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Roundtable Charity Tour for the Kids • pg.15 

Volume 56 l Edition 7 l Sep 2012 l rmr.pca.org 

20th Annual Club Race 

RMR outshines the rest! See page 7 

High-Country Drive/Broadmoor Brunch Tour 

RMR-PCA Membership Social at 

Larry Winkler’s “Steel Affairs” 

Sept. 6, 6-9pm 

See page 2

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Vol. 56 Edition 7 • September 2012 

presidential thoughts Rick Gonçalves, President 

Wow! The Club Race is over now, but what a spectacle 

it was! And what a variety a senses were stimulated! The sight of 

virtually the entire paddock being filled up with Porsches and their 

transporters, flags, and tents, the sounds of air wrenches, the smells 

of gasoline and hamburgers cooking, and the feel of the hot sun and 

the cold, brief rain. 

The RMR Club Race is the only event of its kind that the club 

sponsors each year, at its own race track near Byers called High Plains Raceway (HPR). 

Our club is one of the five car club owners of the track, who banded together to form 

Colorado Amateur Motorsports Association, otherwise known as CAMA, and CAMA was 

responsible for planning, designing, constructing and continuing to improve the track. 

After we lost three of our local tracks in one year six years ago, it was a major challenge 

to get those same five clubs together to find land and to plan, design and construct a 

new racetrack nearer to Denver than the track at Pueblo. To make a long story short, 

however, the land was found and purchased, and the track and paddock were built three 

years ago with hundreds of donations of time and money, generous loans, and money 

the car clubs owned from Second Creek. It was a very spartan track, with very limited 

facilities, but it was a track. And, as tracks go, it was a very fine track, superior to 

anything in our state. 

What has been so incredible is the transformation that track has gone through in the 

last four years from that spartan track to the incredible race venue I witnessed and 

experienced two weeks ago, thanks to the improvements that CAMA has made to the 

track, and to the huge success of our event. 

The first PCA/RMR Club Race ever held at HPR three years ago on that very spartan 

track was exciting just because it was on a brand new track, and because the event almost 

didn’t happen because of the incredible organization required and the dependence on 

out-of-state racers that our other events don’t have. With a huge degree of volunteerism, 

however, much of it from the local racers themselves, and enough sponsorships, also 

significantly coming from the local racers, the very first event turned out to be a success. 

The second race and the race last year were even more exciting from an event 

standpoint, because more out-of-towners entered the race, given the word-of-mouth 

spread of the quality of the track and the event in general. 

This year, however, is where I think the event hit its peak of maturity. With a record 77 

racing entrants from as far as Minnesota, Arizona and Texas, we didn’t need the BMW 

club to help support us. The Advanced DE entrants were numerous as well, further 

supporting the event. I have raced at other international tracks around the country, like 

Portland and Las Vegas, and aside from the race itself, nothing is more inspiring than to 

see all those beautiful Porsches, and all the teams busy around the paddock with their 

transporters and gaily painted GT3s and Cup Cars, flags flying, with tire truck employees 

busy mounting tires and mechanics working on their cars. That Saturday, August 11th, 

I found all of that and more at HPR with the paddock almost completely full! I had to 

marvel at how far we had come in just three years—from a thirty-six foot wide circuit of 

asphalt out in the middle of the prairie to a full-fledged race track. I said to myself, “Wow, 

this is a REAL race track!” 

Thank you to all the RMR club members who helped make that happen! And a big 

”Thank you” to all the volunteers, without whom the event would not have happened. 

Finally, a special thanks to Kathy Fricke, who has organized and co-organized this event 

for the last FOURTEEN years, and who is retiring after this event. We will miss her! 

cover photo 

Car #77, piloted by Eban Bell of Rocky Mountain Region, 

GTC3 Class, lifts a wheel on the inside of corner #2 at HPR. 

Bell took 2nd place in Sprint #1 with a time of 1:53.653 and 

1st Place in Sprint #2 with 1:54.334. Photo by Bruce Bell. 

inside this issue 

presidential thoughts .......................1 

steel affair auto extravaganza ................2 

positive offset .............................3 

upcoming events ...........................3 

membership musings .......................4 

caribbean summer de .......................5 

broadmoor & magical mystery tours. . . . . . . . . . . . 6 

drive for kids ..............................7 

20th annual club race .......................9 

oktoberfast ..............................16 

in the spotlight ...........................17 

in the zone ...............................19 

classified ads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 

techtalk .................................21 

i get around ..............................22 

what we do ..............................23 

the rearview mirror ........................24 

High Gear (ISSN1061-1746) is the official magazine of the Rocky 

Mountain Region Porsche Club of America (RMR/ PCA) and is published 

monthly. The annual subscription rate is $14.00, included in RMR/PCA 

membership dues. Non-RMR subscriptions are $25.00. 

The opinions and views appearing in High Gear are those of the individual 

writers and do not necessarily reflect the official opinions of the RMR/ 

PCA, PCA National, or this magazine as an official RMR/PCA publication. 

Additionally, none of these organizations nor this publication assumes 

any responsibility for the accuracy of material provided by individual 

writers and contributors. 

High Gear entire contents copyright © 2012 by Rocky Mountain Region 

Porsche Club of America, Inc. All rights reserved. Articles and photos are 

the copyright of their respective creators and are used with permission. 

Office of publication: 547 Sawtooth Point, Lafayette, CO, 80026. Periodicals 

postage paid at Lafayette, CO and additional mailing offices. 

POSTMASTER: Please send address changes to PCA National Office, P.O. 

Box 6400, Columbia, MD 21045. 

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September 2012

egion coordinators 

CAMA Representative Walt Fricke 

303.499.6540 walterfricke@msn.com 

Charity/Good Works Camilla Rosenberger 

Nancy Warren 

charitycommittee@rmrporscheclub.com 

Chief Driving Instructor Doug Bartlett 

970.214.7279 doug.bartlett@comcast.net 

Control Chief Al Woodward 

abw@woodwardwealth.com 

Equipment Keith Hall 

303.940.7958 keith_hal@msn.com 

Historian Amy Legg-Rogers 

970.686.0538 a1queen@frii.com 

Insurance Alex Acevedo 

303.637.9707 apacevedo@earthlink.net 

Programs/Socials Erik Behrendsen 

303.840.7361 ebehrendsen@comcast.net 

Registration Tim Bevan 

817.304.0624 tim@oemparthaus.com 

Safety Todd Nelson 

970.223.8716 nelsrats@mesanetworks.net 

Tech Inspection Tommy Dean 

303.548.0931 tedean@mac.com 

Timing Joe Warren 

303.604.1289 warrenjoee@comcast.net 

Webmeister Scott Rogers 

970.686.0538 scottr@wirestone.com 

Zone 9 Representative Sean Cridland 

575.829.4392 cridland_s@valornet.com 

technical resources 

Questions about your Porsche? These members are 

specialists with expert knowledge of specific Porsche 

models. Contact them for information regarding the 

maintenance and modification of your Porsche. 

356 Jim Kellogg 

303.840.2356 twingril62@aol.com 

911 John Haley 

303.798.2177 

912 Rob Heath 

303.995.1147 robheath912@gmail.com 

914 Dale Tuety 

303.670.1279 d2t@aol.com 

924 Dan Semborski 

303.420.2708 djsemborski@yahoo.com 

928 Your Name Here 

Volunteer to be the RMR 928 specialist! 

944 Richard Winnick 

303.429.5213 rewinnick@cs.com 

968 Zach Schroeder 

970.229.0990 info@poudresportscar.com 

Boxster/Cayman Doug Bartlett 

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Cayenne Steve Schroeder 

970.229.0990 info@poudresportscar.com 

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September 2012 

SEPTEMBER 

MEMBERSHIP 

SOCIAL 

Larry Winkler’s “Steel Affairs” 

auto extravaganza! 

