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

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On the Cover: Rain made the last regional championship race of the year even more challenging at Portland Intl. Raceway. Here race winner Jorgen Krause #12 splashes through the Festival Curves. Race and championship points coverage in the December Loud Pedal.

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Ballot Count The election results will be announced at the Annual Meeting on November 20th.And, they’ll be available online at MotorsportReg.com and on the Oregon Region SCCA web site on November 25th.

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CANDIDATES FOR 2011 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Regional Executive Andrew Foley Andrew is a road racer. You may remember him better as The Pirate in the fast silver Panoz (#51) last year. Look for him in a new car soon!

Assistant RE Dan Mullin Dan is running for his third term as Assistantt RE. He’s a Steward, Scrutineer, and Vintage race driver (#98 black Lola).

Past RE Dan Halloran Dan has served us well for the last four years as RE. He races a Spec Racer (#58 green) and is the 2011 Rose Cup Co-Chairman.

Road Race Director Jim Murray Jim is finishing his first year as Road Race Director. He has done an outstanding job in this low economic year. He also races a Spec Racer (#11 blue).

Director I Kim McFarland Kim is a flagger & starter for Oregon Region. She’s moving into the Director 1 position from Director II.

Director II Peggy Gaston Peggy is running for Director II after filling a vacancy in the Director I position last year.She usually works in registration and has been involved in racing since 1971. Peggy feels she can bring to the club the spirit of racing.

Solo Director George Wilder George has been very active in our region’s Solo program as well as being a Solo driver. He’s looking forward to the experience of being on the board.

Rally Director Chris Hale Chris has been our Rally Director for several years and has led the group on a number of successful events, including the charity event “Rallying for Parkinson’s Disease”.

Please show your support for these willing volunteers by exercising your right to vote!

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It’s just over 4 years since I had the phone call from Shirley and Jeff asking me to run for the Regional Executive position on the Oregon Region Board of Directors. I had almost no experience with the admin-istration of the Region, I had only been a driver.

But after 4 years being RE I can truthfully say my decision has been rewarding and fun.

When I started racing I found that half the fun was the camaraderie and friendship in the paddock and on the track. Serving on the Board allowed me to learn that lesson anew only with a new group of people and situations.

We worked on different problems but al-ways found time to enjoy each other and of course found time to share racing sto-ries both new and old.

Oregon Region has a rich history and we unearthed pictures, articles, movies, and memories from the last 60 years and from last week. Some people have been at this for a long time and others just starting out. They all have made the four years a lot of fun.

I also learned other “things” as well. In no particular order I learned about Solo and Rally and actually got to compete in Solo. The kind Solo folks convinced this Road Race guy that running by Spec Racer Ford in the South Paddock at PIR was a bad idea and loaned me a wonderfully pre-pared and very fast Mini for several runs. What a blast.

I learned that we are lucky to have such smart, talented, dedicated people running our weekends. As a Road Racer I took for granted that when I showed up to race there would be people there to make it happen. There are. But I found the many non-racers who come out for to work the races share our passion for cars and racing.

If you are a racer and haven’t personally thanked these weekend warriors please do so.

I learned that the other clubs in the area, TC, Cascade, and OMRRA are as passion-ate about motor sports as we are. They may run their events a little differently, their race vehicles maybe a little different but they care about the sport and have al-ways been willing to talk about ideas and share information when asked.

I have worked with TC and Cascade as an instructor on track days and helped in

and sharing some development issues at PIR. My only regret is that we never co-operated on sponsoring a joint race week-end but that will come.

“The longer term challenge is insuring that we continue to attract new members. This is an area we have not addressed as forcefully as we should have.”I found that there is a small group of people who really take on a disproportionate bur-den in making sure the club functions.

You see the same group taking on responsibili-ties over and over.

All of us who want to in-

dulge our passion for automotive sports need to step up and volunteer.

Oregon Region has some challenges. In the short term the economy is preventing people from racing as often as they would like. The effect on the Region is that en-tries are down for Road Racing and we

and to improve the value people get for their money. Making racing more family friendly is also a goal.

