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Loud Pedal

The Membership Magazine

of Oregon Region Sports Car Club of

America

Editor:Randy Unsbee, ABCSponsor PR & Marketing1260 NE 20thGresham, OR 97030 info@sponsorpr.com

Please send address changes to:Oregon Region SCCA4800 SW Macadam Ave., Ste. 110Portland, OR, 97239

Photographers: Doug Berger, George Dwinell, Wayne Flynn, Ron Coelho

The Loud Pedal is published monthly by the Oregon Region of the Sports Car Club of America. All contents copyright © 2010 by Oregon Region SCCA Inc.

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These additional uses include, but are not limited to: membership communications, membership recruitment, and publicity.

Opinions expressed in this publication are those of the credited author only, and not necessarily those of Oregon Region, its officers, members, or the Loud Pedal staff. Publication of ads, articles, photos, etc. are subject to available space.

On the Front Cover:The 2010 Oregon Region SCCA season kicked off March 5-7 at Portland International Raceway with a driver school and regional race. Photo by Ron Coelho.On the Back Cover:Opening Day at Portland International Raceway featured practice laps for visitors, test sessions, car displays, and exhibits. Photo by Randy Unsbee

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Regional Executive Dan Halloran dan.halloran@yahoo.com Asst. R. E. Dan Mullin danm356@yahoo.comPast R. E. Jeffrey Zurschmeide J.zursch@verizon.netRoad Racing Director Jim Murray jmmurrayjr@aol.comSolo II Director Andy Howe andy.howe@verizon.netRally Director Chris Hale chale@nwscan.netDirector at Large 1 Peggy Gaston peggygaston@hotmail.comDirector at Large 2 Kimberly McFarland kuzmc@hotmail.com

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The 2010 SCCA racing season kicked off at Portland Inter-national Raceway with the wheel-to-wheel combat that

Bruce Wilson #68 holding off Ken Sutherland #94, followed closely by Gary Bockman, Matt Schultz and Geoff Cochran. Photos by Doug Berger and Ron Coelho.

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Neil Shelton #58 in his Crossle Club Ford leads Mel Kemper’s Mazda Star in the Group 2/4 race. Below, Larry Bangert #38 in his Swift Formula Ford negotiates the Festival Curves ahead of Lance Spiering and his KPS F500.Doug Berger photos.

Monte Shelton #57 led from the start but was closely pursued by Jeff Smith in his Dodge Charger #2 for the SPO victory.

his Panoz, while Jay Culbertson #86 was

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Jim Graffy #01 Miata leads the Group 7

Adams in the ITS Porsche 944 #99 and Bob MacRae in the CP #00 Neon. Doug Berger photo.

#63 Greg Baldwin

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that included Norm Daniels #11 in his Camaro, Tim Scott in his #94 Datsun, David Sweet #56 in his Austin Healey and Ward Barbour #17 in the Mini Cooper. Doug Berger photo.

Kirby Drawbaugh #77 of Renton, WA piloted this Piper GT to third in the VP1 class, while Mark Pendergrass follows in his Triumph that claimed second in VP2. Doug Berger photo.

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closely followed by Steve Fogg and John Tipton. John Draneas captured

Halfway through the race Tipton passed Fogg for second, but Fogg reclaimed the runner-up slot. Ron Coelho photo.

second to Jay Culbertson in the new SP911 class. Doug Berger photo.

None of the weekend’s racing would have been possible without all the vol-

out the race season. Ron Coelho photo.

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Oregon Region’s Driver School was hosted by Brian Towey and Bruce Wilson. A total of 20 drivers complet-ed the school, with many of them tak-

Sunday’s regional race. Photos by Ron Coelho.

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just one of the ways we are saying “Thank You” to those who come out and help us run one of the great Road Racing programs in the country.

March. Participation was good for this early in the season. The good weather, early in the season, was more than wel-come, unlike last year. The sun and the warmth were wonderful extras. This was also our racing school and we had about 20 students, one of the better attended schools in recent years.

place at the end of March at PIR. Saturday, March 27, will be a practice day. The event itself is on Sunday March 28. Should give all you Solo drivers time to knock some of the rust off and kick the season off with plenty of seat time.

Cross is on March 28 at the Washington County Fair-grounds in Hillsboro.

Its time for everyone to get rid of their winter blahs and get out and participate. This is the time of year we wait for when the rains start to abate, the sun comes out, and we get to go out and play.

