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December 2012
Long Beach Rally
The Circuit
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Sebastian "Bash" Cole brought his dad along to the LA Auto Show. His parents think that Bash, after much consideration, ending up preferring the Porsche Panamera
A few photos from Skip & Suesan's recent trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and the Corning Glass Museum
Lou Gehrig Roberto ClementeJackie Robinson
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2 Some photos from Skip & Suesan & Bash Cole
3 Table of Contents - Board of Directors & Chairs
4 Day Away from Work Drivers Ed report
5 GPX/SDR Buttonwillow DE, TT, Club Race ad
6 Write of Way (President's Column)
7 Editorial License (Editor's Column)
On the Cover: Long Beach Fun Rally
8 Day Away from Work photos and results
10 Grand Prix Region & Zone 8 2013 Calendar
11 Buttonwillow Raceway Park Test n Tune Day
16 December Anniversaries & New Member Report
20 November Breakfast Club Meeting
2013 Long Beach Grand Prix Volunteers Needed
22 Book review for Porschephiles:
Steve McQueen THE LAST MILE... revisited
23 Zone 8 Awards Banquet ad — January 19
24 Long Beach Fun Rally / Tour report
26 Children's Dental 80th Anniversary Gala
28 ClassifiedAds
30 Porsche Returns to Le Mans in 2014
31 GPX Breakfast Club Meeting at Frisco's ad
Index to Advertisers
Commercial Ad Rates
EDITORIAL POLICY: THE CIRCUIT is the official publication of the GRAND PRIX REGION of the PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA. Statements appearing in THE CIRCUIT are those of the author and are not necessarily the opinions of the CLUB or its editorial staff. The Editor reserves the right to edit all material submitted for publication. Permission to reprint any material herein is granted providing full credit is given to the authors and THE CIRCUIT, with the exception of copyrighted material.
ADDRESS CHANGE: Please notify membership chair, Gail Sachs, of any address, email, phone or membership status changes: Gail Sachs, PO Box 230874, Encinitas, CA 92023-0874 or (650) 279-1876 [email protected]. Also notify PCA at PO Box 5900, Springfield, VA 22150 or [email protected]
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Contents 2012 GPX Board of Directors & ChairsPresident - Suesan Way (619) [email protected]
Vice President - Dave Hockett (909) [email protected]
Secretary - Marty Goldsmith (562) [email protected]
Treasurer - Rochelle Booth(310) [email protected]
Activities - Susan Moard(626) [email protected]
Membership - Gail Sachs(650) [email protected]
Editor - Skip Carter (619) [email protected]
Zone 8 RepresentativeTom Brown(760) [email protected]
AdvertisingChuck Weaver(562) 430-3010 [email protected]
Chief Driving InstructorMike Mulligan (760) 672-9175 [email protected]
Circuit DistributionAlbert Franco(310) 379-8987 [email protected]
ConcoursJohn Baskett(310) 707-3903 [email protected]
Fundraising / CharityRey Garnica (786) 208-6023 [email protected]
Goodie StoreBob Baddy & Junko Kamei(310) 951-7979 [email protected]
InsuranceRon Shanon(310) 375-9840 [email protected]
Performance Driving EventsSkip Carter(619) 992-9927 [email protected]
SafetyNick Perdikaris(310) 901-8154 [email protected]
Social Media ChairMark Nelson(917) 609-9674 [email protected]
Tech InspectionDan Hockett(909) 921-5596 [email protected]
Technical AdviserMichael Dolphin(213) 248-4743 [email protected]
TimingDarren & Jennifer Cole(661) 209-9498 [email protected]
ToursMarty Goldsmith(562) 494-6350 [email protected]
Track Workers TeamBob & Karen Lewis(562) 429-3777 [email protected]
WebmasterJimmie Mitchell(310) 539-2568 [email protected]
Advisors to the PresidentLinda CobarrubiasNick Perdikaris
Aide-de-campNorma Dawson
Day Away from Work Drivers Ed / Autocrossby Skip Carterphotos by Jimmie Mitchell and Skip Carter
Our October 8 Day Away event at the Streets of Willowhas been a twice-a-year staple for the Grand Prix region. Originally concocted by Michael Dolphin and a group of GPX drivers about 15 years ago, this 2-part event (continuous lap Drivers Ed & a single-lap Autocross session) has been a regu-lar part of our region's calendar.
Streets is a great spot for this event. We have a high num-ber of novices turn up, and it is a great learning track. It is also technical enough to be fun and interesting for advanced drivers, so we are able to appeal to a wide range of partici-pants. Members often bring their newly licensed teenage drivers (18 years) and spouses who are usually more inter-ested in becoming better, safer and more comfortable driv-ers — NOT necessarily interested in just driving fast.
This event was no exception. We had a great group of driv-ers and volunteers, and the weather gods were with us. Spe-cial thanks to our volunteers, including the instructors who dedicate a big portion of their day to our novices.
Dave Hockett, Glenn Orton, Dan Hockett, Alfred Abken, Jim-mie Mitchell, Suesan Way, Brita Goldsmith, Marty Friedman, Steve Glas, Darren & Jennifer Cole and other volunteers were outstanding. Thanks also to Bob & Karen Lewis and the GPX flag team for another superb job.
Circle Porsche in Long Beach again sponsored this event. We were happy to welcome David Nidess from the Circle sales department. Please take the opportunity to thank Circle for their continued support. Without them, your entry fees would be, well... Significantly higher.
We're working on the driving events calendar for 2013. It looks like it will be another fun and exciting year.
