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DRIVERS SCHOOL 101 P VOL. 58 | JANUARY 2017 The official publication of the San Francisco Region of the Sports Car Club Of America DRIVERS SCHOOL 101 p. 23 SLUSH SOLO 3 p. 10 HILLSBOROUGH CONCOURS JULY 2016 p. 18 SACRAMENTO SOLO ENDURO p. 26 JANUARY 2017 THE WHEEL 1 SpecRacer - Sales - Rentals - Arrive & Drive January 2017 $1,200 Driver School SpecRacer Rental* SpecRacers are now 6 Seconds faster than a Spec Miata at ThunderHill Services SpecRacer 2017 Pricing* GEN2 GEN3 • 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 Photo above by Ryan Panlilio: Manny Pretti takes first place in BSPV in his '66 Corvette. • Trackside Support for Your Car Cover Photo by Sherry Grantz: Turn 8, Drivers School 2016 Transportation & Limited Support $.75 /mile + $50 /day • Driver Coaching Includes: • Maintenance & Repairs Trackside support <1 hr 6 Wheelworks 16 To the Chiefs: Worker and Driver of the 23 Drivers School 101 * See details on our website. Unload & loading car FEATURES Weekend in 2017 8 Notes from the Archive 25 Letter to the Editor Tools to use at track 18 Hillsborough Concours - July 2016 Phone (669) 232-4844 www.AccelRaceTek.com 10 Solo Round 3 25 SCCA Members Enjoy Free Track Time 20 Full Body Contact 12 Annual Awards Banquet 26 Sac Solo Enduro 21 Radiator Filling for the 14 Tips for Faster Lap Times 28 Thunderhill Report SpecRacer GEN2 & 3 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 5250 Hwy 162, Willows, CA 95988 Arrive and Drive, Track Support, Indoor Storage, Competition Director 530 934 4455 Editor BLAKE TATUM [email protected] Coaching, Fabrication, Builds & Repairs, [email protected] 530 934 7275 fax Parts & Upgrades [email protected] Art Direction & Design JULIE LEFRANCOIS BLAKE TATUM Secretary julielefrancois.com The Wheel is the Official publication of the San Francisco region of the [email protected] Office: (831) 240-5347 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Blake Tatum, Steve Jaroch, Sports Car Club of America located at 5250 Hwy 162, Willows, California Gary Horstkorta, David Vodden, Ryan Panlilio, Mike Fax: (831) 422-0500 95988. It is published monthly by Wheel Publications, 6185 Riverbank DAN BURGOON Director LesherMotorSports.com Circle, Stockton, California 95219. Opinions expressed herein are those of Drouin, Audrey Tam, James Chartres, Pat Wille, the author and not necessarily those of the San Francisco Region, Wheel [email protected] Bruce Richardson MiataRental.com Publications, The Wheel, it’s staff or advertisers. Material submitted to The Wheel that is slanderous, libelous, profane, pure inflamatory criti- CLINT DEWITT Director CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS & ARTISTS [email protected] cism offering no constructive alternatives, sexually explicit or material Chuck Koehler, Don Jones, Ryan Panlilio, as directed by The Board, such as competitive series schedules, ads, etc. [email protected] James Chartres, Meghan Frolli, Morris Lum, Ray Mudd shall not be published. Permisssion to reprint materials from The Wheel is hereby granted to all R.J. GORDY Director POSTMASTER, Please send address changes to: SCCA regional publications with the agreement that full credit be given [email protected] to the author and The Wheel. The Wheel The Wheel • ISSN 0888-1103 • USPS 0625-160 • is published monthly 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] Willows, CA 95988 paid at Willows, CA and at additional mailing offices. JANUARY 2017 THE WHEEL 3 2017 CALENDAR 2017 SFR ROAD RACING SCHEDULE FRESNO CHAPTER BAY AREA AUTOCROSS SCHOOL Any changes will be shown on www.sfrscca.org 2017 CALENDAR SOLO CALENDAR SCHEDULED FOR FEBRUARY JUNE SEPTEMBER Event 1 - January 14 Driving School - March 18 2017 MARCH 17 DRIVERS SCHOOL TEST DAY REGIONAL 11 & 12 Event 2 - March 19 Round 1, Boondoggle: The Tire Rack SCCA Starting Line school is February 24-26 | Thunderhill & REGIONAL 5 & 6 September 1-3 | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Event 3 - April 22 Marina Airport, February 19th a partnership between the Sports Car Club of SPEC RACER FESTIVAL Event 4 - April 23 America and Tire Rack to give automotive en- Round 2: Marina Airport, March 12th June 1-4 | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Event 5 - June 10 thusiasts a professional, all-inclusive entry into Event 6 - June 11 MARCH IMSA SCCA Starting Line School/Test and Tune, the world of performance driving. In addition to Event 7 - July 8 a full day of instruction, participants