42
5
68
6
9
7
35
8
6
9
34
10 49
11 3
12 8
DNF 44
Class
GT-1
SP
GT-3
ITE
SP
GT-3
SP
GT-3
STU
ITE
SP
STU
GT-L
Name
Andy Porterfield
Paul Fairchild
Richard Gray
Robert Green
Robert Kelly
Wayne Graham
Ron Bailey
Scott Graham
Bryan Lampe
Paul Gassen
Andy Chan
Gene Rolfe
John Bower
Laps Best
15 01:42.4
15 01:48.5
15 01:49.6
15 01:49.9
14 01:47.0
14 01:51.6
14 01:54.1
14 01:58.2
13 01:59.9
13 02:01.9
13 02:08.2
12 02:12.3
5
01:58.2
Total
29:29.8
30:35.1
31:14.0
31:23.3
29:49.6
30:12.3
31:13.5
31:19.1
29:34.9
30:18.2
31:23.1
30:16.4
13:21.5
Diff
Group 4
Pos No.
1
65
2
48
3
47
4
696
5
31
6
78
7
28
8
7
9
2
10 72
11 9
12 5
13 43
14 95
15 85
16 22
DNF 11
Class
CSR
FA
FS
CSR
FM
FM
DSR
S2
S2
CSR
S2
S2
DSR
FM
S2
S2
S2
Name
Dave Tweedie
Vince Gaddini
Renny Damon
Bob Majorino
Steve Brown
Brad Drew
Eahab El Naga
Joe Moran
Edward Guenther
Michael Alfred
Paul Fruchbom
Adam Draizin
James Kuhns
Patrick Wesslink
Doug Ota
Sterling Ellsworth
Bob Lovenson
Laps Best
15 01:40.4
15 01:40.3
15 01:43.4
15 01:42.5
15 01:44.0
15 01:43.5
15 01:41.2
15 01:44.5
15 01:44.7
14 01:42.3
14 01:47.1
14 01:47.6
12 01:44.3
11 01:46.0
9
01:43.6
8
01:45.5
6
01:47.2
Total
29:03.7
29:30.7
29:37.5
29:38.0
29:38.3
29:38.5
29:47.4
30:09.2
30:41.2
28:17.2
29:10.0
29:20.6
28:30.6
23:26.6
19:21.2
17:48.0
14:21.6
Diff
Group 5
Pos No.
1
85
2
12
3
81
4
33
5
17
6
29
7
63
8
99
9
4
10 42
11 78
12 56
13 37
14 88
15 3
16 73
17 1
18 51
19 39
20 68
21 67
Class
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
Name
Tyler Vance
Grant Westmorland
Jeff Walker
Clement Lee
Elliott Skeer
Eric Richter
Tim Bonney
Bill V Pharaoh Nelson
Sean Bradley
Ethan Tufts
Marc Simon
Louis Wang
Darwin Felix
Mark Lange
Mark Homer
Ian Thomas
Sky Chan
Cheuk Kit Lai
Darren Richardson
Michael Com
Tim LaFrance
Laps Best
12 02:03.6
12 02:03.4
12 02:03.6
12 02:03.4
12 02:04.7
12 02:04.3
12 02:04.8
12 02:05.2
12 02:04.9
12 02:05.0
12 02:06.1
12 02:05.8
12 02:06.4
12 02:06.3
12 02:06.0
12 02:05.2
12 02:07.7
12 02:08.6
12 02:11.0
12 02:12.5
12 02:11.7
Total
28:28.3
28:28.7
28:29.2
28:29.7
28:35.4
28:36.3
28:48.7
28:50.9
28:51.8
28:52.0
28:58.8
29:07.3
29:07.5
29:08.2
29:08.7
29:14.0
29:23.1
29:47.7
30:03.3
30:24.0
30:24.1
Diff
33.464
41.191
22.866
58.391
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
3 Laps
5 Laps
7 Laps
1:05.3
1:44.2
1:53.4
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
3 Laps
DNF
27.017
33.84
34.285
34.636
34.81
43.733
01:05.5
01:37.5
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
3 Laps
4 Laps
6 Laps
7 Laps
DNF
0.416
0.833
1.377
7.043
7.94
20.377
22.594
23.469
23.684
30.487
38.918
39.204
39.822
40.356
45.621
54.787
01:19.3
01:35.0
01:55.7
01:55.7
Hometown
Santa Barbara
Los Angeles
Mission Viejo
Color
Multi
Yellow
Black
Club
19
19
19
Make
1985 SRF
‘08 Glamdring
Protoform P3
Hometown
Las Vegas,NV
Yorba Linda,CA
Hunt Beach, Ca
Etiwanda, CA
Parker,AA
North Las Vegas
Cardiff by the
Riverside, CA
Los Angeles, Ca
Costa Mesa
Porter Ranch
Del Mar, CA
Goletta,CA
Peoria.AZ
Gilbert, AZ
Los Angeles,CA
Yuma,AZ
Irvine,CA
Scottsdale,AZ
Fountain Vallry
Garden Grove
Burbank, CA
Woodland Hills
Color
Black
Blue
Silver
Blue
Multi
White
Blue
Rd/Blk
Blk/Sil
Silver
Wht/Bl
Red
Red
Yellow
Red/Gr
Silver
Sil/Red
Black
Purple
White
White
Yel/Blk
Navy
Club
19
19
19
19
2
19
57
19
19
19
19
57
19
2
2
19
2
33
2
19
19
19
Make
Corvette
Corvette
Corvette
Corvette Zo6
Mazda RX7
Honda Civic
Mazda RX7
Honda Civic
Mazda
83 P 944
Mazda Miata
Mazda RX7
Mazda RX-7
Mazda RX-7
Porsche 944
Mazda Miata
Mazda RX-7
Honda FIT
Mazda RX7
04 Acura RSX
Honda
1996 Mustang
Mazda Miata
Hometown
Newport Beach
Tempe,AZ
Moorpark,CA
Santa Ana,CA
Hunt. Beach,CA
Santa Barbara
Pahrump,NV
Irvine,CA
Lakewood,CA
Fallbrook,CA
Harbor City, CA
Las Vegas, NV
Granada Hills
Color
Grey
Yellow
Yellow
Red
Blue
Red
White
Bronze
White
Black
Red
Blue
Wh/Bl
Club
19
2
19
19
19
19
72
19
19
19
19
72
19
Make
Camaro
Porsche 996
Nissan 240SX
Noble M400
Monte Carlo
Mazda RX-7
Oldsmobile
Mazda RX7
BMW 325i
Ford Mustang
Toyota AE101
MazdaMiata
Nissan Sentra
Hometown
Riverside,CA
Auburn,CA
Auburn, CA
Camarillo,CA
Ontario, CA
Trabuco Canyon
Topanga,cA
Laguna Hills
Paradise Valley
Camarillo,CA
Newport Bch
Paradise Valley
Encinitas,CA
San Juan Capis
Irvine, CA
Santa Barbara
Calabasas, CA
Color
White
Blue
Blue
415757
Ye/Blk
Wh/Blk
bL/pU
Yellow
Red
Yellow
Black
Red
Bl/Blk
Blk/Sil
Red
Orange
Blue
Club
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
2
19
19
2
19
19
19
19
19
Make
Radical
Mazda PFM
Mazda PRO
Radical SR3
Star Mazda
Star Mazda
Msagro CV-3
Ford Carbir CS2
Swift Db5
Beasley B2
Swift DB2
1989 Swift DB2
Zephyrus III
Mazda Form
Swift DB2
Swift DB5
Swift DB2
Hometown
Ladera Ranch
Chula Vista,CA
Fountain Valley
San Diego,CA
Vista,CA
Santa Barbara
Lakewood
Walnut,CA
Los Angeles
Winnetka, CA
Oak Park
Woodland Hills
Long Beach,CA
Calabasas,CA
Los Angeles,
Anaheim Hills
Alhambra,CA
Los Angeles,CA
San Diego,CA
San Diego
Newport Beach
Color
Black
Bl/Yel
Black
Black
Yel/Bl
White
Blue
Orange
Red
Red
Navy
Dk bl
Red
Blue
Black
Green
Silver
Bl/Or
Red
Red
Club
19
57/19
19
19
57
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
Make
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
1999 Mazda
1999 Mazda
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
