VOLUME FIFTY ONE _THREE FROM THE VELOCITY — CONTENTS EDITOR NANCY JAMAR COAST TO COAST, NORTH TO SOUTH... VOLUME FIFTY ONE _THRE The Porsche Owners Club covered alot of Cure Guild, and the fight against juvenile ground in the past couple of months, with diabetes. • Cover to cover, you’ll see stunning members making appearances on both coasts photography from current and new contribu- and hopping north to south for two major tors—the talented Richard Hurtado covered club events in California. Read about Ed the Tribute to Le Mans, along with David Moorlach’s adventures in car acquisition Johnson, Ann Mitchell and Walter Chen, and (like he needs another car!) as he flew to you can read about several other new photo- Florida and Amelia Island’s Councours in graphic contributors in a short spot by Jackie seach of an Edsel. Yes, an Edsel. (Talk about Ginsburg. • Extended Tribute coverage starts going over to the dark side...) • This issue of on page 20, and this issue has some great his- Velocity also features coverage of two signa- torical perspective on Porsche and the Targa ture events for the club, the annual fundrais- Florio. • We welcome a new advertiser and er at Laguna Seca with the Make-A-Wish contributor with Jim Filanc, who provides us ON THE COVER: Tribute to Le Mans 4 Hour Enduro overall winner Blake Rosser Foundation, and the Tribute to Le Mans 4- with a technical article on the aspects and and codriver Shawn Howard. Photo by Richard Hurtado. Hour Enduro at Fontana, which also saw a benefits of nitrous purging.• Sit back and set- new alliance, this one with the Hope for a tle in, it’s a big issue. Letter from the Editor 3 News from Porsche: 911 GT3 RSR 4 Book Review 8 New Product Review: Carbon Fiber Road Wheels 7 Letter from the President 8 Tech Feature: Moisture in Your Tires By James Filanc 11 Instructors Clinic 12 Racers Clinic 14 Tribute to Le Mans 20 Capturing the Spirit 22 Hope for a Cure 24 Historic Feature: 50th Anniversary Porsche Targa Florio Victory 35 MAW/Laguna Seca 40 Amelia Island Concours 48 www.porscheownersclub.org VELOCITY — POC MAGAZINE I 3 I IN THE VELOCITY — INDEX NEWS FROM PORSCHE MOTORSPORT Editor Nancy Jamar More than 250 GT3-R race cars have been taken from the high performance Carrera GT Office: 714/680-8805 [email protected] NEW PORSCHE 911 GT3 RSR SET TO sold since their introduction in 1999 with sports car—contribute to the thermal health many races and championships wins includ- of the engine. Art Director/Designer TAKE OVER ITS SUCCESSFUL PREDECESSOR Alain Jamar ing the 24 Hours of Le Mans, FIA GT, the 24 Office: 714/680-8805 Hours at Daytona, the 12 Hours of Sebring, The Spa racers featured the proven sequential [email protected] as well as six out of seven ALMS six-speed gearbox of the 2006 model but the Editorial Contributors Greg franz Championships. 2007 customer vehicles will be delivered with Martin Schacht a new sequential six-speed transmission fea- Bruce Wells Mike Pons For Porsche and Manthey Racing, the race turing the gears of the RS Spyder. Kevin Reynolds was an important test under race conditions. Kelly Konzelman Jason Wilderding For Spa, the cars were entered in the Group 2 The body shell with the welded-in cage is ten Jackie Ginsburg class where vehicles from the Belcar nation- percent stiffer. Distinctive wheel arches Ed Moorlach al championships are eligible to compete. widen the body by 2” on each side. Printing Porsche customer teams have earned class Lithocraft 1201 North Miller Avenue wins in Spa every year since the GT3 first The relocation of the optional supplementary Anaheim, CA 92806 competed there in 2001—with an overall oil tank, the power steering and the battery to 714/630-3020 victory in 2003. the front improve the weight distribution. Advertising Manager Nancy Jamar Office: 714/680-8805 Designed to compete in most major racing The newly-developed aerodynamic package [email protected] organizations, Porsche decided to build the improves the aerodynamic efficiency by a Contributing