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June 2015 On the Cover Photo by Dennis Wolfe Hearst Castle as seen during a recent SVR tour to San Simeon. Scaffolding is up for an ongoing renovation of the roof. See feature story for additional photos. TrackMasters Racing is a leader in High Performance Driver Education events in Northern California and invites SVR-PCA drivers to participate in these events. Sonoma/Sears Point Jun 6 Sonoma/Sears Point AX Jun 6 Sonoma/Sears Point Jun 7 Sonoma/Sears Point Jun 8 Mazda Raceway Jun 12 Thunderhill Raceway Jul 18 Thunderhill Raceway Jul 19 Thunderhill Raceway Aug 28 Sonoma/Sears Point AX Sep 19 Mazda Raceway Sep 19 Mazda Raceway Sep 20 Come out and stretch your car’s legs on some of the finest tracks in the country! Fun, safe, and definitely... No speeding tickets! www.TrackMasters-Racing.com Sacramento Valley Region - Porsche Club of America - www.svr-pca.org 2015 Board of Directors President Collin Fat 916.955.7966 [email protected] Vice President Volume 53, No. 6 June 2015 Eduardo Ortega, Jr. 916.366.3811 [email protected] Upcoming Events Columns and Sections Secretary 7 Event Close Ups 2 President’s Notes Rita Barker 916.771.8592 9-14 SVR, Zone, PCA and 3 Editor’s Corner [email protected] Local Events 4 Pretty Darn Kwik Treasurer Janet Conner 5 Autocross News 916.939.3882 Technical Notes [email protected] Features and Reviews 6 15 CRAB Returns 8 Calendar of Events Social Director Suzanne Sanders 16 San Simeon Tour 23 SVR Board Minutes 209.401.5607 [email protected] 18 Porsche in China 24 SVR Membership Drifter Classifieds Membership Director 20 SVR 2015 Concours at 28 Richard Walker Niello SVR Goodie Store 916.988.7468 29 [email protected] 20 Porsche at Silverstone 29 Index of Advertisers Competition & Safety Director 22 Editor’s Bookshelf Frederick Rauch 916.989.0580 [email protected] Webmaster Bill Fargo facebook.com/svr.pca 916.802.4679 [email protected] Information and Committee Directory Past President Steve Barker Advertising Manager Goodie Store 916.390.3009 Mike Dunn 916.837.0203 Linda Bradford 916.899.5731 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Autocross Chair Historian Drifter Editor Tim Howard 530.626.7807 Larry Wilson 916.536.9703 Steve McCrory [email protected] [email protected] 916.747.1447 [email protected] Charity Chairs New Member Group Sacramento Valley Region, Porsche Club of America Alma and Gary Thompson 916.342.3434 Cookie Anderson 916.988.6534 (SVR), publishes the Drifter monthly for its members. [email protected] [email protected] Written contributions and photos are welcome and should be e-mailed to the editor. The deadline for Concours Chair Rally Chair material is one month prior to the month of publication. Kent Brandon 916.663.1702 Rik Larson 916.481.6084 SVR members should notify the membership director promptly of an address change to insure uninterrupted [email protected] [email protected] delivery. All material in this newsletter is protected by copyright. However, newsletter editors of others regions Driver Education Chair Share the Wealth chartered by the Porsche Club of America may reprint Frederick Rauch 916.989.0580 Herb Hoover 916.424.5163 any article provided that credit is given to the author and [email protected] [email protected] Sacramento Valley Region and that The Drifter is cited as the source. Dummkopf Chair Technical Chair Zone 7 Representative Jim McMahen 916.924.1463 Skip Quain 650.504.4846 Yosemite Region [email protected] [email protected] Paul Czopek 209.531.8141 Event Liaison to Niello Porsche [email protected] Kim Nelson 916.337.7716 [email protected] Sacramento Valley Region - Porsche Club of America - www.svr-pca.org Page 1 SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: We have gotten several new sponsors to help SVR President’s Notes support the activities of the club and I highly Collin Fat, SVR President encourage you to support all of them. All of our sponsors have solid reputations for being at the EVENT NEWS: top of their games and have been endorsed by It’s hard to believe that June is upon us and half some of our members. New sponsors joining the year has just seemed to fly by. I hope that the Detail Maniac car clinic and we all hope that recently are FDR Motorsports, Bertolucci’s you are all participating in the array of activities the entrants will sign up for our annual SVR Body and Fender, and Rocky Mountain the club has planned. If you are new to the club Zone 7 Concours on June 28th headed up Window Tint. make sure you give all of