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1948–2019 CELEBRATING 71 YEARS VOL. 60 | September 2019 The official publication of the San Francisco Region of the Sports Car Club Of America Solo II SFR Round 9 & 10 p. 8 Hoosier Tire SCCA Super Tour p. 10 2019 Election p. 20 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] SEPTEMBER 2019 Above: #17 Howard Sklar photo by Ron Cabral On the cover: The Saturday afternoon race winners Courtney Crone and Marjorie Lundberg photo by Cathy Jardine 6 RE News 9 Solo II SFR Round 10 24 Full body contact FEATURES 7 Wheelworks 10 SFR Champion Road Racing 26 Notes from the Archive 8 Solo II SFR Round 9 20 2019 Election Board of Directors 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, Gary 162, Willows, California 95988. It is published monthly by Wheel R.J. GORDY Director Publications, 6185 Riverbank Circle, Stockton, California 95219. 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SEPTEMBER 2019 | SFRSCCA.ORG | 3 CALENDAR UPDATED 2019 FRESNO CHAPTER SOLO SCHEDULE Event 11 - October 20*** *Held at Fresno Fairgrounds More dates and locations may be added; For more information, visit our website: www.fresnoscca.com November 9* check our website for updated calendar: Event 12 - **Joint event with SFR at Crows Landing www.FresnoSCCA.com Event 13 - November 10* ***Buttonwillow Kart Track SACRAMENTO SOLO SCHEDULE August 17 - Round 11 September 21 - "Bill Fleig Memorial" September 21 - "Bill Fleig Memorial" All Races held at Thunderhill Raceway August 18 - Enduro Practice Enduro Round 12 Sacramento Awards Banquet - Del Web Roseville SFR SOLO SCHEDULE October 6* - Round 11 November 2** - Street Survival (not an November 3** *Marina event, will need a few volunteers to help out, November 16** - Practice / Starting Line **Crows Landing being run by Teresa and Erika McKee) November 17** 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 SEPTEMBER 2019 2019 2019 SFR/SCCA RACE SCHEDULE OCTOBER 25-27 TRIPLE REGIONAL 13-14-15 DOUBLE POINTS/5 MILE MCCARTHY RACE THUNDERHILL ** Denotes Pro Race Support for Volunteers Double points for all three races at Season Finale 2019 SCCA-SANCTIONED CONCOURS D’ELEGANCE Sunday, October 6 Niello Concours at Serrano Serrano Eldorado Hills (916) 635-2445 www.theconcours.net Concours Leadership Team Chief of Concours – SFR/SCCA Division Chief Concours Judge – SFR/SCCA Edward “Ed” Therrien Division W- 510-670-4700 Butch Wright C- 510-333-7057 H- 559-935-3327 E-mail – [email protected] C – 559-707-4102 E-mail – [email protected] SEPTEMBER 2019 | SFRSCCA.ORG | 5 RE News BY BARBARA MCCLELLAN Body contact at our road races is a subject where there have been recent her the very best on any future endeavors. letters to the BoD and The Wheel as well as comments on social media. I do want to take this opportunity to thank Both the National Stewards program, our Regional Stewards program and everyone who has complimented me on your BoD are taking this seriously and are working on plans to provide my role of Regional Executive the past two guidance on how to deal with this issue. There is a process already in place years. There have been challenges and and I’d like to briefly explain it. Our Supplemental Regulations state that I’ve had a great Board of Directors to work if you are involved in any body contact, you are to report to Impound at with. I’ve been part of your Board 11 out the end of that session. Reports of body contact observed on the turns of the last 19 years. I’ve been asked what are given to the Tech Stewards to investigate and triage. They talk with the I plan to do once I’m off the Board. I’ll still drivers and make a decision if there is fault. Frequently a driver will waive be a very active Race Official with SFR- it off as a “racing incident.” If the Tech Steward can quickly determine fault, SCCA (that means primarily as a Steward) then a penalty can be assessed at that time under a Chief Stewards Action but I’m always there to listen. As I’ve said (CSA). If a more thorough investigation is needed, then it is Referred for before, I may not have the answer to your Action (RFA) to the Stewards of the Meet. It is at that time videos can be question, but I’ll see if I can’t help find the seen, but not at Tech since they become evidence which is retained in answer. the event of future hearings. In addition, a driver may choose to Protest another driver when s/he deems there was fault and Stewards did not take Til next time, your RE. Barbara action. All too often drivers do not want to protest a fellow driver who might be considered a friend. But the onus is on drivers as well as Stewards to make safe, fun and fair races. I like to refer back to the Super Tour where Ken Patterson, Series Chief Steward, had a full pull after the first qualifying session for each group. He held a drivers meeting and covered a number of subjects. But I’d like to quote him on one thing: “Body contacts - Just don’t.” Lunch time Group driver meetings with the RE have seemed to worked well this year. I’ve certainly enjoyed my opportunity to talk with each Group of drivers. I’ve been very pleased that we’ve had constructive suggestions presented. Not every idea worked but communication is ongoing. Mike Smith started this practice when he was RE and it had dropped through the cracks after he was no longer RE. I’m confident that Tim Sullivan, next year’s RE, sees the benefit of these meetings and will continue the practice. Trophies have been an issue as of late with our road racing community. We’ve found that many drivers don’t pick up their trophies so we end up with lots of extras. So we decided to only order trophies for the top three finishers in each class. And we still ended up with left over trophies. But there are some drivers who want to receive a trophy when they are “on the podium”. Earlier this year we had a photographer who took care of one of the races each weekend, but it did not turn out to be a role that worked well.