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THE July 2020 CircuitA publication of the Grand Prix Region of the Porsche Club of America The Circuit July 2020 GRAND PRIX REGION & 19-20 S-Sun SDR DE/TT Willow Springs GPX BOARD OF DIRECTORS GPX CHAIRS 20 Sun F1 Singapore CONTENTS 26-27 F-Sun PCA Club Race Thunderhill Raceway ZONE 8 CLUB CALENDAR President Advertising Chair - OPEN POSITION 27 Sun F1 Russia Connie Somers 2 Grand Prix Region & Zone 8 Calendar 28 Mon Yom Kippur (949) 439-9266 CDHC Liason - Chuck Weaver [email protected] (562) 430-3010 NOTE: [email protected] 3 Masthead page: Table of Contents Please note. Most of the calendar events listed are October Chief Driving Instructor - Dave Hockett Board of Directors & Chairs either cancelled or on hold. Please verify before attempting 3-4 S-Sun PCA Club Race Hallett Motor Racing Circuit [email protected] (909) 518-0415 4 From The President's Desk to participate with any of them 10 Sat GPX Breakfast at Glory Days Beachside Grill Vice President Skip Carter 10 Sat GPX Board Meeting following breakfast Circuit Editor- Skip Carter 5 Editorial License 10-11 S-Sun GGR PCA Club Race w/NASA, Sonoma Raceway (619) 992-9927 [email protected] (619) 992-9927 July [email protected] Social Media Links 3-4 F-Sat Independence Day Observed and Actual 11 Sun F1 Japan Circuit Co-Editor - Charlie Carchedi 6 PCA Sim Racing information 3 Fri Ontario Airport - Free Drive-In Movie night 12 Mon GPX Day Away from Work DE/AX 12 Mon Columbus Day [email protected] (626) 869-7471 The Sandlot Secretary 7 Fairway Mortgage Capital: 16 Fri CCCR DE, Willow Springs TBD GPX Tour Orange Empire Railroad Museum Alan Johnson Concours - Linda Cobarrubias 17 Sat GPX Tour Ventura to Paso Robles Advertiser returns to Circuit 5 Sun F1 Austria (562) 305-8002 [email protected] (310) 990-0993 17-18 S-Sun PCA Club Race Motorsport Ranch 10-12 F-Sun PCA Club Race Monticello Motor Club [email protected] 8 PCA Add a Co-Member information 17-18 S-Sun SDR DE/TT, Chuckwalla Consiglieri - Marty Goldsmith 11 Sat GPX Breakfast at Glory Days Beachside Grill 9 Porsche Kids and their Electric Cars [email protected] (562) 494-6350 11 Sat GPX Board Meeting following breakfast 24-25 S-Sun PCA Club Race Sonoma Raceway TBD F-Sun PCA Club Race Daytona International Speedway Treasurer 10 Honoring John 'Jay' Reilly 17 Fri Ontario Airport - Free Drive-In Movie night GPX Store Chair - Alicia Weaver The Princess Bride 25 Sun F1 United States Linda Cobarrubias 20 Patty Reilly: Not Just Another Pretty Face (310) 990-0993 [email protected] (562) 726-5200 18 Sat GPX Lyons Air Museum Tour 31 Sat Halloween MS993@ 21 GPX Photo Project 19 Sun F1 Great Britian Insurance - Ron Shanon cobarrubiasbookkeeping..com 25 Sat GPX Mt. Wilson 60-inch Telescope Viewing November [email protected] (310) 375-9840 22 2008 Photo Collage by Charlie Carchedi 25-26 S-Sun PCA Club Race Brainerd International Raceway 1 Sun Daylight Savings Ends 24 2009 Photo Collage by Charlie Carchedi 1 Sun F1 Mexico City Membership - Patty Reilly 31 Fri Ontario Airport - Free Drive-In Movie night Member at Large 3 Tue Election Day [email protected] (714) 402-2405 26 West Coast Series flyer Napoleon Dynamite Charlie Carchedi 7 Sat CCCR Autocross, Santa Maria Airport 28 GPX Kids / PCA Junior's Program 31-2 F-Sun PCA Club Race Canadian Tire Motorsports Park (626) 869-7471 Performance Driving Events - Skip Carter 11 Wed Veterans Day [email protected] [email protected] (619) 992-9927 GPX Name Badge Order Form August 14 Sat GPX Breakfast at Glory Days Beachside Grill GPX Open Chair Positions 1 Sat GPX Ventura to Frazier Park Tour 14 Sat GPX Board Meeting following breakfast Registration - Suesan Way Carter 15 Sun F1 Brazil [email protected] (619) 992-4287 2 Sun F1 Hungary Member at Large 30 July Membership Report 8 Sat GPX Breakfast at Glory Days Beachside Grill 20 Fri L.A. Auto Show PCA Clubs Preview 20-29 L.A. Auto Show Jimmie Mitchell Safety - Nick Perdikaris 32 Classified Ads 8 Sat GPX Board Meeting following breakfast (310) 539-2568 21-22 S-Sun TENATIVE DATE Tech Tactics West [email protected] (310) 901-8154 33 Junkyard, Behind the Gates at California's 7-16 Fri- Monterey Car Week [email protected] 24 Sat Zone 8 President's Meeting 14 Fri Werks Reunion, Monterey Social Events- Secretive European Car Salvage Yard 28 Thu Thanksgiving Susan Moard & Arturo Chaparro 22 TBD GPX Tour Columbia Memorial Space Center to 34 Cone Zone Calendar Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University 29 Sun F1 Abudhabi Member at Large [email protected] (626) 