SoPac NEWS 2011 Awards Banquet Formula AAtlantictlantic Drivers (L to R) Renny Damon, Vince Gaddini and Chris Emanuel Peggy Phillipshillips TechTech ofof thethe YearYear Clement LLeeee Driver of the Year Inside This Issue January, 2012 RIP Renee page 2 Road Rally Wr ap Up page 16 Forever Have An Angel page 3 A Course W/No Name page 17 The Kirby Building page 5 FFN Road Rally Results page 19 2012 Super To ur page 6 Autocross Results page 20 Cal Club Awards Banquet page 7 Around SoPac page 28 History of Awards page 12 SCCA Membership App. page 33 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 January - 2012 SoPac Mail Bag , NEWS RIP Renee Angel SoPac News welcomes Renee... Unforgettable... e-mails to the editor. Indomitable... Passionate... To submit your e-m ail Gregarious... Hilarious... and to the editor send it to devoted to “her grid” and “her [email protected]. girls” and “her drivers”. I’ll never (ever!) forget my SoPac News is the first interaction with Renee, official publication Noobie driver Bruce Allison... representing SCCA’s fresh out of SCCA Super Southern Pacific Division School... nervous as all hell... comes to his first grid, for his SENIOR EDITOR first practice, in his new-to-him Craig Young S2 racecar. [email protected] Bu ttonwillow... it’s wa rm. CAL CLUB NEWS EDITOR Renee’s wearing a yellow tank Position Open top... with two “happy face” stickers, about the size of nick- GRID LINES EDITOR els, very inappropriately placed El liot Shev [email protected] on her chest. She’s tan, brash, ... and talkin’ trash. What a ARIZONA EDITOR vision! I’m thinkin’ “Who ARE Position Open these Cal Club people?!” ARIZONA BORDER EDITOR Most of you know... I found Position Open out who these people were... really good people. Fun people. LAS VEGAS EDITOR Position Open People so incredibly passionate about cars and their perform- HAWAII EDITOR ance that they’ll dedicate their Position Open personal lives, weekends, and BIG ISLAND EDITOR money to keep it all going. Position Open That describes Renee... who was otherwise.... uh... basically MAUI EDITOR Position Open indescribable. I loved her. I think all the GUAM EDITOR drivers did. She cared FOR us, Position Open she cared ABOUT us. She (Communications internships available. Contact Senior Editor.) wanted us safe... she wanted us happy... and goddammit... CONTRIBUTING EDITORS s he wanted us in the Bruce Allison, Jerry Andersen, CORRECTORDER! strange cars around me, at a Norm DeWitt, Linda Haneline, Runoffs, 2007, Topeka. I’m racetrack strange to me, sur- Larry Houghton, Curt Luther, 1,700 miles from home, 700 rounded by thousands of Chris Mahoney, Larry Mason, crew/drivers who are strangers... Carol Kapp McKnight, I come to grid... there’s Terri Pharr, Larry Scholnick, Mark Smith Re nee... wi th a huge smile pointing me to my spot. PHOTOGRAPHERS Suddenly I was “home”... my Jerry Andersen, Dennis Baer, stomach settled down. Brad Bernstein, Allan ,Coy MOTUL I’m going to miss her... so Norm DeWitt, Oil, Brake Fluid and Lubricants very, very much. Goodbye Carol Kapp McKnight, Renee, find peace. Elliot Shev, Mark Smith • Race Prep and Maintenance • Suspension and Brake Upgrades Bruce Advertising & Editorial • Electronic Corner Balancing #87 S2000 Contact Information: • Roll Cages Built and Installed Green Dot Communications • Custom Fabrication and We lding 858 Third Ave., #258 • Safety Equip. Sold and Installed Chula Vista, CA 91911 Sheer Force of Will 916.541.2697 [email protected] 714-545-2755 I just heard about Renee hausofperformance.com Angel. Her’ s was an exercise SoPac News welcomes editorial Established 1980 in sheer force of will and posi- and photo contributions. Email tive thinking. May I be as brave to [email protected] for consideration. Deadline is the 3198 - L Airport Loop Drive in a situation like that. 15th of each month. Costa Mesa, CA 92626 Don E January - 2012 Cal Club News P a g e 3 AL LUB EWS C Cwww.calclub.comN Cal Club loses Renee, but will forever have an Ang el By MaryAnne Shults Cal Club's Renee Angel, 64, of Ontario, Calif., died today after a battle with cancer. She was surrounded by family and friends at the home of her step- daughter, Laurie Angel, in Long Beach, Calif. "She thought he had it beat," said friend Linda Haneline. "Then in October she devel- oped pneumonia, which led to liver failure." Haneline said it was then doctors discovered a tumor on her spine. She then moved into an Renee working the dance floor and always the life of any