Autocrossing - an Acquired Skill by Bob Canter Dana Martin: 1St in Class and 4Th Overall in the GTC2 Class Enduro
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007 AUGUST 2007 AUGUST 2007 AUGUST 2007 AUGUST 2007 AUGUST 2007 AUGUST 2007 AUGUST 2007 AUGUST 20 Northeast Region Porsche Club of America Northeast Region Porsche Club of America Northeast Region Porsche Club of America Northeast Region Porsche Club of America Date: October 2006 Event: The inaugural PCA Club Race at DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY, Daytona, FL. Assignment: Prepare and Support our customers’ cars. Results: All Great... some Extaordinary! Greg Brown: Winner of the very competitive GTC3 class enduro in his GT3 Supercup Car. Dana Martin: 1st in class and 4th overall in the GTC2 class enduro. Bob Cohen: 3rd in GTC1... running the entire 90 minute enduro solo. Barry Brensinger: 2nd in class in sprint after starting last overall... setting another B class track record. Andy Jenks: 3rd in class of 26 F cars and 4th overall in enduro after a dramatic spin dropped him to 30th early. Caryl Brensinger, Bruce Hauben, Wayne Mackie and Steve Boris: Finished off the podium but ran safely without problems or issues. CONGRATULATIONS!! to our customers and friends on their outstanding performance at Daytona. While not all our customers race their cars or even participate in the PCA drivers education program, we believe all our clients deserve the same level of personalized, professional care we have become known for in race paddocks all across the country. Our commitment to excellence shows in many ways, through our flexible scheduling, our cost effective approach to proper repair and maintenance and our unique ability to help make your Porsche ownership pleasurable and rewarding. So, the next time your Porsche needs a little TLC... even if you’re not planning on driving the banking at Daytona... call or drop us a note. It’s often said “Racing Improves the Breed” and we at EPE believe that it’s true, not only for the car, but the technician that works on it. 10 COCHITUATE STREET . NATICK, MA 01760 . PHONE 508-651-1316 . FAX 508-651-3448 . EMAIL [email protected] Date: October 2006 Event: The inaugural PCA Club Race at DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY, Daytona, FL. VOL. 35 ISSUE NO. 8 Assignment: Prepare and Support our customers’ cars. 007 AUGUST 2007 AUGUST 2007 AUGUST 2007 AUGUST 2007 AUGUST 2007 AUGUST 2007 AUGUST 2007 AUGUST 20 Results: All Great... some Extaordinary! FEATURES 12 AutoX #3 @ Devens 14 Driver Ed @ Mosport 15 Driver Ed @ NHIS 16 16 18 AutoX #4 @ Devens 20 Zone One Autocross@ Romulus, NY 22 AutoX #5 @ Devens (Final) 22 24 24 News from PORSCHE Greg Brown: Winner of the very competitive GTC3 class enduro in his GT3 Supercup Car. 26 Autocrossing - an Acquired Skill by Bob Canter Dana Martin: 1st in class and 4th overall in the GTC2 class enduro. 28 AutoX Highlights, Results & Photos Bob Cohen: 3rd in GTC1... running the entire 90 minute enduro solo. Barry Brensinger: 2nd in class in sprint after starting last overall... setting another B class track record. 30 DE Details from Calabogie and Mt. Tremblant Andy Jenks: 3rd in class of 26 F cars and 4th overall in enduro after a dramatic spin dropped him to 30th early. Caryl Brensinger, Bruce Hauben, Wayne Mackie and Steve Boris: Finished off the podium but ran safely without problems or issues. 28 CONGRATULATIONS!! to our customers and friends on their outstanding performance at Daytona. 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I thought about bus (and still is!), and the Trans Am and Can Am those questions a bit as I rode with my four-year- race series were hugely popular around the time old grandson Sam, up and down our driveway Susana and I met and shortly thereafter married. on the little scooter Susana and I use at the track. We made several trips to the track to watch those Sam stood on the scooter ringing the little bell, races, taking advantage of the press credentials while I held on to him and steered. He had the Susana was able to acquire through the television biggest grin on his face all the while, and as soon station for which she worked. We photographed as we finished one circuit he was ready for an- all the famous drivers of the era, including Den- other trip. After we ran down the scooter’s battery nis Hulme, Peter Revson, Jo Siffert and Mark we switched to our lawn tractor and, of course, Donohue, and watched the evolution of the Sam grinned all the while we mowed the lawn. Porsche 917 Cam Am car. Will this turn out to be the seminal moment By then we’d acquired a limited production Boss when his love of driving and speed first bloomed? 302 Mustang and were thoroughly hooked on Who knows? Several years will have to pass, of speed and racing. The Trans Am races at that time course, and by the time he’s ready to drive on the featured the famous orange colored Boss 302 highway who knows what we’ll be driving? Mustangs raced by Parnelli Jones. It was about I think I can trace my initial interest in driving then that I started thinking that I could drive a and speed back to probably age 11 or 12 when car quickly on a race track, not really having any a younger brother won a “Corvette” go-cart in a sense of how different that would be from driving grocery store giveaway. He was, of course, much quickly on the street. A 914 Porsche came along shortly Somehow that go-kart survived for probably thereafter, but it wouldn’t be until 1983 when we acquired a Porsche another ten years, increasingly used by my 944 that we would find ourselves on two younger brothers. continued on page 40 too young to drive (4 or 5 years old at the time), so my next younger brother and I commandeered the go-cart, racing up and down the street until we wore out the fiberglass body. At that time we stripped the go-kart down to its bare essentials, fashioned a little pull-cord so we could override the governor on the engine, and began timed competitive runs on various courses we set up. Somehow that go-kart survived for probably another ten years, increasingly used by my two youngest brothers. The motor eventually expired in flames one day while it was being raced around a church parking lot. I understand though that the chassis survived to be used by some friend of my brothers for several more years. It was in those years that I first started follow- ing racing, particularly the Indy 500.