our different events a by Kent Brandon and his army of volunteers. try before saying no. Whether it’s attending our You will have at least 3 weeks to prepare your THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR VOLUNTEERS! monthly breakfast, dinner meeting, or signing car and remember there are several classes of Our club depends on a dedicated group of up for a Matt & Lisa Menning Tour get competition other than full concours. volunteers who work tirelessly behind the involved. Our new club directory will be mailed scenes to put on the events listed on our yearly to you by the end of June and we have tried Don’t miss events for June include our monthly calendar. Whether you are serving on our board hard to make updates to its format as well as breakfast on June 6th at Brookfields restaurant of directors, as an appointed activity chair or to provide you with a contact list of like- minded in Rancho Cordova. The restaurant is noted for are hosting a tour or dinner meeting I would like Porsche enthusiasts. Use this directory as a its hearty breakfasts and generous portions. to extend my gratitude for volunteering to help resource for everything from asking what the Tim Howard’s team is hosting a Zone 7 keep this club one of the most active in Zone 7. top rated tires are for your 2001 Boxster S autocross event on June 6th. Some of Zone Our club’s primary membership hit 700 in May or if anyone else in the club is having issues 7’s best drivers from the various regions will be with an additional 476 affiliate members for a with their PDK. Sometimes the best source of there competing for year- end trophies. Don’t total membership of 1,179. This makes the information is our membership. let the competition scare you as novices are Sacramento Valley Region the second largest always welcome. Kent Brandon’s concours region in the zone exceeding the membership May was a busy month with several fun filled team will be hosting their annual Zone 7 of Loma Prieta and Redwood Regions. That is activities. Tim Howard, our club’s dedicated Concours at Niello Porsche on June 28th. just as amazing as all of the great volunteers autocross chair, held his second event of the There are several levels of competition from that make our club also one of the most active year at the San Joaquin County Fairgrounds in full concours to wash and shine in addition to a in the Zone. Thanks again to all the volunteers Stockton and 45 drivers turnout for the event. car corral for Porsche cars only. Kent tells me that make this club so great! Speaking of volun- Of this group, 26 drivers were considered there will be a prize for the best looking car in teers, it is never too late to consider chairing novices. Cookie Anderson’s Fat’s dinner was the corral. The monthly dinner for June will be an event or serving on the board. If you have another success and had nearly 60 persons in hosted by Susan and Howard Wolf at Los an interest, send me an email and I can let you attendance. On the technical event side, Skip Pinos Restaurant in Cameron Park. know what opportunities are available. Quain had at least 30 members participate in Niello Porsche Thinking about selling your Porsche? At Niello Porsche, we know you don’t want to sell your car to just anyone. With our buyback program, not only will we give you a great price, we’ll give your Porsche a great home. Niello Porsche 4525 Granite Drive, Rocklin porsche.niello.com Charles Hughes | 916.868.8513 [email protected] Page 2 Sacramento Valley Region - Porsche Club of America - www.svr-pca.org As if you needed an extra reason to attend the SVR Zone 7 Concours at Niello, besides Editor’s Corner beautiful Porsches on display and socializing Steve McCrory, SVR Drifter Editor with old and new friends, there could be a great door prize in your future. Barbara and I recently The Future Of Driving... cashed in the Spa Treatment we won at last year’s event. The Spa Treatment is a service Changes in automotive technology are close on with the new era of automated transportation. and full detail of your Porsche, in this case the horizon, being tested and developed and I won’t be trading in the Porsche anytime soon. the 87 944 we’ve been showing with Zone 7 will impact the future of driving. Just search for the last two years. Throw in a loaner car, engine the topic of “self driving autonomous In this issue you will find an article on the bi- and what’s not to like? David Welling, service cars”, and you’ll see the evolving face of the annual San Simeon Tour by Gregg Plourde.