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Concrete Trucks and Corvettes: The Surprisingly Accessible World of Amateur Racing

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Fellow by the name of Blair Deffenbaugh is the SCCA spokesperson.

Blair, good morning.

Good morning.

It's great you didn't know what you were doing today.

Well, we're doing very well.

Thank you.

And are you at an SCCA event?

I see you're in a car.

I am kind of part-time in this just a little bit at an autocross event.

Welcome to the back of my wife's car.

It's the back of the wife's car.

So the backseat has another purpose at this point in life.

There you go.

I got it.

It works well for a lot of things.

We're about to find out what else it works.

There you go.

That's it.

You know, now I'm a Corvette guy.

Now I don't know as if I've ever been to an SCCA event with the Corvette, which certainly

not the current one, but you know, there are events for Corvettes only, but I have

to tell you that the SCCA events are pretty attractive to me because now I can see other

people that really like to get out there and race through the cones for time without

banging up my car and ruining my car.

And I can ruin it as much as I want to, depending on what all I've got going on.

You keep pointing at something.

No, you're good.

Okay.

I have to tell you, I'm attracted to it, but I don't know too many people that

are in SCCA locally, and I know that they are.

But this seems to be some sort of a disjoint here when it comes to promoting advertising

SCCA events.

So I, where are you currently?

Currently I'm in, I'm in Sylvan, North Carolina.

We're near, I live near Asheville.

Okay.

SCCA is actually based in Topeka, Kansas, though.

Okay.

And you're in NASCAR country, and I assume that you do some NASCAR events once in

a while, maybe a road trip there or something?

I like to keep my motorsports interests spread pretty wide, even though I do work for SCCA.

But at SCCA as a club, we don't do any kind of, we don't do any oval track or anything

like that.

Right.

After all, we're doing all sorts of road racing, all sorts of autocrossing as well.

You know what we do.

Yes.

And that there are some road racing events that are actual at designated road racing

tracks, like that there's one that's south of Houston here that's very popular for road

racing.

Very popular.

Yeah.

And you're probably familiar with it.

Oh, yeah.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

MSR Houston is a good, that's a wonderful racetrack.

Right.

But you also do parking lot events.

We do.

Jim Connis.

Well, I don't, I don't con us.

Yeah.

I mean, there are different names for them.

But for me, they're a parking lot event.

But I don't want to make it sound like it's something less than what it really is because

that's my first event was a parking lot event through the cones.

And let me tell you something, it could be very challenging depends on how it's set

up.

Autocross is a beautiful place to start.

I always say speed is low and confidence is high.

And so when you're running around those cones, you know, a Corvette is going to

be doing, I don't know, most sort of regional style courses.

They're going to be doing 60 miles an hour maybe, top down.

But boy, howdy, let me tell you, that car is on edge and it's fun to drive.

It really is.

Autocross is a beautiful way to get started driving.

And you're really thankful for the course workers because you knock down more cones

than you leave up.

At least at the beginning.

That's right.

Yeah.

Well, I try to keep that from happening, but you're right, it does happen.

It does happen.

And the one that I started with was a first gear only course.

And that's a great place to start because you're not throwing that car around.

Yeah.

You don't have to worry about shifting it because, you know, you're not going to

get it up that high of speed, but it's a timed event.

So you're out there by yourself.

Yeah.

SCCA has not to get to spokespersony, which by the way, don't tell my boss you

call me that because I don't know if that's part of my job description or not.

But we have a little over 2000 events a year from California to you guys to the

East Coast where I am.

We've got anything from, I mean, that's kind of the beauty of the thing is if you

want to get started in competition timed driving all across the beautiful place to

start, if you want to go on track, not against the clock, we've got track

night in America.

If you want to go on track against the clock, we've got a great Tom

Charles program that runs, you know, nationally, SCCA has all sorts of

places to get started.

We even have a, I'm interested in to know if you guys know what road

rally is.

