Rik Larson, SVR President

·       We saw the cancellation of two events ----the Caffeine and Porsches gathering that was planned for Saturday, April 16th, was cancelled due to forecast of heavy rain. Well it did not rain in the downtown Sacramento area but there were reports of much rain outside of the downtown area so we made the right decision. Nevertheless we had about 20 cars show up and just shoot the breeze. A brand new Taycan GTS (black in color) showed up and gathered a lot of attention. Many of us went inside the museum to check out the Lowriders exhibit. And I was able to distribute more of the SVR 60th Anniversary decals.

·       And of course John Leet and the AX Crew conducted the 2nd AX of the 2022 SVR series at Thunderhill.

·       There will be another Caffeine and Porsches at CAM in October.

·       The tour to Murphys on Saturday, May 21st, came out of the blue and was organized and finalized by Eduardo Ortega, Jr. in a matter of less than 10 days. This included getting volunteers to help lead two tour groups, submit a budget, do a flyer, and get the MSR established. Thanks to everyone who responded so quickly. All we need now is for folks to sign up. It will be limited to 30 cars. The tour is FREE.

·       The Pacific Grove Tour continues to add more cars. Looks like Jim and Linda McMahen have put together another great event (they do this tour every two years).

·       And John Leet and crew have their hands full with the AX at Thunderhill on Saturday, May 14th. And then they stay for the next day when Redwood Region hosts another AX as part of the 2022 Zone 7 AX series.

·       We continue to pass out decals at SVR events.

·       Our concours chair, Al Price III, suggests that the best way to apply them (they do not have the sticky adhesive --- which makes for easy removal as well) is to be sure and clean the surface completely, let it dry, then apply. The decal itself has no instructions on it. They are made for placement on the inside of a window surface.

·       The PCA Spring raffle is under way. Winner gets a 2022 Cayman GT4 RS. All it takes is a $50 ticket. Last day to purchase tickets is June 1, 2022.

·       Our concours on Sunday, June 5th at Porsche Rocklin, is the first in the 2022 Zone 7 Series.

·       Registration for the 66th Porsche Parade is open. This year it is being held in the Poconos, Pennsylvania. Check out porscheparade.org

·       More than 1100 cars have signed up already

·       Phase II opened on April 6th for the banquets, events, etc. Registration closes on May 14th.

·       The TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E team was doing very well after 5 races. They are currently in second place in the team standings (out of 11 teams).

·       The TAG Heuer Porsche team consists of Porsche 99X Electric vehicles with #36 driven by Andre Lotterer and #94 driven by Pascal Wehrlein.

·       There were two races at Rome on April 9th and 10th. Porsche took 8th and 10th on the Saturday race and 4th and 6th at the Sunday race.

·       Lotterer is currently in 6th place in the driver standings. And Wehrlein is just one point behind him in 7th place.

·       And then the 6th race was held on Saturday, April 30th in Monaco. The two Porsches started 2nd and 6th on the grid. But they did not finish the race. So no points for the TAG Heuer Porsche Team.

·       The next two races are on May 14th and 15th in Berlin. They are carried live on the CBS Sports Network.

Friday, May 6, is the Pacific Grove Tour. The tour is chaired by Jim McMahen with lots of help from his charming wife, Linda. Friday, everyone will take a scenic tour down to Pacific Grove. Saturday, people are on their own to sight see, go to the street fair in Pacific Grove, shop and/or eat their hearts out. Sunday, everyone will return home, picking their own route.

Saturday, May 7, is the Saturday Breakfast. Jerry Alter welcomes any and all who can make it. This event is casual and allows for a lot of socializing, getting to know new members and reconnecting with ones you already know.

Saturday, May 14, is our third autocross of the season. Don’t forget to thank John Leet and his crew for continuing to work so hard on our autocross series.

