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THE CIRCULAR

November 2013 | SNR-PCA.ORG

The nominations have been received for the 2014 SNR-PCA Board of Directors. Please make your selections and mail in your vote.

We are looking forward to having some of our newer members step up and help by volunteering in 2014. Thank you!

Please mark your calendar for Saturday, November 16th, for our annual volunteer dinner

held at Rapscallion’s this year. This is a new venue for us

and there is a limit on the number of people the room can hold - please send in your checks so you can reserve your spot and help me thank those who have done so much all year.

To top it all off, the board has voted to help offset some of the cost for dinner! I look forward to seeing you there!

Board elections this month

Karen VibePresident

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While driving to work the other day my head was turned by an absolutely gorgeous body. A figure you couldn’t help staring at in passing. I felt like whistling, but refrained to avoid having my wife slap me. Nonetheless, getting an eyeful of that 911 was enough for me.

Some people purchase a Porsche because of the race-honed perfor-mance, some for the meticulous German engineering, and some for the status of driving the exotic marque.

But most would agree, me included, that Porsche cars are best known for the consistent and elegant design - a design dating back to the first Gmund Porsche.

The soft, often rounded edges and clean lines are what have set Porsche apart for so many years. Other car companies have changed design direction over the years, but Porsche has remained true to its design principles.

Take the last round of super sports cars. Porsche’s 918 remains true to form while the latest offerings from Ferrari (La Ferrari) and Lamborghini (Veneno) look almost bizarre compared to previ-ous company design directions. The style of those cars will come and go. I’ll bet those sharp edges and flat appearance won’t hold up over time.

Contrast that with Porsche’s designs through the years, whether it’s an early 356, a 911/912, the oft-lamented 924 or the redeeming 944, the rounded rear end of a 928, or the more modern Boxster, Cay-man, Cayenne or Panamera, and the smooth exterior form remains true.

“Form follows function” has always been a driving force for Porsche when designing their automobiles. Even back in the early 356 days the German design-ers understood the structural strength advantages of curved fenders, hood and trunk over a flat piece of metal.

Those early concepts of provid-ing a stronger car helped deliver performance on the road and track. And using the “form follows function” concept, Porsche has created beautifully crafted cars for years.

I can just imagine how fun it would be to help craft a new Porsche from clay and shape the car like their designers have done

since the beginning. To feel the developing shape and work off the clay until only a smooth, rounded form remains.

To experience this for yourself, let’s introduce one of your five senses: touch. Next time you’re washing your Porsche, run that microfiber towel along the body, from the front bumper, over the front light and the front wheel well, along the upper door, over the back wheel and to the rear bumper. Do this with your eyes closed to feel, not see, the smooth line from front to back.

It doesn’t matter whether you have a 911, Boxster or Cayenne, you’ll experience the same feeling, an amazing shape of rounded and smooth lines and subtle direction changes from front to back.

Next, while driving around, notice other cars with their harsh angles, sharp lines and quick direction changes. Many with flat hoods, trunks and design trim-mings that serve no function.

It’s the smooth, curved, sexy lines that make a Porsche a Porsche. And a design concept from the first Porsche cars that make the manufacturer unique among many. And why, I’ll bet, most of us love these cars.

Now go wash your car, and enjoy.

Look at that smooth, sexy body! From the editor

Jim Hemig Newsletter Editor


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November 16, 2013 - 5:00pm to 9:00pmVolunteer Appreciation DinnerRapscallions1555 S. Wells Ave Reno, NV 89502 Cocktails at 5:00pm, Dinner at 6:00pmCost $30.00 per personRSVP: Karen Goody, [email protected] evening of cocktails, dining and sharing stories about the past year’s events with your fellow club members. Even if you were not able to volunteer for an event this year, come out and help us thank those who did. It will be a fun evening at a wonderful restaurant known for their excellent food. We will accept only the first 44 responses due to room size limitations so please get your checks in early. Your check will hold your spot.

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Yosemite!Fire, rain, hail, snow, sunshine and incredible views!

Yosemite! The name conjures up images of majestic waterfalls, the sheer rock faces of El Capitan and Half Dome and awe inspiring vistas photographed by the famous (Ansel Adams) and the not-so-famous (including yours truly) that bring millions of visi-tors each year to this unique place. After months of planning for this fairly complicated three-day tour, the Rim Fire destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of forest, closed two of the main access roads into the park and for a time put our tour in jeopardy of being cancelled. Fortunately, improving weather and the efforts of thou-

sands of fire fighters prevailed and the roads were reopened days be-fore our scheduled departure. The term “fire and ice” kept coming to my mind as our last Yosemite tour was affected by a freak early snow storm that closed Tioga Pass for the beginning of our 2011 tour. But with the fire no longer a travel factor, the weekend looked very promising.

