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By Chip Witt, Redwood Region PCA
On Friday, December 11th, the fifth and final race of the Wild West Zones Series 1 was held at Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari (a.k.a. Imola).
All driver classes joined on-track together in a single 23-car grid comprised of Pro and Club drivers in the 911 RSR and Sport and Challenge drivers in the Ruf 12RT Track, creating some incredible multi-class action.
After the dust settled following the 40 minute, 24 lap slug-fest, Dave Schwartz came out with the overall and Pro class victories.
Brian Granger finished second overall and walked away with the Club class win.
Chris Read More >
Le Mans. Sebring. Daytona. Classic motorsports tracks where Porsche has had a long successful history. For the first time, PCA Sim Racing will bring the excitement, strategy, and tactics of team racing to our group in a series.
We will start out modestly with “short” team races of 90 minutes for the first two races at Daytona RC and Sebring, then expand the format to three hours at Le Mans, then 2 hours at Spa-Francorchamps, and Road Atlanta.
Our first year of team racing is about learning how to work with the iRacing team structure, learning the tactics and strategy of longer Read More >
By Jacob Shum, Carolinas Region PCA
Zone Group 3 & 12 held their 5th race at Imola and it was an incident-filled event!
Qualifying started with a bang as the top three drivers qualified within 0.2 seconds of each other with Jacob Shum leading Rafael Amorim and Robert Rattray.
From the green flag, the 30-minute heat race found the top-3 fighting closely with each other until the round of pitstops where Jacob had a slow stop. Robert and Rafael fought tooth and nail to the end until they came up behind a backmarker.
At Rivazza, Robert successfully cleared the backmarker. Rafael tried to Read More >
Porsche Club of America’s newest member feature is computer-based PC sim racing. Enjoy the racing competition from your home during the winter months! PCA Sim Racing is free to all registered PCA membership.
Step 1. See what you’re missing. Take a look here to view some of our replays. Our videos of events show sim racing at its best.
Step 2. Next, determine if you have computer resources that will work, or if you’ll need to purchase some additional hardware.
PCA Sim Racing uses the well-known iRacing desktop sim racing Read More >
By Chip Witt, Redwood Region PCA
The Wild West Zone Group (WWZ) held their 4th race of Series 1 at Silverstone this past week.
After a short one-week holiday hiatus, the Wild West Zones brought their battle to the historic Silverstone Grand Prix circuit for the fourth race in the five-race “fun series” on Friday night, December 4th.
Continuing the trend of adding unique, surprise challenges to the series, all classes were combined for a 22 car grid that mixed Porsche 911 RSR (Pro and Club) and Ruf RT 12 Track (Sport and Challenge) for a multi-class bonanza.
Traffic management and patience were keys Read More >
By Anker Berg-Sonne, Northeast Region PCA
The first championship point race for the Zone 1 Wildcats was run Friday, December 5th, at Road America.
Road America is a fun, fast course with a couple of very tricky corners. Corner 3 requires a lot of braking and patience to hit the apex and track out. Failure puts you in the grass or a plodding exit speed leading on to the Moraine Sweep.
Corner 5 has a downhill approach and punishes late braking by putting you in the runout, as does corner six, where you end up in the grass and inevitably Read More >
By Anker Berg-Sonne, Northeast Region PCA
As a beginner iRacer, one of the more depressing experiences is to have the leaders of the race lap you once, twice, or maybe more times. This may tempt you to try to drive faster and take more risks, but I think you will change your mind after this small math exercise!
The average lap time for the courses we normally drive in the PCA Sim Racing League is one to two minutes, and we typically run right around 40 minutes or 20 to 40 laps. So how much slower than the leaders can you drive Read More >
