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VOL. 58 | MAY 2017 The official publication of the San Francisco Region of the Sports Car Club Of America FRESNO AUTOCROSS p. 16 SFR SOLO ROUND 3 p. 26 4-HOUR ENDURO p. 29 MAY 2017 THE WHEEL 1 SpecRacer - Sales - Rentals - Arrive & Drive Conditions 1. 1st time in a SpecRacer 2. One race or practice day 3. Competition license 4. Subject to availability 5. See website for details SpecRacers are now 7 Seconds faster than a Spec Miata at ThunderHill Services SpecRacer 2017 Pricing* GEN2 GEN3 May 2017 • SRF Rentals & Arrive & Drive Rental (3 day local race & transport) $900 /day $1,133 /day • Cars and Parts Sales Arrive & Drive – your car (3 day race) $400 /day + transport Cover Photo by Doug Berger • Trackside Support for Your Car Transportation & Limited Support $.75 /mile + $50 /day Above: Manny Pretti waits for the green flag in his '66 Corvette. Photo by Paul Tibbals • Driver Coaching Includes: • Maintenance & Repairs Trackside support <1 hr 6 Wheelworks 14 Full Body Contact 25 AccelRaceTek Sponsors Spec Racer Ford * See details on our website. Unload & loading car FEATURES Festival at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca 7 Letters to the Editor 16 Spec Racer Ford Set-up Procedure Tools to use at track 25 Life is like Racing - Know Your Limits Phone (669) 232-4844 www.AccelRaceTek.com 8 Switching to the Other Side of the Track 17 Four-Hour Enduro 26 SFR Solo Round 3 10 Fresno Chapter Autocross 19 Driver and Worker of the Weekend 28 Thunderhill Report 12 Notes from the Archive 20 Just Around the Corner 24 Sacramento Season Opener Rentals om IN EVERY ISSUE 4 Calendar 4 Travel Tech 29 Race Car Rentals 30 The Garage: Classified Ads Builds .c The views expressed in The Wheel are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of San Francisco Region or the SCCA. SAN FRANCISCO REGION SCCA REGION OFFICE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RENT A RACE CAR! MAILING ADDRESS GARY PITTS Regional Executive Mazda Raceway, Sonoma, Thunderhill, & Buttonwillow PO Box 308, Willows, CA 95988 [email protected] SCCA, NASA, Corporate / Private Events or Track Days. LOCATION ROD SIMMONS Treasurer – Director PUBLISHER: THE WHEEL PUBLICATIONS Arrive and Drive, Track Support, Indoor Storage, 5250 Hwy 162, Willows, CA 95988 Competition Director Editor BLAKE TATUM [email protected] Coaching, Fabrication, Builds & Repairs, 530 934 4455 [email protected] Parts & Upgrades 530 934 7275 fax Art Direction & Design JULIE LEFRANCOIS [email protected] BLAKE TATUM Secretary julielefrancois.com [email protected] Office: (831) 240-5347 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Blake Tatum, The Wheel is the Official publication of the San Francisco region of Gary Horstkorta, David Vodden, Lynne Huntting, Fax: (831) 422-0500 the Sports Car Club of America located at 5250 Hwy 162, Willows, Cali- DAN BURGOON Director LesherMotorSports.com fornia 95988. It is published monthly by Wheel Publications, 6185 River- James Chartres, Bruce Richardson, Katherine Flater, bank Circle, Stockton, California 95219. Opinions expressed herein are [email protected] Ryan Panlilio, Tim Sullivan, Art Muncheryan MiataRental.com those of the author and not necessarily those of the San Francisco Region, Wheel Publications, The Wheel, it’s staff or advertisers. Material submit- CLINT DEWITT Director CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS & ARTISTS [email protected] ted to The Wheel that is slanderous, libelous, profane, pure inflamatory Dito Milian Gotbluemilk.com, Doug Berger, Lynne criticism offering no constructive alternatives, sexually explicit or mate- [email protected] Huntting, James Chartres, Paul Tibbals, Ric Quinonez rial as directed by The Board, such as competitive series schedules, ads, etc. shall not be published. Permisssion to reprint materials from The Wheel is hereby granted R.J. GORDY Director POSTMASTER, Please send address changes to: to all SCCA regional publications with the agreement that full credit be [email protected] given to the author and The Wheel. The Wheel • ISSN 0888-1103 • USPS 0625-160 • is published monthly The Wheel BARBARA MCCLELLAN Director for $15 per year for the San Francisco Region of the Sports Car Club of P.O. Box 308 America, 5250 Hwy 162, Willows, California 95988. Periodicals Postage [email protected] paid at Willows, CA and at additional mailing offices. Willows, CA 95988 MAY 2017 THE WHEEL 3 2017 CALENDAR 2017 SFR ROAD RACING SCHEDULE FRESNO CHAPTER SACRAMENTO SOLO THUNDER ON THE Any changes will be shown on www.sfrscca.org 2017 CALENDAR 2017 SCHEDULE WEST COURSE” MAY JULY OCTOBER All events held at Fresno Fairgrounds, except Event All events at San Joaquin Fairgrounds, Stockton 10, which is at Buttonwillow Raceway. EXCEPT July 22-23 will be at Thunderhill PDX/TIME TRIALS Raceway - West Course REGIONAL 3&4 REGIONAL 9 & 10 PIRELLI WORLD Hosted