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Shannonville Performance Track

School and Lapping Weekend

June 23/24

CASCAR weekend at MospoShannonville lapping weeke

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Editorial Exhaust

I have a new addiction. Just got back from

the Performance Lapping school at

Shannonville Motorsport Park, and in the

four days since, I'm already trying to find a

way of skipping work to feed this

addiction.

This was my first time on track, and I

wasn't sure quite what to expect. The

drizzle on Saturday didn't help, as my

Kuhmo's were all but slicks. But the

afternoon cleared up, and Sunday turned

into a perfect day.

A very big thank you is extended to the

Bob Armstrong as chief instructor (and

encourager), all the instructors, Ron

Woltman for organization, and CindyArmstrong and her band of course workers

who gave their time to put on this fabulous

event.

The event started Friday afternoon with

registration and scrutineering opening

Saturday's rain dampened only the track

not the spirits.

I'll have a longer report for the weekend in

the August issue. The MCO web site has

already been updated with photos from the

event; go see them!

Cover Photo byPat Weightman

Motorsport Club of Ottawa

Founded 1949

Founding Member CA SC 1951

Incorporated 1953

July 2001

2001 MCO Executive

PresidentRon Woltman

H: (613) 592-0141W: (819) 997-6988

[email protected]

Vice-PresidentJ.R. Fortinpager: (613) 760-8418

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Past PresidentRob Microys

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Directors

Public RelationsBasil Chiu

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KartingAdam Mortimer


RaceJeremy Hamilton


Solo-II

Chris [email protected]

RallyJim Morrow


MembershipPatrick Weightman

(613) [email protected]

TreasurerRobert Benson

H: (613) 837-2051

[email protected]

SecretaryChris Capowski

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[email protected]

Hotline

(613) 788-0525

Website

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General MeetingsLouis's Steakhouse

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All are welcome

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Motorsport Club of Ottawa. Theopinions expressed in the LINK do notnecessarily reflect those of the LINKEditorial Staff or the Club's Executive.Though all efforts are made to ensurethat facts stated in the articles herein areaccurate, the individual contributorsshould check the accuracy of theirarticles prior to submission.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS:

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2001 Calendar of EventsMCO GENERAL MEETINGSFirst Tuesday of every month, 8:00 pmLouis' Steakhouse, 1682 Cyrville Road

MCO EXECUTIVE MEETINGSThird Tuesday of every month, 7:00 pm

Louis' Steakhouse, 1682 Cyrville Road

2001 Solo-I Schedule

April 28 Solo I School SMP - Fabi April 29 Solo I School SMP - Nelson May 18 Lapping 1 Mosport DDT May 19 Event 1 Mosport DDT May 20 Event 2 Mosport DDT June 9 Event 3 SMP - Fabi June 10 Event 4 SMP - Nelson June 22 Lapping 2 Cayuga June 23 Event 5 Cayuga June 24 Event 6 Cayuga

July 14 Event 7 Mosport DDT July 15 Event 8 Mosport DDT August 11 Event 9 SMP - Pro August 12 Event 10 SMP - Nelson August 24 Lapping 3 Cayuga August 25 Event 11 Cayuga August 26 Event 12 Cayuga September 13 Event 13 SMP - Pro September 14 Event 14 SMP - Fabi N ovem ber 3 Solo 1/2 Banquet R am ada H otel, T.O.

2001 Road Racing Schedule

April 20-22 Spring Fling SMP April 27 Test Day Mosport April 28, 29 BARC - Event 1 Mosport May 11 Test Day Mosport May 12, 13 BARC - Event 2 Mosport June 2, 3 CRDA Event 3 SMP June 30, July 1, 2 VARAC Festival Mosport July 6 Test Day SMP July 7, 8 MCO - Event 4 SMP July 21, 22 DAC - Event 5 SMP August 10 Test Day Mosport August 11, 12 BARC - Event 6 Mosport August 31 Test Day Mosport September 1, 2 CRDA - Event 7 Mosport September 14 Test Day Mosport September 15, 16 BEMC - Event 8 Mosport September 28 Test Day Mosport September 29, 30 Celebration - Event 9 Mosport

MCO Solo-II Schedule

April 22 Event #1April 29 Performance School #1May 13 Event #2June 3 Event #3June 17 Event #4July 14 Performance School #2July 15 Event #5

July 29 Event #6August 26 Event #7September 9 Event #8September 23 Event #9October 7 Event #10

All Events are at Jetform Park

Workers Needed:

2001 Canaska CupJuly 6-8, 2001

If you would like to help out at these events,please contact the MCO Executive at executive@mco.

