The Magazine of the Founders' Region • Potomac, Porsche Club of America • May 2017
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The magazine of the Founders’ Region • Potomac, Porsche Club of America • May 2017 der Vorgänger 2• der Vorgänger • May 2017 www.pcapotomac.org der Vorgänger • May 2017 • 3 Table of contents der Vorgänger The monthly magazine 6 The editors’ column of the Founders’ Region, Potomac, Porsche Club of America. 7 The president’s column May 2017 Volume 63, No. 4 Club officers and program der Vorgänger is the official magazine of the 8 Founders’ Region, Potomac, Porsche Club chairs of America, Inc. Contributions for der Vorgänger should be sent to the editor by the 7th of month preceding the month of publication, preferably via e-mail to dvedi - 9 Potomac’s 2017 calendar [email protected] . Please send digital images in their original sizes. 10 The 12 Hours of Sebring Publisher: Tony Kelly 6726 Lucy Lane by Stephen Morris McLean, VA 22101 [email protected] 15 PCA Hits a Hole in One at Co-Editor: Glenn Cowan Co-Editor: Michael Sherman the Amelia Island Werks Re - 10 [email protected] union by John Truban Contributing photographers: Ken Marks, Tony Pagonis, Charlene Truban, John Vrankovich, Mia Walsh. 16 Rare Porsches hit the Auc - Contributing writers: Carrie Albee, Gary tion Block at Amelia Island by Brindle, Sydney Butler, John Eberhardt, John Truban Ken Harwood, Tom Neel, John Vrankovich, Mia Walsh. 2017 Amelia Island For questions about advertising rates and 18 placement in der Vorgänger , please contact Concours d’Elegance by John Tony Kelly at [email protected] Truban der Vorgänger (ISSN 0199-0667) is pub - lished monthly except in January by the Founders’ Region, Potomac, Porsche Club 19 Drive and Dine and Wine of America at 6726 Lucy Lane, McLean, VA 22101. Subscription is limited to members by Kevin Naughten of the Founders’ Region, Potomac, Porsche Club of America. Annual PCA dues are $42 (includes $18 for der Vorgänger subscrip - 21 Can Porsche Survive the tion). Application to Mail at Periodicals Postage Prices is Pending at McLean VA and Winds of its own Change? by additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Sydney Butler Send address changes to der Vorgänger , 6726 Lucy Lane, McLean, VA 22101. State - ments appearing in der Vorgänger are those 15 of the contributing authors and do not con - 25 The 34th Deutsche Marque stitute the opinions or policy of the Concours Judges Announced Founders’ Region, Potomac, Porsche Club of America, its board of directors or the ed - itors of the magazine. The Founders’ Re - gion, Potomac, Porsche Club of America 27 A Classic Tail by Tom Neel neither endorses any advertisement nor warrants any product or services they may provide. Potomac Region reserves the right Readers and their cars to cancel advertisements at any time, for any 30 reason, in its sole discretion. For informa - tion regarding commercial advertising and rates, contact the publisher listed above. Cover photo: Amelia Island auctions featured some amaz - Letters to the editor are welcome. They should be brief and may be edited for ing Porsches. Photo by Char - length. Please include a contact phone lene Truban. number for verification. To subscribe, join the Porsche Club of America. Details at www.pca.org . Visit the Potomac region website at www.pcapotomac.org . 19 4• der Vorgänger • May 2017 www.pcapotomac.org The editors’ column Porsche is Motorsports I used to be very interested in motorsports. I fol - lowed Indy Car racing and knew the names of the prin - Two things finally made it click – Potomac DE and cipal drivers and went to several Indy 500s and later US Porsche video advertising. A month or so ago I discov - Grand Prix races. I followed F1 a bit and went to the ered a Porsche channel available through Amazon Canadian Grand Prix a couple of times and watched Prime. It is replete with videos on Porsche accessories, races on television. I’ve been to the Daytona 500 and driving tutorials, conversations with celebrity drivers used to go to Dover to watch NASCAR. I have Randy and commercials. As you know, we don’t see many Owens original lithographs of Ayrton Senna and Nelson Porsche commercials – but there are a lot of them – just Piquet (both signed by the drivers) in my office. I read Glenn Cowan not on American television or cable systems. The com - racing coverage in both Car and Driver and Road & mon theme throughout this global advertising is the Track connection between Porsche and racing. There’s little mention of build quality, appearance or accessories. Somewhere along the way I lost interest. I think the There is a consistent connection showing the essences Indy car split and F1 infighting with Bernie Ecclestone of Porsche being tied directly to racing. did me in – too much politics. That and because Tal - ladega Nights makes me laugh every time I watched Then my wife and I went to a recent Potomac DE NASCAR, I just drifted away. event at Summit Point and she pointed out the obvious. Michael Sherman These drivers didn’t give a wit about Porsche as a con - Throughout this