1999 Mazda
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
1996 Mazda
Mazda Miata
1990 Mazda
Mazda
1991 Mazda
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
1990 Mazda
92 Mazda
Mazda Miata
Hometown
Santa Barbara
Riverside
Los Angeles
Mission Viejo
Fillmore,CA
Color
Multi
Bl/Or
Yellow
Black
Yellow
Club
19
19
19
19
19
Make
1985 SRF
Swft DB-1
‘08 Glamdring
Protoform P3
‘78 Crossle 32F
Hometown
Las Vegas,NV
Yorba Linda,CA
Etiwanda, CA
Parker,AA
North Las Vegas
Cardiff by the
Los Angeles, Ca
Riverside, CA
Los Angeles,CA
Costa Mesa
Del Mar, CA
Porter Ranch
Peoria.AZ
Yuma,AZ
Gilbert, AZ
Scottsdale,AZ
Torrance, CA
Irvine,CA
Garden Grove
Goletta,CA
Hunt Beach
Color
Black
Blue
Blue
Multi
White
Blue
Blk/Sil
Rd/Blk
Silver
Silver
Red
Wh/Blk
Yellow
Sil/Red
Rd/Gre
Purple
White
Black
White
Red
Silver
Club
19
19
19
2
19
57
19
19
19
19
57
19
2
2
2
2
19
33
19
19
19
Make
Corvette
Corvette
Corvette Zo6
Mazda RX7
Honda Civic
Mazda RX7
Mazda
Honda Civic
Mazda Miata
pORS 944
Mazda RX7
Mazda Miata
Mazda RX-7
Mazda RX-7
Porsche 944
Mazda RX7
Acura RSX
Honda FIT
Honda
Mazda RX-7
Corvette
Hometown
Newport Beach
Tempe,AZ
Santa Ana,CA
Irvine,CA
Pahrump,NV
Fallbrook,CA
Lakewood,CA
Granada Hills
Harbor City, CA
Las Vegas, NV
Hunt. Beach
Santa Barbara
Color
Grey
Yellow
Red
Bronze
White
Black
White
Wh/Bl
Red
Blue
Blue
Red
Club
19
2
19
19
72
19
19
19
19
72
19
19
Make
Camaro
Porsche 996
Noble M400
Mazda RX7
Oldsmobile
Ford Mustang
BMW 325i
Nissan Sentra
Toyota AE101
MazdaMiata
Monte Carlo
Mazda RX-7
Hometown
Jamul,CA
Auburn,CA
Topanga,cA
Auburn, CA
Riverside,CA
Camarillo,CA
Trabuco Canyon
Laguna Hills
Ontario, CA
Paradise Valley
Santa Barbara
Newport Bch,Ca
Calabasas, CA
Camarillo,CA
Paradise Valley
Encinitas,CA
Color
Sil/Bl
Blue
bl/pur
Blue
White
Club
57/19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
2
19
19
19
19
2
19
Make
Stohr WF1
Mazda PFM
Msagro CV-3
09 Mazda PRO
Radical
Radical SR3
Star Mazda
Ford Carbir CS2
Star Mazda
Swift Db5
Swift DB5
Swift DB2
Swift DB2
Beasley B2
‘89 Swift DB2
Zephyrus III
Hometown
Fountain Valley
San Diego,CA
Ladera Ranch
Chula Vista
Vista,CA
San Diego,CA
Lakewood
Santa Barbara
Los Angeles
Woodland Hills
Winnetka
Oak Park
Anaheim Hills
Los Angeles
Alhambra
Calabasas
Long Beach
West Hills
San Diego,CA
Newport Beach
Los Angeles,CA
Color
Black
Black
Black
Blu/Yel
Yel/Bl
white
Club
19
19
19
57/19
57
19/57
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
Make
1999 Mazda
1999 Mazda
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
1993 Mazda
1999 Mazda
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
1996 Mazda
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
1991 Mazda
Mazda
Mazda Miata
1990 Mazda
Mazda Miata
Miazda Miata
1990 Mazda
Mazda Miata
Mazda Miata
Sunday
Group 1
Pos No.
1
18
2
80
3
74
4
25
5
73
Class
SRF
FF
FV
FV
SF
Name
Aaron Stein
Roger Kessinger
Mark Edwards
Charlie Turner
Arthur Beach
Laps Best
13 02:00.8
13 01:54.9
13 02:02.2
13 02:02.0
11 02:01.1
Total
29:37.0
29:48.3
29:58.9
29:59.2
26:56.3
Diff
Group 2
Pos No.
1
35
2
20
3
89
4
8
5
5
6
83
7
3
8
43
9
1
10 8S
11 74
12 11
13 21
14 19
15 13
16 4
17 5
18 77
19 9
20 6
DNF 79
Class
T1
T1
T1
ITS
ITA
ITA
ITA
HP
ITA
S944
ITA
ITA
SRX-7
SRX-7
S944
SRX-7
SSC
HP
ITC
ITA
T1
Name
Robert Kahn
Jim Tway
Brent Hicks
Rick Parker
Darren Murdock
Carl Johnk
Mark Homer
Cory Markos
Cheuk Kit Lai
Frank Hanrahan
Michael Chiappetta
James Whitton
Devin Dahn
Gary Boyle
Randy Bergum
Steve Bodeman
Calvin Liu
Carl Young
H. Gandasetiawan
Brandon Droese
Kyle Kelley
Laps Best
14 01:48.5
14 01:48.8
13 01:55.9
13 02:00.7
13 02:05.0
13 02:05.6
13 02:05.1
13 02:05.2
12 02:08.5
12 02:08.8
12 02:08.5
12 02:07.6
12 02:09.1
12 02:09.6
12 02:10.0
12 02:12.9
12 02:13.5
12 02:08.0
11 02:18.4
7
02:09.2
1
01:50.4
Total
29:17.4
29:20.9
29:25.5
30:09.1
31:00.1
31:03.2
31:09.8
31:45.8
29:31.6
29:33.5
29:34.7
29:35.5
29:41.6
29:54.4
30:09.6
30:32.7
31:08.4
31:18.1
29:27.4
18:56.8
05:25.2
Diff
Group 3
Pos No.
1
5
2
318
3
42
4
6
5
35
6
49
7
34
8
44
9
3
10 8
DNF 68
DQ 9
Class
GT-1
SP
ITE
GT-3
SP
ITE
STU
GT-L
SP
STU
SP
GT-3
Name
Andy Porterfield
Paul Fairchild
Robert Green
Scott Graham
Ron Bailey
Paul Gassen
Bryan Lampe
John Bower
Andy Chan
Gene Rolfe
Robert Kelly
Wayne Graham
Laps Best
15 01:42.1
15 01:48.6
14 01:53.7
14 01:55.3
14 01:57.3
14 01:58.4
13 01:59.8
13 02:01.0
13 02:06.8
12 02:12.0
2
01:49.3
14 01:50.9
Total
29:36.3
30:56.5
30:17.3
30:31.9
31:32.7
31:33.6
29:36.5
30:04.2
31:12.6
30:32.7
07:31.8
30:10.4
Diff
Group 4
Pos No.
1
82
2
48
3
28
4
47
5
65
6
696
7
78
8
7
9
31
10 2
11 22
12 9
13 11
14 72
15 5
16 43
Class
DSR
FA
DSR
FS
CSR
CSR
FM
S2
FM
S2
S2
S2
S2
CSR
S2
DSR
Name
Henry Botkin
Vince Gaddini
Eahab El Naga
Renny Damon
Dave Tweedie
Bob Majorino
Brad Drew
Joe Moran
Steve Brown
Edward Guenther
Sterling Ellsworth
Paul Fruchbom
Bob Lovenson
Michael Alfred
Adam Draizin
James Kuhns
Laps Best
15 01:38.3
15 01:40.0
15 01:39.6
15 01:41.4
15 01:41.0
15 01:41.7
15 01:43.8
15 01:44.1
15 01:43.8
15 01:45.0
14 01:44.6
14 01:45.6
14 01:47.0
14 01:45.7
14 01:48.4
10 02:07.2
Total
27:56.6
28:11.4
28:25.0
28:33.6
28:41.7
28:46.2
29:14.4
29:27.0
29:35.1
29:39.9
28:05.4
28:15.9
28:21.1
28:55.0
30:05.0
25:16.4
Diff
Group 5
Pos No.