The longer term challenge is insuring that we continue to attract new members. This is the area we have not addressed as force-fully as we should have. But is at the top of the list of issues for a new Board to ad-

most notably the cost of renting the track. I believe that at some point we will need

other clubs to share the track when we rent

I could name a long list of people who have made my four years fun but I would rather not risk forgetting a name. Rather thanks to all of you who have shared evenings at-tending Board meetings, gave generously of your time and knowledge to help me run the Club, who have given of your time to make sure all of us can indulge our pas-sion for motor sports.

Thanks to all of you.

Dan Halloran, Regional ExecutiveEmail: dan.halloran@yahoo.com

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by Andy Howephotos by Bryan Heitkotter

My 2010 Solo Nationals experience high-lighted several of the keys to success in the sport at any level. Most were realized on the good side, but the trip wasn’t complete without some disappointment. As many of you know, I had the opportunity to share Jerry Jenkins’ car in Lincoln. Jerry is a master of all the small details of prepara-tion. His car is top notch. His routine at the event is honed through years of prac-tice. His focus is second to none.

It is through this level of dedication that Jerry won the E Stock National Champi-onship in 2008 and 2009. In 2010, Jerry was looking to win the class for the third consecutive year. I was there to win a tro-phy again (I got one in my own ES car in 2009) and to warm tires and support Jerry’s effort.

E Stock, through luck

heat on Thursday and Friday. This meant that we would have a clean track, but cold tempera-

I knew that I would be

run on tires that were stone cold but coming in on hot tires. That’s my job.

At Nationals, there is plenty of time to walk the course. When Thursday morning arrived, I got to the paddock and started unpacking things for the day. I paused and visualized the course and my lines. I realized that I didn’t feel good about the

elements. When it got just a little more

light outside, I headed down to the course and walked this one transition three more times. Afterwards, I visualized the course

the marks.

it was good for second place and it was fourth quick after all drivers had complet-

tion to line worked. Jerry was quick time, a good chunk faster than me and everyone else. I think I did my job.

As the rest of the runs unfolded, I didn’t improve. I was making mistakes in vari-

my fastest. Grrr. But it was still good for 9th place out of the 29 competitors in the class.

third runs, he was coming from behind.

off. His third run put him back into the lead by a very slim margin. The margin was 0.042 seconds, if I recall correctly. He and Bartek Borowski were well clear of third place, Billy Davis.

Friday brought another cold morning but

my visualization without any extra walk-

walk the previous afternoon with Bryan Heitkotter. Bryan had dominated C Stock on that course on Thursday and was nice enough to do a course walk with several of us and help us with speed through the ele-ments. His C Stock Mazda MX-5 is fairly similar to our E Stock car, so the informa-tion was very valuable.

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This pushed me into sixth place. Again,

second run featured a pretty big gaffe but was still only 0.039 seconds slower than

Then it started to sprinkle. I was using the wipers intermittently as I pulled up to the line for my third run and, though it was pretty good, it was again just a hair slower.

Turn-in wasn’t as crisp, grip wasn’t quite

tunity lost. Grrr. Others improved, just as I should have, and demoted me back down

I’m somewhat agitated about time left on the table each day. I had a great plan, but failed to execute.

run was a few tenths of a second off the pace (but still faster than me) but dirty as he slapped a cone with the back end of the car going through one of the fast transi-tions between elements.

Conditions were just starting to deteriorate as Jerry headed out for second runs. He improved his time by a few hundredths of a second, but slid the nose of the car enter-ing a sweeper and displaced a cone.

His improvement was enough to get past me, but that only moved him up to seventh place. Having clipped cones on each of

of the weather gods to give him dry condi-tions for third runs. They didn’t smile on him. He needed to get it done on his early runs.

In summary, we prepared well both before the event and during course walks. If you get the chance to observe Jerry’s routine take some notes. He’s one of the best. We took advantage of opportunities presented to us to get information from top drivers who had been on the course before us. This was particularly helpful because it was from a driver in a similar car.

improve on second and third runs while

ond runs on Friday. Had we executed as well as we often do, we both would have

we both could have been on the podium.Congratulations to Oregon Region trophy winners at the 2010 Solo Nationals:

Kyra Jenkins, E Stock Ladies National Champion

Becky Zacharda, X Prepared Ladies National Champion

dies National ChampionJim Daniels, D Prepared, 2nd Place

Drive, 2nd Place

PlaceJerry Jenkins, E Stock, 7th PlaceAndy Howe, E Stock, 8th Place

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By Jeff Zurschmeide

Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, working as a Steward of the Meet. The statute of limi-tations is long gone on that experience, so I’ll tell you that it’s a terrible way to spend your Runoffs – locked in a room talking to angry people.