Friday morning dawned clear and cool and our tour group of 19 members and 10 cars left from

Carson City taking Hwy 395 south through Walker, Bridgeport and Lee Vining where we turned west on CA 120 (Tioga Pass Road). Af-ter a fabulous climb up this twisty road, we made a short pit stop at Tioga Lake, 9,000 feet and only a mile from the gates of the park. The scenery all along our route was beautiful, with beautiful lakes and fantastic rock formations at almost every turn. Surprisingly, we saw little evidence of the Rim Fire along our route. After stop-ping to refuel at Crane Flat, we headed down Big Oak Flat Road

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Craig KuglerPast President


to access Yosemite Valley. We made it into the valley by 1 p.m. and we headed into the Sentinel Beach Picnic Area for our lunch break. We pulled out our lunches and beverages and had a chance to relax and recount some of the day’s driving adventures.

After enjoying our peaceful respite, we headed to Yosemite Village to give everyone a chance to pick up food, snacks and beverages at the store. Others took the time to check out the village bookstore, museum, art gallery and other shops. At 4:30 we regrouped and headed out of the valley to our overnight accommodations in Yosemite West, about 15 minutes outside the Valley entrance. Members checked into their condos or vacation rentals and our team of Jim and Shelly Hemig, Johanna Waizmann and Mary Lou and me got to our beautiful vacation spot, the Oso Lodge. This 3-bedroom, 3-bath home was to be the center of the group’s Friday and Saturday evening dinners. We’ve stayed here before but we always enjoy coming back. What a place! It is done in a “great room” style with a huge deck overlooking the for-est, a fabulous kitchen, fireplace with comfy seating and a huge dinner table.

Jackie and Dan Aynesworth had arrived before us, traveling all the way from San Diego to join

the tour. They had volunteered to be the lead chefs for the dinners but they got plenty of help from Jim and Shelly, Johanna and Mary Lou and others as they arrived before dinner. Friday’s menu included BBQ steaks or chicken with baked potatoes and salad while Saturday’s offering had meat or veggie lasagna with garlic bread and salad. The dinners were fabulous and garnered rave reviews from all and the price was right at under $30 per person for both nights! Try that at the Ahwahnee.

Saturday morning was cool but sunny as we headed out to Glacier Point. The 25-mile drive was deceptive as views of the valley became scarcer as we went higher and got closer to our destination. After parking, we all started the long walk out to the Glacier Point overlook, enjoying the wonder-ful views. In between the boul-ders and trees we came across a startling sight: six full-scale hang gliders, parked but ready to fly. We followed the sounds and saw a small crowd. Just ahead we saw a young man strapped into his hang glider literally running off the edge of the mountain! Amazed, several of us hurried to get a bird’s eye view from the granite bleach-ers behind the “runway.” Within 30 minutes the rest of the gliders and their fearless pilots made their way to the precarious launch point and tested their skill and nerves, flying off the precipice

and over some of the most gor-geous scenery in the world. The entire spectacle was managed by an older gentleman who had over 300 “jumps” from this spot over the past 30 years. As we watched the last glider gracefully fly down the valley, over the Ahwahnee and disappear to its landing site, we finally made our way to our in-tended destination at the over-look. The views of Half Dome, Nevada and Vernal Fall, Yosemite Falls across the valley and even the east end of Yosemite Valley took our breath away. Our posi-tion, over 3,200 feet above the valley floor, provided a thrilling and even unnerving view of some of nature’s most beautiful scenery. After dozens of pictures we re-turned to our cars for the 45-min-ute drive to the valley floor for lunch and a free afternoon to explore Yosemite on our own. We opted for the Yosemite Lodge complex and had a nice lunch with Jim and Shelly Hemig and Johanna Waizmann, after which we took in the shops, searching for interesting souvenirs. Instead of driving around the park immediately, many members used the YART (Yosemite Areas Rapid Transit) to get to Yosemite Village and the Ansel Adams Art Gal-lery, the Yosemite Museum and Bookstore, the Wilderness Center, Village Store and even over to the Yosemite Falls trail entrance. It

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Yosemite three-day tour was a hit!

