The Bahn Stormer Volume XIX, Issue 5 -- June 2014 Photo by Stewart Free The Official Publication of the Rally Sport Region - Porsche Club of America The Bahn Stormer Contents For Information on, or submissions to, The Bahn Stormer contact Mike O’Rear at The Official Page .......................................................3 [email protected] or 734-214-9993 Traction Control.......................................... ..............4 (Please put Bahn Stormer in the subject line) Calendar of Events........................................... .........5 Deadline: Normally by the end of the third Membership Page ....................................................9 week-end of the month. Time With Tim ........................................................11 Monjuïc Circuit .......................................................14 For Commercial Ads Contact Jim Christopher at Beginners’ Day DE ..................................................17 [email protected] Boxster Road Trip ....................................................19 Around The Zone ....................................................21 Advertising Rates (Per Year) Ramblings From a Life With Cars ............................23 Full Page: $650 Quarter Page: $225 ‘88 911s and a Bar of Soap .....................................24 Half Page: $375 Business Card: $100 Drivers’ Education ..................................................27 Club Meeting Minutes ............................................29 Classifieds ...............................................................30 Material for the The Bahn Stormer may be reprinted (except for ads) provided proper credit is given to the author and the source. 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I was so back in Vancouver Island, happy to hear that once again the people who forecast Canada. Living on an island in the weather have the accuracy of moldy fruit. It was great the Northwest, the Pacific Ocean, to know that the day’s participants, seasoned and new, as like the Great Lakes, has a got some laps in the dry. Thank you to the Instructors and perverse effect on the weather. volunteers who made the day possible, with special notice So the conversation starts out to Christian Maloof for his expert oversight of the event with “what’s new…… I don’t know and Tom Krueger for his diligence and accuracy with the any new” and then into a full registration. Again this year we saw former RSR President 20 minutes of the entire week’s Pat Jeske making his lengthy morning drive to make sure weather both past and pending. It is a dominant event we don’t “ball up” distributing the event packets he puts in her life since the radio is on all day and tuned to CBC so much time into. Lastly, RSR has again been treated to Radio. Besides Canadian politics the only other thing they the relentless support from James Snider & Tim Pott from talk about is the weather, updated every 10 minutes just ArborMotion with their snacks and beverages. We are in case you can’t see outside. I am sure these 30 years also lucky to have Tim available to offer technical help of calls home have lead me to the “If I can’t change it, I when mechanical issues arise. don’t care mode.” No matter how you spin it, we tend to The Saturday following Waterford saw another be driven by weather and the length of daylight. As I write seasonally affected change. Tim Pott’s monthly tech this we are only 1 month away from the longest day of the session will go into hibernation until October. This last year. Then it’s downhill to winter from there. Some may Time with Tim was again a “not to miss” event. As you notice they had frost on their cars just two mornings ago. saw right here in the Bahn Stormer, it was decided to Message here, if you have not taken to the road yet with feed everyone in celebration of a terrific season of TwT’s. your favorite ride, no time like the present. Yes, I know Tim laid out his typical excellent breakfast, albeit a light we have had a lot of rain recently but I just like to think one, so as to leave room for some grilled burgers, dogs of that as a free car wash. Granted people are affected and chicken wings. Big thanks go to RSR’s own master differently by weather, some motivated, some depressed Chef, Burghard Linn for handling all the grilling as well as and unfortunately some consumed by it. At no time in dealing with vortices created by the building that kept history has there been a better time to be obsessed with the grill’s exhaust tightly wrapped around him. I’m sure weather. Real time radar on your Smartphone seems to he got smoked just as long as Arby’s new brisket does. be the pinnacle of weather awareness. As for me, I love But these gatherings are more than just eating. They are driving in the rain, but I just don’t like cleaning the car also about spending time with old friends and meeting afterwards. But my disdain for detailing is completely new people, people that have yet to hear all your Porsche outweighed by the chance to spend time with my friends. stories. With the Ann Arbor Cars and Coffee wrapping up Please keep that in mind when you are looking at the at 9:00, it has forced a new arrival time at TwT. What this forecast the evening before one of our RSR driving events. basically means is a longer time to casually bench race There is also a good chance that the forecast will be before the heavy tech talk starts. For this last round Tim wrong and that the proposed torrential downpour turns covered wheel alignment settings and how they relate out to be a perfect sun filled day. to Porsche handling, both on and off the track. Everyone This preamble about weather was triggered by in attendance also got to see a real time alignment on the forecast for our first Drivers’ Education event at ArborMotion’s new state of the art alignment rack. High Waterford. I kept on seeing the dreaded 100% chance of tech at its best. Thanks Tim for the substantial effort and rain on weather.com. The night before it had improved to financial expenditure you put in every month!! 90% chance of rain. I was truly worried for our Beginners. The highlight for many was not the oily bits as much There is already enough anxiety imposed on someone’s