Glenn Orton & Dave Hockett demonstrating passing technique at Drivers Meeting
Michael Dolphin, tech'ing Wade Yoshi's car
Circle Porsche representative David Nidess
Timing Chair Darren Cole and Skip Carter setting up the timing equipment
Early Monday morning Tech Inspection
Day Away from Work Drivers Ed / AutocrossGlenn Orton & Dave Hockett demonstrating passing technique at Drivers Meeting
Michael Dolphin, tech'ing Wade Yoshi's car
Zone 8 Autocross Chair, David Witteried at morning Drivers Meeting with Glenn Orton, Dave Hockett, Skip Carter & Marc Bixen
Dan Stern and his 550 replica with Grid Marshall, Albert Franco, and GPX Secretary, Marty Goldsmith
Bob & Karen Lewis running the track from the towerDan Hockett and his Tech Inspecton team
Circle Porsche representative David Nidess
Monday morning Driver's Meeting
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Write of Way, by Suesan Way
Canadian Geese
On Saturday evening, December 1st, we celebrated the year end finale of the Grand Prix Region with our annual Holiday Party
– it was a wonderful evening at the Long Beach Yacht Club with lots of members, friends, VIPs AND a fabulous MC with an exciting live auction that including someone jump-ing on a table – but all of that is for the January Circuit.
In this, the final edition of this year’s Circuit, I thought it appropriate to recap some of what we did as a club over the year. If you didn’t join us for anything this year, we hope that you find something tempting to do with us and your Porsche in 2013.
GPX celebrated our 31st year as a region in 2012 and, as of November 30th, we had 602 members. This includes primary, associate and affiliate members. We produced 12 issues (OK, Skip produced 12) of our award winning maga-zine, The Circuit. We were very proud that our publication came 2nd in class at the National Newsletter Contest held at last year's Porsche Parade in Salt Lake City.
We had 12 Breakfast Club and 10 Board meetings. On aver-age, 75-85 people attended each breakfast — we offered free door prize tickets and free coffee for everyone and a buffet breakfast is always available. The Board meeting followed, also at Friscos. Everyone from Breakfast is invited to stay for the Board meeting.
In 2012, GPX partnered with San Gabriel Valley region for three entry level Drivers Education (DE) and Zone 8 Time Trials events at the Fairplex track in Pomona. We also produced a PCA DE Instructor Training and Instructor only open track day. GPX also did two Day Away from Work DE and Zone 8 Autocrosses at Streets of Willow in the Lancaster area. We ran a Friday Test and Tune/DE at Buttonwillow Raceway Park in conjunction with San Diego region's PCA Club Race that weekend.
In March we received a subsidy from PCA and had a fun day with a Membership and Hospitality Tent at the well attended All Porsche Swap Meet held at the Phoenix Club in Anaheim during the LA Lit Meet weekend in March.
We went to the Nethercutt Museum twice and once got into the "special permission needed" basement restoration area. We had a great visit to the Petersen Museum. There was an
overnight run to Borrego Springs and a couple of day runs through the Santa Monica Mountains and Angeles Crest.
We had an excellent tech session on the new model 911 (the 991) at the gorgeous garages of Walter’s Porsche in Riverside with GPX member and a Porsche Field Technical Manager Rick Perkins.
GPX spearheaded and helped organize a very well attended Open House and BBQ at Dunkel Brothers, a wonderful day of Porsches and Woodies as well as acres of memorabilia – with all donations going to Boy Republic in Chino Hills.Boy’s Republic is a private, nonprofit, nonsectarian school and treatment community for troubled youngsters that since its founding in 1907, has guided more than 28,000 at-risk teenage boys and girls (including Steve McQueen — hence the Porsche connection) toward productive, fulfilling lives.
We had a lovely and elegant Concours d’ Elegance on the lawn of the Lakewood Country Club with judged and dis-play entries. The 912 Registry and their beautiful cars were great addition to the day and we were proud to have the 912 as the 2012 marque.
Grand Prix strongly supported the California Festival of Speed at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana. GPX will be very involved in this event again in 2013, so stay tuned!
As you can see, Grand Prix was involved in a lot over the past year, and that is just what we did as a region. Every PCA member can attend any events offered by other PCA regions. Take a look at the 2-page calendar on page 10 to get an idea of what's in store for you next year. AND, you can go further afield and see what is happening throughout North America. You may not know it, but PCA is the biggest single marque car club in the world with 107,000 PRIMARY members. Anywhere you head in the US and Canada, you are likely to be able to find a Porsche Club event going on.
Thanks to the 2012 Board of Directors and all of Commit-tee Chairs and members for all of your hard work for the club and the members.
Season’s Greetings to everyone and a Best Wishes from GPX for a Happy and Healthy New Year.
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Skip Carter
Sleazy Dog Construction
On the Cover...Jimmie Mitchell took this shot of part of the group who participated in Chuck Weaver's Long Beach Fun Rally/Tour. They are touring Rancho Los Alamitos.
December 2012
Long Beach Rally
Here we are at the end of another great year in the Grand Prix Region. When I look back at the events we've run in 2012, we did great in some areas, pretty good in others, and a little remiss in others.
Our Performance Driving program is robust and well. We have an ever increasing management team that does an outstanding job. Part of the evidence of that is our own Dave Hockett being elevated to the Zone 8 Time Trial Chair posi-tion. The 2013 calendar has a great offering.
Our Tour program did pretty well, but we neglected to schedule much the second half of the year. That WILL NOT be true for 2013. We had a couple of Tech Sessions that were extremely well done. You can look for more in 2013. As far as social events (well, every event is a social event in GPX)... But our party type social events were a little light (we did have a fantastic Holiday Party — we believe the largest ever held in GPX). Our president, Miss Suesan, is planning to add at least two more, maybe a beach BBQ and a mid-year dinner at Friscos.
