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Tire Rack Champ 2019 SFR Championship Road Racing Series 1948–2019 CELEBRATING 71 YEARS VOL. 60 | June 2019 The official publication of the San Francisco Region of the Sports Car Club Of America Tire Rack Champ p. 8 2019 SFR Championship Road Racing Series Regional Races 5 and 6 p. 10 Fresno Chapter Solo p. 24 Re ntals, Arr D ive & rive, & S We will be at all key races upport All regional races ● SpecRacer & Prototypes (P1&2) Most west coast Majors ● Fast and reliable cars ● Large fleet of GEN2 & 3 Rentals - 7 Cars COTA Pro race in November ● Driver coaching - Our rookies win races The Runoffs at VIR ● Experience support team ASE certified www.accelracetek.com Phone: (669) 232-4844 Email: [email protected] We have over a dozen Spec Miatas to suit your needs. PRICES START AT $550/DAY All of our cars are designed to be Safe, Fast, and Reliable. We race what we rent so you know all of our cars are ready to win. See us at www.aracing.org Contact Al Angulo at 530 277 6311 or [email protected] JUNE 2019 Above: Denny Renfrow On the cover- Fresno Chapter Autocross Action coverage on page 24 6 RE News 20 Workers of the Weekend 24 Fresno Chapter FEATURES 7 Wheelworks 20 Driver of the Weekend 26 Easy Way To Render 8 Tire Rack Champ 21 People in the News 27 CSR Update 10 SFR Champion Road Racing 22 Notes from the Archive 28 Thunderhill Report IN EVERY ISSUE 4 Calendar 4 Travel Tech 29 Race Car Rentals 30 The Garage: Classified Ads 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 MAILING ADDRESS BARBARA MCCLELLAN Regional Executive PO Box 308, Willows, CA 95988 [email protected] LOCATION BLAKE TATUM Secretary PUBLISHER: THE WHEEL PUBLICATIONS 5250 Hwy 162, Willows, CA 95988 [email protected] 530 934 4455 Editor BLAKE TATUM [email protected] 530 934 7275 fax Treasurer, Director TIM SULLIVAN Art Direction & Design CHRIS BECKREST [email protected] Competition Director BeckrestDesign.com The Wheel is the Official publication of the San Francisco [email protected] Lynne Huntting, region of the Sports Car Club of America located at 5250 Hwy CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Barbara McClellan, Blake Tatum, David Vodden, 162, Willows, California 95988. It is published monthly by Wheel R.J. GORDY Director Publications, 6185 Riverbank Circle, Stockton, California 95219. Gary Horstkorta, Ryan Panlilio, Paul Newton, Bruce Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and not necessarily [email protected] Richardson those of the San Francisco Region, Wheel Publications, The Wheel, it’s staff or advertisers. Material submitted to The Wheel that is ROGER EAGLETON Director CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS & ARTISTS slanderous, libelous, profane, pure inflammatory criticism offering no Ron Cabral, Anthony Topallan, Ric Quinonez constructive alternatives, sexually explicit or material as directed by [email protected] The Board, such as competitive series schedules, ads, etc. shall not be published. DAVID VODDEN, Director Permission to reprint materials from The Wheel is hereby granted Please send address changes to: to all SCCA regional publications with the agreement that full credit [email protected] POSTMASTER, be given to the author and The Wheel. The Wheel The Wheel • ISSN 0888-1103 • USPS 0625-160 • is published SETH REID Director monthly for $15 per year for the San Francisco Region of the P.O. Box 308 Sports Car Club of America, 5250 Hwy 162, Willows, California [email protected] 95988. Periodicals Postage paid at Willows, CA and at additional Willows, CA 95988 mailing offices. JUNE 2019 | SFRSCCA.ORG | 3 CALENDAR UPDATED 2019 FRESNO CHAPTER SOLO SCHEDULE Event 9 - July 13* Event 13 - November 10* *Held at Fresno Fairgrounds More dates and locations may be added; July 14* check our website for updated calendar: Event 10 - **Joint event with SFR at Crows Landing www.FresnoSCCA.com Event 11 - October 20*** ***Buttonwillow Kart Track For more information, visit our website: Event 12 - November 9* www.fresnoscca.com SACRAMENTO SOLO SCHEDULE June 22 - Round 7 July 14 - Round 10 September 21 - "Bill Fleig Memorial" All Races held at Thunderhill Raceway June 23 - August 17 - Enduro Practice Round 8 Round 11 Sacramento Awards Banquet - Del Web September 21 - "Bill Fleig Memorial" July 13 - Round 9 August 18 - Round 12 Roseville Enduro SFR SOLO SCHEDULE August 3* - Round 9 November 3** *Marina October 6* - Round 11 November 16** - Practice / Starting Line **Crows Landing November 2** - Street Survival (not an November 17** event, will need a few volunteers to help out, being run by Teresa and Erika McKee) 2019 SCCA-SANCTIONED CONCOURS D’ELEGANCE Sunday, June 23 Sunday, September 