If you meet someone who’s serving as an SOM or any kind of volunteer at the Run-offs, thank them for their work – they earn their beer at the end of the day.

I didn’t really believe Howard Allen when he said that once I went, I’d be hooked and I’d have to go every year. But he was quite correct – the Runoffs get into your blood and you’ll go wherever they are held. I proved that by going back to Mid-Ohio the following year, and then to Heartland Park for three years, and now the past two years to Road America.

But don’t think for a moment that going to the Runoffs is a chore – it’s something I

look forward to all year long. And I was one of the few people who genuinely liked Heartland Park!

It was shortly after my 2004 trip that I started writing for SportsCar magazine, and that work got me into the Runoffs far more broadly than working as a steward.

looking very deeply at a tiny slice of the event – judging on-track incidents or man-aging some critical function.

But as a journalist, you can take a step back from trackside (into the profuse jun-gle that makes Road America such a beau-tiful place) and see the event for what it is – a tribal gathering of the SCCA, a giant week-long party, and the very best event in amateur racing anywhere. You can also get to know some of the people you hear about all year long, whether that’s the National Administrator of your specialty, the Board of Directors, or the legendary drivers in your class. I imagine that going to the Solo Nationals or the Rallycross Nationals is much the same.

For the past two years, I’ve made the long tow to Wisconsin with Eddie Nakato as he pursues the SSB championship in his Honda Civic. This year we were joined on our road trip by Micah Dolim, who was

there were many Oregon Region members

and volunteers of all sorts.

Overall, I have to say that Road America is the best facility I’ve ever seen for the Run-offs. It’s big enough to be spacious – you could

cars of an average Run-offs into the vast grass paddock – the ameni-ties are second to none, and it’s a world-class race track.

When you arrive, the move-in and registra-tion process is quick

then you’re set for the week.

My Runoffs week consists of wandering around the track taking pictures and talking to

there’s a party of some kind, and everyone is welcome at the “worker dinner” – which is always catered by top local restaurants.

The Monday evening party is held at the Osthoff Resort, which really has to be seen to be believed. It’s a classic lakeside resort right downtown in Elkhart Lake – big and luxurious.

As the week wears on, drivers get down to the business of qualifying – if you want practice at the Runoffs, you have to go a week early and pay for it. Once the event starts, every lap counts.

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By Al Epperly

I am a “ZTherapy” hat -- you know, the baseball-style hat with the logo on the front. I went to the 2010 SCCA Championship Runoffs at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin with my team of Steve Epperly and Pam Kirmeier, own-ers of ZTherapy; Steve’s dad, Al; and Terry Miller, owner of the E Production Datsun 260 Z, No. 82 that

the E production class at the runoffs.

Terry, Al, and I went down to the hot pits at the front straight to watch the start of Steve’s race. As the cars came up to the start/

head to watch the green

A sudden gust of wind lifted me off of Al’s head

iting me in the middle of the race track. As the cars

that Steve in the beautiful yellow Z car was in the 12th starting position.

Each lap as the cars went by me, I was whisked a lit-tle further down the track, but I kept tabs on Steve’s position each time he went by. One lap out of the way, and he was 8th. Two or three more laps, and he was up to 5th.

Wow! Then a couple of cars passed him and he fell

ished the race, which was

time ever on this demand-ing, twisty, 14-turn, four-plus mile road course.

I got tired of laying on the track after Steve’s race was over, so I decided to hitch a ride on one of the race cars.

I don’t know whose it was because I couldn’t see the color or the number of the car. After three very fast laps around Road

America, I got dizzy and fell off at turn 5 just before an uphill shot. I spent the night there on the grass beside the track.

The next morning, Terry, Steve, Pam, and

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Rally Drivers… Racers…

Stay sharp this winterTake a spin in the SkidCar.

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You get three chances to qualify, and at least one of those chances will be with just your own class. But a 20 minute track ses-sion on Road America’s 4-mile course is really just 5 or 6 hot laps – and fewer than that if you make a pit stop.

The tone of the event changes on Friday as racing gets underway. Now there’s more activity and more people everywhere, and the racing is generally as good as it gets. Even a boring race where the polesitter

example of how Club Racing is done.

