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region contacts
the president’s take
member spotlight
runoff area
how we roll
in the zone
advertiser index
on the cover
Loren Beggs (foreground) and
Michael Zuieback were part of the
Gold Class grid for the Pirelli GT3
Cup Trophy West race preceding
the “main event” Formula One race
in Austin, Texas. More on page 6.
(photo courtesy Debra Barton)
events
upcoming events
report from 2012 pca escape
58th annual porsche parade
porsches & pancakes fall tour
wrap-up
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region contacts
officers
president
Will Crowther
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vice president
Gus Stribakos
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committee chairs
n autocross
[email protected]
n driver education
n historian
n membership
secretary
Zana Anderson
[email protected]
n race liaison
n rules & safety
treasurer
Ed Mineau
[email protected]
past president
Doug Turnquist
[email protected]
n socials
official web site
www.irpca.org
google groups
groups.google.com/group/irpca
facebook
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Otto Silva
[email protected]
Gail Chase
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Kay Koellner
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Ed Mineau
[email protected]
Cory Woolson
[email protected]
Kay Terry
Bart Blackstock
[email protected]
n tours
Zana Anderson
Will Crowther
[email protected]
n web site
getting connected
Rodney Salm
Richard Aupperle
Roger Bird
Debbie Roque
Louis Hogge
[email protected]
n zeitung editor
Jeremy Rosenberger
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Liz Shaw
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All IRPCA officers may be contacted using the single
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IRPCA board (officers plus committee chairs) at
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printing by
Salt Lake City, UT
the president’s take
Will Crowther, President
Jeremy Rosenberger
a summer social to run as part
It’s time to get the 2013 planning for our Interof our Amazing Rally in June or
mountain Region done. Not that we haven’t been
July, and the Christmas Social in
talking about it already, but it’s time to formally sit
down with the Board and try to finalize at least most late November or early December. Once again, look for the
of this coming year’s schedule. Club Racing events
Web site to display the informaat Miller Motorsports Park are already known and
tion once it is finalized. Also look
available on our Web site, www.irpca.org . These
for our first “Porschegram” of the year in your mailprograms should bring needed funds to our Club
boxes sometime within the next month. We’ll print
this year, as they do nearly every year, to provide
as much of our 2013 schedule as is known and send
a solid basis for our commitments to future events
it to you in a convenient stick-it-on-your-fridge size
at this great track and beautiful venue. Our threefor easy reference. The Porscheday DE and Racing weekend at
gram should include all of our
MMP moves back to the fall this
events for the year, though some
year, which will bring forward to
may have place and time yet to
the summer our fourth annual
We will all have good
be determined. (And of course,
Amazing Rally.
times, make wonderful
Zeitung will always have details
Our Autocross series saw solid
of upcoming events —Ed.)
support last year, with many new
memories and enjoy
We had a dozen cars participeople bringing their cars out for
both old friends and
pate in a quickly-planned event
their first-ever competitive event.
in Park City in August of 2012—
Autocross is often where owners
new ones again this
the first Intermountain Porsche
get their initial taste of competyear in IRPCA.
Concours d’Elegance. The
ing with their Porsches. It can
Concours was held in conjuncbe seen as a training ground of
tion with the Kimball Park City
sorts for future HPDE and Club
Arts Festival. We were invited to
Race participants, although you
bring out a limited field of Porsches to fit on a small
certainly can come to watch or participate without
space just off Main Street in Park City. I am hoping
ever planning on that. The Autocross series for 2013
we can again have that event, probably as part of the
is in the process of being finalized as I write this.
Keep your eyes on www.irpca.org for details as soon Arts Festival and perhaps with a bigger venue which
would allow us to show a bigger field of cars. We
as they’re known.
will have more time to plan this event for 2013.
Our favorite events in terms of turn-out each year
There will, of course, be driving Tours in 2013,
are our Socials. This year’s schedule will include, as
including one or two multi-day ones among a five- or
a minimum, an opening social sometime in March,
six-Tour schedule. Our overnight
Jackson, Wyoming Tour has been
a lot fun in past years, regardless of
how many or how few cars came
out. Last year’s day Tours averaged
twelve to fifteen cars each, and
about twice that many enthusiastic
members. That’s a good showing
and one that we hope to repeat
this year.
