Entries by nnjr-pca

Hitting Apexes…. Sept 2014

Well, here we are in early August and we have just returned from our DE’s at Mosport with our friends from UCR and our famous Paul Miller Watkins Glen I event. On July 18-20 we were at Mosport for our annual CAN/AM DE with our friends from UCR. Overall there were 145 attendees with 39 […]

Hitting Apexes…. August 2014

Since my last article we had our June 13-14 DE at Thunderbolt with a great turnout and great weather. I witnessed some pretty nice driving and many smiling faces. We had a great time reliving our best laps on Friday with a nice Beer, Wings, Chicken Fingers, etc… get-together. We have just returned from our […]

Hitting Apexes…. July 2014

We just returned from our Mid Ohio (MO) DE and I keep thinking about how much I love that track. Quite frankly I really like all the tracks we go to and have a cadre of turns on each that really make a strong impression. No-one (or maybe 1 in 100,000) will argue with you […]

Hitting Apexes…. June 2014

We just returned from our Lightning/Thunderbolt AdvancedDriver/Instructor DE and are now preparing for our next event at Mid Ohio (May 16-18). As your new Track Chair, I now have two DE’s under my belt (whew!) and getting into a rhythm for the main part of our season. To pull off these events there is a […]

Hitting Apexes….. May 2014

What is crazy is that I am writing my May article and we have yet to have our first DE of the season (Lime Rock). Oh well, I need to keep our editors happy, so here goes. I do not know about you, but at one time I had some trepidation about attending our Mosport […]

Hitting Apexes……. April 2014

IT IS STILL FREEZING COLD AS I WRITE THIS ARTICLE. KIND OF HARD TO THINK ABOUT DRIVING WHEN I STILL HAVE GLACIERS JUST OUTSIDE THE DOOR. But wait, I heard that NJMP is opening their track on March 15 and PCA Schattenbaum is having a DE on March 22. Full Disclosure here: I have attended […]

Hitting Apexes….. March 2014

April is just around the corner and very soon, we hold our first DE of the season at Lime Rock Park on April 9-10. If you did not know it already, here is a little bit of history and factoids about this famous and storied race track. Dreamed up in 1956 by Jim Vaill, the […]

Hitting Apexes….. Feb 2014

I am sitting here in Vermont thinking and it is currently 5°F on the way to a balmy 19°F. But, I have been thinking a lot about the upcoming DE season and the car projects I want to get done before our first event. I am not sure what was on your Christmas lists, but […]

Hitting Apexes…… Jan 2014

Wow, time does really fly when you are having fun. I can remember the day when I first joined the PCA as this coincided with me purchasing my first Porsche (a 1997 Guards Red 911 Cabrio with the Cashmere leather interior). . What a car and what a day that was! For the first couple […]

May President Letter

Mornings can be very hectic around the Karpinski household. With two working parents and three third-graders, I drew the short straw when it came to driving the school bus in the morning. OK, so my work commute is about ten minutes on a bad day, versus Suzanne’s daily hour-plus trek up 78 East to New […]