1
81
2
33
3
85
4
12
5
17
6
71
7
63
8
29
9
4
10 56
11 42
12 78
13 73
14 3
15 1
16 88
17 37
18 68
19 39
20 67
21 51
Class
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
SM
Name
Jeff Walker
Clement Lee
Tyler Vance
Grant Westmorland
Elliott Skeer
Curtis Gong
Tim Bonney
Eric Richter
Sean Bradley
Louis Wang
Ethan Tufts
Marc Simon
Ian Thomas
Mark Homer
Sky Chan
Mark Lange
Darwin Felix
Angela Swan
Darren Richardson
Tim LaFrance
Cheuk Kit Lai
Laps Best
12 02:03.7
12 02:03.6
12 02:03.8
12 02:03.6
12 02:03.9
12 02:04.0
12 02:04.6
12 02:05.3
12 02:05.3
12 02:05.7
12 02:05.5
12 02:05.5
12 02:05.5
12 02:05.6
12 02:07.1
12 02:06.2
12 02:06.9
12 02:07.4
12 02:08.5
12 02:10.3
8
02:07.9
Total
29:15.6
29:17.1
29:17.1
29:17.2
29:17.5
29:26.7
29:28.4
29:33.7
29:34.5
29:41.5
29:44.0
29:44.7
29:44.8
29:45.5
30:04.2
30:09.8
30:09.9
30:24.4
30:32.5
30:58.6
21:39.7
Diff
11.228
21.853
22.178
2 Laps
3.555
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
3 Laps
7 Laps
DNF
01:20.1
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
2 Laps
2 Laps
2 Laps
3 Laps
DNF
DQ
14.826
28.409
37.027
45.134
49.617
01:17.8
01:30.4
01:38.6
01:43.3
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
1 Lap
5 Laps
1.49
1.54
1.654
1.912
11.15
12.812
18.148
18.92
25.987
28.39
29.137
29.188
29.978
48.633
54.253
54.325
01:08.8
01:17.0
01:43.0
4 Laps
Wh/Blk
Yellow
Yel/Blk
Red
Orange
Black
Blue
Yellow
Red
Bl/Blk
White
Orange
Navy
Red
Red
Black
Blue
Green
Red
Dk bl
Rd/Blk
Blu/Or
Red
Silver
Page 9
BoG Seats Open!
Cal Club
Seeks
You!
It is that time of year to elect the new Board of Governors for 2012. Every driver,
worker and volunteer should participate on the Board at least once in their career
because a Board should reflect all facets of the demographics it oversees to ensure the
Club’s overall success. This is your opportunity to make an impact and take the Club
to another level of prosperity.
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Membership on the Board is a two year commitment and it is a lot of work but there
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with fresh ideas and innovative improvements. This is a critical time for the club and
this is why it is important for our club members to step up and run for the Board now.
Your actions will shape the future of our great club.
2012 CALIFORNIA SPORTS CAR CLUB
Board of Governors
NOMINATION PETITION
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Cal Club Road Racing
More - Weird Tales &
Misadventures
Regional Points Standings
from page 7
as of June 15
Class/Ñame
AS QUALLS, CHRIS
T1
Points
60
HICKS, BRENT
KAHN, ROBERT
TWAY, JIM
THORDARSON, OLI
KELLEY, KYLE
BENEDETTI, ROY
RONSON, CHRIS
FUNG, CARL
45
43
37
24
23
12
11
11
ITA DAHI, NAJI
MURDOCK, DARREN
LAUNCHBAUGH, TODD
MOLINO, WESLEY
JOHNK, CARL
LERNER, PRESTON
HOMER, MARK
SEEGMAN, RICHARD
WHITTON, JAMES
ALLEN, DAVID
WANG, DEREK
DROESE, BRANDON
RICHARDSON, DARREN
CHIAPPETTA, MICHAEL
RICHTER, ERIC
LAI CHEUK KIT
THOMAS, LEE
FUNG, TSZ
CHAN, SKY
LAI, LOUIS
CHAO, VINCENT
MANTEA, MIHAI
JORDAN, JAHNA
LE CREN, DAVID
LITTLEHALE, KENT
BABAYANS, VAHE
JOHNK, CARL
LAI, BRIAN
72
44
35
30
18
14
14
13
13
12
12
12
10
10
9
9
7
7
7
4
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
ITR LAMPE, BRIAN
ORMAI, BALAZS
12
0
ITS
GRESS, JASON
PARKER, RICK
36
24
ITB WARD, RODGER
CAVEDONI, SANDRO
BASMADJIAN, VAHE
33
24
9
SSB WILSON, SEAN
24
FF
ERLANDSON, ED
KESSINGER, ROGER
48
28
SF
BEACH, ARTHUR
60
FV
EDWARDS, MARK
TURNER, CHARLIE
BURALLI, SCOTT
96
96
16
FST BOGHOSSIAN, ERIC
LEBLANC, LUCIEN
21
21
SRF BALLENGEE, MARK
STEIN, AARON
MISERENDINO, TOM
ZAPH, CRAIG
LEE, DOUGLAS
STEWART, DOUGLAS
DONZEL, PASCAL
FRENCH, JON
WEBKING, RICK
YOUNG, DICK
PALLA, DON
JACKSON, DAVID
SANTOURIAN, BRUCE
FOSDICK, DENNY
ACKER, TJ
MARINO, PAUL
PHETEPLACE, DAVID
EGGLETON, KYLE
EDWARDS, DON
MISERENDINO, MIKE
194
133
94
94
88
85
76
66
62
49
44
44
38
34
28
28
28
22
14
0
SM
254
174
138
130
126
94
90
86
81
79
77
76
72
72
70
54
52
48
48
38
32
32
32
30
30
25
23
23
19
17
16
13
13
11
10
9
8
7
6
4
3
2
1
1
ITC GANDASETIAWAN, HARTOYO 72
ITE
GREEN, ROBERT
GASSEN, PAUL
FORTNEY, CHET
LAI CHEUK KIT
96
68
18
7
S944 BERGUM, RANDY
HANRAHAN, FRANK
42
24
Pro7 SHEEK, LONNY
RUEFF, JIM
COSBY, ALLEN
80
54
48
GT1 PORTERFIELD, ANDY
LEWIS, MICHAEL
72
0
GT2 MORAN, JOSEPH
12
GT3 GRAHAM, SCOTT
GRAHAM, WAYNE
GRAY, RICHARD
28
21
12
SP
BAILEY, RON
KELLEY, ROBERT
POWERS, BRUCE
WALL, RICHARD
CAPTANIS, GEORGE
CHAN, ANDY
PITT, JOSHUA
61
57
56
42
31
13
0
RS
LEVER, ED
ALLEN, DAVID
66
24
EP
KARLSON, ROGER
SATHER, ROGER
12
12
HP
MARKOS, CORY
HIMOJOSA-MIRAND, CHRIS
BACHMAN, MICHAEL
FERRETTI, DEREK
SHAVER, LEROY
48
24
18
9
7
SSC HUSTING, BRIAN
FERRETTI, DEREK
LIU, CALVIN
24
12
12
MAZ-GT2
WAGAMAN, JIM
LOGERMAN, THORPE
STEBBINS, ROBERT
GJERDRUN, THOR
VAN CANEGHEM, JON
45
35
16
12
9
GTL BOWER, JOHN
MARTIN, PAUL
60
24
STU LAMPE, BRYAN
NIEMANN, MICHAEL
BONNEY, TIM
LIU, CALVIN
KUN YIM, KENNY
48
17
12
9
0
LEE, CLEMENT
WESTERMORLAND, GRANT
RICHTER, ERIC
VANCE, TYLER
GONG, CURTIS
LANGE, MARK
LAUNCHBAUGH, TODD
FELIX, DARWIN
TUFTS, ETHAN
WANG, LOUIS
THOMAS, IAN
WALKER, JEFF
MATTHEWS, CHUCK
BRADLEY, SEAN
MOLINO, WESLEY
LINDSAY, ROBERT
WEAVER, TIM
STOTT, JOHN
LERNER, PRESTON
HOLZER, CHAD
BURKE, JAMES
DEAL, TYLER
BONNEY, TIM
BURGOON, ROBERT
CHAN, SKY
NELSON, BILL
HU, FRANCIS
MANTEA, MIHA
SIMON, MARC
COOMER, ROBERT
FUNG, TSZ
REYNAUD, VINCENT
HOMER, MARK
CHAN, ANDY
O'DONNELL, JAMES
RICHARDSON, DARREN
LAI, CHENIK KIT
THOMAS, LEE
LAFRANCE, TIM
AYOUB, GEORGE
SWAN, ANGELA
JORDAN, JAHNA
KNOWLES, DAVID
COM, MICHAEL
July/August - 2011
DSR KUHNS, JAMES
ALEXANDER, LEE
BOTKIN, HENRY
EL NAGA, EAHAB
72
48
30
21
CSR ALFRED, MICHAEL
NICKLIN, STEVE
SCIFINI, JOSEPH
LOHR, RENE
TWEEDLE, DAVE
MAJORINO, BOB
96
36
20
18
24
18
S2
MORAN, JOE
OTA, DOUG
THOMSON, ROB
LOVENSON, BOB
FRUCHBOM, PAUL
ELLSWORTH, STERLING
ALLISON, KATHY
58
45
21
17
13
11
5
FA
EMANUEL, CHRIS
GADDINI, VINCE
GOUGHARY, DENNIS
WEST, PETER
THOMAS, PETER
35
33
6
6
4
FM
LEVER, ED
BROWN, STEVE
SCHULTZ, DUTCH
DREW, BRAD
WESSLINK, PATRICK
82
54
42
21
7
FS
DAMON, RENNY
48
FC
PHILLIPS, LES
STOLL, STEPHEN
24
7
down. Next race for me was the Willow
Springs Enduro on November 26. In
practice and qualifying I was the second
fastest driver on the team, in a type of car
I had never driven on the track before. I
did my full hour shift and the team, with
a Datsun B210, finished 2nd in ITC.