Photographers Alain Jamar Ann Mitchell David Johnson Richard Urtado Walter Chen Lucas Luhr, Sascha Maassen, and Marcel Tiemann Velocity magazine is the official publication of the Porsche Owners Club, Inc. and postage is paid at Rounding out an 18 month development program, The cars, driven by factory drivers Timo Bernhard, Marc Anaheim, CA. Subscription rate is $20.00 in the United States and is included in the membership Porsche Motorsport handed two brand new 2007 Lieb and Pedro Lamy in one, and factory pilots Lucas dues of the Club. Porsche 911 GT3 RSR race cars to the Manthay Racing Luhr, Sascha Maassen, and Marcel Tiemann in the other, Articles and/or photos should be mailed to team from Germany to run the 24 Hours of Spa in The ran in a special class as a final test before being offered Velocity, c/o Alain Jamar Design, at 305 N. Harbor Blvd., Suite 101, Fullerton, CA 92832. They must Beautifull Belgium Ardenne Forest. for sale to racing customers. be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped return envelope, and we assume no responsibility for loss or damage there to. Any material accepted is subject to revision as is necessary at our sole discretion to meet requirements of this publication. Sascha Maassen in car All manuscripts and/or material submitted are to be without remuneration except for authorized expenses by prior agreement with the publishers. The act of mailing manuscripts and/or materials is car after analyzing the relevant regulations in total of around seven percent. Airflow to and original and in no way an infringement upon the a specification which allows a minimum from the radiators, the brakes and the engine rights of others. Submission of original material constitutes a perpetual, nonexclusive license for weight of 2465 lbs. and permits the tire width were further optimized. the Porsche Owners Club, Inc. to print and/or to be increased to 14 inches. reproduce in any manner, and for any purpose, said material. The suspension has been revised with The normally-aspirated Porsche engine is optimized struts at the front and multi-link axle For a publication schedule or more information, please contact Nancy Jamar at 7 1 4 - 6 8 0 - 8 8 0 5 . now allowed a capacity of 3.8-litres with two at the rear. The modified kinematics is set up Address change: Please give four weeks notice. 1” air restrictors. The increase in displace- for the wider tire footprint and for the lowest Send an address label from a recent issue or flyer ment was achieved through the enlargement possible camber change in rebound and com- to aid in changing your address. Mail address changes to Porsche Owners Club, Box 727*, of the bore to 4.0” with the unchanged stroke pression. The new ZF-Sachs shock absorbers 14252 Culver Drive, Suite A, Irvine, CA 92604. of 3.” With the mandatory air restrictors, the feature the Through-Rod-System with consid- Telephone: 949-360-6475 unit delivers 485 hp at 8500 rpm. 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Timo Bernhard, Marc Lieb and Pedro Lamy night pit stop I 4 I VELOCITY — POC MAGAZINE PRODUCT — REVIEW STS FOUR AND FIVE by Tom Van Aken CARBON FIBER ROAD WHEELS Wow, was it hot. That is a bit of an under- BY DYMAC statement but, as usual the Short Track Series Events 4 and 5 went absolutely great and without a hitch. I am really felling kind of guilty and I think I speak for my com- padres Marty Mehterian and Bill Bodine that the Short Track Series people are real- ly getting good at this thing and it appears that we go on auto pilot sometimes. I think we are doing something right and everyone is getting it and we are all getting along. Well it was clear and hot with track times being faster in the morning and tires and drivers getting greasy and slippery in the It was only a matter of time until race bred innovations latter part of the day. In fact, the latter part brought the latest in Carbon Fiber technology to the street. That time has arrived. RENNWORX LTD. 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