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Editor: Randy Unsbee, ABC Sponsor PR & Marketing 1260 NE 20th Gresham, OR 97030 info@sponsorpr.com Please send address changes to: Oregon Region SCCA 4800 SW Macadam Ave., Ste. 110 Portland, OR, 97239 Photographers: Doug Berger, George Dwinell, Wayne Flynn, Ron Coelho

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The Editor’s Desk Randy Unsbee, ABC Loud Pedal Editor, PR & Marketing Email: info@sponsorpr.com; http://twitter.com/randyunsbee

Roads Yet Traveled What’s your favorite drive? I started a thread on this topic recently via Twitter on the Oregon Region SCCA Facebook page and already have had many interesting comments.

at Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI. Just the sheer lunacy of waving cash in front of Formula Ford drivers who thought they (we) were all the next Jimmy Clark or Mario Andretti, makes racing in and surviving that mayhem worthy of this list.

two-week excursion to two race tracks. I don’t think he ever spoke to me again after that arduous trip, but who could blame him? I think the Elva may have been the one Elvis drove in “Viva Las Vegas.�

3. First drive across England from Lon 3ODFLQJ ¿ UVW RYHUDOO LQ RQH RI WKH ¿ UVW don to Snetterton, to Oxford and Stratford, Showroom Stock 4-hour endurance races then down to Goodwood Circuit, and back in a Scirocco at Blackhawk Farms, IL. across to Snetterton. I landed in London during the worst snow storm in 20 years 6. Okay Nick, this one is for you: pass- suffering from jet lag and food poisoning. LQJ WKH )OXJH & &RUYHWWH ¿ YH WLPHV LQ WKH It took me several hours just to stumble my rain at PIR in Portland with my Showroom way out of London. Having never been in , GRQœW NQRZ WKH ¿ QDO VFKHGXOH DQG YH Stock Neon. Yes, front wheel drive is a a right hand drive car before, I spent much hicle count yet, but I’m hoping for drives big help in the rain. So is growing up in of the time bouncing off curbs and trying at Rockingham and Thruxton circuits in the snowbound Midwest, spending most to shift the window crank. And, talk about England. We could be talking a V8 Super of your youth broadsliding a Ÿ midget \RXU ¿ UVW WLPH RQ D URXQGDERXW JHHVK Car, Formula Renault, Ferrari 430 Scud- around Illinois dirt tracks, and taking skid That’s another story. Crazy. eria 16M, Lamborghini LP670-4 SV Mur- control training in a Ford Escort and Lotus cielago or any combination of these and a Formula Ford in rain-soaked England. 4. Towing a Trans-Am racecar from Denfew more: Porsche Cayman, Mini Cooper ver to Trois-Rivieres, Quebec in 17 hours S, etc. More on that later. I try not to let that last part get around too without relief. What is it about pulling much so my competitors don’t catch me all-nighters getting the race car ready, and In the meantime, here’s what I’ll be com- smiling when it starts raining. I try look- THEN driving cross country to make a race paring these drives to: ing worried like many others, just before I without any sleep? Talk about lunacy. drop the hammer. On Track 5. Driving from Denver to Chicago with 2II WUDFN my future wife in a four-door Chevy Che1. First time driving a Ÿ midget around a vette in the midst of a winter blizzard. The stock car track at age 3 years, 11 months. 1. First drive up the California coast from ice covered roads had potholes the size of First win at age 4. Over 200 race wins Riverside to Laguna Seca, cutting across bomb craters. Talk about lunacy. Oh, I said would follow. the mountains along the way, burning out that already? the brakes on the Firebird rental, descend2. First sports car race and win in Mini ing into the fog bank as the sun set over 6. Driving solo in my 240Z across the Cooper at Blackhawk Farms, IL. to be WKH 3DFL¿ F DQG ¿ QGLQJ UHIXJH LQ WKH -XOLD Rocky Mountains in the midst of a winfollowed by an undefeated 9-win season, Pfeiffer Burns National Forest in Big Sur; ter blizzard and total white out conditions DORQJ ZLWK ¿ YH FKDPSLRQVKLSV all vivid pictures in my mind to this day. without snow tires or chains on the way to California. Now, talk about luna‌um‌I 3. First drives in a sports racer (Gaines- 2. Long tow from Chicago in the dead of think I see a pattern developing here ‌ ville, FL) a Formula Ford (Snetterton and winter to the Gainesville, FL circuit, and Goodwood, England), Formula Atlantic then on to the airport track at Victoria, TX Do you have some great drives (and mayand Trans-Am (Continental Divide Race- to race a Mini Cooper and Elva C Sports be photos) you would like to reminisce ways, CO) a Formula Super Vee (Aspen, Racer. The truck was an ugly green and about, whether on or off the track? Send CO) and a Lotus Elan (Pueblo, CO). yellow Chevy Fleetside I bought for pea- them along and we’ll try to use them in upnuts off my dad’s electrical contracting coming editions of the Loud Pedal. Share 4. Participating (and scoring a DNF) in company. My co-pilot was a high school them with us on Facebook and Twitter. In WKH ¿ UVW HYHU 3UR )RUPXOD )RUG UDFH KHOG friend who volunteered for the long, over WKH PHDQWLPH VHH \RX DW SUH JULG You’ve probably had many favorite and maybe not-so-favorite drives, both on and off the track. As I embark on some new and exciting drives in England this June, I can’t help but think about some memorable experiences over the years.