If ANY of you have thoughts about places we can go, things we can do, contact Suesan. Chuck Weaver put together a great Long Beach Fun Rally/Tour last month. You can see some of the photos in this Circuit. People had a great time. I had no idea how much there is to see and do in Long Beach. Expect to see a couple of these next year, maybe something to the Palos Verdes Peninsula as well as one in Long Beach.
In the January Circuit we'll cover several recently completed events, including the Holiday Party (which has the most successful Silent Auction ever) and Tech Tactics. Last year Porsche sent over the Project Engineer for the 918 project. This year they sent the Project Engineer for the new Cay-man R, which provided an incredible opportunity to get insight into the heart of Porsche R&D at Weissach. The other very special guest speaker was Jeff Zwart. Jeff 's repu-tation precedes him, but in case you don't know, Jeff is a critically acclaimed racing and automotive photographer, a venerable commercial film director, and a multiple winner and record holder of the fearsome Pikes Peak International Hillclimb. He is one of a scant few civilians with clearance to fly photography missions for the U.S. Marines and Navy.
He has ridden shotgun on an F-18 Hornet while popping off glamour shots of the most aggressive military hardware in history. Mention his name amid the automotive, racing, photography, advertising or design world’s elite and some of these industries’ heaviest hitters go slack-jawed with awe.
After 28 years on the East coast, a big THANK YOU to Porsche Cars North America and Porsche Club of America for getting Tech Tactics on the West coast. It was an amaz-ing day of opportunity to get first hand Porsche "inside the inner circle" information, and to be able to ask questions.
Our first Breakfast Club meeting of the year will be on Janu-ary 5th, as usual, at Frisco's Cruise-in Diner on Los Coyotes Diagonal in Long Beach. Thanks to Pacific Porsche, we will have quite a few of the 2013 Porsche Calendar to hand out as door prizes. I believe that these beautiful calendars sell for about $60.00. Even if you just stop by for a free cup of cof-fee, you'll get a raffle ticket.
See you there!!!
Grand Prix Region Day Away from Work Zone 8 Autocross ResultsMonday October 8, 2012
Class Position # Driver Car Model Total Diff. From 1stSS01 1 23 Robert Hohler Porsche 911 87.801 ‐ ‐SS02 1 45 Dale Cunningham Porsche C4S 86.845 ‐ ‐SS05 1 11 Mike Furnish 2006 Porsche Boxster S 82 381 [‐]2 995 ‐SS05 1 11 Mike Furnish 2006 Porsche Boxster S 82.381 [‐]2.995 ‐
2 188 Nate Tam 2006 Porsche Cayman S 85.376 2.995 2.9953 288 Hong Tam 2006 Porsche Cayman S 85.459 0.083 3.0784 38 Martin Goldsmith 2011 Porsche Cayman S 90.212 4.753 7.8315 25 Carl Bloom 2006 Porsche cayman s 90.293 0.081 7.912
SS07 1 73 Andrew Perou 2003 Porsche Carrera 4 s 85.809 ‐ ‐SS08 1 740 Doug Brekke 2006 Porsche Carrera S 79.947 [‐]3.308 ‐ 2 107 Dan Nacey 2007 Porsche Carrera S 83.255 3.308 3.308 2 107 Dan Nacey 2007 Porsche Carrera S 83.255 3.308 3.308
SS09 1 41 Jeffrey Texcell 2012 Porsche Cayman R 87.351CC01 1 303 Vincent Mark 1969 Porsche 911T 89.192 ‐ ‐CC02 1 7 Arturo Chaparro 1985 Porsche 944 95.479 ‐ ‐CC03 1 545 John Cliff 1983 Porsche 911SC 88.204 [‐]5.865 ‐
2 195 Jim Gude 1988 Porsche 944S 94.069 5.865 5.865CC04 1 81 David Witteried 1976 Porsche 911S Targa 89.145 ‐ ‐CC05 1 968 Dennis Wolfe 1995 Porsche 968 88.129 ‐ ‐CC06 1 42 Dan Hockett 1999 Porsche Boxster 82.412 [‐]1.135 ‐
2 129 Dave Hockett 1998 Porsche Boxster 83.547 1.135 1.135CC07 1 300 Kent Verderico 1983 Porsche 911sc 80.431 [‐]0.226 ‐
2 672 Ray Chang 1991 Porsche 964 80.657 0.226 0.2263 5 William Sanchez 1967 Porsche 911 S 84.085 3.428 3.6544 426 Craig Fenstermaker 1996 Porsche 993 86.245 2.16 5.814
CC08 1 268 Edward Chan 2001 Porsche 996 C2 83.072 ‐ ‐CC09 1 631 Dennis Power 2000 Porsche Boxster S 80 626 ‐ ‐CC09 1 631 Dennis Power 2000 Porsche Boxster S 80.626 ‐ ‐CC10 1 951 Lars Fallman 1988 Porsche 944 Turbo S 80.34 [‐]1.717 ‐
2 74 Robert Bertrand 1973 Porsche 914 82.057 1.717 1.7173 4 Morgan Gonzalez 2005 Porsche 997 82.582 0.525 2.2424 19 Gary Sims 2009 Porsche Carrera 2S 83.101 0.519 2.761
CC11 1 514 Craig Hill 2004 Porsche GT3 81.89 ‐ ‐CC12 1 763 Robert Schad 2008 Porsche GT3 81.502 ‐ ‐CC14 1 177 Anthony Napoli Porsche 911 Turbo 80.673 ‐ ‐y p
