Handling Curves Pastures of Heaven - Porsche Club of America

Pastures of Heaven
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The green hills also made a perfect backdrop to
showcase the colorful cars. Larry Heitman, driving
what may be the only sepia brown racecar in the
history of mankind took first in GT4S in Sprint #1.
Larry Robison with his rainbow early 911, took first
in GT4R in both Sprint races. John Seidell, with his
dark purple 914-4, took first in GT6R in both Sprint
races. John also turned a fast lap of 2:05.637; a really
quick lap for a 4-cylinder 914. Jerry Whitteridge
in his white and red Spec944 took first in class in
both Sprint races. Other colorful Spec911 racecars
included the Kelly Green car of your author, Mike
Cullinan, David Loop with his black car, Bill Ward
with a bright blue and white car, and Cris Wedekind
with a very well prepared dark charcoal car.
Hartley Smith, Paul Camusi and Carl Switzer
won Worker’s Choice Awards for the weekend, all
having very nicely prepared cars. Congratulations to
all three.
As with any of these events, volunteers made
the weekend happen. Besides the PCA National
crew the, Golden Gate Region crew consisted of Dan
Thompson working Race Control, Ken Mack as DE
Steward, George Morris DE Tech, Andrew Forrest
as Club Race Registrar, Paulette and Ross Johnson
as DE Registrars, Paul Marty working Safety, Marlin
Neufield and Jim McCelland working Grid, Chuck
Kolstad as Chief Driving Instructor (along with his
hard working band of instructors), Claude Leglise
handling Orientation and novice de-brief sessions,
Karen and Sharon Neidel assisting with Club Race
Timing & Scoring as well as Time Trial timing,
and David Bunch, Dean Lyon and Scott Kalkin for
helping wherever needed.
Jay and Amanda Jarvis of Jay Jarvis Motorsports
hauled both the Timing and Scoring and Scrutineer
equipment from Thunderhill to Fontana. Thank you
from Golden Gate Region and PCA for them doing
that for us. They saved GG considerable shipping
costs and we are very appreciative
Rolling Thunder 2010 continues in the third
weekend in May with the next stop at Buttonwillow
Raceway Park, Oil Capital of California! See you
there.
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