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Porterfield Rallycross Championship Round 1 at Glen Helen

Words and Photographs by B. Thao

San Bernadino, Calif. – Much to the surprise of the competitors, as well as the event management, Glen

Helen Raceway had forced JayCom Services to set up the rallycross on a new site. The preferred site of 

the rallycross would have been an empty, dirt parking lot. In this case, the parking lot was in use for the

motocross event occurring the same weekend; so the Porterfield Rallycross event was pushed onto the

Off-Road Short Course normally used by trophy trucks.

Jaycom Services did an excellent job managing the speed and safety through creative courselayout. Competitors were slowed down at the exit of high-banked sweepers through the use of exit 

chicanes and slalom cones were set up over the undulating hills to prevent cars from catching too much

air. As most competitors were unaware of this turn of events, the record number of 74 competitors was

astounding. Most of the competitors were new to the sport of rallycross and rally in general, so an off-

road course designed for trucks would have been beyond the limits of their cars as well as their skills.

The Sports Car Club of America sanctioning body and the title sponsor, Porterfield Brakes, would be

proud to see the thoughtful course design, event management, and record turnout.

The morning continued to be atypical. The forecasted sun of the inland empire was absent until

about mid-morning, which meant that the Stock 2 Wheel-Drive Class competitors were given two laps in

the fog. In addition to the unfamiliar terrain and the fog, the timing boards malfunctioned andcompetitors could not see their times. This was a triple-threat for the competitors and meant they were

driving blind in more than one sense of the word. As the morning fog burned off and competitors became

more accustomed to the

conditions, lap times

improved. Fastest lap for

the class belonged to the

front-wheel drive Dodge

Stealth of Danny Downey

at 76.4 seconds clean andan overall time of 482.197

seconds. By comparison,

the fastest lap posted by

the rear wheel drive

competitors was

a dirty 80.751 seconds

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Porterfield (cont.) – one cone and an overall time of 518.615 seconds. Top 5 in the class of 14

competitors was Danny Downey (Dodge Stealth); Bill Martin (Nissan Sentra); Micheal Com (Saab 9-3);

Oscar Arteta (Condor Volkswagen Golf GTI); and Ken Lord (Porterfield/JayCom Services Mazda Miata).

The fun continued with the 20 competitors in the Stock All Wheel Drive Class. George Schillingwas king of the Subarus in his Dial ONE/Schilling Plumbing Subaru Impreza STI with an overall time of 474.271 seconds. The fastest non-Subaru was John Black in a rented Cadillac SUV with an overall time of 

486.803 seconds, which includes a slow third lap caused by a front tire de-bead.The morning fun

ended with the PreparedTwo Wheel Drive andPrepared All Wheel DriveClasses sharing the coursewith their 10 competitors.Fastest time for this groupwas posted by Mike Ball inhis Ford Focus with477.606 seconds followed

not so closely by RichardCooper who won thePrepared All Wheel DriveClass in his Discount TireAZ Subaru WRX Wagonwith an overall time of 484.135 seconds. Of note isthe third fastest time of thegroup went to JaysonWoodruff in hisPorterfield/JayComServices Mazda Miata withan overall time of 485.781seconds.

The full results, including the afternoon run groups, can be found on the Porterfield RallycrossChampionship website: http://www.calclubrallyx.com. More information about SCCA Rallycross can befound at the Sports Car Club of America website: http://www.scca.com. 

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