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November 2006

The official news source of SCCArsquosNorthwest Region mdash wwwnwr-sccaorg

NNOORRTTHHWWEESSTT SSPPOORRTTSS CCAARRNEWSNEWS

CADDELL WINS

SCCArsquos First Spec MiataNational Champion is a

Northwest Region member

Better get used to seeing this kid on a lot of podiums

NORTHWEST REGION SOLOISTS RETURN WITH TITLES

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BY SHERRI MASTERSONContributing editor

TOPEKA Kan mdash What began inMarch of 2005 with Andrew Caddell as arookie Spec Miata driver was exponen-tially capped by his National Champi-onship win at the Runoffs in 2006

Caddell took the pole early in qualify-ing on a sunny warm Monday He optedto sleep on a rainy Tuesday during qual-ifying when he was feeling the cold bugthat hit many of us at the Runoffs Feel-ing better he participated in Wednesdayand Thursday sessions losing the poleon Thursday to Blake Clements from

TexasRain arrived again at Heartland Park

Sunday morning waking many as thun-der and lightning passed through Thetrack was wet for the warm-up sessionthat morning Caddell decided to donthe dry tires for the damp racetrack thatmorning not sure if it was the right

Sherri Masterson photo

Andrew Caddell (center) holds his trophy after winning the Spec Miata class at the Runoffs in Topeka Kan Alsopictured are second- and third-place finishers Brad Rampelberg and Matt Cross

Andrew Caddell wins RunoffsYoung racer from Graham may have won new Mazda

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Lux podiums at Runoffs

BY TOM MOOREFor NayKid Racing

TOPEKA Kan mdash The SCCA TouringOne (T1) class race for production-based sports cars was expected to bethe highlight of the National Champi-onship Runoffs weekend here at Heart-land Park Topeka It did not disappoint

NayKid Racingrsquos Cindi Lux of AlohaOre earned second in the event rank-ing as the highest-placing NayKid Rac-ing driver and the highest-finishingDodge Viper SRT10 Lux started fifthdriving the No 78 Kumho Tires-DodgeMotorsports-SRT-Nike-MOMO USA-Forgeline Viper while teammate ScottyB White of Puyallup started from thepole position but would finish 17th onelap down to winner Lance Knupp ofFenton Mich

White was leading in his No 3Kumho Tires-Dodge Motorsports-SRT-CORSA Exhaust-Red Line Oil Viperwhen a left-rear tire was puncturedforcing an immediate stop for new rub-ber The NayKid crew changed bothrears as a precaution

ldquoWas that a shame or whatrdquo Whiteasked ldquoWe came here thinking we did-nrsquot have a prayer and then the nextthing you know we are the car to beatAll I can say is the months of hard workby the NayKid gang and the Dodge Mo-torsports guys added to the sheer awe-some engineering masterpiece of theSRT10 Viper Altogether that reallyshowed through on the new Viper-sizeKumhos The problem is we are just tooheavy At 3840 pounds any small peb-ble could go right through any tire andthat was the race I guess thatrsquos whythey call it racing instead of winninghuhrdquo

In total the Viper SRT10s of NayKidRacing led all but two laps of the eventbut came 1262 seconds short of theirfirst Runoffs victory

The tight 25-mile layout of Heart-land Park set the tone for a dramaticduel to the end Lux who made a spec-tacular jump from fifth to third on thefirst lap stalked and then masterfullyout-braked the Ferrari of EdwardZabinski on the sixth lap to move to sec-

ond When White who held an eightsecond lead at the time was forced tostop three laps later in the 18-lap raceLux assumed the top spot About thesame time Knupp had moved into sec-ond from his sixth-place grid positionLux the four-time Northern Pacific Di-vision Champion charged lap after lapbut watched the lighter Corvette slowlyeat into her lead

On lap 16 Knupprsquos quickest of theevent he closed on then edged along-side the 1999 American Le Mans SeriesWomenrsquos Global GT Series ChampionThe two touched for the second lap in arow mdash this time mirror-to-mirror con-tact mdash as they rushed onto the mainstraightaway Knupp took the upperhand moving past Lux and into the leadLux fought to regain but would be un-

able to rallyldquoI believe that will go down as one of

the most eventful races in a long timerdquoLux said ldquoWe had the fans on their feetthe last two laps It was a classic GM-Dodge battle At the end of the race un-fortunately my car really started to feelthe negative effects of the 140 poundsof weight the rules added to us a fewweeks ago I couldnrsquot hold off theCorvette I gave it everything I had butjust came up one lap shortrdquo

Lux narrowly missed becoming thefirst T1 class driver to ever win the pres-tigious SCCA ldquoTriple Crownrdquo for earn-ing victories in the KohlerChicago Re-gion June Sprints at Road America a di-visional championship (Lux won herfourth-straight Northern Pacific (Nor-Pac) Championship with six victories)and the Runoffs Nonetheless it washer highest-ever finish at the Runoffsand matched Dodgersquos highest finish(White took second in 2005) with thenewest iteration of the Dodge ViperSRT10 Coming into the RunoffsNayKid Racing had won 11 of 13 racesearned 12 pole positions and set eighttrack records

NayKid Racing has played key rolesin the event for the past several yearsand Saturdayrsquos winner-takes-all champi-onship event was no different Both Luxand White led (White laps 1-8 Lux laps9-16) and White won the pole with a lapof 147034 to establish the Runoffsrecord at Heartland Park Luxrsquos qualify-ing time of 148728 assured that four ofthe top-five grid positions were held byViper SRT10s Overall seven of the 24cars entered in the T1 class were Vipersmatched against a pair of Ferraris onePorsche and a flood of ChevroletCorvettes Dodge would earn two of thepodium positions and four of the top-10spots with its SRT-tuned supercar

ldquoDisappointed You betrdquo Lux saidldquoBut overall it was a great week forDodge Kumho Tire and all of our guyswho worked non-stop We did every-thing correct all week pole new trackrecord both drivers leading the race Itwould have been so darn cool to comein one-two but it just didnrsquot work outthat wayrdquo

Scotty B White forced to pit while leadingRunoffs on SPEEDSPEED Channel will air each event at thisyearrsquos SCCA Runoffs on Tuesdays begin-ning Nov 7The full scheduleNov 7 9 am (PST) C Sports RacingNov 7 10 am GT-2Nov 14 9 am Showroom Stock CNov 14 10 am Formula ContinentalNov 14 11 am Showroom Stock BNov 21 9 am Formula MazdaNov 21 10 am Sports 2000Nov 21 11 am H ProductionNov 28 9 amTouring 3Nov 28 10 am Formula FordNov 28 11 am GT-3Nov 28 noon Formula 500Nov 28 1 pmTouring 2Nov 28 2 pm F ProductionDec 5 9 amAmerican SedanDec 5 10 am Spec Racer FordDec 5 11 amTouring 1Dec 12 9 am GT-LiteDec 12 10 am Spec MiataDec 12 11 am GT-1Dec 12 noon Formula VeeDec 19 9 am10 am E ProductionDec 19 10 am D Sports RacingDec 19 11 am G ProductionDec 19 noon Formula Atlantic

November 2006 wwwnwr-sccaorg Northwest Sports Car News 5

Vote Allen for Area 13 DirectorTo the editor

Itrsquos positive that we have competitionfor this post Itrsquos an important oneHerersquos my $02 worth re the upcomingelection

Itrsquos a tough call John has an outstand-ing resume and is highly respected in theclub racing community Further Johnhas experience and has held the post be-fore

Having said that My support goeswholeheartedly to Howard Allen

My support for Howard Allen is NOTbased on friendship In fact Howard andI differ markedly on ldquosecularrdquo political is-sues as well as on some social issues

The reasons I support Howard Allenfor Area 13 Director are as follows

He is passionate about SCCA Club Rac-ing

He is dedicated He speaks his mind He brings balance to the SCCA Nation-

al Board of Directors He has kept Oregon Region m embers

up to date with status reports in every Loud Pedal He is an Oregon Region SCCA mem-

ber He is a racer He is presently on the National Board Most importantly for purely selfish

reasons he has been in touch with the is-sues that matter to me I race in classSports 2000 (S-2) Since Howard Allenhas been on the Board there have beenseveral S-2000 Competition Board issuesthat have been hotly debated amongthose who are active in the S-2 Commu-nity

They are ferrous vs titanium rotorsZetec vs Pinto motor the introduction ofan aluminum cylinder head for the Pintomotor

How these issues were resolved isunimportant What is important is the

fact that Howard contacted me BEFOREI contacted him and asked me for myreasoning regarding these issues Hecontacted other S-2 drivers as well

I felt as if I had a part in the develop-ment and resolution of these mattersFurther Howard has been similarly at-tentive to issues in other classes as well

Finally Oregon Region SCCArsquos Rac-ing Rally and Solo program are strongand relatively dominant participants inthe pie that represents Area 13rsquos SCCAactivities Howard Allen is an Oregon Re-gion member and in my opinion is bestqualified to represent Area 13 as director

Please Vote for Howard Allen for Di-rector Area 13

JJOOHHNN BBRREEWWEERR National Competition License

149137 22 S-2 Oregon Region SCCA

Past Regional ExecutiveOregon Region SCCA

Martinsen cites his experienceTo the editor

Hello my name is John Martinsenand Irsquom running for the SCCA Board ofDirectors from Area 13 The followingdescribes my SCCA history and qualifi-cations for the position

I have been a member of the SCCA forover 40 years I joined the Des MoinesValley Region in the 1960s while a stu-dent at Iowa State University and havebeen active in SCCA ever since After re-ceiving my PhD in Aerospace Engineer-ing I accepted a position with the Boe-ing Co and moved to the Seattle area in1968 and transferred my membership tothe Northwest Region (NWR) I spentover 38 years at Boeing in various pro-gram management management andengineering positions

In 1972 I was elected Regional Exec-utive (RE) of Northwest Region andserved for three continuous years In1972 NWR was a racing region WhileRE I started the NWR Solo programwith Bud Bohrer Bud and I also startedthe Boeing Employees Autosports Clubso we would have a place to conductSolo events In addition I also startedthe NWR Rally program Both programsbecame very successful and prospered

Later I served as Assistant RE in 1985and again as RE in 1986 I served as amember of the NWR Board of Directorsfor five additional years

The following are SCCA positions Ihave held

Board of Directors of SCCA Area 91979-1982 Area 13 2000-2003

Can-Am Series Chief Steward fouryears

Trans-Am Series Chief Steward 14years

Vice Chairman of Pro Racing Court ofAppeals 10 years

Chairman of Northern Pacific Divi-sion Club Racing Court of Appeals threeyears

USRRC Series Chief Steward twoyears

Daytona 24-hour Chief Steward twoyears

SCCA Runoffs Chief Steward twoyears

Deputy Executive Steward for North-ern Pacific Division eight years

I was appointed to the Club RacingBoard in 2004 and currently serve asChairman of the Club Racing Board

In Club Racing I became a steward in1973 and have been a National Chief

Steward since 1977While on the SCCA Board of Direc-

tors I served on the Budget and FinanceCommittee Pro Racing Board of Direc-tors as Chair of the Race Track Com-mittee as BoD liaison to Road Rally andthe Competition Board (now called theClub Racing Board) and SCCA Enter-prises I also authored the SCCA BoardCode of Conduct an ethics code thatstill governs Directorsrsquo actions

At the 2006 SCCA Convention I re-ceived the Woolf Barnato AwardSCCArsquos most prestigious award I wastruly overwhelmed and surprised

As you can see from the above I haveextensive experience in SCCA activitiesand governance Now I want to serveyou as your Director from Area 13 I willrepresent you in an effective honestethical manner I have been active inRace Rally and Solo programs as well asSCCA governance so I can provide theeffective leadership that Area 13 de-serves

Ballots will be sent out on or aboutOct 15 Please vote for John Martinsenfor Director

