The Steering Wheel Upcoming Events Volume 2012 Issue 7 September 1, 2012 Sept 7 Meeting SCCNH Contributes To North East Motor Sports Museum Sept 9 Autocross Concord, NH – Officials with the Sports Car Plans call for the state-of-the-art museum to be co Club of New Hampshire (SCCNH) announced -located in a proposed new office complex on the today that a donation in the amount of $1,700 grounds of the New Hampshire Motor Speedway dollars was recently made to the North East Mo- in Loudon, NH. A recently-formed 501c-3 organi- tor Sports Museum. The proposed museum is zation known as the Racing History Preservation Sept 14-16 the brainchild of longtime NASCAR Pit Lane Re- Group, headed by Berggren and supported by a Hillclimb porter for FOX, ESPN, SPEED and other televi- Board of Directors consisting of 21 prominent sion stations as well as the founder and editor of members of the northeast racing community. The Speedway Illustrated magazine, Dick Berggren group includes such racing notables as Lew Boyd, from Ipswich, MA. When complete, the North Ricky Craven, Ron Bouchard, Joe Lombardo and East Motor D i c k Sports Mu- Batchelder. Oct 12 Meeting seum will T o g e t h e r , house a wide the group Oct 13 Rumble Runnoff variety of has under- Oct 14 Autocross racing cars taken the and motor- task of rais- cycles, racing ing the $1.2 memorabilia million dol- and histori- lars neces- cal materials sary to con- that tell the struct the history of m u s e u m Contents racing from portion of all over the the new Northeast- complex at Autocross 2 ern United NHMS. States. (Continued on page 2) Rumble Time 2 Fall Hillclimb Autocross 5 Results 3 This Dent Sport Garage Mt. Pikes Peak 6 Ascutney fall Hillclimb will be Join the fun and click to run on September 14th—16th . Register online. Sponsor Corner 11 Hillclimb is one of the most This year there are con- exciting events we run for cerns with a loss of partici- Minutes 12 either the driver or the pants because of the worker. Driving up hill rapidly bumps above station 7 on a closed road is about as much fun you can which has prompted us to look at alternatives. President’s Message 13 have in a car. As a worker (the only way you can The finish line will be lowered to station 7 for this be on course) you get to be there as these fast one event, the breakout time has been adjusted to Directory 14 cars wiz by at high speed. There are classes for a time of 2:43 which is explained in the New Eng- all cars from stock to special built. land Hillclimb’s forum. History 14 Page 2 The Steering Wheel North East Motor Sports Museum — cont. 150 active members. will come from all over the The Sports Car Club of New world every year to check it Hampshire was created in 1955 “We’re extremely excited to out.” by a group of NH-based mo- support the North East Motor torsports enthusiasts for the Sports Museum effort with this For more information regard- purpose of offering safe, entry- donation of $1,700 dollars”, ing the North East Motor level competition to a growing stated SCCNH Vice President Sports Museum, the Racing population of sports car driv- Terry Murphy IV from Bel- History Preservation Group or ers. Since the mid-1950’s, mont, NH, “knowing that the how you can contribute, please SCCNH has continually hosted main purpose of the museum visit www.NEMSmuseum.com. a variety of entry-level mo- will be to tell the history of For details regarding the Sports torsports events which have northeast motorsports, includ- Car Club of New Hampshire included road rallies, gymkha- ing sports cars, it’s definitely a and the clubs upcoming events, nas, autocross events and hill- project we want to promote visit www.sccnh.org. climb competitions. In exis- and support. SCCNH has a tence for more than 55 years long and colorful history of as of 2012, SCCNH is one of racing and the North East Mo- the oldest, most active mo- tor Sports Museum will serve torsports clubs in the state of as the perfect place for us to New Hampshire and boasts a share that history with the current membership of nearly many thousands of visitors who Autocross We had a great turnout for our