Porsche has unveiled its brand new Mission R concept car. It combines

state-of-the-art technology and sustainable materials, such as natural

fibre-reinforced plastics, with pure racing passion. In addition to its progressive design, the extremely low-slung, all-electric competition car features the characteristic lines of the sports cars from

Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen. It features two newly developed electric motors, which deliver up to 1,088 PS in qualifying mode. The battery capacity of about 80 kWh and the innovative recuperation system make sprint racing possible with no loss of output.

Vacant, Advertising

 Rik Larson, SVR President

·      the wine tour (only one this year) to the Long Creek Winery still has a couple of openings at the last minute. You can register at http://msreg.com/LongCreekTour

·      and of course we have the first Saturday breakfast at Brookfields that same morning.

·      Registration is open at motorsportreg.com/orgs/pca/sacramento-valley/autocross for the event on Saturday, October 16th at Thunderhill Raceway. This is also part of the end of the AX season for the Zone 7 Series as Redwood Region is putting on their AX the next day.

·      The fall gathering of Caffeine and Porsches will have a Halloween theme. It will be held on Sunday, October 31st in the morning out at Fat's Asia Bistro in Roseville (a larger parking lot). Check out the details and flyer elsewhere in the DRIFTER.

·      Final call for this 3-day tour beginning on Friday, November 5th.

·      You can register at    http://bitly.ws/e2Hc    (upper and lower case counts)

·      The primary places we are staying are the Little River Inn and Hill House. When making your hotel reservation, be sure and tell them you are with the Porsche club.

John Lanting and John Hawk continue to look for volunteers to help with the 38th presentation of CRAB. Several new members at the recent new members tour and lunch have volunteered. There are still several more positions to fill. You can contact them at CRAB@svr-pca.org to discuss the various needs.

SVR Membership Report

Ken Shahoian, Membership Director

Thanks to the Board and New Members that attended our New Members Tour. Take a look at the calendar below for events that may interest you.

Also for all members, if you need a name badge please contact me to order one.

Since we use e-mail for most of our communications, it is necessary to keep our e-mail address current with SVR and PCA. To update your information, go to www.pca.org and login. You can then make any updates (address, car, e-mail etc.). Also, even though we receive the information from PCA monthly, you can send the same updates to: membership@svr-pca.org. New Member badges will now come with a removable colored sticker to encourage introductions at club events. They can be removed at any time. Welcome to the Sacramento Valley Region of the Porsche Club of America.

How do you join the Porsche Club? Go to: https://www.pca.org/user/join/membership -This is an online system that will request a credit card for payment. If you would rather fill out a paper form, contact 2021 SVR Membership Director, Ken Shahoian, at membership@svr-pca.org

Not a Porsche owner but interested in the PCA? Try the PCA Test Drive program. For information, go to: www.pca.org/pca-test-drive Need to update your PCA information? Update your PCA record at www.pca.org

Do you have 2 e-mail addresses? Want Club info sent to a second email, work, home, spouse, friend...? It’s as easy as e-mailing your second e-mail address to the Membership Director, Ken Shahoian at: membership@svr-pca.org

October 31^st, 8-10 am,

Our club has had very few events over the years that have included young children. What could be a better time of the year than Halloween! In addition to providing a great time to show off your favorite Porsche and to hang out with like minded members, Caffeine and Porsches is also for kids.

Let’s bring along your children, grandchildren or young nephews or nieces for some goolish fun with a little trick or treating among the sea of Porsches that are likely to be on display. There is no better way to introduce the next generation of Porsche enthusiasts to our favorite marque. The trick or treating starts out at 8 am among what we hope will be a display of all models of Porsche ranging from early 356’s to the latest full electric Porsche Taycan. We encourage all youngsters under the age of 12 years to dress in the most goolish Halloween costumes for the children’s Halloween Costume contest with prizes awarded for the best costume.

If you are planning on attending as an adult, remember to bring along enough treats for at least 25 children. See flier for details. To pre-register for this event please go to: http://msreg.com/trickortreat.

∙ Email Business Conducted----- approval of budget for SVR dinner on Sept 28th -- Eduardo ∙

1) Old Business

a. DRAFT Minutes from board meeting held on July 6, 2021

b. DRAFT Minutes from board meeting held on August 3, 2021 *email sent out to board

c. Motion for acceptance of July 6, 2021 minutes *Will be approved via email

d. Motion for acceptance of August 3, 2021 minutes *Mike/bob moved to approve minutes

e. Christmas Party ---- Mike Willis---- update; Charity Event (CHiPS for Kids and a PCA subsidy

f. SVR 60th Anniversary Event - Kirk Bradford via email “no report until after the first of year”.

g. Sacramento Auto Show participation by SVR? October 15-17, 2021 at Cal Expo

2) Past SVR Event Feedback, Reports filed Waivers, Expenses, etc. PLEASE NOTE that a number of reports for events have not been filed per Collin Fat, Zone 7 Representative. We will discuss in more detail at the meeting.