JJOOHHNN MMAARRTTIINNSSEENNPast NWR Regional Executive


BY JOE GOEKEContributing editor

TOPEKA Kan mdash The Northwest Re-gion had several trophy finishers andone class winner at the 2006 ProSolo fi-nale in Topeka

Joe Goeke of Kirkland won BS in theProSolo finale and claimed the BSProSolo National Championship

Goeke was the only Northwest Re-gion member to win his class and take anational championship This is Goekersquosthird ProSolo class national champi-onship the first one since 1997

Goeke was also to the only NWRmember to qualify for the ProSolo finaleHawk Super Challenge He made it tothe second round when he red-lightedon his second side run thus ending anychance of an NWR driver quest for aHawk Super Challenge win

Kevin Dietz unfortunatelydid not qualify for the HawkSuper Challenge but he didmake the bonus challengeand proceeded to march hisway to the podium

Jodi Fordahl finished fifth in L1 andthat got her into the Ladies ChallengeShe was the only NWR woman to makethe Ladies Challenge Sorry to say shewent out in the first round

Here are the national results for NWRmembers in class competition

WashingtonJoe Goeke first BSAnna Goeke 10th BSKevin Dietz third CSJerry Lamb eighth DSKarl Coleman fourth ESJake Nygaard fifth GSGlen Hernandez sixth GSAbe Douglas ninth GSKeith Brown

fourth HS

Kristi Brown seventh HSAlec Osenbach ninth STXAmy Olsen 14th STXScotty B White fourth ASPLiNay C White fifth ASPRon Bauer second CSPRyan Carag sixth SMJerold Lowe eighth SMAnthony Capri ninth SMBill Buetow third SM2LJ Moffet sixth SM2Jodi Fordahl fifth L1Annie Bauer sixth L1

Shalyn Marrow eighth L1Gretchen Everett 10th L1Angela Moffet 11th L2

Jackie McInnes seventh MC1

OregonTom Kotzian

11th SSTom Mc-

Daniel ninthAS

Jim Danielsfourth CSP

Tami Danielsninth L2

Goeke gathers gold


TOPEKA Kan mdash Shelbi Ziglercame from behind to win her first na-tional championship

Zigler did it on her final run of theevent and took the class by around 05seconds She had very good competi-tion and ended Kyung Wootonrsquos five-year run of C Stock Ladies

Zigler trailed after the first day ofcompetition but was nearly a secondfaster on the second day east courseShe was co-driving in Kristi EnnesserrsquosPontiac Solstice along with EnnesserKevin Dietz and Fast Mike Lilleford

Dietz also got his first national cham-pionship in the Ennesser SolsticeDietz dominated the class both daysand won by a whopping 11 secondsThis Solstice took both the open andladies national championships

Kristi Brown won HSL She joins

her husband Keith as one of the fewand the proud Northwest Region mem-bers to win a Solo II national champi-onship

Anna Goeke won BSL for her thirdnational championship This is alsotwo in a row for her for she won in 2005as well Daughter Annika was veryproud of mommyrsquos win

Angela Moffet added yet anotherSM2 national championship to hermantle Judging by Moffetrsquos T-shirtSportscar magazine got their predic-tion right

Jodi Fordahl stomped ESL for hereighth national championship Shehad it on her second run on Friday andtook a victory run on her third runand lopped off another 09 seconds offto win by 24 seconds Her times wouldhave done very well in the open classThere was talk about how she hasbeen forbidden or ldquobannedrdquo from run-ning in the open class

NWR crowns several national champs

Team Pajama rocks the C Stocknational championships This teamreturned to the Northwest Regionwith two national champions andsecond- and fourth-place trophies

Kevin Dietz takesadvantage of bonusround for third place

BY ERIN CECHALSCCA staff

TOPEKA Kan mdash The winds wereblustery and the weather unseasonablycold in the heartland but none of thenearly 300 soloists who arrived for theSCCA Tire Rack ProSolo Finalewere going to let that get in theway of attacking 1 millionsquare feet of freshly laid as-phalt and hundreds of terri-fied cones at Heartland ParkTopeka

Making the most of thefirst ProSolo Finale to beheld on asphalt sinceSCCA took over the sport RobertSeelig of Edmund Okla cappedoff his ProSolo season with abang winning his first ever HawkSuper Challenge behind thewheel of his Kumho-Carbotech-Prothane Honda Civic CRX Si

Seelig bested C Street Pre-pared winner Eric Clementsof Alta Loma Calif in alubedealercom MazdaMiata to take the finalHawk Super Challenge win ofthe season Seelig qualified forthe Challenge after finishing runner-up to Andy Hollis in the Street Tour-ing S2 class Hollis of Austin Texasfinished third in the Challenge with histrusty Soulspeed-ART-GRM MazdaMiata which was more than enough tomake him the 2006 Hawk Super Chal-lenge season points champion in ad-dition to his STS2 title

Beth McClure-Strelnieks ofAustin Texas experienced somesweet revenge in the Ladies Chal-lenge After finishing third in theLadies 1 class to Meredith Brownof Los Alamos NM and Sierra

Pedroza of Round Rock Texas Mc-Clure-Strelnieks was able to knock offboth women in the Ladies ChallengeDriving the same JungleCat Racing-MiniUSAcom Mini Cooper ofPedroza McClure-Strelnieks bestedher teammate inthe first round andthe IsotopeWheels-Automo-tive Pros Toyota

MR2 of

Brown in round two The win gave Mc-Clure-Strelnieks the 2006 Ladies Chal-lenge crown while Brownrsquos L1 victorygave her the class championship

In Bonus Challenge action it wasKevin Dietz of Federal Way coming outon top driving the Jimrsquos Detail Shops-Evolution Schools C Stock Pontiac Sol-stice Despite an early exit from theBonus Challenge B Street Preparedwinner Harold Olsen of Folsom Califaccumulated the most Bonus Challengepoints in 2006 in his Les Schwab Tire

Chevrolet Corvette GSThe stunner of the day was

Jonathan Roberts ofRichmond Hill Gawho started theweekend in a

three-way tie forthe A Stock

p o i n t slead butwent onto domi-nate theAS class

p u t t i n gtogether a

2244-second margin ofvictory in his BarnesInc Subaru STi andearning himself classhonors in 2006

Entering the ProSo-lo finale GH Sharpof Kernersville NCwas tied for sixth inthe G Stock pointstandings but asuper-tight 0060-second victory in hisMini of Charleston-MiniUSAcom MiniCooper S catapulted

him to a class title bya single point

A similar tale played outin the C Stock class where Joe

Tharpe of Marshalltown Iowa who hadbeen absent from ProSolo competitionsince the Peru round in June went fromtied for fourth in class points to classchampion by a mere two points thanksto a 0074-second win in his TireRackPontiac Solstice Tharpersquos close victorycame over his own teammate ChrisHarvey of Osceola Ind

For Kevin Dietz the trophywas vindication enough for the

prediction on the T-shirt

Seelig wins Hawk Super Challenge



Time to hand over the reinsW hat a life 2006 has been a

great year for your Region-al Executive First I hit the

lottery for Super Bowl tickets and wentto the game Donrsquot we love those Pitts-burgh officials

Then my oldest son JJ arranged fortickets to the World Cup third-placegame I went and had a great time

Then Rally America sanctioned a rallyat the X Games and I went and workedthe rally and the motorcycle race Thegames are really a fantastic show Whileon the road I also had stops in Amster-dam Ireland Wilmington DelPhiladelphia Washington DC Chica-go and Bloomington Ill Ireland was avisit to a friend and her kids Wilming-ton a rallyist and guide Lesley Suddardwho showed me the sites in Philadel-phia and Washington DC Chicago wasa company convention and Blooming-ton a visit to my son Chris and his fam-ily

Rally newsThe Wild West Rally was scheduled

for Sept 8-10 Mother Nature did notgive us any of our wonderful Washing-ton weather so the fire danger was toohigh and the rally postponed

JB Niday from Rally America con-tacted Steve McQuaid and he agreed tomove our date to Dec 1-3 and becomethe final rally of the year The datechange was also thanks to Green Dia-mond Resource for allowing to use theirroads on that weekend date The rallywill end with Rally America presentingtheir year-end awards Entries shouldinclude Travis Pastrana PatrickRichard and other drivers from the XGames We need more volunteers tohandle the additional crowds expectedwith the signing of several major spon-sors in addition to our longtime sup-porter Subaru Northwest Check outthe Web site for some big news and youcan volunteer on the Wild West Website at wwwwildwestrallyorg and enjoysome of the fun

The 2006 rally season was a great suc-cess with Ray Damitiorsquos Doo Wop Rallystarting the season followed by theOregon Trail organized by the OregonRally Group (ORG) with an assist fromthe Pacific Rally Group (PRG) Then wehad the revival of the Olympus Rallythanks to the John Nagle family chair-

man Steve McQuaid and the PRG Thenthe Rallyworkersrsquo Rally Sprints at Rayand Janice Damitiorsquos farm in Monte-sano There were also several success-ful rallycrosses held

The 2007 season will have the sameevents with the Olympus Rally being aqualifier for the X Games

The 2006 race season2006 was a challenge for the race com-

mittee They had to deal with the loss ofMemorial Day weekend for the doublenational event held at Pacific RacewaysThe track had signed a contract with an-other group and the race was movedinto June The racing was still good butthe lack of a three-day weekend causedconcern

The other events at Bremerton andPacific Raceways had some success In2007 Race Chairman Tom Mastersonand the race committee will face thesame difficult challenges I hope thatthe people who race will give Tom andthe committee the support they need

Time Trials 2006Mark McCloskey has done an excel-

lent job of putting together a very goodTime Trails program The future of theprogram under his leadership isbright If you have not checked out timetrials yet you have missed some fun

SoloHow many more good things can be

said about the Northwest Regionrsquos Solo(no longer Solo II) program It is one ofthe best in SCCA Current Assistant REfor Solo Jerry Lamb has done an excel-lent job of keeping the Region Board in-formed of the program and driversrsquoachievements They have great sitesand a great group who guarantee theircontinued success

Other regional businessThe region has seen many challenges

recently The number of members de-creased greatly when the National Of-fice and the Board of Directors droppedthe performance rally program We

were considered to be the rally region inSCCA and had the best overall programin SCCA thanks to a dedicated group ofvolunteers Their loss hurt not only re-gion membership but the region as awhole

The loss of revenue and volunteers forother region events was great TheNorthwest Region Board took immedi-ate action by starting PRG and most ofthe key rally folks now belong to PRG

With the loss of membership revenuethe NWR Board also had to cut the costof the newsletter They did this by mak-ing it bimonthly and electronic

The region election should be oversoon after you read this There will be anew Regional Executive (RE) AssistantRE Secretary Treasurer and two BoardMembers at Large

I have served as the RE for six yearsand was the Assistant RE for four yearspreceding that It has been interestingand with the help of current and pastboard members some major issueshave been resolved We have kind oflost the performance rally program wehave seen some programs struggle oth-ers continue to grow and the start of theTime Trials program

The Northwest Region was voted Re-gion of the Year for seven years I haveannounced my retirement as RE and asa full-time rally organizer I have held tomy promise to not quit until I havetrained my replacement As of right nowI have trained my Assistant RE FrankHamilton to take over that job I amworking on training my good friendSteve McQuaid to take over the rally or-ganizerrsquos job That one takes a bunchmore training and as good and quick alearner as Steve is it is going to takemore time

Final thoughtsI want to thank all of the great people

who have helped me in the last sixyears Without their support I couldnot have accomplished any of the tasksthat needed to be done The Region ofthe Year awards and other successesthe region has enjoyed have been theresult of the work of a lot of great peo-ple who are part of the Northwest Re-gion team I would like to name themall but at my age I know I will forgetsome very important people So thankyou everyone