Larry Winkler purchased the Mathews Collection a while back and has now opened 

his own business in the former building(s). A gated parking lot, with enough room to bring 

in 132 Porsches, awaits us on Sept. 6, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm, at 5889 Lamar St, Arvada, 

CO, 80003! 

Larry’s personal collection of cars is now on display and what a wonderful collection 

it is! Beer, wine, soft drinks, water and food will be provided gratis to all. There just might 

be a door prize or two for those arriving in a Porsche, so come one, come all, to the 

September RMR-PCA Membership Social. 

Last month’s RMR-PCA membership social was held at Stevinson Imports on south 

Broadway. 125 members showed up in their Porsches for food, festivities and of course, 

coveted Porsche door prizes! A special thank you to, Steve Burt, GM, and Mark Barnett, 

Porsche Sales Mgr., and the rest of the Stevinson crew for having us back for the third 

year in a row. They do know how to cook a good burger on the huge grill! 

Erik Behrendsen, RMR-PCA Program Chairman 

board of directors board@rmrporscheclub.com 

President 

Rick Gonçalves 

president@rmr... 

H:303.697.1960 

Second 

Vice President 

John Mackin 

2ndvicepresident@rmr... 

H:303.665.9579 

C:303.641.6479 

Secretary 

Scott Henderson 

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C:303.521.9007 

Newsletter Editor 

David Schmidt 

newsletter@rmr... 

C:303.662.1162 

Monthly board meetings are open to club members— 

see Upcoming Events (opposite page) for schedule. 

All e-mail addresses are @rmrporscheclub.com. 

Vice President 

Jim Widrig 

1stvicepresident@rmr... 

H:303.655.7495 

C:720.883.6071 

Treasurer 

Roger Buswell 

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W:303.660.6199 

Membership 

Chair 

Nancy Warren 

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Past President 

Rex Heck 

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H:303.841.8124

positive offset David Schmidt, Editor upcoming events 

September’s issue 

marks the debut of 

yet another new, ongoing 

section in your 

favorite little Porsche 

Club magazine. It’ll 

be chockfull of useful 

information about tweaking, maintaining, 

cleaning and improving different aspects of 

your autobahn burner. It’s called TechTalk. 

To accommodate this new monthly 

article, penned by some of Colorado’s 

most respected experts and industry 

professionals, the classified area has been 

pruned down to just one page with ads 

now being limited now to just 75 words. 

The online classifieds (http://rmr.pca.org/ 

staticpages/classifieds.aspx) will remain 

robust as ever, where photos can also be 

added to make them even more appealing. 

I hope that TechTalk proves to be one of 

the more popular portions of HighGear. I 

also hope that it gives many of our sponsors 

and advertisers an extra chance to lend a 

bit of their automotive wisdom to the RMR 

membership. It’ll also be a great place to 

showcase new technologies, tools, tricks 

get involved 

Contribute to Your Newsletter! 

High Gear needs your articles and 

photos! Become a part of the awardwinning 

team by submitting your content 

and ideas to the Newsletter Editor by 

the 10th of the month: 

newsletter@rmrporscheclub.com 

Join RMR/PCA 

Not a member yet? Join RMR/PCA by 

visiting www.pca.org and clicking the 

Join PCA link. 

Advertise in High Gear 

Please see page 23 for display advertising 

rates and other details. 

of the trade, and those tried-and-true 

techniques that we all might be able to use 

on our own cars. 

TechTalk kicks off with some valuable 

insight by none other than Walt Fricke, our 

very own PCA Club Race Technical Rules 

Chair. His article, on page 21, discusses the 

nuances of brakes, especially as they relate 

to taking your Porsche to the track or even 

a more gentle autocross. 

Walt’s article captures his many years 

of experience on this matter and contains 

a wealth of information. I challenge any of 

you reading this issue not to come away 

with something new and insightful from 

reading it. This is exactly what I’m hoping all 

future TechTalk articles will be like. 

If you have some questions you would 

like answered that involve the technical/ 

mechanical aspects of your car (or you 

have some advice you want to share with 

the rest of us) please drop a quick email to 

newsletter@rmrporscheclub.com. I would 

love to throw your queries at our resident 

experts, suppliers, vendors and shop 

owners to elicit their input. 

In June, earlier this year, 

Lindsay Lohan smashed 

her 911 into the back of 

a truck on a California 

interstate, claiming the 

brakes (that had just 

been replaced two days 

earlier) simply failed. 

Kinda like her career. 

RMR Online Discussion Groups 

Would you like to discuss Porsches, 

RMR or anything else of interest to other 

Porschephiles? Check out the RMR 

online discussion groups. 

Yahoo!: 

groups.yahoo.com/group/rmr_pca 

Facebook: 

www.facebook.com/groups/pcarmr 

Get Your Newsletter on the Go! 

To read High Gear in PDF format on 

the Web, go to the RMR Web site at 

rmr.pca.org and click the Newsletter 

link. Back issues are also available on 

the Web site. 

September 

Wed 9/5 Board Meeting 

6:30 meeting at 

RG and Associates 

4875 Ward Road, Suite 100 

Wheat Ridge • 303.293.8107 

Meetings open to members 

Thu 9/6 RMR Membership Meeting 

“Steel Affairs” - Arvada 

Sat 9/8 Round Table Charity Tour 

-Sun 9/10 6th Annual Drive for the Kids 

Benefits Children’s Hospital 

Sports Program for disabled kids 

Event Registrar: Tamela Cash 

303.817.1701 

tamela.home@gmail.com 

Sat 9/8 Porsche Breakfast Club 

8:00am breakfast 

at Village Inn 

4100 E. Mexico, Denver 

Erik Behrendsen, organizer 

Sat 9/15 Caribbean Summer DE 

-Sun 9/16 High Plains Raceway 

Sun 9/16 Broadmoor Tour/Brunch 

Sun 9/22 AMR Magical Mystery Tour 

Sat 9/29 AMR DE LaJunta Raceway 

-Sun 9/30 

October 

Mon 10/1 Board Meeting 

6:30 meeting at 

RG and Associates 

4875 Ward Road, Suite 100 

Wheat Ridge • 303.293.8107 

Meetings open to members 

Thu 10/4 Membership Social 

TBD 

Thu 10/11 Oktoberfest at Prestige Porsche 

and Membership Meeting 

Sat 10/13 Porsche Breakfast Club 

8:00am breakfast 

at Village Inn 

4100 E. Mexico, Denver 

Erik Behrendsen, organizer 

Sat 10/13 OktoberFAST DE 

-Sun 10/14 High Plains Raceway 

Sun 10/20 Trick or Cross Autocross 

Sat 10/27 Holiday Food Bank Packing 

RMR Charity Committee 

For the most up-to-date event schedule, 

check out the online calendar at 

rmr.pca.org 

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membership musings Nancy Warren, Membership Chair 

Ahhh…cooler days are approaching— 

well, hopefully! Summer is quickly driving 

by us! 

We had our premier driving event, the 

“High Plains Thunder” Club Race /Advanced 

Solo DE at HPR in August. There was a good 

turnout of racers and DE drivers…lots of 

local folks and also out-of-state drivers. This was the 20th year 

for the CR/DE…wow! Thanks to ALL the volunteers that made 

it happen! 

Although summer is winding down and cooler weather is 

on the way, there are still plenty of upcoming events. For 

performance driving, there are still two more RMR DE events 

and one Autocross. AMR will also be having a DE at La Junta. 

Several tours are on the calendar. There are the Drive for the 

Kids, AMR’s Fall Tour to a mystery location, and the Broadmoor 

Brunch tour. Check the RMR calendar for the time and date and 

check motorsportreg.com for registration. 

Please keep your membership information up to date and 

remember to renew your RMR/PCA membership! 

Nifty name badge and colorful car badge order forms can be 

found on the website: rmr.pca.org. 