We will all have good times,
make wonderful memories and enjoy both old friends and new ones
again this year in Intermountain
Region Porsche Club of America—
at our Socials, on Tours around our
Porsche roads here in the West,
and on track events both small and
large. We’d love to see you all out
During the annual PCA Zone 9 meeting, held this year in Amarillo, Texas,
there! Thank you for everything
Will takes advantage of some downtime to check out the world-renowned
you give to IRPCA. It really is not
art installation at the Cadillac Ranch.
just the cars, it’s the people.
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upcoming events
Your IRPCA board of directors is
working diligently on an exciting
2013 calendar of events, including
socials, driver education events, a
full season of autocrossing, and
much more. Watch this space as
well as the Web site for details!
Now is also an excellent time to
get more involved with your club
by volunteering to help out with
event planning! Contact any of the
board members (see page 2 for
contact info) to learn more.
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Sat6/15Driver Education
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Sun6/23 Porsche Parade
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Fri9/20Driver Education and Club Race
-Sun9/22 at Miller Motorsports Park, full track
PCA and Porsche Owners Club
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Thu10/24PCA Escape
-Sun10/27 Los Angeles area, California
escape2013.pca.org
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Jeremy Rosenberger, Editor
revealed one such change that
I have to admit, I’m still getting used to the
is already in the works: a shift to
“rhythm” of a bi-monthly magazine. Coming from
Rocky Mountain Region’s High Gear, which was pub- a “full page” format (that is, the
lished monthly, when I first joined Zeitung it seemed familiar 8.5x11” format used by
almost like a vacation to produce an issue only every so many popular magazines).
If you’ve ever given it any
other month (well, more or less, anyway). Although a
thought, you’ve probably
monthly publication was twice as much work, it felt
guessed that Zeitung’s choice
like there was a certain cadence
of trim size­—within 1/8” of
from one issue to the next, espePanorama’s—is no coincidence.
cially during the “high season”
you’d be correct. The initial
when there were so many
It’s my goal to eventually And
choice to use a smaller-thanevents to report about. And even
standard format for Zeitung was
better, of course, was that the
increase the publication
twofold: First of all, it is about
follow-up coverage of recent
frequency of Zeitung;
10% less costly to produce than
events was usually fairly timely.
full size. With such a cost-saving
(I was particularly proud of High
I’m sure that we could
measure in mind, the choice
Gear’s coverage of Porsche
fill nine or twelve issues
of exactly what trim size to use
driver Jeff Zwart’s attack on the
seemed obvious; imitating PanPike’s Peak International Hill
per year.
orama’s format pays homage
Climb one year, which reached
to that venerable publication.
our readers before Excellence
Now free of that latter constraint,
did!)
I may consider increasing our
Perhaps I’m a glutton for puntrim size slightly to minimize the paper waste from
ishment, but it’s still my goal to eventually increase
trimming, while maintaining the cost advantage of
the publication frequency of Zeitung. IRPCA is a
starting with an 11x17” parent sheet, rather than the
club teeming with vitality, and it’s difficult to tell this
Region’s story in just six issues per year. I’m sure that 12x18” sheet that an 8.5x11” format would require. If
you have any opinion on the subject, please drop me
we could fill nine or even twelve issues, and I hope
a line.
to get there eventually. There are a lot of things that
need to happen to make that possible, of course, but
don’t be surprised to see Zeitung occupy your mailbox more frequently in the not-altogether-distant
As for the rest of this issue, Debra Barton of Air
future.
Power Racing takes us inside the inaugural Formula
One race at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin,
Texas last fall. Being a Porsche-oriented magazine,
we focus on the Pirelli GT3 Cup Trophy West rather
Those of you who read Porsche Panorama each
month (and that’s everyone, right?) are surely aware than on the “main event,” but I’m sure that all of
that longtime editor Betty Jo Turner has handed over the races must have been a thrill for everyone in
attendance. Check it out starting on the next page.
the editorial reins to former Excellence editor Pete
Also in this issue, Beau Rogers—who still remains
Stout. A new chief editor can be expected to make
with us for a little while—recaps the “Porsches and
significant changes to a magazine after coming on
Pancakes” fall tour, starting on page 17. Enjoy!
