CENTRAL INDIANA REGION • PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA october 2020 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE PORSCHE AT INDY 500 PORSCHE TRACK EXPERIENCE CIR/PCA SIM RACING LEAGUE LEMONADE 10,000 AROUND THE ZONE 2021 ELECTION BALLOT 2020 BOARD OF DIRECTORS & CHAIRPERSONS PRESIDENT SAFTEY CHAIRPERSON Rob Fike* veryone knows that it’s been a really screwy [email protected] year. So many people are impacted in so VICE PRESIDENT many bad ways. Pete Walker* [email protected] Spending so much time quarantined at home, having SECRETARY to be a teacher when you have no training to be Jim Legault* one, teaching the kids and working a fulltime job. Just crazy! [email protected] TREASURER Now depression, anxiety, sadness, and many other mental ailments are Owen Pruden* becoming rampant. [email protected] MEMBERSHIP CHAIRPERSON Judy and I are blessed that we’re retired. But that doesn’t mean we’re CIRPCA HISTORIAN immune to all of this. Bob Snider* [email protected] So…in an effort to keep sane, and increase our enjoyment of life, we ACTIVITIES CHAIRPERSON bought another car! Cindy McDaniel* [email protected] I know, crazy right? PAST PRESIDENT Rebecca Pintol* Well here’s the deal. I quit racing in 2011, CIRCULAR EDITOR/DESIGNER and on-track instructing in 2016. Judy had Pam Clarino a beautiful bright yellow MGB years ago [email protected] that she loved. So, I found a 2002 Mazda CIRCULAR EDITOR/PHOTOGRAPHER Larry Clarino* Miata. Bright yellow. I can drive it on the [email protected] track, and Judy can relive having her MG. WEBMASTER WIN-WIN! David Weaver [email protected] The point of this is finding a way to break away from all the badness and PUTNAM PARK DE CHAIRPERSON noise. Not everyone is going to go out and buy a car, but there are many DE REGISTRAR ways to do more things that increase your happiness! Mark Westlake* CHIEF DRIVING INSTRUCTOR For me it’s driving. For Judy it’s having a way to relive something she Doug DeArmond had when she was much younger. Chief of Tech for DE Dave Jankowski No matter what makes you happy, do it! We had a magnet on our FORT WAYNE ACTIVITIES COORDINATOR refrigerator for years that said “Life is short, eat desert first.” Jimmy Arata* Go find your desert! MEMBER AT LARGE Randy Faunce* Have a happy October everyone. MEMBER AT LARGE Amanda Brown* ZONE 4 REPRESENTATIVE Lori Schutz [email protected] *Denotes Voting Board Member ROB FIKE • CIRCPA, PRESIDENT 2020 FALL CIRCULAR 2 13 2 President’s Message 10 2 Officers & Board Members 4 Editor’s Note 5 CIR Ballot for Treasurer 5 Honorable Mention Award 8 Events Calendar 19 9 New Members 10 Porsche at Indianapolis 500 (part 2) 13 Porsche Track Experience 17 Focus on Keith Morgan 18 The Perfect Lap 22 19 Back to Fun Driving Tour 21 Doing to the Dogs Driving Tour 22 Around the Zone 25 Book Review 27 Ecurie Power for Porsche 28 Sims Racing League 29 Tech Tips 30 Lemonade 10,000 31 Porsche Motorsports Pyramid 25 PHOTOGRAPHY: Cover: Porsche Track Experience at Barber/courtsey of PTX Indy 500/Tom Beeler &Champion Porsche Porsche Track Experience/PTX & Larry Clarino 31 Focus on Morgan/Larry Clarino Back to Fun Driving Tour/Larry Clarino Going to the Dogs/Randy Faunce Around the Zone: Lori Schutz. Ecurie Power/SVRA Lemonade/Tow Wood & Larry Clarino Porsche Pyrmid/Porsche Cars NA 2020 FALL CIRCULAR 3 We hope to do some stories in future issues on the notable oing into our ninth month under COVID, a new normal, aircraft in the Tom Wood the CIR along with guidance of the PCA is figuring collection. out how to do things. By the time you read this our This issue of CIRcular sees Tom Pumpkin Run at Putnam Park will have been about to be Beeler’s second part of his run or perhaps has been run. We will be one of the few Porsche’s at the Indy 500 Series, High Performance Driver Education (HPDE) events able as well as a story on the Porsche to have in-car instructors for our beginner students and Motorsports Pyramid system from Tom Moore. Moore is we are doing a HPDE instructor training day to boot. Be consultant with Porsche Cars North America in Motorsport assured we are doing all we can keep everyone safe while Public Relations. You may run into him at most any of the still trying to maintain some semblance of what we as a events Porsche Cars NA is involved with. club, are all about. Another feature story is my piece on the Porsche Track We also, have had a few drives under very strict safety Experience at Birmingham, Alabama. Porsche supports one guidance. Keep checking the CIR website for upcoming of the best driving/racing schools anywhere. events. https://cirpca.org One of our goals with the new CIRcular is to bring more In this issue of the CIRcular we are announcing the Holiday general interest as well as local stories to your attention. party is being combined with the CIR’s Annual meeting. Please send a note to us at [email protected] That is where we will announce our new treasurer for and let us know your thoughts and comments. 