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CASCAR RaceReport

by Jim Holtom

The large crowd on hand for the CAS-CAR race at the legendary Mosport racecircuit was treated to a spirited battle in

the Canada GT Challenge Cup. In the end,Brent Gates in his Stealth B6, overcame arace-long challenge from Jim Holtom inhis SCADAPack Corvette. Charles Web-ster finished third in his Camaro, andKlaus Bytzek finished fourth in his Por-sche 911 GT1 EVO. Mark Swain capturedfifth in his Ultima.

Sunday dawned with clear blue skies andthe promise of a perfect June day forround five of the Canada GT ChallengeCup. When the Canadian flag was wavedto start the race, Gates immediately tookthe lead, followed by Holtom, Bytzek,

Webster and Jim Beaton. Over the courseof the next five laps, he opened up a gapof a few seconds, when Holtom suddenlyentered the pits. "I was concerned aboutthe motor", said Holtom. "It was runninghotter than normal, and I just couldn'tkeep up with Brent, so we decided to takeour pit stop earlier than normal. When Ireturned to the race, our track positionwas identical to that of just before thestop. We were directly behind Brent, butone lap down.

Then when the first full course cautionhappened, I thought the gods might besmiling upon us. Brent's lead disappeared

and we were once again on his tail. Itbecame obvious that pit stop timing andstrategy was going to play a major role inthe outcome".

After the cause of the full course cautionwas cleaned up (Bentley Hammer'sCamaro had spun and contacted the wallbetween Corners 9 and 10), the racerestarted and once again Brent Gatespulled out a small lead over Holtom. Hethen dashed into the pits for his mandatoryone-minute pit stop, with Holtom inherit-ing the lead. But when Gates returned tothe race, his car was behind Holtom's. "I

don't know what happened, but for somereason our pit stop was just a few secondslonger than Jim's, which was all it took togive him the lead", said Brent after therace.

I smiled when I saw that darn Stealthbehind me on the track. I knew it wouldbe tough keeping him there, but at leastwe had a chance. Sure enough, he keptworking his way closer and closer, untilall of a sudden there was a huge crashinvolving Brad Flower's Porsche in Cor-ner One. With Brent filling my mirrors, I

had to thread my way through the debris,and then do creative driving to keep theStealth behind. Under ASN Canada FIArules, overtaking is allowed immediatelyafter passing a yellow flag incident. Thisgives a big advantage to the overtakingcar, because the leading driver has to slowdown, find the hole through the debris,and yet keep up sufficient speed that the

following car can't slingshot past.

"Brent tried to pass me going up the Mar-io Andretti straight, but a lapped car got inthe way. I was praying for the full coursecaution that I knew would come, but onceagain we had to battle through the crashzone at Corner One. When we camearound Corner 5B to go up the straight, Iknew my only hope was the full coursecaution. Brent was too close behind meand there were no cars to create traffic.Sure enough, he motored past me usingthe superior straight-line speed of theStealth. Then to add insult, the full course

caution happened about one second afterhe passed me. I knew at that point that wehad lost the race".

But the excitement wasn't over for thefans. Brad Flower's Porsche was removedfrom Corner One, but the protective tiresagainst the concrete wall were too badlyscattered to be replaced in time for therace to finish. The officials decided to dis-play a stationary yellow flag at CornerOne to prohibit any overtaking attempts.When the race restarted, Holtom pursuedGates, but by the time the pair arrived atCorner 3, a red flag was displayed and therace was over. A huge, multi-car crashhad happened on the start finish straight,

starting with Gunter Schmidt's Volkswa-gen Beetle spinning at the exit of Corner10. Mike Palladino's Corvette hit Gunter'sBeetle. Meanwhile, Charles Webster whowas running in third position a few carsback, had Klaus Bytzek glued to his rearbumper, and Jim Harrison in the front.Charlie wanted to keep his podium posi-tion, and was hard on the gas coming

around Corner 10. Jim Harrison checkedup to avoid the Schmidt/Palladino inci-dent, and was heavily rear-ended byCharles, who was then heavily rear-endedby Klaus Bytzek. Charles kept going tocross the finish line, knowing that hissteering was knocked askew, but unawarethat his brake line had been severed. HisCamaro came to a rest against the tires atCorner One, fortunately missing the bareconcrete wall section created earlier byBrad Flowers' Porsche.