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Pirelli GT3 Cup Trophy West
Circuit of the Americas • Austin, Texas
(oh, and Formula One
returns to the USA)
story and photos Debra Barton
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he first time I saw a Formula One race, it was
1988 and I was 19 years old. It was the Detroit
Grand Prix in Michigan. Admittedly, I wasn’t really aware of what I was seeing at the time, but what
I did know was that the cars were very cool, and
the sound... oh, the sound was absolutely thrilling!
We watched the races from atop a parking garage,
and along the streets of Detroit, people were selling
huge cups of beer out of kegs off their back porches.
Detroit was alive.
Ayrton Senna won the race that year, while Alain
Prost had the fastest lap of the weekend. It was the
last year the Grand Prix was held in Detroit.
After a seven-year run at Indianapolis Speedway
that ended in 2007, F1 racing finally returned to the
United States, at the beautiful Circuit of the Americas
(COTA) in Austin, Texas, on November 18, 2012.
When I started working for Air Power Racing
(based in the paddock at Miller Motorsports Park), I
never thought that I would end up in a support race
for Formula 1. From April to October, the Pirelli GT3
Cup Trophy USA West series started at our home
track at Miller, and from there it went to Thunderhill,
Laguna Seca, Portland International Raceway, So6
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noma Raceway (formerly Sears Point and Infineon)
and back to Laguna Seca for the last points race
of the year. We ran two cars in the series—Mark
Brouse and his 2003 996 GT3 Cup in the Silver Class
and Michael Zuieback in his 2009 997 GT3 Cup in the
Gold Class—and we were very happy to end the season with a Silver Class Championship and a second
overall in the Gold Class.
To say that I was excited when we finally got
confirmation that our Pirelli Cup series was to race
at COTA the same weekend as F1 is an understatement! However, much to our disappointment, we
found out that only the 997 GT3 Cup cars would be
permitted to race; Mark and his 996 would not be
allowed, as the 996 is just too old. It seemed a bit
unfair to the people who had supported the series all
year, but such is the way of racing.
My job is to make sure that the cars are ready to
race and that they make it to the track on time; I am
the tire girl, and I provide support to all our drivers
and crew—from parts to hospitality to anything else
that may be needed; and I drive any one of our three
modes of transporting the cars and equipment.
Since we only had one car running, and our track
time over three days would total an hour and twenty
minutes, no one knew what to expect. The track
was new and it was the first time the Pirelli Cup had
raced with F1, so this was far from what we would
call a “normal” race weekend. Logistically, it was a
very different plan.
We left Utah on Sunday, November 11, under
somewhat snowy conditions and headed for Austin.
We needed to get there by Tuesday night, as we
would load in on Wednesday morning at 9:00 AM.
It was about 8:30 AM on Wednesday morning as
we approached the track; the first thing that caught
my eye was the 251-foot tower situated around turn
17. At first I thought that it was kind of strange, and I
wasn’t even sure what it was, but I realized later that
the tower was an observation deck.
Our instructions told us that we needed to be
staged in the lane specifically set for the Pirelli Cup.
This would help make loading a couple of dozen
full-size transporters into the support paddock a bit
easier—so they said. Little did any of us know that
we would have to go through a Formula 1 scrutinizing of the transporters. The back of each rig had to
be in perfect line with the one next to it, all the way
down the row, and there could be no more and
no less than three feet in between the end of one
canopy and the side of the next transporter. Lasers
and tape measures were in full use. Some teams
had to move their truck five or six times. No team
could unload any cars or set up their canopy or pit
until the two scrutineers were satisfied and Bernie
did a fly-over in his helicopter to make sure that it all
looked good from the sky. After all, the world would
be watching.
Getting our truck parked and our pit set up took a
day and a half. Teams with full crews stood around
for hours upon hours, waiting and moving. It was
frustrating and maddening. They didn’t even have
toilets in the paddock until mid-afternoon!
Since we had loads of time over the course of
Wednesday and Thursday, we started wandering around the paddock, and we were all
able to get on the track.
I rode the Discount Tire
Aprilia SR50 around the
smooth, 50-foot-wide
Circuit of the Americas. It was amazing
how much work they
were still doing on the
track—putting up signs,
welding foot bridges,
painting the runoff
areas, putting down
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making the grid boxes
1: Pre-grid for the Pirelli GT3 Cup Trophy West race.
2: A legion of Ferrari pit crew workers practices their
craft. 3: Air Power Racing crew Skip Cassel, Clayton
Butler and Mark Brouse with driver Michael Zuieback.
