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HISTORY OF SEBRING AND THE GOLD COAST DE PROGRAM

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DIE PORSCHE

KASSETTE A monthly publication of the Gold Coast Region Porsche Club of America January 2019

Editor Roger Fabel 648 NW 100 Lane Coral Springs, FL 33071 (954) 752-2501 E-mail: rfabel@aol.com

Features PCA at Sebring.......................................................... 10 History of Sebring Race Track................................... 12 Volunteering at Sebring............................................. 29

Graphic Artist Kirk Giannola Kgiannola@comcast.net 954 551-1300

Upcoming Events 2019 Events Calendar................................................. 5 48 Hours of Sebring.................................................... 9 Porsches and Pancakes............................................ 21 DRT Charity Car Show.............................................. 27 2019 Autocross Challenge........................................ 29

Photographers Roger Fabel Alberto Pugliese Dennis Lai Tech Writer Pedro Bonilla

Departments

Advertising Roger Fabel

Submissions The deadline for submission of materials is the 1st of the previous month of publication. Please E-mail to: rfabel@aol.com with “Kassette Material” as the subject line.

Officers & Board Members.......................................... 5 President’s Corner....................................................... 7 New Members............................................................. 8 Editor’s Notes.............................................................. 9 GCR Classified.......................................................... 20 Coordinators.............................................................. 21 Tech Corner............................................................... 24 Porschegraphy.......................................................... 28 Advertiser Index........................................................ 32

Die Porsche Kassette is the official publication of the Porsche Club of America, Gold Coast Region, Inc. and is published monthly. Any statement appearing in the Kassette is that of the author, and does not constitute an opinion of the Porsche Club of America, the Gold Coast Region, Inc., its Board of Directors, the Kassette editors or its staff. The editorial staff reserves the right to edit all material submitted for publication. Permission is given to chartered regions of PCA to reprint articles in their newsletter if credit is given to the author and the Kassette.

Publication office: 648 NW 100 Lane, Coral Springs, FL 33071

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Officers

2019 Calendar

President Steve Kidd

V President Paul Raben

Treasurer Kyle Rathbun

Secretary Dottie Kidd

Jan 12 Jan 27-28 Jan 29- F 3 Feb 2 Feb 8-10 Mar 8 Mar 10 Mar 13-16

Key Largo Brunch Daytona Rolex 24 Sebring 48 Club Race Autocross #1 at Sebring DRT Miami Car Show PCA Werks Reunion Amelia Island Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance Sebring 12 Hours (67th year)

Board Members

Concours Chair Peter Olliviere

Kassette Editor Roger Fabel

Past President

Dan Doyle

Chief of Tech Bob Varela

Webmaster

Ian Gerada

ON THE COVER 12 Hours of Sebring Programs

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President’s Corner Steve Kidd - President

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Welcome to the first edition of Die Porsche Kassette for 2010, the Gold Coast Region’s premier newsletter. This is my first President’s Message for 2010, and I hope to deliver ….wait a minute… aren’t we in 2019? Yes we are, but I wanted to get your attention and start off the same way I did the first time I was President of GCR nine years ago… wishing everyone a Happy New Year and recognizing the Kassette as a highly regarded PCA regional publication.

Next I would like to thank the outgoing Officers & Directors who provided the time, effort and leadership needed to keep GCR growing and providing class act activities. Both Dan and Bob will transition to new positions on the Board…

Dan to Past President/Director and Bob to Director. While Stuart and Bobby will rotate off the Board, their service was appreciated. Additionally I wish to thank the committee chairs and volunteers for all their hard work and willingness to take on responsibilities and serve the club.

Moving forward, let me familiarize you with the management team that will provide the leadership necessary to move GCR forward into 2019…the year that Gold Coast Region will serve as host region for the Porsche Parade in late July at the Boca Raton Resort. We believe experience counts and between the 4 incoming officers (Steve Kidd, President; Paul Raben, Vice President; Kyle Rathbun, Treasurer and Dottie Kidd, Secretary) there are over 30 Porsche Parade attendances. Additionally these 4 Officers bring over 100 combined years of PCA experience. Our incoming directors (Peter Olliviere, Bob Varela, Roger Fabel, Ian Gerada and Dan Doyle) also

bring experience, skills and energy that can provide the drive necessary to move forward.