I know you're going to tell us about the road rally program.

Aren't you?

Yeah.

I can tell you about whatever you want.

Some of it.

Tell me about the road rally program.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

Road rally is a great program.

That's kind of the joy of driving.

There's a few different types of road rally, but it's all done on the

street.

Obey the laws.

Most common is what's called a time distance rally TDS.

You'll see it.

And it's basically you set off at a time you're given a start time

and you have to hit certain checkpoints at specific times along

the route.

And they plan this route.

Sometimes it's about driving through the country.

Sometimes it's about covering distance, you know, and seeing your

area of the state or whatever.

It's cool because you get to drive.

You can drive literally anything as an old legend about a guy

who would win his local rallies just every single time

reliably first place time and time again.

And somebody said, Oh, well, sir, you own a shop.

You build cars for a living.

Of course you're winning.

And he says, I can come in with a concrete truck and I still I will

still win this rally.

And so the next time he showed up, he borrowed his buddy's

concrete truck and won the rally in that you can do it in quite

literally anything at all.

And it's a great way to just enjoy the car that you already

sounds like he cemented the competition.

He submitted the competition.

Good job.

Oh, my gosh.

I actually have to top off guys.

Sorry.

Let me let me get out of here.

Yeah.

Sorry.

How much does it cost to join the SCCA?

And I assume that there's a Houston area chapter.

Yeah.

So SCCA is broken up into our division.

And then there are regions even smaller than division.

So you kind of you're in a division of Texas is in the

Southwest region, I believe.

And then you're broken down into regions in there.

I think there's a few different regions in Texas.

There's so much land area to cover.

We have a few different regions there.

As far as costs, I mean, if you just want a straight up SCCA

membership, you can be in for $30 a year, really.

Wow.

As you go through a license, if you want to go road racing,

your costs go up a little bit because you have to go through

that licensing process and get that license.

I think I'm paying $100 a year, I think, everything for the

membership.

As money as we spend on cars, $100 a year is nothing.

You find that in the couch.

You probably find that in the back seat of the car you're

sitting in.

Yeah.

I mean.

Yeah, it's not a lot.

No.

It's not a lot.

So what do you get for the $30 a year?

You get a magazine?

You get information?

How does that work?

We have a number of partners.

We've got a whole bunch of partners that we work with

that extend certain discounts to you.

Everything from rental car companies to Summit.

It has a discount program with us as well for SCCA members.

You get cheaper access to a lot of the events.

So what you'll find as you go to, we've been talking about

Autocross, if you go to Autocross regions, they will have a

member price and a non-member price and you'll pay the lower

member price.

You get access to any of our events, whether it's road

racing or not, we're heading into what we call a

championship season where our road racing, our Autocross

and our time trials program all have national championship

events.

And with your membership, you can get into any of those and

watch the action.

Perfect.

That's one of the things that I wanted to drive home to our

viewers and our followers is the fact that this is

something that everybody with a driver's license can do.

And there's no reason to be intimidated because once you

get to an event, you're welcome to the event.

You've got like-minded people, car people there that'll help you

along the way.

I don't have any clue what I'm doing.

Let me teach you.

Let me show you.

And you know that there's every driver that shows up

there is willing to help and really welcome you in.

Or if you get to a parking lot event, you're going to

say, I'd like to do that.

And then you get your mom's Buick out there.

And you can get mom.

Take mom with you.

Get mom to drive her own car.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

That's the beauty of SCCA is I'm actually a second

generation member.

I've been a member since I was born, quite literally

since I was born.

And my dad had been racing since the early 80s.

So I'm actually a second generation member.

I've been around the club my entire life.

And that is one thing all when I count up all of my

greatest friends, almost all of them are SCCA members.

We all have the same disease.

We just have to get money out of our pockets as quickly

as we can, I think, is the real goal for that.

But the beauty of SCCA is you can really choose your

level of commitment and you can choose your level

of involvement.

