The Blower Newsletter of Neohio Region, SCCA
Volume 60, Issue 1 January 2013
The Starting Line REport by Pete Sedlak
Welcome to the New Year! A lot of exciting things are in store Upcoming for Neohio as we go forward. We are Events As many of you are aware we started reestablishing our Solo Program, what I hope will be a New and the Chief will be Bill Snow. We will Neohio Awards prosperous 2013. start to get down and dirty with Banquet My name is Pete Sedlak and I am Carleton Kirsch as he Chiefs our new Rallycross Program. February 9, 2013 your new RE for the Neohio Region. I wish to take some time to thank A program that will help introduce our outgoing members. First, thank to those who wonder "how fast did you to Duane Harrington for his I go?" TimeTrials with the head leadership the last 4 years. I would honcho Denny Freeman. Ohio Winter Rally also like to thank Debbie LaFond, We will still be running an exciting past RE and Comp. Board Chairman, Road Racing Program as well. Save the February 2! and Jim Dietz, as Trustee. All of these 4th of July weekend for our Regional/ individuals have been instrumental Restricted National at Nelsons as See Page 9 in helping to run the region. well as our Quad in the fall.
With the departure of some, we are We have high hopes for all these happy to welcome new faces as well: programs. Please come on out and I would like to welcome aboard Jim either watch, participate, or help us Leagan and Dorothy Harrington to run these fun events. the trustee positions and Stephanie Please feel free to contact me at Pete Hahn as the Comp Board chairman. [email protected] You will all recognize Dorothy as our or any other Board member if you Registrar, and Jim has been on the have any questions, comments, or Safety Team for countless years at concerns. Nelson Ledges. Steph is our timing Your humble servant, Inside This Issue and scoring Specialty Chief also. Pete
Dates to Remember 4 Neohio SCCA Banquet Board of Trustee Minutes 5 February 9, 2013 Neohio Award Banquet 6 Ohio Winter Rally 8 Harry's Steak House Road Race Ministries 10 See page 7 for registration form. Competition Board Chief Steward Monthly Meetings Ne o h i o Stephanie Hahn, Chair Jim Green Neohio Board meetings are 440-478-5984 330-963-6405 Co n t a c t s held the first Tuesday of each [email protected] [email protected] month. Any exceptions will R.E. & Club Office Pat Prill, Co-Race Chair Timing & Scoring be published in The Blower. Pete Sedlak 330-923-6693 Stephanie Hahn Members and guests are 216-289-0840 [email protected] Starter - TBA welcome at all Board meetings. [email protected] Deborah Sorace, Co-Race Chair Sound Control Membership meeting dates Assistant R.E. Dorothy Harrington, Registrar Gary Bargerstock and times are published in Dan Koplow 440-933-8420 724-527-5686 The Blower. 216-337-4120 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] The Blower Maurice LaFond - Tech Pit & Paddock The Neohio Blower is the Treasurer 440-227-6358 Bill Stewart official publication of the Peggy Dietz [email protected] 888-927-9806 216-235-5124 Neohio Region, Inc., Sports Mike Kowalsky - Tech [email protected] [email protected] Car Club of America. Material Denny Freeman - E&S Grid - TBA in this issue may be reproduced Recording Secretary 330-355-1167 Flagging/Communications by other regions of the SCCA Tara Oram [email protected] Jim Shoemaker without specific permission, 216-272-2487 330-322-8940 if proper acknowledgment [email protected] Stephanie Hahn - T&S [email protected] of both source and author is Membership Secretary Jim Shoemaker - F&C given. All other reproduction Emergency Services Bob Doernberg 330-322-8940 requires specific permission Denny Freeman 216-276-2652 [email protected] of the Neohio Regional 330-355-1167 [email protected] Executive. All photos are Jim Green, Region Chief [email protected] Steward copyrighted to the owner Trustees 330-963-6405 Rally Chair and may not be reproduced Jeff Blumenthal '13 [email protected] Greg Lester without expressed written 216-524-8895 330-836-9003 permission of the owner. 