a. SVR AX, July 17th

b. SVR New Member Tour, July 24th *Sally reported that a report was filed

c. SVR Tech Clinic at Detail Mania, July 25th *Sally reported that report was filed

d. SVR Concours, August 1st *No observer report was done

e. SVR Breakfast, August 7th *No report needed

f. SVR New Member Tour, August 21st Sally reported that a report was filed. 60 attendees

g. SVR Gold Rush Tour, September 4th----- cancelled due to fires and closed roads

3) FACEBOOK Status

a. Rik has not forwarded a letter to FACEBOOK yet. Rik and John still need to get together

4) Future Board Meetings to continue via ZOOM

a. Possible in person meetings beginning January 2022 at Firehouse #32 in Fair Oaks *Cookie will continue to be the liaison for the club.

5) New Business

a. Budget for Long Creek Wine Tour, October 2nd----- Bulhoes (see attached) Millage fees will be absorbed - loss Mike/Sally moved Approved. *Rik will touch basis with Ernie concerning MSR

b. Budget for Caffeine and Porsches, October 31st----- Jerry Alter (see attached) *Coffee will be provided and it may not be necessary to provide donuts. Participants will bring candy for children attending. Collin will encourage employees of Fats to bring their children. MSR has been created by Collin. Mike/Sally approved

c. New phone number for Jerry Alter ----- 530.919.1558----- will be updated in the Drifter

6) Upcoming Events and who is attending?

a. SVR AX, September 18th *up to 36 registration and insurance has been ordered

b. SVR Dinner, September 28th at Wok n' Bowl *No report - Rik will follow up with Eduardo

c. SVR Breakfast, October 2nd *starting at Porsche Rocklin

d. SVR Long Creek Wine Tour, October 2nd

7) Board Reports

a. President (see attachment) *Rik reviewed the report. *Rik addressed locations of various items not located in storage. Rik encourages members to consider storing these items in the storage unit so all paraphernalia is housed in one location.

b. Vice President *order insurance for upcoming events and events needed to be added to the calendar. She will contact Eduardo for the New Member events report and will contact Ernie Bulhoes concerning his upcoming event report requirements.

c. Secretary

i. MSR experiences - commission on event fees 5%/$5 waiver ii Region will cover event fee

d. Treasurer (see attached) *Bob reviewed report

i. Quarterly rebate received

ii. DROPBOX * Gregg Plourde received an annual renewal and has requested that the Board pay invoice. Bob Peake will oversee this transition from DROPBOX to LOCKBOX.

e.   Membership Director (see attached)

f. Social Director *No report

g. Past President *No report

8) Chair Reports

a. Safety

i. AX is handled by Greg Zajic

ii. Other events are handled by Rik Larson until we get a Safety Chair

b. Autocross *Bob Peake reported on recent Autocross

c. Charity (Charity auction to be handled by Dick MacFarlane in 2022 *Chips for Kids will be our next charity event.

d. Concours *Al Price reported on Monterey Concours

e. CRAB 38 *John Lanting reported on event

i.  For CRAB 38 registration software, should we use MSR or Constant Contact? Suggested that John contact Richard Walker concerning Constant Contact registration.

ii. Need volunteers for 9 positions - 3 volunteers from New Member Events. Need the following: Vendor Chair (experience necessary), Volunteer Chair and Registration Chair.

iii. Date in May 2022 selected for holding space at CAM - May 13-15, 2022 has been secured.

f. DRIFTER Editor - reviewed advertisers and when is the best time to send out invoices.

g. Event Liaison to Porsche Rocklin *No report (Kim out of town)

h. New Member Group

i. Rally * Received inquiry from Redwood Region regarding co-sponsoring a TSD Rally in 2022 - will be discussed in more details later.

j. Share the Wealth *was not noted in this month’s Drifter.

k. Technical Chair

l. Webmaster -- still looking for a volunteer

9) Next Meeting

a. Tuesday, October 5 location ZOOM

10) Adjournment 8:49pm

a) Volunteers, filling of vacant positions (chairs)

b) Transition of items from 2020 SVR Board and Chairs; location of boxes, assets, etc.

c) 2021 Calendar (SVR, Zone 7, PCA)

d) CRAB 38

e) 60th SVR Anniversary---- September 24, 2022

When given lemons make lemonade 

Room Reservations ----- Special Conditions!! 

Because of the local COVID-19 guidelines, the local inns have instituted some unique room reservation requirements. So this makes booking of a room NOW if you plan to participate in the tour. Many folks who signed up for the 2020 tour just moved their reservation by a year and hopefully have already heard from their establishment about their reservation (with the correct date?).

Contact Rik Larson at rik.larson@gmail.com with any questions.