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Just when you thought he might really pass up the racing season, the invitation arrives to attend a showing at his gallery and pie diner. Not only did Portland’s Nick Fluge surprise us with the quality and quantity of his new oil paintings, but with a new race car to replace the Derhaag Corvette he recently sold. Watch for Nick at the Rose Cup this June and preliminary races leading up to the big race weekend.

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The Twisty Bits Jim Murray, Road Racing Director Email: jmmurrayjr@aol.com

5DFLQJ IRU 'XPPLHV &KDSWHU Once upon a time, there was a young man who wanted to go racing. He eagerly drove to watch races in the Can-Am series; the Trans-Am series, and any other events he could get to without interfering with his college classes. He learned the ins and outs of Laguna Seca before it added the twisty bits and added the Mazda name. +H HYHQ PDGH LW WR WKH ¿ UVW 86$& UDFH DW 6HDUV 3RLQW 5DFHZD\ QRZ ,Q¿ QHRQ WR some) and watched the likes of Dan Gurney and Mario Andretti (then the current 86$& FKDPS ¿ QG WKHLU ZD\ DURXQG WKH brand-new track. Time marches on, and there’s no Can-Am series, no USAC championship, but we still have the Trans-Am; not this year at Portland, but hopefully next. The TransAm looks a little different from the halcyon days of 1970, but it’s still just as exciting and still draws the fans.

ular forum for sharing your stories, colorful and otherwise, about your experiences in racing, notable and otherwise. So to kick this off I’ll tell a couple on me; short takes on some of the things I’ve learned in my also-short racing “career� (quotes intended again). I hope maybe I’ll stir a memory or two among you, and prod you into an e-mail or phone call to share your stories with me, for publication in this space. I promise that, if you don’t, you’ll have to just deal with me and my repetitive, annoying tales working into your brain (think Chinese water-torture). For starters, then, a few pieces of advice and commentary. These are just a few of the grand insights I’ve learned in my brief time:

straints. Frankly, I had never encountered these before, but I agreed with the concept and learned to get into them as I prepared for each session. I wriggled my hands and arms into them as the next-to-last thing before I started the car, without thinking PXFK DERXW WKHLU XVH 7KHQ RQH ¿ QH GD\ I realized that the way I’d attached them to the belts, it would take me Forever to JHW RXW RI WKH FDU LI LW ZHUH RQ ¿ UH +RZ long, you ask, did it take me to make this blinding glimpse into the obvious? Three seasons. Probably 30 race weekends. 100 days in the car. 300 sessions. Amazing. Let’s just stop there. Tell me your stories; EH D SDUW RI WKLV JUHDW H[SHULPHQW