Looking at the calendar for Quarter 1, not only does GCR have its usual assortment of great regional events, but also a boundless selection of PCA national events, a Club Race, as well as world class races at Daytona and Sebring where PCA and/or PCNA offer Corrals or Porsche Platz. I’m sure our warm winters have something to do with an extremely active Q1, but also the reputation GCR has for providing committed volunteers that help make these events possible. Here is a summary of some BIG activities you should plan to attend and/or serve as a volunteer.

JANUARY The Rolex 24 hours of Daytona…usually held the last weekend in January is truly a bucket list race.

The Porsche factory and privateer teams bring out their newest and best hardware to compete in a 24 hour endurance race against world class competition. PCA, Zone 12, and the Regions of Zone 12 (of which Gold Coast is a member) partner to host a PCA Corral. While the races are going on, each region works a “shift” at the corral tent / parking area. Gold Coast typically works the Saturday afternoon stint from about 4-8pm.While most cars have been parked already, we do greet/ register many PCA guests from all over the country, hand out snacks and drinks, and provide information…..I’ll be putting out a call for volunteers via e-mail in early January, so if you are going to the race or just want to volunteer, give me a call.

BTW…Corral parking tickets are almost impossible to get so plan on trying to score

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a general infield parking pass or plan to park in one of the outer lots and take the tram into the infield.

FEBRUARY The 48 Hours of Sebring Club Race….Usually the weekend after the Daytona …the 1st weekend in February.

Unlike the Daytona Rolex, this is pure PORSCHE. Only Porsche race cars and the best race teams from around the country come to compete in what is regarded as the biggest and best club race in PCA. In addition to the race groups there are also driver education groups (sorry only instructors and seasoned solo drivers, driving Porsches allowed in this DE). As in all PCA activities lots of volunteers are needed and volunteers can sign up for one or multiple shifts on the 48 Hours of Sebring website…just google 48 Hours of Sebring Club Race, locate the site and find the volunteer tab. Volunteers get a free lunch, great t-shirt and the satisfaction of being part of arguably the best Club Race in PCA. In addition to the above and dinners on Friday and Saturday night, there is Challenge AutoX on Saturday. This AutoX is run on the skid pad and attracts the best autocrosser from all over the state…..So if you think you’re good…come on out and compete against the best of the best. Sign up for the race, DE or Autocross on Club Registration. net. Now for the best part for spectators… no tickets to buy or parking hassles…just show up and enjoy.

MARCH March has two big events…. the 1st is the Werks Reunion held in conjunction with the Amelia Island concours…typically the 2nd weekend in

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Welcome GCR New Members Eric Medina 2018 911 Carrera GTS

Jordan Freedman 2013 911 Carrera S

Franck Dossa 2011 Panamera Turbo

Michael Costello 2017 Panamera

Norm Bednar 2014 Cayman S

Ricard Roma Dalfo 2014 Cayman S

Rodney Weiss 2004 Boxster S

Viraj Patel 2018 718 Cayman

Ellen Engel 1990 944 S2

Gabriel Leiva 2006 911 4S Cab

Eduardo Areas 2015 911 Carrera

Gabriel Canales 1998 Boxster

Mitchell Perlstein 2019 911 Carrera Cab

Robert Winess 2016 911 Carrera

Henry Pedroso 2016 Cayenne S

Antonio Casellas 2012 911 Carrera S

Sean LaChance 2019 911 Targa 4 GTS

Michael Blum 2017 Cayman

Joao Gaspar 2018 Panamera 4 E-Hybrid

Emmanuel Desbats 2007 911 Carrera S

Regis Devonish 2006 911 Carrera S

Adam Kravitz 2006 911 Carrera S Cab

Tommy Vietri 2016 Cayman GTS

John W Johnston 2014 911 Carrera

Nick Edwards 1984 911 Carrera

Diego Fernandez 1989 911 Turbo Cab

Sean Oppen 1984 911 Turbo

C S Dangelo 1987 911 Carrera

Richard Morin 2012 911 Carrera

Mitchell Miller 2018 718 Boxster GTS

Ricardo Rodriguez 2017 911 Carrera S

Juan Fernandez 2009 Cayman

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March on a Friday. This is truly a world class concours with Porsches lining 2+ fairways on a golf course. For the really serious, there is the judged section and for those not so serious, a display or corral section. Many visitors make a weekend out of it and visit the Festival of Speed, Cars and Coffee on Saturday, and the exclusive Amelia Island Concours on Sunday. This will be the 3rd year for Werks on the East coast and attracts Porsches and spectators from all over the country.