Yosemite scrapbook

Cameron Warren

Member SPOTlight

Cam is known to many within the active Sierra Nevada Region’s member-ship, but few know much, if anything, about his back-ground. A quiet, unassuming “Car Guy” for sure - who owns a 2004 Speed Yellow Porsche Targa – Cam joined SNR in 1997 after purchas-ing a 1994 968 Cab. That sounds all very tidy, doesn’t it - but wait, there’s more …

His first Porsche was a 1952 356A which he pur-chased NEW in 1952 - let that statement rattle around in your brain a while. Then he had a 356B … then one of the first new model 911s in 1965. He took that car, a red one, to the Porsche Parade in Colorado Springs that year, put the car in the concours and got marked down for having dust around the inner gas cap … but Ferdi-nand Porsche was one of the judges and he said he “liked to see his cars driven.”

In 1964 Cam was the founding president of the Santa Barbara Region PCA, part of Zone 8, and that year the Porsche Parade was held in Santa Barbara. Around this time he started the first

classical radio station in SB and was getting into the wonderful world of motor sports journalism, writing for Competition Press, which eventually became Autoweek.

He was a contributing editor to Road & Track for 25 years and over the next three-plus decades he wrote and photographed mo-tor sports of all varieties: off-road racing in Southern California and Baja, early stock car racing, Can Am and Trans AM and even Gran Prix racing in Europe (he was at Dan Gurney’s famous win at Spa, Belgium in the mid-60s). Later he became involved in per-formance rallying, writing about and competing in it. He ran an Opel Manta in the SCCA Pro Rally Series and finished third overall for the series in 1973, first privateer (not sponsored). In the 1980s he was navigator to New Zealander Rod Mil-len and they won the famed “Press On Regardless” Pro

Su KemperEditor-at-large

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Member since 1997


Rally in Michigan.Then came marathon, long-

distance rallies; he covered the 1970 London-Mexico City Rally, competed in the 1974 London-Sahara-Munich (double cross-ing of the Sahara) and the 1977 London-Sydney Rally (16,000 miles in six weeks). These last two rallies were in a Jeep Wag-oneer that was sponsored by Jeep Corporation.

The more difficult, the more “fun” - so he signed on to cover all three weeks of the 1988 Paris-

Dakar Race - Paris, France to Dakar, Senegal. He was there for Peugeot - who won that year. In the ‘80s and ‘90s, he and his wife, Su, traveled the world covering the FIA World Rally Champion-ship as well as domestic rallying. It was an exciting adventure to be present at the first WRC win for the then-new Audi Quattro at the 1980 RAC Rally in the U.K. Not so exciting was being an English-speaking journalist at the 1983 Argentine world rally champi-onship - six months after the Falklands War.

Other avenues he has ventured into include organizer of the “Reno International Rally” in the early 1980s. And he’s written a couple of books: The Four-Wheel Handbook in 1965 - when only Jeep people knew what 4WD was; and a non-fiction hardcover book about Amelia Earhart, Earhart’s Flight into Yesterday, in 2003. For SNR he has been a vice president and editor of The Circu-lar. Cam turned 90 in April and hasn’t slowed down. He lives in Reno with his wife, Su Kemper, and dog Lexi.

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Cam Warren member spotlight

saved a huge amount of time as parking was at a premium. Mary Lou and I traveled to Sentinel Bridge, usually a great photo spot for Half Dome, but by this time the clouds had rolled in and it had started raining. We moved on to the Camp Curry area for some shots of the Royal Arches, Half Dome and Glacier Point. While the rain began tapering off, the clouds obscured the most scenic spots. Finally we stopped by the small but famous “Valley View” parking lot along the Merced River to get some fabulous photos of El Capitan. It had been a full day with sights and hikes for all. We decided to return to the Oso Lodge to get ready for Saturday’s

dinner which was another success with real Porsche camaraderie overflowing from the group.

Sunday morning we cleaned up the Oso Lodge and after check-ing out, the group headed back to the valley floor one last time for a photo op at the Tunnel View lot, which offers one of the most photographed views of Yosemite Valley. Dozens of pictures later we headed out of the valley, up past the Crane Flat Gas Station to head over Tioga Pass Road and home. To our disappointment the road was closed - the rain we had overnight in the valley had generated snow in the mountains. Fire and ice again! We returned to refuel at Crane Flat before head-ing home by way of CA 120 West

through Groveland. There one of our group discovered he had a flat tire. Through the courtesy of sev-eral motorcycle riders, the small spare tire (yes, he had a spare!) was inflated and mounted for the return trip at a carefully reduced speed. As we headed west toward Groveland, the ravages of the Rim Fire became obvious as ridge after ridge lay burnt out and desolate. The devastation was incredible! Fortunately the rest of our jour-ney, while long, was uneventful and all members returned home safely. Three days isn’t enough to do more than catch the high points of Yosemite. We’re plan-ning a return tour for the summer of 2015. We hope you’ll join us.