2 218 Roger Lubeck 1986 Porsche 944 Turbo 84.784 4.111 4.111Novice 1 600 Carlos Torres 1994 Porsche 964 83.32 ‐ ‐
2 68 Paolo Stuppa 2002 Porsche 4s 87.422 4.102 4.1023 64 Kent Myers 2001 Porsche Boxster S 92.944 5.522 9.6244 952 Phil Millard 1988 Porsche 951 S 101.833 8.889 18.5135 117 Carole Miller 2005 Mini Cooper S 111.377 9.544 28.057
Panamera 1 22 Joe Georges Porsche Panamera 88.103 ‐ ‐ll b bX 1 62 Bill Gebo 2005 Subaru wrx sti 77.492 ‐ ‐
2 779 Monte Griffiths 2006 Lotus Elise 81.156 3.664 3.6643 17 Dany Georges 2011 Cadillac CTS‐V Coupe 83.663 2.507 6.1714 765 Darren Cole 2004 Honda S2000 84.137 0.474 6.6455 55 Rafi Gogus 1999 BMW M3 84.408 0.271 6.9166 837 Jennifer Cole 2004 Honda S2000 84.598 0.19 7.1067 427 Wayne Doyle 2003 Subaru Impreza WRX STI 86.975 2.377 9.4838 97 Araz Tahmasian 2000 Honda S2000 87 335 0 36 9 8438 97 Araz Tahmasian 2000 Honda S2000 87.335 0.36 9.8439 24 Raymond Sarkisyan BMW 330i 89.355 2.02 11.86310 150 Scott Schomer 1993 Ford Mustang 91.507 2.152 14.015
Day Away Photos & Reults
Craig Hill Terry Murphy Will Sanchez Arturo Chaparro
Craig Fenstermaker Kent Myers
Dave Hockett Anthony Napoli Nate Tam Robert Hohler
Morgan Gonzalez Marty Goldsmith Wade Yoshii Dan Stern
Jeffrey Texcell Carlos Torres Bill Gebo (Top Time of Day) Dennis Power
Araz Tahmasian
Monte Griffiths Lars Fallman
Raymond Sarkisyan Dave Hockett
Doug Bekke Robert Schad Andrew Perou Bob Bertrand
Paola Stuppa Jim Gude Dale Cunningham Dennis Wolfe
Ray Chang Wayne Doyle Carl Bloom Gary Sims
Roger Lubeck Joe Georges Mike Furnish Dan Nacey
Leamon Stansell Craig Hibbs Dany Georges Carole Miller
Vincent Mark's newly finished '69 911T Mark Ha John Cliff Rafi Gogus
David Witteried Howard Sachs Kent Verderico Phil Millard
Darren Cole Hong Tam Ed Chan Allan Rosenberg
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Grand Prix Region &Zone 8 Club Calendar
December 2012 1 Sat Breakfast Club-Frisco's, Long Beach 1 Sat GPX Board Meeting after Breakfast 1 Sat GPX Holiday Party at Long Beach Yacht Club 1-2 S-Sun PCNA Tech Tactics West, Ontario, CA 2 Sun Zone 8 President's Meeting 8 Sat Hanukkah begins 9 Sun Orange Coast Region Autocross, El Toro 25 Tue Christmas
January 2013 5 Sat Breakfast Club-Frisco's, Long Beach 5 Sat GPX Board Meeting after Breakfast 5-6 S-Sun SDR Streets of Willow DE/Zone 8 Time Trial 13 Sun Pomona Swapmeet 19 Sat Zone 8 President's Meeting at Fairplex Pomona Zone 8 Awards Banquet Zone 8 Concours & Tour Zone 8 Web Seminar 21 Mon Martin Luther King Day 26-27 S-Sun Rolex 24 at Daytona 26-27 S-Sun SDR DE/TT at Chuckwalla 30 1951, Ferdinand Porsche dies at age 75
February 2 Sat Groundhog Day 2 Sat Breakfast Club-Frisco's, Long Beach 2 Sat GPX Board Meeting after Breakfast 10 Sun Chinese New Year 14 Thu Valentine's Day 16 Sat SDR Zone 8 Concours 16 Sat OCR Drivers Clinic, El Toro 17 Sun OCR Autocross, El Toro 18 Mon Presidents Day 23 S-Sun SAR Drivers Ed, Arroyo Seco Raceway
March 2 Sat Breakfast Club-Frisco's, Long Beach 2 Sat GPX Board Meeting after Breakfast 2 Sat 30th Porsche LA Lit & Memorabilia Meet 3 Sun All Porsche Swap Meet, Phoenix Club, Anaheim 3 Sun GPX Hospitality Tent at Phoenix Club 3 Sun Pomona Swapmeet 8 Fri SDRDriversEd,AutoclubSpeedwayInfield 8-10 F-Sun Amelia Island Concours 10 Sun Daylight Savings starts 16 Sat ALMS Sebring 17 Sun F1 Australia 17 Sun OCR Autocross, El Toro 17 Sun St Patricks Day 18 Mon GPX Day Away from Work DE/Zone 8 Autocross, Streets of Willow 23-24 S-Sun GPX Solvang / Buellton Overnight Tour 24 Sun F1 Malaysia 27 1998 Ferry Porsche dies at age 88 29-31 F-Sun GGR PCA Club Race/DE/Time Trial, Thunderhill 31 Sun Caesar Chavez Day
April 5-7 F-Sun California Festival of Speed, Fontana PCA Club Race/Zone 8 Time Trial Pirelli Cup Racing Zone 8 Concours 6 Sat Breakfast Club-Frisco's, Long Beach 13-14 S-Sun SAR Drivers Ed, Inde Motorsport Park 14 Sun F1 China 14 Sun OCR Autocross, El Toro 14 Sun Pomona Swapmeet 19-21 F-Sun Long Beach Grand Prix / ALMS 20 Sat CAI Zone 8 Concours in the Canyon 20 Sat SBR Zone 8 Rally School 21 Sun F1 Bahrain 25 1931 FerdinandopensengineeringfirminStuttgart 26 Fri Arbor Day 27 Sat GPX Antelope Valley Tour 27 Sat SBR Zone 8 Autocross, Camarillo 28 Mon OCRDriversEd,FontanaInfield