With car parts and pieces scattered allover the start finish straight and down into

Corner One, the officials wisely displayedthe red flag, and the battle was over. BrentGates had won his first race of 2001 in theStealth B6. The ecstatic but exhaustedGates could hardly contain his excitementover the victory. Holtom was pleased withthe outcome. Charles Webster stayed withhis wounded Camaro and missed the podi-um presentation, but in the true spirit ofthe Canada GT Challenge Cup, his bottleof ice cold Bacardi Martini Asti was savedfor him.

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Above: Jim Holtom takes second place.Photo by Karen Holtom

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Main Street Racing- Press Release

Main Street Racing's CarQuest ProTruck is the Top Ottawa Pro Truckin the ANCA ProTruck Regional

Series

DATE: Monday June 4th, 2001

Saturday's overcast skies cleared tolet the ANCA Defi-Camion run inMontreal. This Regional Series forQuebec and Eastern Ontario ProTruck Racing had great participa-tion from the Ottawa Drivers. MainStreet Racing's Ken Baird won hisheat race and followed up with afourth place finish out of 25 Trucksfor the Defi-Camion. Other OttawaDrivers, Matt Moffitt, Steve Yen-dall, Giles Sequin, Dave Stoddard,Dave Riopelle, Steve Benoit, TimKirby, Dave Woods and ShawnQuinn joined Ken; all had goodshowings at this major Quebectrack.

Ken had driven two weeks previ-ously at the AutoPro UAP NapaCASCAR ANCA 100 May 19thwhere he won an 8th place finish inhis new ProTruck. This is his firstyear in the ProTruck Series after a

number of years in CASCAR andCanadian ChampCar Lights. TheCanadian ChampCar Lights Formu-la Car will run some races in Cana-da and the US as sponsors come onboard.

The ProTrucks Sponsors this yearare CARQUEST, Class 8 Collision,Shell Oil Thermoshell, G. W. Roof-ing, Bernhard Turbo Trans, R.V.S.Hydraulics, Kemco Radiator,Extreme Signs, Irish Rose ATVNature Trails, Custom Welding, and

Barry Horricks. Thanks to AnExcellent Crew - Colin Lewis is theCar Chief and Chief Mechanic, RobJackson is Backup Driver and Crew-man, Jeff Brown and Chris Lewisare Crewmen and Leo Constantinouis the Race Cars Parts Professional.Pam Lewis, Chris Dolman and BevMillar are the Team Assistants.

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Main Street Racing Press Release

Main Street Racings CarQuestProTruck Sixth Place Finish in

Feature follows Pit Lane

Confusion.

DATE: Thursday June 21st, 2001

June 20th was another great nightfor racing at Capital CitySpeedway with seventeenProTrucks racing the night awaywith the Four Cylinder MiniStocks, Hobby Stock, Pro Stockand Four for Fun. The number ofProTrucks meant splitting theProTrucks into 2 groups, each

running one heat and the feature,nstead of two heats and the feature

race. The CarQuest Pro Truckdriven by Ken Baird was listed inhe second heat on the outside

pole great starting position.Unfortunately, race officials had amiscount and made him go to theback on the first heat. In thesecond heat, they made him go outn the outside pole position andhen put him to the back again!

Press on Regardless is most racersmotto at times like this, and Kenmoved up to fifth position by theend of the short heat.