Hope to see YOU at an RMR event, and don’t forget that it is 

more fun with YOU there! 

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Carl and Jennifer Buice 

Boulder CO 

2005 Cayenne, Black 

How about a Mile High Salute to our newest members… 

Petra and Robert Chittenden 

Littleton CO 

2000 Boxster, Blue 

Marsha Evans 

Aurora CO 

2004 Boxster, Blue 

Sean Haggard 

Evergreen CO 

2012 C4 GTS, Black 

Chris and Sarah Hogan 

Evergreen CO 

1999 911, Black 

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Bill Jeffers 

Boulder CO 

1995 993, Silver and 

2002 996 Cabriolet, Black 

Andy Larsen 

Littleton CO 

2001 996, Black 

Christopher LeClair 

Aurora CO 

1991 964, Red 

John Malensek 

Golden CO 

2004 Boxster S, Silver 

Steve Meyer 

Larkspur CO 

2001 Boxster, Black 

New to RMR or not a member yet? 

Find out what we’re all about! 

Page 27 describes the various types of activities 

our club members regularly enjoy. Check it out—then 

come to our next event and get involved! 

Paul and Amy Mueller 

Parker CO 

2001 996 TT, Black 

Griffin Ralston 

Denver CO 

2000 911, Red 

Pete Robinson 

Denver CO 

1971 911T, Green 

Eric Thurston 

Sedalia CO 

1995 Carrera, Silver 

John and Vonalda Utterback 

Longmont CO 

2001 Boxster, Green 

Dan Weyland 

Denver CO 

2010 GT3, Orange 

Gavin Yuill 

Denver CO 

2009 997 Turbo, Black 

Out of State Transfers: 

Alan and Bettsey Barhorst 

Silverthorne CO 

From: Central Wisconsin 

2001 Boxster S, Silver 

Richard and Linda Lopes 

Westminster CO 

From: Peachstate 

2010 GT3, Red

Caribbean Summer II 

A Never Ending Summer Driving Event! 

You heard about it last year...Grass Skirts, Coconuts, Pig Roast and Mixologists. 

Plus great driving with great friends! You sure don’t want to miss it this year! 

Join the Coolest DE Event of the Year! 

Sept. 15-16, 2012 

Registration is now open! For information and registration for this event, 

go to http://pcarockymtn.motorsportreg.com/ 

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Fall High-Country Drive/Tour 

and Sunday Brunch at The 

Broadmoor, September 16th 

Please join us for the sixth 

drive of the season to the 

beautiful Broadmoor Hotel 

for Sunday Brunch! The 

festivities, begin at 8:00am, 

Sept. 16th, at the Village Inn 

Restaurant parking lot at 

4100 E. Mexico Ave, Denver, 

CO 80222. Upon arrival we 

will sign liability waivers, 

have a driver’s meeting and 

place participants into run 

groups. Our drive will take 

us through the high country 

to bask in the fall foliage and 

beautiful Colorado weather. 

For those who have not partaken in this event, this is the one you should attend. The 

Broadmoor has a fabulous Sunday brunch second to none. There are over 100 item to 

choose from and four caving stations. Come hungry and ready for a terrific time with 

all your Porsche friends. This drive always sells out as it is limited to 70 participants. 

Please register is at: http://pcarockymtn.motorsportreg.com 

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join the amr 22-23 sept. for the 

Magical Mystery Tour 

Join tour leaders Mike & Liz Moore and Karl & Kathy Klepfer of the AMR-PCA, for a trip to who knows where? 

This is the 2012 Alpine Mountain Region Fall Tour (sponsored by Elite Deck and Fencing), where the route, 

meal, locations, and even the final destination are closely guarded secrets. Price is $395 per couple or $325 

for singles and includes Saturday breakfast, lunch, and dinner along with your overnight accommodations. 

Registration is now open on Motorsport.Reg and space is limited to just 40 cars, so please plan to 

sign up early - you won’t want to miss this trip! 

Saturday, 22 September 

Deadline has 

been extended! 

We will meet at the Monument Hill Country Club for breakfast where driving instructions to the first stopping point will be distributed. 

Additional instructions will be handed out at each subsequent stop. We’ll have lots of fun driving scenic roads that are sure to please you 

and your Porsche as we make our way to our lunch stop at a very interesting restaurant that has loads of character. After lunch, we will 

continue on through breathtaking scenery before reaching a rest stop and proceeding to our final destination. A fun and challenging quiz 

will be provided which will test your extensive musical knowledge. To stay within a reasonable budget for this trip, there will be no souvenir 

gifts. As always, there will be a supply of bottled water available at each stop. All restaurants and the hotel are handicap accessible. 

Sunday, 23 September 

Sunday breakfast is not included, so you will be free to make use of the hotel dining room or try one of the many restaurants nearby. You 

can return home on one of several interesting routes either on your own or in the company of informal groups of other trip goers. Several 

varied routes will be provided.

Save the Date: September 8-9 

Sixth Annual Drive for the Kids 

The Sixth Annual Drive for the Kids tour, to benefit the 

Children’s Colorado Sports Program for children with physical 

disabilities, will be held on Saturday, September 8th. The 

Denver Round Table, together with RMR/PCA and the Rocky 

Mountain Jaguar Club, will kick off the Drive for the Kids. 

This year’s driving tour is designed with your flexibility in 

mind. On Saturday, we will start in beautiful Palmer Lake with 

breakfast, then head towards Salida for a special luncheon 

location. After lunch, you will have the choice of taking a fun 

route back to Denver, or continuing your afternoon enjoyment 

towards the final destination of El Monte Sagrado Resort in 

Taos, NM. Once there, enjoy a gourmet meal prepared by 

acclaimed Chef Henry Chaperont, a silent auction and grand 

accommodations. On Sunday you are on your own to explore 

Taos and the surrounding areas, along with recommended 

optional tours and routes home. 

The Denver Round Table’s goal is to provide a minivacation 

with a full two days of scenic driving, great food, 

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beautiful accommodations, and lively conversation with other 

participants, all while supporting our youth oriented charities. 

Registration is open now! Complete details, including 

information about sponsorship opportunities and donations of 

silent auction items, can be found at www.denverroundtable. 

net, or in an upcoming issue of High Gear. 

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at the Brown Palace Hotel, downtown Denver 

5:00 - 6:30pm, hors d’oeuvres with open bar 

6:30 - 8:00pm, three-course seated dinner with open bar 

8:00 - 11:00pm, dessert, coffee, and tea with cash bar 

11:00pm post party in the lobby 

Tickets may be purchased for you and your guests at rmr.pca.org 

from October 1st through November 30th 

Special guest room rate available directly through the Brown Palace 

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Please bring a donation for The Toys for Tots Foundation

Any Club Racer will tell you that it’s important to show well at your home 

race. High Plains is OUR track and we don’t want racers from OTHER regions 

coming to our place and out-driving us. Especially on this, the 20th renewal 

of the first club race ever held. Colorado’s own Alex Welch made sure of this 

in Sunday’s first sprint race by outpacing the field in a dominant 36-second 

win over RMR’s own Robert Prilika, Michael McGrath, and Andy Wilzoch. 

Tommy Dean came in 6th. Now that’s some home cookin’, folks! 

RMR/PCA 

CLUB 

RACE 

Story by Mike Quigley, Photos by Bruce Bell 

Read on... 

Out front at the start of the race are: #08 Alex Walsh, behind him are #124 Michael 

McGrath, #25 Tommy Dean and #1 Robert Prilika - all RMR racers. 

Rocky Mountain Region was the very first 

region to host a PCA Club Race, at Second 

Creek Raceway in 1992. Since then we have 

hosted twenty Club Races, and along the way 

we have incorporated the Advanced Solo DE 

groups into the race weekend’s schedule. 