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on the front straight. Some of the green areas you
see on the track are Astroturf—who does that? There
were F1 teams walking the track—including Sebastian Vettel, who is a smaller than average male (but
still quite handsome), as are most Grand Prix drivers
and riders.
Being able to put down some of the first laps on
this world-class track was quite a treat. I was able
to get a couple of laps in on Wednesday and just
rode around in awe—but on Thursday, riding the
scooter, it turned into as many hot laps as I could
get in before getting booted off. Smiling from ear to
ear and giggling uncontrollably, I would be apexing
golf carts, late-braking into turns, weaving through
bicyclists and runners and people walking, waving
to everyone, having the time of my life. Does it get
much better than this? Maybe, but it doesn’t matter,
because I am the luckiest girl in the world.
Finally... Friday and it was our first day on the
track! Our session was at 4:30 PM, for a half hour. We
would pre-grid in the support paddock, which isn’t
anywhere near the hot pit, so our driver would enter
the track at the end of the back straight between T11
and T12 and proceed to hot pit, where the cars were
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staged before the official start of their session. The
driver was allowed to transport one crew member
in the car with them to hot pit; the remainder of the
crew would pre-grid at the other end of the paddock
with the pit cart and were escorted, in a procession,
to pit lane.
I got Michael strapped into his car, did a radio
check and took the first ride with him to hot pit,
where I would egress from the car and be immediately sucked into the world of Formula 1... and, holy
catfish, T1 is very uphill! Sporting a Cheshire grin
supplemented with a side of warm tingles, I was
standing in front of the Scuderia Toro Rosso garage,
the pit wall lined with F1 pit boxes, everything new
and shiny. All the Pirelli teams’ pit carts were in
front of the garages and the two floors of paddock
suites. The beautiful F1 cars were up on impossible
lifts, stripped down to their skeletons, with monitors
attached to them while well-suited technicians, engineers and data guys were fluttering about, getting
ready for Saturday’s sessions.
I snapped out of my trance when Michael and the
rest of the Pirelli Cup drivers made it onto the track
for the first time, and I settled into the Toro Rosso
pit box with the world under complete control as I
monitored everyone’s lap times, position and splits
with what seemed to be 20 screens flowing with
information. We had a successful first session with
Michael in P20 with a 2:21.6, the fastest lap being set
by Madison Snow with a 2:15.
We ran down our checklist for the car, put a set
of stickers on and we were ready for Saturday’s
qualifying session. Off we went to the Beaver (our
RV) for a BBQ. The RV area was situated along the
back straight, with a pretty good view of the esses
and an up-close experience of F1 cars screaming
by, approaching top speed, just 60 feet away. Simply
mind-blowing... if you’re into that kind of thing.
Saturday’s qualifying would be at 2:30 PM. At 7:00
on Saturday morning, the F1 teams were practicing
their pit stops, so we were at the track fairly early. I
got myself down to pit lane and watched the Sahara
Force India, Lotus and Scuderia Ferrari teams prac-
tice. What a sight! There were 15 to 20 people changing a set of tires and sometimes the front nose. I’m
not sure that I’ve seen that much carbon fiber equipment in one place, and of course, Ferrari completes
a pit stop in 2.7 seconds. Four tires, BAM, done! They
did it over and over and over. It would start with
the crew staged in the garage, with the tires and
tools set up where the car would stop. There were a
couple of guys pushing the car, with a crew member
steering it into the pit box. The precision with which
each of these individuals did their specific job was
impressive, and it was good to see that they were
also having fun.
It would soon be time for our 20-minute qualify-
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Circuit of the Americas’ impressive 22-story-high observation deck affords a bird’s-eye view of the racing action.
ing session. Mike did pretty well and qualified 19th
with a 2:18.8, knocking roughly three seconds off
his previous best. The pole was set with a 2:13.4 by
Henrique Cisneros.
Sunday was race day and everyone was excited!
We would race at 9:30 AM for 10 laps or 25 minutes.
I got Mike strapped into the car, and Les took the
ride with him to the grid on the front straight, where
the drivers would find the “Lollipop Girls” waiting at
each grid position holding a sign with a race number
on it. You don’t get that at every race weekend with
the Pirelli Cup!
While Mike and the Air Power crew were taking
care of business on the starting grid, I made my way
to the tower to watch from the observation deck.