The other big event in March is the 12 Hours of Sebring race. Another race with international flavor and the best race teams from top manufacturers. Like the Daytona Rolex , Porsche brings out the latest technology and best drivers to compete in a 12 hour endurance race. Also like Daytona Rolex, there is a Porsche Platz‌. much like the Daytona Corral , but much easier to get parking in the Porsche area, so you can park with just Porsches and be close to the PCA tent. Volunteers are also needed; however the Zone 12 rep handles

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all staffing and PCNA handles all tent and beverage expenses. Watch for a call for assistance in early February and volunteer!

Plan to experience the fun and try not only our regional events, but also one of the

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above events during Q1 Finally, I would like to welcome the new members who joined last month.

This is YOUR club and you can make it what you want it to be. Get involved and let us know what we can do to enhance

Editor’s Notes Happy New Year

I hope your holiday was enjoyable and you are looking forward to a successful 2019.

We have a great year planned with many new events and locations that will cover the entire Gold Coast Region. Check out the calendar in the Kassette and the website as we finalize dates for 2019.

The Autocross and Drivers Education programs will be publishing dates of their new season.

The 48 Hours at Sebring committee is working hard on this years event that starts the end of this month. Make sure you register on the 48 Hour website to volunteer. This issue has two very good articles

Roger Fabel- Editor

about the world famous historic Sebring race track. To help you prepare for the PCA Parade tech quiz we will be providing sample test question in the Kassette.

To start this process, read the Sebring articles and see if you can find out how the Gold Coast DE program was started.

With the increase of events, I will need more help with photographic coverage. If you are able to take high resolution photos and would like to share them with the members, please send them to the Kassette staff for review. Files should be sent on the Internet using WeTransfer.com for up to 2Gb. Files should be sent to rfabel@

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aol.com. We also welcome articles that are related to your Porsche experience. Word files up to two pages should be formated in Times New Roman 10 point fonts. Related photos should be sent attached files and not embedded.

We hope to see you at the Big Chill in Key Largo for our first event of the year.

If you want to begin the race season, dont miss the 24 Hour Rolex race at Daytona. PCA will have a hospitality tent trackside with big screen TV, snacks, and fellow PCA race fans. This event is followed by the 48 Hours at Sebring the following week. See you there, Roger

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PCA AT SEBRING A PERSPECTIVE STORY BY DAN SMITHYMAN, 48 HOURS AT SEBRING CO-CHAIR PHOTOS BY JUHA LIEVONEN

So…

I am rolling up Highway US 27 through south central Florida on my way to Sebring. Just ticking off the miles, letting my thoughts wander. US 27 (from my place in southeast Florida to Sebring) is not a bad ride at all, mostly four lanes and smooth pavement. It hasn’t always been this way. I remember back in the early days of my travels to Sebring, it was terrifying: Narrow two-lane roads, dark as hell at night and lots of head on collisions. I personally have seen several really nasty ones and avoided one myself by driving off the shoulder just in the nick of time…

Right now though, I have the cruise control set at 74 and am listening to some tunes, race car in tow. Nice. As my mind wanders it occurs to me that it takes me 2hrs 30 mins to get to Sebring from my house. At Sebring I’m always trying to get my lap time below 2:30 in my ‘76 3.0L 911 hot rod… Coincidence?

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The Middle of Nowhere

Mike Tarter’s Article

Sebring is really in the middle of nowhere, nothing around me but cow fields and sugar cane as far as the eye can see.

Welcome to Central Florida! I live in the southeast part of Florida, kind of western Ft. Lauderdale. If I lived in Miami it would take an hour longer, and if I lived in the Keys (still Florida technically) Google says it would take 5 hours and 38 minutes!