This was the 14th Club Race event that I 

have chaired or co-chaired over the years, and 

my last. Some might say, “Oh sure, you will be 

back next year,” but this time I deserve a rest 

and Walt agrees! So Brian Leary will be taking 

on this responsibility for the 2013 Club Race 

and Solo DE. Brian will need the entire support 

that you have all shown to me over the many 

years. He will bring the race to the next level 

and have fun doing it with all of us helping him. 

It takes many regional members to 

volunteer to produce an event of this magnitude. 

Co-chairs Vicki Earnshaw, Brian and I would 

like to thank all the committee chairs and their 

extended committee members for the time and 

effort extended for its success. 

Our sponsors outdid themselves this year 

in their support and we want to express our 

sincere gratitude. Our thanks go out to “Title 

Race Sponsors” once again for this year’s race: 

PCNA and Prestige Imports (Justin Adis and 

Dean Blackwelder, GM), along with Race Gold 

Sponsor GBOX of Boulder (Stan Richardson). 

Silver Sponsors were 3R Racing/Auto (Bob and 

Holly Raub) and Pendleton Friedberg Wilson 

& Hennessey P.C. (Cecil Morris). Bronze 

Sponsors were Poudre Sports Car (Steven 

and Zack Schroeder), Eurosport Ltd. (Greg 

Johnson), and Benjamin West (Alan Benjamin) 

and Carquip of Boulder (Tom Conway). Race 

Sponsors were Hanksville Hotrods (Hank 

Padilla), Invoice Bankers (Greg Curtiss), RG 

and Associates, LLC (Rick Gonçalves), Ray 

Newman, Walt and Kathy Fricke, and Adele 

Arakawa & Barry Tiller. 

I want to thank all of you for your kind 

support over the years during my stint as your 

Club Racing Chair and will now concentrate on 

getting back to my first love, Club Racing itself. 

Walt just bought me a new Hans device, so it’s 

off to the track for me once again! 

Warm regards to all! 

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With all this GTA Cup Car action at the 

front it might have been easy to overlook 

the efforts of another Alex (of the female 

persuasion), Alexandra Sabados, running in 

GT4R, never put a wheel wrong all weekend 

and over the course of the two-day event 

lowered the class record held by Greg Curtiss 

to a sterling 1:56.283! More local dominance 

was evident in GT4S as Mike Hemingway and 

Bruce McGrath each took a win. 

Sunday’s second sprint race was almost 

a repeat of race one’s domination by the other 

Alex but he and Prilika had to settle for second 

and third, losing out to a determined effort by 

Klaus Viljanmaa, the “Finnish Spinner,” who 

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also salvaged his otherwise dodgy weekend 

by lowering the outright Best-Ever Porsche 

Lap Record to a stunning 1:46.594, which he 

accomplished during Saturday’s 60-minute 

Enduro. Klaus, as many of you know, drives 

a 4.0-liter GTA2 Hybrid-Tribute car which he 

debuted last summer at the Hastings race. 

Driving arguably the most potent package in 

Club Racing, Klaus truly drives this beast like 

he stole it and is given to titanic 4-wheels-off 

excursions and spins. Just this side of being a 

menace, he is fun to watch and has the talent 

to become a pro if he can dial it back a notch 

or two. He has the time and the means to do 

it too—he would put in back to back to back 

Club Race weekends: High Plains followed by 

Mid-Ohio followed by Road America. Can’t 

argue with his level of commitment! 

The Stock Class Group featured a good 

showing from Chad Cox in E class, who won 

Sprint One and took a credible third to KC’s 

Richard Bennett in race two. This after 

completely botching both starts and making 

Alex Walsh (below) in the #08 car has the temperature on his tires taken, 

Niels Meissner (right) in the #06 tries to keep ahead of his competition, 

RMR’s Tommy Dean lays down a nice lap in the #25. 

Houston’s Neils Meissner finished second in 

both races by a combined total of less than 

five seconds. His dad Siggi also made his 

Club Race debut this weekend and found 

plenty of people to race with. Texan Thomas 

Jones kicked our butts in Spec Boxster and 

also took more than a half-second out of the 

lap record for the class. I enjoyed my time in 

my new-to-me SPB car and can’t wait for the 

Hallett Club Race where we’ll have our own 

run group with 20+ entries. 

Walt Fricke made a surprising 

appearance in D class and whipped up on the 

field taking wins in all three races. Taking 2nd 

Place in both Sprint races was Dick Scariano, 

another RMR racer from the West slope. Jim 

Widrig and Rick Gonçalves swept up the 

crumbs taking all but one of the remaining 

podium spots in the class for the weekend. 

Some of the best racing was in the SP1 

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others on the track. Dale Tuety had a splendid time gaining a win, a second, and a third. Vicki 

Earnshaw made her return to Club Racing and stuck her rented “Pink Pig” car on the third 

step of the podium in Sprint One, beating many seasoned racers in the process including her 

boyfriend Ray Newman. 

Probably the most laughable moment of the entire weekend came in Saturday’s third 

practice—the vaunted session that grids the racers for the 60-minute Enduro and also for 

qualifying. This is the one for which you put your game face on and really go for a good lap. 

Problem was as were getting ready to go out it started to rain—first a few drops, then a full-on 

shower. Many of us were caught out and did not fit rain tires. Dan Mayer did—well, sorta—he put Dan Carlson’s 944 street tires on his SP2 car 

and put up the 6th best overall time! Others on dry tires went way, way off track as they grabbed great gobs of understeer AND oversteer while 

hydroplaning their way around. It would all be for naught, however, as ultimately the National Steward, Bruce Boeder, elected not to use this 

session for gridding the Enduro—a choice that elicited both groans of discontent and sighs of relief from the racers. 

Thanks to all of our sponsors. We cannot put this race on without your help! I especially want to thank all of you who volunteered to help 

put on this event. Run in concert with the Super DE, this is no small effort and truly requires more planning and coordination than any other 

single thing we do save putting on the Porsche Parade. We all owe a great debt of gratitude to Kathy Fricke, Vicki Earnshaw, and Brian Leary. 

Kathy has announced that this will be her last time chairing the club race so give her a couple of weeks to recover and start working on her to 

do it “one last time.” Thanks, Kathy! 

Just a few of the winners (above) from the 20th Annual Club Race held 

at High Plains Raceway sponsored by Prestige Porsche and G-Box: 

Sprint #1 - E - 1st Chad Cox, 2nd Niels Meissner; 

Sprint #1 - SP1 - 1st Steve Coomes, 2nd Dale Tuety, 3rd Vicki Earnshaw; 

Sprint #1 - SPB - 2nd Mike Quigley; 

Enduro - 1st Thomas Jones, 2nd Keith Fritze, 3rd Dean Johnson. 

 

 

 

 

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OktoberFAST, 

a No Times DE, 

scheduled for 

October 13-14 

It’s hard to believe it with temperatures hovering in the 90s day in and 

day out, but fall is fast approaching. This year we’ll be celebrating 

the change of seasons with the changing of tires, the falling of leaves 

with falling lap times, and the end of the DE season with a traditional 

German celebration – OktoberFAST. Don’t despair when Autumn is in 

the air – it’s your chance to head out to High Plains Raceway for the last 

DE of 2012. Join other PCA members for all things German – fast cars, 

no speed limits, the oom-pah-pah of Bavarian music and Beer Thirty. 

Make sure you mark October 13 and 14th on your calendars and get your 

registration in today! 

OktoberFAST is a No Times DE with paid corner workers which 

means lots of track time. It’s the proper way to celebrate fall and give 

your Porsche one last hurrah before winter. OktoberFAST will be the time 

you’ll fondly remember when the snow is on the ground, the Porsche is 

tucked snugly in the garage, and cabin fever is setting in. 