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Sunny skies greeted autocrossers at Stead Airfield for the last two-day event of the 2013 racing season. The leadership team had the event well organized and participants were demonstrating the great camaraderie as the event began.

As always, I looked for Porsches and owners to spotlight in the article.

Saturday morning was cool as I got out of my car. I spotted Randy Bradley and his blue Cayman. Randy is completing his first year of autocrossing and has been a great help setting up the track at events. Craig Kugler is a very experienced competitor and is one of the top drivers in his class. After talking with the event leaders, I had to drive some spare airplane parts for our N3N-3 to the air show at Mather Air Force Base, so I wasn’t able compete.

Sunday was a beautiful warm day, which brought out more participants. I spotted Steve Taylor and his buddy Rick in Steve’s 2003 Boxster, and invited them to join PCA. Cathy Rossner and her Red 2003 Boxster showed up to participate for the first time. Cathy’s friend, Doug Driver, was there to help her through her first event. Doug was driving his own fabulous 914-6

Local race season wraps up

Bob McLaughlinDriving the Line

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Ethel Murphy & Eliot Drake/GT3RS

Steve Taylor & Friend Rick/2003 Boxster

First Timer Cathy Rosser & Doug Driver

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that he also successfully drives in Vintage Races. UNR Art Profes-sor Robert Morrison was backing his very quick 1972 911 out of his trailer when I arrived to visit with him. Robert’s son Roderick was there also, but Roderick was driving his own car this time. Since there was some time prior to starting the event, I fueled up our Cessna. When I returned, I parked next to Jarrae Goss and his 944. He loves his 944, and I invited him to join PCA. He promised to check out our Region’s website, and planned to join us.

As I walked to registration, I spotted a silver and orange GT3RS and recognized the owner, Eliot Drake, with Ethel Murphy getting the car ready for the event. Eliot

and I were in a dealership look-ing at a black and orange GT3RS, with each of us thinking about buying it. However, it turned out that I wrote the check first … I’m glad that Eliot found such a nice car. He did very well driving the course, too. Eliot’s dad, Daryl, is a longtime owner of a 356 and promised to look into rejoin-ing PCA. Jerry McLaughlin (no relation) showed up with his new Lotus Elise. He had driven the road course at Reno Fernley Race-way with the car last weekend and loved the Lotus. Jerry is selling his red Bosxter, but still plans to be a Porsche Club member.

In closing, I want to recognize the SCCA leadership team for the huge welcome they have given SNR members at the SCCA events this year. Both autocross (Solo

events in SCCA language) and road course leaders have been really terrific to work with. Don Smith, SCCA Regional Director, along with the very personable Robyn Wasser and Kevin McDan-iel (owner of K Speed fabrication shop) were at the registration table to welcome participants.

Cory Davis, the very enthusias-tic event chair, had the event run-ning smoothly and was circulating to ensure that all went well.

Dave DeBorde, the very gra-cious road course chair at Reno Fernley Raceway, was there to drive the autocross event as well.

I’m eagerly looking forward to next season, and hope to see more SNR members at these great events!

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Race season wraps up

Ethel Murphy & Eliot Drake/GT3RS

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Porsche the Person? What can we know about Ferdinand Por-sche … the inventor and producer of our favorite “horseless car-riage?”

The Porsche car that carries people all over the earth at this time. Perhaps his family name has become one of the most well known names among the billions of car lovers on this planet. Ferdi-nand Porsche was birthed to life in September 1875, in Maffers-dorf, Bohemia (Czeckoslovakia). His father was a installateur/plumber/tinsmith craftsman and Ferdinand grew up to become an apprentice to his father’s business with a very creative mind and talents with his hands.

His schooling was with the state until he was 14 and then work-ing with his father in the family business. At about age 15 he went to a Carpet Mill, in Maffersdorf, where electricity had been in-stalled and he was amazed by this new electrical energy to be used by people.

We, today, do not realize what our whole world society was like before the invention of electric current, batteries, connections for light, heat, communication and energy that exist for us now. Ferdinand had the basic knowl-edge of connecting, installing, preparing with tin and lead and

the idea of flowing energy for motion and progression. Perhaps these same ideas were within the minds/brains of many others, like Henry Ford, near that same time in the US.

It has been written that a car-riage that did not need a horse to pull it, to move people and pro-duce, was on the mind of many inventors of that time.