Things have calmed down a lot
since that time. With me doing the MK
2 version of the DSR in 1995 (engine
type change), the MK 3 version in 1998
(new chassis), and the MK 4 version in
2007 (engine type change). I did set on
piece of history. In 2006 at Topeka I
drove the last race car to use a car
engine in the DSR class at the Runoffs.
I should have changed to a motorcycle
engine years earlier.
September, 2010 - Billy and I decided
to do the Runoffs one last time and the
gods were out to get us. On the way to
Road America we had to two tires on the
trailer delaminate and one wheel lost air
when it developed a crack. At the track
for the second day of qualifying things
really "went south." Road America has
an uphill grid. The clutch would not
disengage and I needed a push start.
When I started to move, I jammed the
car in gear and promptly did big damage
to the differential mounts, chain, sprocket,
and adjustment linkage plus assorted
bolts and seals. It took two days to
rebuild, so we missed the rest of the
qualifying sessions.
On the morning of our race we took a
hardship lap and everything worked well.
At the start of the race, going into Turn 1,
the engine stopped running. We loaded
everything into the trailer and locked the
doors. When I got home I found out the
crankshaft sensor had died. We kind of
won in the end though. We did some
touring, saw some great sights, stayed
with some good friends, and got to meet
up with some long lost buddies.
For Billy and me there will be no
more long tows. If we can not get there
with a one day tow it is too far away. If it
rains we pack it in. If we have a big car
problems, we go home. Racing is
supposed to be fun and not a job. If it's not
fun something is wrong. No more racing
for us on a quarter when we need a dollar.
The Innaugural Pacific Coast Road
Racing Championships looks good to us
and will be our big event of this year.
See you at the races,
James Kuhns
Kittie, thanks for being there.
Cal Club Board Meeting Minutes
June 8, 2011
Meeting was called to order by RE Penelope Coy at 6:33 p.m.
Present were: Les Phillips, Linda Haneline, John Norris, Oli Thordarson, Gayle Jardine,
Mark Ballengee, John Stott, Jon French, Penelope Coy, Office Manager Ceci Smith
Minutes from April meeting were approved by e-mail. There was no May meeting.
Old Business –
Double Rational September – Discussion on changing the September 2011 Double
Regional to a Double Rational. Motion made not to this year Passed 8 for, Haneline against.
New Business:
Supp Regs – Haneline brought up that current Supplemental Regulations state you can
run for either Regional Points, National Points or both at a Rational. Need to change
them to just say must run either or, not both. Ceci will take care of.
PCRRC Insurance – Les brought up a different source for insurance for this event.
Discussion followed. Les will investigate more.
Leaf Blowers – Ceci made a request to purchase two leaf blowers for emergency as they
really help for clean up. Motion by Ballengee/Coy. Passed
Chuckwalla Raceway – Thordarson asked about us racing there. Was reminded that this
is now a San Diego Region track.
July Meeting – This will be a face to face meeting at Smith’s house in Lakewood. Will
be July 9, 10 a.m.
Meeting adjourned at 7:21 p.m. Phillips/Coy
Respectfully submitted,
Linda Haneline
Cal
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Cal Club News
July/August - 2011
Cal Club
Board of Governors
Regional Executive- Penelope Coy
Hm: 760-247-8077
Cell: 760-954-9415
avcoys@verizon.net
Assist. RE for Administration
Penelope Coy
Assistant RE for Operations
Mark Ballengee
Hm: 661-746-4007
Cell: 661-345-8130
mbiracing@atginternet.com
Assistant RE, Solo-Gayle Jardine
Solo2mom@aol.com
Cal Club
Specialty Chiefs
Drivers Instructor- Jim Bishop
Cell: 559-779-1007
Jbishop00@aol.com
Emergency- John Kielb
562-425-9724
jhnklb@gmail.com
Flagging & Communication- Linda
Haneline
Hm: 760-767-4936
lhandline@sbcglobal.net
Grid- Renee Angel
909-947-0644
Cell: 909-223-3767
fippedover@verizon.net
Treasurer – Les Phillips
Work: 661-764-5333
Cell: 661-330-4600
lesrace@aol.com
Race Chairman- Ceci Smith
661-764-5945
calclubhq@aol.com
Secretary –Linda Haneline
Hm: 760-767-4936
lhaneline@sbcglobal.net
Deputy Executive Steward- John Snow
Hm: 714-538-3106
Snomnflg24@aol.com
Jon French
Hm: 310-375-1390
jonnywanabe@hotmail.com
Registration- Penelope Coy
Hm: 760-247-8077
Cell: 760-954-9415
avcoys@verizon.net
John Norris
Hm: 310-575-4249
Cell: 310-962-0607
johnnorris@earthlink.net
John Stott
951-735-9920
Cell: 310-951-3067
John.stott@GM.com
Oli Thordarson
714-658-1090
oli@alvaka.net
Sound Control- Open
Starter- Joe Sepanik
Hm: 760-200-9106
joesepanik@aol.com
Tech Chief- Chuck Knox
760-835-1187
Timing & Scoring- Ellen Lowery
Hm: 562-866-4433
eplowery@verizon.net
Specialty Representatives
Announcer - Jason Chalfont
951-940-9697
Ombudsman/Archivist - Allan Coy
avcoystoo@verizon.net
Equipment - TBD
Pace Car - Steve Lowery
commosteve@aol.com
Log - Nelda Snow
Hm: 714-538-7147
Photographer - Dennis Baer
661-821-1282
Road Rally - Jeanne English
Hm: 310.372-7168
Ean21@juno.com
Regional Points Keeper - Linda Haneline
Hm: 760-767-4936
lhaneline@sbcglobal.net
Asst. Race Chairman - Casey Geier
X2gamble@yahoo.com
Solo II- Mike Simanyi
mikes@newportacceptance.com
Communications - Open
Pit Control - Open
Office Manager - Ceci Smith
18202 Cal Club Road, Buttonwillow,
CA 93206 - Phone: 661-764-5945
Fax: 562-421-4598 - calclubhq@aol.com
Buttonwillow Raceway
Mjoe1@cox.net
Improved Touring
John B. Norris
johnnorris@earthlink.net
Touring/SS
Roy Benedetti
rsbenedetti@cox.net
Pro 7 and SRX-7
Open
Spec Racer Ford
Doug Stewart
dstewart@millerautomotive.com
Information & Contacts
First Friday Niter Road Rallys start at the
Bank of America parking lot in Mission
Hills (North San Fernando Valley), 1/2
mile east of I-405 on Devonshire.
Jeanne English - (310) 372-7168
web page: ffn.smscc.org
January 7
February 4
March 4
April 1
May 6
June 3
July 1
August 5
September 2
October 7
November 4
December 2
2011 Solo Schedule
February
12
Practice Event
13
Championship Event
16
Cal Club Solo Commitee Meeting
March
16
Cal Club Solo Commitee Meeting
19
Practice Event
20
Championship Event
April
8-10
SCCA
20
Cal Club Solo Commitee Meeting
May
1
Championship Event
18
Cal Club Solo Commitee Meeting
21
Practice Event
22
Championship Event
June
4-5
Lone Pine
15-18
FSAE® California Competition
24-26
SoPac Divisional Championship
July
16-17
Novice school / Street Survival
20
Cal Club Solo Commitee Meeting
23
Practice Event
24
Championship Event
August
13
Practice Event
14
Championship Event
27-Sept. 2 Pro Finale/Nationals
September
21
Cal Club Solo Commitee Meeting
24
Practice Event
25
Championship Event
October
19
Cal Club Solo Commitee Meeting
22
Practice Event - Blew/SCNAX
23
Championship Event - Blew/SCNAX
November
16
Cal Club Solo Commitee Meeting
25
Practice Event
26
Ladies School
27
Championship Event
December
10
Practice Event
Championship Event
11
21
Cal Club Solo Commitee Meeting
Autoclub Speedway
Autoclub Speedway
El Toro - PSCC
El Toro - PSCC
El Toro Pro Solo
El Toro - CASOC
El Toro - GRA
El Toro - GRA
El Toro
El Toro
El Toro - No$
El Toro - NO$
El Toro - EBoard
El Toro - EBoard
Autoclub Speedway
Autoclub Speedway
Autoclub Speedway
Autoclub Speedway
Autoclub Speedway
Autoclub Speedway
Autoclub Speedway
Autoclub Speedway
Autoclub Speedway
www.calclub.com for more Solo information
2011 Road Race Schedule
Date
January
21-23
Event
Track
Porterfield Brake Pads Ntl./Dbl.Reg.