216-469-0341 cell Jim Pracker, Steward [email protected] Articles for publication in The [email protected] 440-708-6177 [email protected] Solo Chair Blower may be submitted in Pat Prill '13 Bill Snow most Windows based word 330-923-6693 Tom Sloe, Steward [email protected] processing formats. You may [email protected] Bill Crowe - Asst. RE Rallycross Chair mail or e-mail material to the Mike Puskar ‘13 440-357-7346 Carelton Kirsch editor by the last day of each 440-729-0448 [email protected] [email protected] month. [email protected] Driver Advocates: Time Trial Chair Advertisement Rates Roland Hahn ‘14 Bryan Bartzi Denny Freeman Full Page $90 / month 614-307-0307 Al Gaudino [email protected] (8” x 9.5”) $250 / 3 months Roland Hahn [email protected] 1/2 Page $45 / month Dan Koplow TRACK CONTACTS Jim Pracker '14 (8” x 5.25”) $120 / 3 months Bill Moore Nelson Ledges Road Course 440-708-6177 Rob Piekarczyk Kerrie Bartzi or Scott Lane 1/4 Page $25 / month [email protected] 440-548-8551 (4” x 5”) $65 / 3 months Specialty Chiefs Greg Vandersluis '14 www.nelsonledges.com Novice Licenses 1/8 Page $15 / month 440-552-2502 Jim Pracker Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (3.5” x 2”) $40 / 3 months vandersluis.motorsports@ 440-338-8121 home 419-884-2295 gmail.com 20% Discount to Neohio member [email protected] Newsletter Editor Dennis Freeman '15 Registrar/Pointskeeper Laura O’Neill Contributors: 440-689-0991 Dorothy Harrington 330-467-4472 Marvin Gray, Duane [email protected] 440-933-8420 [email protected] Harrington, Steve Harris, Dorothy Harrington, '15 [email protected] Web Master Debbie LaFond, Tara Oram 440-933-8420 Tech Inspection Gary Martz [email protected] Maurice LaFond 330-493-0303 Jim Leagan ‘15 440-227-6358 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Great Lakes Division website: http://www.greatlakes-scca.org/ Mike Kowalsky www.neohio-scca.org The Blower, January 2013 Edition Page 2 Information for Area 4 Members
Dear Area 4 Members, specification line again. They will. but did not seek re-election. Dick Just a reminder, as your Director, I Patullo was elected Vice Chairman. It has been another busy month. It represent you. If you have issue with Lisa and Dick are excellent choices to started with the December BOD anything the club is doing, my door lead the club. Both are experienced, meeting at the PRI show in Orlando; is open to help you. smart and dedicated. no time for relaxation there as the schedule was full of action items. Insurance I will again be part of the Planning Here is Newsletter Number 8 with Committee and the Compensation You will see a Press Release in the more of the details: Committee and the liaison to the next day or so, detailing the impact RallyCross Board. It should be a very The “Majors” of the new SCCA Insurance Package. good 2013. We have been successful in reducing The Majors schedule was presented our costs while maintaining at the PRI Show. I was surprised, Strategic Plan (STRAP) better coverage than any of our like many of you, to see the race This is developing nicely. We have competitors. The new rates will save at Gateway listed as one of the already accomplished some of the our Regions per event from $1000 (75 Northern Conference points events. initial STAP items. That is the beauty car event) to $2800 (300 car event). In discussions with Butch and Terry, of using this type of short to medium The savings will not be just for road they needed one more event to round term working document. New items racing, but will apply for all of our out the Northern schedule. And have been added. You will see this speed events. And, the fees will not since CenDiv will only have a single material presented at the National be due until 14 days after the event, race at the June Sprints as part of the Convention. thus helping the Region’s cash flow. Majors (Great Lakes Division will The insurance committee was made Michigan International Speedway have three Double race weekends), up of SCCA members who had a they needed one more event to There are a couple of small items strong background in the insurance complete the schedule. In reality, to complete at MIS before we get industry. As such, they knew how I don’t think Gateway will impact our final approval from the SCCA to go to market and obtain the best us at all. I see most of the CenDiv national office. We do not anticipate value. Engaging the expertise among racers joining us at Mid-Ohio, any problems. The folks at MIS have our membership was a smart play, Michigan International Speedway, been wonderful to work with and we and will be used again in the future. and GingerMan Raceway rather than look forward