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EMAIL [email protected] VOL. 38 ISSUE NO. 5 AY 2010 MAY 2010 MAY 2010 MAY 2010 MAY 2010 MAY 2010 MAY 2010 MAY 2010 MAY 2010 MAY 2010 MAY 2 FEATURES 12 AUTOX #1 @ Devens 13 ZONE ONE 2010 Concours d’Elegance and Rallye 14 Technical Up-Tweaking Der Porsche @ EPE 15 Collings Foundation Tour 17 ZONE ONE Porsche CLASH at the GLEN!! 18 ZONE ONE 48 Hours of Watkins Glen 28 19 CALABOGIE Driver Education 20 NER DE 2010 Information 23 MONT TREMBLANT Driver Education 24 Editors Mailbox 25 Autocross School Report 26 Tour of Bose Report 27 Spring Tour Report 12 28 Newcomers Meeting Report DEPARTMENTS COLUMNS COVER 8 Anniversaries 4 On the Edge Cover Photo Photo by Dave Weber taken at 12 Calendar 5 Around the Cones the Newcomers Meeting at IRA 37 Marketplace 6 Four Speeds & Drum Brakes Porsche. 38 Board of Directors 7 Flat Sixer and Committee Chairs 8 Minutes Of The Board 38 New Member Roster 9 Double Clutching 10 One Track Mind 11 Upshifting The NOR’EASTER (ISSN-0199-4425) is published credit is given the NOR’EASTER and the author. 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Well, I’m one day in forward, lifting off the rear wheels just enough to and I’m just thrilled! cause them to let go, and the bad skid began. If Autocross school started on an incredibly I had applied a little more throttle, I would have beautiful morning in Ayer, MA. Cars and partici- reseated it on the track, and been in control. pants trickled in slowly, but by 8:00 we were all “It’s counter-intuitive” he clarifi ed, “but you have commenting on each other’s rides, and asking for to learn this.” advice from waxing to new engines. We tried again, and I learned. Feathered throttle, After a short classroom session, and driver’s control nose in (off ), control nose out (on), wheel meeting, we divided into three groups and went locked in place. Wow! That was Fun!! our separate ways to practice diff erent aspects of We moved on the gates/slalom part of the autocrossing. Each student had an instructor, and course. George hopped in again; I was pleased George Ruehard was the very brave soul to take I hadn’t driven him away with my panic. We me on. He was really very kind, and calm, and worked through the course, found the clamshell, clear. Absolutely everything I needed an instruc- and the Chicago box. We had a good time. He tor to be. We started on the skid pad, and he was concise with direction, accurate of appraisal, explained that it may be slightly more diffi cult to and gentle in tone, always explaining why. slide the Boxster around because it’s engineered George asked if he could try out the car for one to keep me from doing that. Learning to steer run through the course, and I was thrilled to let him. I wanted to see what my car could really do. It would throw down When I hit the brakes, the car dived forward, the gauntlet of trying to get as much lifting off the rear wheels just enough to cause from my car as he did. them to let go, and the bad skid began. This was a short-lived goal. He took it fast and furious one way down, and turned it around at the end and with the throttle was the point of this exercise, juuuust as he had remarked how hard it was to and it was something I’d always wanted to do. unsettle the car, we whipped at the clamshell, After a few laps around the circle, I fi nally got and missed it entirely. Because by then we had it to skid, and drive at that sweet spot (100% spun out and skidded into the dirt. of the car) that we seemed to be seeking. Then Poor George; he felt so bad. Me? I was laughing he asked me to apply more throttle, and as (he) so hard tears were fl owing under my helmet. I expected, the back end decided it wanted to play was clapping, and laughing, and it was all I could somewhere else for a while, and I began to panic. do to not shout, ”Again! Again!” “Faster” George commanded, but I had achieved But we didn’t. It was time for braking exercises. full panic by then, so I hit the brakes, and spun I know most of you know, but if you don’t, in right into the middle of the circle. (I didn’t hit a this exercise we take a longish, hard, fast run single cone though!) I also whacked my head a down a straightaway, through a hairpin turn on little on the side of my car, and my brand new the apex, and out through a gate. Plus, there was helmet has the fi rst scar to prove it. a little slalom course at the end, and 2 gates. Now Once we stopped George asked gently, “Do you this is my kinda party. Coming from an American know what you did wrong?” muscle-car background, fast straight is my native “I didn’t listen to you?” I replied from the center language. But a sudden U-turn is not usually part of the skid pad. of the dialogue. I was really confi dent by then of “Well, yes, but that’s not what I meant” he sooth- the power of Porsche, and I could hardly wait to ingly remarked. try. I nodded, ready to hear what I’d done wrong as First run. Blew it! Damn. I got the car going forward again, and pulled out George forgave easily. “Even the most seasoned of the circle. continued on page 36 page 4 NOREASTER Around The Cones Steve Ross ell now that the rains of biblical proportion owners and admire the many fi ne vehicles includ- Whave fi nally abated and the destruction and ing some obscure German models that show up. inconvenience of over a foot of rain are over, we While reading one of my weekly business maga- along with the rest of eastern Mass. and RI can zines, the other day I came across an interesting now get back to a sense of normalcy. One direct article titled “ 25 truths about green” where some consequence that aff ects our club is the reloca- myths about green products were refuted. tion of the entrance to Devens for the autocross Bottled water is safer than tap water, not really to the main gate further up Rte.