Saturday, May 21, is the Spring Tour to Murphys. Eduardo Ortega, Jr., will lead the tour from the starting point in El Dorado Hills south through the foothills to Murphys for lunch, where Raleigh Morrow will welcome everyone at the Murphys Highway 4 Diner. After lunch, there will be optional wine tasting at Ironstone Winery, or at any other of many wineries in the area, or an enjoyable stroll and window shopping in historic downtown Murphys.

Sunday, May 22, is the Concours Judging School at Nelson’s Garage in Shingle Springs. If you are interested in being a concours judge, here’s your chance to learn the ropes.

Here is the contact information - - there still might be space available as of our publication date. (Mike Willis)

Does broccoli pairs well with Furthermore Wines? Does Hawkes Cabernet Sauvignon pair with kumquats? How about Two Black Widow Vineyard paired with salsa? And, of course, frog legs should pair well with Toad Hollow Vineyard, right? Well, according to the Redwood Region “Wine Pairing Rally,” they do.

Saturday April 23^rd was a beautiful day for a drive through the Sonoma County wine country. The route took us from the Graton Fire Department north, roughly along the Russian River, to the Alexander Valley, then south to our finish in Windsor.

Forty-five wineries were identified, in alphabetical order, along with foods they supposedly paired well with. The objective was to list the foods in the correct order on the scorecard as the wineries appeared along the route. It’s as simple as Passalacqua and fruit cake!

Keeping with the wine and food pairing theme, “trophies” consisted of bottles of wine and their corresponding foods, along with a place ribbon. First place was a bottle of La Crema Pinot Noir with a Snickers bar and a bottle of MacRostie Chardonnay with a bag of potato chips. Second place was a bottle of Sonoma – Cutrer Pinot Noir with a bag of Cheetos and a bottle of Dry Creek Vineyard Chenin Blanc with an Almond Joy candy bar. Third place was a bottle of J. Pedroncelli Cabernet Sauvignon with a bag of M & M's.

Our next rally is “Devil’s Gulch 2022” on Saturday May 21^st. This time-speed-distance (TSD) rally starts in San Rafael and finishes in Windsor. With multiple speed changes and 16 checkpoints along the 105-mile paved route, Devil’s Gulch will challenge even the most experienced teams. Registration is open to PCA members from all regions at MSReg.com/Devil’sGulch.

Jim Robison (Redwood) and Darrel Huckabay (Sacramento Valley) are working on an interesting TSD scheduled for June 18^th. The “Alternate Route Rally,” starting and finishing in Dixon, will give contestants their choice of paved or gravel routes.

“There and Back Again,” on July 16 & 17, will consist of two TSD rallies with an overnight stay at the Twin Pines Resort & Casino in Middletown. All roads are paved with a start in Napa and a finish in Sonoma. Tours, following the rally routes, will be offered both days for folks who like to drive (and party) but don’t want to be concerned with arriving at checkpoints on time.

The “Mt. Tam Trek,” Saturday August 13^th will start at Marin Porsche and finish at Mary’s Pizza in Novato. The all-paved, 85-mile TSD will include two breaks at scenic rest areas. A tour is also planned to follow the rally route through some of the most scenic country in America

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On September 10^th the Redwood region will host the “Harvest Moon Rally,” an 80-mile paved road night TSD starting in Santa Rosa about 7 PM and finishing in Rohnert Park about 10:00 PM. It’s amazing how the entire environment changes when the sun sets. Roads you have driven a dozen times in the daylight become new, different, more interesting, perhaps more exotic.

For more information on any of the above events, please contact Jim Robison, Rally Director, Redwood Region PCA at jim_robison@comcast.net.

SVR Autocross School Graduates 8^th Class of Drivers

It is amazing the recent class of 2022 celebrates the 8^th consecutive year that the club has hosted an autocross school. Even more amazing is that each year, the school has sold out! When the school was conceived back in 2014, autocross participation in the club’s series barely averaged around 25 drivers per event and the program was lucky to breakeven.

The team decided that one way in which to increase participation was to organize an autocross school to teach interested members about the sport and to include some hands-on training. Normally at an event, beginners can always seek instruction from one of the autocross teams talented instructors, but that experience is fairly limited to the driving without an opportunity to teach all of the physics involved in car dynamics nor to convey all of the information passed on to students attending the school.

