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Slipstream - June 2013

The monthly newsletter of the Maverick Region of the Porsche Club of America

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Drifting: COTA -- What Does it Stand For?<br />

By John Hamilton, Region President<br />

You may have<br />

heard the<br />

acronym<br />

“COTA” bantered<br />

about lately and<br />

may have been<br />

wondering, “what<br />

does that mean?”<br />

Technically, it stands for “Circuit<br />

Of The Americas,” which is the new<br />

Grand Prix race track that opened<br />

last year in Austin. Your Maverick<br />

Region, along with the Hill County<br />

Region (based in Austin) and Lone<br />

Star Region (based in Houston)<br />

combined to rent this track for a<br />

Porsche Club Race and Drivers’<br />

Education event on May 10, 11<br />

and 12. “COTA” now also stands<br />

for “Carrera Of The Americas,”<br />

which is the name the clubs have<br />

given to this Porsche Club event.<br />

Perhaps needless to say, this<br />

event sold out within minutes of<br />

registration opening, to people<br />

who wanted to be among the first<br />

to be on this new 3.4 mile track,<br />

which hosted the United States<br />

Grand Prix Formula One race last<br />

November. As I write this, people<br />

are streaming down to the track<br />

for this first-of-its-kind event. Next<br />

month, we’ll have an article and<br />

photos of many of our Club Racers<br />

and DE-ers who attended.<br />

And as a note to any of you aspirint<br />

graphic artists out there who<br />

need an outlet for your talents,<br />

we are looking for someone who<br />

can take over creating the club<br />

event ads that you see throughout<br />

<strong>Slipstream</strong>. If you are interested,<br />

please email our editor Carey<br />

Spreen at editor@mavpca.org.<br />

MAVs of the<br />

Month<br />

The Porsche Club<br />

is all about enabling<br />

its members to<br />

enjoy life more<br />

because they own a<br />

Porsche. It’s not just<br />

the driving events.<br />

It’s a combination<br />

of so many things<br />

including shared<br />

knowledge about<br />

our cars, servicing<br />

our cars, upgrading<br />

our cars, and most<br />

importantly, the new<br />

friendships we make<br />

as a result of having<br />

that common interest.<br />

Simply put, Porsche Club membership<br />

brings the benefits of owning<br />

a Porsche to a higher level.<br />

But nothing happens unless we<br />

continue to gain memberships<br />

in the Porsche Club, and that<br />

volunteer job is done by a team<br />

of people who each month make<br />

phone calls to new members and<br />

communicate with people who have<br />

not renewed in hopes of keeping<br />

them in the club.<br />

I am ecstatic to report<br />

that in April we had a<br />

net gain of another 26<br />

new members, which<br />

brought your Maverick<br />

Region’s membership<br />

to another all-time<br />

high total of 2,253!<br />

Rightfully so, our<br />

Mavericks of the<br />

Month recognition<br />

goes to Tom and<br />

ALEXIS A. V. CAMPBELL, Proprietor<br />

1235 William D. Tate Ave<br />

Grapevine, TX 76051<br />

Susan Froehlich who head up our<br />

Membership Committee. Thank<br />

you, Tom and Susan, for all you’re<br />

doing to help us gain and retain<br />

new members in the Maverick<br />

Region. Your hard work is paying<br />

great dividends not only for our<br />

region, but for those Porsche<br />

owners who are now receiving the<br />

benefits of being in the club!<br />

Enjoy your dinner at the Silver<br />

Fox. Well-deserved.<br />

2 <strong>June</strong>

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