The “horseless carriage” was the dream that was a reality by the time of 1900 for Ferdinand Porsche. He and Jacob Lohner produced the “System Lohner-Porsche” electric carriage in 1900 that was presented at the World’s Fair in Paris.

This “horseless-carriage” design was electric with wheel hub-mounted motors that were powered by internal combustion

engines. That same year Porsche developed an all-wheel drive race car, as well as the mixed/gemi-sched/mixt petrol and electric hybrid car that was a world’s first. It traveled at 8.9 mph and had a maximum speed of 55 mph on a racing track (English measure-ments).

In 1906 Ferdinand Porsche had become the Technical Director at Austro-Daimler in Wiener Neus-tadt (Vienna) at age 31. Were his inventions of the mixt/electric/battery/petrol hybrid accepted and developed by the automobile makers of his day? The “times” were in favor of petrol/gas/fueled engines and the auto makers made them for the people all over the world.

The horse-power engines have produced amazing energy/power/rocket science thrust for our world society of travelers over land, sea and the sky spaces.

One invention that has been unique, for all progress, is the tor-sion bar suspension that Porsche designed for the cars. There are so many good ideas from his creative mind.

The “Maja” car became the most successful auto of the pre-World War 1 European society. The car for the volks/folks/people became

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The new set of rules that apply to the WEC for 2014 require the works teams to use the latest hybrid drive technology. This is because the aim of the new rules for the upcoming season is to significantly reduce fuel consumption among the racing cars taking part. The new Porsche

LMP1 therefore needs to boast optimum efficiency while deliver-ing maximum performance. With this in mind, the race engineers are actually facing the same challenge as their colleagues who work on development of series production vehicles. The racing car and the series production vehicles are both being developed at the Porsche Development Centre in Weissach, meaning the engineers can regularly compare notes.

The extensive press kit entitled “Meet the heroes of Le Mans” links Porsche’s successful history in the world’s most challenging long-distance races with all as-pects of the technology transfer, provides all the facts surrounding the Le Mans racetrack, and de-scribes all the successful Porsche racing cars that compete in the Le Mans race.

To follow the preparations of the LMP1 team ahead of its appearance at the WEC and the 24 Hours of Le Mans race, visit www.porsche.com/mission2014. A host of exciting images, films, background information and even a multimedia journey through Porsche’s motorsport-ing history await visitors on the homepage.

well known through out our earth … designed by Porsche … after WW1 had ended.

Now the Volkswagen, Porsche and the cars designed by Ferdi-nand and his son Ferry are well known everywhere. The family name is known by car enthusiasts everywhere. The “good idea” for the mixt/gemisched/petrol/

electric/battery hybrid car has become accepted by people … everywhere.

What goes around comes around! The hub of the wheel is in the center to hold it all togeth-er. I have made a collage’ of some of the early horseless carriages designed and made by Porsche as a way to show the “good ideas” that have progressed to our pre-sent Porsche pleasure cars.

The photo of the head/bust of Ferdinand Porsche is from my own collection of magazines from 1957 onward to this time.

Perhaps the “story” about a young person, who had the desire to learn and use his mind and progressive/moving forward ideas … will encourage all of us to keep on keeping onward.

We are all people who can choose to do the same.

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Ferdinand’s contribution

Porsche and long-distance racing – a glimpse into a fascinating world

Porsche Press Release

The World Sportscar Championship (WSC)

and 24 Hours of Le Mans race


Ok, I have a mission for you. Take a friend to see “Rush.” A friend who isn’t into perfor-mance cars. Who doesn’t follow racing.

It’ll be, as we say, a “mitzvah,” a good deed, a plus mark in the karma ledger. It’s your obliga-tion as a lover of Porsches and sports cars and racing in general.

Here’s what happened with me.

I had made up, weeks before opening weekend, to see the film with my friend Julie, Peter Revson’s sister. I thought, well, what could be more appropriate than that.

But she canceled on me, the night before opening day.

Now, having seen the film, I can say that it was probably a good idea for her to pass. She’s someone who thinks about her brother, who died testing at Ky-alami 39 years ago, every day.

So I went with another friend, someone who is definitely not into cars, much less Formula 1. She drives an old Toyota Ma-trix... not that there’s anything wrong with that.

When the lights came up, her first question to me was, did that really happen?

An allusion to Hollywood’s history of taking, uh, liberties with the facts?