8 Sunday, October 6 Concours Leadership Team Coyote Creek Concours d’Elegance Ferndale Concours on Main Niello Concours at Serrano Coyote Creek Golf Club Main Street Serrano Chief of Concours – SFR/SCCA Division Morgan Hill, CA Ferndale Eldorado Hills Edward “Ed” Therrien W- 510-670-4700 (408) 217-8097 (707) 786-7150 (916) 635-2445 C- 510-333-7057 www.coyotecreekconcours.com www.ferndaleconcours.org www.theconcours.net E-mail – [email protected] Sunday, July 21 Sunday, September 22 Chief Concours Judge – SFR/SCCA Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance Danville d'Elegance Division Crystal Springs Golf Course Hartz Avenue Butch Wright H- 559-935-3327 Burlingame Danville, CA C – 559-707-4102 (650) 619-6186 (925)360-7275 E-mail – [email protected] www.hillsboroughconcours.org www.danville-delegance.org TELEPHONE HOURS: RATES • 1 car/$10.00 + mileage TRAVEL TECH 6 pm–9 pm Mon. through Fri., and 10 am to 6 pm Sat. & Sun. • 2 cars/$9.00 each + 1/2 Travel Tech is a volunteer, in shop/ Morris Hamm Tom Turner mileage Marin/ Sonoma/ Napa/ San Ramon Area, at home tech inspection service for 925-389-6181 • 3 cars/$8.00 each + 1/3 Infineon pre-race and purchase inspection of Jason Hohmann mileage 707-738-8860 Patterson - Central Valley race cars, including newly built cars. Phil Munoz 209-620-0559 • Logbook for new car or Travel Tech Scrutineers are: Santa Cruz Area, re-issuing a Logbook is 831-297-2457 $30 plus mileage. 4 | SFRSCCA.ORG JUNE 2019 2019 2019 SFR/SCCA RACE SCHEDULE JULY 6-7 SEPTEMBER 12-15 DOUBLE REGIONAL 9-10 SONOMA IMSA. WEATHERTECH RACEWAY LAGUNA SECA** JULY 25 – 28 HOOSIER SUPER TOUR WEATHERTECH SEPTEMBER 19- 22 RACEWAY LAGUNA SECA + TEST DAY INDY CAR. WEATHERTECH RACEWAY LAGUNA SECA.** AUGUST 10-11 PRE-REUNION. WEATHERTECH RACEWAY OCTOBER 25-27 LAGUNA SECA** TRIPLE REGIONAL 13-14-15 DOUBLE POINTS/5 MILE MCCARTHY RACE THUNDERHILL AUGUST 15-18 ** Denotes Pro Race Support for Volunteers REUNION. WEATHERTECH RACEWAY Double points for all three races at Season Finale LAGUNA SECA** AUGUST 31-SEPT 1 DOUBLE REGIONAL 11-12 WEATHERTECH RACEWAY LAGUNA SECA JUNE 2019 | SFRSCCA.ORG | 5 RE News BY BARBARA MCCLELLAN First I hope everyone took the time to read the great article by Blake a variety of reasons. Stewards have different responsibilities each race Tatum about Sherry Grantz in last month’s issue of The Wheel. She weekend, among those being Pace Car was truly the Region’s go-to person and the source of a wealth of Driver. Now that is actually one role knowledge about why things were done the way they were. She was that the GCR doesn’t require a licensed very helpful training Youmna Zalzal as her replacement. And while she Steward to do. At the May Thunderhill said that May 31 was her last day of working, there were emails from Double Regional, we needed the her on June 4 passing on information to Youmna about driver points. Steward assigned as Pace Car Driver I want to publicly tell Sherry how much we appreciate the ease with to serve as one of the Stewards of the which she helped in the transition. And I’m sure she will continue to Meet. So we looked for a driver who assist in every way possible. Thank you, thank you, Sherry. might be available for the weekend to be Pace Car Driver. Kurt Ladenforf, You talk, we listen. Mike Smith, the RE a couple of terms ago, started who was not racing that weekend, holding Drivers Meetings during the lunch break. Rather than have stepped up. He had so much fun and everyone at once, he selected a different Group each weekend. I did such a great job, he was asked to thought it was something that we should be doing again, so I hold do a repeat performance at the Laguna RE meetings each Saturday of a race weekend with drivers. I make it Double Regional. Thank you so much a point to say that we’re looking for their input on how to make their Kurt! race weekends better. If there are complaints, I ask for solutions. We found out that many drivers like 35 minute races on Sunday when we And there is someone else I’d like to give a Shout Out to, but he will can arrange it (but not if they can’t carry enough fuel to race that long, remain anonymous. Saturday evening we had a great Social at Laguna which Group 4 drivers pointed out to us). They don’t like 20 minute with over 200 drivers, workers and crew being served a great dinner races. Most Group 6 and 4 drivers prefer split-starts. Group 6 and and everyone having a chance to socialize. One driver approached 7 realize why they have to be first and last at Laguna, but requested Nan Mendes and me and said, “this is great, is there a way I can make that their second race on Sunday not be at the end of the day.
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