The school’s 2 day format features a 6 hour class room session where the concepts of apex, exit speeds, understeer, oversteer, and car control dynamics are thoroughly discussed followed by another session at the track where the students learn threshold braking, practice leaning how to navigate a skid pad, learning slalom technique and combing all of the skills on a very technical figure 8 drill.

The school has graduated well over 240 students over the years and many of the students are still very much involved in the program. In addition, the impact that these students have had on our autocross attendance numbers has been amazing with over 200% growth over the past 8 years. In 2014, average attendance was about 25 drivers per event. For 2021, our average attendance was an astounding 55 drivers per event and continuing to grow.

I would like to acknowledge the efforts put on to produce the annual school by some of the following autocross team members over the last 8 years: Bob Peake, Matt Deter, Steve Nieslony, Joy Nieslony, Collin Fat, Ed Busuttil, Tim Howard, Weyland Fat, John Leet, Greg Zajic, Melinda Lincoln, David Schnitzer, Carl Winkler, Allan Booth, Martin Messersmith, Hector Chavez, and the dozen of volunteer instructors who have helped out over the years. A huge thank you!

This year’s graduating class had 34 drives in attendance with several women in attendance that included Karen Messersmith and Patti Osterholm. The weather at Thunderhill Raceway was cold and a little windy but the rain was kept at bay until after the school and cleared for the club’s first autocross of the season on Sunday.

              Collin leading a driver’s meeting for the slalom exercise

The first autocross of the 10-event season was held on March 20^th at Thunderhill Raceway Park in Willows, California. 52 drivers competed in wonderful spring like weather with temperatures in the upper 60’s and sunny skies. The event followed the AX school held the day before on March 19^th that concluded the two-day autocross program for nearly 30 students.

Course designer, Martin Messersmith, did a great job designing a very fast 40 second course that had room for full throttle acceleration followed by hard braking technical sweepers.

Lots of fun and challenging for even the experienced drivers participating. There were 6 students who participated that had just graduated from the autocross school. They were looking to fine tune their newly acquired skills. With Covid restrictions for in car instruction having been lifted, the SVR team provided in car instruction to all drivers who requested instruction is provided free of charge to all drivers whether they have had a few years of prior autocross experience or are brand new to the sport.

SVR autocross is the only high-performance driving event for members seeking to test their driving skills and the performance of their Porsche car.

The club’s autocross series has been a long-standing club program that has been going on for nearly 60 years. If you have an inkling to find out more about autocross, sign up for our next event on April 9^th. To register go to: https://www.motorsportreg.com/events/2022-pca-svr-autocross-2-thunderhill-raceway-park-sacramento-valley-350729

Results:

Top time of day honors went to Drew Powers of Redwood Region with a blistering time of 41.774 seconds followed by RJ Harrison, Golden Gate Region with a time of 42.705 and SVR’s David Borden driving his 2019 Porsche GT3 with a time of 42.932. Sacramento Valley autocrossers Alan Booth, John Leet, Carl Winkler, Collin Fat and Greg Zajic rounded out the top ten. The top ten finishers time and place are below. 

SVR Membership Report

Ken Shahoian,

Membership Director, Ken Shahoian at: membership@svr-pca.org

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

For those planning on attending Parade 2022 at the Kalahari Resort in the Poconos, registration is now open for phase II events which includes banquets, competitive events such as concours, autocross, TSD rally, and the popular tours. Phase I registration has closed and only those who have registered for Phase I can register for Phase II. Attendance was limited based on the availability of hotel rooms, according to Parade chair, Ron Gordon. For more information visit: https://www.porscheparade.org/

Fall Treffen will be held at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs from April 17^th to May 1^st. The event is sold out and many members from Zone 7 who have successfully registered will be making the 2,400-mile round trip journey. For more information go to:

https://treffen.pca.org/index.cfm?event=main.showcontent&page=21

Werks Reunion will be returning to the Monterey Peninsula on August 19^th with registration opening May 25^th. This is a highly anticipated event happening during Monterey Car Week along with the event of the week, the Pebble Beach Concours D ’elegance. The Monterey Historic races will also be held that week with PCA planning a hospitality tent on August 20-21^st in conjunction with the race.

