The second of two Hoosier Racing Tire SCCA® Super Tour (HST) weekends for the West Coast in 2026 got underway Saturday at Portland International Raceway (PIR) during a May 9-10 gathering hosted by SCCA’s Oregon Region.
Part of the Summit Racing Equipment SCCA Road Racing program, the two-day engagement got rolling with 20-minute qualifying sessions in the morning for each of the six run groups. That was followed by 25-minute contests all afternoon around the 1.977-mile, 12-turn circuit. Mostly sunny skies and a temperature that topped out just below the 80-degree mark made for a very pleasant day of competition just a stone’s throw from the Columbia River and downtown Portland.
Playing at the Playground
Can the lush environs of PIR be both a field of dreams and warring battleground? The resounding answer is “yes” if you’re Marjorie Lundberg, pilot of the No. 70 Jurassic Peck Farms Caracal C1 Formula Vee® (FV) sled.
Marjorie has been around racetracks since 1981, but it was 1992 when her headshot photo was taken and placed upon a lime-green, laminated SCCA identification card that made her membership legit. Daughter of longtime FV driver Laury Lundberg, he shared his car with her in 1998 when she was 16 years old.
“I grew up in Portland, and my actual first race was at PIR,” said Marjorie, a member of SCCA’s Oregon Region. “My first race was in Formula Vee, and it’s actually the exact same car I still drive today.”
Marjorie remembers cheering her father on from PIR’s fenceline and playing with other kids whose parents were also racing. One of those playmates was Quinn Posner, who is also now an FV driver. He and Marjorie have battled on track for years with Posner claiming the last six HST wins in FV at Portland. On Saturday he added to that tally by earning another victory in the No. 9 Posner Law Office/PC Protoform P3 car.
Unfortunately, Marjorie had an incident on the opening lap Saturday and pulled into the paddock. But it’s safe to say her team’s crew chief, which happens to be Laury, will be hard at work to get her back on track Sunday.
“The family aspect of Formula Vee is big,” Marjorie said about her continued involvement. “They want to beat you on the track and not as a technicality. They want as many cars out there on track as possible.
“We’re all willing to work together, to teach together, to help each other,” Marjorie added. “We all have our little speed secrets that we like to pretend to keep, but it’s just a great class for people who like to race.”
So Much Racing
A retired finance industry tech expert from Manhattan, NY, Whitfield Gregg now lives in the Northwest with his wife and fellow racer Amy Mills. It was 1968 when Gregg first joined SCCA to compete in the newly created Formula Ford class.
“In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s I worked at a racecar shop in New Jersey during the week, then raced my Formula Ford on the weekends,” Gregg said. “That was great for about three of four years, then I had to get a real job and be a productive citizen and all that.”
So a few decades went by until the early 2000s when Gregg got back into SCCA racing thanks to some friends and Mills’ interest in the sport. Instead of open-wheel cars, however, Spec Miata (SM) was the class of choice.
“I’m an older guy now, and presumably wiser, so I thought SM was the right choice,” Gregg noted. “From a competitive point of view, it was the most popular class. If you want to learn how to race, you go race in the most popular class.”
And boy did Gregg race, logging nearly 400 entries to date. He has primarily stuck with Mazda products for fun in SM, as well as Spec MX-5, Super Touring Under (STU), Super Touring Lite, and E Production. Getting dinged up a bit in qualifying at last year’s Runoffs® hasn’t even slowed up his involvement much.
“It’s fun, that’s the whole reason we do it,” was Gregg’s simple explanation as to what keeps him going. “The people are great, and I’m very lucky that my wife also races. So, we do this together.”
Saturday at PIR, Gregg raced his way to a third-place finish in STU driving the No. 37 Miata prepared by Flatout Motorsports. That race was won by Marc Hoover in the No. 98 Hoosier/Hooverspeed/Necksgen Mazda MX-5 machine.
Saturday Race Winners
Below are provisional race winners from Saturday’s Hoosier Racing Tire SCCA Super Tour conducted at Portland International Raceway in Oregon. Each entry includes Car Class: Driver Name, SCCA Region, and Car.
American Sedan®: Ross Murray, Cal Club, Ford Mustang
E Production: Austin Bradshaw, Oregon Region, Mazda RX-7
F Production: Ken Kannard, Atlanta Region, Acura Integra
H Production: Bill Okell, Oregon Region, MG Midget
Formula Enterprises® 2: Jon Mcclintock, Oregon Region, SCCA Enterprises FE2 Mazda
Formula F: Jonathan Kotyk, Buccaneer Region, Crossle
Formula Vee®: Quinn Posner, Northwest Region, Protoform P3
GT-1: Michael Mcaleenan, Northwest Region, Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo
GT-2: Brad Mcallister, Oregon Region, Ford Mustang
Spec Miata: John Salerno, New England Region, Mazda Miata
Spec MX-5: William Wallis, San Francisco Region, Mazda MX-5
Spec Racer® Ford Gen3: Caleb Shrader, Oregon Region, SCCA Enterprises SRF3
Super Touring® Lite: Jared Korth, San Francisco Region, Mazda MX-5
Super Touring® Under: Marc Hoover, Cal Club, Mazda MX-5
Touring 1: Ed Gless, Northwest Region, Pontiac GTO
Touring 2: Scotty B White, Northwest Region, Ford Mustang GT
Touring 3: Gamaliel Aguilar-Gamez, Northwest Region, Nissan 370Z
Touring 4: Scotty B White, Northwest Region, Ford Mustang
More to Come Sunday from the City of Roses
Saturday was only the first half of fun from Oregon. Sunday brings about a whole second day of competition that gets going at 9 a.m. Pacific Time with 15-minute qualifying for each of the six run groups. Racing is then slated to roll at 11:55 a.m. Pacific Time and continues throughout the afternoon with 35-minute or 25-lap contests that decide who steps upon the podium to receive commemorative bottles of Mazza Vineyards sparkling wine.
If you’re near PIR, come on out and enjoy a wonderful day of HST racing in person. Spectators are welcome and admission is free. Those who can’t be trackside can still capture the excitement online and for free thanks to the HST broadcast produced by DriversEye Live.
That video feed can be found at SCCA’s YouTube page, with commentary again provided by Brian Bielanski and Tom O’Gorman. Sunday victory podium celebrations can also be viewed at the Summit Racing Equipment SCCA Road Racing Facebook page.
As always, live HST Timing & Scoring is also available throughout the weekend at scca.com/live.
Photo: Marc Hoover took the win Saturday in Super Touring Under during Hoosier Super Tour’s visit to Portland International Raceway in Oregon.
Photo by Doug Berger
