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SoPac NEWS NorPac stomps SoPac in SRF National Todd Harris (#02) beat SoPac’s best SRF line up at Auto Club Speedway Baer Images Photo Inside This Issue February, 2012 National/Double Regional page 3 Regional Road Race Points page 29 New Club Majors Program page 20 Around SoPac page 33 Road Rally Results page 22 2011 SoPac National Points page 36 Craig & Renee Angel Solo page 23 SCCA Membership App. page 38 SCCA SoPac Regions Cal Club San Diego Hawaii Big Island Maui Guam AZ Border Las Vegas Arizona P a g e 2 S o P a c N e w s F e b r u a r y - 2 0 1 2 SoPac SoPac News Mail Box , Congratulations Barbara Knox on comms at NEWS Turn 2 -3, Dolly Partons Nipple, and the second time at the SoPac News welcomes Hi Craig: e-mails to the editor. Rock Garden with Jeannie and To submit your e-mail Good job on the enews for Roger on comms, and just the to the editor send it to SoPac. Personally, I prefer to once at Buttonwillow which [email protected]. read the classically formatted was after Long Beach in 99. paper. There were four of us Brits, SoPac News is the Thanks for the fine coverage Andy Malins, Jeremy official publication on Renee. Haberman, Stuart Hamilton representing SCCA’s Will you please add us to the and myself. I seem to recall I mailing list. worked the Star Mazda Turn Southern Pacific Division with Bill Haneline. To this day Carol and John McKnight I still say it was the best week- SENIOR EDITOR end of Club Racing I ever had Craig Young [email protected] P.S. what happened to San the privilege to work in 34 years Diego Region? as a Corner Worker. Everyone CAL CLUB NEWS EDITOR at Cal Club made us all so wel- Position Open Hi Carol & John: come. There was a lady get- GRID LINES EDITOR ting the competitors lined up for Elliot Shev I too prefer the printed ver- every session who I only ever [email protected] sion. But we are enjoying flexi- knew as Spike. She was quite a character. Am I right in think- ARIZONA EDITOR bility we now have with color Position Open plus we're back to a monthly ing Spike was your colleague, publishing schedule. It would Renee Angel who recently lost ARIZONA BORDER EDITOR her fight against Liver Cancer? Position Open be hard to go back to black & white on newsprint, but we Sadly I read about her LAS VEGAS EDITOR would do it in a snap. I suppose passing in your SCCA - Cal Position Open the online version is better than Club newsletter and felt I just no newsletter at all. had to write and let you know HAWAII EDITOR she will not be forgotten over Position Open We haven’t heard from San Diego in a while. It appears here in England. BIG ISLAND EDITOR they are not interested in In closing I hope you all Position Open SoPac News Online. have a good season in 2012. MAUI EDITOR Maybe one day I will get back Position Open Craig Young to Buttonwillow and see if Barbara is still trying to tie your GUAM EDITOR Editor Position Open shoe laces together.If you think my message is suitable (Communications internships available. Contact Senior Editor.) please feel free to print it in a Renee Angel RIP future copy of your excellent CONTRIBUTING EDITORS newsletter. Bruce Allison, Jerry Andersen, Hi Ceci: Norm DeWitt, Linda Haneline, Take care, Larry Houghton, Curt Luther, John Jefferys Chris Mahoney, Larry Mason, My name is John Jefferys, a Carol Kapp McKnight, corner worker who had the Terri Pharr, Larry Scholnick, privilege of working at Long Mark Smith Beach a couple of times, once with a real old guy called Bill as PHOTOGRAPHERS my Corner Captain with Jerry Andersen, Dennis Baer, Brad Bernstein, Allan Coy, MOTUL Norm DeWitt, Oil, Brake Fluid and Lubricants Carol Kapp McKnight, Elliot Shev, Mark Smith • Race Prep and Maintenance • Suspension and Brake Upgrades Advertising & Editorial • Electronic Corner Balancing Contact Information: ROTARY • Roll Cages Built and Installed Green Dot Communications • Custom Fabrication and Welding 858 Third Ave., #258 PERFORMANCE • Safety Equip. 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Cal Club kicked off 2012 with representing different sectors a bang at Auto Club of our club joined in. •In the Early Days our Speedway highlighting one Once Renee’s lap wrapped Regional Executives were the first SCCA Nationals of the up it was time to go racing. It's called Presidents. year plus a Double Regional been a short but long off sea- filled with double dipping son and everyone was anxious • Bob Tronolone was Cal National drivers. to get the party started. It was Club’s photographer during the Seat time was at a premium no surprise to see Cal Club hit late 50s and into the 70s. this weekend for National driv- their marks like a fine Swiss ers with some using Saturday’s watch the entire weekend. The • September, 1958, at the Regional as a final test ses- level of professionalism was Santa Barbara road races…”It sion. Others just wanted to get obvious, in all Specialties too. could be said that the average their racing fix following our Trackside gossip revealed Corvette driver doesn’t stand a short winter break. 10 race the race clock started when chance against the Ferraris, groups filled the bill with the cars left Pre Grid instead of but then they never stood a first five dedicated to National when the green flag waved as chance against Andy and the balance were usual. Snoop from SoPac Porterfields’ Corvette either.” Regional. News overheard Ceci Smith Qualifying for all groups mention the club faces a •November, 1958. The filled the first half of Saturday's $1,500 per minute penalty after California Sports Car Club schedule. Rain washed out 5 p.m. No wonder the clock enacted an edict requiring the qualifying with many sitting out started when race cars left Pre use of rollbars. Road and the sessions - maybe no rain Grid. She was thrilled we fin- Track magazine’s Dean tires on hand - too darn wet - or ished two minutes ahead of Batchelor thought this was a it just didn’t matter all that schedule Sunday afternoon at worthwhile ruling. much? Rain fell hard from the 3:28 p.m. Even with a 90 get go then tapered off leaving minute cushion we've proven • Santa Barbara Memorial Day the final few groups with less anything can and does happen road races, 1959… 295 entries rain but a wet racing surface shoving race schedules way for 19 races. 25,000 specta- remained. past published times. Good job tors. 125 pewter trophies The threat of rain kept some Ceci, good job Cal Club! given. The Los Angeles Times from showing up altogether panned the event saying, “too and freaked others out sending National Race Report much racing, too many guys them home early. Those that Five groups set the stage for name Joe, too few big racing failed to show or bailed lost out a very anticipated event for names.” big time. From this point on drivers, workers and fans espe- conditions couldn't have been cially after the rained out quali- more perfect. During my gathering of stuff for fiying session Saturday morn- Just as fast as a giant hole the Cal Club Archives, a ing leaving many scratching opened in the clouds giving process that I hope never ends, their heads on how these way for sunshine to beam National races were going to I was constantly coming across down under a glorious blue sky unfold. For sure a lot of passing little tidbits of information. Most the Renee Angel memorial lap was expected but other of these tidbits were not began to unfold during unknowns left a bigger ques- enough to write an article Saturday's lunch break. Cal tion mark. about, but some surprising, Club was eager to get on track others just of interest to note. to celebrate Renee's life. The GROUP 1 - DSR, FA, CSR, FM, The following are tidbit ram- list included over 100 Cal Club S2, FE bles, if you have others to Solo members who were on DSR - Henry Botkin set the share please send them to me. site for their first event of the pace in DSR from the start [email protected] year. A giant field of cars, tow credited with leading the first Allan Coy trucks, official speedway vehi- four circuits ahead of Steve P a g e 4 C a l C l u b N e w s F e b r u a r y - 2 0 1 2 Nicklin and Lee Alexander.