May 3-5 F-Sun GPX/LVR PCA Club Race/DE/Zone 8 Time Trial Spring Mountain Motorsports Park 4 Sat SAR Cinco de Mayo Concours 5 Sat Breakfast Club-Frisco's, Long Beach 5 Sat GPX Board Meeting (Spring Mtn tenative) 11 Sat ALMS Laguna Seca 11 Sat SAR Cinco de Mayo Autocross 11 Sat SBR Zone 8 Rally 12 Sun F1 Spain 12 Sun Mothers Day 18 Sat GER Zone 8 Autocross 19 Sun GPX Zone 8 Concours Lakewood Country Club 19 Sun OCR Autocross, El Toro 24 Fri CCC Drivers Ed, Buttonwillow Raceway Park 25-26 S-Sun GGR PCA Club Race/DE/Time Trial 25 Sun CAI Zone 8 Rally 25 Sun F1 Monaco 27 Mon Memorial Day31-2 F-Sun SonomaHistoricFestival,InfineonRaceway
June 1948 Porsche#1isroadcertified 1 Sat Breakfast Club-Frisco's, Long Beach 1 Sat GPX Board Meeting after Breakfast 1 Sat Friends of Steve McQueen Car Show Boys Republic, Chino 2 Sun Pomona Swapmeet 6 1998 Porsche scores 16th overall win at Le Mans 8 Sat GPX/SGV DE Instructor Training Instructor Track Day, Fairplex at Pomona 9 Sun GPX/SGV DE/Zone 8 Time Trial, Fairplex 9 Sun F1 Canada 9 Sun OCR Autocross, El Toro 13 1970, Porsches 1st overall win at Le Mans, 917K 14 Fri Flag Day 15 Sat 24 Heurs du Mons 15-16 S-Sun Intermountain Region DE, Miller Race Park 16 Sun Fathers Day 16 Sun F1 United States (New Jersey) 22 Sat GPX Santa Monica Mountain Tour to the Mullin 23 Sun LAR Zone 8 Concours
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23-29 Porsche Parade, Traverse City, MI 30 Sun F1 Britain
July 4 Thu 4th of July 6 Sat Breakfast Club-Frisco's, Long Beach 6 Sat GPX Board Meeting after Breakfast 13-14 S-Sun GGR DE/Time Trial, Thunderhill 14 Sun F1 Germany 20 Sat GPX Mount Baldy to Top of the Notch Tour 21 Sat ALMS Mosport 21 Sat OCR Autocross, El Toro 28 Sun F1 Hungary
August 3 Sat Breakfast Club-Frisco's, Long Beach 3 Sat GPX Board Meeting after Breakfast 4 Sun OCR Autocross, El Toro 9-11 F-Sat Monterey Pre-Historic Races, Laguna Seca 11 Sun ALMS Road America 11 Sun Pomona Swapmeet 16-18 F-Sun Monterey Motorsports Reunion, Laguna Seca 18 Sun Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance 25 Sun F1 Belgium 31 Sat ALMS Baltimore
September 2 Mon Labor Day 3 1875, Ferdinand Porsche born in Maffersdorf 7 Sat Breakfast Club-Frisco's, Long Beach 7 Sat GPX Board Meeting after Breakfast 7-8 S-Sun GGR PCA DE/TT, Thunderhill 8 Sun F1 Italy 15 Sun Palos Verdes Concours 19 1909 Ferry (Anton Ernest) Porsche born 20-22 F-Sun Intermountain Region PCA Club Race/DE Miller Motorsports Park 21 Sat ALMS Circuit of the Americas 21-22 S-Sun SDR DE/Zone 8 Time Trial, Willow Springs 22 Sun F1 Singapore 30 Sun OCR DE, Chuckwalla
October 5 Sat Breakfast Club-Frisco's, Long Beach 5 Sat GPX Board Meeting after Breakfast 5 Sat ALMS VIR 6 Sun F1 Korea 6 Sun GER Zone 8 Autocross 7 Mon GPX Day Away from Work DE/ Zone 8 Autocross, Streets of Willow 13 Sun F1 Japan 13 Sun SBR Zone 8 Concours 14 Mon Columbus Day 19 Sat ALMS Road Atlanta 19-20 S-Sun SDR DE/Zone 8 Time Trial, Chuckwalla 20 Sun Pomona Swapmeet 24-26 T-Sat GPX/SGV Escape to LA, Fairplex in Pomona 27 Sun GPX/SGV DE/Zone 8 Time Trial, Fairplex 27 Sun F1 India 31 Thu Halloween
November 2 Sat Breakfast Club-Frisco's, Long Beach 2 Sat GPX Board Meeting after Breakfast 2 Sat AZ Flight 36 Concours 3 Sun AZ Flight 36 Autocross 3 Sun Daylight Savings Ends 3 Sun F1 Abu Dhabi 3 Sun OCR Autocross, El Toro 11 Mon Veterans Day 15 Fri GPX Drivers Ed/Test n Tune, Buttonwillow 16-17 S-Sun SDR PCA Club Race/DE/Zone 8 Time Trial Buttonwillow Raceway Park 16-17 S-Sun SAR DE, Inde Motorsports Park 17 Sun F1 United States (Austin) 24 Sun F1 Brazil 28 Thu Thanksgiving
December 7 Sat Breakfast Club-Frisco's, Long Beach 7 Sat GPX Board Meeting after Breakfast 8 Sun Pomona Swapmeet 8 Sun OCR Autocross, El Toro 25 Wed Christmas 26 Thu Boxing Day
January 2014 1 Wed New Years Day 4 Sat Breakfast Club-Frisco's, Long Beach 4 Sat GPX Board Meeting after Breakfast
Grand Prix Region events are in Bold
AbbreviationsAZ — Arizona Region of the Porsche Club of AmericaCCC — California Central Coast RegionCAI — California Inland RegionGER — Golden Empire RegionGGR — Golden Gate RegionGPX — Grand Prix RegionLAR — Los Angeles RegionLVR — Las Vegas RegionOCR — Orange Coast RegionRR — Riverside RegionSAR — Southern Arizona RegionSBR — Santa Barbara RegionSDR — San Diego RegionSGV — San Gabriel Valley Region
ALMS — American Le Mans SeriesDE — PCA Drivers Education track eventF1 — Formula 1PCA — Porsche Club of America
NOTE: We will be adding Tech Sessions and other social events to the calendar soon.
