Slipstream - November 2018

Autocross Event 8: Lone Star Park
By Mark Schnoerr, Region Autocross Chair
With the circus tent gone, the full lot at Lone Star
Park was available this time, and Scott Cummings, the
course designer, set up a very challenging autocross course
with many diverse elements and speed change-ups. This
is typical of the late-season layouts that also make lateseason
class championships points battles so close.
We had 16 Porsche entries in our P-classes and another
eight or nine Porsche spectators. Sigrid Schnoerr got many
of the Porsche spectators to sign waivers and jump in as
passengers in a variety of cars to get a taste of autocross.
I bet they enter an event soon after learning more about
all the excitement.
The Cayenne GTS driven by Igor Tulandin, at his
first autocross with his new toy, placed third in Class P1.
Yes, four-door Porsches have autocross classes and are
competitive out there!
Owen Coulman was determined to be the fastest raw time
and index time Porsche again and put in a couple of flyers in
his red 996 GT3 to keep the rear-engine faithful happy.
Class P4 had six drivers in three cars. The course
workers must have thought we got twice as many runs as
anyone else! Carey Spreen took his 924S to the fight on
this course, splitting Mark and Sigrid’s 914 best times and
also coming in ahead of Ed Mayo’s orange and blue early
911S. Sigrid was running in first place until the last runs
by Mark and Carey.
Scott Wolthuis got a new limited slip in his improved
and Hoosier-tired 911. It made him struggle on the tight
turns but he was flying in the sweeper. Doug Edney won
class P7 in his 996, and Sherry and Steve Farnham’s yellow
GT4 came up from Longhorn region to keep us all on our
photos by Robert Kirby, LightSpeed Images
P1 - 'PCA 1'
Total Entries: 4
Total Diff.
1T P1 7 Amir El-Baghdady Maroon 944 S2 68.346 -
2T P1 11 William Mayo Blue Boxster 987 68.495 0.149
3 P1 958 Igor Tulandin Silver Cayenne GTS 72.368 3.873
4 P1 168 Carolle Liu White Boxster 987 74.991 2.623
P3 - 'PCA 3'
Total Entries: 2
Total Diff.
1T P3 428 Owen Coulman Red Porsche 911 GT3 63.055 -
2 P3 59 William Whitney Black Porsche 911 Turbo DNS
P4 - 'PCA 4'
Total Entries: 6
Total Diff.
1T P4 915 Mark Schnoerr Green 914 66.466 -
2T P4 906 Carey Spreen Red 924S 66.792 0.326
3T P4 914 Sigrid Schnoerr Green 914 67.073 0.281
4 P4 5 Edward Mayo Blue/Orange 911S 68.175 1.102
5 P4 90 Sue Crimm Red 924S 70.381 2.206
6 P4 9 Julia Underwood Blue/Orange 911S 76.782 6.401
P6 - 'PCA 6'
Total Entries: 1
Total Diff.
1T P6 56 Scott Wolthuis Blue 911S 67.326 -
P7 - 'PCA 7'
Total Entries: 1
Total Diff.
1T P7 7 Douglas Edney Black 996 70.759 -
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Total Entries: 2
Total Diff.
1T P8 171 Steve Farnham Yellow Cayman GT4 63.764 -
2 P8 71 Sherry Farnham Yellow Cayman GT4 67.313 3.549
From top: Carolle Liu getting some coaching from Mark Schnoerr, Scott
Wolthuis locking them up, Mark and Sigrid Schnoerr first run in the family
914, Igor Tulandin in a Cayenne GTS and Steve Farnham exercising the GT4
toes again. Steve and Owen were trading fast times right
up to the late runs.
There are two more events in the 2018 season: October
28 and November 4, both at Lone Star Park in Grand
Prairie. Come out to see what we are all so excited about,
join in the fun or take a ride. Novices are always welcome,
and we have instructors who will help you learn the ropes.
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