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Volume 22 • Edition 14.3 PCA CLUB RACING NEWSLETTER SPONSORED BY PORSCHE CARS NORTH AMERICA Northstar_2014_Full_Pg_BW_r1_LayoutNorthstar_2014_Full_Pg_4C_Layout 1 4/9/14 1 4/9/14 12:43 12:40 PM PM Page Page 1 1 Vol. 22 • Edition 14.3 July - September 2014 Visit us on the web at Inside http://www.pcs.org/Activities/ClubRacing.aspx Features 22 Outstanding Driver Award Winners 26 24 Not for Members Only 26 SPecatular 944 Season 28 Race - Wed - Race Columns 4 Chairman’s Corner 6 Lorem Ipsum 10 View from the Tower 12 From Start to Finish 16 Proposed Rules Changes 28 Remnants Volume 22 • Edition 14.3 8 2015 Club Racing Schedule PCA CLUB RACING NEWSLETTER SPONSORED BY PORSCHE CARS NORTH AMERICA 8 2014 Club Racing Schedule 30 2014 Hard Chargers 34 Advertiser Index 34 National Committee On the Cover Heidi & Joseph Racing to the Alter Details on page 28 Deadline for article submission for the next issue is October 30, 2014 Photo by Robin Gaucher Robin Gaucher Photography Club Racing News (CRN) is the official publication of the Porsche Club of America, Club Racing and is published quarterly. 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Box 6400 Columbia, MD 21045 July - September 2014 3 BRYAN HENDERSON Cimarron Region Porsche Club of America CHAIRMAN PCA CLUB RACING Announces the Original and 13th Annual Hallett Motor Racing Circuit October 4-5, 2014 BOXSTER CHALLENGE CHAIRMAN’S CORNER t is that time of the year – proposed rules weight lost up high and thus lower the center of changes review. Our rule book is purposely gravity. We could change the suspension and Once again, Cimarron Region is proud to host PCA Club Racers at everybody’s favorite racetrack, Hallett rather small and our procedures are fairly brakes to anything we could afford which might Motor Racing Circuit. We love having all of you here for one of the highlights of the Club Racing season. Isimple and mostly intuitive. Our rules allow safe, include some very sophisticated pure racing sus- From the friendly atmosphere, to the Saturday night dinner under the Oklahoma stars, to the exciting fun and fair competition, allowing for all Porsche pensions and some humongous brakes. We could competition, Oktoberfast is a “can’t miss” event. We’ve had a wonderful turnout for our Cimarron sports cars to have a place to race. It has been add real aero and any size wheels and on and on. Region Boxster Challenge interesting to read the suggestions for proposed We could add electronics to the ECU with engine for two years running! Come and be part of the fun. rules changes from our racers - some very good mods that could produce much more horsepower. and thoughtful. I could see a horsepower and weight chart that is Contacts: Race Chair Jon Jones at 918 740-7951 or [email protected] There are different lev- completely flat in the oper- els of modifications allowed ating range of the system. Event Registrar Joy Jones at 918 200-4044 or [email protected] based on our basic class We are free Can you say $200K stock structure. For example, our class cars? stock class rules are much to choose the On a related topic, more restrictive than the there have been some sug- GT class rules. This allows class we want gested changes for the ber of racers. The LRP event sells out who primarily compete west of the Mis- Another suggestion was to allow a for each of us to find a National Championship each year and can only fit two sprint sissippi. racer review board to look at incidents. place within the rule classes Points System that fail to races into the weekend schedule. Similarly, there was a suggestion to This group would be made up of racers. to use our creativity almost to race in and take into account the big By comparison, consider the Lone make Enduros count as double points They would have no authority but at will, or race on a smaller picture of a system that Star Region event at Texas World Speed- since they are longer races. At issue here would be free to express their views, budget. We are free to we must then must work from coast to way (TWS) where the event currently are several tracks do not have the facili- ostensibly to put them into racers choose the class we want to coast. For example, one has four sprint races over a three day ties to properly time pit stops using the words, to foster a better understanding. race in, and when we have race within suggestion was to make all weekend. Likewise, TWS has ample electronic scoring through the Timing I think as a society we tend to think of made that choice, we must races count for points. The space on the grounds and a track length & Scoring computer system. Likewise, regulatory figures in about all areas as then race within the rules the rules for system is currently set up to of 2.9 miles which allows for more com- in some cases the track does not have faceless bureaucrats. I think people who for that class. equalize the events across petitors than LRP. enough pit space to run Enduros. Events primarily race in other venues where Our classes are basi- that class the country. The goal was If all races counted at each event, at those tracks have not been allowed to stewards are not, and in many cases, cally constructed on a spec- to give no event or part of LRP would only produce half of the have points scoring Enduros for obvious never have been racers, do not realize ified horsepower to weight the country an advantage points available at TWS. Two wins in a reasons. that our stewards are all racers. There- ratio, with some adjustments based on experience over other events or parts of the country. If all large class at LRP would only produce Another interesting phenomenon is fore, the decisions in incidents in PCA over time with under-performing or over-per- races were allowed to count then events with the 40 possible race points. Meanwhile, the that racers who primarily race at smaller are actually made by racers with some forming Porsche designs. This allows us to scruti- ability to have more races per weekend would possible four wins at TWS or any other venues attendance-wise think the cham- training in incident review and each neer to a specific formula for each car. We would greatly outscore those events that have restrictions track with a similar schedule and cost pionship bonus points give an advan- incident is reported to the entire group see some very expensive solutions if the classes on the number of races they can have due to facil- structure like TWS, in the same class tage to the racers that primarily race of stewards (our racer review board) for were differentiated strictly by horsepower and ity requirements or cost. would produce 80 race points. This with larger crowds. The racers who pri- questions and comments. This keeps weight. For example, taken to the extreme, a For example, Connecticut Valley Region could provide a huge advantage to those marily race at venues with larger turn- everyone much more consistent. “stock” car could be made with consistent horse- hosts an event at Lime Rock Park (LRP), an events that are on tracks with open outs think the smaller events have an BE SAFE! HAVE FUN power and weight and still allow replacing all of expensive facility. The region has a two day event schedules that are relatively inexpensive advantage. The idea in the rules is to Bryan the body panels with carbon fiber panels and add- on a Friday and Saturday at a facility where the to rent. This would likely provide a equalize this as much as possible. Seems ing ballast in the floor of the car to make up the grounds and track size (1.53 miles) limit the num- huge points advantage to those racers like it must be working. 4 Club Racing news July - September 2014 5 MICHAEL WINGFIELD NATIONAL SPONSOR CLUB RACING NEWS EDITOR LOREM IPSUM ou’ve seen the signs, in shop windows, on image why the signs continually reappear. With store marquees, and billboards: Help the staff turn over so frequent, I wonder about the Wanted. I sometimes wonder if help is quality of the pet care. reallyY wanted, and if so why? For example, an Ital- What do those signs have in common with ian restaurant in a strip mall not too far from my the Club Racing News? I am about to complete home has had a Help Wanted sign in the front my fifth year as editor of this newsletter. As the window for at least end of the year the last 15 years.