The word in the paddock was that if you were on a
race team, you could get up there fairly easily at no
cost—otherwise you’d be paying $35 per person and
waiting in a very long line.
When I arrived at the foot of the 22-story structure,
sure enough, there was a huge line. Sporting my
headset along with a clipboard and stopwatches, I
walked up to one of the staff members and asked
how I could get up to the top. She asked if I was spotting for a team; I confirmed that I was and she said,
“Follow me.” She took me around the side and to the
doors of the elevator and said to the fellow in charge
of admittance that I need to get to the top. He also
confirmed that I was spotting for a team and said
that the elevator should be down in a minute. I tried
not to smile too much as I looked at all the people
waiting in line, for who knows how long, as I got into
the elevator and took a ride to the top. No lines, no
waiting.
The doors opened, and as I stepped out I was surrounded by white painted steel—and, sure enough,
there was a glass floor. I went from one side to
the other in awe of the beautiful view of the track.
Except for the start/finish line, which was not visible
due to the pit garages and suites, I could see just
about everything else. The track was breathtaking
and I had a perfect view for the race.
Michael got an excellent start and held first in
class for a few laps. The race itself was fairly clean,
with a few exciting overtaking moments like when
Madison Snow made a sweet pass for the lead,
which he held to the checkered flag. Michael finished third in his class and 16th overall, with a 2:17.8
his fastest lap time of the weekend. Considering that
out of 30 drivers, a large number of them being IMSA
and Grand-Am drivers, Michael did exceptionally,
bringing the car home in one piece and taking part
in the inaugural race weekend at the Circuit of the
Americas.
Our race was over by 10:00 AM, and we were
advised that we could load cars and equipment, but
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we couldn’t take down the canopies until later in the
afternoon, after most of the Formula 1 race was over.
The world was watching, remember? So we packed
up as much as we could and then abandoned the
effort to watch the F1 race.
The Formula One drivers’ parade was one of the
fun things that COTA and F1 did with the Pirelli Cup
drivers. The Pirelli Cup drivers did a lap around the
track, driving classic convertible cars along with an
F1 driver. Michael, with Kimi Räikkönen, originally
was in a Mustang, but it wouldn’t run, so they had to
switch everyone over to an Impala.
The support paddock was on the inside of the
track in the corner by T12 and T13, at the end of
the back straight. The gate where we entered the
support paddock was by T4 and T5, and it was a
short walk for good viewing at T1 and T2, where
we headed for the start of the F1 race. We
slowly made our way back to our paddock
as the race progressed.
I’ve raced motorcycles for ten years, and
I’ve been up close to MotoGP and Indy
Cars, but I have never witnessed the kind
of braking that Formula One cars can do.
It almost plays tricks with the eyes. I must
have stood not more than 50 feet from T12
at the end of the back straight, where they
were going over 200 MPH into the braking
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Circuit of the Americas
1: The author with driver Michael Zuieback.
2: F1 race winner Lewis Hamilton. 3: The
Pirelli GT3 Cup race winner was Utah’s own
Madison Snow.
zone—staring in admiration as these drivers time
and time again slowed their cars down to apex the
turn. I could hear them coming, the cars so raw with
power—they would still be on the gas when I would
see them, and then in two seconds they were no longer a blur but a precision machine carving through
a corner, blasting out the exit. I was mesmerized; it
gave me goose bumps!
Lewis Hamilton won the race, and Sebastian Vettel had the fastest lap of the weekend.
These cars were a quite a bit different than the
machines from 1988, but the energy, the smell of
race fuel and the excitement was still the same. The
Formula One race at the Circuit of the Americas
was an emotional experience for me and one that
is burned into my brain forever. And the sound... oh,
that sound...
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Report from 2012
PCA Escape
This photo essay was
submitted by Joe and
Nancy Warren of the
Rocky Mountain Region. Not only did Joe
and Nancy trek down
to Escape in Eureka
Springs, Arkansas,
they also attended the
Porsche Parade in Salt
Lake City and visited
each of the seven Regions in Zone 9—easily clinching the 2012
Zone 9 Challenge Cup!
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tains and owned the road all the way to Woodruff.
Driving on a Sunday morning definitely has its
advantages, but our planned pit stop at Woodruff
uncovered a significant disadvantage—nothing is
open! That extra cup of coffee was looking for an
exit strategy, and we couldn’t find anything open until arriving at Bear Lake. The upside is that it gave us
a reason to keep our speed up through the twisties.