to our Majors Double haul down to Gateway. We expected SportsCar Magazine there over Memorial weekend in some anomalies in 2013 as National 2013. Thanks again to all who made As you have noticed with your racing transitions to the Majors. By this possible - Verne Wandell, Dan January issue, the look and feel of 2014, things should settle in. and Tara Hodge, Andy and Sue Sportscar has changed. Paul Pfanner Welden, Terry and Ed Ozment, Dayle is now the Publisher. His company GT-2 Frame and, of course, the members also publishes Racer magazine. We By now, the new GT-2 specifications of the Western Michigan Region. are in the last year of our contract will have been published. This was a with Pfanner. They proposed some Bluegrass Motorsports Park well thought out and comprehensive changes to the magazine back in document presented to the BOD by We are talking every week with the October and the BOD asked if they the CRB to incorporate more cars owners and others who want the would make some of these changes into this class. While I agreed with SCCA to join them in a consortium now so we could gauge member almost everything in this plan, there of owners. All I can say is that there reaction. Let us know what you was a restrictor plate specification is progress. think. Negotiations with Pfanner that was directed at the Sunbeam are ongoing, but we are also looking What I Have Learned Tiger that looked suspect. A call at all our options. to Sunbeam Tiger racers in GLD My first year on the BOD has been confirmed this part of the GT-2 plan New SCCA Officers enlightening. It is amazing how would not benefit our members and much time this job takes - meetings, The BOD has elected Lisa Noble to be I voted against it. Although the GT-2 conference calls, and just plain the new Chairman of the Board for Plan passed the BOD, I have asked research and preparation to be able 2013. She replaces Jerry Wannarka the CRB to look at the Sunbeam who did a terrific job for the club, Area 4 continued on page 5. Page 3 The Blower, January 2013 Edition Da t e s To Re m e m b e r Ja n u a r y / Fe b r u a r y 2013 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
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The Blower, January 2013 Edition Page 4 Neohio Region SCCA, BOT Meeting Minutes Letter to the Editor December 4, 2012 - Captain's Club, Eastlake I wonder if I could ask you to put a small item in your newsletter. Members Present: Competition Committee Duane Harrington, Dan Koplow, Nominations will be accepted later Just before Christmas I got an OK on Bob Doernberg, Tara Oram, Jeff for our trophies. All recurring a proposal to McFarland Publishing Blumenthal, Denny Freeman, Jim trophies from 2011 have been to do a book on the old Put-in-Bay Pracker, Mike Puskar, Pete Sedlak, returned. road races. I'm looking for more Greg Vandersluis, Jim Dietz, Peggy racing stories. If there are any people Membership Dietz in the region still left from that era Currently 484 members. Think with (in addition to Reed Andrews!) Excused Members: being year-end and holidays many I would like to hear from them: Roland Hahn, Pat Prill have put off renewing right away. drivers, mechanics, race workers or spectators. Write or call... Guests: Welcome to all! Rally: No report. Carl Goodwin - (719)576-1439 Duane Harrington called the Solo: No report. meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. [email protected] Old Business MOTION to accept the Minutes 111 Chamberlin Ave. Detailed banquet information still as presented: Jim Pracker/Denny Colorado Springs, CO 80906 to follow, but will be held at Harry’s Freeman – Approved. Steakhouse on February 9, 2013. Thank you, Treasurer's Report Carl New Business MOTION to accept treasurer’s MOTION to move next meeting to report as presented. Jim Pracker/ January 8, 2013 at Captains Club. Solo News Dan Koplow – Approved. Pracker / Vandersluis – Approved. The region is restarting its Solo Reports & Committee Reviews MOTION to adjourn at 7:36 p.m. – program and is working on 2013 Regional Executive Puskar / Pracker - Approved. event dates and locations. Stay up to date with the latest Solo news Talks of reorganization from the Respectfully submitted: and happenings by signing up for GLD board of directors to realign Tara Oram region's Solo email newsletter at with the 501c4 agreement. http://eepurl.com/tZL8r.
