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TABLE OF CONTENTS Schonesland Officers & Board Members...3 President s Apex... 4 2015 Indy 500... 5 Hoosier & Beckly... 8 Prevette s... 10 Calendar of Events...11 Porsche of Omaha... 12 Membership.

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Schonesland Officers & Board Members...3 President s Apex Indy Hoosier & Beckly... 8 Prevette s Calendar of Events...11 Porsche of Omaha Membership NOTICE: The Spinner newsletter name and content herein are copyright protected and may not be reproduced without SL-PCA s express written permission. All logos belong to their respective owners. Porsche, the Porsche Crest, Targa, Boxster, Carrera, Cayenne, Cayman, Panamera, Tiptronic, VarioCam, PCM, 911, 4S, are trademarks of Porsche AG. This newsletter is only for our Iowa Subscribers. We do not intend to establish contacts or enter into any contracts outside of the State of Iowa. INFORMATION IN THIS NEWSLETTER IS PROVIDED AS IS WITH NO WARRANTIES EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. Inclusion of an advertisement or Internet link in these pages does not imply any endorsement of the services or the site, it s contents, or it s sponsoring organization. The opinions expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Spinner, the Porsche Club of America, the Schonesland Region of the Porsche Club of America, its officers, newsletter editors, or web-master. Classified ads are welcome from SL-PCA members. Nonprofessional, non-corporate sale of personal Porsche-related items only. Classified cost is FREE!! Editor reserves right to limit ad size due to space limitations. Please jeff.t.david@gmail.com for more information. Page 2

SCHONESLAND OFFICERS & BOARD MEMBERS Mary Alice Hill

515-225-3528 Lynn Frank Secretary 515-986-7377 Ron Newman

editor 515-991-2772 Garry Seemann Safety Chair

Casey Flanagan Co-Chair, Track Events 515-865-1422 Kent

515-266-1594 Jeff David Board Member 515 229-5616 Sue

3 SCHONESLAND OFFICERS & BOARD MEMBERS Mary Alice Hill President Jeff Krausman Vice President Lynn Frank Secretary Ron Newman Treasurer David Safris Webmaster/SPINNER editor Garry Seemann Safety Chair Skip Hammerman Membership Chair Casey Flanagan Co-Chair, Track Events Kent Lehr Track Events Tom Rusk Historian Jeff David Board Member Sue Larson Board Member ZONE 10 Kim Fritze Zone 10 Representative Doug Hillman Board Member Page 3

President s Apex Mary Alice Hill President The July 4th holiday is upon us and summer is flying by. Have you had a chance to enjoy your Porsche as much as you d like?

Trail boss Jeff David has been able to extend the reserved room block at the Stoney Creek in Sioux City but act fast because the new deadline is July 4th.

4 President s Apex Mary Alice Hill President The July 4th holiday is upon us and summer is flying by. Have you had a chance to enjoy your Porsche as much as you d like? Don t miss the opportunity to drive some great roads, enjoy good meals and have fun with Schonesland friends the weekend of July 25th-26th as we head to the Loess Hills. Trail boss Jeff David has been able to extend the reserved room block at the Stoney Creek in Sioux City but act fast because the new deadline is July 4th. Register through the Calendar section of the Schonesland website and call the hotel to reserve your room you ll find all the details and the hotel phone number in the calendar. Mother Nature didn t cooperate for our planned 40th anniversary public car show last month at the Valley Junction Farmer s Market in West Des Moines. The event has been rescheduled to Thursday evening July 16th so we ll keep our fingers crossed for a beautiful evening. The 300 block of 5th Street will be barricaded for us and we want to have many cars on display to share our Porsche enthusiasm. The Farmer s Market is from 4-8 pm and our show area will be available at 3:15. Bring your car anytime that works for you since we ll have access to the area the whole evening. Doug Hillman is organizing the event and you may sign up in the Calendar section of the website. guru and newsletter editor, for leading Schonesland to a Parade Class II First Place Win for our website. The competition is tough and sites are judged on editorial excellence, design effectiveness, user friendliness, up-todate content, and usefulness to members. Last year our region came close to winning first place and David set a goal for us to win this year. A big congratulations also to Sue Larson, who leads and enhances our Facebook presence. Her efforts helped us get great scores for our social media outreach. Thanks for all your hard work, David and Sue, and way to go! Now that Parade is over the registration will open soon for Escape, a large national PCA event featuring drives, tours and social activities. This year s gathering will be October 1st-3rd in the Black Hills of South Dakota and a number of our region members are already planning to attend. If you ve been to the Black Hills you know the roads and views are incredible. For all the details go to the PCA website at pca.org and search for PCA Escape. When registration opens you ll first register on the pca.org website and then you ll receive a code you ll use to reserve your hotel room. A new drive has been added to our summer lineup. Garry Seemann is organizing a day trip on September 6th, the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. We ll enjoy a car show in Madrid, IA and then a drive and late lunch together. Watch for more details as the date gets closer. Continue to check the website or our Facebook page for all the Schonesland activities, including Cars and Coffee on the second Saturday of each month and Drive and Dine on the third Tuesday. Purchase some raffle tickets when you re attending events and as you re traveling this summer remember to snap photos of your car by your favorite Iowa landmark and submit them to our photo contest. Get out and drive today you deserve it! Schonesland is headed to Omaha for an overnight trip Aug. 14th-15th. Trip organizers Skip Hammerman and Jeff Krausman have arranged a social start to the weekend with a Friday night dinner in the Old Market area, near our Embassy Suites Hotel. Enjoy the complimentary breakfast at the hotel Saturday morning and then we ll catch a car show followed by a lunch and tour of the remodeled and expanded Woodhouse Porsche of Omaha dealership. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Embassy Suites-Old Market and you may reserve one night or two, if you d like to extend the fun. Complete details will be posted soon on the website and on our Facebook page. Several of our members including Tom Rusk and Will and Anne MacFarland recently attended the PCA Parade in French Lick, Indiana. A hearty congratulations to David Safris, our tireless website Page 4