Regional PerspectiveJOHN FORESPRING

REGIONAL EXECUTIVE


First an apology then thanksA s this is being written I was sup-

posed to be in the air wingingmy way to the Solo nationals

Once again I must again offer an apol-ogy to the Solo community as a familysituation prevented me from attending Ireally look forward to the Solo NationalsThey are low-key fun and include manyof things that club racing used to be Notto mention that there is a record entryfor this yearrsquos event The Solo gang doesknow how to party and I really wanted tosee how Team Zebra did the golf cartthis year I hope they win the prize thatthey earned last year

Great news for the rally world therewill be a ldquoGreat Racerdquo class in SCCARally now

The MX-5 cup (Pro Miata) will be onSpeed TV (finally) this December

Speaking of TV yesterday Pro Racinggot the go-ahead for another season ofSpeed World Challenge The TV pact in-cluding the Runoffs has been extendedfor another year Our management teamis working towards making this an ex-tended deal for another two or even threeyears

ProRacing is tracking close to the pro-jected budget and is unlikely to needmoney from the Club side to make endsmeet at yearrsquos end The revised Pro Rac-ing Board (of which I am a member) hasworked wonders in less than fourmonths Oversights cost controls andother measures never seen before are inplace to hold down expenditures andcontain costs

Right now the future looks brighter forPro Racing than it ever has In fact HerbFishel has been given the green light bythe entire board to explore the possibili-ties of a series A ldquopaddock committeerdquohas been formed from three of theteams This committee will give the Proboard input to enable us to make moreinformed choices and steer a bettercourse for the series in the future

Jim Julow has put one of his Detroitcontacts on the series sponsorship huntJulow is also close to a settlement with acompany that backed out of a signedsponsorship commitment If the agreedupon settlement does come to pass thenPro is likely be in the black for 2006 Thecurrent projection for 2007 is that Prowill turn a profit and be self-sustainingThis is a more conservative projectionthat is based on real numbers without

any ldquoblue skyrdquo than I have seen in mythree years on the board

Jeff Dahertrsquos staff has worked over-time to produce this complete and hon-est picture This budget includes a salaryfor a Pro president which would freeJulow to return most of his time and ef-forts to the club side Stay tuned ProRacing is not out of the woods yet but atthis point it does have a future (possiblyvery bright by 2008) To this end a tip-of-the-helmet is due Julow who has se-cured a healthy sanction fee from aNASCAR venue in North Carolina tostage a ldquosuper eventrdquo which will includePro Racing events

Speaking of staying tuned this is mylast call for your vote In coming to thisjob one of my promises was to end theldquoSecret Car Club of Americardquo I wouldlike to think these monthly columns havehelped achieve this goal I have tried thebest I can to pull back the curtain of se-crecy to educate and inform you themembers of the current state of affairsand the future of the club I hope youagree and will vote for another threeyears of meeting like this every month

Now an update on the financial side ofthe club At the end of August sanctionand service fees came in below budget Asavings in race activities expense offsetthis Insurance revenue came in strongfor the month due to ldquotrue-upsrdquo by the re-gions The margin loan has been paiddown to the $150000 range which is apoint of pride because it is now projectedthat it will be paid off in full before theend of the year This was not the projec-tion at the beginning of the year whichled to a huge concern for the club

Dahert and his crew are to be com-mended for their efforts The forecast forthe end of the year is for an operating in-come of approximately $100000 Theoriginal figure was for a $40000 incomefor the year With four months to go inthe year and the two biggest events ofthe year yet to happen this figure couldquite possibly increase

At the August meeting the BOD votedfor the 24 national class format for theRunoffs The BOD then agreed that 25classes would appear at the 2007

Runoffs This decision was due to thelate action in 2005 to make T-3 a nationalclass for this year At the meeting theboard also agreed to four new nationalclasses A new T-1 will appear in 2007that will be primarily for World Challengecars and cars like the Viper competitioncoupe What is now T1 will be T2 T2 willbe T3 and T3 will become T4 A Formu-la 1000 class is approved for a low-costformula car powered by a motorcycle en-gine Word comes to me that a well-known local sports car builder-designerhas such a car already on his drawingboard

Now back to the 24 classes at theRunoffs rule This was a gauntlet throwndown by the CRB to the BOD The BODhas answered the challenge and now theCRB has the job to combine currentclasses to achieve this 24 number Ru-mored combinations mentioned areCSR-S2 (possibly with a single inlet re-strictor) SSB and SSC into TouringFSCCA and FM together in 2008 and GPcombined HP

So now is the time to read Fastrackevery month and be ready to write lettersto the CRB (and to me) with your ideasand concerns

Be sure to go to wwwsccacollectioncom to see all the newmerchandise

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BY SHERRI MASTERSON

Many people have asked me for helpresolving issues with their member-ships or licenses (or both) What I gen-erally find are two things First mostdonrsquot keep a copy of the paperworkgiven to a chief Divisional Administra-tor or National office Second it hasbeen one or more months since the pa-perwork has been sent in

My goal here is to help you the mem-ber get the information you need to suc-cessfully submit and receive your mem-bership renewal or license renewal

The two most important things arefirst and most important ALWAYSMAKE A COPY and keep the originalsof all forms that you give or send tosomeone This applies for membershipsand licenses Second it doesnrsquot takethree or four weeks to process yourmembership From the time you send amembership form to National office (orpresent one at a race) you should re-ceive your membership card in the mailin approximately two weeks If youhavenrsquot then call National office (9 amto 5 pm Central time) or let me knowThere is nothing that should be holdingup the processing of your membership

unless you have had stewardsrsquo action orpayment issues

Your membership renewal should ar-rive in the mail around the 15th of themonth preceding your expiration month(November expiration should arrive byOct 15) This packet should contain themembership renewal form a form forthe type of license you hold (competi-tion specialty steward etc) and spe-cialty logbooks

Complete the membership renewalform in full If you have a crew licenseor wish to have one then please remem-ber to check the small box above theldquoFamily Membershiprdquo area on the formA crew license in required if you are rac-ing with a non- SCCA approved Compe-tition license This is one license thatshould renew automatically but doesnrsquotalways happen Sign and date the format the bottom and make a copy

Licensing is a bit different becausethe requirements vary between special-ties and competition Renewing or up-grading your existing licenses also havespecific requirements

Competition LicenseFirst the competition license Com-

plete the information on the SCCA Com-petition License Form that you receivedin your packet Race results dates andsanction numbers can be found on ourWeb site or contact the Timing andScoring Chief Competition require-ments are listed on the backside of theform

You may need an updated physicalandor an EKG These factors dependon your medical history and your ageSee the GCR 351 for current require-ments Plan accordingly with setting updoctorrsquos appointments prior to your ex-piration date but no sooner then threemonths ahead Sometimes your licensewill be held up because of a medical re-view When this occurs you should get aletter from National office noting the re-view in progress Again if you donrsquot seeor hear anything in two weeks then callNational

If you have less then the minimumparticipation requirements to maintainyour license you will need to completethe form and include a letter of explana-tion and competition resume sent to theDivisional Administrator LicensingChairman for review You need to in-

clude a stamped envelope addressed toSCCA Central Licensing PO Box19400 Topeka KS 66619-0400 The Li-censing Chairman for NorPac is DickRaymond 11120 Rosemary DriveAuburn CA 95603 Other information islocated on the back page of the SCCACompetition License Application Andagain keep copies of everything Youshould have a response within three tofour weeks at most if not contact Na-tional and the Licensing Chairman

To upgrade your competition licenseyou need to complete the SCCA Compe-tition License application form Fill in allthe information at the top of the form Ifthis is a change of address then pleasecheck the box and check the GCR 1633regarding change of Division This isvery important especially if you arecompeting at a National level

To upgrade your competition licensecheck the ldquonewrdquo box next to the levelyou want to upgrade to (National Re-gional or Vintage Competition) on thefront page under ldquoCheck the type of Li-cense and Fee you are applying forrdquoNext you need to complete the RequiredParticipation area Race dates resultssanction numbers class etc for theevents you attended can be found onlinewwwnwr-sccaorgrace or check withthe TampS Chief Remember you cannotcount an event that you did not finish ordid not start Complete the form withyour method of payment signing anddating the bottom Again please keepcopies of everything until you have thenew and correct license on your card

Specialty LicensesSpecialty licenses also need the cor-

rect paperwork submitted to Nationalfor a renewal of license When you re-ceive your membership renewal you willalso receive a Race Official License Ap-plication and a Race Official LicenseSupplement (a small index-size card) foreach specialty (this is your race log-book) When renewing a regional levellicense only everything should be auto-matic at National and there is no need tocomplete the Race Official License Ap-plication

To renew a Divisional National or Se-nior level license you must completethe front page of the Race Official Li-cense Application Mark the appropriatecolumn and row for your specialty type

Easier SCCA license renewal


of license and the level that you aremaintaining

A participation standard requirementfor a National level license is eight daysat SCCA-sanctioned events in the pre-ceding 12 months (except the new RaceAdministration License) Divisional re-newal standard requirements are sixdays at SCCA-sanctioned events in thepreceding 12 months Senior level re-newal must always be pre-approved bythe Divisional Administrator for the spe-cialty and the Executive Steward everythree years Sign and date the bottom ofthe form

With the license form you will need tosend copies of your signed logbook Thefront of the card needs to have youname member number expirationmonth and year the license grade youcurrently hold (Regional DivisionalNational) and the specialty to matchSometimes you can use the same cardfor more then one specialty like Timingamp Scoring and Registration or Registra-tion and Tech This only works if youare working in both areas at all eventsBut isnrsquot suggested since you will havetwo different Chiefs Donrsquot forget to signyour logbook

The back of the logbook is to be com-pleted for each SCCA-sanctioned eventday Enter each date you work and theevent Use the region and sanction num-ber (example NW 06-RS-03-S) to denotethe event Sanction numbers can befound on all schedules and results TheChiefrsquos signature can be combined forweekends

I like to have a line drawn coveringthe entire weekend (bottom left cornerto top right corner of the ldquoChief Sigrdquoarea) that I can initial my teamrsquos entriesEach chief may do this a bit differentlybut most importantly you need to haveyour Chief or a Chief Steward or Chair-man sign your logbooks Your log-book(s) need to be copied (both sides)and sent with your renewal form to Na-tional Kep your original logbook

When the paperwork arrives at Na-tional office they look to see who hassigned the logbook (they check hand-writing too) and that you have the cor-rect number of days required per spe-cialty Please do not sign the backside ofyour own logbook this could hold upthe processing of your license Remem-ber you need to work each specialty therequired number of days

If you donrsquot have the number of re-quired days you must have your appli-cation approved by a Regional or Divi-

sional administrator This now requiresyou send your paperwork to someoneelse Make copies of the forms and bothsides of your logbook and send faxscan or e-mail to the appropriate personYou will need to make sure that personsends your forms on to National(Please include a stamped and ad-dressed envelope) This process cantake extra time for processing the li-censing part of your membership cardbut still check with the administratorand then National if you donrsquot see yourupdated card within three weeks

If you know ahead of time that youwill be short the required events daysthen have the form completed andsigned by the Regional or Divisional ad-ministrator at the last event you attendbefore your expiration date By havingthe form signed at the event you aresaving processing time of your paper-work The Race Official License Applica-tion is available on our Web sitewwwnwr-sccaorgraceraceformshtm or during registration hours at thetrack

To upgrade a specialty license youneed to complete the front (as describedearlier) and back of the Race Official Li-cense Application The back side (orpage 2) is only for those licenses youwish to upgrade Make sure your nameis on the back side of the form and thencheck the appropriate specialty upgrade(National Divisional Senior) The copyof this form (both pages) and a copy ofall your logbooks need to be forwarded

on to a Regional specialty administrator(the chief of your specialty) or RegionalExecutive (currently John Forespring)for approval Your paperwork will thenbe forwarded to the Divisional Adminis-trator for your specialty within one weekafter receiving