ACS
Cal Club
February
10-12
SCCA Convention - Las Vegas
26-27
Camguard Double Rational
WSIR SDR
March
24-26
26-27
Road Race Drivers' School
Double Regional, Time Trials
BRP
BRP
Cal Club
Cal Club
April
15-17
30-1
Grand Prix of Long Beach
Double National
BRP
Cal Club
Les Phillips
lesrace@aol.com
May
21-22
Double Regional
BRP
Cal Club
Grand Touring
Wolfgang Maike
wmaike@verizon.net
June
11-12
Double Regional
ACS
Cal Club
September
Double Regional/Time Trials
3-4
BRP
Cal Club
October
1-2
29-30
BRP
BRP
Cal Club
Cal Club
President - Les Phillips
24551 Lerdo Highway, Buttonwillow,
CA 93206 - Phone: 661-764-5333
Fax: 661-764-5334 - lesrace@aol.com
Competition Representatives
Sports Racers
Joe Moran
First Friday
2011 Road Rally
Niter Road Rally
Schedule
Worker Services - Open
Cal Club Office
Page 11
Open Wheel
Jerry Andersen
Capricorn1@2by2.net
Spec Miata
Grant Westmorland
grant@pacifictugboats.com
Production
Open
Double Regional/Time Trials
Inaugural Pacific Coast Championships
Cal Club
Grid Lines
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July/August - 2011
San Diego Region
Grid Lines
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE SAN DIEGO REGION OF THE SPORTS CAR CLUB OF AMERICA, INC
The Pau Grand Prix
By Norm DeWitt
Perhaps amidst the all the furor over
the 100th anniversary Indianapolis 500,
it should be pointed out that this year a
famous international race was held in
the shadow of the Pyrenees of France,
marking the 110th anniversary of its
first running. That event is the Grand
Prix de Pau.
Traditions of auto racing in the City
of Pau began with the earliest days of
auto racing, with a race through the
streets 110 years ago. The premier class
was won by Maurice Farman in his
Panhard, and claimed the “Grand Prix de
Pau”, the first usage of the term Grand
Prix in motor racing. Farman won the
Paris-Arras-Paris race of the following
year, prior to turning his attention to aviation, where he found even greater success and founded his own aircraft company. One of the greats from that pioneering era, he defied the odds and lived
into his mid-80s.
Pau became the site of the French
Grand Prix in 1930, and the great Tazio
Nuvolari was to win the 1935 Pau GP
with his Alfa-Romeo P3. Certainly the
best known of the pre-war races was held
under Grand Prix car rules in 1938 when
Rene Dreyfus with his Delahaye defeated the great European champion Rudolf
Caracciola in the Mercedes, a win that
overshadowed Rene’s victory at the
Monaco GP of 1930. Hermann Lang
returned the following year driving his
Mercedes-Benz to gain revenge in the
last pre-war Pau GP as Europe soon after
descended into warfare. As a postscript,
Dreyfus was in America to compete in
the 1940 Indy 500 when France was
overrun by the Germans. Being a French
Jew who had defeated the might of
Germany’s Nazi government supported
GP team; it was obvious that Rene wasn’t going home anytime soon. He settled
in New York City and opened the famous
restaurant “Le Chanteclair”, gathering
place for racers and fans of the sport
alike for generations.
Post-war, the races began again in
1947, and under F1 regulations the race
was won by Nello Pagani (twice), Juan
Manuel Fangio (twice), and Luigi
Villoresi, before reverting to Formula 2
for 1952-53, both won by Alberto Ascari.
The race alternatively bounced between
being for F1 cars and F2 cars throughout
the 1950s and early 60s, where winners
included Behra, Brabham, Trintignant,
and Clark. The race then found its future
as part of the F2 championship from
1964-1984. Pau GP winners during this
period include 3 time winner Jochen
Rindt, Jim Clark (twice), Rene Arnoux
(twice), and single wins for Cevert,
Wisell, Gethin, Depailler, Cheever, along
with many others who were to later find
F1 success.
This era was followed by the new
F3000 championship, when it replaced
F2, with Juan Montoya winning the final
2 events held at Pau in 97-98. Formula 3
cars ran from 99-06 when the circuit was
determined to be unsafe for contemporary Formula 3 cars, and then reverted to
touring cars. Lewis Hamilton, who won
both races with his F3 Dallara in 2005,
stood as the current track record holder.
Sadly, no races were held in 2010 as the
worldwide economic situation took
precedence. However for 2011, it was
decided to resurrect the Pau Grand Prix
as part of an FIA “International F3
Trophy”, including 4 other world famous
venues… the Spa-Francorchamps round
of the British F3 Championship, the
Macau GP, Zandvoort Masters, and Euro
F3 at Hockenheimring.
The return of Formula 3 to the 2.76
km circuit was to be the premier event at
the 70th running of the Pau Grand Prix,
the previous weekend being the Pau
Grand Prix Historique for vintage racers
(Dreyfus’ 1938 winning Delahaye in
attendance). One cannot help but be
taken with the beauty of Pau, as the circuit rises from the lower paddock on a
long uphill straight, then winds it’s way
into the park. It is said that Pau has the
highest amount of greenery per capita of
any city in Europe, and based upon the
incredibly scenic area around the circuit,
that seems entirely possible. The infield
areas surrounding the upper paddock
may be the most beautiful in racing, perhaps only rivaled by the lakefront paddock of Circuit Mont Tremblant, in
Quebec.
Simon Pagenaud is one of the few
racers currently racing in America with
experience at Pau, having raced there in
2003. Simon – “Pau is a very narrow
track, probably one of the narrowest
street circuits I’ve been on. It is very difficult because there is a lot of crown on
the road. It is also very difficult not to
lock up the wheels as there is a lot of
paint on the road and that gets slippery
very easy, especially if it rains. It is a
very tricky race track, where you have to
push all the time and jump off the curbs.”
At the highest point of the circuit
there is a fascinating series of corners
known as ‘Foch’, where the cars zip
around the perimeter of a statue to the
brilliant Ferdinand Foch, who was the
Supreme Commander of the Allied
Armies in 1918, the decisive year of the
First World War. The Foch complex may
be the most interesting sequence of corners in racing. The entry to this section
is a long fast carousel sweeper followed
by a sharp left with a dip on the exit just
to complicate things. This is immediately followed by an off camber right where
the track plunges downhill, running
alongside huge scenic villas on the left.
That final off-camber right is similar to
the old Linden Leap at Long Beach, only
picture if the closer one got to the apex,
the more off camber and severe the transition downhill. Trying to take a conventional apex was a one way ticket to the
barriers on the exit. Pagenaud remembers well… “Yes… I crashed there once,
right at the statue, crashed into the
guardrail on the left and ended up in the
wall on the right.”
Few of the drivers found the magic
combination, but Tristan Papavoine in
French Formula 4 nailed it. Slamming
into the curbs at the sharp left, his car
would fly above the edge of the grassy
area alongside Marshal Foch, thereby
avoiding the slight dip that followed the
Flying curbs at Foch.
Norm DeWitt Photo
Pau Grand Prix Vintage F3 race.
Norm DeWitt Photo
turn (by flying over the curb and grass on
the inside) and his late apex at the
“Linden Leap” portion ensured an early
full throttle attack on the downhill
straight that follows. Simon – “It is a
really cool corner and it’s really hard to
get it right. It is a little like the corkscrew
corner at Laguna Seca. You have to
brake late, but if you brake too hard you
don’t have the right speed for the next
corner. You can’t brake into the dip with
the wheels off the ground. You have to
brake late, but just a little bit because the
car gets twitchy on the curbs. You try to
short cut the first one… the left one.
Take as much curb as possible and get as
much speed as you can into the dip and
the right. Take it as all one corner.”
Flying over the grass in front of the
statue? Simon – “Yeah, exactly… it is a
cool section and one of the best corners
that I have seen so far.” Considering
Pagenaud’s resume and the tracks he has
raced at, that speaks volumes. In the
Foch complex, artistry in motion when
done to perfection becomes a chain reaction accident when done wrong. In the
1st running of the Pau Electric Grand
Prix we got the latter effect when Pau’s
‘Linden Leap’ was to claim a large part
of the field as one of the competitors
found the barriers upon exit, blocking the
circuit as the remainder of the field piled
in, creating a youtube sensation.
Competitors included Olivier Panis,
Franck Lagorce, and Sunday winner
Adrien Tambay (son of Patrick) who was
consistently the fastest driver in class.
Competing in F4 was Aurelien Panis,
who lists his father as his favorite driver!
Pau was an opportunity to see the best of
the past generation of racers and a
glimpse of the next.
Marco Wittman had a dominant Pau
GP, winning the F3 race from pole, while
setting the fastest lap, a new lap record
only 1/10th of a second faster than Lewis
Hamilton’s benchmark time set in 2005.
Time will tell if the young German will
follow the previous winners of this marquee event, into racing immortality.
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July/August - 2011
Grid Lines
Page 13
24 Hours of What?!?!
By Terri Pharr
“You really know how to show a girl
a good time,” I grumbled under my
breath as my husband and I crawled
wearily into the front of our cold, damp
pickup.
