almost here - SchoneslandIf you hadn’t caught on to my thesis just yet, it’s that all small crossovers— including Porsche’s—are essentially useless. The Cayenne is one thing;

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Schönesland Region Porsche Club of AmericaMarch 2018

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March 2018

PUBLICATION CONTRIBUTORS: Will MacFarland (President)David Safris (Vice President / SPINNER Editor)Alecia Kindred (SPINNER Designer)

COVER PHOTO: Photo provided by Bob Timmerman. Taken at Ledges State Park.

SPINNER – March 2018 Page 1

TABLE OF CONTENTSSchonesland Officers & Board Members 2

President’s Apex 3

2018 Schonesland Spring Tour 4

Events Calendar 5

Revs to 9000 Calm Me Down 7

Porsche Atlanta 9

Advertisements 10


SCHONESLAND OFFICERS & BOARD MEMBERS

Will MacFarlandPresident

Terri JohnsonSecretary

Doug HillmanTreasurer

Julienne KrennrichSocial Media Chair

Ron NewmanTour Director

Julie BaileyZone 10 Representative

Garry SeemannSafety Chair515-490-6802

David SafrisVice President/SPINNER Editor/Webmaster515-991-2772

Tom RuskClub Historian515-233-1594

Jeff DavidFormer President515-229-5616

Bob TimmermanMembership [email protected]


PRESIDENT’S APEX


Welcome to mid-March! I attended (as is my duty as President) a PCA Presidents’ Teleconference shortly before our last region Board Meeting. I took some notes to share with the board, making sure to pass down the information I had received.

The item that really piqued the interest of the board was not the news about Rennsport Reunion VI (parade laps go on sale 7/11) or Treffen Tamaya (almost sold out). It was my mention of PCA Juniors.

PCA Juniors is a new free benefit offered to all PCA members. The PCA Juniors program has been created so kids can enjoy PCA events, learn about Porsches, and build the enthusiasm that runs through all of the Porsche Club of America. As it says on PCA.org, “It’s not just the cars…and now it’s not just the grown-ups!”

Check out the program at PCA.org/pca-juniors and sign up your young children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and cousins! PCA is already a generational club, and strong member families make for a strong PCA, now and into the future.

One more thing – it’s very cold as I write this, but in just over a week the forecast shows highs in the sixties! We stand on the very precipice of Spring and it is time to get DRIVING again. Our first performance event looms near, Sunday March 18 in the Adventureland parking lot with the Des Moines Valley Region SCCA. Registration is OPEN:

https://www.dmvrscca.org/autocross-schedule/ (and click the link)

OR

https://www.motorsportreg.com/events/2018-solo-points-event-1-adventureland-park-scca-des-moines-valley-552421

Clear your vehicle of loose items and make an appointment to swap out your winter tires for your summers. After this harsh, snowy winter I am practically salivating at the prospect of carving some corners in anger. Join us out there!

http://PCA.org/pca-juniors

http://PCA.org/pca-juniors

https://www.dmvrscca.org/autocross-schedule/

https://www.dmvrscca.org/autocross-schedule/






2018 SCHONESLAND “SPRING TOUR” — JUNE 8th-10th

Ron NewmanTour Director

This winter has been a bitter neighbor. Always around. A cold, blowhard parking its snow on our driveway and sidewalks. Keeping us indoors…..and out of our “fun cars”.

The Schonesland Spring Tour (SW Wisconsin/NE Iowa) is just the tonic to cure what ails us. Think Spring! Lush green landscapes & more hours of daylight are only a couple changes from the Fall Tour of 2017. Headquartering again for 2 nights at the Dubuque Holiday Inn downtown (Friday the 8th & Saturday the 9th). A room block of 20 rooms has been arranged for both nights.

