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1 PCA’s Club Racing Newsletter Volume 02.1 Sponsored by Porsche Cars North America 2 Official Publication of Club Racing of the Porsche Club of America. Editor Andrew Jones P.O. Box 990447 Redding, California 96099-0447 530Official-241 -Publication3808 of Club Racing [email protected] the Porsche Club of America. CRNEditor Advertising Coordinator RalphAndy JonesWoodard Volume 02.1 January/February 2002 16904P.O. Box O Circle990447 Omaha,Redding, Nebraska California 68135 96099 -0447 402530-255241-38053808 Inside [email protected] Classified Advertising CRN Advertising Coordinator Classified ads are free to Club Racing members. 4 A New Decade TherePlease is direct a 60- allword advertising limit per inquiries ad. Ads to may the be subject toProgram editing Coord and abbreviationinator, Susan per Shire. the requirements of available space. No pictures are being accepted at this time.Susan ShireClassifi ed ads are to be sent directly to the Phone:editor. 847-674-2285 5 So Why Are They Still In F? Email: [email protected] Commercial Advertising Classified Advertising Inquiries regarding commercial advertising should be direClassifiedcted to adsthe CRNare fAdvertisingree to Club Coordinator, Racing members. Ralph 7 Life of the Co-Pilot ThereWoodard. is a 60-word limit per ad. Ads may be subject to editing and abbreviation per the requirements of availablePCA Club space. Racing No News pictures is theare officialbeing accepted publication at this of time.Club Racing Classified of the ads Porsche are to Club be ofsent America, directly c/o to PCA the Executiveeditor. 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Committee of Club Racing or the editor. 12 Northstar’s 2001 Award Winner The editor reserves the right to edit and/or omit all materialsPCA Club submitted Racing Newsfor publication. is the official publication of Club Racing of the Porsche Club of America, c/o PCA ExecutiveCopyright Secretary, PO Box 30100, Alexandria, VA 22310, and is published six times per year. 14 OG Racing’s 2001 Safe Racer Award Permission is granted to reproduce any portion of the StatementsClub Racing made News in, provided the PCA that Club full Racin creditg isNews given are to thethose authorof the authorsand PCA and doClub not necessarilyRacing News reflect. Allthe photographsopinions of theare Porschecopyright Club of of theAmerica, respective the photographers.National Committee of Club Racing or the editor. 16 Editor’s Corner The editor reserves the right to edit and/or omit all materialsPCACRN submitted is not forresponsible publication. for the return of unsolicited materials. 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Porsche AG. http://www.pca.org/pca/clubrace/index.htm Salt Lake City, Utah Postmaster: SendCopyright address 2000 changes to: On the Cover: PCAPorsche Club Club Racing of America News Henk Wisker’s GTC speeds by the tall grass of Summit Point. c/o PCA Executive Secretary For more information, turn to Page 8 . PO Box 5900 Photo by Terry Whalen, Potomac Region Springfield, VA 22150 Printed By: Deadline Artistic Printing The deadline for the next issue is: Salt Lake City, Utah February 15th Copyright 2002 Porsche Club of America CRN January/February 2002 3 A New Decade by: John Crosby, Chariman PCA Club Racing As we start a new decade of PCA Club Racing, drivers completed five races or more during the year the first thing that I would like to do is thank all of the without an incident and earned the Safe Racer Award for region volunteers and national club racing officials who 2001. Congratulations to all! have expended so much time and energy in making 2001 Thanks to the Club Racing web master, Mike a great year for PCA Club Racing. All of the Se lner, the website has been further enhanced to include twenty-four race weekends last year were nearly flawless. all of the forms that you may need for updating your An average of 112 racers participated on any given race medical, renewing your license, ordering Club Racing weekend with several events well exceeding 200. In decals, completing the 2002 tech forms or just printing an addition, more than half of the twenty-four race weekends extra copy of the rules. This is also the place to find the included either enduro races or multiple sprint races. The latest race schedule as well as all of the race results. We last two races of the year, the Carolinas Region event at are also in the process of building an archive of past Club the Carolina Motorsports Park and Florida Crown’s Racing News issues. Roebling Road event were both terrific. I trust that all of you had a safe holiday season I had the pleasure of co-stewarding the Carolina and that you are ready for what is in store for 2002. This race with Jim Coshow. History was made that weekend year looks like it will be quite busy. Twenty-seven races with Club Racing’s first ever 3½-hour enduro. Well, are already on the calendar and there are several more in there is a little more to the story than that. The planned the planning stage. The 2002 season starts out in 1.5 -hour enduro for the stock class cars started on time at February with the ninth running of the Gold Coast and 9:30 am, but only after a bit of chaos on the grid. Due to Sun Coast Regions 48 Hours at Sebring, one of our truly some computer problems the enduro grid sheets were not premier events. It will be my 8th time racing at the ready. Scrambling to get the race started on time so that Sebring 48 Hours and I can hardly wait. This year at it would not overlap into the 11 a.m. quiet hour, the grid Sebring, 15 lap sprint races are planned on the 3.7-mile positions from the previous day’s sprint races were used. circuit. If you haven’t registered already, get those This particular race however included cars from two cobwebs dusted off and get down to sunny Florida. In different sprint race run groups and resulted in some of March, Lonestar Region will be hosting their annual the slower class cars being placed ahead of the faster cars. race on Texas World Speedway’s 2.9-mile layout. The This made for an interesting first fifteen minutes of BMW CCA racers will be guests of PCA once again this racing, but soon the positions were sorted out. Thirty year, racing in their own groups. It is a three-day event minutes into the race a driver, who shall remain nameless, with two sprint races and a 1.5-hour enduro planned. I’ll blew his engine and oiled down a significant part of the be there as well for about my 6th or 7th time. In April the track. The race was black flagged due to the ensuing pace quickens with three more events. Peachstate major clean up. Not long into the clean up operation it Region’s weekend on the world famous 2.5-mile Road had become apparent that this was going to take a Atlanta track will see its usual compliment of 200 plus considerable amount of time. With an 11 am quiet hour PCA racers. April will also bring a new event down in looming, there wasn’t going to be enough time to finish my neck of the woods at a new track in Louisiana the race. An impromptu driver’s meeting was called and between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. NPR is a very the announcement was made that the last hour of the race technical and very demanding 1.8-mile layout. Two would commence at noon after the quiet hour. The sprint races are planned for the Saturday and Sunday drivers were called to their cars shortly before noon, and event plus a Friday practice day. Also in April, Arizona it was reported that several had to be awoken from their Region will be hosting their second Club Race and have naps. Finally the race, which started at 9:30 am, ended at changed venues to Phoenix International Raceway. A 1:00 pm. The point of this story is to commend the stock sprint and enduro is planned for the Phoenix race group enduro drivers for first dealing with the mixed up weekend. That’s a total of nine races just by the end of grid situation and then the delay, for not a single April. Like I said, it is going to be a busy year. complaint was made. The bottom line is that there was Wishing you a safe and prosperous new year! some great racing and everyone had fun. This is what the program is all about, right? Race friendly. Our Program Licensing Coordinator, Susan Shire, had a busy year approving 252 new licensees in 2001 as John either provisional or rookie candidates.