COMMEMORATING PORSCHE FELLOWSHIP IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION RMR.PCA.ORG ● July 2016 This Month: Ladies’ Day! “Largest Gathering of Porsches” with guest Renee Brinkerhoff! What’s your property worth? Display Advertising Call now for a 2016 market evaluation. Expert team opinion. No fee until you close. The print version of the award-winning Vol. 58, Edition 7 • July 2016 HighGear is mailed to 1,500 households Over 60 transactions worth $29 million in 2015. Loves Porsches. Editor: Asst. Editor: and reaches nearly 2,500 members! Please Russ Rydberg Bill Terry contact the RMR Newsletter Editor to explore promotional possibilities for your business or event in RMR’s magazine: Features [email protected] • 720.260.9462 11 Show us your Car! 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HighGear is produced at 1155 Ash St., Denver, CO, 80220. 2 JULY 2016 3 Monthly board meetings are always open to club members. See the list of upcoming events for schedule. You may contact the Region Coordinators entire board at [email protected]. To volunteer to be Get To The Track an RMR Board member, submit your intent by September so the CAMA Representative Nomination Committee can add you to the ballot in November for Keith Hall RMR-PCA, SCCA Walt Fricke: 303.499.6540, [email protected] club voting in November. Most positions are two-year terms. Charity/Good Works Florence Mackin: [email protected] AN OPEN INVITATION to all PCA Club Racing Details: http://www.coloradoscca.org/spb.php Chief Driving Instructor participants in the SPEC BOXSTER class Keith Hall RMR-PCA, SCCA Dan H. Carlson: 303.520.4567, [email protected] President [email protected] John Mackin Mike Quigley RMR-PCA, SCCA Control Chief [email protected] You are invited to join the Colorado Region SCCA in our [email protected] George Strimbu: 303.736.9114, [email protected] new SPB Class for our 2016 regional race season. Because of Equipment the large number of really enthusiastic PCA Club Racing SPB Keith Hall: 303.940.7958, [email protected] racers in the Rocky Mountain Region, we have formed a brand- Goodie Store Chair new SCCA SPB class just for you! Well - OK, it is for everyone Mike Hebert: 360.202.5830, [email protected] Vice President but what we actually have done, and this is really cool, is that we have imported the PCA Club Racing SPB rules word for word just Historian Rick Seiferth [email protected] for the SPB class. That means if your Spec Boxster is 2016 PCA Amy Legg-Rogers: 970.686.0538, [email protected] CR legal it can race with us without modification. That goes for Insurance the driver, too. Show up, present your PCA log book and your Troy Nakatani: 720.402.1080, [email protected] competition license, and race. The point of all this is that you can Programs/Socials use these SCCA regional races to train for the big Club Race in Erik Behrendsen: 303.840.7361, [email protected] September. You don't have to tow for two days to get some serious Registration Second racing in anymore. When the big dogs from Texas show up at HPR Nancy Warren: 303.604.1289, [email protected] Vice President in September you will be ready. Safety Jim Thorburn Scott Henderson: 303.521.9007, [email protected] [email protected] The SPB Class will be available for your personal Tech Inspection use on these dates in 2016: Hank Padilla: 303.470.1850, [email protected] July 23-24 at PMP Timing Treasurer Aug 20-21 at HPR Doug Bartlett: 970.214.7279, [email protected] Blair Whitaker Webmaster [email protected] Scott Rogers: 970.686.0538, [email protected] Zone 9 Representative Liz Shaw: 505.231.7003, [email protected] TechnicalTechnical Resources Secretary Mark Taylor 356 [email protected] Jim Kellogg: 303.840.2356, [email protected] 911 Dave Stribling: 303.238.8101, [email protected] 912 Rob Heath: 303.995.1147, [email protected] Membership Chair Holly Jackson 914 [email protected] Dale Tuety: 303.670.1279, [email protected] 924 Dan Semborski: 303.420.2708, [email protected] 928 Volunteer to be the RMR 928 specialist and help others! Newsletter Editor 944 Russ Rydberg Richard Winnick: 303.429.5213, [email protected] [email protected] 968 Zach Schroeder: 970.229.0990, [email protected] Boxster/Cayman Doug Bartlett: 970.214.7279, [email protected] Past President Cayenne Jim Widrig Zach Schroeder: 970.229.0990, [email protected] [email protected] GT2,4 GT3, Cup Cars JULY 2016 5 Chris Cervelli: 303.809.6173, [email protected] DIRECTORS OF BOARD RMR-PCA Pres Presidential Thoughts John Mackin, President THIS MONTH THE DE SEASON continued in full swing with the June DE. It was a hot day at the track with good attendance. On Saturday we had the Mark Taylor and Erik Behrendsen’s tour bring about 20 cars from the Breakfast Club breakfast to High Plains Raceway for some lunchtime parade laps. We hope this will help bring more track addicts to our ranks. Thanks to event chairs Brian Sulley and Art Van Dyke for organizing a great DE event and all the volunteers for helping make it happen. On June 6th the annual Ability Connection charity Concours was held at Arapahoe Community College. I heard that there were almost New to RMR-PCA? 500 cars on display. I counted over 20 356’s and about 40 “newer” Porsche’s on display. I am always amazed at the array of automobiles Page 37 describes the various types that are entered in the event – in addition to the Porsches. Thanks to of activities our club members Jerry Medina for organizing the judging. regularly enjoy. Come to our next event and get involved! The deadline for this month’s newsletter is a little early and it finds me en route to Parade. We are doing it in four days and Tours, Rallies, Autocrosses, travelling through Canada north of Lake Ontario – according to my mapping programs it is the shortest route. I found out that Toronto can Driver Education Events, have traffic jams as bad as any in the U.S. Tomorrow we arrive in Jay Club Races, Car Shows, Peak a couple of days in advance of Parade. Socials and Gatherings, On June 25th there will be a Northern Colorado social at Poudre Charity Support and more! Sports Cars in Fort Collins. This is a great opportunity for those north of the Denver area who find it difficult to make our other socials, to get together with other Porsche enthusiasts. Thanks to Poudre for putting this on. Our May autocross which was cancelled due to weather has been rescheduled to June 25th as well. While it is unfortunate that it is the same day as the Poudre event, airport availability drove that date. And don’t forget we have Ladies Day coming up on July 10th. Event chairs Lisa Hunsicker and Luann Dodge have been busy for months planning this event. Ladies are encouraged to come out to this low pressure, less intimidating track to improve their driving skills and experience the full performance of their Porsches. JULY 2016 7 Pres Members’ Corral May New Members Holly Jackson, Membership Chair Jim Altmix, Park, 2011 Cayman S Jason Robarge, Denver, 2014 Cayman John Baur, Boulder, 2002 Boxster S Martin Russell, Castle Rock, 2014 911 Carrera DRIVING SEASON is in full swing! We have all sorts at Rennstall.