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Coastalaire
January 2021
Your monthly update
California Central Coast Region • Porsche Club of America
2021 Board of Directors
2021 Activities
Track Events Calendar
http://ccc.pca.org
CALIFORNIA CENTRAL
COAST REGION
zone 8
Coastalbreeze
In this issue
PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA
Club and Coastalbreeze Information
January 2021 3 ................. Board of Directors
3 ................. Prez’s Corner
10-11 .......... Anniversaries
COVER PHOTO 14................ Advertiser Index-Rates
Club Events
7-8 ............... Club Events Calendars
Articles
9 ................. Autocross 2021
12 ............... What’s Next for Porsche
Porsche Electric
Le Mans 2035 Prototype
PCA and Zone 8 News
autoevoluton
June 22, 2015 15 ............... Zone 8 Staff and Officers
Editors
Member Services
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2021 Board of Directors Prez’s Corner
First of all, we’d like to thank Sanja Brewer, Ken
Andy Winterbottom – President
awinterbottom@sbcglobal.net
Finney and Warren White for their service to the
CCCR while members of the board of directors.
Ron Green – Vice-President Sanja has been our President for the last two years
and numerous years as Secretary before that. Now,
greenron1949@gmail.com Sanja will advise us as our Past President and
take on Membership as well. Ken served as Presi-
Carol Walker - Secretary dent, Treasurer and Safety Director with umpteen
years on
glcarwal@yahoo.com the Board. Warren has served as Autocross Director
and put in untold hours of physical work and brain-
work to enable the ever-improving autocross experi-
Jon Milledge – Treasurer ence for hundreds of motorsports enthusiasts.
treasurercccr@gmail.com
Welcome to Alfred Abken and Bill Chadwick; Al-
fred will be our Safety Director and Bill
Gil Igleheart - Activities Director will work with Gil on Activities; by the way, my spe-
cial appreciation goes out to Gil who is coping
gil.igleheart@gmail.com
with all of the PCA, Federal, State, County and local
Bill Chadwick - rules and regulations in order to organize and run the
Activities Co-Director social activities in our unique environment. When
you see Gil and now Bill at a social event, please
b.chadwick@earthlink.net
thank them for what they do. Also, Bob Kitamura
is “coming back” to assist Chuck Jennings with the
Coastalaire and Coastalbreeze while Chuck transi-
Chuck Jennings - Autocross Director tions to directing autocross events.
concourschuck@gmail.com
On the PCA Zone 8 and national level, several items
of interest include: the Zone 8 President’s
meeting will be held (virtually) January 19th and
Bob Bruington – DE Events Director
26th. The PCA National staff meeting in February
aircooled911sc@gmail.com will be virtual. PCA will have a “presence” at the
Rolex 24. Spring Treffen in Scottsdale is
scheduled for February 24th. And, oh, by the way, the
“new” PCA website is still in the “Beta” stage.
Alfred Abken - Safety Director
alabken@gmail.com The National “verdict” on Driver’s Education “Lead/
Follow” training is, well, controversial; anyway, the
San Diego Region is hosting “Lead/Follow” training
to be put on at Chuckwalla Valley Raceway 22/23
Joe Shubitowski - Webmaster February “doing” five pairs (of automobiles) at a time
joseph.shubitowski@gmail.com while using communication devices in the vehicles.
Should be very interesting.
That’s all folks.
Sanja Brewer – Membership
sbrewer@eyesonly.com Andy
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CCCR Events Calendar Update
http://ccc.pca.org
Event Planning Committee and Gil Igleheart, Activities Director, have devel-
oped a list of events for 2021. P
lease note, these activities are planned subject to
“clearances” from all PCA, Federal, State and local authorities.
DUE TO COVID, PLEASE CHECK UPDATES VIA EMAIL, WEBSITE, and
NEWSLETTER BEFORE LEAVING FOR AN EVENT.
The following events are tentatively planned for 2021:
FEBRUARY 13th - VALENTINE’S DAY AT THE GRILL AT HUNTER
RANCH - arrive at Alfano Motors at 9:00 AM, leave 9:45 for drive up Old
Creek Road to Hwy 46 and on to Hunter Ranch. Brunch around 11AM.