Buttonwillow Test 'n Tune Dayby Skip Carterphotos by Greg Phillips and Skip Carter
On Friday November 3, the Grand Prix Region hosted a Test 'n Tune day at Buttonwillow Raceway. You might ask why we would do a 1-day event at a BIG racetrack. The answer is part of a bigger happening, the expansion of Porsche Club of America Club Racing in the Southwest.
The San Diego region does a November 2-day Time Trial each year at Buttonwillow. This year they expanded it to include a PCA Club Race (which includes practice sessions, an Enduro and Sprint races). PCA Club Racing is the epitome of performance driving in our club and the only event that allows unlimited passing (although there are significant controls in place to help insure that cars go home the same way they came).
Club races are typically 3-day affairs, so GPX volunteered to take on the Friday part... And there you are!
Circle Porsche in Long Beach sponsored the event, for which we are extremely thankful. YOU can help your club by making sure that Circle knows how much you appreciate their support.
It was a wonderful day. There was a good turnout of drivers, includ-ing several novices who had never been to a performance driving event. It is a credit to the high caliber of instructors we have amongst us that these drivers all left with big smiles on their faces. The rest of the weekend went extremely well for SDR. Most of our Friday driv-ers stayed for the entire weekend. We're looking forward to doing this again in 2013. As always, if you have any questions about our Performance Driving program, whether you are a fan of spirited driving OR YOU JUST want to be more comfortable and confident driving your Porsche (or any other car) on the street, give me a call. We've got just the thing for you.
Mulligan Racing Development compound
Mike Mulligan
Ivan Lee
Bob Jones
Mike Mulligan teaching Ground School
Dave Hockett has Billy Wampler demonstrating flags during Drivers Meeting
JP going under Nick Perdikaris car
Dan Hockett
Doug Boccignone
Dave Hockett in Drivers Meeting
Andrew Forrest
Simon Peck
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Buttonwillow Test 'n Tune Day
Mike Mulligan
Ivan Lee
Doug Turnquist
Vince Knauf
Ed Mineau
Randy Gates
Craig Booth
Chris Hampton
Dave Hockett
Tom Mueller
Nick Perdikaris
Ryan Callo
Branimir Kovac
Francisco Perez
Mark Ha
Greg Acosta
James Koning
Stephen Doherty
Mike BrownBill Pickering
Darrell Troester
Angela Avitt
Rochelle Booth
Terry Yeh
Jerry Hoffman
Glenn Vega
Doug Boccignone
Scott Mann working with Joe Bajo
Rod Hamilton
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Fred Gil, President(562) 434-3477
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Porsche Club member & Porsche ownerDiscount to PCA members
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Membership ReportDecember Anniversaries 32 years Jim & Vicki Scrimger 26 years Ross & Janet Clardy 23 years Norman & Norine Cowell Dan Kotanian 18 years Ellsworth "Doc" Pryor 17 years Jeff & Leslie Erickson 15 years Jeff & Cindy Haas Rick & Aileen Yap 14 years Perry & Kathy Bradshaw Sarkis & Serge Kassardijian 12 years Michael Friedhoff 9 years Kaushal & Vikram Tamboli 8 years Dal & Kelli Lee 7 years Dan Stern 4 years Raeshel & Ingo Seemann 3 years Bruce Jephcott 2 years Alan & Shirley DeCarr Paul Halperin Eric Liu George & Tanner Nodarse Glenn & Carlos Vega
New Members — Transfers In Robert Lewis 1967 911
Jim Scrimger and his 1953 Pre A — 32 year PCA
Rick Yap
Kelli & Dal Lee
Kathy & Perry Bradshaw
Raeshel & Nicolas Seemann
Michael Friedhoff
Kaushal Tamboli
Cindy Haas
Dan Stern
Jeff Erickson
Cindy & Jeff Haas
Bruce Jephcott's & his Boxster on Dyno
Dan Stern's Spyder at Streets of Willow
Shirley & Alan DeCarr
Glenn Vega
Tanner & George Nodarse
Ellsworth "Doc" Pryor prepping 993 Cab for Concours at Portland Parade
Bruce Jephcott
Ed Note: Ross Clary, celebrating
26 years in PCA, is also a previous president of the
Grand Prix Region
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November Breakfast Club Meeting by Skip carterphotos by Jimmie Mitchell
Even though many of our drivers were up at the PCA Buttonwillow Drivers Ed event, attendance at our November Breakfast Club Meeting was great... And there was no shortage of door prizes (as usual). Jimmie Mitchell was able to photograph most of the winners.
