SCCA Novice School at Portland International Raceway This last Saturday (April 1) I attended the Oregon Region's SCCA Novice School. There was one other F500 stucent there, Sean from Port Angeles with his Red Devil and our instructor was Jerry from Portland, one of the people I met early on in investigating the class. And Sheldon, who Solos a KBS just 7 chassis newer than mine, come down from BC to crew for me (considering what he went through crossing the border, I owe him special thanks.) All in all we got about 3 hours on the track with a couple of starts. It was a very nice day until the last session when it started raining about two laps in, followed by a downpour a few laps later.

This was my first time on a track in my F500 and I did a little agricultural racing, but only spun 4 times int he whole day, only once after we got my brake bias dialed in (and that was in the rain.) Speaking of the rain, the Festival Turns are paved with concrete; and when rained on heavily they are like ice when the car is on slicks...

A good time was had my all. I was planning on running the Regional on the 2nd, but wasn't feeling up to par and since my rain tires had rotted on the wheels from disuse, I had no rain tires and it was raining. So my first race is scheduled for April 29 at Bremerton.  ¶ 10:05