Area 4 continued from page 3. Welcome N ew & to discuss/consider ideas. It is also to wait until they work their way Returning M embers! amazing how much information flows through various levels of the club. It across the desk that is actionable, is frustrating, but necessary. Raymond Czech but sensitive, and thus must be held Many times, if you have something James Lorence confidentially until the time is right specific you wish to know, I probably to release it. I am always conflicted already have some insight to share. on your right to know vs. the need So, as always, if you need any for proper vetting and dissemination assistance, let me know how I can ACTION NEEDED of club information. Normally, help. we need to wait until FasTrack is Please update your e-mail published with the Minutes of the Yours for a better SCCA, address with SCCA National BOD meeting, or wait until a Press office. Release before I can divulge detailed Steve information. Steve Harris, Director – Area 4 This will help all Just like this Newsletter. There are Great Lakes Division communications regarding 10 more items that probably merit 937 438 3005 (0); 937 681 4484 (C) Neohio events to be some discussion, but they will have [email protected] forwarded correctly. Page 5 The Blower, January 2013 Edition Neohio Celebrates 60th Anniversary February 9, 2013
The Neohio Region is celebrating their 60th Anniversary at the 2012 Annual Awards Banquet on Saturday, February 9, 2013 at Harry’s Steak House, 5664 Brecksville Road, Independence, OH 44131. The Cash Bar Cocktails will start at 6:00 PM, with Dinner at 7:00 PM and the Program at 8:00 PM. Thank you to Mike Puskar from Carbotech Performance Brakes for sponsoring our bartender! There will be three different menu options (prime rib, chicken, and pasta) plus fresh garden salad, rolls, chef’s choice vegetable, garlic mashed potatoes, assorted pastries, coffee, tea, or iced tea to suit everyone’s budget. This is a business casual event and all members, friends and guests are welcome. There will be door prizes for attendees including a Test Day at Nelson Ledges Race Course and Keychain Bottle Openers from Kumho Tires. Thank you Kerri Lane from Nelson Ledges Road Course and Aaron Quine from Kumho Tires! If you would like to donate door prize(s) for the Banquet, please contact Pat Prill at 330-923-6693. This Annual Event gives us an opportunity to congratulate “The Best of the Best” in our Neohio Region. The recipients being honored for the 2012 season are … 2012 Neohio Region Champions
DSR - Allen Franzolino ITS – Greg Schnell ITE – Daniel Koplow ITA – Greg Vandersluis TC - Bill Shearer ITR – Bob Roberts T1 –Greg Vandersluis T2 – William Moore GT1 - Al Gaudino GT2 – Harry Belizaire GT3 - Mike Cyphert EP – Jim Llewellyn HP – Mike Sestili FST – Randy Shinn SM – Bob Kucera AS – Tom Sloe SSB – Bob Piekarczyk SRF – Dave Lancaster
2012 Great Lakes Division National & Regional Champions National 1st Place: GT1 – Ryan McManus GT3 - Mike Cyphert STO – Fred Baker T1 – Greg Vandersluis T2 – William Moore SSB – Keith Jones FC – Jim Dietz
2nd Place: STO – Rich Jones T1 – Tom Sloe SM – AJ Roderick FP – Scott Lunder FV – Guy Bellingham F500 Jeff Blumenthal 3rd Place: GT1 – Al Gaudino AS – Tom Sloe EP – Gary Martz SRF – David Lancaster
Regional 1st Place: HP – Michael Bennett ITE – Daniel Koplow ITC – Jim Royal ITS – Greg Schnell FST – Randy Shinn
2nd Place: HP Michael Sestili ITA – Greg Vanersluis ITC – Bill Shearer
3rd Place: SM – Bob Kucera ITE – Jerry Waltenberger
2012 National Runoffs Champion - Tom Sloe – A Sedan – 3rd Place
2012 Tire Rack SCCA Solo National Champions Dan Wadsahl – A Modified – st1 Andrew Pallotta – F Prepared – 4th
Neohio Longevity Awards Neohio Region Champion Awards Introduction of 2012 & 2013 Officers and Trustees RE’s Award Recognition of Outgoing Board Members National Race & Solo Champion Recognition Chief of Specialty Recognition Rookie of the Year Event Chair Recognition Driver of the Year
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Neohio Annual Awards Banquet Reservation Form
Name:
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Guest #1:
Menu Selection: (Choose One) □ Prime Rib - $35 per person □ Roast Chicken - $31 per person □ Vegetarian Pasta Primavera - $28 per person
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Mail Form & Check To: Peggy Dietz Neohio Region 2165 Stony Hill Rd Hinckley OH 44223-9508 [email protected]