Friday evening we’ll gather in the hotel bar prior to enjoying another memorable meal at Pepper Sprout at 8:00 pm. Saturday we’ll tour southern Wisconsin, including lunch at Buggyworks and an afternoon stop in Mineral Point, WI for shopping/walking Main Street or relaxing with a beverage. Saturday evening we will socialize in the hotel bar before making our way to Vinny Vanucchi’s.

Sunday morning will find us touring roads in NE Iowa.

Please mark your calendar for June 8th-10th. Registration for the 2018 Schonesland Spring Tour opens March 3rd at MotorsportReg.com.

To paraphrase Herb Brooks and his “Miracle” hockey team from the 1980 Olympics, “Winter’s time is done, it’s over. This is our time……now go out there and take it”.

NEXT STEPS1) Make your hotel reservation: (563) 556-2000Holiday Inn, 450 Main Street, Dubuque, IA 52001Group Name: Schonesland Porsche Club

2) Register for the event at: MotorsportReg.com

3) Please send an email to Ron Newman & let him know if you (& a guest) will be joining us for the evening meal on Friday, and the lunch and evening meals on Saturday. Please include your cell number along with the model, year and color of the Porsche you’ll be driving.

NOTE: Appetizers will be provided before lunch and the evening meal on Saturday. A participation fee of $17 per person is required. (Diners will be responsible for the cost of their own meals).

The $17 per person participation fee may be paid through the MotorsportReg.com web site, or by sending a check payable to Schonesland to: Ron Newman, 1321 SW 31st Lane, Ankeny, IA 50023.

Tour coordinators: Ron & Alice Newman, Bill & Lynn FrankEmail: [email protected]

http://MotorsportReg.com

http://MotorsportReg.com

mailto:rnewman612%40gmail.com?subject=


APRIL 2018

MAY 2018

JUNE 2018

MARCH 2018

EVENTS CALENDAR

On Facebook? So are we.

Join the Schonesland Facebook page by searchingSchonesland Region of the PCA and clicking the Join button. Then share your favorite Porsche photos or car related items.

Saturday 4/14 - Schonesland Cars & Coffee at Karl Performance (7AM - 10AM)

Tuesday 4/17 - Schonesland Drive & Dine (6:30PM - 9PM)

Saturday 4/28 - Schonesland Time Speed Distance Rally (8AM - 2PM)

Saturday 5/12 - Schonesland Cars & Coffee (8AM - 10AM)

Tuesday 5/15 - Schonesland Drive & Dine (7PM - 9PM)

Saturday 5/26 - Schonesland Amana Colonies Day Trip (8AM - 2PM)

Friday 6/8 - Sunday 6/10 - Schonesland Drive - Dubuque & Wisconsin Tour


Thursday 6/14 - Schonesland Valley Junction Car Show (5PM - 9PM)


Saturday 6/23 - Schonesland New Member Picnic (11AM - 2PM)

Saturday 3/3 - Tech Session at Woodhouse Omaha (1PM - 3PM)


Wednesday 3/18 - Schonesland Auto Cross at Adventureland Park (8AM - 2PM)




JULY 2018

SEPTEMBER 2018

OCTOBER 2018

NOVEMBER 2018

DECEMBER 2018

AUGUST 2018

Sunday 7/8 - Saturday 7/14 - Porsche Parade at Tan-Tar-A Resort MO




Sunday 9/9 - Des Moines Concours D’elegance (7AM - 2PM)


Saturday 10/6 - Sunday 10/7 - Schonesland Loess Hills Drive





Saturday 12/1 - Schonesland Holiday Party (6PM - 10PM)



Saturday 8/11 - Schonesland Cars & Coffee - Mad Warren Drive (8AM - 2PM)

Sunday 8/19 - Schonesland DMVR SCCA HPDE (8AM - 6PM)


Friday 8/31 - Monday 9/3 - Schonesland Fall Drive - Eureka Springs, AR

EVENTS CALENDAR (CONT.)


SOMETHING ABOUT A FLAT SIX REVVING TO 9000 RPM...JUST CALMS ME DOWN


Back road. Behind a semi and trailer. Sport button! Mash throttle!