Following my article is one written by Mike Tarter. It focuses on the Sebring airport and racetrack beginnings. It is a fascinating story of the history of the area. Mike outlines how it became a World War II base and then a world class race track.

My daughter, Christal, is a performance driver and is meeting me at the track. She lives in Tampa and it takes her the better part of two hours to get there coming from the opposite direction. If she lived further up the west coast, in Pensacola, it would take 7 hours and 37 minutes going south east to get there!

Yup… Sebring is in the middle of nowhere.

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Just how did this small town in the middle of nowhere became the Mecca of racing in the USA some 60 years ago? I still have trouble wrapping my head around it. How the hell did folks get here way back then?

No less interesting to me is how PCA got involved in racing and just how did the 48 Hours at Sebring PCA Club Race become one of the biggest Club Racing events in the U.S. and the world?

The story of PCA Club Racing is the stuff of legends and has been told many times.

My hope here is to put a little perspective to it from the Gold Coast (GCR) and Suncoast Regions point of view.

As you may know, PCA Club Racing was born in 1992. Our dear friend Alan Friedman and a small band of car guys were Porsche enthusiasts who enjoyed racing. Their unfortunate experience was that as you progressed in driving skill you had to leave the PCA world if you wanted to go racing. There were plenty of good drivers, getting lots of track time driving DE. By the early ‘90s many of the larger PCA Regions (Gold Coast and Suncoast included) had very robust DE programs.

GCR DE legend, Ken Fengler, recalls the early days at Moroso Motorsport Park, where the Gold Coast Region DE program got its start. Fengler says, “Porsche owners want to drive their cars; always have, always will”. At that time, Gold Coast had a serious autocross program, but pretty much nothing on track.

In the early ‘80s Ken convinced the powers that be in GCR that Driver Education on a track would work. Let’s just say that, in the beginning, not everyone agreed.

Fengler did his due diligence, got all the necessary information together and kept at it. Despite some intense protestation, in May of 1984 he got the first GCR DE approved at Moroso. Moroso’s road course, at the time, was underutilized, the cost of the track was something like $200 for the weekend! Given that nearly 100 drivers signed up, the numbers worked out great and the Gold Coast Driver Ed Program was born.

With the success of the DE programs came lots of drivers with skills and the desire to do more. Fast forward 10 years or so and a lot of those same players had moved on. Many were selling off their Porsches to go racing elsewhere.

Alan Friedman was watching this happen and wanted to create an opportunity to keep these drivers involved in PCA. As a veteran of several racing programs, Alan thought the Vintage Racing rules would work for PCA. Fun, fast and safe… Just like my ’76 hot rod.

It took a bit of convincing (ok, years) to

get it approved, but at the 1991 Parade the National Executive Council agreed to give Club Racing a test drive. There were four PCA Club Racing events in 1994. The success of those early races in Denver, Summit Point, Pocono and Lime Rock paved the way for PCA Club Racing. Fortunately, the programs were successful and more folks became believers. Eventually it was decided that PCA National would oversee the Club Racing Program and let the regions decide if they wanted to produce a race. This would provide an important level of consistency at every event.

All that regions needed to do was agree to put up the money and figure out how to run a Club Race. What could go wrong?

Bill Riley, the Zone 12 Rep at the time, recalls that the region budgets back then were counted in hundreds, not thousands of dollars. Scary stuff here. Bill says, “I wasn’t a fan, simply because the potential for financial disaster was so high. Shortly thereafter I had become a big fan!”

Of course, not much went wrong with the first few Club Racing events under Alan’s stewardship, and more folks started to come around. That the first races were, for the most part, financial successes (instead of disasters as feared) helped. I can tell you that heading into that first race at Sebring, here in Gold Coast and Suncoast, there were clearly people of two mindsets: Those who pushed for Club Racing and those who later were big enough to admit that they were wrong! Don’t get me wrong, everyone had the best interests of the regions at heart, but these were trying times.

The first Sebring Club Race in 1994 was a huge success in every way. That’s not to say it was without drama. As Friedman recalls “The weather up north was terrible (shocking). Most of the national organizers got snowed in and never made it (all but

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Alan). The regional guys stepped up and things went smoothly”.

Through those turbulent early days passionate, creative innovators forged their way through the unknown to bring Club Racing to the Porsche Club of America on shoestring budgets. We should say thanks to those early people more often. We owe them a lot.