Registration for the event will be closing September 29th, so register 

early to make sure you receive an OktoberFAST shirt with a custom Dave 

Schmidt design in your size. You won’t be able to get these anywhere else, 

so don’t miss your chance by waiting too long to sign up. Registration 

is through www.pcarockymtn.motorsportreg.com, and the registrars for 

the event are EJ Bennett and Penny Jenkins. It is only $250 to drive both 

days, or $175 for a single day (either Saturday or Sunday). Add a second 

driver for both days for only $225 or a single day for $150. Tell your family 

and friends – they don’t even have to drive a Porsche to join us for this 

fun event. 

Get your registration in now and watch your email and check the 

RMR website for the pre-tech inspection dates and locations. The RMR 

website is http://rmr.pca.org, and you can find OktoberFAST information 

under the “RMR Upcoming Event Schedule” on the homepage or by 

clicking on the “Events” tab. You can also visit the HPR web at www. 

highplainsraceway.com to get more information about the track and 

facilities, or check out some of the on-track videos posted on YouTube to 

get ready. 

OktoberFAST – a truly German way to celebrate fall! 

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13-14 OCT 2012 HIGH PLAINS RACEWAY 

Event Chairs and Registrars: 

Bill Emery 

emery@Colorado.EDU, 720-352-3004 

Dale Hartzell 

dahartzco@msn.com, 303-641-0056 

EJ Bennett 

ejbennett@comcast.net, 720-936-5486 

Penny Jenkins: pjenkins 

pweaver8@hotmail.com, 303-947-1202 

All participants get this FREE commemorative 

long-sleeve t-shirt! Include your size when 

you register, but you better register early to 

guarantee you get yours.

By Allison Radcliffe 

Okay, I’ll admit it – I‘ll never turn a diamond away. However, my 

1984 Carrera Cabriolet in Slate Blue Metallic (L661) makes my heart 

pitter patter more than any sparkly stone. 

My obsession with 1980s-era 911s began in high school, 

freshman year to be precise. I was the girl with a picture of a 

red 1984 930 S Turbo taped inside my locker while other lockers 

displayed photos of Rob Lowe from St. Elmo’s Fire. Thank goodness 

I was still able to get a few dates. 

Anyone who has known me since then has come to know that 

my 911 obsession is very real. By age five, both of my children could 

spot their Mom’s favorite car by make, year and model number. 

So when my husband surprised me with Lola (her name) for our 

20th wedding anniversary, he scored some points, to put it mildly. 

He had always told me (or maybe it was me who always told him) 

that he was lucky my dream car was a 1980s 911 rather than a 

modern day sports car. Much more realistic, financially speaking. 

With only 44,000 original miles, a pristine black rag top and 

hardly a scratch on her, she is magnificent. Her quirky analog 

gauges and manual antenna bring a smile to my face on the 

dreariest of days. 

And the rich, tangy smell of her German leather places me 

squarely in the tiny back seat of my dad’s yellow 1974 Mercedes 

450SL Roadster when I was little. Oh how I loved to smell that car’s 

leather. Clearly, my car obsession was inherited. 

The 911’s pure, rounded lines and iconic headlights have 

A Girl’s Best Friend. Confessions from a Car Chick. 

always made my heart skip a beat. But who would have ever 

thought that her stiff manual steering and demanding manual 

shift would make me giddy with delight? 

Needless to say, I look forward to afternoons when Lola takes 

me to a place where no other concerns exist. Her transmission 

simply won’t allow my mind to be anything but fully engaged. 

I’ll take the sparkle from Lola’s metallic paint over the flash of a 

diamond any day. Lola is this girl’s best friend. 

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in the zone Sean Cridland, PCA Zone 9 Representative 

Ahhhhhhh (with a 

sigh of relief....). This 

last month has been 

a relatively quiet one 

for me in my Zone 9 

travels. Still, that’s 

not to say that I haven’t been busy, just 

a much easier time than I described in 

my previous column. After Parade in Salt 

Lake City, I was able to catch some downtime, 

take a breather, and get caught up 

on rest and some odds and ends at home. 

But then it was back on the road to 

another of my favorite events of the year, 

the Rocky Mountain Region’s Club Race 

and Solo DE at High Plains Raceway. 

Having lived in Colorado for thirty years 

before moving to New Mexico nine years 

ago, I can say with a great sense of 

nostalgia that I do miss Colorado. There’s 

just something about the air and energy 

that found its way into my soul. So I 

always enjoy coming “home.” 

The annual RMR High Plains Thunder 

event is not just great because it’s in 

Colorado, or because it’s put on by RMR’s 

finely tuned staff led by Kathy Fricke and 

co-chaired by PCA Club Racing Head 

Steward Vicki Earnshaw and chairtrainee 

Brian Leary. It’s always a pleasure 

to be around both the hosting staff and 

all the Club Racing and DE drivers, who 

show such a great spirit of camaraderie 

both on and off the track. 

Besides my usual 

Zone Rep duties, this year 

I also served as pace car 

communications liaison 

between Race Control and 

the pace car driver. Our 

pace car was a beautiful, 

brand-new 981 Boxster S. 

Wow, what a great car! A 

definitive step ahead of all 

the recent Boxster models. 

This one had the PDK and 

all the other cool Porsche 

engine and chassis tuning 

stuff. Of course it was also 

fun to be riding around the serpentine 

High Plains circuit with all the race cars 

zig-zagging in the mirrors warming up 

their tires and brakes, too. 

This year, I saw one of my first PCA 

friends at the event. Early on in my PCA 

membership, I volunteered to be the 

Roadrunner Region newsletter editor. One 

of my very first issues included an article 

about (then) Los Alamos resident Bob 

Patterson, who was just finishing a 2-year 

project of rebuilding his race car from the 

ground up. I had heard all the stories and 

visited the garage where he was doing 

the work, and then I was lucky enough 

to go on some of his very first shakedown 

runs as a passenger. I took photos, 

interviewed Bob, and wrote a feature 

story. Then, the following year, Bob was 

kind enough to write a year-long, monthly 

column on his build process. (To see all of 

these articles, visit http://visionsofpower. 

com/pdfs/Bob_Patterson_article_sm.pdf 

). Of course, building the race car was 

only part of the adventure, and Bob went 

through all kinds of travails for several 

years after getting it all dialed in. But this 

year at HPR, it was working perfectly (as 

far as I could tell) and he won his class in 

each of the races. Since I last saw him, 

he’s moved to Colorado, so it was great to 

spend some time together again and see 

that all his work had come to fruition. 

I also had the opportunity to meet and 

spend time with some of the racing Fritze 

family. Kim Fritze is the Zone 10 rep, hailing 

from Minneapolis. Her husband Keith is a 

Club Racer, and Keith’s brother Alan is a 

long-time Club Racer from Colorado. It 

turned out that we had haunted some of 

the same places and knew several of the 

same people. It’s always fun to see the 

world become a little smaller. 

The very next weekend was closer 

to home, with a visit to the 42nd Annual 

Corrales Roundup, just on the outskirts 

of Albuquerque. PCAers Dave and Ann 

Stinchcomb have been hosting this 

event at their beautiful home in the Rio 

Grande bosque for all these years, and 

this edition was one of the best, with a 

so many Porsches the front yard was full 

and they had to park several of the cars 

out back. Each year there is a “featured 

car,” and this year it was the Boxster. So 

all the Boxsters were parked in the first 

couple rows and we did a special group 

photo with all the owners. A good time 

was had by all. 

I have a little more time off from PCA 

stuff before heading out to my next event. 

In the meantime, there is a different kind 

of action happening in Zone 9. At the end 

of the year my term will come to an end 

and you will have a new Zone 9 Rep. Right 

now we have two very strong candidates 

who are vying for the job: Joe Warren of 

Rocky Mountain Region and Liz Shaw of 

the Roadrunner Region. Both 

have been very engaged in 

PCA activities at the Regional, 

Zone, and National levels. If 

you meet either of them at 

an event, listen to what they 

have to say and feel free to 

ask questions. Your Regions’ 

presidents will be making 

their recommendations to 

the PCA Executive Committee 

in the next couple months... 