Our 2021 track season is shaping up along these lines:

• September 25-26: Thunderhill DE and Club Race (3 mile)

(Diablo Region will host its DE on Friday, September 24)

• October 9-10: Sonoma Raceway Club Race only (with NASA)

Yes, there is no Laguna weekend for GGR as of this writing. However, to get your “PCA Laguna” fix, our friends at Diablo Region will be hosting a one-day DE at Laguna on Friday, March 19, and our friends at Central Coast Region will be at Laguna on Monday, October 18.

New helmet requirements, the Snell 2010 helmets will expire on December 31. (2015 helmets are good for another 5 years.) Snell 2020 helmets are now available at your favorite racer supply stores.

Despite the Pandemic, Zone 7 Membership Sees Steady Growth:

Membership throughout all regions in Zone 7 have shown steady growth in 2021 of 2.8% or 178 additional primary members since January of 2021 when compared to year to date membership at the end of 2020. For fiscal 2020 Zone 7 had 6323 primary members and through August of 2021 primary membership in Zone 7 is at 6501 for an increase of 178 members. As you can see from the chart below all regions have shown significant increase in year to date membership compared to the end of fiscal 2020. I think this bodes well for the health of our club as the largest single marque car club in the world. The data was supplied by National Membership Director, Jim Hemig.

Due to all the pandemic restrictions earlier in the year, most events in Zone 7 were cancelled or rescheduled. This was the case with the scheduling of concours series for 2021 with our first event not happening until August. With a compressed schedule, events were scheduled quite close to each other with 3 concours events scheduled for October. Redwood Region will host their event at Luchessi Park in Petaluma on October 3rd, Diablo Region will host their event on October 17th at Porsche of Livermore and Golden Gate Region will host their event on October 24th at Porsche Redwood City, formerly know as Carlsen Porsche. The final event of the series will not be held until November 7th and will be hosted by Loma Prieta Region. With 7 events scheduled for the series, competitors for year end trophies will have to compete in at least 50% of the events in order to qualify for Zone Concours series awards.

The Zone 7 Autocross series will conclude with a 2-day weekend at Thunderhill Raceway Park in Willows on October 16-17th with the Sacramento Valley Region hosting the event on the 16th and Redwood Region hosting on Sunday the 17th. The clubs will host a Saturday night dinner at the track catered by the Thunderhill Café. With over 50 drivers having competed in each of the Zone events this season, all events have been very well attended although attendance has been severely restricted for the 4 Zone events held recently at the Cow Palace in Daly City. It is hopeful that for the 2022 season, restrictions will be lifted, and attendance will be allowed to increase.

There are just two races remaining in the West Coast Race series for 2021 with October 9-10th at Sonoma Raceway and the final event on October 30-31st at Auto Club raceway.

Sierra Nevada hosted their annual Mammoth Tour on the weekend of September 24th-26th and was attended by more than 80 PCA members representing the Sierra Nevada, Golden Gate, Yosemite, Loma Prieta, and Sacramento Valley Regions. Golden Gate Region had 15 cars making the tour and was the largest non-Sierra Nevada region represented. The tour for most started in Reno area on Friday afternoon and was led by Sierra Nevada Region member and PCA National Treasurer, Craig Kugler. There was a meet and greet social hour at the Eatery Restaurant on Friday evening that allowed participants a chance to get to know one another as well as for old friends to get reacquainted. Saturday mornings tour had some 43 cars broken into three tour groups of between 15-20 cars with leads and back doors assigned. The tour was preceded by a driver’s meeting before the 100 mile tour of the spine of the Eastern Sierra around June Lake, Mono Lake and across the high desert where drivers got to enjoy a handful of epic S- turns, long stretches of unobstructed road and some rolling hills with whoop-de-do’s that sent your belly into your throat at the right speeds.

Following the tour, the region organized a lunch at a local eatery and another tour, the Mammoth Lake Basin, in the afternoon for those that wanted more drive time. In the evening, there was a Porsche card display on a closed street where participants could gather and show off their cars to the general public followed by an arranged dinner at Burger’s Restaurant.

For Sunday there was an optional tour of the beautiful spires of the Sierra back country and provided a leisurely drive and opportunity to capture some great photos before heading home.

Thanks to the members of Sierra Nevada Region for hosting a phenomenal tour and looking forward to attending next year around Father’s Day.

1) PCA Fall Treffen at the American Club, Kohler, Wisconsin, October 13-17; treffen.pca.org

2) PCA Spring Treffen at the BROADMOOR, Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 27-May 1, 2022 3) Parade 2022 at Kahalari Resort Poconos, Pennsylvania June 12-18th Note that past Treffens have sold out in as little as one hour due to their popularity. Registration for the Treffens typically opens 3-4 months prior to the event.

With Federal and State directives pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Club Racing schedule is very fluid and subject to change on a day-to-day basis. The racing schedule shown below will be frequently updated with the latest official status of each of our races.

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