However deep you want to go, we've got something for you.

What are you driving in the SCCA?

What is your forte and does your wife have one, too?

Does she drive?

She does not drive.

She mostly watches me spend all of our money.

But I am a road racer at heart.

And so I race in a class called B-Spec.

And it's aimed at as affordable as road racing can be.

It's all a subcompact.

So I drive a 2010 Honda Fit.

The B-Spec class is comprised of Honda Fit, Toyota Yaris, Chevy Sonic, base model Mini,

Fiat 500, all those sort of small subcompacts.

And we have a pretty modest bolt-on list of parts.

So you get one of these cars.

You add a cage and a little bit of safety to it, bolt on some parts, do an ECU tune, and

you're off to the races.

And the affordability of the class really is what attracted me to it, personally.

But I said $200 set of brake pads will last me the whole season.

So it's a pretty economical way to go road racing.

Do you drive the car there?

No, no.

I have a trailer.

I've got to pick up truck and a trailer.

OK.

I was wondering if you put it in the bed of the truck or you could have it on the

trailer.

Depends on the size of the truck.

No, but I like the idea of the smaller vehicle because they've got to be a blast to drive.

I mean, it's like driving go-karts, I would think.

It's so fun to drive.

The bolt-on list that we're allowed, it's a spec series or spec class.

And so we have a set of parts that we're allowed to bolt onto the car.

Everybody pretty much uses the same parts.

We all use a Bilstein D-14 coilover kit, so we're all in the exact same suspension.

We're on the exact same tire.

The only time it really differs is your choice of brakes.

And I personally have a rear sway bar on my car and no front sway bar on the front.

And so some other people make some different choices around that.

But there it's so it wakes the car up in a way.

People look at you funny when you tell them you raced on the fit.

But the between the sway bar and the coilover kit and the tune and the exhaust work

and the intake work, it wakes the car up.

It's so fun to drive.

Everybody's doing the exact same speed, so you don't really feel like you're going

all that slow because you're doing it, you know, six inches off the other guy.

It's it's a it's a blast.

It really is. So this this is a competition that's door to door.

Yes. Yeah. Road. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

When I yeah, that's a good point.

When I say road racing, I do mean wheel to wheel racing.

How fun. So do you have capabilities of taking a passenger with you on this

or is it just a one seater?

Not in this, not in this, not in not in road racing.

There are certain there we do have programs where you can have passengers.

But in wheel to wheel racing, the I'm going to call it risk is enough

that we do not allow passengers.

So on the park on the parking lot runs, do you have a teacher or somebody

to guide you through telling you how to drive the car like an instructor in the beginning?

You can. We have, you know, lots of regions have autocross schools

and we can put you in the car with an instructor.

You can go out and learn.

We have we actually have a program called the starting line where you can go.

It is a it is an autocross school.

It's a multi-day autocross school where we put instructors with you.

There are classroom sessions.

We really teach you the ins and outs of autocrossing.

And and and is there a fee for that?

No, no, just an entry fee.

Most autocrosses are, I don't know, between 30 and $100, probably.

Yeah, because the one that I went on was like that.

I don't remember the exact price of it, but I had a very talented guy

that had a Corvette that was set up for autocross.

And let me tell you something, he spared no expense.

I mean, you look underneath the car and the suspension work is amazing.

And you're going, I don't have that kind of money.

You don't have to.

Obviously, obviously he was in a different class when it came down to the timed event.

But it was an eye-opener with him sitting next to me

and teaching me where to make the exits of the turns, how to make the apex,

all of the things that go into getting through the course quicker

without knocking down half the half the cones.

It's incredible.

We call we call them aliens when they are proper.

When you go to our championship event for solo is which is autocross

is coming up in Lincoln, Nebraska in September.

I think I get on a plane in two weeks now, something like that.

There are there are people out there who make a car, do something.

I've doing this all my life.

Even I cannot believe some of the stuff that they're doing.

