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What To Expect At The Concours d’Elegance By Bob Bianconi Tips and Tricks for Entrants and Visitors The Concours d’Elegance will be held on Monday, July 5th, the government holiday. But before that busy Monday arrives, there will be lots of Concours-related activity and things to see for Parade entrants and visitors. This article will provide some tips and tricks for getting the most out of the Concours activities.. Concours Preparation: Where, When and What to See Saturday and Sunday July 3rd and 4th All day: Concours entrants will arrive early to Ft. Worth for final preparation of their cars. The Prep Areas are a great place to watch entrants put the finishing touches on their Porsches prior to the official judging on Monday. In fact, this is THE place to watch how it’s done! As a bonus, there are always lots of great photo opportunities in the Prep Areas. There are two Prep Areas this year. The main Prep Area is an 8-story garage located at the intersection of Weatherford Street and Cherry Street. This garage is 3 blocks west of the headquarters hotel. Look for the signs guiding you to the garage. Only Concours entrants will be allowed to park in this garage. If you are not a Concours entrant, please park on Cherry or Burnett Streets next to the garage. ... this is THE place to watch how it’s done ... The second Prep Area is a large parking lot about 6 blocks west of the hotel on Belknap Street, west of Henderson Street (see the map in your Parade Binder). Many of the trailers and support vehicles will be there. Signs will point you to this Prep Area as well. Concours Day Monday, July 5th 9AM until ~4PM; The Concours d’Elegance will be held just outside our headquarters hotel, the Renaissance. The Concours venue will be Main Street itself along with the many of the Sundance Square side streets. Again, the map found in your Parade Binder provides more details. Judging begins promptly at 9AM as the judging teams fan out to begin their work. Over 80 cars will be entered in the official judging. Photo by Main Street will have an even larger crowd of Porsches than this! What else to see: Besides oogling the Concours cars, you must stop by the Historic car display, the Club Race Cars, 914 and RS America SIG’s (Special Interest Groups) and the Porsche Tractor display. And don’t forget the Porsche AG/PCNA display of all the newest factory cars. Porsche AG/PCNA Display: Hotel Portico Historic display cars: 2nd Street in front of the hotel 914 SIG & RS America SIG; 5th St & 1st St respectively Club Race Cars: 5th Street Porsche Tractors: 1st Street Porsche AG/PCNA Luncheon: Box lunches provided by PAG/PCNA will be available on 1st street and 4th Street. Don’t forget to bring you lunch ticket! Visitor Parking: With Main Street and the cross streets blocked off for the Concours, getting around may be a bit difficult. Use Commerce Street (north bound) or Houston Street (south bound) to access the area. Parking is available on many side streets (meters are free because of the holiday), at the Bank 1 tower, a 5-story garage across from Bass Hall or at the many smaller parking lots nearby. Volunteers: If you have volunteered to help at the Concours, there will be a meeting on Sunday July 4th. More information will be available at the Concours registration desk. Photo by Photo by Photo by Concours prep areas in local parking garages Judges prepare to judge at Parade 2003 A row of Boxsters at Parade Concours 2003 16
Rally Preview by Carey Spreen Don't Like Rallying? The Fort Worth Parade Rally May Change Your Mind Does any of the following sound familiar? You entered a PCA Rally a while back; it could have been a rally sponsored by your local PCA Region, or your Zone, or it might have been a Parade Rally. Whichever it was, it seemed really complicated; overly specific but somehow vague at the same time; and you got into a really big fight with your partner before the thing was over. You thought it was going to be a pleasant tour through the countryside, but it turned out that you were so busy looking for obscure road signs and landmarks that you completely missed the scenery. And that was if you DIDN'T get lost! If any of the above rings a bell with you, we've got good news: this year's Parade Rally is breaking the mold. Yes, it's still a TSD (Time-Speed-Distance) Rally as specified by the PCRs (Parade Competition Rules), but that's where the similarity to any past Parade Rally ends. According to Parade 2004 Rallymaster Ed Tix, here are the main differences: ... NO NASTY TRICKS, TRAPS, OR MIND GAMES ... It will be SHORTER. The Parade Rally is designed to take less time than the maximum allowed by the PCRs (4 -1/2 hours). Less than four hours is all you will spend, and you may not even need the built-in break! Take it anyway, so you won’t be early to the next checkpoint! It will be EASIER TO FOLLOW. This year's Parade Rally is a Tulip Rally, so called because it uses both text and diagrams (which resemble tulips) to show the route instructions in written and graphical form (see example below). Each diagram has a circle, or bulb, indicating where you will be just before the next instruction should be executed. Extending from the bulb is a line ending in an arrowhead, which shows which way you should turn (or NOT turn, as the case may be). Included in the diagrams are symbols that help you identify the intersection or landmark that is part of the instruction. What this means for you right-brained folks is that you can look at the diagrams and intuitively know what you will need to do at the next instruction without having to decipher “rallyspeak”. However, the left-brainers can still read the instructions to which they are accustomed. At last, intuitive and analytical interpretations of the instructions may actually agree! It will be considerate of NON-AIR-CONDITIONED PORSCHES (and their passengers). Those of us who live in more temperate climates, or who just own Porsches that did not have air conditioning as an option, will be allowed to take an early out-time. This means that we will be done before the heat of the day has a chance to make its presence felt, which, in July in Fort Worth, tends to start around mid-morning. And because the Rally is shorter than ever, even if you get the very last out-time, you’ll still be eating ice cream well before the day’s high temperature hits. And the Number 1 difference between the 2004 Parade Rally and some of the Rallies that have come before: It will contain NO NASTY TRICKS, TRAPS, OR MIND GAMES. Granted, this is a Parade Rally, so it has to keep the experienced rallyists interested, but Rallymaster Ed has tried really hard to avoid the type of exasperating twists that may have prompted you, your significant other, or your favorite rally partner to swear off rallying forever. Everyone—from first-time novices who don’t know a CAST from a SOLRIP, to battle-hardened rallyists who can nail a PAUSE to the hundredth of a minute using only a wristwatch and their right foot—will have a more-or-less equal chance of winning their classes. And speaking of classes—there will be FOUR competition classes this year, instead of the usual three: Unequipped, Navigational, Equipped, and a new class called Unequipped Plus for those newer vehicles equipped with GPS, trip computers, and the like. And if you are still reluctant to compete, you can join a touring group that will be able to run the same route with the same instructions, but just for fun, without the pressure of competition. After running this type of event, a Maverick comments, “fun runs with plenty of winding roads and gorgeous scenery. The tulip diagrams make following the route so much easier, and the driver can even glance at the diagram briefly and get an idea of what's coming up. We really concentrated on speed and timing this trip, and it paid off.” So join us for the 49th Parade Rally in Fort Worth. It will change how you think about rallying—and for the better! 17
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