No matter. My answer was that, yes, from a framework standpoint, the story stands. For

example, Lauda’s crash was spot-on. I told my friend that, in preparation for the screening, I had watched on YouTube a video of the actual crash, in grainy black and white, shot through the trees. And the big-screen color version was identical. In fact, it looked like they used the actual YouTube video in the film, as a TV replay.

As for the behind-the-scenes incidents, the press conference, the one in the janitor’s closet, the one with the Italians, the conversation in the hangar, and so forth, who knows. Although I understand from an article in Autoweek that the screenwriter, who is British, is married to an Austrian. The couple lives in Vi-enna, and his wife knows Lauda. She put them in contact and, out of that, Niki provided extensive first-hand commentary and

background. As the closing credits ran

across the screen, my friend sat back in her seat, glassy-eyed. She said her hands and wrists were throbbing, from gripping the chair rails.

We went to dinner, and the questions continued.

Do these cars race at Long Beach? I laughed, because she’s from LA....

I said they did during the first few years of the Long Beach race. But the series moved on, long ago. Now Indycars run there, the same cars that run at the Indy 500. They look like Formula 1 cars, at least to the untrained eye. But they’re not. They’re all actually built by the same manufacturers, and bought by each team.

Then I went on to explain what a “spec” series is, and how Formula 1 is emphatically not a spec series... how each team in Formula 1 builds its own cars, and some build their own engines too, and how these cars are, far and away, the most expensive and most technologi-cally advanced in the world, and how, with downforce, they’re pressed to the track so hard they could run on the ceiling, and how, yes, they’re faster than anything else, by far, and how, in order to develop the skills to

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master them, every driver today starts as a pre-teen in go-karts.

Was Lauda the best?Of his era, maybe. Maybe

Villeneuve. Who really knows. But he certainly was the hardest worker of all the drivers of his era. I’d say he had superhuman grit, an off-the-chart capacity to do what it took... if not native talent... and the film caught that remarkably well.

But I wouldn’t quite put him with the pantheon, with Stewart, Clark, Senna, Fangio, Schu-macher, even Vettel.

I explained how, when Senna died in 1994, all Brazil shut down for three days of mourn-

ing. The whole country. And I mentioned the movie “Senna,” which is a very different film from “Rush” -- it’s a documenta-ry that tries to get into the head of the legend, and largely suc-ceeds. I said she should see it.

I had no idea, she said.Which is just the point. Be-

cause, folks, this is probably the first film ostensibly about racing that fully pulls you in... not just us gearheads -- we’d see it for the racing footage alone, which is why we still watch “Le Mans” -- but the naysayers, the civil-ians, those who would otherwise complain to you about watch-ing cars go round and round, lap after lap... who would ask

you, why? What’s the big deal? What’s the intrigue? They never actually go anywhere!

This film comes closer than anything ever put on the big screen to provide an answer. It makes “Grand Prix” look like a cartoon with pioneering cin-ematographic techniques.

Hemingway allegedly said there are just three true sports - bullfighting, mountain climbing and motor racing. The rest are merely games.

“Rush” proves the point, at least for one of the three. Which is why you should go, and why you should take someone who is not into cars and racing. You have an obligation.

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After 13 years of service as PCA’s National DE Chair, Pete Tremper will be mentoring a new National DE Chair in 2014. Pete has done an outstanding job over the years growing and evolv-ing PCA’s DE Program that now spans 70 PCA Regions, with more than 250 DE events per year, and over 4,000 Instructors who have been through the National DE Instructor Training Program.

A description of the position is attached. Below are base qualifica-tions necessary for any applicant:

1. As the “face of the PCA DE Program,” this position requires

a lot of interaction with members and therefore, strong interperson-al skills are a must. The DE Chair is a member of the national staff, but must be able to understand regional challenges as they relate to the DE program.

2. The applicant must be from a PCA Region with a very active DE program.

3. The applicant must have served as a PCA Region DE Chair. A member who has served as a PCA Region CDI and worked closely with the DE Chair is also invited to apply.

4. The applicant must be aware

that the time commitment is substantial.

5. The applicant must have completed PCA’s National In-structor Training Program.

If interested, please complete the attached PCA Volunteer Form by Friday, November 1, 2013. The Volunteer form can be found here (you’ll need your pca.org user-name and password): http://www.pca.org/PCAVolunteerForm.aspx

If you have any questions, please feel free to email Pete Tremper at [email protected] or Caren Cooper at [email protected]

National DE Chair position available

The race debut of the new Porsche 911 RSR in Fuji, Japan, was literally a washout. Round six of the sports car World Endurance Cham-pionship WEC was suspended twice on Sun-day after formation laps behind the safety car due to heavy rainfall. After a third attempt to start with another safety car lap, the race was finally cancelled one and a half hours before the scheduled end.