And occasionally you get to see some of the best racing anywhere. This year the

-timeters, and in an amazing display, the

stop and then marched back up from ninth place to less than half a second behind the leader.

Almost all the time, the Runoffs produces great racing, but occasionally the push to win also produces some of the most spec-tacularly horrifying wrecks in racing.

A few years ago, our own Johnnie Hum--

sion of SRFs at Heartland Park. This year, something very similar happened at the start of the Touring 1 race. Outside polesit-ter John Heinricy had a transmission fail-ure as the cars came up Road America’s

the car behind him jinked right to avoid a rear-end collision and ran into another car.

With both those cars sideways on track, the

plowed right into them. Several Corvettes and a Viper were completely wrecked, and just a few cars continued the race.

Sitting in the media center, we reporters -

yourself on your feet shouting something, and you’re not quite sure how or when you made it up out of your seat.

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Rallying with Chris & Kristen

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

Mt. Hood Rally Recap, ORG Elections Next

Here we are near the end of another year. Man, this year was full of ups and downs! I’d like to focus on one of the ups, the re-cently completed Mt Hood Rally.

Once again, Simon Levear and his band of merry volunteers put on a stellar event. On Friday, October 22, the competitors got to take to the stages in street cars for recon-naissance—aka “recce”—to write course notes.

Speeds on recce are kept slow, the speed limit or less, and each team of driver and co-driver motors down the stage roads in their street cars while the driver “reads” the road out loud to the co-driver, who writes everything down the driver says.

Then, they go back through the stage a sec-ond time and the co-driver reads the notes back to the driver, who makes any changes. It’s a popular part of the event, as no other event locally allows competitors to write their own notes in this fashion.

Saturday October 23 was the actual event, and despite the predicted storms the weath-er held off for the running of the event. There were 28 cars and 2 bikes entered—and that’s another thing Mt Hood Rally is so awesome for, including motorcycles!

Those guys have some serious cajones, racing dirt bikes on the same roads as the rally cars race on. Talk about challenging! Mt Hood Rally ran the usual three stages, 17, Fir Mountain and Gilhouley, in the op-posite direction from last year.

Pete Nielson, one of the RallyMoto (as it’s called) competitors, talked about what a great time he had. At one point during a stage, while blasting down the road at

up and stuck to his face shield. As he put it, “it’s like having a towel completely cover-ing your windshield!”

He picked it off, but that must have been a tense few moments. The fog on top of the Gilhouley stage also caught out a few people.

It was the Fir Mountain stage that dinged the most people—the battle of the Carls (Carl Decker vs Carl Jardevall) was nixed when Jardevall lost the turbo hose 4 in-structions in.

The Rally Truck piloted by Jace Tuttle hit “something” which took their alternator belt out—and also their power steering belt!

They ended the stage with no belts in the engine bay, which as you can imagine is a serious problem in a rear-wheel drive truck on a muddy and gravely rally stage.

Two other cars, the Volkswagens of the Watsons and the Burress’ brothers both had “incidents”—the Watsons caught a

a “radiator malfunction” which lead to overheating and possibly melting the head gasket.

One of the Saabs running the event also had problems with overheating and cooked their motor as well.

You can catch the Watsons’ experience on this stage (including their roll) on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYw_ce5bW1E or search for Mt Hood rally 2010 Rollover Fir Mountain.

To those not familiar with stage driving: Yes, there is a lot of steering happening. Yes, they are going quite quickly. And yes, the co-driver is very busy talking ALL the time! And of course, the guys were

mission from the Watsons.) Quite a few people spun on the uncertain surfaces, but luckily the sweep crews didn’t have too

much work to do in pulling people out of the scenery.

There was a huge 2-wheel driver contin-gent thanks to the Safe Drives-sponsored 2WD prize fund, and a lot of ambitious driving was done on Saturday to earn the money and prizes. Top 2WD car was a Mazda3 driven by Dave Henderson, a Hood River local, also 5th overall for the event. I’m glad to say the two Tabor cars entered, my little brother Mark and dad

Mark even eked out 4th overall behind the podium of Byron Garth (1st overall), Carl Decker (2nd overall due to penalties), and Brian Svedin (3rd overall), all in Open-class Subarus.