will receive REGIONAL 7 & 8 SPEC PRO SUPPORT Crows Landing: March 18th Event 8 - July 29 an SCCA membership, entries for future events, REGIONAL 1&2 MIATA FESTIVAL September 21-24 | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca More information: https://www.scca. Event 9 - August 12 subscriptions to SportsCar and Grassroots Mo- March 11-12 | Thunderhill June 30-July 2 | Sonoma Raceway com/pages/starting-line Event 10 - October 8 - Buttonwillow Kart Track torsports Magazines. Event 11 - November 11 Round 3: Crows Landing, March 19th Event 12 Enduro - November 12 The Starting Line School is scheduled for March APRIL JULY OCTOBER Pro Solo: Crows Landing: April 22-23 17 at Crows Landing in Patterson. Registration All events held at Fresno Fairgrounds, except should open in January. National Tour: MAJOR REGIONAL 9 & 10 PIRELLI WORLD Event 10, which is at Buttonwillow Raceway. Crows Landing: April 29-30 The full day school will introduce key concepts April 1&2 | Thunderhill July 28-30 | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca CHALLENGE applicable to all forms of motorsports and allow PRO SUPPORT you to develop these skills while working with October 12-15 | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca professional performance driving instructors MAY AUGUST certified by the Evolution Performance Driving REGIONAL 13 & 14 School. Additionally, every Starting Line student REGIONAL 3&4 PRE-REUNION SEASON FINALE SACRAMENTO SOLO will have their experience captured by a Garmin May 6-7 | Regional 3 & 4 @ Thunderhill PRO SUPPORT October 27-29 | Thunderhill VIRB® XE and will recieve a microSD card with August 12-13 | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca 2017 SCHEDULE this video at the end of their school. All events at San Joaquin Fairgrounds, Stockton FERRARI CHALLENGE If you are looking for motorsports competition REUNION or just a great way to enjoy the capabilities of PRO SUPPORT PRO SUPPORT March 18 Round 1 your car, the Tire Rack SCCA Starting Line is May 11-14 | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca August 17-20 | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca March 19 Round 2 your complete motorsports starter kit. April 29 Round 3 SPRING CLASSIC April 30 Round 4 For complete information: https://www.scca. June 24 Round 5 com/pages/starting-line May 19-21 | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca June 25 Round 6 July 22 Round 7 Morris Hamm TELEPHONE HOURS RATES July 23 Round 8 Marin/ Sonoma/ Napa/ ARE: 1 car/$10.00 + mileage August 26 Round 9 TRAVEL TECH Infineon 6 pm–9 pm, Monday through 2 cars/$9.00 each + 1/2 Travel Tech is a volunteer, in shop/at 707-738-8860 Friday mileage August 27 Round 10 home tech inspection service for pre-race Phil Munoz 10 am to 6 pm, 3 cars/$8.00 each + 1/3 September 23 Round 11 Saturday/Sunday mileage Santa Cruz Area, September 24 Round 12 and purchase inspection of race cars, 831-297-2457 Logbook for new car or re-issuing a October 14 Enduro Practice including newly built cars. Travel Tech Tom Turner Logbook is $30 plus San Ramon Area, October 15 Enduro mileage. Scrutineers are: 925-389-6181 4 SFRSCCA.ORG JANUARY 2017 JANUARY 2017 THE WHEEL 5 more then eight dollars there I was buying for a friend. At PF Changs the eight dollars doesn’t PARADIGM SHIFT even buy you a watered down drink. While sipping my drink we decided my son needed some nice jeans. My wife said he did not have anything nice to wear and I think the last pair of BY BLAKE TATUM jeans I bought him were Wranglers for $14.99… from Walmart! So we ventured across the street and went into We all have friends that are into different things. Obviously, we have friends that enjoy auto racing, Nordstroms. We went to the trendy men’s jean section. They had a very large selection of jean friends that play golf, friends that are into hunting or fishing. Almost without fail when people ask brands I have never heard of. They were all about what I am into and I tell them auto racing they universally reply “boy that must be expensive”. made of various iterations of denim. At this point I had not looked at any of the price tags but Yes it is expensive especially when you consider the cost per minute of seat time. But I found revelation I should have been suspicious when I saw that all of the sales clerks were wearing jeans that in the most unlikely spot. Please read on. had premade holes in them and had hair combed so it stood up in the middle of their head.
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