And we call them aliens because the way the the way they can process

the information coming in with such a quickness and make the car react

and then make the car do what they wanted to do.

It's it's incredible to watch.

Yeah, it's it's it's the whole seat of the pants thing.

You get feel it in your butt when when it's right, it's right.

And it takes a little time to learn that to be able to pick it up,

have the senses go down there and you're thinking, oh, that doesn't feel right.

And you do it the next time and you make a little correction.

You do it a little bit better and you think it.

Yeah, I'm in the right direction.

And that's what you're talking about.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, it's you know, I I go back to that that.

That parking lot race for lack of a better term.

And I go back to that.

I'll never forget it.

It was a one weekend thing and it was over at the parking lot

at the Budweiser Brewery here.

Oh, yeah.

And it had a brand new asphalt and somebody spent a ton of money on cones.

And we use the whole we use the whole parking lot.

There were no curb stops in it.

Obviously, there were parking spaces, but that forget all that.

We got out there, got lined up and you start talking to people.

I have never done this before.

And you know, somebody that can help me.

Oh, yeah, go talk to Bob and and so go talk to Bob.

Oh, yeah, sure.

I'll ride along with you.

I'll help you out.

There's always somebody there to help you out.

The fee was nominal.

It really didn't cost that much.

You sign a little waiver and off you go.

Had a blast.

An absolute blast.

It's so much fun.

And that's why I say autocross is such a good way to get started

because the commitment level is super low.

Take your car however it is.

As long as it's got breaks and it's safe.

Take your car, pay the entry fees are typically really, really low.

And you can try it out.

It's oftentimes you can enter a single day event.

So if you don't want to commit your entire weekend to it,

go out there for a Saturday, go out there for a Sunday.

We have regions who are starting to have events in half day formats as well.

So if you have Sunday morning, but you don't have Sunday afternoon,

you can go and do it and you can check it out.

And you can learn a lot about yourself.

You can learn a lot about your car.

And it's a it's a fascinating, fascinating thing.

There are probably a lot of people that are watching

or listening to this, following this and going,

well, I don't want to tear up my car.

Well, really, you don't tear up your car.

Well, I don't want to tear up the tires.

You're not going to do that.

Or and that's that's where autocross comes in is it's not only

is it low commitment and low barrier to entry, cheap to get into.

You know, the speeds are too low for you to tear the car up in any real way.

You'll get a little bit of wear here and there.

But it's it's just not much.

You're not going to hurt the car at all.

I used to.

Blair, Blair, we I'm not going to say that out loud.

Yeah, Blair, we we we certainly appreciate you taking the time

to get us all indoctrinated and SCCA.

Oh, yeah. Let's stay in touch.

You got a big event you're going to go to.

Let's call in and have a conversation about it.

Yeah. Yeah. I'd love that. That'd be great.

All right.

Blair, again, thanks so much.

Blair Duffin ball with SCCA.

Thank you, sir. Just ahead. Thank you.

Jeff has the racing calendar.

Yeah. And Morris has this week in auto history,

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All right, time to have the racing calendar, Jeffrey,

sponsored by the Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge.

Thank you for that.

Hey, listen, NHRA is off to coming back on the 27th.

Formula One is off and they're going to be out in two weeks coming up.

IMSA is off for a week or so.

The Indy Racing League, they crowned a champion last week.

Paulo won.

Award came in second.

Dixon won the race. No, it wasn't Dixon.

It was Powell Powell.

Power won the race last week to end that season.

So Nascar Crestman Truck ran yesterday.

I watched a little bit of the time trials.

Didn't really see the race, but that was yesterday.

Big crashes. I did not.

I don't know. I don't have no idea.

But that was at Richmond.

The Xfinity Race guys, they are off.

They're coming back on the 22nd.

They're going to be in Daytona International

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And then the Cup guys tomorrow are in Richmond.

It's on USA Network at 730.

It's a night race.

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And like Blair said, support your SCCA groups.