Because safety car laps count towards the race according to the WEC regulations, the Porsche works drivers Joerg Bergmeister (Germany) and Patrick Pilet (France) were classified third in the GTE-Pro class, with their factory pilot colleagues Marc Lieb (Ger-many) and Richard Lietz (Austria) in fourth.

Marco Ujhasi, Product Project Manager 911 RSR: “We can’t understand the reason for terminating the race at this time. No rain had fallen 45 minutes prior to the announce-ment, at the most a brief shower, so driving would definitely have been possible. The final

stop came much too early. For us, the cancel-lation is particularly hard to swallow, because such conditions would have given us the best chances for a double victory. The 911 RSR is very quick in wet weather and has excellent traction. So unfortunately we were prevented from making up ground to the points’ lead-ers in the fight for the title.”

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Joerg Bergmeister (#91): “It’s a shame for the many spectators. They waited so long and still didn’t get to see us race. Occa-sionally there were times when we could have raced, but there’s not a lot we can do when the race director says that it’s not possible for safety reasons.”

Patrick Pilet (#91): “We would have loved to compete. It’s a pity for us and a pity for the fans that the race was cancelled. It’s disappointing really to travel so far to Japan and then not be able to race. But now we’re look-ing ahead to the next round in

Shanghai.”Marc Lieb (#92): “It’s a huge

disappointment for us. We had a super car for the rain, we no-ticed this during the safety car laps. Our 911 RSR and the tyres worked extremely well. The first suspension was undoubtedly justified, and perhaps the second as well, but in between we had a window of at least two hours where we could have driven. Several opponents obviously had a different strategy and this was the reason it was finally stopped. Then I ask myself, why invest so much time with our partner Michelin to develop great wet tyres if we are not allowed to

compete.”Richard Lietz (#92): “The rain

we had hoped for arrived. Our car could definitely have gone well under these difficult condi-tions. Unfortunately the race never got underway, although it would certainly have been pos-sible. What a shame. We’ve put a great deal of work into tyre devel-opment and had some great wets. Obviously some others didn’t. Out of consideration for them, the race was then cancelled.”

Round seven of the sports car World Endurance Championship WEC is contested on November 9th in Shanghai (China).

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A recent academic survey com-missioned by “WirtschaftsWoche” magazine proves that Porsche Consulting GmbH, based in Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany, has by far the best reputation among consultancy firms, as rated by the major German commer-cial enterprises. This fantastic reputation is based primarily on the high increase in value in the operating profit that Porsche consultants bring about for their clients. At the same time, Porsche Consulting also claimed the top spot in the industry analysis in the “Project success” category: The consultants from Swabia impressed the academics and interdisciplinary panel, which was made up of various experts, by significantly speeding up the soft-ware development process at SAP AG, the world leader in enterprise software and software-related services. As a result, Porsche Consulting was also ranked top overall in the “Best of Consulting” analysis.

For the performance analysis of the 40 largest consultancy firms in Germany, Professor Dr. Lars Wellejus (Frankfurt am Main University of Applied Sciences) and industry expert Dr. Frank Höselbarth evaluated a survey

conducted among 1500 execu-tives. The two experts wanted to know from the consultancy customers in quite specific terms what impact the project work of consultants had on operational key performance indicators. “Instead of just making prom-ises, we actually deliver tangible results”, says Eberhard Weiblen, President and CEO of Porsche Consulting. The basis for the firm’s success, Weiblen goes on to say, is the combination of two es-sential skills: “We use tried-and-tested concepts that have proven to work, both for the sportscar manufacturer Porsche and in a wide variety of industries. And thanks to our consultants’ own professional experience, they are able to enthuse managers and employees alike about the neces-sary changes when implementing these concepts.”

The role of the employees was also at the heart of the prized SAP project. The consultants were asked to find ways of reducing the lengthy development and delivery times for new software products, and thereby increase the products’ impact. These goals were only achieved by taking superfluous, non-value-adding tasks away from the highly specialised soft-ware developers working around the world; these tasks would pre-vent the developers from getting on with the actual task at hand.

By adopting a strict, transpar-ent structure for work processes, it was possible to prevent any unnecessary adjustments and waiting times. There were also significant improvements in terms of quality and the focus placed on customers. Establish-ing multi-functional teams, in which designers, developers, industry specialists and infor-mation specialists work in close cooperation together, also helped bring about these improvements. As a result, the software develop-ment process was accelerated by 50 percent. Since then, SAP has been much quicker at launching new products.