2015 Indy 500 the changing of the guard taking place in the early 2000 s, as the older Indy vets gracefully gave way to a younger generation of stars: the made-for-tv smile of the fence-climbing

Italianname/Italian-face guy that somehow spoke in Scottish brogue: Dario Franchitti. Will MacFarland Contributing Writer I was raised on the Indianapolis 500.

Sunday morning, we would wake, have breakfast, seed the vegetable garden, and then gather around an ancient box of glowing cathode ray tubes for the race.

5 2015 Indy 500 the changing of the guard taking place in the early 2000 s, as the older Indy vets gracefully gave way to a younger generation of stars: the made-for-tv smile of the fence-climbing Helio Castroneves; the entitled, yet fiery and determined Marco Andretti; fan favorite and Vin Diesel lookalike Tony Kanaan; the fast, witty, and wily longhaired Brit Dan Wheldon; and the Italianname/Italian-face guy that somehow spoke in Scottish brogue: Dario Franchitti. Will MacFarland Contributing Writer I was raised on the Indianapolis 500. When I was a wee lad, my family would journey to my great aunt s summer house in northern PA for every Memorial Day weekend. Sunday morning, we would wake, have breakfast, seed the vegetable garden, and then gather around an ancient box of glowing cathode ray tubes for the race. Even as a frenetic child on his summer vacation, I was transfixed. For those hours, I would just gape at the race in awe. The cars were so conspicuously fragile, the speeds and danger so obviously great, the crowd and the track so massively huge. I knew nothing else about the sport save that once a year, they did THIS, and to me, that was enough. A succession of Mears and Unser victories marked those days for me, with a couple interjections from a man named Fittipaldi. Years later, I confessed to my wife that the only reason it took me so long to propose to her was that I needed to pay off the new wheels I d put on my car 17 Fittipaldi Flames before I could buy her a ring. (She s since forgiven me. Just ask her about it.) As I grew up and the pace of life increased, I still tried to keep up with the happenings at the 500. I remember I was living in Las Vegas in October of 2011, but I wasn t at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway when we lost Wheldon instead, my wife and boys and I were at Leguna Seca for Rennsport Reunion IV. Still, I remember the moment atop that glorious hill at that glorious track when a voice came across the PA system and announced the news. I remember feeling a deathly chill and audibly gasping, What??? My next coherent thought was of Dan s pretty wife and young boys I remembered seeing them, just a few months before, reacting joyously after Wheldon swept past the still-rolling wreckage of JR Hildebrand s car to take the lead and the victory just before crossing the bricks at the 500. That crazy finish was made even crazier by the fact that Wheldon didn t even have a ride for the remainder of the 2011 IndyCar Series season. Bryan Herta s racing team didn t have deep pockets and had thrown together a car and a driver just for the 500. As a result, Wheldon logged the 500 win, then went right back to doing race commentary on the SPEED channel. More important was the work he was doing as a driver-consultant for chassis-maker Dallara, who was in the midst of producing an all-new chassis for the IndyCar series, set to debut in the 2012 season. The chassis was later named DW12 in Wheldon s honor, and rightfully so. With Dan s help, Dallara had done a spectacular job and ushered in a new and fantastic era in IndyCar. The new chassis created such an aerodynamic void behind it at high speed that leaders at Indy were now completely unable to hold the lead for long. Challengers could lurk in the low-drag wake behind the leader, and then slingshot past when exiting a turn onto the long straights at Indianapolis. The saw an all-time record 34 lead changes, and a race that in past days had been, at times, relatively placid at the front suddenly became a never-lookaway, white-knuckle rivet-fest for all 500 miles. That 2012 race wasn t decided until Takuma Sato spun out from under Dario Franchitti in turn one of lap 200. The 2013 race finally placed Tony Kanaan atop the podium. And the 2014 race gave us an American winner for the first time in 8 years: Ryan Hunter-Reay, on the back of his almost unbelievably ballsy, nearlyinto-the-grass, lap-197 pass. Page 5