PCA Club Racing now has over 30 races each year and, for many of the host regions, it is the premier event of the year. It certainly is for the Gold Coast and Suncoast Regions. Every year we have hundreds of volunteers working tirelessly to put on the Sebring Club Race. Most have been putting in their time and expertise for years. Some have been there every year since the beginning.

Coming back year after year, making things a bit better every year and doing it with good folks that share the passion is what keeps this guy coming back; that’s for sure.

If you want to experience a great PCA Club Race, come to Sebring, always the first club race on the calendar each year.

Hope to see you there.

Dan Smithyman, Co-Chairman 48 Hours at Sebring

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HISTORY OF SEBRING RACE TRACK AND HENDRICKS FIELD STORY BY MIKE TARTER, PHOTOS BY COLOUR TECH SOUTH

In 1999, the Sebring pits, tower and viewing suites that we utilize were under construction. So, the Sebring Club Race that year was held in the Green Park area within turns 4 through 12. While walking around between sessions, I noticed a drainage manhole cover. Cast into the rusty steel was some identification writing: “Mclean Iron Works Palatka Florida 1941”. What?! Wow, that’s old. I marveled over this old steel, and then realized I was looking at a part of the origi-

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nal airfield built during World War II. I’ve been driving at Sebring track events since 1983, and I sort of knew the racetrack had originally been configured on an airfield, but I hadn’t really thought about the history of the track. I later looked at aerial photos and recognized that some that we enjoy today is remains of that airfield. I was intrigued; I got reading.

It goes back to 1940. War had been raging in China and in Europe for several years. It was likely the U.S. would be at least an indirect participant. We were already supplying equipment to our allies via the LendLease program. Sebring city leaders foresaw the US would need training bases. They proactively bought 9,200 acres of sandy, palmetto-covered, marshy, Florida prairie land about seven miles southeast of the city of Sebring. This larger than immediately necessary area was then offered to the U.S. War Depart-

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ment, with a 99 year lease at $1.00 per year.

After inspections and considerations for power, water, weather, rail service and road access, on June 13, 1941 the War Department announced that this site was to become a Basic Flying School. By the end of 1941 there were 2-3000 workers building around the clock. They built a complete town, from the ground up. It started with drainage, access roads, rail spurs, electric power, water and sewage systems, telephone and telegraph lines, more roads, then 150 foot wide runways, and buildings.

Everything – barracks, repair and training shops, mess halls, offices, warehouses, a fire station, huge aircraft hangers, a control tower, hospital, a chapel, PXs, Post Of-

fice, recreation halls, motor pool, a water tower, fuel and ammunition depots, and a swimming pool or two. Plus paved roads, widening the runways to 300 feet and adding taxiways and aircraft dispersal points around the perimeter of the runways.

In July 1941, before the U.S. was officially at war, we sold 20 B-17C bombers to Great Britain. A contingent of US Army

B-17 pilots volunteered to help train the Royal Air Force pilots. Among them was a West Point graduate, 1st Lieutenant Laird Woodruff Hendricks, who had grown up here in Florida. He arrived in Great Britain on July 25. Three days later, Laird and a crew of six British airmen were to conduct a high altitude test. The flight took off from RAF Polebrook and crashed less than 30 minutes later. Laird was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

On January 14, 1942, the airfield was named Hendricks Field in memory of Laird Hendricks.

By March the base was training complete combat crews; pilot, co-pilot, navigator, bomb a r d i e r, r a d i o operator, aerial engineer, and 4 air gunners.

Hendricks Field was one of numerous training airfields in Florida. Near Fort Myers Buckingham F i e l d was dedicated to training aircraft gunnery crews.

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Raton airbase trained radar bombing, mostly B-24 bombers. The airfield near Orlando was a fighter training base (now it’s Orlando Executive). Another field was at Immokalee. As an aside, over the years, I have autocrossed at each one of these. The Avon Park Bombing range, about 30 miles away, was constructed in 1942 and is still in use.

By mid-1942, this was now a small city but a major airfield, with four 5,000 foot long by 300 feet wide concrete runways and huge parking ramps. A note here - I’ve heard that because steel was in critical demand during the war, much of the airfield concrete was poured without reinforcing bars. It’s amazing that it has held up this well so long.