Workers at Road Racing events also have some good news. In addition to starting the season we have asked Margie Swanson to cater our worker meals for the season. Margie has always done a wonderful job of helping out in many different ways and is now bringing her culinary skills to our weekends. Its

Thank you SCCA Workers and thank you

having fun.

If not now, when??

Dan Halloran, Regional ExecutiveEmail: dan.halloran@yahoo.com

From the R.E.

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Breaking news this month: Sunoco is signing on to sponsor our racing efforts at PIR with a $3,000 fund which will pass through directly to drivers in Oregon Re-gion events.

Starting in April, at least one race group will be selected each weekend to receive cash via a random drawing. The require-ments to participate are simple: you need a receipt for purchase of Sunoco fuel,

Sunoco sticker on the car. By year’s end, drivers in all race groups will have a chance to win these cash awards, which will be given during the race weekend, probably in impound after qualifying or a race.

We’ll announce more details as they’re available but for now, thanks to Sunoco for this sponsorship. As from last year, Sunoco fuel will be available at track on race weekends.

By the time you read this, the March race weekend and school will be run. As this is written, a week ahead, we have 21 en-trants in the racing school, so expect to welcome some new faces on weekends in the future.

Last year’s school participants averaged 5 race entries each for the rest of the year,

entries (and income). Welcome to all these new drivers; we look forward to weaving

you into the fabric of the racing fraternity (and sorority). We wish you much en-joyment and success in your racing with Oregon Region. More on racing schools: This year we’re starting a new school ef-fort aimed at licensing racers with some

Friday, April 16 (if there are students) in conjunction with the Pro Drive Test Day. Dubbed the FasTEST racing school, this will be a one-day event offering a chance to earn a Novice license.

It’s not a school for the raw beginner; rather, it’s for those who may not have completed the March school, those who have some licensing work through other clubs, those who have lots of track time in HPDE events, and other combinations of experience. We’ll be taking applica-tions on a case-by-case basis. You’ll need to demonstrate experience, pass the SCCA physical exam, and have access to a race-prepped car, and full race gear. To apply,

503 224 9469 and she’ll walk you through the process.

We’re pretty excited about this new op-portunity for licensing; in the past if you missed the March school or couldn’t com-

and obtain your Novice license. We re-ally hope this new school effort will lead to more racers, and more cross-pollination with other clubs.

The Twisty Bits

Jim Murray, Road Racing DirectorEmail: jmmurrayjr@aol.com

Friends of PIR (FoPIR) sponsored the sea-son Open House at the track on Saturday, February 20 and it was well-attended; I’d estimate we raised over $2,000 in dona-tions to FoPIR through $10 donations from paced-lap participants. There were nature walks, track tours, bicycling on track with kids, food, exhibit booths, and nice weather.

The crowds were pretty strong through lunch, after which a cold wind pretty much blew a lot of people back home. Porsche Club of America ran a high performance experience in the afternoon which also raised funds for FoPIR.

We also completed tech inspections on 25 race cars, so the lines will be that much shorter on race weekend. If you’ve let your FoPIR membership lapse, now’s the time to renew as this umbrella organiza-tion has a lot to offer in our “home” track’s future. FoPIR has many constituents, be-ing comprised of the many user groups at the track.

The divisional Stewards’ meeting on Sat-urday, February 27 was also enlightening, setting the tone for the season’s race ad-ministration. Some think the Stewards are a collection of ogres, but their governing motto for our race weekends is “Safe, Fair

and the fun being the objective.

So here’s to the season just begun. We’ll hold to that objective: “Safe, Fair and Fun”.

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PLACE: China Bay RestaurantPRESENT: Board Members: Dan Mullin, Jeff Zurschmeide, Chris Hale, Jim Murray, Andy Howe, Kim McFarland

Members: Mary Thompson, Karen Mc-Coy, Randy Unsbee, Margie Swanson, Frank McKinnon, Todd Butler

Absent: Dan Halloran, Peggy Gaston, Car-rie Sutherland

CALL TO ORDER – Asst. RE Dan called the meeting to order.

REGIONAL EXECUTIVE INTRO - None

MEMBER/NEW BUSINESS COM-MENTS – BBQ - Margie Swanson sug-gested that we invest in a BBQ so that we would not have to continue to use the one that Cascade has so graciously allowed us the use of. The BOD, at last months meet-ing talked about the possibility of building a permanent BBQ on site at PIR. There currently are funds that could be used to initiate this project. Jeff and Mary sug-gested that perhaps for this project we could sell bricks etc to other PIR users in order to secure the necessary funds for the total project. Jim said that he liked the coop idea of including other user groups. We will ask Dan H. to contact Mark at PIR as well as the other users to see if this proj-ect is feasible.