Our March weekend was gifted with great weather. Entries were pretty much as expected; we had a great contingent of stu--HANS device. This is a great inno- dents (20) who will hopefully enjoy many vation in driver safety. Everyone should of this year’s races. Spec Miata was well The young man looks a little different, too. have one. I think before long each of us represented. Many thanks to Brian Towey Not so young. After nearly 40 years, he ZLOO EH UHTXLUHG WR KDYH RQH :KHQ , Âż UVW and Bruce Wilson who ran an excellent Âż QDOO\ JRW WR JR UDFLQJ 7KURXJK WKH JRRG bought mine, I thought it very impressive school; students commented on how valuauspices of Pro Drive (shameless plug), he and safe. Very high-tech and snazzy. I able the track time was, particularly runfound his way onto the track and nothing KDSSLO\ ZHQW RXW IRU P\ Âż UVW VHVVLRQ ZHDU ning with some experienced company as has been the same since. We might say ing the HANS, feeling sporty and quite up a number of the Spec Miata frontrunners “the rest is historyâ€? but that would be en- to date. After the session I returned to the also instructed, and ran in the students’ ontirely too predictable. Hopefully there’s pits to discover that, although I was wear- track sessions. still more history to write. ing the HANS device I had neglected to FRQQHFW WKH VWUDSV WR WKH Âż WWLQJV RQ P\ KHO The three-day weekend, school and Re%\ QRZ \RXÂśYH SUREDEO\ Âż JXUHG RXW WKDW met. Advice to (the other) dummies: the gional, went off well thanks to our cadre of the no-longer-young man is the writer, HANS works best when you connect it to workers; being new in this job I continue \RXU IDLWKIXO VHUYDQW ,I \RX KDYHQÂśW Âż J the helmet. to be amazed and thankful for our people ured it out; well, I confess; I am the perwho show up and make it happen. Can’t petrator. My racing “careerâ€? (quotes in--Arm restraints. We open-cockpit driv- say enough about our people. tended) began late, has been conspicuously ers are required to wear these so our arms inconspicuous, and I hope will continue for ZRQÂśW Ă€ \ XS RXW RI WKH FDU ZKHQ WKH WKLQJ Looking forward to April we anticipate some time. Maybe I’ll even win a race. rolls over. They also, I would note, prevent passing out some cash, courtesy of our me from adjusting my mirrors, stretch- Sunoco sponsorship touted in last month’s But out there in the great gray Northwest, ing, or picking my nose. As if I could do column. Who knows which group will there are many of you who will have had that with the helmet on (presumably at- get it this month? We’ll decide that later; longer, more distinguished and more inter- tached to the HANS device). Have you each weekend it’ll be a different group so esting times in racing than I ever will. My noticed, though, that F1 drivers don’t use everyone gets a chance over the course of goal today is to invite you (and you and arm restraints? Hmmm. Maybe they’re the year. To be eligible, you have to use you and you) to share this space by pen- so highly trained they can keep their arms the gas, have the decals on the car, and the ning subsequent chapters of “Racing for LQ WKH FDU ZKHQ LW Ă€ LSV -XVW QRWLFHG WKDW patch on the suit. And of course, enter the Dummiesâ€?, which I hope to make an irreg- yesterday. Anyway, back to the arm re- race‌

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25(*21 5(*,21 6&&$ %2$5' 2) ',5(&7256 0((7,1* 0,187(6 '$7( PLACE: China Bay Restaurant PRESENT: Board Members: Dan Halloran, Dan Mullin, Jim Murray, Andy Howe, Peggy Gaston Members: Mary Thompson, Karen McCoy, Randy Unsbee, Todd Butler, Gary Manchester, Carrie Sutherland, Margie Swanson Absent: Jeff Zurschmeide, Chris Hale, Kim McFarland CALL TO ORDER – RE Dan called the meeting to order REGIONAL EXECUTIVE INTRO - None MEMBER/NEW BUSINESS COMMENTS – Margie asked about any progress on the BBQ issue. She has mentioned it to another user group and they showed interest in the project as well. If we were to go forward with the project, it would be used only for the end of day activities and as such would not compete with the food vendor. Dan has spoken with Mark at PIR and he in turn will discuss it with Ovations to see if they have any objections. Dan will check back with Mark and advise at the next BOD meeting. Karen advised that while she was attending the Ntl. Convention this year there was discussion about having a Norpac Seminar this year. She, along with sever other Region Administrators felt that it would serve our groups well to unite and share ideas. They have made plans to hold this one-day session on Nov. 6th in Reno. There will be no cost to the region and will focus on Solo, Rally and Road Racing. Carrie advised that she is no interested in being the end of the years awards chairman this year. She feels that there needs to be new ideas developed and hers are ex-

hausted. She is happy to pass on any help that she can to the new chair.

