MID–OHIO REGION PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA July 2012 The Open Road Third Thursdays Return! 2 July 2012 Region Porsche Club of America Support Our Advertisers Contents The Friction Circle.............................................................5 Aase Sales........................................................24 The Board................................................................................6 Acceleration ................................................. BC The Editor’s Garage....................................................................7 Auto Assets ................................................. IFC Autobahn Extremist .......................................25 Third Thursday’s New Season.....................................................8 Byers Imports...................................................4 Rally for the Ranch......................................................................9 C.A. Gossard & Co. .......................................31 Custom Cabs & Trailers .................................29 MORPCA PLATZ at Mid-Ohio...............................................10 Debbie Bower..................................................27 Mid-Ohio Schedule.................................................................11 EPR Automotive ............................................28 Into the Wood ................................................31 Charity Report.........................................................................12 Kraftwerks......................................................26 P2O...........................................................................................13 Market Mortage Co., LTD..............................31 Midwestern Auto Group................................34 In the Zone................................................................................14 Truechoice Motorsports/PAP Parts...............28 Super Weekend at the Brickyard...............................................15 Richter Financial Group & Motorsports.. .....26 Rock’s Trailer Sales .......................................24 August Madness @Mid-Ohio..................................................16 Saribalas Clinic...............................................31 Club Race Volunteer Information...........................................17 Wana Cruise....................................................31 Welsh Hills Inn...............................................27 Arthritis Foundations Car Show..............................................18 Putnam Park DE.......................................................................19 Autocross Report.....................................................................20 ADVERTISING RATES 2012 Auto-X Schedule..............................................................21 Annual rates. (First insertion requires prepayment) 918 Spyder Prototypes Commence Trials................................22 Body of Newsletter: Board Minutes..........................................................................23 Full Page (8 x 10)............. ...................................$550 Half Page (8 x 5)........................................ .........$325 Honda Teen Defensive Driving Program................................24 Quarter Page (4 x 5) ...........................................$175 2012 Porsche Parade.................................................................29 Business Cards (2 x 3) ........................................$ 90 Front Inside & Back Cover (1/2 page).............$425 MOR Marketplace...................................................................30 Front Inside Cover (full page) ..........................$600 Anniversaries...............................................................32 Deadline for copy is the 10th of the Membership Update................................................................33 month for the next month’s issue. Calendar of Events.................................................................IBC Material from may be reprinted (except for ads) provided proper credit is given to the author and the source. Copy is the responsibility of the advertiser Cover Photo: Bill Slone and must be correctly sized to fit ad space. 3 4 July 2012 The Friction Circle by John Brandt, President It has been quite a run the last few weeks with DE, Autocross, One thing new that came up at the board meeting is the and social events. Our “MORPCAPLATZ” club tent at the announcement of the Rahal car show at Easton on wed Aug 1st Grand-Am was well received and all who came were impressed which is the week of the big ALMS and Indy doubleheader at by how much access we get at the races. We were treated to Mid-Ohio... This show is for the benefit of the Buckeye Ranch garage tours from both the Rum-Bum team who switched to which is a local organization that serves troubled youths. The Porsche from BMW this year, and the Brumos operation whose show is going to be really interesting- Expect to see only the drivers Andrew Davis and Leh Keen treated our group like old most highly significant and collectible racing and sports cars. friends. Many of our troops got to go for rides in the BMW Our guests, Roy Rushing, gave us a glimpse of a few of the performance school cars for a drifting exhibition lap- What cars in the show, and let’s just say it was remarkable how many a wild ride! Every turn the car is completely sideways! I had cars in the semi-local area have Le Mans history. This event doubts they would stay on the pavement but all did! as mentioned is the Wednesday of the Race so the drivers can attend. A second MORPCAPLATZ is likely in store at the Nelson Ledges was exciting, too (and for a few of us, too track since Porsche Cars NA seems not to be inclined to host exciting). We had three perfect days of track driving and PORSCHEPLATZ. I think we can handle it just fine on our own socializing. Porsche of Beachwood provided a fantastic catered though! meal for all the participants. The weekend turnout was the best-ever, and it was great to see so many under a big tent at the Between all of the fun this spring and summer, I’ve managed track. Everybody got home safely from Nelson, but one of our to squeeze in some extra fun at the Kart racing track down in members brought home 98% of a foul-mouthed parrot. Circleville with my son, Willy. We go there on non racing days for fun and seat time. On our third trip or so, he talked me into If you have not signed up to attend P2O this year in Granville, renting a kart so that we could run together. I figured it would make sure that you get on with it and go! This year’s P2O is be educational for him as a “lead-follow” exercise....Well, guess going to be a winner! We are already on track for a record who got the education? Simply put, he just drove away from event and the town of Granville will be a super location. The me. Yes, there a big disparity in weight, and he has a better Kart, layout is going to be a bit more compact than it was in Oxford but Willy has absorbed a lot of theory and clearly knows how to which we think will make the party even more festive. The host execute it. I appreciated that he was nice enough several times hotel is the Cherry Valley lodge, which is big enough to house to slow down and let the old-timer catch up. It is an intense practically everyone who comes, and this year we have shuttle experience and you need to be thinking way, way ahead to keep service to and from the event site courtesy of Byers, so you up with what’s happening. No wonder so many pro drivers run can get back and forth from the party in town as you wish- or karts to keep themselves in tune. Try it sometime- seriously. perhaps allow a significant other to sleep in and arrive in town after a leisurely morning of swimming or, golf. As you can see, things have definitely Heated Up! So make plans to come out for some MORPCA activities....See you out there! Our Club Race and Driver’s Ed is also coming up soon so make I’ll try to bring the parrot to something during my 2% of the plans to get to the track August 17th through 19th. The DE is year. primarily for advanced drivers, but we are still hoping to find a way to include an intermediate skill, instructed group in the mix to allow more of our local club people to have access to this prime weekend. More details on that later... 5 The Board Elected Officers PRESIDENT * VICE PRESIDENT * TREASURER * SECRETARY * John Brandt Michael Stoner Kevin Hennessy Betsy MacDonell 3042 Crescent Drive 4200 Dublin Rd. 716 Curve Rd. 320 Medick Way Columbus, OH 43204 Columbus, OH 43221 Delaware, OH 43015 Worthington, Ohio 43085 (614) 275-1744 (614) 777-8751 (740) 369-1595 (614) 885-8413 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Standing Committees NEWSLETTER EDITOR * MEMBERSHIP * ACTIVITIES * DRIVING EVENTS * Bill Slone Trina Allison Gerhard Hillmann Frank Todaro 690 Tami Sue Ct. 4171 Bidle Ct. 121 S. State Street 7325 Macbeth Drive Westerville, OH 43082 Dublin, OH 43016 Westerville, OH 43081 Dublin, OH 43016 (614) 890-6388 (614) 507-2016 (614) 206-1833 (614) 620-9288 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] TECHNICAL * CHARITY * WEBMEISTER * PAST PRESIDENT * Jeff Brubaker Jet Hawthorne Brian Peterson David Hayden 4797 Twp Rd #213 332 Highgate 4249 Edgehill Dr. 7392 Preston Rd NE Marengo, OH 43334 Worthington, OH 43085 Columbus, Ohio 43220 Newark, OH 43055 (610) 299-4443 (614) 309-9645 (614) 354-9020 (740) 745-2034 [email protected] [email protected]