Margie also inquired as to the amount budgeted for food this year. This was dis-cussed and the amount is as stated in the current budget.

Frank inquired as to the status of a spon-sor for the year. Randy currently does not have a season sponsor but is working on individual event sponsors and will contin-ue to pursue an overall sponsor as well.

Jeff suggested that we name one of the events this year to honor long time mem-bers Sherman and Carla Bell. This will be considered.

Area 13 Director, Todd Butler reported

toward being more sensitive to the needs of its members. They are initiating incen-tives to encourage membership and reward existing members.

Of note also is that they have new licens-

and make it easier for them to complete in our events.

The hard copy of the GCR is no longer -

This makes it more accessible to members while allowing for changes that might be necessary after printing. This is also a cost saving measure.

COMMITTEE & OFFICIALS REPORTS

REGIONAL OFFICE REPORT – None Karen e-mailed to The BOD a synopsis of the meeting that she attended at The Ntl. Convention. The content was both inter-

attendance to gather the important issues regarding not only registration but other areas as well.

TREASURER REPORT – Absent

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the month and should be on Web site by

Marketing & PRSponsorship proposals are going out to past event sponsors, advertisers and re-gional businesses.

sponsoring at least one event and advertis-ing in each Loud Pedal issue.

IMC ReportIntegrated Marketing Communications (IMC) = events, Loud Pedal publication, digital news releases, traditional media re-lations, special events (FOPIR, car shows, parades) and Social Media (Web 2.0).

The IMC initiative I proposed in late 2005 has born the following fruit in terms of gross sponsorship revenue. These totals

do not include Loud Pedal advertising dol-lars:

2006 $11,0002007 $19,5002008 $18,5002009 $17,200Total $66,200

Total 2009 IMC revenue including spon-sorship and Loud Pedal advertising rev-enue came in at just under $30,000.

However, 2009 Loud Pedal advertising

compensated for this by lowering the page count and decreasing paper quality and weight.

In anticipation of a continued recession into 2010, I recommended to the board at the Sept. 2009 meeting that we expand IMC to include Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools I’ve had experi-ence with while earning a Masters degree in e-Communication.

We’ve taken the initial steps with Face-book and Twitter. The next stage of ex-pansion is for a region Blog to repurpose content from our other integrated sources and further connect with existing mem-bers, new prospects and news media; then video either on our Web site and/or on our Blog; followed by text; phone apps; etc.

Part of IMC program consists of sponsor-paid digital news releases. Most of the news coverage generated in the traditional news media is due to these releases and our media relations program.

Digital news release impressions last year

which do not include several driver-centric releases that greatly multiplied our reach. This number also does not include print, radio or TV or the Web site viewings.

A main feature of the IMC program has been adding value to our advertisers and sponsors while building credibility for the region and its marketing communication efforts.

This is an ongoing, constantly evolving process. (Continued on page 23)

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Rallying with Chris & Kristen

Chris Hale, Rally Manager and Kristen E. TaborEmail: chale@nwscan.net

We’ll do something a little bit differ-ently this month—here’s my story from the recent Doo Wop stage rally event out

March.

Rally is always an adventure, always ex-citing, and getting ready for the event can sometimes add to it. Our team, the Tabor Rally Team, entered 3 cars, almost the usual contingent. My brother Mark, team lead foot, had been complaining of some bad shin splints, so on Friday he went to the doctor to get it looked at. Oh look, it’s actually a bit of a stress fracture. The docs cleared him for competition, but dur-ing non-competition he had to wear an air cast. Did I mention that his co-driv-er, Ben, just had a cast removed from his arm? These two were nicknamed “Team Gimp” for the weekend. Then, Dad (one of our other drivers) started complaining of weird headaches, blurry vision, and a strange numbness/heat on one side of his face while driving one of the service rigs (with trailer, natch) up I-5. We swapped people around in various vehicles so he wouldn’t have to drive, and got him to the ER in Aberdeen, where he was diagnosed

said he probably shouldn’t compete, so he decided on Saturday morning to sit this one out. So we were down to Team Gimp in a Subaru, and Team Girls in an Acura, and a spare Nissan.