The Feature was a great racebetween the North Gower Driversas Steve Yendall, Matt Moffitt andKen Baird swapped positions andpaint as these top drivers, all from

North Gower, raced together.Actually little paint as these areexperienced drivers racing againstone another in closely matchedperformance trucks. Ken was inthe lead until his brakes began tofade two thirds of the way through

the race after driving outside ofGordie Brunet for a few laps. Mattand Steve passed underneath andthe three of them went at it for anexciting finish for all the NorthGower fans. Great show for FanAppreciation night, and a goodshowing for the North Gowerdrivers. New drivers in the ProTruck Series last night were BillCode of Pembroke and SteveMunro, a track favourite from

Carp.Other North Gower Drivers DaveWatchorn and Martin Walterstraded first and second positions allnight in the mini-stacks. Thesedrivers are crowd favourites, fastand fun to watch. The Four forFun, for those who want to usetheir own car for a taste of racingon a real track, was the kind of funeveryone can have; with goodtimes for fans and drivers all.

Earl Wylie, our popular HobbyStock Driver finished first in bothhis heats andin the topthree for thefeature. TheFans had hiscar sur-

rounded during the FanAppreciation track event.

The ProTruck #2s Sponsors thisyear are CARQUEST, Class 8Collision, Shell Oil Thermoshell,G. W. Roofing, Bernhard Turbo

Trans, R.V.S. Hydraulics, KemcoRadiator, Extreme Signs, IrishRose ATV Nature Trails, CustomWelding, and Barry Horricks.Thanks to An Excellent Crew -Colin Lewis is the Car Chief andChief Mechanic, Rob Jackson isBackup Driver and Crewman, JeffBrown and Chris Lewis areCrewmen and Leo Constantinou isthe Race Cars Parts Professional.Pam Lewis, Chris Dolman and Bev

Millar are the Team Assistants.

CONTACT: Main Street [email protected] 489-0980 - Box 37, NorthGower Ottawa ON K0A 2T0

Marketing Ottawa throughMotorsports

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recounting the long history of motorsopts in Ottawa and the regions. With 150 pages, everything andeveryone is included. Don't miss out on your copies!

There is still space ava ilable for sponsorship as well. For $20 you can ensure your nam e is in the book bysponsoring a page of your choosing. Full or partial page ads are open.

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Tracy KartingDriver Graham Hine

Notches UpImpressive Results

By Jeff Watson

SKUSA Florida Winter Tour ChampionSince being crowned SKUSA FloridaWinter Tour Champion in Jacksonville onApril 23rd, Paul Tracy KartingInternational [PTKI] driver Graham Hineof Almonte, Ontario continues to impress.

SKUSA Pro Moto TourIn his first SKUSA Pro Moto Tour eventon April 29th, Graham challenged the bestin North America and finished fourth inthe final, despite being down onhorsepower on the long Jacksonvillestraights.

Next stop is the Canadian leg of the ProMoto Tour in the streets of Barrie ON,which runs in late June. Graham isdetermined to win this one too. He justneeds his engine to be healthy on the day.

SKUSA Regional RacesGraham had an easy win at the SKUSALiberty Region race on May 13th at SaintLawrence Motor Sports Park and thenwon the SKUSA Ontario Region MosportGrand Prix in fine style on May 27th.

Adequate sponsorship is critical.Graham's schedule for the rest of the 2001

season will depend on how muchsponsorship he can attract. The plan is todo well in Barrie to qualify for the WorldChampionship in Oklahoma on September20-23rd and to win the SKUSA OntarioChampionship.

"Getting more sponsorship is job numberone for us now," said Colin Hine, ownerof PTK Racing. "We have been fortunateto have sponsorship from Luc Romanicaat Aylmer Saturn, but we will need muchmore to mount an effective challenge inthe SKUSA competitions. It would be ashame if Graham has to curtail his

ambitions for lack of money".

Another priority is to partner with a topnotch engine tuner," said Colin. "We havetalked to a number of people and we hopeto make a decision soon. Graham just hasto have the horsepower and the reliabilityif he is to be on a level playing field withthe heavily funded Americans".

Quick and ControlledGraham has already proved himself as adriver to be reckoned with and more thana few heads were turned at the Mosport

Grand Prix. Toronto based karters hadnever heard of Graham and it surprisedthem to see how quick and controlled hewas. In practice at Mosport, Graham wasleaving a number of 125cc shifters in hisdust! Three years of practice on the localtight tracks made Graham a master of theapexes. In Jacksonville it was only on thelong straights where his competition wasable to out drag him.