Once approved the paperwork thengoes to Central Licensing at the Nation-al Office within a week of the DA receiv-ing the request If your form goesthrough all these channels by snail mailthen you are looking at about fourweeks until you get your upgrade Planaccordingly License upgrades can beprocessed prior to your membership re-newal date

Senior licenses upgrade or renewalmust be pre-approved by the ExecutiveSteward every three years and this formneeds to be forward on to the ExecutiveSteward who will sign and forward toCentral Licensing at National Again itwill be about a three-week process andkeep copies of everything

If for some reason your upgrade is de-nied then a letter of explanation shouldbe sent to you and Central Licensing

One final comment the copies youkeep are the best way to reconstructyour renewals or upgrades if necessaryI am willing to help solve or guide youthrough any issue you may have

Remember sign date and copy allyour forms

Northwest Region contactinformation Sherri Masterson NWR Race Regis-trar 1616 Gregory Way BremertonWA98337 phone 360-479-6082 fax 360-478-7973 e-mail kc7wecyahoocom

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Divisional administrators can befound on the new NorPac Web sitewwwnorpacsccaorg click on ldquoDivisionalAdministratorsrdquo

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Try to Ketchum if you canBY RON SOREM

Contributing editor

BELLEVUE mdash Rallymaster Tom Pali-dar and the Puget Sound Rally Club pre-sented ldquoKetchum ndash On The Flyrdquo on Sept17 a 6-hour 160-mile TSD Monte Carlostyle touring rally covering some of thefamiliar Friday Nighter territory but indaylight for a completely different per-spective This was the fourth and finalevent in the 2006 NWRC Monte Carlo-Tour Championship

We were a late entry mdash last car out mdashand Car 13 Are you superstitious Ourcar wouldnrsquot restart in the parking lotafter the driverrsquos meeting We coasted tothe outcone and bump started the car butthe computer was dead Circle the park-ing lot reset the clock reset the roughodo factor reset odo transit time OKwersquore late No problem two drivers ndashMark Nolte and me mdash and not a naviga-tor in the bunch Mark runs a TimewiseI have an Alfa mdash an old Alfa Mark men-tioned something about stone tablets

The odo check was straightforward I-

90 east Snoqualmie Plateau then MillPond Road The Alfa attempted comput-ing a factor mdash a button push and itrsquos en-tered mdash speeds for the next two CAS areentered odo reset and wersquore ready Ex-cept some button wasnrsquot pushed hardenough mdash go back restart Wersquore lateand looking for hidden checkpoints

Mark and I have run rallies out here fornearly 40 years (ouch) so there are fewnew hiding spots for checkpoints for usExcept CP 1 mdash we never saw it Localtraffic was pushing us down Sno-Fallshill I pulled over let them pass then theyslowed down ARRGH Left at 372nd lowCAS we could make it up on Fish Hatch-ery Road before the next checkpoint hid-ing place and we did I think At the endof the section Mark announced our odowas off What

We transited through Fall City tryingto correct the Alfa (from both sides of thecar) I missed the left turn Huh OK turnaround reverse the odo find the signtherersquos still time before wersquore late Thereit is get ready passing the sign on zeropush CAS push harder No worries

wersquore running on zero but ldquoSOP Carrdquo ison our minute and slowing Issy-Fall Cityis double yellow so no passing Wersquoredown 3 down 6 ldquoDo we take a 30rdquoldquoNah wersquoll be OKrdquo Oh

No checkpoints for some distance wethink we made it We didnrsquot see anycheckpoints Right to Duthie Hill Car 12is moving right along Right on 202 ldquoSOPcarrdquo has left blinker ndash ummm They turnright still very close to our minute Read-ing ahead we speculate as to CP loca-tions ldquoDo we take a 30rdquo ldquoNahrdquo Check-point Huh

Snoqualmie River Road looks very dif-ferent in daylight mdash without the riverrunning over the road Acute Left up ToltHill mdash no CP no CP no CP mdash so farso good Wersquore on CAS and again wersquorebeing pushed by locals Highway 202 on-time doing 5 over still being pushed ndashwide spot take a stop-n-go

OK on-time turn up Ames Lake hill mdashdrat Locals slow locals Down 10 theyspeed up Double yellow canrsquot pass Down6 and gaining wersquore looking good thenthey slow ldquoDo we take a 30rdquo Silence


No place to pull off anyway Down 8 theyturn off punch it Hidden in the sidestreet was a CP mdash my regular navigatorMax who later pointed out ldquoYoursquod havebeen OK except for the localrdquo

Um yeah Back on zero no trafficCarnation Farms tourist pulls out mdash aslow tourist Double yellow no wait itrsquosgone Pass quickly back to zero bridgeCP Sweet

Left to Duvall for lunch ldquoIsnrsquot this farmoff to the left where the rock festivalswererdquo (1960s) ldquoMan this is really get-ting crowded out here mdash you canrsquot see allthis at nightrdquo I found a spot where wecould bump start the car mdash just in case mdashand sure enough we didnrsquot need it

Car restarted and didnrsquot kill the AlfaWersquod had a talk with ldquoSOP carrdquo they hadthe correct time but our minute wascoming up and they were still parkedHmmm ldquoYoursquore on our minuterdquo mdash theyleft Cherry Valley High Rock mdash hiddenCP mdash 6 early (driver having too muchfun) Prison dairy Tualco Loop CP mdashldquowhew I think wersquore OKrdquo Ben HowardRoad Monte Carlo section mdash ldquodifferentsince it was pavedrdquo mdash when was that 1015 years ago Rereading the regs therecan be a checkpoint at the end Wersquovecaught rally traffic and locals wersquore ontime now falling Mann Road end ofMonte mdash and no CP

A quick transit through constructionand Sultan Sunday traffic Right on OldOwen to our sign reference Wersquove 10 sec-onds to spare and ldquoSOP carrdquo is just leav-

ing We leave on-time execute the firstright turn still on time mdash then theldquomazerdquo with speed changes local trafficeasy to miss signs ldquoShootrdquo Never goodto hear from either side of the car letalone both ldquoLetrsquos take a 30rdquo Done backon time acute left into hairpin right mdasheven at 25 mph I got a scowl from theldquoneighborsrdquo Caught the Do-it-YourselfCP then missed the turn after it (as didseveral others thank you) Recoveredback to the park for a break mdash ldquoLeave itrunning or park on the hillrdquo I did bothjust in case

Time-of-Day Restart back on ourminute mdash wait where is ldquoSOP carrdquo Theywerenrsquot even there for their minute Onour way to Granite Falls wersquove looked inall the usual CP spots mdash nobody ThenEngebretson Road twisty nice JordanRoad CAS 30 in a 35 zone Localsnowhere to pass nowhere to pull off get-ting early OK pull in there mdash the onlyspot and only spot for a CP mdash I canrsquotguess when they timed us As wersquore driv-ing away Mark mumbled somethingabout ldquoI used that spot on a rally yearsago I guess I should have said some-thingrdquo Laughter from both sides of thecar

Looking for a DIY CP at ldquoOne lanebridgerdquo which neither of us can remem-ber Past the park lots of Harleys PastSteve and Kathryn with ldquoOKrdquo on the roofndash adding more water We ldquoFly through Ar-lingtonrdquo the transit to an MTC at PortageCreek Wildlife Sanctuary where Mr Pali-

dar collects time cards West to SmokeyPoint jump across the freeway on anoverpass that neither of us recall travel-ing (amazing) Left Right Left Right mdashmarching in traffic mdash getting late But anunannounced pause so wersquore OK on-time Or are we ldquoDriverrdquo wants to leaveldquoother driverrdquo wants to calc missed CASldquoDo we take a 30rdquo ldquoYesrdquo As we left ourldquodowntown Lakewoodrdquo parking spotguessing at pauses versus speedchanges there is CP 15 only 8100thdown the road So now wersquove got itsomewhat under control we think wersquore1 late they give us 11 late Then ldquoWhatrsquosthat car doingrdquo U-turn Why Irsquod missedanother sign reverse course adjust com-puter mdash CP within half mile 5 late

OK looking for the end of section inless than a mile no place for a CP mdash ex-cept RASC members in their own drive-way Thanks Kirk and Terry for the 51late PSRCrsquos way of saying ldquoTHAT is yourlesson for the dayrdquo

On the bright side dinner was greatAnd so was the rally for everyone else

First Unlimited and overall went toEsko and Peter Mannisto from ORCAwith 33 points Three seconds behindwith 36 points were Kelly Smith andDave Treen also from ORCA FirstNovice seventh overall with 743 wereSam and Pam Robinson First Equippedeighth overall with 761 went to RASCrsquosMark Weber and Rob Starritt First SOPninth overall with 773 went to HansAdomeit and RASCrsquos Dan Comden

This isnrsquot a road hazard yoursquoll see on a typical Washington highway Alaska moose scatter for Alcan rallyists


STORY AND PHOTOS BY RON SOREM

Contributing editor

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN KIRK-LAND AND ANCHORAGE mdash RainierAuto Sports Club and rallymaster JerryHines presented the 2006 Alcan5000Rally Quoting Hines ldquoThe official routeis 4400 miles but could be as short as3200 or as long as 5000rdquo Your mileagemay vary

Alcan5000 began in 1984 as a summerevent and presented the first winter ver-sion in 1988 The series now alternatesevery two years as Alcan5000 and AlcanWinter Rally Alcan may be the onlyTSD rally in North America that offersboth car and motorcycle competition ina single venue

Day One began with nine cars 22dual-sport motorcycles and eight full-time staff vehicles hitting the freewayfor a long odo calculation run north to-ward the Canadian border First on the

road were Revere Jones (AltadenaCalif) Brian Deno (Arden NC) andTom Gould (Manhattan Beach Calif)All three are rally veterans with Revereon his fourth Alcan

Second on the road were the Noviceteam of Jasper Long and Brian Burk upfrom Portland Ore for only their sec-ond rally Quite a range of experience

Car-guy sentimental favorites at thestart were Kevin Kittle and Tyler Irwinof Albuquerque NM in a restored1960 Morris Minor Their rally was cutshort by a head gasket in Hope (ironicdonrsquot you think) BC a second headgasket in Watson Lake and eventually arebuild in Whitehorse before continuinginto Anchorage

Other car-team members came fromNew Mexico Arizona Georgia SouthCarolina and one co-driver from KapaaHawaii

On the cycle side joining in the funwere iron butt candidates from all cor-ners of the country Florida Vermont

New Hampshire New York New Jer-sey Massachusetts Michigan OhioTennessee Mississippi Nevada Cali-fornia Oregon and British Columbia

The trip moved from the brisk free-way to the back roads at Alger Lastyear RASCrsquos NorrsquoWester staff devel-oped this ldquoshortcutrdquo course to the bor-der but on rally day a key bridge wasclosed for repair This year MosquitoLake TSD went as planned and the rallybypassed Bellingham on smooth andscenic roads to the Sumas-HuntingdonCustoms

Once in Canada teams made theirway to north of Williams Lake TheSoda Creek TSD followed the plateauabove the Fraser River and droppedinto hayfields on twisting narrow gravelbefore climbing back to Highway 97 andnorth to Quesnel Soda Creek claimedone cycle due to the very loose surfaceon an uphill corner By Day Four therider was ready to take on rest of therally

ON THE ROAD AGAIN

2006 Alcan5000Your mileage may vary

Day Two began as Mile 483 on the22-mile Blackwater TSD followed by an-other 125 miles of gravel and pavementthrough beautiful forest and lake coun-try to Fort Fraser Fraser Lake TSDclaimed our second bike to an oil leakColin Stenhouse (North VancouverBC) would continue as an addition tothe Range Rover team of Robert Leeand Bill Savage up from New Mexico