Late in 1942, the base mission was changed again. It became a specialized training school for four-engine pilots.

Thousand of single and twin-engine pilots were transferred here to transition to four engine aircraft, including B-17, B-24 and B-29s. During the war, Hendricks Field trained over 10,000 aircrew. At peak, there were over 120 B-17 bombers based here and more than 1.2 million takeoffs and landings.

Hendricks had one of the best safety records, but there were casualties. There were eight B-17 crashes, with 45 men killed.

Most of the B-17 aircrews went to Europe.

The loss rate for the 8th Air Force in Europe was about 20-30%; thus it’s probable that thousands of these men (women did not serve in combat aircrew in WWII) perished.

As noted, this was a major training airfield, for ground crew as well; navigation, meteorology, radio and aerial engineering.

Take a look at the aerial photo of the base.

In the photo to the right, compare the ratio of the 5000 foot long runways to the width.

It was a small complete city. There were over a hundred marriages performed, numerous babies born in the base hospital.

The base had a newspaper and published a yearbook documenting achievements.

After Germany surrendered in May

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1945, and Japan in August, the airfield was already winding down. The thousands of service men and women stationed at the base were understandably eager to return to their homes and lives. The base was officially closed as an Army Air Field on December 31, 1945, and turned over to the City of Sebring on May 1, 1946.

By the way, remember that nationwide housing shortage? There was some scuffling over those unused fairly new buildings all over the airfield. I found a few references to buildings ‘vanishing’ after the war.

By 1950, the airfield was largely abandoned and getting derelict. An aeronautical engineer, Alec Ulmann saw the long run-

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ways and paved roads as an opportunity for a road race. He organized the Sam Collier 6-Hour Memorial Race, held on December 31, 1950.

This is reported as the first sports car endurance race in the U.S. It utilized two of the runways, much of the parking ramps and some of the base paved roads. In 1952, he organized the first 12-Hours of Sebring race, on March 15, 1952. See the course diagram above, compare it to the base photo (top) from 1944.

There is a great photo of the start of the 1966 12 Hour race (next page). That nice wide staging area, with the pits to the left and track to the right – that was a small part of the bomber parking ramp. The track configuration changed several times over the years, in order to not have the race shut down air traffic (see the photo on the right).

The present track, the 12-Hour course that we drive, uses some original concrete of Hendricks Field. The long back straight from turn 16 to 17 – that is part of what was a runway. When I first drove here in 1983, the

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weeds growing up in the concrete expans i o n cracks had to be mowed d o w n because the track was so disused b a c k then, before DE’s.

From Turn 17 along the front straight past Turn 1 was parking ramp for B-17s.

As we head towards Turn 1, the concrete goes way to the left, to the infield, and to our right over to the pit structures. That is mostly all original 1941-42 concrete.

This track that we blast around has seen some amazing events and history. Two of the original four runways and a hangar are still used, albeit improved. By the way, I can heartily recommend the restaurant in the new terminal building. There is a memorial to Laird Hendricks in that building.

Now, each time I go to the Sebring track, I somberly recall some of that history. One other thing astonishes me still; that manhole cover has been there since 1941, continuously exposed to Florida weather.

It has surface rust, yet the casting is still readable. What absolutely amazing cast iron or steel. I wish my 1968 911 (my first Porsche) had been made with such corrosion resistant good steel.

So – how did we come to race here? In May 1984, Gold Coast Region held it’s first DE event at the now extinct Moroso racetrack near North Palm Beach. By 1993, Gold Coast and Sun Coast PCA regions had active DE programs, and had been doing some of these at Sebring. I was at the proposal meeting for the first Club Race here. As with our first proposed DE, several people said, “are you kidding?

Are you crazy? This will be a disaster.”

The first year (1994) or two of the race there was, ahem, ‘austere’, but successful.

It has grown ever since.

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Set up for driver’s ed, HPDE, and club racing. Set up for the track, but still street legal. This car has been primarily a track car for most of its life. It is well sorted, fun and easy to drive quickly. The list of upgrades and modifications is too long to list, but available via email.