Go out to your local tracks, have fun, get a hot dog,

grab a beer, whatever the case.

They might even let you drive. Who knows?

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Around us.

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All right, Mr. Mars, it's time now for this week's auto history.

This week in auto history found several little informational things

that seemed interesting.

For example, in 1897.

I remember it well.

The automobile club of Great Britain and Ireland.

I think you remember number one was founded and established

as one of the earliest auto advocacy organizations.

It later became the Royal Automobile Club

and kind of set a precedent for related social legislative

engagements worldwide like auto clubs get involved with

supporting the automotive industry and clubs

just like we were talking about.

Also, in 1899, did not know this,

but Henry Ford actually was working for the Edison Company.

And so he quit the Edison Illuminating Company

and to focus on his full time building of his automobiles,

which is what led to the foundation of the Ford Motor Company.

I just always assumed that he was with Ford from the beginning

and he was doing something else.

Edison is still in existence in Detroit.

Yes, now it's con in, I believe, a multi-billion dollar thing.

Also, 1902, this is blew my mind.

The birth of Felix Wankle.

We don't normally talk about verse, but the Wankle Rotary Engine.

You can't say that on any broadcast media

because he goes directly to FCC.

Yeah, really?

Yeah. But that's a Wankle.

Wankle? Yeah.

Oh, he's got a cute Wankle.

And it's a cute Wankle.

Yeah, I always whenever I always thought about the Wankle Motor,

I thought it was like in the 60s or something, that somebody came up with this.

But this was in 1902.

This guy was born and came up with this motor.

Just it's an odd, odd thing.

Yes, it is. You'll go blind if you use that Wankle.

In 1966, the first Chevrolet Camaro was produced in Norwood, Ohio.

Of course, this was done to challenge the growing pony car market

that was done by Ford's Mustang.

And it literally became a cultural icon right there until the new one

that I've seen pictures of is going to be like the new Mustang.

Is that got the V8 in it?

Is that the V8 symbol?

Because those are the original hubcaps that the car came with.

And we thought, golly, those hubcaps are just terrible.

At the time, they were state of the art.

I mean, they were, well, they are, yeah, and they're expensive now.

Also, and the next one, I was this is one of the things

that I've always wondered about, John DeLorean was acquitted in 1984.

Now, he was the founder of the DeLorean Motor Company

and he was found not guilty of drug trafficking charges.

But the entrapment that followed, they put him in that position.

It literally ruined his career.

And I wasn't aware that he was involved with the Nova.

The G I knew about the GTO and I did not know about the Vega

as well as DeLorean.

These are all cars that John DeLorean was involved with.

They're producing. Yeah. Yeah.

And if they hadn't run him in the ground, it's a wonder of what he would have done.

Very smart man.

Yes. Just some of the things that we found this week in automotive history.

Well, I want more, more, more, more.

How about you have any more?

I don't have any more pictures because I couldn't find a picture.

But have you ever heard of the Ford Contour?

Yes. Yes. And the Mercury Mystique.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

They began production in 1984.

And it was part of Ford's World Car Initiative,

but basically the same car.

They just different badging.

And that's what they built their World Car thing on.

And they're gone now, but they were started in 1984.

Well, that should be part of your cars

that are no longer in existence in his names.

Yeah. Yeah.

So that's this week in automotive industry.

Well, thank you, sir.

Great.

An insurance company is blaming Nissan North America

and Newark Delaware dealership

for an engine compartment fire that caused more than seven hundred

thousand dollars in property damage.

The June twenty twenty four fire began in the engine compartment

of a twenty seventeen pathfinder parked in the owner's garage.

A neighbor noticed smoke and fire coming out of the garage.

Alerted the homeowner.

The fire department put the blaze out,

but it rekindled less than twenty four hours later,

according to the Delaware Superior Court

complaint filed by the neighbor's insurer, Trumbull Insurance Company.