Practice Day Saturday, March 27th - PIR North Paddock Event #1 Sunday, March 28th - PIR North COMMITTEE & OFFICIALS REPORTS Paddock Novice School Saturday, April 24th- PIR REGIONAL OFFICE REPORT South Paddock – Karen reported 95 hours for the previous Event #2 Sunday, April 25th- PIR South PRQWK LQ WKH RI¿FH Paddock Intermediate School Saturday, June 12th, She went over the new Ntl. membership Packwood, WA dues and levels of membership as well. Event #3 Sunday, June 13th - Packwood, Region dues were discussed and it was de- WA cided that they should remain the same. Event #4 Saturday, July 10th - Packwood, M/S (Dan M./Andy) M/P. WA Event #5 Sunday, July 11th, - Packwood, Karen advised that we had 20 students and WA HQWULHV IRU RXU ¿UVW HYHQW WKLV LQFOXGHG Event #6 Saturday, August 21st RXU ¿UVW \HDU ROG GULYHU Packwood, WA Event #7 Sunday, August 22nd - Packwood, The following reports were presented and WA discussed: Event #8 Saturday, September 18th - PIR South Paddock Oregon Region Balance Sheet Event #9 Sunday, September 19th - PIR Road Racing Balance Sheet South Paddock SCCA Properties Balance Sheet RALLY REPORT TREASURER REPORT – Absent 3/28 will be a Rally X at WA. – Carrie proposed that we place the funds County Fairgrounds that currently reside in the Properties account into an account that would generate DIRECTOR I REPORT some residual. – No report She passed on info on one that she had investigated as an example. Karen will DIRECTOR II REPORT check at our current banking source to – Absent see what they can offer us for this small amount that the account holds. ROAD RACING REPORT – Jim advised that Sunoco would be an LOUD PEDAL REPORT additional fuel supplier at the track this – The March issue goes to the printer on season starting in April. As a sponsor they Monday. have provided a fund of $3,000 to be used as awards to drivers. Randy presented a weight & print options comparison sheet for review. He men- Buy their fuel, sport their patch and sticker tioned that if we were to make changes we your car to be eligible. Details on award would need to sell ads to cover the addi- criteria will be forthcoming. Todd Butler tional costs. brokered this deal and Jim thanked him for his efforts. Jim said that he felt that quality was an important factor in gaining new business 7KH $SULO VDQFWLRQ KDV EHHQ ¿QDOL]HG DQG leads, so any small additional costs would submitted to national. The Rose Cup be worthy. schedule is in process and as usual will most probably undergo changes. DIRECTOR’S REPORTS Jim asked if there was anyone who would SOLO II REPORT help to get an ambassador program start– Solo hosted their kick-off party at Sykart ed. and is ready for the season ahead. Listed (Continued on page 23) below is the current schedule as of now.

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Rallying with Chris & Kristen Chris Hale, Rally Manager and Kristen E. Tabor Email: chale@nwscan.net

)LUVW 5DOO\&URVV :HW :LQG\ &KLOO\ I know that some of you were outside the last Saturday of March enjoying the wonderful warm weather. Where was that weather on Sunday??

event of 2010, which is always nice to see. Along with new competitors, our timing and scoring guys rolled out a new toy— Live Scoring.

Oh yes, it was rainy and windy and chilly, so it must have been time for RallyCross. ,ÂśP QRW FRPSODLQLQJ PLQG WKH Âż UVW RallyCross of the year is always wet, windy and chilly. But I think Mother Nature went a little overboard with the details this year. I woke up in the middle of the night and heard the rain pounding on the roof, and I knew it was going to be a slippy PXGIHVW RXW RQ WKH 5DOO\&URVV Âż HOG DQG , ZDV ULJKW

You could use your smart phone to check VFRUHV RQ WKH À \ KRSHIXOO\ QRW ZKLOH GULY ing, though) to see how you and the competition stack up. Also, friends and family at home could keep an eye on the ORG website and watch the scores as they came in. For future events, you might want to ERRNPDUN VFRULQJ RUHJRQUDOO\ FRP

We had a huge crowd for the morning session; the 2WD classes drew short straw this time and were competing in the morning session with the All Wheel Drive classes running in the afternoon. The sun peeked out a couple of times during registration, and luckily the rain held off for most of the morning session. However, that didn’t do anything about the deep and sticky mud the cars had to compete in. The parade lap saw a few cars become a bit entrenched, but we had a couple RI WRZ ULJV RXW LQ WKH ¿ HOG WR JLYH D TXLFN tug so no one was stuck for too long‌ until later, that is, but I’ll get to that shortly. :H KDG PDQ\ QHZ FRPSHWLWRUV IRU RXU ¿ UVW