FEBRUARY 20th - Brunch at Old Juan’s Cantina, 11:00 AM
MARCH 13th - Brunch at Rustic Fire, 11:00 AM
MARCH 20th - Meet at Alfano Motors at 9:00 AM, depart 9:30, drive back-
roads to Hwy 46, down Old Creek Road to Sea Shanty Restaurant
APRIL 10th - Brunch at Lunada’s 11:20 AM
APRIL 14-16th - HOBO PARTY to Healdsburg! Two or three nights at Hotel
Trio at $159.00 per night. Meet at Alfano Motors at 8:30AM, drive out at 9:15
to avoid congestion in the Bay area. Arrive Healdsburg around 2:30-3:00PM.
Dinner on your own. Next day we will have wine tasting from one or two local
wineries and then dinner at Valette’s, $40-$60. Weekends are $279.00 and that
is discounted! Website being setup now. Stay tuned!
MAY 9th - Brunch at San Simeon Beach Bar & Grill. Arrive at Alfano Motors
at 9:00 AM, depart at 9:45 for drive to SSBB&G and then to the Lighthouse for
a tour.
MAY 16th - Breakfast at Dorn’s 9:00 AM, arrive early for some great conversa-
tion with fellow Porsche owners.
June 12th - Drive to Brunch at Flagship 11:00 AM. Meet at Alfano Motors at
9:00 AM, leave at 9:45.
The Coastalaire January 2021 7The Driver’s Corner a.k.a The Late Apex
CCCR-PCA presents
DE and UTOCROSS
DE Events
Willowsprings
Teststrecke 45 May 1
March 15
Teststrecke 46 June 6 Buttonwillow
Teststrecke 47 July 24 May 21
Laguna Seca
Teststrecke 48 August 28 October 18
Zone 8
Teststrecke 49 October 18
Event
PORSCHE
Teststrecke 50 November 13 Santa Barbara
Our major sponsor
Details and Registration at motorsportsreg.co Autocross and DE
or contact Chuck Jennings @ 805-459-7416 Events
* Zone 8 Events
The Coastalaire January 2021 8CCCR Autocross 2021 by Chuck Jennings
I will oversee the general operation, and at this
point we are forming the remainder of the team
structure. Jon Milledge will be heading up regis-
tration and assigning run groups. Fred and Paula
Herr will lead the timing team. Bob Bruington
will help with work crew assignments and tech.
Several people have considerable experience with
course setup and takedown, and we assume their
enthusiasm for that part of the teamwork will
likely continue.
California Central Coast Region has enjoyed a Fortunately, our first event is not until May 1. That
gives us quite a bit of time to put the teams together,
revived autocross program since 2012. We have but we will need to get coordinated and well oiled.
one of the best venues in all of California at the We are converting over to a new timing software
Santa Maria Airport. With six sold out events a that will have to be learned and practiced until we
year, autocross is CCCR’s most successful genera- are competent and comfortable with how it works.
tor of club funds. It also involves the largest group That is our most immediate goal. Jon Milledge is
of club member volunteers and requires the most working on that now.
man hours.
Over the past five years, Warren White has served
as our Director of Autocross Events. During that
time, Warren steadly improved the program into a
well organized and smoothly operating series that
drew a reliable, enthusiastic ensemble of entrants
from the West Coast and owhich included many
different models of automobiles and an occasional
truck. Regardless of our strict protocols addressing
the risk of the Covid19 pandemic, our autocross
events continued to attract sold out participation.
Warren is to be applauded long, loud, and grate-
fully for his countless hours of work and devotion
to the success of our program.
We have contacted numerous members who have
This January, we begin another year with the been involved in past events, asking for their con-
anticipation of continued success. Our autocross tined contributions, but we are still forming the
program will be organized as a team under my teams. Even if you have no experience, or you have
direction, while Warren takes a well earned break. interest in driving in an autocross event, we need
The team will be assigned as per the following people for many tasks before the event and which
responsibilities: registration and run groups, crew require no specialized skills or interests.
chief of work assignments and tech, course setup
and takedown, timing and results. Of course, all If you have an interest, please contact me, and let us
of these people will be volunteers, most of whom see where you might fit in.