Hiccup. Lurch. Grind. Vibrate-vibrate-vibrate-vibrate-vibrate…warning message.

That was the first time I tried to go fast in a Macan.

Excellence Magazine recently did a Macan GTS review. It was one of the most damning-with-faint-praise car articles I’ve ever read, replete with gems like “engine output feels acceptable but honestly rather unexciting,” “surprised by the amount of understeer,” “unexpected quirks,” and “feels too heavy and underpowered relative to other contemporary performance machines.”

Amazon’s The Grand Tour released an episode a few weeks back where the boys spend some time in Canada testing and comparing small luxury crossovers. Hammond gets a bright red Macan Turbo, which, when asked to do some rodeo-style barrel racing in loose dirt, quickly throws an “AWD overload” warning message and goes into a power-limited “limp” mode.

If you hadn’t caught on to my thesis just yet, it’s that all small crossovers—including Porsche’s—are essentially useless. The Cayenne is one thing; especially in its original form, it was a full-size SUV designed to comfortably seat four adults and transport their luggage while retaining the ability to not only go fast on the road, but also to dependably and capably go off-road, as well as to tow a respectable amount. The

Cayenne does things a car could not do.

The Macan cannot comfortably seat four adults. It cannot transport their luggage. It is less capable around corners than a car would be. It is less fuel-efficient than a car would be. It cannot tow any significant amount. The base model’s stock tires are Pirelli Scorpion Verde low rolling resistance fuel-economy-at-all-costs tires that offer minimal lateral grip in dry or wet cornering, even less grip off-road, and still less grip in snow.

You would think a company whose history is recorded in a series of volumes titled Excellence Was Expected would only agree to produce such a subpar vehicle to the absolute minimum extent possible. And yet this very week, Porsche unveiled another of the type, a “concept study of an electrically driven Cross

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/products/porsche-mission-e-cross-turismo-cuv-cross-utility-vehicle-geneva-motor-show-2018-gimsswiss-14946.html



Utility Vehicle (CUV)” at the Geneva Motor Show. This is the first paragraph of their press release:

This car has many talents and is aimed at people who like to spend their free time travelling, playing sport and pursuing other outdoor activities. Thanks to all-wheel drive, every ski slope is easy to reach, while the flexible interior creates space for all kinds of sports equipment and modern load-carrying systems facilitate the transport of surfboards or a Porsche e-bike.

Except for the “Porsche e-bike” statement, that paragraph could be used by just about every other automaker in

the world. I read that disgusting, poorly-written, uninspiring drivel and come away with nothing except “This car is what our accountants say the market demands. We need cash to recover from Dieselgate.”

With all this, I was girding myself to go on a longer tirade about how Porsche has left top-tier LMP1 racing, how the new 911 RSR remains uncompetitive in sports-car racing even after a ground-up redesign, and how the company’s Formula E effort is still a year off. I was going to point to the sales numbers that indicate without question that the public-road-going soul of the company has a higher center of gravity, larger

footprint, and heaver curb weight than ever before. I was going to say that the soul of the brand was diluted, lost, aimless, and who knew where it would end up next.

Then I remembered that the other car Porsche unveiled at Geneva was the new GT3RS, and I watched the hype video they made for it. And suddenly, everything was fine, just fine. Even better than fine. In fact, things might just be unabashedly brilliant.


https://vimeo.com/256645969

https://vimeo.com/256645969


PORSCHE ATLANTADoug and Andrew Hillman recently visited the Porsche Experience Center in Atlanta, Ga. The late February visit allowed them to test their skills on a number of the Experience center track sections including skid pad and kick plate. Check out their pictures.

Pictures provided by Doug and Andrew Hillman




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almost here - SchoneslandIf you hadn’t caught on to my thesis just yet, it’s that all small crossovers— including Porsche’s—are essentially useless. The Cayenne is one thing;