(You may remember Carl Decker from this year’s X-Games, running an older Subaru with a bike rack on the top. He’s our Local Boy Makes Good, being from Bend and all, and a super talented driver!)

Lucky for the competitors and especially lucky for the volunteers, the snow held off until Sunday. We have rallied in the snow before, but with gravel tires it does not make for an ideal situation!

So that’s the last rally of the season. We’re working on the ORG elections and the year-end awards banquet for the RallyCross season awards, Cascade Fri-day Nighter awards and Rally Worker of the Year award, so stay tuned to www.oregonrally.com for more information on that.

Preliminary plans appear to have us back at Otto & Anna’s on December 18, but don’t quote me on that—the ORG website is the

we’ll be posting it to the Special Stage PNW forums and the ORG list. Hope to see you there!

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(Continued from page 15)But it’s not the crash that’s the point of this story, but rather the fact that no driv-ers were seriously injured.

Having spent some time in the medical center at Road America myself, (for a twisted ankle – how dumb is that?) I can tell you that each of those drivers received top-grade medical care courtesy of SCCA, and it’s also a testament to the value of the safety gear we all have to buy and wear.

After close to an hour of cleanup time, in-cluding replacing a section of the pit wall, the Runoffs got back on schedule by the end of the day.

Out of 29 national classes, 28 had races at the Runoffs, and only one of those failed to get the required 10 entries to crown a national champion. When the last checker falls the paddock is emptying out fast, but there’s one more moment that every

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Al drove around to different parts of the track to take pictures of some of the other races. Pam’s the photographer; and I caught sight of her as she approached the fence by

at her, and she saw me!

After that race was over, Pam got permission from the turn worker to go out and rescue me. Now I’m back with my team.

No one could believe how I landed

line and wound up at turn 5, ap-proximately one-third of the way around the track. I tried to explain it to them, but nobody paid any at-tention to me.

I hope I’ve at least earned a place on Steve’s trophy wall beside the piece of foam rubber that he calls “Driver’s excuse No. 78.” But that’s another story, and you’ll have to ask Steve about that.

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(Continued from page 17)SCCA racer should experience at least once – The Toast.

This is a Runoffs tradition that seals the deal on the tribal nature of the event.

and others who know get together one last time. The Chief of Flags invites anyone and everyone to call out the names of those members of our tribe who have passed away since the last toast, and that’s an emotionally over-whelming process. The story of Brian Redman’s cat is related – and it’s all the more poignant these days because Road America is the location of the

all the people who are there and those who aren’t there, all drink the toast.

I’ll be heading back to Road America next year. There are too many friends who would miss me if I didn’t, and the show is worth the trip. If you’ve never been to the Runoffs, start making your plans now for next year, and the year after that. Because once you’ve been there, it’s a safe bet you’ll be going back.

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Andy Howe, Solo II DirectorEmail: solo.howe@comcast.net

Championship Battles Decided in Final Weekend

Solo II Report

Now that the 2010 season is behind us, I think it is time for a look back on the close battles. Here’s how some of the close championship battles shook out during the last weekend of the season:

Barry Cogut (Porsche Cayman S) took the B Street Prepared championship over Steve Krygier (Mazdaspeed Miata) during the last event.

the year splitting evenly except the deci-

to Steve’s fourth.

That may not have seemed important at the time, but it turned out to be the differ-ence – just three points.

Dan Kuehn out dueled George Wilder in

competition, a win by George would end up in a points tie with George having the

Event #1).Dan won the last event by just under one second to take the championship.

down to the wire. In the end, just 15 points

event win worth 20 points, this is pretty close.

How did the drama play out?

Allan Zacharda started the weekend in fourth place with 77 points. He took the top spot at Event #8, bumping his total to 97. Becky Zacharda took second place, nudging her season total to 110 points.

Perry Keller, leader coming into the week-

day.

gaining a couple points to start Event #9 with 97 points. Going into the last day, only Gilbert was mathematically unable to win the championship (Allan could win on a tie-breaker if everything fell exactly right).

Perry struggled at Event #9 and did not increase his season points total – 112. Gil-

creased his total to 102 points. Allan took

the season with 108 points.

Becky took just her second win of the sea-son at Event #9, but consistent second and

her a total of 117 points and the champion-ship. Perry was second, Allan third, and Gilbert fourth – all of them deserving of a pat on the back!