Some 175 miles north of Fraser LakeKispiox Valley TSD was the third timedsection of the day at lsquoKsan Village The47-mile TSD began on pavement but 9miles in turned to gravel A ldquocritical leftturnrdquo at mile 869958 onto Mitten For-est Service Road was overlooked byone cycle RASCrsquos radio net relayed mapinfo and verified ldquolast point seenrdquo whileone of the staff vehicles explored possi-ble off-course choices finding the riderThe staff ldquoradio relayrdquo was 17 miles westof the rider and his sweep We now re-joined the chase 265 miles along theCassiar Highway to Dease Lake

Wildlife included a wolf several blackbear including twin cubs and one adultblack bear sprinting across the road infront of four cycles and two cars just outof Bell 2 The Northway Inn at DeaseLake stayed open late to accommodatethe pack of hungry and thirsty rallyistsand staff at Mile 1151

Day Three began with an optional140-mile trip to Telegraph Creek Theroute included 20-percent drops intocanyons with tight hairpins and the oc-casional opposing big-rig The village ofTelegraph Creek has been a tradingpost since before the Cassiar Gold Rush(1872) and 20-odd years before theKlondike Rush in Dawson This was akey supply point for the Alcan Highwayin 1942 Telegraph Creek teams re-turned to Dease Lake and began the394-mile transit to Whitehorsersquos YukonInn Mile 1694 our home for twonights

Day Four brought more options No1 North Canol overnight for the cycles

and 3 support staff vehicles ldquoCanolrdquo isshort for Canadian Oil the pipeline builtduring World War II between the North-west Territories and Whitehorse Theoption included camping and a spaghet-ti feed and Day Five to Dawson No 2South Canol Loop returning to White-horse No 3 a 220-mile tour to Skagwaychosen by about half the teams and sev-eral staff Option no 4 took a smallpenalty for playing tourist in White-horse

Those who went to Skagway joinedfour cruise-ships of tourists The routeparallels the White Pass and Yukon Rail-road Dropping into Skagway the ldquoWel-come to Alaskardquo sign was obscured bycold dense fog Skagway was cloaked bylow clouds but the tourists were unruf-fled

Day Five began with seven of the carsand nine of the bikes leaving White-horse for Dawson City via Long Lake


Car 1 joined about half the Alcan entrants in a 220-mile detour to Skagway on Day Four

Continued on next page


TSD This would be a relatively short343-mile day The Morris finally caughtup with the rally under tow but wouldspend two more days re-powering theircar from local parts compliments of theonly Morris owner in the Yukon OurGeorgia-South Carolina entry elected todo South Canol on the way to Dawsonwith one staff car attending Their longday included a cold dip in a clear lakealong the way The rest of the fieldbroke camp on the North Canol andheaded for Dawson

As you can see this begins theYMMV of Alcan lsquo06 Unofficial mileageto Whitehorse was 1695 includingTelegraph Creek North Canol added868 before Dawson South Canol added462 and Skagway added 220 So unoffi-cially the direct no-option route loggedin at 1818 the high mileage folks rightat 2563 Your mileage may vary

Dawson City was another two-nightstay Arriving late afternoon mostteams had time to tour the town and set-tle in at the Sluice Box Bar in the head-quarters El Dorado Hotel Stories andphotos of the ldquoovernightrdquo kept everyoneentertained

Day Six saw only four teams elect the

Midnight Dome TSD for a relaxing 105-mile day and a chance to take in DawsonldquoDiscovery Daysrdquo The remaining crewschose the 560-mile loop to the ArcticCircle on the Dempster Highway

Day Seven brought the warningldquoDonrsquot miss the ferryrdquo crossing theYukon River Top of the World TSDbegan less than a mile from the hotelpassed six checkpoints in 9 miles andtransited 56 miles along the Yukonrsquospaved Top of the World Highway toAlaska USA and gravel

Poker Creek Alaska population twotook an amused stance as the rally pre-sented a steady stream of cars bikesvans and pickups with Alcan5000 sig-nage Alaskarsquos dirt road presented spec-tacular scenery and surprises as wewould meet full-sized tour coaches atspeed in the occasional hairpin OurAlcan radios were put to good use againrelaying the positions of oncomingbuses

Our route dropped steadily from4500 feet to 2000 feet then climbedagain into dense fog and with a fewhairpins reached mile 3177 and beauti-ful ldquodowntown Chicken Alaskardquo tem-perature 34 degrees Two miles later wereturned to pavement for the 74-milerun to lunch and a regroup before the

13-mile Tok TSD One cycle missed aninstruction and three checkpointsprompting a search of the area beforeword came that the rider just hit thehighway and headed for Fairbanks Rainwas now nearing epic volumes

At the headquarters hotel in Fair-banks the main attraction was the in-bar computer tuned to Alaska DOT andthe Weather Channel sites Rains hadwashed out several sections of the ParksHighway connecting Fairbanks and An-chorage and the Denali Highway mdash ourroute for Day Eight Time to punt

Day Eight opened with the 11-mileChena Ridge TSD followed by an emer-gency route change ldquoProceed east onthe freeway to Delta Junction and southto Paxson for a look at the Denali orcontinue south to Glenallenrdquo So in apouring rain everyone retraced the pre-vious afternoonrsquos wet gray run to DeltaJunction Not as much traffic as a week-end but the moose donrsquot care

South from Delta Junction the routeparalleled the Alaska Pipeline Ap-proaching Summit Lake in the worst ofthe rain dark figures appeared in theroad mdash not cycles more moose At Pax-son several bikes went as far as thewashout and took photos before return-ing to pavement and south to Glenallen

Continued from previous page

TelegraphCreek offered

lots ofexposure to go

with thecurves


and sunshine and warmthThe Valdez option should be required

for all The weather was clear and warm(even at Worthington Glacier) and thescenery was awesome Valdez was spec-tacular with several groups of competi-tors and staff walking the waterfronttaking pictures of the marina with snow-capped peaks as a backdrop checkingout the salmon derby and having dinnerat a great little restaurant The return toGlenallen featured sunset-lit mountainsand Mount Wrangell in shades of pinkand orange Irsquove seen that poster on salein Seattle

Day Nine began cold and clear westfrom the Caribou Lodge parking lot onthe 147-mile Talsona Creek TSD be-fore a 134-mile transit to Palmer Hatch-er Pass TSD north of Palmer was savedaccording to Anchorage newspapers byan alert parks employee who noticedthe erosion on the paved hill climb

along Little Susitna River A call to thehighways department started reinforce-ment with truckloads of rock Our longHatcher Pass route had to be detouredhowever since the gravel road west ofthe summit had washed away

The rally was regrouped at Gold MintTrailhead and a new transit written for62 miles into Anchorage As cold as allthe riders were Anchorage wouldnrsquotcome soon enough Total mileage to An-chorage 2684 to 4217 before headinghome Your mileage may vary

Dinner and awards (and an occasionalroast) were held at the Sourdough Min-ing Co shuttle provided from the hotelcomplete with a six-gun totinrsquo ldquosour-doughrdquo driver Winner of the 2006Alcan5000 was the Subaru Outbackteam of Revere Jones Brian Deno andTom Gould Winner of the UnlimitedCycles (third overall) was Jim Robert-son on a BMW F650GS Dakar from

Aptos Calif First Cycle2 (fifth overall)was Dean Scheel on the sweet SuzukiDL-1000 V-Strom First SOP (sixth over-all) was Doug Martin with son Brantleyand navigator Will Amthor in anotherSubaru Outback First SUV (ninth over-all) to Phil Stonich John Stonich andMichelle Henrie in a GMC Envoy FirstCycle1 (10th overall) to Jay Ritchie fromStarkville Miss First Team went toCars 1 2 and 9 as Impromptu SubaruIronman was shared by 13 who complet-ed all the options and collected the mostmiles

Full results photos and linksarchives on previous events and morestories can be found atwwwalcan5000com

For more rally stories search linksand schedules seewwwtsdroadrallycom

Wrangell-St Elias glowed in the Alaskan summer sunset


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Race program still needs helpWe have reached the end of

another race season otherthan the final party and

trophies It was a relatively successfulyear despite not being able to run re-gional groups at our Double Nationalraces

We have had some problems that wewill work hard to correct like a lack ofpeople to help clean up after the Bre-merton events Next year we will beencouraging drivers to stick aroundafter those events to help us clean up sowe can get the job done quickly andeveryone can go home at a resonablehour instead of a few of us having to bethere until midnight

I am also asking for drivers who willbe willing to have their name and phonenumbers given out as sources of infor-mation and mentoring for new drivers

I would like to thank those drivers

and workers who showed up to ourevents this past year and encourage allof you to show up and work again nextyear For drivers remember if your carisnrsquot running you are always welcometo work in any specialty you chooseEven if you have some spare time feelfree to stop by and help on grid or inTech (Scutineering) In fact we are re-ally looking for people to help us mantech this next year so if anyone wantsto help please let us know

Looking forward to next year wehave our traditional date back at Pacif-ic so Double National will again be onMemorial Day weekend and we should

be able to get some regional groupsscheduled We should also have ourend-of-April event at Bremerton andour end-of-July event will be a doubleregional co-sanctioned with the newBig Island of Hawaii Region as well asour usual SOVREN groups

I would encourage those who want tobe included in any regional group atPacific to encourage their friends andco-drivers to show up at Bremertonandor to let us know they are interest-ed as we donrsquot want groups of 10 or lessfor our regional grids We need to makeit worthwhile for both an audience aswell as potential sponsors and I reallywant to give the opportunity to thosewho support the entire program

Remember that the race party is atBison Creek Pizza on Saturday Nov 18and I hope to see you there

Play safe and have fun

Race ReportTOM MASTERSON

ASSISTANT RE RACE

Northwest Region hostingNORPAC gathering in Reno

BY J TOM MASTERSONFor Northwest Sports Car News

Well you have read it here before andIrsquom saying it again NORPAC DivisionConvention in Reno at the Atlantis Casi-no Resort on Jan 5-7 is the deal for youto attend Thanks to the hard work ofNorthwest Region and your ExecutiveConvention Committee this round willbe the best ever

SCCA President Jim Julow will bethere to listen to your suggestions andanswer questions Other nationalstaffers will be present as well includingJeremy Theonnes Howard DuncanColan Arnold and others All these goodpeople are very open and do their best toanswer your concerns But that is onlythe beginning In three days you will be

able to choose and attend a huge varietyof seminars

The list currently reads as followsWorker Safety Ask your Steward (openforum) How to Sell the Region IRS andthe Region or Race Team Non-Profit vsNot-for-Profit RallyCross Time Trials AHealthy Car Repair Refurbish Restore(panel) Marketing for Your Region andRace Team Trophies That Work SoloSafety Steward Refresher Region Issuesfor Solo National Classifications (Solo)Find Them Keep Them Make ThemHappy Risk Management Keeping Pro-tected and many more

There you go and if you paid attentionyou will notice a couple of always-hot-button subjects

Now for the fun stuff the Friday nightget-together and the silent auction on

Saturday night Welcome to the Party Suite to match

the party region Yes we are back in asuite with bartending RE John Fore-spring

Saturday silent auction and party thebidding becomes hot and heavy by theend of the evening Breakfast buffetsanyone Gambling Night shows Re-member its Reno The Town Hall openforum with national staff area directorsand REs up on the podium ready to fieldyour questions and comments is on Sun-day morning

This is your chance to listen learn andbe heard so come on down it will be funEarlybird registration saves you moneyso do it now $90 earlybird special priorto Dec 5 Registration form on line atwwwnorpacsccaorgconvention



2006 A great season for SoloAnother season has gone by I

hope you had as much fun as Idid We had eight events in the

Fordahl Motorsports Championship se-ries We put on a beginnersrsquo school as partof the Jimrsquos Detail Shop Novice programWe held two practice days and a practiceProSolo We also hosted the PackwoodProSolo and the Packwood National TourAs you can see it was a busy year Wewould like to thank Fordahl Motorsportsand Jimrsquos Detail Shop for their support Ofcourse the best way to thank them is topatronize them