They quickly spread and golfing the owner's home

and causing extensive smoke, water and fire damage

to the next door neighbor's house and a twenty sixteen

accurate that was inside the garage there.

The pathfinder had been the subject of a November

twenty nineteen safety recall notice for twenty sixteen

to twenty eighteen maximas, moranos and pathfinders.

The notice warned that the Adiloc break actuator

may leak fluid that could create an electrical short

and potentially lead to a fire, according to NHTSA.

The owner took their pathfinder to Nissan Sheridan,

which, quote, informed them the required parts were unavailable.

Sheridan Nissan never followed up, sourced the required parts

or concluded the repair despite multiple service visits.

The July twenty eight complaint said insurers complaint

named Nissan, the dealership and the pathfinder's owner

as defendants. That does not sound good.

That's not going to wind up good.

And it's not unusual for a customer to sue a dealership.

It's rare to see a dealership sue a customer.

But that's what happened in New Mexico, where a Chevrolet store

is taking a purchaser to court over allegedly refusing

to provide a good title on her trade in.

In May, Mary Ann Ferry, what a name,

bought a twenty twenty one Silverado thirty five hundred

for seventy one thousand five hundred fifty dollars

from reliable Chevrolet and Albuquerque,

according to the federal complaint.

She traded in a twenty one Silverado fifteen hundred

and received forty thousand dollars minus

the seventeen thousand seven hundred dollar payoff on her loan.

After returning over the pickup to Ferry,

after turning over the pickup to Ferry and paying off her trade,

the store discovered she didn't have the legal right

to unilaterally transfer the title.

The August fourth complaint said.

The suit characterizes Ferry's alleged misrepresentations

about ownership as reckless, willful, knowing and intentional.

It asked for compensatory and punitive damages

for breach of contract and fraud for knowingly misrepresenting

her ability to transfer the title.

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That's what they used to call it.

They don't maybe don't call it that anymore,

but in my book, it's called fraud. Yeah, I think it still is.

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About this episode

Exploring the world of amateur racing, Blair Deffenbaugh from SCCA shares insights on getting started in autocross and road racing. The discussion highlights the accessibility of these events, emphasizing that anyone with a driver's license can participate. Blair explains the various types of SCCA events, including road rallies and autocross, and shares personal experiences with his Honda Fit in B-Spec racing. The episode also touches on the community aspect of SCCA, where seasoned racers help newcomers, making it an inviting environment for all car enthusiasts.

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Original notes

Ever wondered if you could experience the thrill of competitive motorsports without breaking the bank or risking damage to your beloved vehicle? This episode pulls back the curtain on one of the automotive world's best-kept secrets – the incredibly accessible world of amateur racing through the Sports Car Club of America.

Blair Deffenbaugh, SCCA spokesperson and second-generation member, joins us to demystify the organization's various programs that welcome drivers of all skill levels. We learn that autocross – competitive driving through cone courses in parking lots – offers "low speed and high confidence" perfect for beginners. Blair explains how literally any roadworthy vehicle can participate, from family sedans to sports cars, and even the occasional concrete truck!

What truly shines through our conversation is the SCCA's remarkable affordability and welcoming community. With membership starting at just $30 annually and event entry fees typically between $30-100, competitive driving suddenly becomes accessible to almost anyone with a driver's license. The organization conducts over 2,000 events nationwide, providing opportunities for progression from parking lot autocross to full wheel-to-wheel racing on dedicated tracks.

Beyond racing, we explore the SCCA's road rally program, perfect for those who enjoy precision driving on public roads without exceeding speed limits. We also dive into Blair's personal experience racing a modified Honda Fit in the budget-friendly B-Spec class, demonstrating that even road racing can be pursued without breaking the bank.

Whether you're driving a Corvette or your mother's Buick, the SCCA offers a pathway to discover your driving potential in a structured, supportive environment. Ready to find your local chapter and experience the joy of performance driving? This episode provides everything you need to get started on your motorsports journey.

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