For more information on Graham'sprogress, contact Jeff Watson at:PTK Racing - Publicity(613) 721-6263 - Phone; 726-2945 - FaxEmail: [email protected]

Grahams record to date:Here is Grahams record so far this year:

January 14th, Naples FLA:Florida Winter Tour Round 1

Qualified on Pole; Heat 1, 2nd;

Heat 2, 2nd; Final, 3rd.

February 11th, Holmstead FLA:Florida Winter Tour Round 2

Qualified 2nd; Heat 1, 2nd;Heat 2, 2nd; Final, 1st.

March 4th, Ocala FLA:Florida Winter Tour Round 3

Qualified on Pole; Heat 1, 1st;Heat 2, 1st; Final, 1st.

April 1st, Gainsville FLA:Florida Winter Tour Round 4Qualified on Pole; Heat 1, 1st;Heat 2, 1st; Final, 1st.

April 23rd, Jacksonville FLA:Receives trophy as Florida Winter TourChampion

April 29th, Jacksonville FLA:SKUSA Pro Moto, Race 1Qualified 7th; Race 1, 7th;Race 2, 5th.

May 13th, Morristown NY:SKUSA, Liberty Region RaceQualified on Pole; Heat 1, 1st;Heat 2, 1st; Final, 1st.

May 27th, Mosport ON:SKUSA Ontario Championship Race 1Mosport Grand Prix

Qualified 3rd; Race 1, 1st (penalisedto 4th); Final, 1st.

Postscript:As the Link goes to press, Graham hasjust come back from the Barrie ONSKUSA Pro Moto race with a secondplace finish. This is a tremendousaccomplishment, since he was up againstthe best in North America and thisqualifies him for the WorldChamionships.

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Above: Graham Hines and his awards.photo by Jeff Watson

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Main Street Racing Press Release

Main Street Racings Ken BairdInstructs at Shannonville and Races

Ovals at Ottawa.

DATE: Thursday June 28th, 2001

MCO Lapping Weekend and CapitalCity Speedway Pro Truck Feature -Instructing at Shannonville Motor-sports Park and CarQuest ProTruck#2 and Main Street Racings KenBaird - 2nd in the Heat and Sixth forthe Feature adds to the Seasonspoints moving Ken up in the Stand-ings.

Main Street Racings Ken Baird had agreat time instructing prospectiveracecar drivers last weekend. Thisincluded North Gowers own JenniArmstrong, who by the end of theweekend was showing all the otherswhat a seventeen year old girl coulddo with her Dads RaceCar and a bitof Kens and others instruction. TheMotorsports Club of Ottawa(www.mco.org) holds the MCO Lap-ping Weekend each year. This year itwas at Shannonville Motorsports Park

near Belleville last weekend, a roadrace track designed for technicalexpertise. A Lapping Weekend is achance for all who want to learn howto drive on a real race track to do sowith qualified instructors, track work-

ers and safety personnel, in their owncars. Bob Armstrong of North Gowerwas Chief Instructor this year and dida great job. Thanks to all, especiallyall the volunteers that make the week-end affordable; it was a great success.

Kens next MCO event is Pace CarDriver at the Canaska Cup Everyonewelcome Shannonville MotorsportsPark July 7th & 8th.

Wednesday, the rains never came andwe had a good nights racing at Capi-tal City Speedway with sixteen Pro-Trucks along with the Four CylinderMini Stocks, Mini-Legend, Pro Stockand Four for Fun. The CarQuest ProTruck driven by Ken Baird was sec-ond in the Heat Race. The Featuregave him a Sixth Place finish, addingto the points total for the season.Jason Shipclark won the Feature, fol-lowed by Tim Kirby, Steve Yendall,Shaun Quinn, Dan Yeas and KenBaird.

All the North Gower drivers did well,as usual. Steve Yendall did particu-larly well, Dave Watchorn and Mar-tin Walter were a treat to watch asthey moved from the back of the packto the front. Matt Moffitt solved aproblem with his car and is looking

for a top three finish next Wednesday,July 4th.

Dont forget North Gower Race FanAppreciation Day on July 14th, 11 amto 2 pm at Rosebuds Come and see

RACE VEHICLES of all shapes asizes. RACERS Contact MelissaRosebud Stationery at 489-2094,any of you would like to participateany way, either by bringing a racar, or providing door prizes, or jby coming out to meet and greet.