It was fun watching from the sidelines as the cars slipped and slid around the course—the wheels may be spinning at max speed, but actual speeds were very VORZ ZLWK WKH Âż UVW IHZ UXQV SRVWLQJ PLQ ute plus times. As the morning session wore on, and the rain continued to hold off for the most part, the times started to get faster. The surface started to dry out a bit, which allowed the mud to get tacky and have more grip. Of course, just before the afternoon competitive session began, the skies opened up and it poured rain for a short period RI WLPH²VHWWLQJ WKH Âż HOG EDFN WR WKH messy, muddy, slippery conditions of the PRUQLQJ <RX FRXOG WHOO SHRSOH ZHUH VWLOO having fun—the big silly grins gave that emotion away. Several people got stuck

Oregon Trail Rally: It’s time again for the most exciting motorsport in the world to make its annual visit to Oregon. Round 4 of the Rally America Championship comes to town, May 14-16, for the extremely popular and challenging Oregon Trail Rally. This year’s event will follow the familiar format of spectator special stages in the heart of the city at Portland International Raceway (PIR) on Friday. This year’s combination of forest and rural grassland stages will be a mixture of old and new and is sure to challenge the rally drivers. Fans can catch the action at PIR on Friday evening, and we are planning a Rally street party on Saturday evening in Dufur after the conclusion of the day’s racing action. We have received great support from local businesses and land-owners and we are delighted to be able to bring this national event and the associated economic EHQH¿ WV WR WKH DUHD 7KH WRZQ ORFDWHG PLOHV VRXWK RI 7KH 'DOOHV DORQJ +Z\ will be supporting two spectator sites in the immediate vicinity, and invites all fans to attend the after race party with the rally teams on Saturday evening.

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WU\LQJ WR OHDYH WKH Âż HOG DW WKH HQG RI WKH day, including the Tabor Rally Team’s truck; don’t worry, it was rescued the next evening by a couple of accountants (that would be Dad and Mark) using one of our other trucks and a series of tow ropes. ORG’s next RallyCross is set for April 18 out at the Washington County Fairgrounds—don’t worry, we’ll get someone out there to drag out the ruts before the next event, and typically our April event usually has good weather. Hope I didn’t MXVW MLQ[ WKDW ,I \RX ZDQW WR Âż QG RXW PRUH DERXW UDOO\ and what ORG does, please come to the ORG Rally Day at RalliTek on April 10, from 10am to 4pm. There will be various sessions throughout the day to learn about all kinds of things associated with rally— the day starts off with a general “What is Rallyâ€? chat, followed by opportunities to learn about the different volunteer positions; things you need to know as a novice stage rally competitor; writing your own course notes; and learning about Road Rally (aka time-speed-distance rallying) and RallyCross. There will be stage rally cars present to check out, and “roaming expertsâ€? available to answer all your questions. We’ll have a BBQ going with lunch items, and a UDIĂ€ H WR UDLVH PRQH\ IRU RXU SDUWQHU FKDU ity, Parkinson’s Resources of Oregon. It ZLOO EH D IXQ ZD\ WR VSHQG WKH GD\ Other upcoming events: ORG is taking a stage crew up to Washington State for the Olympus Rally, a round of the Rally America National Rally Championship, the weekend of April 24-25. Oregon’s round of the RA National Championship occurs with the Oregon Trail Rally on May DQG DV DOZD\V ZH QHHG YROXQWHHUV Come to our Rally Day to learn how you FDQ JHW LQYROYHG 6HH \RX RQ WKH URDG

Solo II Report Andy Howe, Solo II Director Email: solo.howe@comcast.net

)LUVW 6ROR (YHQW PDNHV IRU D *RRG :HHNHQG The editor of the Loud Pedal tolerated my procrastination long enough for me to delay writing this month’s column until AF7(5 RXU ¿ UVW ZHHNHQG RI DXWRFURVV Despite the fact that I’m both tired and sore, it was a good weekend.

I took reading with the meter set to “A� weighting and “Slow� response. The meter was approximately 42 inches above the ground, 50 feet from the edge of the course. I positioned myself so that a well-driven car should be full throttle in front of the meter and going away from the meter. With the meter set to “Slow� response, good drivers tended to register higher readings.