Tech and registration on Saturday morning went fairly well—except for the fact that I neglected to check the expiration date on the harnesses in the Acura, which had ex-

wait, we have this extra car here that no

the car?” Lucky for me, the Nissan runs in the same class as my usual car, so I could gain points in the class anyway.

Saturday was bright, sunny, and gorgeous; we started the day with a 4-mile pave-ment stage run twice before heading to the gravels roads up in the hills. It was a good warm-up considering I haven’t driven a Nissan rally car competitively in several

same piece of road run in opposite direc-tions. In contrast to the usual conditions, the roads were tacky instead of muddy and dry. The intercom in the Nissan was having interference issues, so Mom ended up yell-ing the turns at me and using hand signals to communicate. That worked pretty well,

Our crack service crew worked those bugs out at the service stop so we were able to hear each other without yelling.

The Nissan is a very nimble, lightweight car, especially in comparison to the Acura, so I was having a good time throwing it around corners, keeping my right foot planted on the gas and left foot braking to set up the car for the corners. It’s hard to describe, but think of it like this: You come down the road towards a 90-degree corner, hard on it in third (or second, de-pending on your level of commitment and the width of the road) gear. Just before the corner, you pitch it the opposite di-rection, dab at the brake pedal with your left foot while throwing the wheel over in the proper direction. Keep that gas pedal planted, steer through the corner, and let that front-wheel-drive pull you through. Let the grins commence.

some dinner, and got a good night’s sleep.

Sunday dawned foggy and cloudy, with the threat of rain hanging over us. The

the famous Brooklyn Tavern stage fol-lowed by the Smith Creek stage. Unfor-tunately, a lot of grading and road work had been started, so the road surface went

from hard-pack to marbles unpredictably, so no records would be set this weekend. We started off aggressively up the twisty hill, Mom keeping the calls constant and me dancing on the pedals. We didn’t set as good a time on Brooklyn as we were hoping, and were 30 seconds off our pace. On the Smith Creek stage start, our clutch starting slipping and we were losing more seconds trying to keep moving forward. That incident affected the rest of the drive, and we just weren’t on pace and couldn’t keep a rhythm, which is a bad thing when the road cut twists along the side of a steep

issues. We went into the next two short stage hopeful; our optimism paid off as the stage was twisty and technical and we danced down the road. Very enjoyable, and we started to make up a few of our lost seconds. We got our rhythm back and were able to settle down and really get into the action, keeping the car unbalanced enough to pitch from corner to corner and keep our speed and momentum up and down the hills.

The last two stages were a repeat of the

tion, and the threatening rain became a reality. The road surface started to get greasy, which meant even great focus was required to keep the car in the tracks left by the front-runners. We had a couple of “moments” where the car started sliding the wrong way, but a quick dab and coun-tersteering, while dropping it down a gear and running the RPMs up, kept us out of trouble.

with no mechanical issues, no off-road ex-cursions, and big grins on our faces. We

and to stay competitive with the other cars

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but I’m guessing you are excited.

I saw quite a few Oregon Region members

erald Empire Sports Car Club’s Icebreaker event on February 28th. Unlike past years, the weather was beautiful. Jim and Tami Daniels were there in their “new” Miata.

They were quick, in spite of the fact they were on street tires. I saw Steve Krygier in attendance, shaking off the cobwebs. We even had Dan Mullin, the Assistant Region Executive autocrossing his 1973 Lola Formula Ford. He said he hadn’t au-tocrossed in years (and it showed.) There were others, too. Those of you that didn’t attend Icebreaker will have your oppor-tunity to shake down your car on March 27th in the PIR Pro Pits. This event will

the next day you’d better have the big stuff

The format for the practice will be similar to that of a normal event but classes aren’t important. Feel free to run in either half of the day and, barring an exceptional turn-out, we will allow those that entered the morning session to enter in the afternoon as well.

Recapping who is running when for Sun-

regional Index classes (Street Tire, PAX and Ladies PAX) will run in the morn-ing. The remainder of the classes will run in the afternoon. For those of you in the Street Touring classes, this is a change. This change is intended to help balance the size of the run groups during the day. We had been seeing a large difference between the Stock group and the Non-stock group. Based on past entries, we expect the move of the Street Touring group to make the split close to 50/50.