And come January, someone 

besides me will be writing 

this column. Stay tuned.... 

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classified ads 

Classified ads are free to RMR/PCA members 

for items personally owned by the member. 

No commercial ads. Ads for non-members 

are $10 for each month (send payment to RMR 

Treasurer - Roger Buswell, 1200 Greenwood 

Lane, Castle Rock, CO 80104). Ads must be 

75 words or less. Deadline for classified ad 

submission is the 15th of the previous month. 

Member ads will run for two issues. Ads 

will also appear with an optional photo on 

the rmr.pca.org Web site. E-mail your ad to 

newsletter@rmrporscheclub.com. 

porsche cars 

1993 RS America - VIN# WPOAB2966PS419289. 

Midnight Blue Metallic with blue belts and door 

pulls, beautiful car. Fast and stable, easy to drive 

quickly. Clean, always garaged, 77,000 miles, 

very good condition. Includes all four factory 

options: limited slip differential, air conditioning, 

sunroof and radio; many performance upgrades. 

Power train is untouched. Service records. 

Complete description at rsamerica.blogspot. 

com. Call for details. 303-929-2983. [Sep] 

2000 Boxster - Only 40,300 miles. Exterior is 

rare Forest Green Metallic, the interior and top 

are Grey, both in excellent condition. 5-speed 

manual transmission, cold AC, AM/FM/CD, clear 

bra and all owners manuals and tool kit. Local 

3 owner car - sold new at Prestige Imports and 

maintained by Storz Garage. Looks and runs 

great! Fun convertible for our 300 days of 

sunshine!! $13,995. Call Tim 303.617.9550 / email: 

tjcapps@gmail.com [Aug] 

2001 Boxster S - 85K miles. Set up for club shows 

and track day use. $9K in performance and 

cosmetic upgrades. Must see! Seal grey, black 

interior & top, 6 spd, PASM, Litronic headlights, 

etc. All service records & books from new. Excl. 

cond. Two prices available: As equipped for 

$19,950, or $16,500 with factory 18” wheels, OEM 

steering wheel, etc. Negotiable. More info/pics 

on Craigslist/Rennlist. Jay Kurts, Denver, 303- 

859-6779, jayk1@comcast.net [Sep] 

2004 996 GT3 - As new, except the replaceable 

black plastic chin spoiler. Speed yellow with 

various “speed yellow” options including dash 

trim, instrument dials, sport seat backs, floor mat 

trim and hub covers. 9500+ miles. I’m the second 

owner and I bought the car with 5500 miles on 

it. Well cared for. No track days... unfortunately. 

Needs nothing. RMS repaired under warranty 

by Porsche. Best offer over $62,000. David 

Bluebaugh 303.286.8401 or email drbluebaugh@ 

comcast.net [Aug] 

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2004 Speed Yellow GT3 - New lower 

price: $50,000 for perfect street/track GT3. 

38,500 miles, fresh motor, rebuilt diff, cup clutch/ 

flywheel, rear toe links, DAS roll bar. VERY strong 

car, made 354 RWHP on Dynojet. Has run 2:01s 

at HPR on Yokohama street tires. No damage 

history or excuses. If you want a track-ready 996 

GT3, this is the car for you. Lisabryan617@gmail. 

com or 720-217-9750. [Sep] 

2004 Porsche 996 Cabriolet - Black leather 

interior. Black Onyx exterior. Factory Options: 

carbon fiber dash, white dials, embossed sport 

seats, xenon lights. Add-ons: New Fabspeed SS 

exhaust and cats, carbon fiber cold air intake, 

and chip. BBS Chrome wheels. 3M clear bra on 

nose, headlights, and mirrors. New embroidered 

floor mats. Rear spoiler lip. New convertible top 

installed by dealer (Prestige). One owner, bought 

and always serviced at Prestige. All records. No 

track days, never raced. Serious inquiries only. 

Call 303-324-6368. [Sep] 

2004 Porsche 40th Anniversary 911 GT Carrera - 

Beautiful car with only 16,775 original miles. All 

the bells and whistles. 6 Cyl. 3.5 liter engine, 

345 HP. GT Silver Metallic. Full leather in dark 

gray with factory 2-piece luggage set in natural 

gray leather. Bose High-End Sound Package 

& remote CD changer (6 Disc). All service 

records make this car a one-of-a-kind fine. Mint 

condition. $49,900. Dan, danrs66@aol.com or 

303-909-4448. [Sep] 

2005 Arctic Silver over Black GT3 - 25,600 

miles, immaculate with no track, over-revs or 

paint work. Bi-xenon headlamps and aluminum 

instrument dials are only options. Car in 

Bozeman, MT and is very aggressively priced at 

$53K, email pu911rsr@yahoo.com. [Aug] 

WANT TO BUY - 996 C4S. Must be manual 

and have records of maintenance. Sport seats 

are desired. Highly prefer guards red, speed 

yellow, any shade of blue or other rare colors. 

Cenktoroslu@gmail.com. [Aug] 

wheels/tires 

Porsche Sport Design Wheels for 996 - Part 

Numbers: Front: 996.362.136.50 (ET 52) and Rear: 

996.362.140.50 (ET 65). Excellent Condition! Rare 

8” fronts! They have been my “summer only” 

street wheels. Fit 996, 986, 928 and others. Some 

models may require spacers. Please check 

fitment first. $1100. Contact: 303-520-7339 / 

douglas@techdwellings.com [Sep] 

Boxster/Cayman 18” Wheels with Hoosier 

R6 Tires - Tires have approximately 40% life 

remaining. 8JX18H2 Hoosier 245x40xZR18 and 

9Jx18H2 Hoosier 275x35xZR18. $950.00 for the 

set. Local Buyers only, cash. Evergreen. Please 

contact Rome: arcykelsy@yahoo.com [Aug] 

Set of four 18” wheels from 2001 Boxster S - very 

good condition. $425. Drossiter@frii.com or 303- 

929-2983. [Aug] 

One set of staggered Porsche 19-inch rims, with 

tires - Front: 235/35 ZR19 Mich Pilot Sports, in 

good shape, Wheel model # 997 362 156.04 and 

Rear: 265/34 ZR19 Mich Pilot Sports, in so-so 

shape. Wheel Model #997 362 158.07. No longer 

needed. Recently balanced. Should fit Boxsters, 

Caymans and 911s (saw on a ‘06 Carrera), Not 

sure if TPMS installed. Jonathan, 303-968-0117 

(cell). [Aug] 

OEM Boxster S five spoke rims - Near perfect 

condition. Fronts are 7.0x17 ET 55, Rears are 

8.5x17 ET 50 $800. Ultimate Boxster track setup: 

9’s and 10’s with old Pilot Sport Cups and some 

curb rash. Fronts are OEM 993 rears 9.0x17 ET 

55, and rears are OEM 993 turbo hollow spoke 

rears 10.0x18 ET 40. These fit on my Boxster S 

without rubbing, all yours for $1,100. Call Greg 

303-699-9360 or email fasporsche@aol.com. 

[Sep] 

miscellaneous 

SouthSport tire trailer - complete with hitch that 

bolts easily to a Boxster or 996. This is the wider 

model single axle tire trailer and has a large 

diamond plate tool box and can handle a set of 4 

track tires for a GT3. In good condition and rarely 

used but has sat outside for a few years $500. 