by Reno Region SCCA May 6-7 | Regional 3 & 4 @ Thunderhill July 28-30 | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca CHALLENGE See www.sfrscca-sacramento.org for more info. All events are at the Thunderhill Raceway Park ~ Event 5 - June 10 PRO SUPPORT West course October 12-15 | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Event 6 - June 11 June 24 Round 5 In your street car or your ready-to-racer. It AUGUST doesn’t matter. You want to race. SCCA wants to FERRARI CHALLENGE Event 7 - July 8 June 25 Round 6 PRO SUPPORT get you on the track. Come join us for stress free REGIONAL 13 & 14 Event 8 - July 29 July 22 Round 7 fun. May 11-14 | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca PRE-REUNION SEASON FINALE Event 9 - August 12 July 23 Round 8 Time Trial counts toward your competition PRO SUPPORT October 27-29 | Thunderhill August 26 Round 9 license for one of your 3 weekend races SPRING CLASSIC August 12-13 | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Event 10 - October 8 - Buttonwillow Kart Track August 27 Round 10 Get extra seat time May 19-21 | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Event 11 - November 11 IT’S BACK!! September 23 Round 11 Satisfy your “need for speed” REUNION RDC FOUR-HOUR ENDURO Event 12 Enduro - November 12 September 24 Round 12 PRO SUPPORT October 29 | Thunderhill 2017 SCHEDULE JUNE August 17-20 | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca October 14 Enduro Practice APRIL 30 October 15 Enduro JUNE 11 TEST DAY & REGIONAL 5 & 6 SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER 10 SPEC RACER FESTIVAL June 1-4 | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca REGIONAL 11 & 12 Contact: Dave Deborde, [email protected] September 1-3 | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca GO TO: www.renoscca.motorsportreg.com for REGIONAL 7 & 8 SPEC additional information and register MIATA FESTIVAL Overnight parking Saturday night June 30-July 2 | Sonoma Raceway IMSA Sunday: Tech 7:30 Driver Meeting 8:30 PRO SUPPORT September 21-24 | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Come for the fun , Stay for the “Bench Racing” too. SCCA Race Photos Come by our booth and check out the photos of your car on the track. We will have proofs shortly Morris Hamm TELEPHONE HOURS RATES after your track time and prints by the end of the Marin/ Sonoma/ Napa/ ARE: 1 car/$10.00 + mileage - TRAVEL TECH Infineon 6 pm–9 pm, Monday through 2 cars/$9.00 each + 1/2 raphers. Chuck Don & Kathy Travel Tech is a volunteer, in shop/at 707-738-8860 Friday mileage 10 am to 6 pm, home tech inspection service for pre- Phil Munoz 3 cars/$8.00 each + 1/3 Santa Cruz Area, Saturday/Sunday mileage [email protected] race and purchase inspection of race 831-297-2457 Logbook for new car or cars, including newly built cars. Travel Tom Turner re-issuing a San Ramon Area, Logbook is $30 plus Tech Scrutineers are: 925-389-6181 Chuck Koehler 916-409-5205 mileage. 4 SFRSCCA.ORG MAY 2017 MAY 2017 THE WHEEL 5 complaints regarding the timing of the event and the location. I am currently in the process of HURRY BEFORE THE MISSILES HIT exploring a completely different location and for- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR mat for this event. Stay tuned! Some of you may have read the article about the rumor mill in last month’s WHEEL. The bot- tom line is this all got started because of a serious WHEELWORKS BY BLAKE TATUM need for volunteers to work our pro-events. Con- trary to popular opinion you do not have to be a To The Wheel; IS TODAY! My Parents, my Brother and veteran volunteer with the club to be useful at Volunteer's quitting over a rumor is I have raced and worked with this club Sometimes I am afraid to turn on the television. The news is wrought with doom and gloom. If the climate change doesn’t get you some these events. There are plenty of jobs that need to bad. Announcer's quitting because they since the beginning of the club. I still have were not allowed to do their job is bad. the award that my Dad received as Worker third world country will. Watching it is enough to ruin your mood. So I say let’s focus on something that makes us happy. Fast cars and be filled so the club can meet their commitment to Mazda Raceway. Taking away Sunday afternoon beer of the year in 1960. How can the club con- driving them around a ribbon of asphalt. To change everybody’s feelings, I will give you an update on what’s going on with the club. This is the perfect opportunity for club mem- now that is something worth quitting over! tinue when they do things like they did to bers to use the DRAFT card. DRAFT stands for me and a couple of others in the last few DRivers Assistance For Testing. To participate – Name withheld years. I was removed from the schedule of in the program, the driver contacts a volunteer announce crew without any discussion or First off we are three events into the year.