The Bahn Stormer Volume XIX, Issue 9 -- October 2014
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The Bahn Stormer Volume XIX, Issue 9 -- October 2014 Porsches At Cabelas -- Part of the Ann Arbor Challenge Photo by David & Norah Cooper The Official Publication of the Rally Sport Region - Porsche Club of America The Bahn Stormer Contents For Information on, or submissions to, The Official Page .......................................................3 The Bahn Stormer contact Mike O’Rear at Traction Control.......................................... ..............4 [email protected] or 734-214-9993 Calendar of Events........................................... .........5 (Please put Bahn Stormer in the subject line) Membership Page ....................................................7 Deadline: Normally by the end of the third The Ann Arbor Challenge .......................................10 week-end of the month. Waterford Drivers’ Education .................................13 What Are The Chances ...........................................11 For Commercial Ads Contact Jim Christopher at The Circuit of Mugello ............................................15 [email protected] 24 Hours of Le Mans ...............................................17 Pittsburg Vintage Grand Prix ..................................18 Advertising Rates (Per Year) Stelvio Pass, Italy ....................................................20 Full Page: $650 Quarter Page: $225 Ramblings From a Life With Cars ............................23 Half Page: $375 Business Card: $100 Noise in F1 ..............................................................29 Around The Zone ....................................................27 Club Meeting Minutes ............................................29 Material for the The Bahn Stormer may be reprinted Classifieds ...............................................................30 (except for ads) provided proper credit is given to the author and the source. 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To the last minute. Timing being complete his humiliation he arrived back to the paddock what it is, I am writing it on the with no socks, his best remedy for the lack of any paper first day of Fall, that landmark of products. Later in the day the Bob Sharpe racing team seasons that everyone in Michigan arrived to set up for their driver Paul Newman. We all confirms as their favorite. It know Paul is famous for his acting, driving and salad is also the season that brings dressing, the latter being the issue this weekend. The our beloved Drivers’ Education entire crew was frantically running from team to team Events to an end. Not to be too trying to borrow as many rags, towels, and whatever repetitious but I have to again other absorbent substance they could get. It turns out expound on the efforts of the RSR Team that makes our four cases of Newman’s Own got out of the upper storage DE events a tremendous success. Tom Krueger with the and in 1984 they were still in glass bottles. I walked by task of registering the entrants, a perpetual job. Former there a couple hours later and they were still trying to RSR President, Pat Jeski processing those entrants at mop up all that olive oil. the event as well as the endless process of creating the These were days before cell phones and at these big number packets. Christian Maloof our Chief Driving events the phone company brought in a small trailer with Instructor assuring the events are safe, educational and multiple pay phones on either side. Later in the day I was that everyone has a good time. I can never say too much on the end phone talking to Lynda in California telling about Christian’s group of excellent Instructors. They are her of Mr. Newman’s dressing misfortune, albeit with a the core of why our DE’s are some of the best in country. sinister chuckle. My story was suddenly interrupted by a I cannot forget to note the contributions of ArborMotion rush of gravel and a violent jump rearward of the trailer. / Rennstatt Racing for making sure the participants have How appropriate to continue my story with Lynda than breakfast and cold beverages throughout the day. to look over to see Paul on the ground beside his mini Although I was not able to attend a single track day this bike. I asked if he was OK; he vigorously apologized for year I was able to live vicariously through the stories from disrupting my conversation. He dusted off and made a call those members who did. It is great that so many members to Joanne and I started back to Lynda with “guess what got the opportunity to exercise their cars, and for less that loud boom was?” than the cost of the speeding ticket they would receive IMSA racing back then was a great community of doing the same thing on the street. The best byproduct of what was basically a travelling circus and, as we have all a season of track events is a winter season of great stories experienced, travelling can always create a great story to tide you over until the next year. By not attending DE’s or two. Add the events surrounding an international this year, I did not have access to the personal interactions race series and you never run out of raw material. There and mechanical adventures that create those terrific is a stigma associated with race mechanics. These hard stories. partying playboys arrive upon unsuspecting host cities, In the absence of anything current I would like to drinking the bars dry and ravaging the available women. reminisce about a track weekend that took place 30 years That may be true of some back in the day, but most of the ago. If you think most of the great bench racing stories time we were usually too tired to terrorize anything. The come from the car’s achievements on the track, not so! weekend in 1984 was the exception and on Friday night Most take place around the facility and while gathering several teams battled hard in the face of liver damage the gaggle of hung over misfits that work to get a race at a local bar. That evening did not produce anything car on the track. The IMSA race at Road Atlanta in 1984 exceptional in the form of a story line but it did leave an supplied a year’s worth memorable moments, all packed entire van full of very queasy morning stomachs. After a into one weekend. The pinnacle of those moments was full breakfast and during the 20 mile drive to the track, when the well