I hate to see it go, but the new race car is already here and I need the garage space. Please contact Michael Grant 954-540-1169 or mrgrantsurvey@gmail.com.

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Tech Corner :

PORSCHE PARTS Article by Pedro P. Bonilla, Tech Editor

You’re going to undertake a service or repair project on your Porsche.

You do the research, look at YouTube videos and DIY guides and you’re confident that you can tackle it. Now you need to get the parts.

Question is, do you go with genuine Porsche parts, OEM parts or aftermarket parts? And, what are the differences, if any between them?

Genuine Porsche Parts: These parts can be purchased at any Porsche dealer and/or through Porsche’s distribution network.

You can tell that it is a genuine part because it will be offered in its original Porsche packaging, showing the Porsche part number and with identification labels.

Any genuine Porsche part has gone through Porsche’s quality control system to assure that they deliver performance exactly as what the factory intended.

Most of the time, when you purchase a genuine Porsche replacement part it will be identical to the one installed at the factory but not always. If the part has been revised it will have a newer version number where the last 2 digits of the part

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number changes upward by one digit for every revision.

Also in some cases the new revised part will be superseded by a new part which may be made of a different material and could be slightly different as the original part, but it will fit and function as intended.

OEM Parts: Original Equipment Manufacturer is a part that has been manufactured by one of Porsche’s official parts suppliers. Just like most automobile manufacturers, Porsche does not make all of the parts that go on their cars. They contract with hundreds or thousands of suppliers which have been rigorously vetted to produce exactly what the factory requires.

As an example, Porsche uses Brembo (Italian manufacturer) as an OEM supplier of brake parts. Brembo makes brake calipers, rotors and pads for specific Porsche models. If you purchase a genuine Porsche brake part it could have been made by Brembo, but would be packaged under the Porsche brand as a genuine part. That same part could also be sold, without the Porsche packaging or part number, directly by Brembo or one of its distributors.

The same would apply to other OEM suppliers, such as Bosch (electronics, sensors, injectors, etc.), Sachs (clutch kits), Bilstein (suspension), Lemforder (mounts), etc., etc.

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Aftermarket Parts: Aftermarket doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s an inferior quality part. In some cases, aftermarket parts can be an improvement on an original part, such as specialized pistons, rods and valves which can be made lighter and stronger than the originals.

In other cases we see many aftermarket parts that are junk parts, made cheaply and sold cheaply. We see water pumps, Air/ Oil separators, Mass Airflow Sensors, etc. which fall into this category.

I had always wondered why it was that I could purchase a part such as a Mass Airflow Sensor as an aftermarket part with the Porsche part number but sold at 50% of the dealer’s price for the equivalent genuine version.

A couple of years ago I had the chance to speak with several folks from the factory who explained it to me this way:

When Porsche orders a batch of parts from one of its OEM suppliers, they request a specific number of them. The manufacturer needs to make a larger amount than what Porsche ordered because they know that the parts will be tested and a number of them will not be acceptable to the factory. Those parts that are not accepted are returned to the manufacturer and then can then be sold as aftermarket, although most are offered as OEM parts (which they are).

If a particular part is tested and the acceptable range is 1.0 – 1.5 volts, anything that is outside those values is rejected. The part could have shown 0.999 volts or 1.501 volts which would be a pretty darn good part or it could have read 0.5 or 2.0 volts which would not allow it to perform its function properly, yet the are both sold as the same part by the OEM supplier. You take a risk if you purchase that way.

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Some people say that they will buy two parts and have a spare in case the first one fails, but some of those parts can actually cause damage to the vehicle, such as a crankshaft or camshaft position sensor and some could actually hurt you, such as with a faulty ABS or brake component.

For more information on Porsche parts and more, please visit my website: www PedrosGarage.com.

Happy Porsche’ing, Pedro

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The 26th 48 Hours PCA Club Race at Sebring will start the end of this month. Gold Coast Region volunteers (right) that work around the year to make this huge event the largest most succesful Club Race in the world but they cannot do it without the help of more GCR members. To be part of the team, sign up now on www.48hoursatsebring.com.

Choose the days and times you would like to help along with the area you would like to work. GCR is only half of the committee volunteers needed to coordinate this event. Sun Coast Region provides the other half. Come join us.

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