have previously worked to some degree in one or
all of these areas of function. concourschuck@gmail.com
The Coastalaire January 2021 9CCCR Anniversaries
Anniversaries for December 2020
1 Year 11 Years
Ron Firooz
Edel Thomas Charles Cohn
Michael Miller Bruce Summers
Carl Lindgren Gary Thatcher
Paul Rohrer
Heather Leage 13 Years
3 Years Nancy Grant
Christopher Clark
Rod Walls
Jeff Burkhart 14 Years
5 Years Robert Sage 26 Years
Russ Henry
James Kunkel Jason Len
Michael Weeks
15 Years
6 Years
Peng Oon 27 Years
Thomas Vincent
16 Years Bob Breunig
9 Years
Eric Ruzius
Chuck Jennings Richard Zweifel
10 Years
41 Years!
Bern Singsen 20 Years
Bruce Williams William Irving
Brian Pritt h
24 Years
Gerals Homolka ntze
The Coastalaire January 2021 10CCCR Anniversaries
Anniversaries for January 2021
1 Year 9 Years 23 Years
Rodney Hall
Norman Sanders David Dickinson Peer Hovland
Elain Brazil Warren White
Bruce Morgenthaler 24 Years
2 Years 13 Years
Benjamin Crockett
Dan Meade Joel Gust
25 Years
3 Years 16 Years
Klaus “Sonny” Brown Steven Lock
Joseph McPeak John Hoskins
Tony Ramirez 26 Years
Doug Schoen 14 Years
Brian Davis
4 Years Linda Germany
Constance Stewart 27 Years
19 Years
5 Years David Main
Brent Beahm
Robin Onsoien
Rick Hill
Kathy Thorp 20 Years 30 Years!
6 Years
Robert Holzhauer h Kuntze
Carl Sepulveda
Julie Klapstein
Helio Fialho
Victor Early
Tom Dobyns
Charles Liu
7 Years
Gregory Simpson
New members of 2017.
The Coastalaire January 2021 11What’s Next for Porsche? by Robert “Kit” Kitamura
Six months into COVID-19 I had two questions re- During this pandemic I kept my eyes and ears open
lated to Porsche. First, how is Porsche going to sur- to anything that Porsche was doing for their future
vive this serious interruption to its business caused in the EV world. I took an educated guess that the
by COVID-19? Second, if they survive this, and Macan would be the “practical” vehicle they would
the Taycan is successfully rolled out, when are the have go EV after the success of the Taycan. My
next generation EVs coming out and what will they assumption was that since they like going after the
be? Will it be the 911, Boxster, Cayman, Cayenne, “Musk-mobiles”, the next logical vehicle would be
Macan or something completely new. the Macan which would match up with the Tesla
Model Y. Where I finally saw it mentioned about
Addressing my first question, although they did not the Macan going EV was in the October 2020
plan on it, the Taycan has been the saving grace for article by motor1.com. As usual Porsche is not
Porsche in 2020. Sales have exceeded all predic- releasing any details yet and is using a very heavy
tions and they still remains strong. It should help camouflaged Macan for testing. Another reason
them well into 2021. Introducing a completely new they would chose the Macan is because it has been
type of car to an already strong brand line up has the highest selling Porsche that would appeal to the
not always worked well for other car companies in broadest audience. It is assumed that they will not
the past. Porsche has not only done it, they have be ready to release any information until late 2021
done it well, only the Macan and Cayenne exceeded or 2022.
the Taycan in 2020 sales for Porsche. Granted it was
an unusual year for sales of cars but also amazing
considering the pandemic that had a major financial
influence on the marketplace.
Before we delve into my second question, while
no one is taking bets on what is going to be next in
the world of cars, one thing is for sure, the electric
vehicle is the focus of the car industry for the fore-
seeable future. However, as fast as it has arrived it
can be swept aside just as fast, especially if another
better, more efficient, less expensive, “greener”
technology is found. As an FYI, for those of you I know there are still many of us saying that it
that do not know, Honda is still pushing hard on the is sacrilegious to think that the 911 is not the
hydrogen fuel cell powered car, Clarity. Porsche of choice. However, in order for it to stay
as the Porsche of choice the Porsche name needs
It is clear the Taycan has done two things for to stay at the top of the performance car world in
Porsche, it has expanded their market beyond all of the categories…….sports cars, family cars
Porsche owners. Even with about half of the interest and utility vehicles. The best selling Porsche in
in Taycans coming from Porsche owners, it has at- Europe is the Taycan, the best selling Porsche in
tracted a major number of previous Tesla car own- America is the Macan so it is not rocket science
ers. Also about 1/3 of those that purchased Taycans to predict where Porsche is headed. Remember
came from other car brands. Secondly, close to one Porsche is a business and the business of Porsche
in ten new Porsches sold globally is all-electric will only do well by keeping its high level of qual-
which means Porsche has been accepted into the ity and making money. However, they have not
worldwide EV marketplace with open arms. China done the predictable in the past so we will have to
is another one of their biggest purchasers. The more wait and see. But as the saying goes, “if I were a
inexpensive Taycan, a relative term, is a big hit betting man…..”
there.
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