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THE July 2018 CircuitA publication of the Grand Prix Region of the Porsche Club of America The Circuit June 2018 GPX BOARD OF DIRECTORS GPX CHAIRS GRAND PRIX REGION & 15 Mon GPX Day Away from Work DE CDHC Liason - Chuck Weaver CONTENTS 21 Sun F1, Austin ZONE 8 CLUB CALENDAR President [email protected] (562) 430-3010 21 Sun SGVR Zone 8 Concours Jeff Peck 26-28 F-Sun PCA Club Race, Daytona International Speedway (310) 345-8081 Chief Driving Instructor - Dave Hockett 2 Grand Prix Region & Zone 8 Calendar 28 Sun F1, Mexico City [email protected] (909) 518-0415 July 2018 [email protected] 28 Sun SGVR Concours 3 Masthead page: Table of Contents 1 Sun F1, Spielberg Circuit Editor- Skip Carter 7 Sat GPX Breakfast at Glory Days Beachside Grill Vice President [email protected] (619) 992-9927 Board of Directors & Chairs 7 Sat GPX Porsche Effect Exhibit & Museum at the November 2018 Alan Johnson Circuit Co-Editor - Charlie Carchedi Petersen Auto Museum 3 Sat GPX Breakfast at Glory Days Beachside Grill (562) 431-7905 4 From The President's Desk AlanTheInspector@ [email protected] (617) 365-4347 8 Sun F1, Silverstone 3 Sat GPX Board Meeting following breakfast 5 Editorial License 8-14 PCA Parade, Lake of the Ozarks,MO 3 Sat CCC Autocross, Santa Maria Airport verizon.net Circuit Distribution - Albert Franco Tan-Tar-A Resort 3 Sat AZR Zone 8 Concours, Phoenix [email protected] (310) 379-8987 On the Cover 10-11 S-Sun PCA Club Race, Buttonwillow 13-15 F-Sun PCA Club Race, Monticello Motor Club Secretary 11 Sun F1, Sao Paulo, Brazil Concours - Linda Cobarrubias 6 GPX July 7 Peterson Porsche Effect Tour 22 Sun F1, Hockenheim, Germany Marty Goldsmith [email protected] (310) 990-0993 28 Sat CCC Autocross, Santa Maria Airport 27 Sun F1, Yas Marina, Abu Dhabi (562) 494-6350 8 GPX New Member BBQ flyer - August 4 28-29 S-Sun PCA Club Race, Brainerd International Speedway [email protected] Flag Team - Bob & Karen Lewis 29 Sun F1, Budapest, Hungary [email protected] (562) 756-8520 10 GPX Planes of Fame Tour flyer-August 11 December 2018 1 Sat GPX Breakfast at Glory Days Beachside Grill Fundraising Co-chair- Patty Reilly 12 Linda Cobarrubias Treasure Box August 2018 1 Sat GPX Board Meeting following breakfast Treasurer [email protected] (714) 402-2405 4 Sat GPX Breakfast at Glory Days Beachside Grill 15 Sat GPX Holiday Party Long Beach Yacht Club Linda Cobarrubias 14 SDR September 8 Zone 8 Concours flyer 4 Sat GPX Board Meeting following breakfast (310) 990-0993 Fundraising Co-chair- Chamaine Rood [email protected] (626) 393-8881 1 GPX Concours d'Elegance report 4 Sat GPX New Member FREE BBQ in 2019 [email protected] Huntington Harbor May 15-18 Treffen High Desert Goodie Store - Ludmila Osipova 17 GPX Name Badge order information 3-5 F-Sun PCA Club Race, Canadian Tire Motorsports Park Sunriver Resort, Bend, Oregon [email protected] (424) 279-0069 11 Sat GPX Azusa to thePlanes of Fame Museum, Member at Large 24 June Breakfast Club Meeting Tour and Lunch Insurance - Ron Shanon July 21-27 64th Porsche Parade Dave Hockett 18-19 S-Sun Monterey Pre Reunion [email protected] (310) 375-9840 27 Wolf Mountain Sancturary Report Boca Raton Resort, Florida (909) 518-0415 17-19 F-Sun PCA Club Race, New Jersey Motorsports Park [email protected] Membership - Patty Reilly 29 Book Review: Magnus Walker 23-26 F-Sun Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion [email protected] (714) 402-2405 26 Sun Pebble Beach Concours 30 Classified Ads Performance Driving Events - Skip Carter 26 Sun F1, Spa-Francorchamps Member at Large [email protected] (619) 992-9927 30 Porsche Alley Cone Zone Jimmie Mitchell September 2018 (310) 539-2568 Registration - Colleen Stein 31 Index of Advertisers 1 Sat GPX Breakfast at Glory Days Beachside Grill [email protected] [email protected] (661) 714-3030 1 Sat GPX Board Meeting following breakfast Breakfast Club Notice 1-3 F-Sun PCA Club Race, Road America Safety - Nick Perdikaris [email protected] (310) 901-8154 2 Sun F1, Monza Member at Commercial Advertising Rates 8 Sat SDR Zone 8 Concours, Spanish Landing Large Skip Carter Social Events- 8-9 S-Sun PCA Club Race, Thunderhill Raceway Susan Moard & Arturo Chaparro 14-16 F-Sun PCA Club Race, High Plains Raceway (619) 992-9927 [email protected] (626) 705-8686 SkipCarter@ 12-16 W-Sun PCA Treffen, Banff, Fairmont Resort [email protected] (323) 633-7915 15 Sat GPX Angeles Crest Tour. La Canada to Past President Social Media - John Kunkle Wrightwood. Lunch at Grizzly Cafe [email protected] (562) 552-0960 INFORMATION 15 Sat CCC Autocross, Santa Maria Airport Suesan Carter (619) 