Questions? Please call Pat Prill at 330-923-6693 or email Shirley Hull at [email protected]
Page 7 The Blower, January 2013 Edition GLD Rally Championship News Ohio Winter Rally History Wanted The 2013 SCCA Great Lakes Division Rally Championship series kicked off th with Detroit Region’s Son of Sno*Drift on January 12 . The next two GLD The "OWR" was first organized Championship events are the upcoming Ohio Winter Rally on February 2, in 1966 by the MG CarClub, Lake and Detroit Region’s Twilight Tour on April 27. Erie Centre, in cooperation with A full schedule and current GLD Rally Championship point standings will the Marshall Mustang Owners’ be posted on the SCCA Great Lakes Division website. Club. It was a standard feature on 1/19/2013 Ithaca Winter Rally, Ithaca, NY. the MGCC’s annual competition Finger Lakes Region, SCCA. www.flr-scca.com. calendar through the 1980’s, before finding its current home with 1/25-1/26/2013 Sno*Drift Rally, Atlanta, MI. Rally America National Neohio Region, SCCA. It was a Championship (stage) rally. Rally-america.com. qualifying event through the entire 2/16/2013 WinterChallenge Rally, Barre, Vermont. history of the long-lamented Ohio New England Region, SCCA. www.ner.org. Rally Championship (ORC) series. 2/24(?)/2013 Name TBA, Erie, PA. As we approach the 50th anniversary Misery Bay Region, SCCA. www.mbrscca.org. of the first Ohio Winter Rally, we are 3/9(?)/2013 Absolute Zero (Route of All Evil ?), Tug Hill starting to gather a bit of the event's Plateau, NY. Central New York Region, SCCA. history. If you have any documents Cny-scca.com. and/or memorabilia, especially from the early years, we'd love to see it. 4/27/2013 , Ann Arbor. MI. Detroit Region, SCCA Twilight Tour We want to record for posterity GLD Rally Championship event. www.detroit-scca.org. some of the event's lore in order 10/18-10/20/13 US Road Rally Challenge (USRRC), Washington to be able to recognize those who D.C. Details will be released in the spring. have made the event "memorable". If you have a good story about you or a friend on a past Ohio Winter Rally, please share it. The statute of limitations has undoubtedly run By Chaplain Gray out. If you can pinpoint the location, year, and identity of those who broke DAW N Daytona and the start of the road one of the rally's 3 simple rules, that racing calendar. Indy Car sees a If you have ever been part of an would be great. There are several number of driver changes with Ohio endurance racing team at a 24 hour pieces of road just waiting to be re- favorite Graham Rahal uniting with (or longer) event you know how christened. his father and recent SCCA Hall encouraging it is when the dawn of Fame inductee Bobby Rahal. Please contact Greg Lester at 330- comes. There is something about a NASCAR starts the New Year with 256-6531 or WGregoryLester@ new day that brings the team a lift. new cars that more closely resemble gmail.com. I have driven into the dawn and it their street counterparts. SCCA sure perks up a driver when he can brings the first major change in a 40 Kryder and the Kryderacing bunch start to see the finish. The dawn of a year old business model with SCCA have started Friends of Nelson to new day or a new year can give you Nationals starting to fade away to be encourage racers to do what they a big spark. replaced by the Majors Tour. can to help our home track. Check For racers, the start of the New out their website kryderacing.com Unfortunately, this has already cost Year brings changes in many of for more details. Nelson Ledges one of its National our series. Drivers swap rides, new races and brings the number of SCCA Recently, we once again celebrated cars participate, and series merge events in 2013 at The Friendliest a most important dawn in history and morph. This is the last year of Place to Race to only five. Supposedly when God became a man and dwelt the separate ALMS and Grand/ SCCA is going to give regions more among us. May this be the year you AM series as news continues to flexibility when holding regional come to know Him better. emerge about classes and rules for weekends to make up for lost 2014 as we wait for the Rolex 24 @ Chaplain Marvin Gray events at the smaller tracks. Reed [email protected] The Blower, January 2013 Edition Page 8 SCCA NEOHIO Region presents... Ohio Winter Rally 2013 - Saturday, February 2nd This year's Ohio Winter Rally