The most amazing thing from the whole weekend was that Oregon Region Solo was (aside from the late night drags) the only motorized track user during the weekend. Saturday had no other scheduled user IRU , WKLQN WKH Âż UVW WLPH LQ P\ \HDUV In order to get a high reading with the mewith the club). ter set to “Slowâ€? response, the sound has to be sustained for a long time (relative to Sunday, we were to share the track with autocross time). A brief lift off the throttle drag racers, but the morning showers will result in a large break on the meter’s rained them out. This left me the perfect reported sound level. RSSRUWXQLW\ WR PRQLWRU VRXQG There were a couple cars that were clearly So, about sound‌ if you attended the very loud, but the driver didn’t sustain the event on Saturday and your car was over throttle long enough to give a big reading. 90 decibels, you probably had me give you By contrast, George Hudetz registered 95 a heads-up. There weren’t very many of GHFLEHOV LQ KLV 5; FKLHĂ€ \ EHFDXVH KLV you.

car was fairly loud and he was full throttle for a long time. Saturday was fair weather, but Sunday was not quite as nice. What impact did this have on sound levels? I checked cars during one group (we were somewhat short handed for workers because of the weather) and it appeared that sound levels were up about two decibels from Saturday. This was in spite of the course being damp and drivers using less throttle (generally speaking) than they did on Saturday. File that away for future use. Next event weekend is April 24th and 25th. Saturday will be the annual Novice School with Sunday being our second points event. The location is the PIR South Paddock. , KRSH WR VHH \RX WKHUH

The majority of our cars were under 85 decibels. Denis Cornforth had the sound meter during the last session of the day (while I was driving) and he indicated that the loudest car registered 99 decibels. This was, according to Denis, the new Olerich Corvette. I apparently only managed around 90 decibels while driving Chuck Jarvie’s Formula Ford. What did I learn? First, a Radio Shack sound meter has its shortcomings. With the microphone open to the wind, the wind will register on the meter. The meter will only read sound within a 20-decibel range (which is adjustable, fortunately) so I was constantly adjusting the meter to get readings on all the cars.

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From the R.E. Dan Halloran, Regional Executive Email: dan.halloran@yahoo.com

1RU3DF 'LYLVLRQDO 0HHWLQJ 1HZV When I became Regional Executive several years ago I was only vaguely aware of the organizational structure of SCCA. 6XUH , NQHZ WKHUH ZDV D 1DWLRQDO RI¿ FH LQ Topeka that took my money, gave me a license, created the GCR, and sent a monthly magazine.

NorPac covers an area from Central California north through arctic Alaska and IURP WKH 3DFL¿ F 2FHDQ WR DOPRVW WKH PLG dle of Montana. And it size ranges from the large, San Francisco 4,400 members to

SW Montana at 66 members. Road Racing activity is concentrated in the larger regions with the smaller regions concentrating on Solo and Rally. (Continued on page 21)

Closer to home and much more visible was the local RI¿ FH UXQ E\ .DUHQ 0F&R\ who always made sure I corUHFWO\ ¿ OOHG RXW P\ HQWU\ forms and reminded me to thank the workers for making my racing possible. That was my SCCA and it worked great. After becoming the Grand Poobah of the Oregon Region I discovered I was also on the board of the Northern 3DFL¿ F 'LYLVLRQ 1RU3DF of the SCCA. Huh? What was that? Well there is an SCCA organizational level between Portland and Topeka designed to coordinate the activities of neighboring regions and to help improve the quality of the SCCA experience among those regions. In many parts of the country adjoining regions share race tracks so the regions get together annually to sort out schedules. They want to make sure they coordinate their activities to the best advantage of participants. Sitting together in a room makes the process move faster so more work gets done in a shorter period of time.