Earl Wylie, our popular Hobby StoDriver, with no Hobby Stock Raraced in the Four for Fun, where ycan bring your own car and racSomeone had a spare, and Earl hfun showing his special style of ring in the 0.8 Car.

The ProTruck #2s Sponsors this yare CARQUEST, Class 8 CollisiShell Oil Thermoshell, G. W. Roing, Bernhard Turbo Trans, R.VHydraulics, Kemco RadiatExtreme Signs, Irish Rose ATNature Trails, Custom Welding, aBarry Horricks.

Thanks to An Excellent Crew - CoLewis is the Car Chief and ChMechanic, Rob Jackson is BackDriver and Crewman, Jeff Brown aChris Lewis are Crewmen and LConstantinou is the Race Cars PaProfessional. Pam Lewis, Chris Dman and Bev Millar are the TeaAssistants.

CONTACT: Main Street [email protected] 489-0980 - Box 37, North GowOttawa ON K0A 2T0

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The Totally SillyDrive

by Jim Morrow

On June 9, the MCO Rally Group kicked

off their 2001 rally season with a school,followed by an evening rally that ran for132 km.

Twelve students attended the classroomsession, during which we reviewed therules and regulations, safety considera-tions, checkpoint protocols, and the basicsof drivex navigation and timing. Severalworkers brought their rally-equipped vehi-cles, including the noisy black Impreza2.5RS. We demonstrated lights, rallycomputers and the various paraphernaliathat every rally team needs to get the jobdone.

Registration for the rally began at 7:15p.m. at the Harvey's on Carling Avenue,with a drivers' meeting at 7:45 p.m. Themythical Car 0 left at 8:00 p.m., en routeto 10 checkpoints. As befits a rallydesigned for beginners, roads and instruc-tions were designed to be simple, with anoccasional main-road navigation thrownin to test the teams' understanding.

Eight teams registered; of those, one wasfrom Quebec and five teams were first-

timers - as were most of the marshalsdoing checkpoint duty.

The participants said they enjoyed them-selves and wanted to know when theMCO was planning the next rally. Severalnewcomers offered to help organizerswith upcoming events.

Overall, we made a great advance forbuilding an interest in rallying and bring-ing it back to Ottawa.Stay tuned: we are aiming for a slightlymore complex rally in late July or earlyAugust. If you're interested in working onperformance rallies and getting up closeand personal with the big dogs, contactme and I'll connect you up with the appro-priate people.

Until next month....

The President'sReport

Your humble servant is scribbling thispiece on the 'eve', so to speak, of our big-gest event of the year. I speak, of course,of the Canaska Cup, and the endless finaldetails (more next LINK).

But we just concluded a most successful

two-day Advanced Driving School week-end. The feedback has been for the mostpart positive and rewarding. I feel, and Ithink I echo the feeling of most everyoneinvolved, the weekend was one of themost successful Driving/Lapping eventsever. There were errors and omissions -easily corrected for the future - but some

80 individuals left SMP as better drivers.That is comforting.

There are many people to thank. All ofthe instructors, who gave so willingly oftheir time, experience patience and goodhumour. I tried to thank each and everyone of you following the event, and if Imissed, believe me, I shall do so. Theworkers: Steve, Basil, Bennett, Herb, Bev,Matt, Rick, Bob M, Dave, John, Chris,Richard, Jim, Mike, Rob, and all the peo-ple who helped out on the day.THANKS.

And, last but not least, Bob and CindyArmstrong. Bob in the role as ChiefInstructor - my compliments for a job welldone; Cindy - as Chief Steward, but as weall know, much more than thatwelldone et merci.

I enjoyed the weekend. I found it verygratifying. We had a great team.

- rpw

July 2001

Jim Morrow discussing Rally navigation during theTSD Rally school, June 9.

Bob Armstrong discussing the track layout duringthe June 23/24 school at Shannonville.Photo by Pat Weightman

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Book Reviewby Rob Microys

Competition Car Suspension:Design, Construction, Tuning

by Allan Staniforth

This book has been written in a very easyto read style. Provides great insight onpast and current suspension designs usedin competition cars from the production-racing sedan, to IMSA GTP, Lemans Pro-totypes and Formula 1 racecars. Thebook is very progressive in nature startingwith the most fundamental topics, cover-ing the different types of technology usedin racing cars throughout the history ofMan's fascination about cars and drivingfast. The first half of the book concen-trates on the various types of suspensionarchitectures, technologies, geometries,springs, shocks, swaybars, bump rubbers,

and methods of making a car handle -even going in to detail on Lotus' Activesuspension which was the first of theamazing high-tech Formula 1 suspensionsystems to hit the scene.