is on Saturday, February 2. The rally is the second round of the 2013 SCCA Great Lakes Division Rally Championship and counts toward the SCCA National Touring Rally Championship (Regional Rally). The route will take competitors over approximately 130 miles of rural roads in the Lake Erie "snowbelt" counties of northeast Ohio. The rally difficulty will be dictated by prevailing road and weather conditions. Competitors should come prepared to spend extended periods of time outside in severe winter conditions. Competitors can expect an absolutely straightforward, gimmick-free time-speed-distance (TSD) road rally. Emphasis will be on precise timing at well-placed controls. A columnar “tulip” route instruction format including official mileages for all action points will be used. Redundant, clarifying instructions will be included anywhere that there is any question of route-following ambiguity. Classes: Rally Start Location: DiBella's Subs 30050 Aurora Rd. (SR 43), Solon, OH 44139 E Equipment unrestricted (Latitude: N41˚23.810', Longitude: W081 ˚27.953'). L Odometer unrestricted. Calculating device restricted only Tentative Schedule: (All times US Eastern Standard Time) in that it may not be integrated with odometer and clock. Fri., 1/25: 18:00 'Early' Entry Cutoff Sat., 2/2: 15:00 - 16:00 Registration S Unmodified stock odometer only. Calculating device restricted to 15:15 Mini Rally School-experienced competitors welcome non-programmable electronic 16:31 Car #1 Starts Rally calculator or any mechanical 21:30 (approx) Car #1 Finishes Rally calculator. 22:00 Provisional Scores Posted (hopefully) Novice Class S entry in which neither 22:30 Awards Distributed team member has entered Entry criteria/required equipment: Entry is open to two-person teams. Each competitor more than 5 TSD rallies must sign a SCCA liability waiver at registration. Note that SCCA now requires signatures previously (simultaneously of both parents on minor waivers. Contact organizers in advance to obtain minor waiver entered in Class S for forms. championship purposes). Each driver must possess a valid automobile operator’s license, and be prepared to produce INFORMATION proof of a valid auto liability insurance policy meeting coverage minimums listed below. Contact Greg Lester at 330-256-6531 Each car must have at least one reflective warning triangle or 30 minutes of road flares.. or [email protected]. Teams are urged to enter early. ENTRY FORM: Ohio Winter Rally 2013 Fees: SCCA Members $35/car before early entry cutoff Non-Members $40/car before early entry cutoff $45/car after cutoff $50/car after cutoff Entry fee includes nationally mandated weekend membership (purchaser entitled to discounted annual membership for limited time. See www.scca.org for details.) Registrar: Mail entries (checks payable to Neohio Region, SCCA) to Ohio Winter Rally, Greg Lester, Registrar, 90 Devon Lane #201, Akron, OH 44313 Driver:______Navigator: ______Address:______Address: ______City/State/Zip:______City/State/Zip: ______Phone: (___)_____-______e-mail:______Phone: (___)_____-______e-mail:______SCCA Member? ( )Yes ( ) No Minor? (No minor drivers.) SCCA Member? ( )Yes ( ) No Minor? ( )Yes ( )No Number:______Region:_____ Exp. Date______Number:______Region:_____ Exp. Date______
VEHICLE (Please be specific.): CLASS (Circle one): E L S Novice Make:______Model:______Year:______Color:______License# ______State:____ Distinguishing characteristics:______How did you hear about event? ______The entrant warrants that an auto insurance policy with liability limits of not less than $20,000/$40,000/$10,000 is in force for each vehicle entered. Driver ______Date ______Navigator ______Date ______Page 9 The Blower, January 2013 Edition Hall of Fame Features Legends Barber, Noble, Rahal, Shelby & Porterfield