The next event on the schedule is our an-nual Novice School. If you are new to the

Andy Howe, Solo II DirectorEmail: solo.howe@comcast.net

Solo II Report

sport, please register for this event. Pre-registration is required with prices at $65 for non-members and $50 for members. The school is schedule to be held in the PIR South Paddock on April 24th. Stu-dents need to have a valid driver’s license, a car that seats two, and the willingness to let the instructor drive the car to demon-strate skills.

The Novice School will be immediately followed by our second points event, giv-ing our students a chance to practice their skills.

After that, we’ll be taking a break while the Wendover National Tour and ProSolo events are held. Then we’re off to Packwood for the Intermediate School on June 12th and points event #3 on June 13th.

Expect to see registration for the Interme-diate School open in mid-April with entry forms available at the April 25th event.

(Continued from previous page)Team Gimp also managed to keep it shiny-side up and eeked out a win in their class.

So what’s the next adventure? March 28

ton County Fairgrounds. Then, on April 10, Oregon Rally Group and RalliTek are hosting Rally Day at the RalliTek property off Airport Way. Check the ORG website at www.oregonrally.com for directions and more info. If you’ve ever wondered about what it takes to get into rally, this

ous talks and handouts about volunteering, competing as a novice, and writing course notes, as well as roaming experts to ask your questions to. We’ll also have a tech inspector there so you can bring your stage rally car to get it looked over before your

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In 2010, Loud Pedal advertisers and event

logos and company information carried on the region’s Web site, Facebook page, Twitter and other social media outlets.

Discussion followed Randy’s report as to the quality of the paper that we are using for the LP and how easily it tends to get damaged in the mail. Jeff suggested that perhaps we could look at using 80# pa-per for the front and back covers and use the lesser grade for the innards. Also dis-cussed was the use of web press vs laser print. Jeff will talk with Bob Brands to see just what the options and their costs would be to make such a change.

DIRECTOR’S REPORTS

SOLO II REPORT – Andy talked about Solo trying to move toward using the Ntl. Sound Rules this season as several other Solo groups are. They will use try this season and comply as best they can. They will not eliminate participants based on decibels this will increase awareness to the competitors about sound levels and how they might irritate surrounding residents near race areas.

RALLY REPORT – Chris reports that their group plan on eight Rally X this year, six

March 6-7 will be the Doo Wops Rally in WA, which will get the rally season start-

WA. County Fairgrounds.

The Oregon Trail Rally is planned for May on the calendar but as of yet is not con-

DIRECTOR I REPORT – Absent

DIRECTOR II REPORT – Kim reported that she and Peggy have been working

would serve food different than at the last two. She presented a listing of sev-eral establishments that could provide us service on the date that we were interested in. After discussion the BOD asked her to try to get the cost reduced a little so that it would be more affordable for the workers.

She will move on that and reports at the next meeting.

Kim also addressed the fact that she thought our region web page needed some updating. Jeff agreed, as did Randy that it needed revision. Todd suggested that she contact Karen to Work on this issue to make the site more user friendly.

ROAD RACING REPORT – Jim pre-sented the budget and answered inquiriesconcerning it. Ie: Dan M. asked if NW Region would pay for part of the rental of ORP for the event that is planned there. Jim replied that all of the expenses would be split 50/50 with NW Region. All were in agreement to accept the budget as pre-pared.

He was approached with an issue regard-ing our current radios and their end of life cycle. Since this would be a major invest-ment and one that we are not presently able to budget for he made a couple of sugges-tions for the region to contemplate:

1. Enter into a sharing agreement with other PIR users who utilize radios.Users would then share in all of the costs associated with radios

2. Create a special fund – perhaps on the race entry for support

Jim was pleased by the attendance on Jan 10th at the Chiefs Meeting. He thanks all who made the effort to attend.

PAST REGIONAL EXEC – Jeff advised that he and Kim met with a consultant and got both of the social medias, Facebook & Twitter created. He was quite pleased at the number of hits that were registered so far.

ASST REGIONAL EXEC - Dan felt that we made our presence in the area well know at The Portland Auto Show.

Those who worked the area set up for Rose Cup & SCCA talked to many indi-viduals and passed out information includ-ing pamphlets on The Teen Survivor Event that we help to sponsor. Thanks to all who spent their time at this event.

The Ntl. Convention was a good one and we were well represented by Todd, Karen Gary Manchester and himself. The ses-sions were well attended and informative.

REGIONAL EXEC – Absent

Adjourn M/S Jeff/Jim M/PRespectfully submitted,Mary Thompson

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Change Service RequestedIssue: March 2010