This yearrsquos event all went well We hadsome rain at a few of them the timinglights were hit a few times but no cars hadmajor damage and no one was hurt I cantell you that I had a lot of fun this yearThere were a lot of good battles for theseason championships with most not fullydecided until the last event The closestrace was decided by 024 points which isabout 012 seconds cumulatively over theyear We averaged more than 105 competi-tors for Fordahl Motorsportsrsquo seasonchampionships at each events Overall at-tendance was about the same as last year

On the national front we had about 50people go to nationals this year We hadone ProSolo season champion Joe Goekein BS We had six Solo National champi-ons Kristi Brown in HSL Jodi Fordahl inESL Kevin Dietz in CS Shelbi Zigler in

CSL Anna Goeke in BSL and Angela Mof-fett in SM2L As a group we took homemany trophies

I would also like to thank the peoplewho really made the year happen not allof whom can be mentioned here Amongthem are our chairs and specialty chiefs

The schedule and the event chairs areApril 2 Bremerton Jackie McInnes and

Erika CowenApril 22 and 23 Packwood Jake Ny-

gaard and Shalyn MorrowMay 28 Bremerton Karl Coleman and

Amy OlsonNovice school Jackie McInnesJune 17 Packwood ProSolo Alan DahlJune 18 Packwood Jake Nygaard and

Shalyn MorrowJuly 8 and 9 Packwood Brett Wilson

and Enrique GarciaJuly 23 Bremerton Karl Coleman and

Amy OlsonAug 5 and 6 Packwood ProSolo Alan

DahlAug 12 and 13 Packwood NT Keith

Brown and Jerry LambSept 3 Bremerton Aaron PailthorpOct 15 Bremerton Shelbi Zigler and

Kevin DietzOur specialty chiefsTiming Glenn Austin and Enrique

GarciaCourse David LewisWaivers Erika Cowan Tim Irwin and

Joe FloresScoring Jodi FordahlWorkers Keith and Kristi BrownEquipment Brian NortonRegistration Jason Spore and Dick

WillyTech Abe DouglassGrid Trever McDermott and Glen Her-

nandezNovice Chair Jackie McInnesTrophies Amy OlsonCore workers not mentioned above in-

clude Gretchen Everett Jodi FordahlLouAnn Christensen Dick Willy BudBohrer Val Korry and Mike and CarolLeuty We also couldnrsquot have events with-out our safety stewards Karl ColemanBob Forsberg Mike Leuty Carol LeutyScott Miller Val Korry Mark McCooeyCraig Anderson Dick Willy KathrynHansen and Scott West

If you would like to help out and you arenot sure how you could let us know Wersquollfind something for you We are alwayslooking for new blood A good way to meetus is to show up at a meeting They are al-ways held on the second Tuesday of themonth

Cone What ConeJERRY LAMB

ASSISTANT RE SOLO II

Wild West will cap seasonRALLY AMERICA

GOLDEN VALLEY Minn mdash RallyAmerica announced that the Reno Rallytaking place in Reno Nev on Dec 1 and2 has been postponed Rally America hasasked Wild West to be the final race ofthe 2006 National Championship series

ldquoItrsquos really too bad we had to replacethe Reno Rally at this timerdquo said JBNiday managing director for RallyAmerica ldquoThe event chairman DavidHackett is developing the event andRally America looks forward to a Reno

event in the futurerdquoldquoIt is important to Rally America that

all our events are successful When WildWest was forced to reschedule the op-portunity presented itself to take somepressure off the Reno event and give itmore time to develop I am encouragingthem put on a regional rally in early2007rdquo

The Wild West Rally was originallyscheduled for Sept 9 and 10 It was post-poned due to extreme forest fire dangerand is now rescheduled for Dec 2 and 3in Olympia

ldquoThe Wild West was a National Cham-pionship event for many years and theyorganize some of the best events in thecountryrdquo Niday said ldquoThis will be agreat place to conclude the race for theRally America 2006 National Champi-onshiprdquo

Rally America will now have two ralliesin the Pacific Northwest as the OregonTrail rally was already Round no 3 of theseries in April The Wild West Rally willprovide breathtaking views on challeng-ing mountainous stages for all partici-pants

Final Rally America event Dec 2 Reno postponed


STORY BY RON SOREMContributing editor

PHOTOS BY CASEY WOODRUMTeam Fugawi

MERRITT BC mdash The West CoastRally Association presented their 2006Pacific Forest Rally a CARS NationalRally running through the forestryroads ranchland trails and city streetsof Merritt in BCrsquos Country Music Capi-tol Oct 12-15

PFR has been around in various formssince the 1960s Revived eight yearsago and celebrating six years in Mer-ritt this would be Round 5 of the 2006Canadian Rally Championship

Our two Course Opening cars man-aged to Recce the new stages enroute to

Merritt on Friday morning ThynneMountain and Brook Creek Stages arenew to BC rallying even overlooked bythe TSD rallies We can be certain theywill be included in future events withgentle rises and falls high-speedstraights through the trees reminiscentof Finland albeit with smaller jumpsAlso on our Recce was the familiar Com-stock Stage parallel to the CoquihallaHighway Ron Sorem and Max Vays-burd (Car 0) and Lee Sorenson andCasey Woodrum (Car 00) made a fewnotes then proceeded to the start forlast-minute instructions before headingout to the night stages

Weather couldnrsquot have been betterperhaps less dust but certainly no rainCompetition was expected to be highwith a very tight possibility that the

Antione LrsquoEstage and Nathalie Richard finished second overall in a Hyundai Tiburon

PacificForest

Rally2006

Late summer weather ideal


National Champion would be crownedat PFR Antoine LrsquoEstage from Quebecin an all-wheel-drive Hyundai Tiburonwould have to hold off Matthew Ioriofrom Massachusetts in his SubaruNorm LeBlanc from Pemberton BCwith co-driver Keith Morison from Cal-gary Alberta would try their best topush LrsquoEstage and Iorio ever so gentlyin their rally blue Subaru WRX aswould Gary Cavett from Washingtonand Paul Eklund from Oregon both inSubarus

Thirty-one cars were registered forthe two-day event some running onlyfor Regional points others for NationalOff to a inauspicious start was a Neonwhich failed to get running in time forthe night stages but would return torun in the daylight

ldquoMerritt by Nightrdquo began with a shortrun west to Comstock Stage a familiar583-km mix of gravel climb rough hair-pin downhill rev-limiter pavement alongthe highway and twisting dropsthrough the trees (with cows horsesand goats) Oh my

Princeton Cut-off Stage followedshowing teams fast and narrow twistingclimbs and deep exposures before top-ping out with a 90-right onto pavementin front of a good crowd of spectatorsPrinceton is showing some wear andclaimed several tires (including Car 00)two on Car 21 of Ryan Barker and KevinLaase up from Washington and a tireand wheel (lost down a ravine) for Car11 of Eric Grochowski and Leanne Jun-nila of Calgary Small ldquooffsrdquo and bigrocks claimed the Mazda 323GTX ofMatt and Tracy Mannspeaker with anldquoirreplaceablerdquo control arm We maynever know if it was the tremendouspower in Gord Olsenrsquos lsquo92 Golf GTI buta broken drivetrain short-circuited heand Todd Patolarsquos weekend at a Prince-ton 2 Start control zone

Repeat runnings of Comstock andPrinceton were separated by a SpectatorStage in the downtown Railyard Mall inMerritt ldquoRailyardrdquo featured a shortfast watered down street section andgravel parking area that provided close-up views for the crowd and a new mean-ing to the term ldquopole-positionrdquo for twocompetitors climbing a utility pole guy-wire near stage finish No harm no foulno power outage

Closing the first night Car 1 AntoineLrsquoEstage and Nathalie Richard led MattIorio and Ole Holter in Open class fol-lowed by LeBlanc-Morison in P4 Donrsquotget ahead of the story here there would

be more suspense on Day TwoSaturday dawned a bit overcast mask-

ing the bright sunlight in the windshieldfor competitors Thynne MountainStage was southerly climbing graduallyfrom 1100 meters to 1600 metersthrough several gentle bends and sharpsweepers ending over-crest off-camberdownhill loose with a big rock in theshort line through

Brook Creek Stage began slightlydownhill into off-camber long right onmarbles with exposure left At 600 me-ters into Brook a sharp right with expo-sure grabbed Car 12rsquos crew who man-aged to ldquohiderdquo their Mazda RX-7 in thetrees below the road Neil Wright and

Lorna McInroy reported all was OK(that was all you could see of the inci-dent the ldquoOKrdquo in their warning trianglecoming into the corner) After a recov-ery the car was drivable but fairly wrin-kled

Brook Creek brought other news mdashsomething that even the most experi-enced competitors will admit has hap-pened to them at some time mdash an errorin checking into the control zone somesix minutes early Car 1 would have tobe VERY much spot-on for the rest ofthe day Brook runs 1235 km northerlywith the sun now coming over the trees


ldquoZeberdquo Szewczyk and Tomasz Karzynski drove their 2004 Mitsubishi LancerRalliart to fifth overall at the Pacific Forest Rally It was good enough to givethe pair the national Group 5 championship


and flashing onto windshields at themost inopportune places like right overcrest or hairpin downhill (at VIP specta-tor area) challenging concentrationAlso ldquogame overrdquo at Brook Creek 1 wasCar 27 novice Chad LaPoudre andHeath Hrappstead whose Golf left theroad just long enough to damage thesuspension

Thynne and Brook ran a second timewith faster times by most teams andthree DNFs mdash one motor one transmis-sion one soft roll

Service in Merritt then out to ActiveMountain Raceway and Resort This en-closed area is a venue for music festivalsand spectator stages The best viewinglocations had been picked out by thetime course opening cars ran the stageA large crowd then watched the show ofspeed and skill of the top cars pendu-lum turns flying gravel (boulders) andthe roar of motors climbing the steepgrade to the flying finish

Helmer Stage is fast becoming a fa-vorite BC Stage and was by all reportsin its best condition in recent memorymdash read very fast The first running wasuneventful Then a second running of

AMR followed by Service in town andback-to-back runnings of Helmer

Crowd control began to worry the or-ganizers Popular spectator locationswere filling rapidly and individuals re-fused to stay off the stage road Delayswere likely Helmer 2 ran without inci-dent Helmer 3 saw more spectators ar-riving from AMR although the mosttroublesome ones shouldnrsquot have beenallowed to drive at all let alone walk

We delayed as long as possible toallow spectators into the area but manyrefused to get off the roadway Car 0 wassent through slowly competitors werealready arriving at the start and morespectators were found deep into thestage on quad-runners Helmer 3 wasrunning late Whether the delays affect-ed the results will never be known butCar 9 lost a tire and dropped from thirdto seventh Car 25 dropped out with me-chanical problems in the lsquo73 Toyota Car26 pushed a strut into the hood and onthe Transit out the shredded tire dis-mantled the wiring harness mdash theFocus DNFrsquod only 4 km from the finish

LrsquoEstage held off Iorio on the dayrsquosstages actually reducing the six minutegap to three minutes Not quite enoughto clinch the Championship outright

however with a magic number of onlyone merely starting Tall Pines the finalrally of the year will secure the OpenChampionship

Group 5 National Championship wassealed at Merritt with ldquoZeberdquo Szewczykand Tomasz Karzynski piloting the 2004Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart to fifth over-all at PFR Norm LeBlanc captured theP4 Drivers Championship and KeithMorison captured the P4 Co-DriversChampionship

LeBlanc-Morison took the honors forldquoMerritt by Nightrdquo leading Gary Cavettand Alan Perry of Washington who inturn led Paul Eklund and Jeff Price ofOregon Less than two minutes coveredthe three Subarus