Call Greg 303-699-9360 or email fasporsche@aol. 

com. [Sep] 

Tow Hooks Rennline Item E05.08 - Used 

Porsche screw type tow hooks (pair), factory 

bumper pull location. 2 piece allows mounting 

close to bumper cover. 5” long. Fits front of 

964/993/996/997/Boxster/Cayman/944T/968 and 

rear of 964/993 /964/993/996/997/ and 911’s w/ 

factory screw-in receiver. Factory thread. $90.00 

- new pair sells for $180.00. Cash/PP - will ship, 

buyer pays shipping. Image at: http://www.use. 

com/Tow_Hooks_f12c4de4a4ae817baa58. email: 

arcykelsy@yahoo.com [Aug] 

Porsche items for sale - 1) 2006 Cayman S OEM 

wheels with tires. Four notched soft 5-spoke 

Lobster 19” rims with 275/35-ZR19 and 235/35- 

ZR19 Michelin Pilot Sport tires. Excellent 

condition. Tires have approx. 2,000 miles on 

them. $2,200 for the set. 2) Hard top for 2000- 

2004 Boxster. Arctic Silver. Very good condition 

(a few scratches on one side). $825. 3) Brey- 

Kraus Cayman Harness Truss. $675 new. Sell 

for $350. Contact Rob (Denver) - (858) 344-9003 

or rinsinger@msn.com. [Sep]

OLDER PORSCHE BRAKES 

FOR THE TRACK 

by Walt Fricke 

One of the many good things about Porsche is 

that they have always paid close attention to 

the braking power of their cars. As the cars 

got faster, the brakes kept up with them. For 

street driving one needs nothing more than 

stock parts and fluids. If you overheat Porsche 

brakes on the highway you are driving like an 

idiot and are a menace to society and deserve 

to run off a cliff on a mountain road as long as 

you are alone. 

But when we take our cars onto a race 

track for Driver Education or racing, it is 

a different story. Pure beginners who are 

learning the ropes are usually OK with stock 

components, but when you pick up the pace 

the brakes need some help dealing with the 

increased thermal loads the constant heavy 

deceleration from high speeds creates. Like 

any material, brake fluid has a boiling point. 

When that is exceeded, it vaporizes, and it 

changes from a largely incompressible liquid 

to a compressible gas. The part still a liquid 

is pushed back into the brake fluid reservoir 

as you accelerate, so when next you step on 

the brakes the gaseous part has to compress 

back to its liquid volume before much happens 

at the brakes. Pumping the pedal rapidly and 

vigorously (aided by adrenaline) after it has 

hit the floor helps, but is not a good solution in 

the longer term. 

Therefore, the first step, and the simplest, 

is better brake fluid. When you get to the 

point where your brake pedal starts to get 

mushy and doesn’t 

fully engage 

until you push it lower than you used to have 

to, you need a higher temperature brake fluid. 

ATE Blue/Gold is just fine for the street, but 

for the track you will eventually need one of 

the fluids with a dry boiling temperature of 600 

degrees Fahrenheit. Castrol SRF and Motul 

are two of these, and there are a number 

of others. The Castrol is especially good in 

a street car driven in all kinds of weather, 

because its wet boiling temperature is over 

500 degrees F. Lately, there is available a 

brake fluid called Prospeed RS683, the 683 

being its dry boiling temperature, so it leads 

that pack. I’ve taken to using it, in part 

because it comes in half liter bottles, while 

the Castrol (costing about the same ounce for 

ounce) comes in a liter bottle, which is good if 

you use it on two cars at once, but otherwise 

means you have a half opened bottle sitting 

on a shelf busily trying to absorb moisture 

despite the cap being tightly on. 

For some of the later (say 1990 on) 

Porsches, this may be about all you need. 

Many models now have built-in air deflectors 

to get cooling air to the brake rotors. For the 

3.2 911s and earlier, if not some other models, 

the next improvement is to remove the dust 

shields behind the front and rear rotors. Their 

function is to keep brake dust from getting on 

the wheel rims, but they help keep heat in the 

rotors, so you don’t want them. It can be a 

bit of a project to get some of these off, but 

you want to do that for a track car. But check 

around if you have a later car to be sure they 

don’t serve as air guides. 

Drivers have all sorts of preferences for 

pad manufacturer and materials, but generally 

these affect braking preferences, where the 

pad’s friction coefficient might start to 

drop off with heat, and other 

factors. In terms of not 

losing your brakes 

on the track, I 

don’t think this 

is especially 

important as 

far as boiling 

the brake fluid 

is concerned. 

But as your track 

skills improve (or if 

you are harder on the brakes than you need to 

be while sorting all this out), and you start to 

have some mushiness again, the next thing to 

do is to get more cooling air to the rotors. Our 

cars have vented rotors, so you want to direct 

cooling air to the center of the rotor, so it can 

flow out through the internal vents to the 

circumference. This requires a plate inside 

the rotor to block holes in the hub and keep 

the air going to the vanes, a backing plate to 

hold a hose end directing air to the central 

area and blocking off external openings, a 

hose to convey the air from somewhere, and 

a scoop or opening to pick up that air. You 

can buy a scoop system which mounts under 

the suspension A-arm, or you can make holes 

in the front valance (eventually buying an 

aftermarket valance with brake duct holes 

already in it). This makes a huge difference, 

and is de rigeur for racing. 

But you now have sticky track tires and 

are dicing with the big boys, and your wife 

is doing the same in the following run group, 

and now you are getting a soft pedal again. 

What to do now? Well, there are at least two 

more things you can do. One is to purchase 

or fabricate thin backing plates for the front 

calipers, which get the most heat. These are 

the same shape as a brake pad, but much 

thinner. After you wear a pad a little, you 

slip these in between the piston and the pad. 

Four of them are in the picture. They act as 

insulators, especially because the interface 

with the pad backing plate itself slows heat 

transfer from the hot pad to the fluid in the 

caliper. Mine are made of titanium (weren’t 

as expensive as that material’s name might 

suggest), but if you can figure out how to 

cut stainless steel, its thermal properties are 

almost as good. 

The other trick is to replace the stock 

caliper pistons all the way around with ones 

made of stainless steel. Again, this slows the 

flow of heat into the brake fluid. 

Doing all these things allows, for example, 

a stock 911 SC to be raced full tilt on the track 

all weekend at the head of its class with no 

pedal issues. The stock brake calipers are 

hardly impressive to look at, but can do the 

job just fine. 

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i get around Dick Badler 

22 

What’s in a 

name? 

So I was meeting 

with a lawyer, and we 

got onto the subject 

of luxury goods and, out of the blue, he 

blurted out, “Taj Hayaaa?” 

I said, “What?” 

So he repeated it, again, “Taj Hayaaa?” 

This time, I said, “What are you talking 

about?” 

And, with that, he pointed to my wrist 

and said, “Your watch, your watch!” 

“Oh,” I said, “TAG Heuer. It’s a TAG Heuer. 

TAG, like tag you’re it. Technique d’Avant 

Garde. A company run by Mansour Ojjeh, 

who is also a large investor in McLaren 

International, although he sold the watch 

business to LVMH in 1999. 

“And Heuer is for Jack Heuer, who 

ran the eponymous family-owned watch 

company for many years, and pretty much 

invented the chronograph, until he sold the 

company to TAG in 1985.” 

“I see,” he said. “You know a lot more 

about this than I do.” 

I laughed. Because I really don’t. I just 

knew the derivation of my watch. When it 

comes to the correct pronunciation of all 

sorts of things automotive, I’m as lost as 

my legal friend. 

Take anything German. 

I don’t speak the language. So any 

terminology is totally lost on me. I know 

the world is divided three ways in German, 

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male, female and neuter. But I’ll be damned 

if I know which one a car is. And English 

translations are no help. 

Unless we read Shakespeare. Because 

then we know that Porsche is pronounced 

like the heroine in The Merchant of Venice, 

Portia. 

But… the clouds can still thicken. Many 

times I’ve heard the French pronounce our 

favorite marque, without the “ah” at the 

end. And, if you know something about 

French pronunciation, you know that’s not 

necessarily incorrect… at least in France. 

What, then, about Ruf? Alois Ruf? 

For an answer, I’ll throw this out. I read 

somewhere that the pronunciation might 

seem like a dog bark, but it’s not. Rather, 

it’s like the top of your house… at least in 

German. 