992-4287 GPX GrandPrixRegion.com 16 Sun F1, Singapore Tech Inspection - Dan Hockett 21-23 F-Sun PCA Club Race, Summit Point Motorsports Park Suesan@pobox. [email protected] (909) 921-5596 Zone 8 Zone8.org com 22 Sat Santa Barbara Region AX Technical Adviser - Michael Dolphin PCA National PCA.org 23 Sun LAR Concours [email protected] (213) 248-4743 PCNA US.Porsche.com/national 27-30 Th-Sun Porsche Rennsport Reunion VI, Laguna Seca ZONE 8 REPRESENTATIVE Porsche AG Porsche.com 27-30 F-Sun PCA Club Race, Laguna Seca Tours - Alan Johnson [email protected] (562) 305-8002 29 Sat Porsche Timeline, Arrowhead, Riverside Region David Witteried GPX Landing Page — MotorsportReg 30 Sun F1, Sochi, Russia (760) 373-1413 Webmaster - Jimmie Mitchell http://pcagpx.MotorsportReg.com [email protected] [email protected] (310) 539-2568 October 2018 6 Sat GPX Breakfast at Glory Days Beachside Grill EDITORIAL POLICY: THE CIRCUIT is the official publication of the GRAND PRIX REGION of the 6 Sat GPX Board Meeting following breakfast PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA. Statements appearing in THE CIRCUIT are those of the author and 6-7 S-Sun PCA Club Race, Hallett Motor Racing Circuit are not necessarily the opinions of the CLUB or its editorial staff. The Editor reserves the right to edit 7 Sun F1, Suzuka, Japan all material submitted for publication. Permission to reprint any material herein is granted providing full 13-14 S-Sun San Diego Region DE/TT, Chuckwalla credit is given to the authors and THE CIRCUIT, with the exception of copyrighted material. 14 Sat SBR Zone 8 Concours 14 Sun PCA DE Instructor Training, Streets ADDRESS CHANGE: Please notify GPX Membership Chair and PCA (PO Box 5900, Springfield, VA 22150 or [email protected] ) of any address, email, phone or membership status changes. 2 3 The Circuit June 2018 From The President's Desk Skip Carter 2017 Zone 8 Region of the Year ake of the Ozarks? Pardon my ignorance, but I never Lheard of it until it was announced to be the site of the tion. However, I learned last year, that being a volunteer no Now, this is how I like my monthly column, short and sweet. Germany visiting places like THE PORSCHE FACTORY 2018 Porsche Parade. Osage Beach, Missouri? Never on my matter what you do, is part of the experience, and is a lot of Charlie and I have managed to get the Circuit to the printer and MUSEUM (neither of which have I been to yet). There radar. The Mid-West in the middle of the summer? I never fun. You get to meet many Porsche people from around the early this month (OK, if it was up to Charlie, we'd be this is certainly a lot going on (just look at our upcoming events thought about it. country and be an integral part of making the event success- early every month). Both of us have trips planned. Suesan on the calendar). We could use some volunteer help in a So, on July 4th, 2018 I’m starting my road trip, with two ful. We couldn’t do it without Volunteers. and I will be at Parade, while Charlie and Kathy will be in couple of areas (see the two notes below). Next, we had to pick a route to Missouri, and a route other GPX members, to this year’s 63rd Porsche Parade in Sleazy Dog Construction the resort town of Osage Beach, Missouri. Four days, and home, so we could secure our rooms while on the road. This 1700+ miles later, we’ll be arriving at the Tan-Tar-A Resort, year our route to Parade takes us through Arizona, Texas, GOODIE STORE HELP NEEDED ADVERTISING HELP NEEDED then Missouri. The return trip takes us through Missouri, site of this year’s Porsche Parade. Our wonderful Goodie Store chair for the WE NEED SOMEONE TO HELP DOING Kansas, Colorado, (the Four Corners – Colorado, New It does take quite a bit of planning. For last year’s Parade, last several years, Ludmilla Osipova, is FOLLOWUP WITH ADVERTISERS AND TO we had a small caravan of GPX members consisting of six Mexico, Utah, Arizona) then home to California. retiring from that position SPEAK WITH POTENTIAL ADVERTISERS cars driving to Spokane, about 1300 miles in 3 days. This I had such a great time at my first Parade last year, that I FOR THE CIRCUIT year the extra mileage is adding a day to our road trip. As of decided then that I wasn’t going to miss this one. I love the IF THIS IS SOMETHING YOU MIGHT BE this writing, we’ve got three cars in our small caravan of GPX road trip with my friends, the week at Parade is loaded with INTERESTED IN HELPING WITH, members. things to do, and even the drive home via a different route IF THIS IS SOMETHING YOU MIGHT BE First, just signing up for Parade takes some serious coor- makes it that much more interesting.