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8SFRPLQJ (YHQWV April 17-18 -- ORSCCA Single Regional, with Chicane @ PIR April 18 -- ORG RallyCross #2, Hillsboro, OR April 24-25 -- Solo Novice School and Event #2 @ PIR South Paddock 0D\ &ROXPELD 5RR¿QJ DQG 6KHHW 0HWDO 5HJLRQDO DQG 1DWLRQDO 5DFHV # 3,5 May 7 -- CSCC Friday Nighter, Portland/Vancouver Area May 14-16 - Vintage CSRG @ Thunderhill May 14-16 -- Oregon Trail Rally, Hood River, OR and PIR 0D\ 1:5 'RXEOH 1DWLRQDO Z 1253$& 9LQWDJH # 3DFL¿F 5DFHZD\V May 30 -- ORG RallyCross #3, Hillsboro, OR June 4 -- CSCC Friday Nighter, Portland/Vancouver Area June 11-13 -- ORSCCA Rose Cup Double Regional w/NORPAC Vintage, with Chicane @ PIR June 12-13 -- Intermediate School and Solo Event #3 @ Packwood, WA June 26-27 -- ORG National RallyCross 2010, Hillsboro, OR June 27 -- ORG RallyCross #4, Hillsboro, OR July 2-4 -- ORSCCA Double National, with Chicane @ PIR July 2 -- CSCC Friday Nighter, Portland/Vancouver Area July 10-11 -- Solo Events # 4 & #5 @ Packwood, WA July 31 -- CSCC Mountains to the Sea Rally, Portland to Coast August 7-8 -- ORSCCA Single Regional, no Chicane @ PIR August 8 -- ORG RallyCross #5, Location TBA August 13 -- CSCC Friday Nighter, Portland/Vancouver Area August 21-22 -- Solo Events #6 and #7 @ Packwood, WA August 28-29 -- NWR Double Regional w/NORPAC Vintage @ Bremerton September 11 -- Rally Against Parkinson’s September 12 -- ORG RallyCross #6, Hillsboro, OR September 10-12 -- SFR/NORPAC Vintage Weekend @ Thunderhill Park September 11-12 -- ORSCCA Single Regional, no Chicane @ PIR September 17 -- CSCC Friday Nighter, Portland/Vancouver Area September 18-19 -- Solo Events #8 and #9 @ PIR South Paddock October 1 -- CSCC Friday Nighter, Portland/Vancouver Area October 8-10 -- ORSCCA Double Regional, with Chicane @ PIR October 10 -- ORG RallyCross #7, Hillsboro, OR October 16 -- CSCC Autumn GTA Rally, Portland/Vancouver Area October 23 - Mt. Hood Rally October 23-24 --ORSCCA Regional w/NORPAC Vintage @ Oregon Raceway Park, Grass Valley OR, co-sanctioned with NW Region Oct. 30-31 Vintage CSRG @ Thunderhill

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ORSCCA Board Meetings are held the First Wednesday of Each Month at China Bay Restaurant, 13281 SW Canyon Rd., Beaverton, OR

(R.E., Continued from page 19) This is a very diverse and talent and experience-laden group. Since our events GRQ¶W FRQÀ LFW YHU\ PXFK ZH KDYH EHHQ able to manage schedules with phone calls and email. But we missed the opportunity for training and sharing of ideas. We have not always used the resources we have to improve the SCCA experience for our members. This year we are attempting to change that. 1RUWKHUQ 3DFL¿ F 'LYLVLRQ 'LUHFWRUV 5- Gordy and Todd Butler are announcing a Division-wide Training Session scheduled for November 6, 2010 at the Atlantis Casino & Resort, Reno, NV. Training Sessions will be in the following areas of interest:

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These workshops will focus on what makes a good event. They will help develop, prepare and operate fun, safe events, determine the best way to evaluate the success of events, and how you can duplicate “best practices” from other regions. The $75.00 registration fee includes a light lunch and dinner on Saturday. Rooms have been blocked at the Atlantis Hotel for $79.00 per night plus taxes. Suggestions for additional workshops are welcomed and encouraged. Any and all topics will be considered. If you have any questions or suggestions please contact either Linda Rogaski at lrogaski@hotmail. com or phone 916-991-3010; or Carol Deborde at c_deborode@charter.net or phone 775-267-4845. This is your chance to get more involved in improving SCCA and using the knowledge and experience you have accumulated over the years to help others in our sport. Oregon Region has some of the best Road Race, Solo, and Rally organizers and workers in the country. Step up and show the rest of our division how good you really are.

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(Board Minutes Continued from page 15) His thought would be for someone knowledgeable to meet and greet prospective members and show them around the track and answer questions that they might have concerning the different specialties and race groups etc. Gary said that he would be happy to offer some time to this effort and Jim said that he would spend some time on it as well.

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ASST REGIONAL EXEC - Dan talked about the FOPIR Day at PIR. Several drivers took advantage of the annual tech inspection that was offered during this event. He felt that there was a good turn out and that it was well organized. REGIONAL EXEC – Dan thanked Carrie for her efforts on our behalf as treasurer. He noted that many businesses and groups fail without having good checks and balances in place.

Dan is pleased that Jim & Gary will work toward an ambassador program. He feels that we need a boost to help maintain our membership and encourage new folks to join us. Adjourn M/P

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