Customers rate Porsche Consulting as the best management consultancy firm


Top ranking in the academic

industry analysis by “WirtschaftsWoche”

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Patrick Dempsey contests races again with Porsche in 2014-15


Patrick Dempsey and his Dempsey Racing team will con-tinue to live their passion in 2014-15 with Porsche. The U.S. actor and race car driver, who thrills fans all over the world in his role as “McDreamy” in the medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy”, will continue his team’s race program with Porsche during the next two years in an expanded and for-malized promotional and brand cooperation relationship.

“We are looking forward to the new season and to many more successful years partner-ing Porsche,” said Dempsey, who matched his career-best result with a second-place GT Chal-lenge (GTC) class finish with teammates Andy Lally and Joe Foster in Saturday’s Petit Le Mans – the season and series finale of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) at the storied Road

Atlanta race track. “Every race season brings along a number of interesting challenges. The part-nership with Porsche this year was the absolute highlight and the main reason for the success we enjoy.”

In his first season with Por-sche, Patrick Dempsey shared the cockpit of the Porsche 911 GT3 RSR at the world-famous Le Mans 24 Hours with Foster and Porsche works driver Patrick Long to yield a strong fourth place in the GTE-Am class. In ALMS GTC in a Por-sche 911 GT3 Cup, Dempsey and Lally also earned podium finishes of second at Laguna Seca and

third at Circuit of The Americas, in addition to Saturday’s runner-up result at Petit.

“It was an honor for me and my team to contest Petit Le Mans for the first time with Porsche and to represent this great brand on the victory podium,” Dempsey said. “This is an ideal follow-up to our successful joint appearance at Le Mans last June. To match our season and career-best race result with Porsche was a great conclu-sion to the season.”

“We look forward to a second exciting season with Patrick Dempsey and Dempsey Racing and to continuing our successful partnership,” says Jens Walther, President of Porsche Motorsport North America (PMNA). “Patrick is a passionate race driver who embodies the professionalism and amiability that makes the Porsche motorsport family what it is.”

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With timeless classics such as the 356 and the 911, sportscar manufacturer Porsche has been cultivating a unique reputation in the automotive world since 1948. Yet during the past six decades, Porsche has also managed to con-sistently develop highly exclusive super sportscars, many of which will be on show at the Porsche Museum from today until March 17, 2014, as part of a new special exhibition entitled “60 years of super sportscars”.

Certain models that have never been presented to the public before are among the vehicles on show. For example, it will be possible to admire the first ever 550 Spyder to be bought by a private customer, a vehicle which was assigned to rac-ing driver Kurt Ahrens in January 1955. Nowadays, the drive housed within the 550 Spyder is as legend-ary as the vehicle itself, and has come to be known as the “Fuhr-mann engine”. The four-cylinder flat engine with four overheard camshafts is considered to be one of the most successful Porsche engines of all time.

Another of the legendary super sportscars on show will be the 904

Carrera GTS. As a true all-round-er, this vehicle demonstrated its sporty characteristics on all racing terrains, securing over 300 racing victories following its presenta-tion in 1963 until the mid-1970s. Visitors can also get excited about the only 911 Turbo RS vehicle in the world: This special vehicle is the only 911 Turbo to feature the lightweight body from the Car-rera RS, a modification requested by star conductor Herbert von Karajan. The 911 Turbo RS went down in music history when it ap-peared on the cover of von Kara-jan’s “Famous Overtures” album, which he recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

Another of the high horsepower exhibition vehicles is the most well-known of Porsche’s tech-nological benchmark vehicles in addition to being well ahead of its generation: The Porsche 959 S

was developed from a prototype presented at the IAA in 1983. The prototype demonstrated what was technically feasible and set a pioneering example for future sportscar generations.

The 911 GT1 included in the exhibition will show once again that every Porsche is a racing car: In a small-scale homologation series of just 21 vehicles, Porsche developed a road-going version of the GT1, which was used for the first time in the 1996 Le Mans race and has since out-performed everything else on the track. The technical features of the 911 GT1 come straight from the racetrack. The Porsche Carrera GT, which was first presented as a prototype in Paris in 2000, rounds off the special exhibition. This super sportscar was specially designed to embody the character of a racing car within a production vehicle, thus enabling maximum driving pleasure.

The Porsche Museum is open Tuesday to Sunday, 9.00 to 18.00. Entry to the museum costs €8 for adults and €4 for concessions. For more information, visit www.porsche.com/museum.

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