Then there’s the tag line Volkswagen 

uses in its commercials, “das Auto.” 

Is that, like, really a German term? Or 

something the ad agency for VW dreamed 

up, after too many “biers” in Wolfsburg? I 

haven’t a clue. But I do think they should 

be careful, or they’ll follow the fate of 

Renault’s “Le Car.” 

It’s no better in Italian. 

I once tried to impress some Italians, 

when a Ferrari drove by, by saying “Che 

bella machina,” literally. They politely 

corrected me with, “Deeka, eet ees ‘Kay 

bella makkina.’” 

I need to find them again. It took me 

years to master KOON-tash, and now I 

keep grappling with Lamborghini’s latest 

supercar, the Aventador. In the May 2012 

issue of Road & Track, they test the landbased 

stealth fighter, and they parse the 

name this way: ah-ven-tah-door. 

That’s fine, but where’s the accent? There 

has to be an accent, right? Something you 

time to coincide with a tossing of one’s arm, 

in one big gesticulation. To me, it could fall 

on the second, third or fourth syllable… 

and still sound like you’re throwing coins 

in the Trevi Fountain. 

The Asians seem good at anglicizing, in 

order to make it easier for us poor, myopic 

Americans. For example, I know the 

camera is pronounced NEE-kon in Japan. 

And the car is a HUN-diii in Korea. 

But then they have lapses in judgment. 

How else do you explain the Suzuki 

Kizashi? It sounds like an alternative to the 

tempura plate, sushi on the side. 

At least we don’t have to deal with, this 

side of the pond, some of the more esoteric 

nomenclature of our European cousins, 

cars like the Donkevoort, the Koenigsegg 

and the Renault Megane. 

I did, however, recently have a mystery 

solved. I was pondering what could 

possibly be the pronunciation for Horatio 

Pagani’s latest creation, the Huayra, when 

I came across the answer. Dan Neil 

actually reviewed the car in his August 11, 

2012 column in The Wall Street Journal, 

on Italian turf, by the way, so he has to 

be right. He parsed the name this way, 

WAY-ra. 

Thank you, Dan. I wouldn’t have known.

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Whether your tastes are social, technical, or competitive, RMR has something for you! You can have fun in 

your Porsche by particip ating in driver education and time trials at area tracks, autocrosses, rallies, tours, tech 

sessions, car shows and more. Each year RMR organizes a variety of opportunities to enjoy and learn about 

your Porsche. 

Tour 

A tour is a non-competitive driving event in which 

participants follow a given route to a destination 

(which may or may not be known in advance). A tour 

may vary in length from a day trip to a long weekend 

with an overnight stay or two. Tours usually follow 

scenic routes (which are plentiful in Colorado) and/ 

or visit interesting or obscure destinations. Tours are 

sometimes combined with rallies to add variety and a 

dose of competition to the event. 

RMR hosts at least one tour each year; AMR 

typically offers several. A number of tours are usually 

offered at Porsche Parade as well. 

Rally 

A rally is a competitive event in which contestants 

attempt to follow a course specified by a set of 

instructions. Rallies are typically run on public, 

paved roads, and speed limits are always observed. 

The two major types of rallies are the Time-Speed- 

Distance (TSD) rally and the Gimmick rally. In a TSD 

rally, participants attempt to follow the instructions 

precisely, maintaining the correct speed, as points 

are deducted for arriving at checkpoints (the locations 

of which are not known in advance) early or late. A 

Gimmick rally is typically a bit less rigid and usually 

involves solving puzzles of some type. 

Between RMR and AMR, a handful of rallies—at 

least one of each type—are offered. Porsche Parade 

also hosts a TSD rally, and sometimes a Gimmick rally, 

each year. 

Autocross (AX) 

An autocross is a competition in which drivers 

navigate their cars through a course defined by orange 

cones, usually in a large parking lot. Top speeds are 

generally moderate, topping out around 40-65 MPH 

(no higher than second gear for many cars). Competing 

cars are spaced at long intervals—typically only one 

or two cars are on the course at any time. Autocross 

is a safe way to experience high-performance driving 

while learning to drive your car at its limit. 

Together, RMR and AMR host several autocross 

Membership Social 

Membership socials provide an opportunity to 

reconnect with old friends and meet new members. 

Historically, a membership meeting begins with a 

social hour with a cash bar, followed by the evening’s 

program. The content of the program varies, sometimes 

featuring a “slide show” from a recent event, or a guest 

speaker such as accomplished Speed World Challenge 

racer Randy Pobst. 

RMR’s membership socials, unless otherwise 

stated, are held the first Thursday of the month. 

Different venues and topics will keep the meetings 

fresh and inviting. Watch High Gear and the RMR 

Web site for details. And if you have any ideas for a 

program, talk to the Program Committee Chair or a 

Board member! 

Tech Session 

A tech session is just what it sounds like—a session 

in which a technical topic is discussed. Not just for 

gearheads, a tech session may demonstrate practical, 

“do-it-yourself” procedures such as brake bleeding. 

Tech sessions are usually presented by experienced 

Driving Events 

Non-Driving Events 

events each year, including Eiskhana (essentially an 

autocross on the ice!) in the winter and an AX school 

in the spring. Additionally, autocross is a major event 

at Porsche Parade. 

Driver Education (DE) 

A driver education event provides a safe, controlled 

environment for high-performance driving instruction. 

DE offers drivers of all skill levels the opportunity to 

hone their driving skills, with the help of an experienced 

instructor, in a controlled, closed-course environment. 

In keeping with PCA philosophy, the primary emphasis 

at all times is on safety. A word of warning, though: 

the DE experience may be habit-forming! 

As DE events are not racing, nor preparation for 

racing, lap times are not recorded. However, some 

DE events are followed immediately by a time trial 

event, which gives drivers a chance to quantify their 

performance. Lap times may then be used to measure 

personal improvement, for bragging rights, etc. 

RMR hosts six DE’s each year at High Plains 

Raceway, with AMR hosting several more at the La 

Junta, Pueblo and (possibly in the future) Pike’s Peak 

International Raceway tracks. 

Club Race 

A club race is a wheel-to-wheel racing event. A race 

weekend consists of a number of practice sessions and 

“heats” (race sessions), often involving both “sprint” 

and “endurance” races. As a Club Racing license 

(issued by PCA National) is required for competition, 

club racers are serious and experienced drivers. The 

cars they bring with them to the track can be quite 

impressive! As a point of interest, the PCA Club Racing 

program was inaugurated with the RMR-hosted “First 

Ever Anywhere” club race at Second Creek in 1992. 

Because of the logistics involved in an event of this 

magnitude, a club race requires a legion of volunteers. 

However, a club race is also one of most exciting 

events to participate in, so be sure to sign up! 

RMR hosts one club race each year at High Plains 

Raceway which, combined with a Driver Education 

event, adds up to one thrilling weekend! 

Porsche technicians, many of whom are sponsors of 

RMR events and High Gear. 

RMR hosts a few tech sessions each year, typically 

in the “off months” when few driving events take 

place. In addition, numerous tech sessions are offered 

at Porsche Parade. 

Concours d’Elegance 

A concours is essentially a car show, in which 

contestants endeavor to present their cars in as close 

to “perfect” condition as possible. A number of judged 

categories usually exist, typically differentiating 

between types of cars (e.g. 356, Boxster) and level 

of preparation (“daily driver” or “full preparation” 

or somewhere in between). Cars sometimes may be 

entered as “display only,” for owners who wish to 

participate but not compete. 

RMR participates in a handful of local concours 

events each year, including the annual Exotic Sports 

Car Show and Concours d’Elegance, benefiting United 

Cerebral Palsy Colorado. The annual Porsche Parade 

also hosts a major concours each year. 

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What’s old is new again 

HighGear 

July 2012 

the rearview mirror 

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