Greetings!

Just to remind you all this month’s meeting will be at my house! It’s a great opportunity to drive your cars out to Prospect. We can get about 15 cars on the driveway and there is more room on the street as being a cul-de-sac there is very little traffic. We will be grilling out and on the menu are burgers, brats and Lucy’s famous cedar wrapped salmon. We have two limited addition 911 Club Coupe models to give away as door prizes so make sure you attend the meeting to be in with a chance of winning one of them.

This year I have been following F1 more than I have in the past few years and I like what I’m seeing; some fun wheel to wheel racing that takes you back to the Prost and Senna days! I hope the rumors of Webber leaving F1 after this year are not true as I want to see more great action from him and Vettel battling it out.

First track run of the year went reasonably well with a slight mishap on Sunday when my left rear center bolt which holds the bearing and hub decided to come loose going round turn 10 at Putnam. Not a good feeling, fortunately I was able to pull off the track and save the wheel from fully detaching from the car. Lesson learned – check every nut on the car each time you come in, a wise thing to do on a nearly thirty year old 944!

I popped into Bluegrass Motor Sports on Saturday to see the official launch of the new Cayman and had the privilege of test driving one of the manual S’s. What impressed me the most was that it will blip the gas for you when you shift the gears down; it sounds really cool and would be very useful feature on the track.

This month’s Porsche fact is close to my heart!!!

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Hello Fellow Porsche Fans,

March is upon us and that means basketball and March Madness. Being from England, basketball is not followed as keenly as it is here in the States. We tend to watch football, or soccer, as its better known over here. To be honest I’m not a fan of either; I used to play rugby at school, which was a pretty rough game! I was ok at it but I was never going to be a champion of any sorts.

From a young age my Dad and I would spend most weekends at our local race track “Brands Hatch “. The track dates back to the mid 1920’s. It was first used as an army training ground before becoming a race track in 1926. The Grand Prix circuit is 2.6 miles in length and the Indy circuit is only 1.1 miles. Unfortunately due to noise restrictions the Grand Prix circuit is rarely used these days. My Dad and I were present for the last ever Grand Prix held there in 1986. In those days Grand Prix cars were unbelievably loud and if you didn’t have hearing protection you could only endure around 10 minutes next to the track!

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Welcome!

Let me take a few lines to introduce myself as your new KYPCA President. My wife Lucy and I are avid Porsche fans and have a mini fan in the making, our one year old daughter Sasha. I have been an active member of the Kentucky region since 2009 and I was first introduced to the club by Blue Grass Porsche after leasing our first Porsche (Cayman S) from them. This was also how I ended up being a track enthusiast after Blue Grass invited me to a track day at Putnam Park. It was one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life – I was hooked.

After the first event I decided I needed to go on the hunt for a track car as the Cayman S was my wife’s daily driver, not that I needed an excuse to extend our Porsche family! I ended up buying a Lindsey race prepped 944 turbo and then spent all my summer months attending events at Putnam park, so much so that this year I decided to become a DE instructor.

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I would like to announce that Gene Hoffman has accepted the position as our new Membership Chair. Gene and I discussed that we need to canvas the membership to acquire each member’s latest email account name/address so we can make sure everyone gets the club’s timely information. I’m also asking the membership to go on line to www.Kypca.org and sign up. I’ve had several people in the last week or so ask about some events that have been posted in the new online digital PaceSetter. This tells me there are still members out there that are not getting information about club events.

During Parade, the National officers had a meeting to discuss various business matters concerning the Club. One of those bits of information discussed and voted on was to have the Panorama available as a digital copy on line at www.pca.org. I believe this form of media will be available sometime in mid Fall this year. It was also sighted that the Porsche Club of America is growing at a rate of 2% per month where all other major Car Club memberships are sharply dropping off. I think the Porsche Club must be doing something better than all the rest. That brings me to a question I’ve asked month after month about our Region’s activities. Is there anything that we can do to make things more interesting and fun so we can encourage more involvement from our membership? If it looks like we’re limited in our activities, it’s because we need new and fresh ideas— and people interested in putting them on. Is anyone out there? Is anyone even reading this? Heck who knows, we could have a huge turn out for something new.

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Happy 2012 to everyone and my wish for all is an exciting and prosperous New Year. The Kentucky Region is gearing up for another strong DE year with two events in June and September. And with the strong support from BlueGrass Motorsports, our Region will continue offering the best DE experience you’ll find anywhere. Along with those events, we’ll be planning some fun and interesting drives and other events in the coming months. If you have any requests for places to go, please let us know.

This year we’re planning on changing a few things, mainly in the way the PaceSetter newsletter is distributed. Our plans are to go electronic and do away with the postal mailed copy. The new PaceSetter E-version will have more content, hundreds more color pictures and we’ll work towards making it printable on your own printer. Our goal is to shoot for the June or July issue for implementation so it is very important that you make every effort to sign up on the website so you can receive your copy. By signing up you will also get monthly (very limited) notices, mainly concerning membership meeting announcements and when the PaceSetter will be available for viewing. We’ll also be changing the Bylaws to reflect E-voting for Officers.

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