It was 4:30 in the morning and our
“Chump” car had finally given up the
ghost. I was exhausted, hungry and so
cold I couldn’t stop shivering. Just what
was it that had sounded so appealing
about this weekend so many months ago?
“You’re gonna love it!” Steve
exclaimed after returning from his first
ever LeMons race. This event was a
spoof of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and
something he’d wanted to do for quite
a while.
Each team, consisting of 4-6 drivers,
was to purchase a car spending no more
than $500. This was to ensure no one
had a ringer in the bunch. (yeah, right…)
The event spanned the course of two
days with each driver taking a shift
anywhere from 45 minutes to one or so
hours on the track. The cars and teams
all had a theme; from the tuxedo-clad
drivers of the old Limo, to the Ford LTD
painted brown with the horse mounted on
top of it and the Top Gun car with the
Navy pilot-dressed drivers, just to name
a few.
One hundred and eighty cars had
crowded onto the track at Buttonwillow
Raceway, the field so big there was no
beginning or end to the parade lap.
Finally, the green flag was thrown and lap
counting began. This race was not won
by who was in first or last place. It was
won by the number of laps completed.
After driving all day Saturday, racing
was halted for the night at dusk, to begin
afresh the next day.
Everyone was tired but happy as they
headed to hot dinners, hotels, motor
homes and showers to strategize and prepare for Sunday’s racing. Spirits and
testosterone were high.
Sunday night when Steve and his
team returned home, they were giddy
with memories; reliving all the fun, the
zany crews and cars and of course the
thrill of the hunt as they’d competed in
their first 24 Hours of LeMons.
It wasn’t too long after that that Steve
came in from the garage one night and
told me he’d signed up for another 24
hour race.
“This one is called a Chump Car
race,” he’d said. “Same idea as the
LeMons race with one exception: you
get to drive all night! It’s a straight 24
hours!” He was beaming. “And I want
you to come-to be a part of this-to
experience what it’s all about!”
Wait a minute, I thought. Is this
coming from the guy who is asleep in his
recliner by the closing tune of Jeopardy?
The guy who wants to go to the early
movie so he can be in bed by 8 p.m.?
The guy who watches the ball drop on
New Year’s Eve at 9 p.m. on an East
Coast TV station so he doesn’t have to
wait up ‘till midnight?
“Aw, come on,” he’d said. “You’ll
have a blast. And besides, it’s the week
of our 32nd wedding anniversary. I’ll
show you a really good time!”
That was how I ended up freezing my
hind-end off at 4:30 in the morning that
fateful day. This weekend did NOT
count toward our anniversary. A separate, more romantic celebration needed
to follow. He sheepishly agreed and
preparations for the Chump race began.
Steve assembled his team and
garnered a new theme for his car, an old
Datsun 280 Z. The theme “Cheese Z
Racing” was born, complete with a spray
painted yellow body, drilled with 2 inch
sized holes everywhere and a giant
red-eyed rat affixed atop the car.
Steve, Lyle, Adam, David and Zeke
spent many hours going over ideas, parts
and equipment needed and finishing up
details of their driving strategy.
Drivers from left to right; Lyle Hall, David Chong, Adam Molnar, Zeke Woolley and Steve Pharr (team captain and Big
Cheese).
Terri Pharr Photo
Even the rat's beady red eyes light up at night!
One of several tag-along mice.
Terri Pharr Photo
We assembled at the Streets of
Willow Race Track Friday afternoon,
setting up our pit and preparing to begin
racing the next day. It was blistering hot
that afternoon and we worried about
temperatures the next day. However,
Saturday dawned cooler with a slight
breeze so we took that as a good omen.
We knew racing was a straight 24
hours, but there would be two 1 hour
breaks to reset the track at dusk and dawn.
“That’s when they put lights on the
track,” Lyle informed everyone. He’d
been to a similar race not too long before
this one.
“It’s kind of crazy, but fun! The
lights don’t reach the entire track area so
it adds a whole new dimension to
driving. A real adrenaline rush!”
All went well until late afternoon
when the temperature again dropped and
the winds came up. Things were really
flying around the track and pit area and
for those who weren’t driving, it was
getting extremely cold. The car was
running well, but it and the drivers were
getting tired.
We knew the short break was just
ahead. This meant a meal (even if it was
fast food again), a rest for the car and a
bit of down time before the strain of
nighttime driving began.
A few minutes later, everyone was
sitting around, sharing stories, eating
burgers and watching as the track layout
was shortened. We didn’t, however, see
any lights going up. This didn’t bode
well. “Oops,” mumbled Lyle sheepishly.
“Guess I was wrong about them lighting
the track……”
“You’ve got to be kidding,” someone
moaned.
“I have terrible night vision,” another
guy cried.
“I can barely see in daylight,” a third
whined.
Steve realized his two 60 watt lights
would be pretty useless against the
dark-as-pitch night. But it was time to
start racing again, so off went the first
driver. He only lasted one lap.
“Can’t see a thing…” he grumbled
quietly. Another driver, another
single lap.
One by one they all tried and ended
up coming in.
Frustrated, everyone gathered together, trying to decided what to do. From
the pit next to ours, one of the guys came
over. Their car had broken down earlier
and they were done for the night.
“We have an extra set of lights if you
want to borrow them,” he said.
High spirits were rekindled and
everyone went into warp speed to get the
lights mounted and the car back on track.
The extra lights helped somewhat, but by
now it was getting late, tempers were
short, drivers were tired (there is only so
much Rock Star energy drink one can
consume in a day………), and the
weather was horrible. The temperatures
were in the low 40s with winds up to
45 mph.
One by one, the guys crawled into the
Toy House trailer or back of trucks to
grab some much needed sleep. I stayed
up to help with driver changes, fueling
and radio communications. Somewhere
around 2:30 a.m., one of the guys went
off track (couldn’t see…), hit a rock and
Terri Pharr Photo
cracked the radiator. He radioed that he
was coming in.
I roused some of the sleeping drivers
so a decision could be made about
whether to continue the race.
Have you ever seen a pack of
wild-eyed alpha male dogs, circling their
prey? Add sleep deprivation to this mix
and that’s exactly what it looked like!
Everyone had an opinion and no one
could agree! Finally, a new radiator was
put in and the car went back out.
Fortunately (for me anyway), the car
broke a valve spring. It sounded like a
John-Deere tractor, and the car had to be
sidelined for good. That’s why we were
able to climb into the truck at 4:30 a.m.
for an hour or so of “sleep”.
Around 6 a.m. when the sun came up,
one-by-one everyone crawled out of
hibernation to begin packing up. We
snagged yet another fabulous meal from
the Roach Coach and began the five hour
drive home, stopping frequently for more
and more caffeine, in order to assure our
safe arrival. (I had no idea there were that
many Mc Donald’s in the world!!)
I couldn’t believe my ears when I
heard Steve calling a buddy. “Yeah,” he
said sleepily, “it was great! A real bummer that the car broke down. I’ll tell you
all about it at work tomorrow!”
That night, I crawled into bed next to
my snoring husband. After a 45 minute
soak in our spa, a long hot shower and a
decent meal, I just kept thinking of the
promised weekend to come; a romantic
stay at the beach overlooking the water,
exquisite dining and two days of sun.
“You’re right, Honey,” I whispered in
his ear, “you really do know how to show
a girl a good time…………..”