This class was very close and very excit-ing. The season breakdown shows each of the four contenders being capable of winning on any given day. Perry won the most events (3) but each of the others won two events.

In the end, consistency was the key to the championship. I am looking forward to watching this class again in 2011.

Looking back, nobody swept the season in a class. Three drivers came close. Derek Loree won 8 events in D Prepared being bested by 2007 National Champion Keith Brown at one event.

Scott McCusker took 8 out of 9 in Street Touring. Brad Czopek took event #2 to prevent the sweep. Finally, Jeff Petersen won 8 out of 9 in Street Touring S, being bested by son Morgan at Event #8.

Anyone think Morgan might take one or two more in 2011?

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From our point of view, the season just concluded was marked by some wonderful moments, balanced by the lowest of lows. Is it always so?

Here’s a review:

The season started well, with a success-

also was near budgeted entries and saw our groundbreaking one-day Fastest school (on Pro Drive’s test day), to streamline licens-ing for experienced drivers.

From May, entry counts weakened, lead-ing to the decision to change all succeeding

Rose Cup weekend entries were off 20 per-cent from 2009.

July Double National was our most suc-cessful weekend of the year, despite a rainy start. Entries were near budget and the event ran smoothly, with an evident aura of success and activity in the paddock.

August entries were somewhat below bud-get, but in line with results observed na-tionally.

For September, however, entries were more than 40 percent below budget; October saw less than half the budgeted entry count. Part of October’s shortfall is due to what, in retrospect, seems an over-optimistic en-try budget, assuming the three-day double Regional would be an attractive option for a season-ender.

A rainy forecast caused the pullout of about 15 cars (30 entries, which would have added 25 percent to the count); as a result, car counts were extremely light for the weekend.

Despite a very wet Saturday morning, and a near-monsoon Sunday morning, worker spirits were high and there were happy

smiles in the paddock, notably in the SRF crowd, which drew 13 entries, a high for any class on the weekend.

At mid-year we made the call to abandon our initial Oregon Raceway Park outing, which was scheduled for October 23-24, primarily to weather concerns. We have reserved a date with ORP for mid-July 2011, and will be planning early in the year for that event.

Looking to the highs for the year, we start

Brian Towey and Bruce Wilson; students raved at the format which put students on track in a pack of experienced Miata driv-ers. Let’s do that again!

Also a high: worker rides in April thanks to the coordinating efforts of Jon Davies and the Miata crew. Many smiles all around in a tight lunch-hour time frame. Hope we can do that again, too.

The FasTEST school in April was a new idea that worked; we took two drivers through the school and saw them enter events during the year. The school can be offered on short notice to enable experi-enced drivers to streamline their licens-ing. It’s not a substitute for the full two-day school, but is an avenue toward a full SCCA license that will hopefully bring us new people.

Timing & Scoring for adding each driver’s individual lap times to the back of session results.

The lows for the year: at the top of the list, car counts. Is it the economy? Other interests? Competition? Where is every-one? How can we get you to come out and race?

Other lows: a couple of incidents regard-ing driver conduct, one of which brought

The Twisty Bits

the police. Not what we want. It’s a sport of passion, but…it’s supposed to be fun.

in August, upside down and backwards. The high: driver unhurt. Thanks to the E-crew for your professionalism.

less service.

Many thank you notes are due:

--To spouses for helping us do this.

--To the stewards for running the week-ends and correcting our mistakes.

--To sponsors and supporters; you all love racing and vote with your wallets.

--To the Board of Directors for your work behind the scenes.

--To Karen, for your candor and ever-pres-ent good nature.

--To everyone who wrote with ideas, com-plaints, information, helpful hints, and simple hellos.

--To workers and chiefs who take all of this on. The highest of highs is seeing your smiling faces.

--To drivers who come for the fun, and stay for the people.

--To all of you for reading this.

--To everyone who pays dues, shows up, laughs, eats the meals, wears white, puts on a helmet, puts on the headphones, sets up for tech, comes out to watch, rides a bicycle (yes, that too!) and brings candy.