teach them throttle control back to the other side of the S1 Intermediate Autocross school, and give them a chance to feel lot, which meant a few teething which despite weather reports where the car would stop grip- issues associated with figuring suggesting otherwise was com- ping. Meanwhile the intermedi- out grid, but I think our club pletely clear ate group started attacking members did a great job figur- and sunny slaloms, learning how to not ing it out and adjusting as nec- all day long. only get through them, but essary. We had 61 racers and We had a attack them for better times. everybody got 8 runs on a large num- The groups switched exercises course that averaged 40 sec- ber of nov- for a while and then we took onds and even had time for 30 ice entrants lunch. During lunch we set up a minutes of fun runs - all good and ended small course using elements indicators of a smoothly run- up splitting from the morning and after ning event. We have some tight up the nov- several guided walkthroughs points races going on right ices and we go everybody a number of now, which makes the final few intermedi- runs before shutting down just events even more exciting. It ate drivers after 3 to set up the full course will be interesting to see how in to two groups so as to bet- for Sunday's race. things pan out. ter serve the needs of both. Our morning started with a Sunday was a mish mash of figure 8 for the novices to weather and moving things Rumble Time The Rumble is coming soon. ble. SCCNH will be guaran- September 14th. In early October we will have teed two of those slots. If we the Rumble Runoff for get less than 8 non-SCCNH Click to view flier SCCNH teams to determine teams those slots will also which ones will be in the go to SCCNH teams. Rumble. There are ten teams allowed into the Rum- Registration will open on Volume 2012 Issue 7 Page 3 Autocross 5 Results R - 'Race' - Total Entries: 8 Car Color Times Total 1 FP 8 Terrence M 2001 Subaru Impreza Red 38.691+1 38.551 37.283 36.091 31.58 36.649+1 36.385 36.734 38.643+1 [-]0.355 2 ASP 20 Brandon C 2003 Mitsubishi EVO BLUE 39.833+2 37.594 37.004 37.1 31.93 37.658 37.492 37.28 37.069 0.355 3 BS 6 Jeremy H 2003 Honda S2000 silver 42.872+OFF 41.173 39.252 39.638 32.76 39.201 38.980+1 38.856 38.86 0.821 4 HS 14 Matthew V 2011 Honda CR-Z Red 43.013 42.474 42.181+1 41.792+1 33.52 41.957 42.436+2 42.063 42.111 0.768 5 CP 573 Nick M 2000 Ford Mustang Silver 43.894 42.829 41.223 40.348 34.48 40.544 40.31 40.096 41.983 0.959 6 EM 77 Paul P Morgan stalker red/black 42.361 40.662 38.872 37.882 34.58 37.606 37.425 37.261 37.505 0.096 7 XP 2 kevin s 1985 Fiat x1/9 green 43.863+2 43.139 43.137 41.614 36.8 41.326 40.975 41.481 41.142 2.217 8 FP 556 Craig R 2002 Subaru WRX White 45.27 44.796 42.944 42.631 36.94 43.509 43.124 42.279 42.217 0.144 P - 'Stock Performance' - Total Entries: 11 Car Color Times Total 1 SS 123 John S 2005 Lotus Elise Purple 40.393 38.883 38.167 37.869 32.49 39.236 38.453 38.695 38.921 [-]0.116 2 SS 23 Howard R 2005 Lotus Elise Purple 41.138 39.853 39.174 38.892 32.61 38.398 39.006+1 38.03 38.004 0.116 3 CS 81 Rob S 1999 Mazda Miata Blue 42.432 40.387+1 39.568 39.644 32.67 39.549 39.475 39.317 39.222 0.064 4 BS 118 Terry M 2009 Pontiac Solstice GXP Orange 43.562 43.093 43.783 40.388 33.72 40.59 42.180+OFF 40.193 40.003 1.051 5 CS 176 Larry S 1989 Toyota MR2 Supercharge grey 43.594 42.711 42.028 40.776 33.97 41.149 43.223 41.213 0.244 6 BS 262 Gary B 2003 Toyota MR2 black 45.376 43.391+1 42.479 41.563 34.2 41.324 41.162 40.961 40.566 0.231 7 CS 143 Rick D 2004 Mazda Mazdaspd Miata Velocity Red 48.095 44.088 42.643 41.788 34.61 41.865 41.547 41.883 41.602 0.411 8 CS 65 Richard R 2002 Mazda Miata Green 45.156 44.74 41.952 41.731 34.76 0.153 9 CS 40 Ray R 2013 Suvaru BRZ Black 45.41 43.852 43.237 42.301 35.05 43.627 43.083 42.082 42.769 0.293 10 CS 67 Tom G 1989 Toyota MR2 Supercharge Grey 50.006 47.572 47.295 47.045 36.38 46.813 46.709 43.672 1.324 11 AS 22 Adam C 2003 Mitsubishi Evolution Red 48.801+1 49.034 44.419 43.786+2 37.49 43.977+2 43.334+1 43.078+4 44.029+2 1.111 Page 4 The Steering Wheel Autocross 5 Results Cont.