I’m not sure how we made such good time to Garden City, but we arrived at 11:00 AM—and nothing
was open, even though I had a list of restaurants that
were supposedly open in October. No one was really
hungry anyway, save for a few members who drove
over 100 miles for a raspberry shake, so we decided
to press on to the photo area and then to Angie’s
restaurant in Logan for lunch. The group photo area
has an excellent vantage point to see the entire Bear
Lake area. What a beautiful state!
Beau “Riddler” Rogers
shed a small tear as I parked my Porsche in the
garage and watched the door descend behind me,
marking the end of today’s Porsches & Pancakes
tour and the end of the 2012 driving season. The Air
Force will move me away from Utah in June 2013,
so I may very well never drive through the Monte
Cristo Pass with my PCA friends again, as this road
climbs to over 9,000 feet and is often closed until
mid-summer due to snow buildup. Ah, but those last
190 miles (as well as last summer’s Porsche Parade)
were a great way to put an exclamation point on a
fantastic driving year with IRPCA.
Our third “Porsches & Pancakes” tour began with
eleven Porsches and two invited Corvettes meeting for breakfast at The Oaks restaurant, set deep in
Ogden Canyon. We are almost regulars at The Oaks,
as this was the third Porsche gathering for breakfast
within the span of a month. After filling up on food
and (too much) coffee, we jumped
into our cars and headed east towards
Woodruff. A fairly dense layer of fog settled in around the Pineview Reservoir,
but it broke into perfectly clear skies as
we started our climb on Highway 39.
Highway 39 never fails to deliver, and
today was no exception. Knowing this
might be my last drive here, I was trying to do three things at once—enjoy
the excellent mountain curves, take in
and photograph the amazing autumn
scenery, and check out all the Porsches
on the tour. We encountered zero traffic
once we seriously started up the moun-
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The last official leg of the
tour took us south through
Logan Canyon. We had
only a little traffic to contend with, and the changing colors and rocky cliffs
of the canyon provided an
excellent distraction when
the pace slowed down behind the inevitable camper.
Most everyone pulled into
Angie’s parking lot, but the
size of the after-church
crowd convinced half of
our group to continue on
to Brigham City while the
other half went inside and
enjoyed a nice lunch.
I’d be remiss to not mention our Corvette
friends. Bob Lapine, a recent PCA convert
from the Corvette Club, invited two really
nice guys, Ken and Kurt, who drive really
nice Corvettes. No bragging or putting down
each other’s brand (not much to critique
about a 638 hp ZR1!)—these guys integrated
into our group and appreciated a great drive
with great people. This brings me back to
the garage door closing behind me: What
I will remember most about my IRPCA
experiences is not the speed or exhaust
notes, but the camaraderie of a great group
of people with a passion for excellent sports
cars. Good-bye 2012... can’t wait for the
roads to open back up in 2013!
how we roll
Our club is blessed by some of the best facilities
and terrain for the car enthusiast. The Intermountain
Region Porsche Club of America organizes a variety
of activities to help you enjoy your car.
Several Driving Tours are organized each year.
These give you a chance to meet with other owners and take a nice drive on our scenic roads. Some
are day trips with a stop for lunch, while others are
multi-day trips with overnight stops. Stops are made
for cultural events and to photograph our cars at
scenic points. We seldom have “single point” restaurants or hotels you must stay in, although a “Tour
Central” hotel and/or restaurant will be designated
to provide a gathering place. There is no charge for
tours, and you are welcome to join or leave a Tour in
progress whenever you wish. These trips are a great
excuse to get out and drive those scenic roads that
we never seem to find time to enjoy.
If you want to explore the potential of your car, a
driving tour isn’t the best place to do it. Fortunately,
the Porsche Club offers a couple ways to do that
safely. The Region holds Autocross events during
the warmer months. These are held in large parking lots (such as fairgrounds or the Maverik Center).
They involve navigating a course laid out in the
parking lot with traffic cones. Cars are run one at
a time, or spaced well apart for safety. The events
are timed, with each driver getting 5-6 runs. Speeds
are generally low, with emphasis on getting through
the tight course quickly. The design of the course
is always done with safety in mind—generally, the
biggest danger to you is hitting one of the cones,
leaving your car unharmed, but your ego bruised.