Road Racing legends Skip Barber, Bill William James “Bill” Noble of the Long Beach Grand Prix. A Noble, Bobby Rahal, Carroll Shelby, became one of the most successful winner of the 2008 John McGill and Andy Porterfield compose the Championship-winning drivers in Award for contributions to Club 2013 SCCA Hall of Fame Class SCCA history and had a hand in many Racing and the Woolf Barnato for significant contributions to more. A renowned engine builder and Award in 2009 for outstanding long- motorsports and the Sports Car Club five-time National Champion in one term contribution to the SCCA, of America. The newly-selected class of Club Racing’s most competitive Porterfield’s SCCA credentials are will take their positions amongst class, his “Engines by Noble” have unquestioned. Porterfield passed the giants of the Club during an captured an incredible 25 National away in April 2012, but will continue induction ceremony at the SCCA Championships in the 49-year to influence SCCA racers through National Convention on Saturday, history of the Runoffs. Noble was his Porterfield Brakes, a company he March 2, 2013 in Las Vegas. awarded the Road Racing Driver’s founded in 1986. The SCCA National Hall of Fame Club Mark Donohue Award in 1989, Robert Woodward “Bobby” Rahal, was created in 2004 to preserve, and the Kansas Region presents the has had a long and distinguished protect and record the history and Bill Noble Award to the driver who motorsports career that began in accomplishments of the Club by best exemplifies the combination of the Sports Car Club of America. As acknowledging those members who mechanical expertise, driving skill, a 22-year-old, Rahal was awarded have made a significant impact and competitive sportsmanship that the President’s Cup following on the development of SCCA, be were Noble’s traits. To display that his 1975 Formula B (soon to be it through service to the national sportsmanship, Noble had a long- renamed Formula Atlantic) National organization, achievements in standing offer to engine customers: Championship. Using Club Racing national competition, bringing anytime a customer wanted to trade as a springboard, Rahal went on national recognition to SCCA, or their engine for the one in Noble’s to drive IMSA and in the SCCA a combination of these factors. car, he would not only take them Trans-Am Series before becoming Nominations were submitted up on it, but help them install the a champion open-wheel driver. The to and reviewed by the Hall of engine. Noble passed away in 2011 at 1986 Indianapolis 500 winner won Fame Nomination and Selection the age of 69. His business and racing CART Championships in 1986, 1987, Committees before the inductees legacy are continued by his widow, and 1992, as well as the series’ Rookie were selected. SCCA Chairman Lisa Noble. of the Year award in 1982. Rahal John “Skip” Barber has seen Andrew Tracy “Andy” Poterfield is the current co-owner of Rahal thousands of SCCA Racers pass is inducted for his years of Letterman Lanigan Racing, where through the driving school that he contributions to the Club, both they’ve recently hired 2005 SCCA started and bears his name to this as a driver and behind the scenes. National Champion Graham Rahal day. His career and contributions Porterfield, known as a Corvette (son of the newest Hall of Famer) to to the SCCA go well beyond his role racer, won the 1978 and 1979 National drive in the IndyCar Series. as an instructor. Mr. Barber won Championships in B Production, Carroll Shelby’s impact on the SCCA the Formula Ford (now Formula F) and was Southern Pacific Division will last long into the future, even if National Championship in back-to- Champion an unprecedented 23 you ignore the mark he made as a back years at the Runoffs, winning times. A regular racer in SCCA driver that won an SCCA National in 1969 and 1970. The 1970 title was Trans-Am races, Porterfield served Championship in 1956 (Formula paired with another championship on the Cal Club Region Board Libre). Though Shelby competed in in Formula B – a class that became for 16 years, including as Region eight Formula One races and won Formula Atlantic – to earn him that Executive for five years. He served the 24 Hours of LeMans behind the season’s President’s Cup. Barber on the SCCA Board of Directors, wheel, his legacy is, obviously, as reached the pinnacle as a driver with and was selected as the Chairman the man who practically invented a handful of races in Formula One, of the Board of SCCA Enterprises, the American iron pony car. In and remains President and Owner of where he continued to help grow 49 SCCA National Championship Lime Rock Park to this day. Barber and maintain the subsidiary until Runoffs, 35 drivers have left with the has been an SCCA member for 54 his death. Porterfield also organized the corner workers in the early days years. Legends continued on page 11. The Blower, January 2013 Edition Page 10 I’VE GOT IT - YOU WANT IT Classified Ads For Members
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