2021-22, the only open board position this year and also have the Annual White Elephant Gift Exchange. The big Better yet! How about let us know what you would like to news; it will be held at the Tom Wood Aviation Hanger, at see or even write an article for your newsletter. Contact us the Indianapolis Metropolitan Airport, in Fishers, Indiana, at; [email protected] on Saturday, December 5th. That is going to be a great space to gather and be able to socially-distance. It is also home to some of the coolest vintage warbird aircraft in the country. eggie’s Motorworks, your Noblesville Euro car/Porsche specialist, and CIR-PCA sponsor, has expanded and created a new facility to service the other cars that you, ahem…ah, “your neighbor”…has in their garage. Reggie Stewart, says “This expansion with Noble Auto Service, is due to overwhelming requests from European car owners who either own other non-European vehicles, or have friends and family members who are looking for a higher level of service for their cars. This expansion has been in the planning stages for over two years.” So, why 2020? It doesn’t seem like the ideal year to be starting a new venture. Well, for one, the ball was in motion well before COVID-19 hit. Secondly, the pandemic pushed a handful of other local shop owners into retirement. Reggie found that this further expanded a gap in the Noblesville area auto service market. Dealerships and nationally branded chain stores facilitate the majority of auto repair in this area. There are only a select few independent garages, and within those, almost none that are on the cutting edge of technology and service. This is where Noble fits in. They combine old-fashioned ethics, customer convenience, technology, and training. They then back all of their work with a nationwide 3-year 36,000-mile warranty. Dealer-level service for ANY car, a better warranty, and a more client-focused, hometown feel. Noble Auto Service, 317-733-5009 • 1372 S. 10th Street, Noblesville, IN 46060. 2020 FALL CIRCULAR 4 2021 CIR Officer/Board Position Voting This year we will be voting for only the CIR’s treasurer position. The Nominating Committee has put forth Greg Brown as the nominee for the two-year term to begin in January of 2021. Please vote and return your ballot as soon as possible. Pete Walker: CIR; VP and Chair of the 2021 Nominating Committee. # Central Indiana Region Porsche Club of America Ballot for Election of 2021 Officers and 2021 Election Notice (Vote for only one candidate for each position) Treasurer: Greg Brown ● Active or Associate Member’s Vote (Primary Member): Yes ______ No _______ ● Family-Active, Family-Associate or Affiliate Member’s Vote: (Co-Member) Yes ______ No _______ Write-in: Candidate name:___________________________________________ ● Active or Associate Member’s Name (Please Print): ________________________________________ (Primary Member) Active or Associate Member’s PCA Membership No.: ________________________________________ (on PCA Membership Card Active or Associate Member’s Signature: _________________________________________________ ● Family-Active, Family Associate or Affiliate Member’s Name (Co-Member): (Please Print) _____________________________________________________________________ Family-Active, Family Associate or Affiliate Member’s PCA Membership No.: ____________________________________________________________ (on PCA Membership Card) Family-Active, Family Associate or Affiliate Member’s Signature: _______________________________________________ Please mail filled-out Election Ballot by November 1, 2019 to: James Legault 6021 Wexford Rd Indianapolis, IN 46220 # Thank you for voting! hanks to the efforts of immediate Past President, Rebecca Pinto for submitting our Central Indiana Region’s philanthropic program to the National Porsche Club of America. Our group has been recognized with an Honorable Mention Award for 2019. This is no small matter, as it puts our club in the top seven in the nation. Some of the things our organization participated in were the shipping of 600 Christmas Stockings for Indiana National Guard troops on deployment in Kuwait, along with our charity support of Speedway (Indiana) Animal Rescue, the Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital, and our support of the Alzheimer’s Association through CruZionsville and Porsche Palooza. This year we have been contributing to several food banks in Indiana to help with the massive need due to the COVID virus. As always, a big thank you to each of you for supporting your club and all the work we do.