Frisco Car Hop Diner has been a great location for our monthly meetings.Plenty of parking, good food, better people and some pretty amazing carsgrace our doorstep. We've consistently had 75-100 people show up.
Starting in January we're going to add something new. Dave Hockett is looking for Porsche stories from you guys. Each month we want to hearone: What turned you on to Porsche? Do you have a unique story about your first Porsche? Do you have an interesting Porsche incident, mechanicstory, stuck in the desert story... You get the idea? I'd bet more than not, you've got an interesting story we'd like to hear, so at each breakfast we're looking for you to spend 5 to 10 minutes speaking to the group about it. Ifyou have any interest in this or questions, give Dave a call (909) 518-0415.
Thanks to Bob Baddy, Gail Sachs, John Baskett, Rey Garnica and anyoneelse who stepped in while Suesan and Skip and Dave and others wereaway. Thanks to Jimmie Mitchell, we've got plenty of good photos.
See you next month!!!
The Race Management Team & the Long Beach MG Club have been involved in the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach since the very beginning in 1975. We’re a group of volunteers aiding the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach to help protect property & assist all race guests. If you’d like to be part of the Race Management Team, you need to commit to work 3 days (Friday, Saturday & Sunday) or 2 days (Saturday & Sunday). The day starts at 7:00 am and finishes at the end of the day’s racing activities. It’s very rewarding working in the Indy Car Garage, Lifestyle Expo or any of the many venues at the Grand Prix. You’ll have time to enjoy the racing excitement and be a part of it all.
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It’s Race Management’s 39th year working with the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
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by Bruce Herrington, Orange Coast RegionBook Reviews for Porschephiles
Steve McQueen THE LAST MILE... revisitedby Barbara McQueen, published by Dalton Watson Fine Books
Bruce Herrington
This biography of Steve McQueen is a unique book. Not only does it offer an unique perspective on his activities, the presentation is like a photo album with annotations. Even the 9x12 horizontal format of the pages reflects the photo album feel. Though it covers only the last three years of Steve’s life (with photos taken by his third wife Barbara Minty McQueen), it shows an at-home McQueen, a retired McQueen, a differ-ent guy than that depicted in books about McQueen the Motor-Head, or about McQueen the Actor. Cof-fee table size/format (and mostly pictures) it appears to be a book to browse, more than to read. Yes it is a picture book, but once you start read-ing the captions, you get hooked on the story of Steve the ‘regular guy’. Those familiar with the Friends of Steve McQueen Car Show will be interested in the description of Steve’s involvements with The Boys Republic of Chino Hills.
The beginning of the book shows more of Barbara’s life than Steves, but then the album evolves to show a Steve McQueen that is surprisingly home-spun and retiring, at least com-pared to his behavior on the screen or on the track. Once one gets into the book, it presents a very captivating, unique-ly personal insight into an ordinary guy whose off-screen persona was less like his on-screen characters that is the case with most actors. The intimate and vivid first-person descriptions of everyday activities make Steve seem so real it is shocking to remember that he died over 30 years ago. His last years are revisited by the author’s modern recollections of the events described (and in which she participated), trig-gered by her never before published pictures and tape record-ings made at the time.
A casual, romantic (in the open-road sense, not Romeo and Juliet), Steve McQueen is presented as a guy who has a brand
new Rolls-Royce convertible but prefers to drive a 20 year old Chevy pick-up; a guy with a gift of gab such that he could stop at a closed motel, establish enough rapport with the owners to spend a week, sharing meals and fishing trips, without the
owners ever catching on that he was anything but a dirty old man with a nice-looking young girl.
Unlike most photo albums, the pages of Steve McQueen THE LAST MILE... revisited include enough text to present fascinating stories. The layout differs from page to page from a copy of a 35mm proof sheet to a full bleed page picture. Each couple of pages presents a different (and very captivating) bite-sized adventure. Dis-tinct from most books and appropriate to a photo album, it has no index.
The book consists of seven chapters plus a foreword by buddy/mentor Pat Johnson, and an intro-duction by author Barbara McQueen. The chapters relate to eras based on places they lived or movies in which he acted. Within chapters the sections are sort of an illustrated stream-of-consciousness portrayal of days-in-the-life of Steve (and Barbara) McQueen.
Steve’s final days of suffering from Mesothelioma are covered but not dwelled on, and a one page post-script by a repre-sentative of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization advocates for prevention and a cure for this very selective affliction, and presents a modern picture of the author as she is some 30 odd years after the episodes portrayed. No com-ments are made as to how or when Steve McQueen may have inhaled his fatal dose of asbestos fibers.
Steve McQueen THE LAST MILE... revisited consists of 254, 9x12 pages, and is available for $49.00 from your favor-ite book seller, or from http://www.mortorbooks.com.
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After our October 6 Breakfast meeting at Friscos, about 20 of us departed for a Fun Rally tour of Long Beach. In case you weren't aware of it, Long Beach has many, many interesting places to see, and we just hit some of the main ones. An energetic group pulled into our 1st stop, Rancho Los Alamitos. We had complimentary parking behind the gates (where pictures were better). We were given a private tour of the grounds and only a small slice of the large estate (so we need to come back for more). This 7.5 acre parcel is a rare restige of the original 300,000 acre Los Coyotes land concessions given to Manuel Nieto in 1790. In the 1960s the last private owners of the property, the Bixbys, donated the property to the City of Long Beach.
Back to our cars for more adventures of hidden treasures of Long Beach golf courses, tennis courts, lawn bowling, a 2-story fountain, small ponds, piers, Olympic event locations, bridges and underpasses.