Missed anyone? Sorry, thanks to you too…Comments and questions? jmmurrayjr@aol.com or 541 788 2797 –aloha-

Jim Murray, Road Racing DirectorEmail: jmmurrayjr@aol.com

Highs and lows of Twenty-Ten

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OREGON REGION SCCA BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING MINUTES

DATE: 10-6-10

PLACE: China Bay Restaurant

PRESENT: Board Members: Dan Halloran, Dan Mullin, Jim Murray, Andy Howe, Peggy Gaston, Kimberly McFarland

Members: George WilderAbsent: Jeff Zurschmeide, Chris Hale, Randy Unsbee, Carrie Sutherland

CALL TO ORDER – Dan H. called the meeting to order at 7:00

REGIONAL EXECUTIVE INTRO - none

MEMBER/NEW BUSINESS COMMENTS – none

COMMITTEE & OFFICIALS REPORTS

REGIONAL OFFICE REPORT –

Karen worked 63 hours in September.Might have cut hours too much; have re-ceived feedback from a couple of mem-bers.

Rose Cup

Have received no payment from PRFF for Rose Cup. Per Agreement, payment was due within 90 days after the Rose Cup rac-es (Sept 13). To whom did Pirelli Drivers Cup pay their fee of $9,000??

September Regional

New low of 59 entries 52 First Entries 7 2nd Entries

October Double Regional

Looks better, 73 entries so far

Oregon Region Tow Fund for National Runoffs: Total tow fund = $2950

Kim M. distributed checks to Oregon Re-gion drivers at the Runoffs

There were 10 Oregon Region drivers en-tered in the Runoffs.

Worker Banquet Sponsorships:We’ve received $2,250 in checks & pledg-es to sponsor workers at the banquetKaren will put info on Motorsports for at-tendees to sign up to attend.

Karen suggested that we should have an audit of our books as it has been some time since one was done.

TREASURER REPORT –

None. Karen advised that Jim W. submit-ted expenses of $263 for the Teen Street Survival School. This will be offset by monies to come from SCCA Ntl.

LOUD PEDAL REPORT – via e-mail from Randy Unsbee

1. Oct. issue at printers2. issue on Web site.3. Advertising slightly down but holding

planned through December. 4. Still limited to 24 pages, might drop to 16 for upcoming months.5. I am presenting at luncheon meeting at NORPAC on Interactive Marketing Com-munications, and the program that has

-ship for Rose Cup/Region funds for next year and landmark race event.7. Face Book and social media numbers

-creasedmembership.8. Deadline for Nov issue is Oct 20th.9. Masters dissertation for approval 10/18 for print vs digital, or combo of both for ORSCCA – at own expense.

DIRECTOR’S REPORTS

SOLO II REPORT –

Andy spoke about the Teen Street Survival School that recently was held at PIR. He felt that it was a big success with 26 stu-dents participating.

The August event in Packwood had an av-erage of 100 participants per day.

September event in the So. Paddock of PIR averaged 72 per day.

PDX for better participation. The North Paddock is adaptable to more cars than is the South Paddock.

Solo Nationals had good showing from our area: Jerry Jenkins to a 2nd place

Three other champions were:

Becky ZachardaKyra JenkinsTanya Langley

The annual banquet will be held Nov. 13th at Ernestos.

RALLY REPORT – none

DIRECTOR I REPORT –

Peggy has not had great response as far as securing candidates to run for the BOD. There are a couple on the hook and will decide by next week.

As soon as the names are announced, Mary will prepare the ballot to be loaded on Motorsports for the voting process.

DIRECTOR II REPORT –

Kim is happy for the response from the drivers inregards to helping workers at-tend the banquet.

She inquired about the program and will get the template for it from Karen and Mary will provide the cover.

There will be information in the Loud Pedal concerning the banquet and how to register.

Kim talked about a slide show but there did not seem to be great interest in one.

ROAD RACING REPORT –

The was discussion concerning the end of the year awards.

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Suggestions were made on some with the balance to be worked on and announced at the November meeting.

Dan is working on securing an Awards Chairperson to select and secure the awards that will be needed.

Jim reported that participation overall is

He has submitted the 2011 proposal of eight races to Mark at PIR for consider-ation. Jim hopes for one event at ORP and a joint venture with Cascade.

The prospects to make more of our week-ends 2 day events is looking promising.

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Dan will check on the Pirelli funds and re-port back. He did mention that the Rose Cup funds should be in our hands shortly.

Dan suggested that a review of the region books would be a good task for the new RE.

Adjourn M/SRespectfully submitted,Mary Thompson

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