In daylight ldquoHelmer by Dayrdquo saw Ek-lund-Price leading with Aaron Neu-mann and Graham Coates in the Group2 Civic leading LeBlanc and MorisonOne minute four seconds covered thefirst three cars over eight hours of rally

Complete results photos and links can be found at wwwpacificforestrallycom

More rally stories and a rally searchat wwwtsdroadrallycom


Paul Eklund and Jeff Price tackle Helmer in daylight


BY RON SOREMContributing editor

TUMWATER mdash Olympic Rally Compe-tition Association and Rallymaster DaveTreen presented a 150-mile gravel TSDthrough the woods of the Department ofNatural Resourcesrsquo Capital Forest AnyNight on Bald Mountain can be scary orexhilarating and challenging mdash thisyearrsquos run would be no exception

This yearrsquos running would be RoundThree of the Pacific Coast ChallengeRally Championship combining events inWashington California Mainland BritishColumbia and Vancouver Island

The rally featured smooth roads (withthe exception of areas of fresh loggingand road rebuilding) at moderate speedswith very little local traffic Speeds near-ing campgrounds were dropped to as lowas 10 mph and quiet zones were utilizedto keep all of the forest users happy

Twenty-four cars took the start andheaded west to the Straddleline ORVPark near McCleary where a big Jeep 4x4Jamboree was scheduled for the week-end and the associated motorcycles andATVs would be a constant presence onthe first part of the rally

Max Vaysburd was back in the rightseat of Car 6 massaging the Alfa rallycomputer and we were looking forwardto tight competition with old friends fromWashington and Oregon The rallybrought one Canadian entry as well in ablack Subaru Impreza Night on BaldMountain has been around for manyyears and has gained a reputation aroundthe Pacific Northwest for finding scenicareas and great rally roads

The first TSD set the ldquomoodrdquo for thenight uphill start hairpin right climbingloose surface and all the best estimatesat an odo factor from the freeway weregone The rally topped the ridge turninginto the sunset which fortunately carrieda few clouds or the sun-on-windshieldvisibility would have been very difficultBear left over Blind Crest This wouldhave been treacherous with a blindingsunset

NoBM uses ldquopassage controlsrdquo withcompetitors simply passing the check-point without stopping The controls maybe hidden mdash some very well hidden Wedidnrsquot see the first CP but it was probablynear the blind crest We were scored 2-late This first regularity was named

ldquoWest Fork 1rdquo as we dropped into thedrainage of the West Fork of PorterCreek

A brief transit crawled slowly and quiet-ly past a campground that on NoBMrsquosprevious run through this forest hadbeen filled with horses and hunters BearLeft up the hill to the start of ldquoBuckRidge Regularityrdquo This would be 7 milesof very twisty gravel clinging at times tothe side of steep exposures and dealingwith active logging sites filled withstacked logs and the big yellow machin-ery that move them around PassingPorter Pass and the Rock Candy Moun-tain access road the route comes to theend of the regularity

ldquoCapitol Peak Monte Carlordquo snaked 9miles south and west between LarchMountain and Capitol Peak where theobservant would take notes for a later re-tracing of the road as part of ldquoLarchMountain Regularityrdquo

ldquoCapitol Peak Regularityrdquo carried threecheckpoints over its nearly 7-miles oftwists climbs and drops with CASTs of31 29 and 32 before slowing to 20 for thecampground We scored 2L 0 and 2Ewith no accounting as to why mdash our com-puter showed zero

ldquoBordeaux Monte Carlordquo was nearlynine miles due south overlooking Wad-dell Creek and Lost Valley A brief stretchof pavement was followed by the rough-est section of the night New constructionpresented big chunky gravel and ruttedtracks The recommended speed was 15and in some places that might have beenhigh Rallymaster Treen apologized pro-fusely about the conditions (all of whichwere beyond his control)

Skirting the southern edge of the BlackHills ldquoCitadel Regularityrdquo runs west withtwo CPs late in the section followed by ashort section of pavement turning northand east for the ldquoShort Paved Transitrdquo

ldquoCatamount Regularityrdquo was the sec-ond longest TSD of the night covering1148 miles clinging to the ridge aboveShelton Creek passing one of the highestpoints on the event and dropping wester-ly into Porter Creek drainage above IronCreek and Hell Creek with long hairpinsand exposures both sides before the 5-mile ldquoHell Creek Monte Carlordquo out toHighway 12 for a break in Elma if need-ed or just hanging out above PorterCreek to wait for an out-time

ldquoLarch Mountain Regularityrdquo at 15

miles was the longest TSD It followedthe North Fork of Porter Creek right upto Larch Mountain then cut southwestover previously traveled roads west ofCapitol Peak This was the only local traf-fic difficulty of the night for us We mettwo pickups on a narrow section and hadto find enough real estate to get all the ve-hicles on their way without swappingpaint Our time-dec skills proved excel-lent as the next two controls scoredzeros cleaning the section

ldquoDusty Way Monte Carlordquo travelednorth along the ridge before droppinginto Porter Creek and the start of ldquoWestFork Regularity 2rdquo covering 952 milesout to the ORV park and pavement Alongthe way we encountered brisk speedsinto darkened treed triangles for ldquoBearRight and Keep Rightrdquo (or left and left asneeded) leading to the downhill Left at Tat 31 mph sideways mdash ldquo0rdquo mdash and nomore checkpoints although a perfect op-portunity presented at the downhill hair-pin Maybe next time

Transit to the finish was uneventfuland all the scores with exception of thelast three controls were projected on thewall in the dining area as we arrivedSpeculation was high as the scores werevery close mdash the last three CPs couldmake a difference

Holding on to their preliminary leadwere Eric Horst and Stephan Willey withonly 12 points over 16 controls and 15276miles Second moving up one positionfrom prelims were Jason Webster andBrandon Harer with only 14 Third alsomoving up one notch were Ron Soremand Max Vaysburd with 16

Unfortunately moving down into a tiewere Satch Carlson and Russ Kraushaarwith more zeros than Jeff McMillen andMarvin Crippen sharing 19 points Com-ing out of ldquoretirementrdquo were Jim andCristy Breazeale shaking off the rust at20 points First Equipped seventh over-all were Don Gibson and Mike Workmanwith 34 And in a spectacular showing forSeat of the Pants with no calculators ex-cept in the driverrsquos head Mike Daily andTom Palidar were first SOP eighth over-all with only 56

Complete results atwwwteamhightowercomorcanobmresults06htm


Night on Bald Mountain 2006


Pro Challenge cars willshift to auto drivetrain

BY DANE BERGMANBergman Racing Supply

Pro Challenge Performance Racinghas emerged as a leader in the driverdevelopment racing platforms in recentyears and now a new generation motorwill continue the rapid rise of its region-al and national series as well as the driv-ers that compete in them

After successful test sessions atKingsport Speedway in Tennessee andHickory Motor Speedway in North Car-olina Pro Challenge will begin offeringa four-cylinder car engine beginning in2007 that will be implemented into theregional and national series during the2007 and 2008 calendar years

The four-cylinder engine will be im-plemented with a five-speed transmis-sion with a reverse gear which will re-place the six-forward gear transmissioncurrently in all Pro Challenge cars

ldquoMotorcycle engines are great power-plants and they have served Pro Chal-lenge very wellrdquo said John Litzingerowner of Pro Challenge ldquoThey havehowever changed through the years interms of performance and availabilityand that has been causing us a lot ofgrief of late I felt like we will have a lotmore stable engine platform by movingto a car engine One thing that this ac-complishes for our spec series programis it that we will benefit from an engineplatform that will last a long time Carengine platforms typically last about 10to 12 years far more than motorcycleenginesrdquo

The Pro Challenge cars will have anew engine package in the future

ldquoWe have also had a lot of requests fora reverse gearrdquo Litzinger said ldquoWersquovebeen looking to try to develop a reversegear option for our motorcycle-poweredcars and this solves that problem Alsowe believe that moving to this particularengine platform will be beneficial intheir use as a developmental tool for theyoung drivers It will make Pro Chal-lenge the premier scale product avail-able todayrdquo

While the new four-cylinder car en-

gine will be implemented into Pro Chal-lenge racing officials insist the currentmotorcycle powerplants the KawasakiZX1100 and ZZR12 will continue to beequally competitive The motorcycle en-gines now in existence will be allowed inPro Challenge competition through2008

ldquoThe entire reason we are taking twoyears to develop and implement the newengine package is because we want todevelop the new product but not obso-lete the current motorsrdquo Litzinger saidldquoOur plan will be to allow the currentmotorcycle engines to compete in theseries in an equally competitive environ-ment for two years We feel that this isa reasonable timeframe for the new mo-tors to make their way into the seriesrdquo

Pro Challenge racing has emerged asa leader in the scale car racing commu-nity and with the move to the new gen-eration of engines Pro Challenge con-tinues its rapid progression towardsbeing the elite developmental racing se-ries The implementation of new tech-nology such as the new four-cylindermotor and the influx of new young tal-

ent racing in Pro Challenge in the Unit-ed States and Canada show that ProChallenge is the home of some of rac-ings future superstars

ldquoAll of the major NASCAR teams aretrying to develop a minor league systemin order to do wellrdquo Litzinger said ldquoWefeel as though we have a product that isuniquely positioned to be part of thatprocess Our cars are a natural step inthe progression of a developing driverThey are basically smaller Late Model-type cars in the way that the two are setup Adding a transmission and a car en-gine is a bigger step towards making aneven better developmental series Weare spending a lot of time and effort indevelopment and technology and I thinkit will serve us well for Pro Challenge tobe one of the best series to be in for adeveloping driverrdquo

Competition has been tremendousthis year in the Pro Challenge SeriesMultiple-time Pro Challenge championTerry Mathis edged 13-year-old ZachStroupe by 34 points in a heated battlefor the Aaronrsquos Pro Challenge Seriestitle

NORPAC final national pointsBY VIVIAN STEGALL

NORPAC Pointskeeper

Standings as of Sept 17 The best sixfinishes count no more than two out-of-division count

AS1 John Blizzard Hillsboro Or OR Chev Camaro 572 Nick Littleton San JoseCa SF 88 Chev 303 Tim Jorgensen Portland Or OR Chev Camaro 274 David Dickoff Beaverton Or OR Chev Camaro 145 Kevin Smith Hillsboro Or OR Chev Camaro 96 Todd Cook Hillsboro Or OR Mercury Capri 76 Erik Vanwagenen Fremont CA SF 94 Chevrolet 78 Brian Meakings Port Coquitlam BC OR Chev Camaro4

CSR1 Wade Carter Woodinville Wa OR Swift Viking 482 Renny Damon AuburnCa SF 05 Stohr 443 Roger Nuttall FresnoCa SF 00 Carbir 334 Mark Jaremko Spokane Wa OR 03 Stohr 03D 265 Donn Snyder Boring Or OR Swift Db-2 236 Rennie Clayton San Francisco Ca SF 78 Zink 217 Rick Lee La Quinta Ca SF Swift 014 9

DSR1 John Hill Seattle Wa NW Stohr Wf1 602 Larry Vollum Portland Or OR Stohr 543 Kevin Mitz Cambell Ca SF 00 Sri 404 Sigmund Knapstad Woodside Ca SF Stohr 01 395 Fabian Okonski Los GatosCa SF 04 Stohr 336 Steven Berry North Bend Wa NW Stohr 01D 277 John Bender Portland Or OR West WR06 228 Rennie Clayton San Francisco Ca SF 00 Amac 168 Frank Lattuca Jr Walnut Creek Ca SF 01 Beasley 1610 Robert Fox Santa Clara Ca SF Fox Suzuki 1510 John Howarth Los Gatos CA SF 04 Maloy 1510Mike Phillips Kent Wa NW Omnifab Cheeta 1513 Paul Rosen Portland Or OR Stohr Wf-1 1214 Rod Morley Provo Ut SF Stohr 2005 714 Joshua Held San Carlos SF Stohr 716 Andy Juner San Carlos Ca SF 91 Amac 517 Dennis Peters Gig Harbor WA NW DSR 2

