Slipstream - June 2010

April Showers bring what? Dirty cars to MSR!!
By Carrie Carrera
Our second Driver Education event of the 2010
season had a very wet start. Most of the
Dallas metro-plex was under very heavy rain
showers from the wee hours of the morning that
continued during our collective pilgrimage to
Motorsport Ranch in Cresson, TX on Saturday
morning, April 24th. So for those of us who
had street tires, that is rain tolerant tires, on our
track cars were able to make the trip in our –
what were – clean cars. Those on trailers also
probably started out clean. However, by the
time we arrived, most of us were covered with
rain spray. Oh darn. And of course, as we are
heading to the club house, the rain stops!!
After our driver’s meetings were completed,
the track had started to dry in the rising sun
and clearing clouds. The instructors had their
first session, and thank you – they pretty much
dried out the track. The rain stayed away the
rest of the weekend, and heck, the cars didn’t
look so dirty coming out of big bend headed for
rattlesnake turn.
Thank you to Park
Place Porsche for
their generous
sponsorship and
attendance at
the event. All
pre-registered
entrants received
a very nice duffle
bag with the
event insignia
– probably the
nicest event
give-away I’ve
seen in 25 years
of PCA!! Park
Place had their
Bob Benson, ready for anything
banners in place
despite the wind,
and a great corner in the paddock full of customer and
dealership cars.
On Saturday our lunch break featured 2 Parade
Lap events – our usual charity for the Hope Shelter
on the 1.3 track, and a special ‘spirited’ parade lap for
the guests of Park Place on the 1.7 track. Dollars were
raised to support the new children’s play area.
We had great participation in the DE itself – and a full
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Photos by Charlie Davis
compliment of instructors. And what horsepower – wow,
team 3 green group featured a Cayman S, Carrera, 2 911
turbos, and 2 911 GT2s. And all did very well. Across all
All smiles for the session
of our teams we saw many promotions from green to blue,
blue to blue solo, and yellow to white. This makes room
for more green students for the future events. Congrats to
our students for running
a nice clean event.
Our events always
run smoothly thanks to
our Safety Chairman
Bob Benson and his
team of happy corner
workers. We try to make
their day as boring as
possible – and we were
successful this time.
Black Flag was partially
managed by Sophie
the Wonder Track Dog
with owner Team 1 lead
instructor Bill Miller.
She didn’t mind having
to ride in the 914 to the
event.
New to our event
thanks to DE Chief
Driving Instructor, John
Sandusky, is that we now have Blue Group log books. So
now we have a great way to track and quantify the progress
of our intermediate students on their way to yellow and
Sophie and Bill Miller ready their flags