time I drove Porsches and, with the sumer item but cared greatly about Porsche as a racing exception of an 18 month flirtation with an M5, only Porsches. platform. I started going back to Car and Driver articles and Oddly, I never put the two together – motorsports and Porsche - Panorama features and there it was of course – Porsche racing. nearly as much as I should have. Even after becoming active with PCA and many Autocross Sundays with Potomac and occasion - No doubt Porsches are sold as a luxury item (as we talked ally Chesapeake I still didn’t really internalize how much Porsche about last month) but clearly the brand managers know that was a company built on racing. It wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy partic - Porsche’s intrinsic value is tied to racing performance and so long ipating in track events – I just didn’t make the connection as to as motorsports remain popular, there will be a market for how important Motorsports are to the very fabric of Porsche. Porsche. 6• der Vorgänger • May 2017 www.pcapotomac.org The president’s column Pittsburgh, Watkins, and VIR The Potomac Driver’s Education program is heading Paul Newman once said of Virginia International to Pittsburgh International Race Complex for three days Raceway “If there is a heaven on earth, it is VIR”. One of fun on May 5th through 7th. This will be both Po - of the things I look forward to each year is our trip to tomac’s and my first time at “Pitt Race”. I’m looking for - VIR – and what’s usually my first real taste of fall. The ward to the experience of driving a new to me track – park like setting of the track, the cool “need a jacket” and seeing where it ranks among my favorite tracks to weather, the quiet before the first engine fires up; all of drive. Most of our Driver’s Ed events are at our home these are things that I associate with our September VIR track, Summit Point Motorsports Park. We will host Driver’s Ed. The first time I drove at VIR was my first David Dean three events at “away” tracks this year. In addition to DE away from Summit Point. I remember being intimi - our trip to Pitt Race, we visit Watkins Glen International dated by the track’s length and complexity. As my abili - in June, and Virginia International Raceway in September. ties and experience have grown, this length and complexity, the long straights, the presence of both fast sweeping and slow tech - When people ask me about Watkins Glen, my first thoughts nical corners, and the famous “Climbing Esses” – combined with are of the history of the track and of the town of Watkins Glen. the picturesque geography – have made VIR my favorite “away” For those of us that enjoy motorsports, the track, town, restau - track. rants, hotels – and yes the bars (specifically at the Seneca Lodge), are all places where our childhood driving heroes once tread. Over the years, there have been several other “away” tracks that Personally, it’s very satisfying to visit some of those same places have been the site of Potomac Driver’s Ed events. In the years and drive that same track. Having driven there, I have a different that I have been participating in Driver’s Ed, we’ve held DEs at perspective and a greater appreciation of the skill and talent of the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and Carolina Motorsports Park. professional drivers that race there. I can remember watching the Our long term members can add even more tracks to this list. pros going two wide up “The Esses” a week after I had driven the I’m looking forward to adding Pitt Race to the list of Potomac DE track as a White Run Group driver – and thinking that there was tracks – and seeing where it ends up on my list of favorite tracks. a reason why they were being paid – and I wasn’t! In addition to having a great race track, the town and surrounding area are a great place to visit and offer many options for those that are not as excited about driving as some of us. der Vorgänger • May 2017 • 7 Founders’ Region officers President : David Dean [email protected] Vice president : Mia Walsh [email protected] Treasurer : Michael Handelman [email protected] Mia Walsh Gary Baker Howard Hill Secretary : Gary Baker David Dean Michael Handelman [email protected] Past president : Howard Hill [email protected] Programs Autocross : Jim Musgrave, Steve Bobbitt Social, meetings : Annabelle Alvi, Pat Model Experts [email protected] Kaunitz Cayenne : Ken Harwood [email protected] Drivers’ Education Drive & Dine : Andrew Fort, Ken Har - [email protected] wood Sponsor : Scott Bresnahan Cayman : Chad Todd Drivers’ Education Chairs : Dirk [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Dekker & Bob Mulligan Club Race : Kenneth D'Angelo,Gary Volunteer coordinator : Jonathan Van 356 , 912 : Tim Berardelli [email protected] Baker Hise [email protected] Registrar : Carol DeZwarte, Chris [email protected] [email protected] 911 (older) : George Whitmore Mantzuranis Concours : John Truban Zone 2 Rep : Cheryl Taylor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 930, C2, C4 : Roger Bratter Cashier : Roger McLeod, Jr.