EP1 Aaron Downey Corona Del MarCa SF 74 Mazda 632 Ken Shreve Sammamish Wa NW Mazda RX7 473 Ernest Anderson Beaverton Or OR EP 464 Pratt Cole Salt Lake City Ut SF 90 Mazda 315 Anthony Jimerson Walnut CreekCa SF 83 Mazda 296 Ryan Ennis Vancouver Bc NW Mazda RX7 257 Michael Heintzman San Jose Ca SF 97 Mazda 218 Mike Monegan Castro ValleyCa SF 79 Mazda 99 Alan Russell Sammamish Wa NW 79 Alfa 79 Pat Twomey Tacoma Wa NW Toyota MR2 7

F51 Jeff Jorgenson San JoseCa SF 89 KBS 572 Don Clar Pleasant HillCa SF 04 Novakar 483 Joe Rozelle ModestoCa SF 90 KBS 194 Bob Riedel Waterford Ca SF 03 Novakar 7

FA1 Lee Atkins Woodinville Wa NW 02 Swift 552 Roger Glover RenoNv SF 02 Swift 463 Lars Dirks Phoenix Az OR Ralt Rt-41 404 James Blackwell Seattle Wa NW Reynard 93H 305 Mark Ishikawa Los Gatos Ca SF 98 Swift 185 Edd Ozard Alamo Ca SF Ralt Rt4041 187 Timothy Osborne Woodinville Wa NW 93 Raven Rvn-0 148 Carl Skerlong Mukilteo Wa NW Pro Mazda 128 Stephen Romak Walnut CreekCA SF 99 Swift 1210 Patrick OrsquoNeill San RafaelCa SF 04 Pro Mazda 711 Andrew King Portland Or OR Van Diemen Rf0 512 Keith Lively San Francisco SF 95 Ralt 3

FC1 Thomas Copeland FremontCa SF 00 Van Diemen 482 Nicholas Belling Langley Bc Canada NW 97 VanDiemen 463 Doug Brenner Fort Bragg Ca SF 99 Van Diemen 254 Randy Keen Redmond Wa NW 94 Vector Tf-2 215 Mark Belling LangleyBc Canada NW 98 Van Diemen156 Bill Kincaid Palo AltoCa SF 01 Van Diemen 126 Thomas Merrill Salinas CA SF DB6 128 David Allen CupertinoCA SF 88 Reynard 6

FF1 James Hakewill San JoseCa SF 00 Van Diemen 582 Mark Keller Snohomish Wa NW Swift DB-1 533 Michael Lensen Surrey Bc NW Van Diemen Rf8 304 Larry Bangert IssaquahWa NW 84 Swift 295 Ken Rozeboom CrockettCa SF 85 Swift 226 John Mosteller Cathlamet Wa OR Radical 187 David Jalen AlamedaCa SF 85 Swift 137 Ralph Hill Seattle Wa NW 85 Swift 139 Tony Jimenez PrunedaleCa SF 89 Swift 129 Mike Hill GilroyCA SF 92 Swift 1211 Peter Nosler Menlo ParkCa SF 91 Swift 912 Jerry Pacheco Foresthill Ca SF Van Diemen Rf9 813 Neil Shelton Portland Or OR Crossle 35 714 Alex Schutte ReddingCA SF 92 Swift 615 David Stillwell ExeterCa SF 98 Van Diemen 416 Jon Brandstad StocktonCa SF 85 Swift 317 Tom Duncan OaklandCA SF 81 PRS 2

FM1 Rodney Jessen Bellevue Wa NW Star Mazda 532 Melvin Kemper Jr Toledo Wa NW Star Mazda 413 Dave Gaylord Graham Wa NW Star Mazda 404 Bill Weaver FresnoCa SF 96 Star Mazda 335 Lucian Pahcea Belleve Or OR 97 Formula Mazda 196 Ross Freedman Sammamish Wa NW 98 FormulaMazda 126 Micheld Herald Kent Wa NW Star Mazda 126 Doug Evans Seattle Wa NW Star Mazda 126 Matt Kurdock Portland Or OR Star Mazda 1210 Derry OrsquoDonovan NapaCA SF 89 Star Mazda 911 Beau Borders Venice CA SF Formula Mazda 811 Norm Hernandez Seattle Wa NW 00 Star Mazda 813 Ethan Hernandez Seattle Wa NW Star Mazda 713 Clive Savacool MartinezCA SF 01 Star Mazda 715 Timothy Watson ClovisCa SF 99 Star Mazda 616 Chuck Helm Chehalis WA NW Formula Mazda 517 Ted Idlof CarmichaelCA SF 03 Mazda 418 John Ertel Half Moon BayCa SF 94 Star Mazda 319 Craig Smith AuburnCA SF 93 Star Mazda 2

FP1 Gordon Jones Tualatin Or OR Bmw 2002 TII 482 Ron De Vogel Belvedere TiburonCa SF 72 MG 453 Noel Hayward FairfieldCa SF 72 MG 404 Charles Forge Los AltosCa SF 70 Porsche 235 Amanda Hennessy Waterv NY NW FP 146 Chuck Horton So San Francisco CA SF 74 MG 7

FV1 Brian McCarthy SacramentoCa SF 90 Anduril 692 Dennis Andrade Brush PrairieWa NW 02 Vortech 603 Leroy Coppedge The DallesOr OR 95 VDF 434 Bob Posner BellevueWa NW 00 Protoform 425 Quinn Posner BellevueWa NW 00 Protoform 406 Laury Lundberg Portland Or OR Caracal D 237 Cheryl Gilbert SammamishWa NW 89 Caracal 218 Al Olinger SalinasCa SF 81 Catamount 209 Mike Thomas Eagle River Ak AK 94 Mysterian 1910 Dick Gordon Belmont CA SF FV 1211 Michael Smith Newport Or OR Tsunami Mk 1012 Larry Bacon Novato Ca SF 96 Vector 913 Craig Curtis Surrey Bc OR Mysterian 613 Peter Law Independence Or SF Phantom Ml4 613 Blake Tatum Stockton Ca SF Crusader 616 Bryan Bartlett Redwood CityCA SF 99 Lazer 317 Dave Morss Redwood CityCa SF 00 Mysterian 1

GP1 Neil Verity SunnyvaleCa SF 66 MG 492 Tom Sherrill BrentwoodCa SF 72 Datsun 313 Greg Lund Dallas TX OR GP 24


GT11 Steve Hoke ReddingCa SF 02 Chevy 692 Rich Sloma FortunaCa SF 01 Chev 553 Joel Siegel Vancouver Bc OR Viper Coupe 324 Roger Stark Redmond Wa NW Dodge Viper 315 Mike Rockett Marysville Wa NW 02 Chev Camaro 246 Robert Holden Woodinville Wa OR Chev Corvette 147 Lew Larimer HaywardCa SF 94 Olds 128 Travis Powell Snohomish Wa NW Chev Monte Car 99 Steve Schmalz San CarlosCa SF 04 Chevy 79 Michelle Nagai LoomisCa SF 01 Chev 7

GT21 Jose Rodriguez San Leandro SF 95 Mazda 372 Jim Walsh Redmond Wa NW Porsche Gt3 Cup 363 Frank Shoemaker FolsomCa SF 94 Mazda 334 E Frank Shoemaker Fair OaksCa SF 95 Mazda 205 Jack Eby Seattle Wa NW 85 Mazda RX-7 166 Matt Crandall Wilsonville Or OR Panoz GTS 127 Jon Warn Aurora Or OR Panoz GTS 97 Dan Moody Saratoga CA SF 00 Panoz 97 John Evilsizor DanvilleCA SF 95 Mazda 910 Behram Soonawala Santa RosaCa SF 75 Porsche 710 Chris Pallis Mercer Island Wa NW Porsche 993 Cup712 Fred Bigeh Wilsonville Or OR Panoz 6

GT31 Collin Jackson Langley Bc Canada NW 94 Nissan 722 Jeff Scoville Corvallis Or OR Nissan 240SX 453 Dave Humphrey LangleyBc NW 94 Nissan 344 John Black Olympic ValleyCa SF 95 Nissan 295 Larry Hansen EurekaCa OR 03 Nissan 276 David Rugh PortlandOr OR 94 VW 217 Lans Stout Cornelius Or OR Nissan Sentra 127 Mac Russell Redmond Wa NW 80 Nissan 129 John Goddard LafayetteCa SF 99 Nissan 9

GTL1 Jim Hargrove Surrey Bc NW Honda Civic 492 Arnie Loyning Portland Or OR Toyota Tercel 483 Dan Hall Portland Or OR Nissan 200SX 274 Jon Becker Martinez Ca SF 67 Mini Cooper 184 Ward Barbour Portland Or OR Mini Cooper S 186 Bruce John OaklandCA SF 71 Datsun 127 John Schmale HaywardCA SF 78 Honda 98 Richard Gough Seattle WA NW Nissan 200SX 6

HP1 Mike Cummings MartinezCa SF 63 Austin Healey 722 Jack Holdaway Nevada City Ca SF 71 MG 18

S21 John Bachofner Battle Ground Wa OR Swift DB2 612 John Ostlund FresnoCa SF 00 Carbir 383 David Ferguson SunnyvaleCa SF 03 Van Diemen 294 Fred Michael WintersCa SF 82 Tiga 135 William Bachofner Battle Ground Wa OR Swift DB2 126 Mark Schue Hillsboro Or OR Swift DB5 97 Renny Watt West Linn Or OR Swift DB2 77 Eric Giroski Vancouver WA OR Tiga 8990 79 John Brewer Portland Or OR Swift Db-5 69 John Kraft Eddyville Or OR Tiga Sc81 6

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T21 Derek Butts San BrunoCa SF 05 Subaru 692 Scott Culbertson Portland Or OR Nissan 350Z 563 Josh Sirota CupertinoCa SF 05 Subaru 514 Michael Santos San LorenzoCa SF 05 Mitsubishi 335 Ken Dobson Carmel ValleyCa SF 03 Nissan 286 Aaron Bailey Shasta LakeCa SF 01 Pontiac 267 Steve Valentinetti Seattle Wa NW Subaru WRX STI 237 Jay Culbertson Portland Or OR Nissan 350-Z 237 Alex Long Kent Wa NW Nissan 350Z 2310 Joe Hermes Happy Valley Or OR Nissan 350Z 2211 Spencer Gorham Gresham Or OR Dodge SRT4 1112 David Vodden WillowsCa SF 00 Honda 913 Austin Smith Sunriver Or OR Honda S2000 714 Terry McCarthy Mountain View Ca SF 02 Chev 415 Marshall Atherton Tigard Or OR Nissan 350Z 1

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BY SHERRI MASTERSONContributing editor

TOPEKA Kan mdash What began inMarch of 2005 with Andrew Caddell as arookie Spec Miata driver was exponen-tially capped by his National Champi-onship win at the Runoffs in 2006

Caddell took the pole early in qualify-ing on a sunny warm Monday He optedto sleep on a rainy Tuesday during qual-ifying when he was feeling the cold bugthat hit many of us at the Runoffs Feel-ing better he participated in Wednesdayand Thursday sessions losing the poleon Thursday to Blake Clements from

TexasRain arrived again at Heartland Park

Sunday morning waking many as thun-der and lightning passed through Thetrack was wet for the warm-up sessionthat morning Caddell decided to donthe dry tires for the damp racetrack thatmorning not sure if it was the right

Sherri Masterson photo

Andrew Caddell (center) holds his trophy after winning the Spec Miata class at the Runoffs in Topeka Kan Alsopictured are second- and third-place finishers Brad Rampelberg and Matt Cross

Andrew Caddell wins RunoffsYoung racer from Graham may have won new Mazda

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