party. assisted living facility and then Allan Coy Photo alternated between the homes of her stepdaughters Ginger school reunion and to visit with Renee really believed she was and Laurie. family and friends, said Laurie going to be OK even though Renee returned to New Angel, Renee's stepdaughter. she had numerous very serious Jersey last June for her high "As many of you know, episodes with liver cancer since her diagnosis in 2009," said Laurie Angel. "She had an incredible ability to overlook the complications of the disease and enjoy life to the fullest - truly remarkable." Her SCCA friends called and visited, keeping in touch with her family when she was too weak to talk on the phone or accept visitors, according to posts on her Facebook page. Gayle Jardine did an excellent job of keeping Cal Club mem- bers advised on the club's Facebook page. "We had many calls from family and friends from all over the country concerned about Renee over the past few years and particularly in the last sev- eral weeks before she passed," Laurie Angel sai d. "P eople showed their love and caring and I know she really appreci- ated each and every one." A 31-year member of the Cal Grid Girls in costume at a Pumpkin Run race weekend. Club SCCA region, Renee Allan Coy Photo wasn't only known in one circle; P a g e 4 Cal Club News January - 2012 she was extremely active in both Solo and as a Club Racing volunteer, most notably for her work with Grid and Pits. Her husband Craig Angel passed away in 2008 was also extremely active in SCCA, but more importantly, a respected and adored contributor. For over 20 years, he organized the Lone Pine Time Trials. Based out of the historical California town of Lone Pine, the event is held in the heart of the picturesque Owens Valley. Proceeds from this annual event are donated to the Los Angeles Braille Institute Youth Center. Since Craig's death, not only are the Long Pine Time Trials named in his mem- ory, but the No Bucks Renee, all business at a F&C seminar. Allan Coy Photo autocross club, in conjunction with Cal Club SCCA, holds a lot of fun, an important element Lewis changed the name of the memorial Solo event in tribute we often forget. RIP," wrote award as an honor to his father to his contributions as well. Kathy Barnes, former secretary who loved watching his son Renee's contributions have of SCCA's Board of Directors. race. It was first awarded on not been taken for granted. Not Barnes was also the chair of March 14, 1993, at San Diego only has she been recognized the Solo Events Board and for Region s annual banquet and locally and regionally, but with several Tire Rack SCCA Solo has been awarded every year one of the national SCCA's Nationals. since. highest honors. She was loved by all she "Incredibly sad news. I knew She was selected as the touched, as evidenced in her it was bad, but she had battled Worker of the Year for SCCA Facebook profile, as well as the so successfully so many times I Pit and Grid and presented the Pages of Cal Club and profile half-expected her to pull this off award at the 2009 National pages of her SCCA friends. too," Lewis wrote in an e-mail. Championship Runoffs at Road Area 11 Director and long- "Another great loss to the club, Atlanta. time San Diego Region mem- but of course so much more to Always one to guide a new- ber Mike Lewis recognized her friends and family. God s comer, she never hesitated to Renee for her efforts to the speed Renee." offer a helping hand, be it as Southern Pacific Division in Joe Benson, well known for the representative of the No 2006 when he awarded her the his afternoon classic rock show Bucks Solo Club or chairman of John Lewis Award. on Los Angeles' KLOS 95.5 a Cal Club event. She attended Lewis wanted to give some- radio, and as the Voice of the conventions, mingling with thing back to the SCCA work- Auto Club Speedway since it's other SCCA members from ers who helped make his pas- 1997 opening was a friend of around the U.S., and her smile sion for racing possible. The Renee's. and husky laugh became well award was set up to help fund "I am so sad," wrote Benson known. a race worker s trip to the via e-mail, "She was always so "Along with all the volunteer Runoffs. After Lewis s father, full of life, having fun and insti- work she did, Renee brought a John Lewis, passed away, Mike gating shenanigans... love you Renee!" Information about services is still undetermined at the time of this posting, but watch SoPac Facebook page for updates.