The remainder of the book gets techni-cal, detailing shocks and springs withgood detail - and also recommends addi-tional reading for those people who reallywant to get in to the nitty gritty of shocktechnology and understanding racing sus-pensions. The book is quite current,being published in 1999. It details manymanufacturers' racing shocks, including

racing Koni and Penske shocks. Thebook goes so far as to provide one with adetailed set of mathematical formulae tohelp calculate just about every suspensionparameter you could imagine, wheelrates, spring rates, weight transfer, allbased on the corner weights of the carand a few basic parameters which arechosen such as the harmonic rate of yourfront and rear suspension. If for any oth-er purpose, I would recommend readingthis book to understand weight transfer,

as this book really does a great job de-mystifying this very misunderstood topic.This is a great educational book, as wellas an excellent reference on suspensiondesign. The best I have read yet.

As a club racer building a car, I havefound many 'tid-bits' of information out

there in all sorts of other books which areneeded to choose components and designa suspension properly. This book hasalmost all of that information in it, all inone place. It provides enough detail tohelp chose the proper components includ-ing the requiredmathematics to helpchose effectivespring rates based onthe car & design ofits suspension.

This is a worthyaddition to any-

body's motor sportslibrary regardless ifyou are simply atechnically inclinedspectator, a crew-member, a team own-er or driver.

Beyond what thebook has, I wouldalso recommendreading some of thetechnical documenta-tion on Penskeshocks a t

http://www.penske-shocks.com/. You'llbe amazed at thetechnology in a rac-ing shock these days.Happy reading!

Book Details:Hardcover - 268 pages 3rd Illus edition(December 1999)

Haynes Pub Group; ISBN: 185960644X;Dimensions (in inches): 0.80 x 10.08 x7.13

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For Sale:

1997 BMW 540i. White, sports package, automatic,tan leather, V8 (280hp), fully loaded, including sunroof and CD changer, electric seats, heated seats and

even heated steering wheel.

Excellent condition, certified used car by BMWCanada with warranty until June 2003 / 120,000km.

80,500km, $39,900Contact Pascal at (613) 852-4084 [email protected]

For Sale:

Nissan 240sx, #60 GT2 CGTCC, 1:32 at Mosport, at Shannonville. Chevy LT1 V8 (approx. 400hp), 6

speed, 300zx brakes, Koni shocks, Tilton pedals,Autometer gauges, etc. Spare parts include: spare b14 wheels, rain tires, orig. 250hp Nissan Motorsporengine, transmission, diff., etc.

Ready to race, asking $14,500 OBO.

Call Len at (613) 748-3313 or [email protected] for details

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Above: start of the EVCC June 2 at CapitalCity Speedway. MCO provided workers forflagging the event.

Right: Rob Microys comes down pit straight

at Shannonville, during the MCO lappingweekend.

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MCO Rally GroupTotally Silly DriveJune 9, 2001

Official Team Scores

CP1 CP2 CP3 CP4 CP5CP6 CP7 CP8 CP9 CP10 EOR SCORE RAN

erfect: 29:00 11:00 7:00 8:18 9:42 9:00 8:00 15:00 6:00 3:30 17:54ar 1 4 2 0 1 10 2e 3e 4 1e 0 2 29 fifthar 2 15 2 3 7 1 115 1 000 45 sevenar 3 2 1 1 3 2 1e 0 1 0 0 2e 13 thirdar 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3e 4 firstar 5 1e 0 1e 14 0 1e 1 0 0 0 1 19 fourthar 6 3 1e 0 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 11 secon

ar 7 15 2 8 7 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 37 sixthar 8 15 13 3 1 5 1e 15 3e 2e 0 5e 63 eighth

Average 6.9 2.6 2 4.6 2.6 1 4.5 1.1 0.4 0 1.9 27.6Car

Note: maximum lateness is 15 minutes. Arriving early or late both were scored on single points.e. double points were not assigned for arriving early).

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