Helmets with Snell SA or M ratings of 2005 or newer
are required, but loaners are available at the event.
Participation in the autocross is open to anybody
with a driver’s license.
Miller Motorsports Park also provides an excellent
opportunity to learn the potential of your car. The
Porsche Club has several Driver Education events
there each year. Events are run on the same track
in Tooele that professional race series(American
LeMans, Grand Am Racing, etc.) use. We use either
half the track (providing a course about 2.5 miles
long with 10-11 turns), or the full 4.5-mile course.
The Driver Education events are a fun and legal
way to explore the high-speed dynamics that make
Porsches legendary. Although several cars will be on
the track, the event is very safe, with passing only in
designated areas (never in corners) and only with
agreement between both drivers. Each driver will
be given about two hours of track time each day. As
with autocross, helmets are required, as are long
pants, long-sleeved shirts and closed shoes. Loaner
helmets are generally not available, so you will want
to buy one or arrange to borrow one for the day.
If you don’t feel like driving, the club still has a
lot to offer. The Region has a great Social calendar,
with events planned almost every month. The social
schedule generally starts in January, and typical
events include “date nights” to restaurants, plays and
other activities. The social events continue through
the year, with summer, fall and Christmas activities
planned.
Plenty of opportunities exist to get involved, not
only as a participant but as a volunteer. If you’d like
to help out with event planning, contact any of the
Regional leaders on page 2.
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in the zone
Liz Shaw, Zone 9 Representative
Hello, Zone 9! All of the Regions are getting their
year started and things are already busy! The Roadrunner Region Fiesta Chairs (Jo Martin and moi) had
a planning meeting on January 5th and were able to
get more tour leaders and other volunteers signed
up. This year’s Fiesta will be centered in downtown
Santa Fe, with the historic La Fonda hotel as its
headquarters. The Fiesta Web site (www.fiestanewmexico.com) is currently undergoing major renovation and should be up and running before the end of
January. The theme this year is “Fiesta 2013—Santa
Fe Style!”
Roadrunner Region gets their autocross season
going early, with the Frostbite Series in January and
February. Interestingly, racing in NM in early winter
usually means cold, dry weather, but often in March,
we’ve encountered true “damnable weather”—
hence, the Die Serie opener, “Weather Be Damned.”
On other fronts, the schedules are being updated
for most of the Zone 9 Regions, so please check their
Web sites often. I haven’t yet planned my entire year,
but I’m really looking forward to attending some
DE’s in Colorado this year. When I lived in northern
California, I became the registrar for the “Coastal
Driving School,” a joint venture between the Loma
Prieta Region and the Monterey Bay Region. The two
years that I was involved with that organization were
so fun, and I really miss driving on the big tracks!
Our first event was at Thunderhill Raceway, northwest of Sacramento, and I had not even ridden in a
car on a big track before getting my first DE under
my belt! That’s a challenging, fun track, and I’d like
to go back there someday. Coastal Driving also had
DE’s at Laguna Seca (my favorite track!), Buttonwillow (near Bakersfield), and Fernley (outside of
Reno). Since I left California, they’ve continued to
have events at many of the tracks in central and
northern California. Although some of the principals
have changed over the years, CDS still exists, and
if you’re ever in northern California and need a big
track fix, check them out!
I had wanted to attend the Eiskhana in Colorado
in January, but work got in the way! I’ve heard lots
about that event, and one of the veteran Roadrunners, Doug Brosveen, used to do quite a bit of ice
racing when he lived in Minnesota. I think this type
of racing is a bit different from when my brother and
I used to spin donuts in our VW bug in the snow!
Rocky Mountain Region also has some interesting
advertiser index
Air Power Racing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OBC
Concourse Auto Werks. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
ExtenData . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Ken Garff Porsche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IBC
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training sessions from January
to March. These are excellent
opportunities for you to learn
how to be a control person, chair
an event, or do tech inspections.
And you could also get started
on checking off Region events
for the Zone 9 Challenge!
Speaking of attending events, I’ll have some exciting things to tell you about in next month’s report—
the Rolex 24 at Daytona, the Zone 9 Presidents’
(and Webmasters’ and Newsletter Editors’) Meeting
in Amarillo, Texas and the PCA Winter Meeting in
Orlando.
See you soon!
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