Porscheplatz at the IMSA Hyundai Sports Car Challenge will be held on April 30^th and May 1^st. The event will be held at Laguna Seca Raceway and the hospitality tent is being sponsored by Porsche Cars North America. PCNA will feature guest speakers, pit tours of the IMSA race team paddocks, and a Parade lap. Tickets are required for parking in the Porsche Corral but any PCA member with proof of membership or a Porsche owner with key fob may enter the hospitality tent.

Parade 2023 will be held at the La Quinta Resort in Palm Springs from June 18-24^th. The hotel is a five -star rated property that has a famous history of being the hangout for movie stars and the Hollywood elite during the 1940’s.

The first two events of the Zone Autocross series were held on March 12^th and 13^th at Crows Landing near Patterson, California. The March 12^th event was sponsored by Golden Gate Region and had over 60 drivers participating while the March 13^th had around 50 drivers and was hosted by Loma Prieta Region.

The next events in the Zone Series will be held on May 14^th and 15^th and Thunderhill Raceway Park with Sacramento Valley Region hosting the event on May 14^th and Redwood Region hosting the event on May 15^th. Registration is currently open.

                           Carl Winkler of Sacramento Valley in action

The Zone concours team completed its Phase I school via Zoom on April 10^th that was attended by more than 60 students and was led by Zone Concours chairs, Roy Schauben and Simone Kopitzki. It was very well organized, and the students received an update on some clarifications of the current Zone Concours rules as well as tips on how to judge and prepare cars for competition. Phase II training will be held on May 1^st at Porsche Stevens Creek as well as at Hi Tech Automotive in San Rafael followed by another Phase II training session sponsored by the Sacramento Valley Region on May 22nd in Shingle Springs just east of Sacramento.

The first concours of the season will be held in Sacramento at Porsche of Rocklin on June 5^th with registration now open on Motorsportreg.com at the following link: https://www.motorsportreg.com/events/concours-porsche-of-rocklin-pca-sacramento-valley-events-553050 

The first two club races of the West Coast Club Race series were held at Thunderhill Raceway Park in Willows, Ca. on April 3-4^th, and was attended by 34 drivers. This was a very good turnout especially considering it was the first two events of the series and there were several other club race events on the same weekend.

The club racing series is divided into several different classes including 911Cup, GTA, GT2, GT3, and Spec Boxster with Spec Boxster being the most popular among club racers. The weekend featured several qualifying sessions and 3 sprint races. The results of the first sprint race on April 4^th are below:

Spec 911 cars on grid

Racers hitting turn 11 at Thunderhill Raceway Park

1) Poscheplatz April 30th to May 1^st Laguna Seca, VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

2) Zone 7 Shasta Tour, June 9-13^th, SOLD OUT

3) Porsche Parade at the Kalahari Resort, Pennsylvania, June 12-18, Registration closes May 14th; porscheparade.org

4) PCA Werks Reunion, August 19, Monterey, werksreunion.com

5) PCA Fall Treffen, September 14-18, Sunriver Resort, Bend, Oregon; treffen.pca.org

A 225/45/ZR17 tire could be considered a standard front tire in a Boxster, Cayman or Carrera. This particular tire has a 25 inch overall diameter and after doing the math we know that this tire will turn approximately 807 times every mile. At 25 miles per hour this tire will roll 5.6 times per second, at 70 mph (speed limit on the Interstate) it will roll15.7 times per second and at 140 mph (speed right before braking for turn 17 at Sebring) the tire will roll a daunting 31.4 times every second. This means that the tire is changing its shape from its unloaded to its loaded state and back every 3/100^th of a second.

For more information about tires and other topics of interest for your Porsche, please visit our website at: www.PedrosGarage.com

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