SoPac News
Page 14
SoPac Road Racing
SoPac Calendar of Events
National Points Standings
as of July 19
Class/Name
AS Qualls, Chris
T1
Reg/Pts/Ood
CSCC 66
Kelley, Kyle
Thordarson, Oli
Ronson, Chris
Benedetti, Roy
Davis, Ken
Kahn, Robert
Fung, Carl
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
SanD
SanD
CSCC
75 *
56
33 *
27
27 *
20
14
T2
Brecht, Tom
SanD
24
T3
Marie, Sage
Naimi, Ali
CSCC 66 *
Haii
28
ST
STO
STU Hoover, Marc
Staal, Matthew
Valafar, Sammy
Burgoon, Rob
Royle, Philip
Lampe, Brian
Browning, Michael
Lee, Clement
Ruiz, Stephen
Bottom, Steve
Ghidinelli, Brian
Bishop, Jim
Ariz
CSCC
LasV
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
Ariz
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
SSB Niffenegger, Lee
Crites, Richard
CSCC 72 *
SanD 30
SSC Husting, Brian
Chapman, Ron
CSCC 78 *
SanD 18
SM Vance, Tyler
Valafar, Sammy
Ghidinelli, Brian
Lee, Clement
Westmorland, Grant
Burgoon, Rob
Busk, Dean
Thibault, Don
Weaver, Tim
Walker, Jeff
Matthews, Chuck
Halpin, Mike
Pitt, Josh
Ruiz, Stephen
McGee, Charles
Nelson,Bill
Deal, Tyler
Gong, Curtis
Burke, James
Bradley, Sean
Dahn, Cole
Donick, Michael
Homer, Mark
Jackson, Charles
Miles, Mark
Shoemaker, Dale
Thomas, Ian
Wang, Louis
CSCC
LasV
CSCC
CSCC
SanD
CSCC
Ariz
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
Ariz
Ariz
CSCC
Ariz
CSCC
CSCC
Ariz
CSCC
CSCC
Ariz
Ariz
CSCC
Ariz
Ariz
LasV
CSCC
CSCC
70 *
65
44 *
35
26 *
22
12
11
11
9
7
6
4 *
4
3
3
2
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
0 *
0
0
0
GT1 Lewis, Mike
Porterfield, Andy
Kelley, Kyle
Boatright, Chip
Thurston, Bud
Lansing, David
SanD
CSCC
CSCC
Ariz
Ariz
Ariz
67 *
51
42 *
31 *
24
18
GT2 Potter, Brooks
Henderson, Mike
Ruthroff, Doug
CSCC 24
SanD 12
Ariz 7
GT3 Henderson, Mike
Maike, Wolfgang
Gray, Richard
Graham, Waye
Graham, Scott
Marshall, Dennis
SanD
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
GTL Bower, John
Gilcrease, Bill
Fazzi, Michael
CSCC 57 *
CSCC 39
CSCC 7
EP
Carroll, Josh
Gist, Gary
Karlson, Roger
Gillespie, Keith
Malone, James
Sather, Roger
Nelson, Doug
CSCC
SanD
CSCC
Ariz
Ariz
CSCC
Ariz
Powers, Sean
Linn, Brian
Ariz 55 *
CSCC 48
FP
81 *
50 *
46
31
24
16
12
9
6
8
4 *
3
81
45
28
10
4
0
57 *
52 *
38
31 *
16
14
0
Class/Name
HP Isley, Jason
Wittman, Gary
Markos, Cory
Bryant, Craig
Wood, Curtis
Shaver, Leroy
Linn, Brian
Reg/Pts/Ood
SanD 66
CSCC 42
CSCC 35
CSCC 18
Ariz 16
CSCC 14
CSCC 9 *
SRF Acker, TJ
Jucha, Bill
Marino, Paul
Miserendino, Mike
Reeder, Craig
Miserendino, Tom
Ballengee, Mark
Zaph, Craig
Eggleton, Kyle
Webking, Rick
Williams, Marty
Jankovskis, Paul
Flessa, Karl
Palla, Don
Freireich, Elliot
Pheteplace, David
Raby, Ed
Edwards, Don
Fleming, Lee
Fosdick, Denny
French, John
Stewart, Doug
Young, Dick
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
Ariz
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
Ariz
CSCC
Ariz
CSCC
LasV
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
71
62 *
45
42
24 *
22
19
13
5
5
5
3 *
2
2
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
CSR Simons, Don
Lohr, Rene
Nicklin, Steve
Fletcher, Ron
Tweedlie, Dave
Schifini, Joe
Majorino, Bob
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
SanD
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
45
31
30
21
21
16
14
DSR Alexander, Lee
Botkin, Henry
Nicklin, Steve
DeAlva, Paul
Ferguson, Ellen
Kazen, Robert
CSCC
SanD
CSCC
Ariz
CSCC
CSCC
84
61 *
21 *
14
13
7
S2
Ariz
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
Ariz
CSCC
CSCC
45 *
37
33
13
11
9
9
6
5
4
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
Ariz
SanD
Ariz
CSCC
Ariz
Ariz
CSCC
57
30
25
25 *
21 *
14
13
6
6
6
Gaddini, Vince
Damon, Renny
Emanuel, Chris
Goughary, Dennis
West, Peter
Davis, Ken
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
SanD
58 *
54 *
31
5
2
0
Hickman, Gary
Eitel, Duane
SanD
Ariz
19 *
18
FC
Phillips, Les
Johnston, Dion
CSCC 21
CSCC 14
FE
Smith, Corey
CSCC 24 *
FF
Brenner, Douglas
Erlandson, Ed
Sakowicz, Jeff
DiGiovanni, John
Anderson, Jerry
Kessinger, Roger
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
Ariz
CSCC
CSCC
56 *
51
19
12
6
6
CSCC
CSCC
CSCC
Ariz
CSCC
CSCC
73 *
45
31
23
12
3 *
Guenther, Ed
Ota, Doug
Ferguson, David
Moran, Joe
Lovenson, Bob
Holcomb, Gary
Ellsworth, Sterling
Draizen, Adam
Hanssen, Stu
Allison, Kathy
FM Brown, Steve
Drew, Brad
Schultz, Dutch
Workum, Peter
Anderson, Mike
Slone, Jamie
Wesselink, PJ
Eckert, Frank
Gallant, Kelly
Lever, Edward
FA
FB
FV Wake, Ron
Turner, Charlie
Edwards, Mark
Ruiz, Roman
Manthe, Don
Harding, Derek
F500
July/August - 2011
Date
Event
January
9
Solo
15-17 Dbl. Ntl./Dbl. Restricted Reg./Test
16
Championship Solo Event
21-23 Porterfield Brake Pads Ntl./Dbl. Reg.
23
Solo
February
10-12 SCCA National Convention - Las Vegas
13
Championship Solo Event
26-27 Camguard Double Rational
27
Solo
Track
Region
AS
PIR
ACS
ACR
AS
Hawaii
Arizona
Cal Club
Cal Club
Hawaii
ACS
WSIR
AS
Cal Club
Cal Club/SDR
Hawaii
March
13
19-20
20
24-26
26-27
Solo
Double Regional/PDX-Charity Race
Solo Championship Event
Road Race Drivers' School
Double Regional, Time Trials
AS
TBD
ElToro
BRP
BRP
Hawaii
Arizona
Cal Club
Cal Club
Cal Club
April
3
8-10
30-1
Solo
Pro Solo
Double Natonal
AS
ElToro
BRP
Hawaii
SCCA
Cal Club
May
1
21-22
22
Solo Championship Event
Double Regional
Solo Championship Event
ElToro
BRP
ElToro
Cal Club
Cal Club
Cal Club
June
11-12
24-26
25
Double Regional
SoPac Divisional Solo Championship
Hawaii Region Awards Banquet
ACS
ElToro
Cal Club
SoPac Div.
Hawaii
July
24
Solo Championship Event
ElToro
Cal Club
September
3-4
Double Regional/Time Trials
25
Solo Championship Event
BRP
ACS
Cal Club
Cal Club
October
1-2
Double Regional/Time Trials
15-16 Double Regional/PDX
23
Solo Championship Event
29-30 Inaugural Pacific Coast Championships
BRP
IMR
ACS
BRP
Cal Club
Arizona
Cal Club
Cal Club
November
27
Solo Championship Event
ACS
Cal Club
December
10-11 Double Regional/Vintage Classic
Solo Championship Event
11
PIR
ACS
Arizona
Cal Club
Track Reference: ACS - (Auto Club Speedway), AS - (Aloha Stadium), BRP (Buttonwillow Raceway Park), IMR - (Inde Motorsports Ranch), PIR - (Phoenix
International Raceway), WSIR - (Willow Springs International Raceway)
SoPac Contacts
DIRECTOR AREA 11
Michael Lewis
lewism@atigrp.com
ph: 760-291-1262 X12
fax: 760-291-1267
EXECUTIVE STEWARD
Barbara Knox
38-400 Bel Air Drive
Cathedral City.