We finished up at a portion of our namesake Grand Prix track for lunch and awards. We had gifts for all finishers and a good time was had by all.
The route instructions included a dozen questions, the answers to which were to be found along the way. The top three were Todd McElhaney, Jay Barton and Arturo Chaparro. Good job!!!
Long Beach Fun Rally — Tourby Chuck Weaverphotos by Jimmie Mitchell
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After our October 6 Breakfast meeting at Friscos, about 20 of us departed for a Fun Rally tour of Long Beach. In case you weren't aware of it, Long Beach has many, many interesting places to see, and we just hit some of the main ones. An energetic group pulled into our 1st stop, Rancho Los Alamitos. We had complimentary parking behind the gates (where pictures were better). We were given a private tour of the grounds and only a small slice of the large estate (so we need to come back for more). This 7.5 acre parcel is a rare restige of the original 300,000 acre Los Coyotes land concessions given to Manuel Nieto in 1790. In the 1960s the last private owners of the property, the Bixbys, donated the property to the City of Long Beach.
Back to our cars for more adventures of hidden treasures of Long Beach golf courses, tennis courts, lawn bowling, a 2-story fountain, small ponds, piers, Olympic event locations, bridges and underpasses.
We finished up at a portion of our namesake Grand Prix track for lunch and awards. We had gifts for all finishers and a good time was had by all.
The route instructions included a dozen questions, the answers to which were to be found along the way. The top three were Todd McElhaney, Jay Barton and Arturo Chaparro. Good job!!!
Long Beach Fun Rally — Tourby Chuck Weaverphotos by Jimmie Mitchell
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As you know, the Children's Dental Health Clinic is one of the two Grand Prix Region designated charities (the other being ASUDEC - Africas Sustainable Development Council). On Friday, October 19th, GPX was invited to attend Children's 80th Anniversary Gala, which was held at the Old Ranch Country Club in Seal Beach.
We left quite honored for the invitation. I attended with other GPX members, Chuck & Alicia Weaver. Chuck happens to be the grandson of the clinic's founder, Dr. Robert Anderson.
For those of you who don't know, CDHC was founded in 1932 during the Great Depression by Dr. Robert Anderson, a Long Beach dentist. He got a trailer, converted it to a mobile clinic and began going from school to school providing services to underserved children.
The service grew with the help of organiza-tions like the Junior League and Harbor Dental Society, relocating several times be-fore arriving at its current location in Miller Children's Hospital. It currently serves over 10,000 patients annualy with 33,000 visits. CHDC has been able to open outreach clinics on Catalina Island and in Bellflower and Downey and continues the mobile clinic with a 32 foot state of the art facility.
Back to the gala evening, it was a very to be in a room with so many supporters of CDHC. The evening also had an auction that was full of very nice items. It appeared to do very well and I'm sure the clinic will do good things with the money raised.
We walked away from the evening feeling very much ap-preciated for the support we have been able to give to this great community organization. We look forward to many years of working together.
Children's Dental 80th Anniversary Gala CelebrationStory & photos by Jimmie Mitchell
Beauty and the Beast Broadway Performer, Kim Huber and Roger Defeler entertaining the room
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ATLANTA -- June 30, 2011 -- Porsche returns to Le Mans with a works-run LMP1 sports prototype. The first outing of the completely new developed race car is planned for the year 2014. With 16 over-all victories, Porsche is the most successful manu-facturer in Le Mans. The most recent win was in 1998 with the Porsche 911 GT1.
“Motorsport was always an essential part of the Porsche brand,” emphasises Matthias Müller, Presi-dent of the Executive Board at Porsche AG. “So for us it was only a matter of time before we returned as a factory to the top league of racing. Porsche’s successes in Le Mans are unrivalled. We want to follow up on this with the 17th outright victory.”
With the RS Spyder sports prototype that was run with great success from 2006 to 2008 by the factory-backed Penske Racing team in the USA and to 2010 by several customer teams worldwide, Porsche has set the benchmark recently in the LMP2 category. “With the RS Spyder we proved that our motorsport engineers in Weissach are at the forefront,” says Wolfgang Hatz, Board Member for Research and Development at Porsche AG. “For in-stance, we were the first to run a high-revving race engine with direct fuel injection, DFI, setting new standards in performance and ef-ficiency. Recently, with the 911 GT3 R Hybrid, we adopted a complete-ly new drive technology for racing purposes and achieved a considerable reduction in consumption.”
Hartmut Kristen, Head of Porsche Motorsport, is already prepared for one of the most challenging development programmes in the company’s history. “We’re looking forward to the task of developing new technologies and to continue on with the success of the Porsche RS Spyder. After the conclusion of our works-supported sports proto-
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type programme in the American Le Mans Series we have kept up with the latest technological advances. Now we will begin with detailed research in order to evaluate the various concept alternatives for our new car. These obviously depend
on how the regulations for the year 2014 look in detail. In principle, these regulations are in-teresting for us because the integration of our hybrid technology in the vehicle concept is one possible option.”
Hans Herrmann and Richard Attwood claimed the first overall victory for Porsche in 1970 with the legendary 917 short-tail. The 16th and by now last overall win was secured by Lau-rent Aiello, Stéphane
Ortelli and Allan McNish in 1998 with the 911 GT1. In the years 2008 and 2009, the Porsche RS Spyder sports proto-type won the title in the LMP2 category.
Ed: This news is over a year old, but I came across it and, again, it brought a smile to my face — can't wait!
Porsche 917 KH was the first Porsche overall win at 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1970, driven by Hans Hermann and Richard Attwood
In 1998 this Porsche 911 GT1 was the 16th and last Porsche overall winner at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It was driven by Allan McNish, Laurent Aiello and Stephane Ortelli
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