705-8686 8-9 S-Sun Monterey Pre-Reunion unknown SDR DE/TT Buttonwillow (tenative) Eric Peterson [email protected] (323) 633-7915 On the Cover 12 Wed PCA National Office Open House (562) 533-0573 Social Media - John Kunkle 35 Index of Advertiser 13-16 Th-Sun Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion December thepetersons_crib@ [email protected] (562) 552-0960 Breakfast Club Meeting Notice 14-16 F-Sun PCA Club Race New Jersey Motorsports Park 11-18 Fri Chanukah msn.com 16 Sun 70th Pebble Beach Concours 12 Sat GPX Breakfast at Glory Days Beachside Grill Sponsorship - Suesan Way Carter Commercial Advertising Rates 12 Sat GPX Board Meeting following breakfast 22 Sat GPX Tour Angeles Crest & Grizzly Cafe Past President [email protected] (619) 992-4287 12 Sat GPX Holiday Party, 29-30 S-Sun GGR PCA Club Race w/NASA, Sonoma Raceway Jeff Peck 30 Sun F1 Belgium LONG BEACH YACHT CLUB (310) 345-8081 Tech Inspection - OPEN POSITION INFORMATION 25 Fri Christmas [email protected] GPX GrandPrixRegion.com 26 Sat Kwanzaa (first day) Technical Adviser - Michael Dolphin Zone8.org September [email protected] (213) 248-4743 Zone 8 TBD GPX Tour Angeles Crest Highway 31 Thu New Year's Eve PCA National PCA.org TBD GPX Tour to Alpine ZONE 8 REPRESENTATIVE Tours - Alan Johnson PCNA US.Porsche.com/national 5-7 F-Sun PCA Club Race Road America [email protected] (562) 305-8002 Porsche AG Porsche.com 6 Sun F1 Italy Jeff Peck GPX Landing Page on MotorsportReg: 7 Mon Labor Day (310) 345-8081 Webmaster - Jimmie Mitchell [email protected] (310) 539-2568 http://pcagpx.MotorsportReg.com 12 Sat GPX Breakfast at Glory Days Beachside Grill [email protected] 12 Sat GPX Board Meeting following breakfast 13 Sun GPX Concours at Lakewood Country Club EDITORIAL POLICY: THE CIRCUIT is the official publication of the GRAND PRIX REGION of the 16-19 W-Sat PCA Treffen, The Greenbrier, PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA. Statements appearing in THE CIRCUIT are those of the author and 19 Sat CCCR Zone 8 Autocross, Santa Maria Airport are not necessarily the opinions of the CLUB or its editorial staff. The Editor reserves the right to edit White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia all material submitted for publication. Permission to reprint any material herein is granted providing full 18-20 F-Sun PCA Club Race Summit Point Motorsports Park credit is given to the authors and THE CIRCUIT, with the exception of copyrighted material. 19 Sat Rosh Hashana 19-20S-Sun 24 Hours of Le Mans ADDRESS CHANGE: Please notify GPX Membership Chair and PCA (PO Box 6400, Columbia, MD 19-20 S-Sun PCA Club Race High Plains Raceway 21045 or [email protected] or 410.381.0911 ) of any address, email, phone or membership status changes. 2 3 The Circuit July 2020 Skip Carter From The President's Desk hat a year 2020 has been and we are only half way over! Has it really only been six months? Every midst of planning a GPX and distancing. time I think it can’t get worse, somehow it does! I local Rally. If you have We have also looked at a couple of fundraising events. The W s a member of our board of directors, I can tell you first was a golf ball drop from a drone, but with the PCA hope all of you and your families are staying healthy and safe. never done a Rally, I highly that we have been vigorously looking at how and restriction on drones, we had to bail on that one. Currently, Normally July starts off with a BANG! Unfortunately, recommend joining us. It when we will be able to start having gatherings and most of the fireworks shows were canceled. But Americans will be an entertaining way A president Connie Somers is developing a ducky race. As my events again. rallied together and put on their own impromptu fireworks to spend the day in your wife sits painting toy, plastic ducks for the event, you will be We were very close to having an event in early July when hearing more about this in upcoming emails. We expect the show! The skies were bursting with a colorful celebration fabulous car of du jour - hopefully it's a Porsche! California's virus numbers spiked and we went back into a of our Country! I hope you all had a fantastic 4th of July. I I hope you are all staying busy and possibly learning ducky race to happen in August. Our goal is to raise a mini- lock down. mum of $5,000 for Children's Dental Health Clinic. think during these trying times, we need to be grateful for something new? Social distancing is getting old, but without We've got a good set of protocols developed that we think all the blessings in our lives.