CA 922342210
760-322-0820 Wk,
760 321 2276 Hm
bknox@dc.rr.com
DEPUTY STEWARD
CAL CLUB
John Snow
Hm: 714-538-3106
Snomnflg24@aol.com
DEPUTY EXEC
STEWARD - AZ
Mike Jennings
2208 West Baseline Ave,
Lot 88
Apache Junction,
AZ 85220-9512
480-288-9884
michael.jennings@msn.com
DEPUTY STEWARD
HAWAII
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DRIVER LICENSING
Bill Gilcrease
1041 W 18th Street
Unit B-101
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
949 650 3058 Wk,
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EMERGENCEY
SERVICE -DA
Daryl "Crash" Gardner
2429 N. 39th Street
Phoenix, AZ 85028-2225
602-708-0081
dunebuttracing@cox.net
STARTER – DA
Joe Sepanik
78946 Nectarine Drive
Palm Desert, CA 92211
Joestarter@aol.com
760 200 9106 HM,
760 200 9126 FAX
FLAGGING &
COMMO – DA
Dan Cain
644 Cypress Circle
Redlands, Ca
909-793-0908
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REGISTRATION DA
Heather Baker
826 Cantebury Drive
Sierra Vista, AZ 85635
520-234-7517
sccaworker@cox.net
MEDICAL SAFETY - DA
Jim Malone
2263 East Riverdale Street
Mesa, AZ 85213-6751
480-657-7610
jmalone944@cox.net
POINTSKEEPER
NATIONAL
Bill Haneline
P.O. BOX 846
Borrego, Springs,
CA 92004-846
858-354-3871 (Hm)
858-354-3871 (Cell)
760-767-5182 (Fax)
DesertWRX@sbcglobal.net
RACE CONTROL – DA
Heather Baker
826 Canterbury Drive
Sierra Vista, AZ 85635
scca1@cox.net
SCRUTINEERING – DA
Bill Wells
1290 Cuyamaca Avenue
Chula Vista, Ca 91911-3554
619-691-9325
olwc@netzero.net
SCHEDULING REP
Allan Coy
avcoys@verizon.net
SOPAC NEWS
Craig Young
Green Dot Communications
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Chula Vista, CA 91911
sopacnews@yahoo.com
SOUND CONTROL - DA
TIMING & SCORING - DA
Jeff Jennings
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Sedona, AZ 86339
928 592 0402 Hm
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HRP - Hawaii Raceway Park
(808) 841-6288
IMR - Inde Motorsports Ranch
(520) 384-0796
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SEDANS
SPORTS RACERS
Trans Am/GT-1 Road Race Camaro - Real
kevlar + glass Wide Body Trans Am. Tube
chassis, QC, SB Chev., 3-spd., dry sump, etc.
Former
Mid-Western
Council
GT-1
Champion. Sorted, track ready - not just a
roller. Great car, exceptional price! - $8900
(805) 466-1015 or automojo@hughes.net
OPEN WHEEL
1992 Spec Miata - race ready, current SCCA
logbook, 1 race weekend on rebuilt motor, very
competitive hp. New paint, new Toyo tires (1
heatcycle), spare set of wheels, Racepak data
aquistioning system, cool shirt system, car
cover, many more items and spare parts. $12,500
obo, Olie 714-936-6332. Car trailer available.
Around the West
San Francisco Region, SCCA
(530) 934-4455
Oregon Region, SCCA
(503) 224-9469
SCCA
Sports Car Club of America
SCCA National Office
(800) 770-2055
Fax - 785 357 7222
SCCA Enterprises
(303) 693-2111 fax: (303) 680-5633
enterprises@scca.com
2004 Honda S2000 - 4X SDR SCCA Solo
BSP championship winner; custom bodywork
& paint; carbon hardtop with OEM latch system; 18x10F / 18x10.5R CCW’s with 285/30F
305/35R 710’s; JIC coil-overs; Quaife LSD;
Comptech flywheel; ACT HD pressure plate
& disk kit; Comptech carbon intake box,
header, exhaust, TI strut brace, sway bars &
chassis brace; test pipe; 70mm throttle body;
AEM ECU; Church Automotive dyno-tune;
redline fluids; Momo wheel & seats;
Autopower harnesses; Power-slot rotors;
Hawk HP pads; spare 18x9 OZ wheels; spare
285/30x18 710's; have all stock parts; always
garaged; all receipts; show condition with
minor cone marks; $21,995; 619-318-8341 or
winningS2000@gmail.com
Buttonwillow Raceway
Econolodge Inn & Suites
661-764-5207 - 20688 Tracy Ave.
Red Roof Inn - 661-764-5121
20645 Tracy Ave.
Super 8 Motel - 661- 764-5117
20681 Tracy Ave.
Motel 6 - 661-764-5153
20638 Tracy Ave.
Willow Springs Rcwy.
Inn of Lancaster - 661-945-8771 Lancaster
Motel 6 - (661) 824-4571 Mojave
Autoclub Speedway
Official Speedway Hotel
Hilton Garden Inn - 909-822-7300
10543 E. Sierra Ave. Fontana
Firebird Raceway
Chandler, AZ
Fairfield Inn - 1-800-228-2800
Wyndham Inn - 1-800-WYNDHAM
Hampton Inn - 1-800-HAMPTON
Inde Motorsports Ranch
Willcox, AZ
Motel 6 - 520-384-2201
Super 8 - 520-384-0888
Days Inn - 520-384-4222
Riteway Motel - 520-384-4655
Swift DB-1FF, chromoly frame, 22 gearsets,
Ivey engine, Hi-Tech header and muffler, triple
Penskes, 3 sets of Panasport wheels, many
updates and thousands of dollars of new and
rebuilt spares plus quick lift jack and stands.
Car is in excellent condition-lack of time and
wife's illness forces sale. $15,000.
Contact Jim Bishop (559)779-1007-cell
jbishop00@aol.com
Van Dieman RF92 Formula Ford –
Quicksilver Engine with LD202 Transmission.
Willians Harness certified thru 2012. Oz
Wheels, Rain Tires, Penske Shocks, and assorted spares. Includes log book, set up info and
charts plus receipts. $11,999 OBO San Diego
email: wmwalls@roadrunner.com
1973 TUI BH-3 Formula Super Vee Manufactured in England, assembled in Germany,
#6 of 12 produced. Built for the BOSCH Formula
Super Vee Series. Fresh 2387cc, SCAT case, new
heads/intakes, Weber carbs. Moncoque construction tub. Inboard rear brakes. Adjustable rear wing
from cockpit. Open Trailer included. Currently
used in SCCA BMod AUTOX. $16,950 OBO.
Rick 619-440-2689, San Diego.
PARTS
Tilton Triple Disk Clutch/Flywheel
153 tooth flywheel, 7.25 inch 3-disk clutch, 18.5
lbs., Clutch and flywheel are a unit. Pictures
available. As new, used for 5 runs. Cost $1300,
for sale for $650. Rick 619-440-2689, San Diego.
VINTAGE
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TRAILERS
2006 Racecar ToyHauler - Funrunner Titan
24'. 10,000# axles. dove tail for low profile
vehicles, Sleeps 6. Full options: Awning,
Stabilysers, 500 w outsie lamps, electric jack,
TV shelf, Full kitchen, Shower, toilet,
AC/Heater, Outboard Generator, Custom
Carpet, Aluminum Diamond plates, Graphite
inside and out. $13,500 562-673-4331
TOW VEHICLES
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MISC.
Shop and storage space sharing. If you
would like to share shop and storage space
in the San Fernando Area, near the 5 and
118 freeways contact Gunnar Lindstrom at
gunnarglindstrom@aol.com or call 805-479-2930.
MOTORHOMES
Carbon Dash for a DB 2 or DB 5 for sale or trade
for gears if anyone has any extra sets 25/26 17/34
and a few others? Stu Hanssen 805-688-4773
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#08 E/Production Mazda RX7 For Sale - 3rd
Place Runoffs Podium 2006 and 2007 and 2008
Southern Pacific Div Champion! Multiple wins,
track records, 2nd fasted trap speed at all the
Runoffs. Professionally Built 1983 Chassis – No
expense spared (Very Light Weight – Had to add
over 150lbs. of ballast w/ 170# driver to make
weight) – Stripped bare before paint and has a 3
stage paint system inside and out. GLS-SE 13B
Custom Street Port motor from Mazdatrix w/
Ceramic Apex Seals, Light Weight Rotors, all
WPC Coated. Mazda Comp Oil Cooler, Mariah
Body Kit, Full Lexan Windows, 48 IDA Carb w/
all the tricks (Cut Butterflies, Cut Shaft, etc),
Triple Adjustable JRZ Coil Over Shocks,
Lightweight flywheel w/ QM 4.5” dual disc clutch
GSL-SE Brakes, Adjustable Front Lower Control
Arms, Front and Rear Alum Hub Rotors, Miata
Gear Box in RX7 case, Torsen Diff w/ 4.88 Gears
Third-Link w/ Adjustable Panhard Bar, Custom
Stainless Exhaust with Dual Mufflers (93 DB all
day long), Custom Gauges, Carbon Seat, 2 sets of
Volk TE37 Rims w/ Goodyear 430’s, 4 sets of
Panasports – w/ 430’s, 1 set of King Circle Racing
Wheels. Lots of extra “Maintenance Items” spare
parts (Plugs, Cap, Rotor, Brake Pads, 4 Sets of
Axles, Drive Shaft, 2 sets of Front GSL-SE Front
Calipers. $35,000 (Cost me over $80,000 to build)
Contact Bob at bobneal08@att.net
for more photos www.bobnealracing.com
1990 Nissan NX2000 - Multiple race winner in
NASA's SE-R Cup. Now runs in PTD. Light
weight 2105lbs w/ half tank, lexan windows,
real carbon fiber hood with heat extractor,
Wilwood front brakes, excellent cage. Toyo
RA1's. I'm in the car more than 12K. Need to
sell $4,500 OBO. Jason (951) 315-3710 or
Jason@UnbalancedEngineering.com
661-343-0600
vanhap.com
steve@vanhap.com
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