The rain gave way to sunshine as we walked the remaining distance to the track entrance. Along with lots of other people. Spectacle in Racing. So many other people.

6 Raised on Indy and now hopelessly addicted to Indy and finally living within a day s drive of Indy I could not pass up the 99th running of the race. I bought tickets and convinced friends and family from four different states to come join me. We drove into town under a very light rain and found a $10 parking spot on a Georgetown Road front lawn. The rain gave way to sunshine as we walked the remaining distance to the track entrance. Along with lots of other people. Spectacle in Racing. So many other people. I ve been to professional racing events before, but 20,000 or 30,000 people at Mid-Ohio or Leguna Seca is not remotely in the same league as a quarter-million folks at Indy. Heck, a top-attended pro or college football game doesn t even merit HALF as many attendees as the 500. The scale of this event is truly enormous, epic, massive, incredible something words on a page can t describe. We meandered through the IndyCar Fan Village, checked out the 2016 Camaro (and a unicorn 3-pedal SS) that Chevrolet had on display, and eyed the bright-green Honda Civic Type R concept. For a few moments, I stood close enough to Hunter-Reay s 2014 winning car to bask in its victorious yellow aura. Then we strolled back to our seats for the traditional prerace pageantry, so important at the 500. My favorite moment of these festivities was during the driver introductions, where the assembled multitudes loudly and rightfully booed lead IndyCar Series d-bag Will Power. I knew right then that I was among good folk! Speaking of good folk, Jim Nabors has stepped aside as official Back Home Again In Indiana singer, and Indiana University alums, Straight No Chaser, did an excellent job in his place. Jordan Sparks gave a solid national anthem (though either she finished early, or the A-10 flyover came in late). Mari Hulman George, as she has done for as long as I remember, gave the start engines command, albeit this time with help from one of her daughters. And then the Corvette pace car ducked into the pits, the green flag dropped, the engines roared, and Sato crashed. A glorious early summer day at the Greatest I won t bore you with an amateur recounting of all 500 miles, but the best radio line of the day was from Turn 3 man Jake Query, who summarized the Chevroletengine dominance with this clever quip: The Victory Banquet may be the weekend s formal affair, but a bowtie is required attire for this race! For me, the best result of the day was seeing low-key Ganassi man Charlie Kimball put together a brilliant drive, starting 14th on the grid but finishing on the podium in 3rd. Charlie is now batting a thousand when it comes to achieving a podium finish at IndyCar races that I ve attended (Mid-Ohio 2013, 1st place). Next year will, of course, be the 100th running. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway will be showing off a host of upgrades, Helio will still be looking for his fourth win, Marco will still be trying to break the Andretti Curse, Tony will still be playing up his fan favorite status, and Sato will surely crash again. I ve already got my tickets, and as sixty-five percent of the US population lives within a day s drive of Indianapolis no excuses, I ll see you there. Does your car have a story to tell? For many of us, the processes of researching, finding, acquiring, and maintaining a dream car is as enjoyable as actually driving the car down the road. If you have a story to tell we would love to hear from you. Write up a quick story about your car and get a few high quality photos ready. Contact David Safris using the website contact page and he will work out the best way to get your story and photo included in a future Spinner newsletter. Page 6

40th anniversary photo contest! What s your favorite Iowa landmark? Schonesland is having a photo contest to highlight our cars and celebrate our 40th anniversary.

7 40th anniversary photo contest! What s your favorite Iowa landmark? Schonesland is having a photo contest to highlight our cars and celebrate our 40th anniversary. Here are the details -- have fun and be creative! Take a picture of your Porsche with an Iowa landmark or your definition of an Iowa beautiful land in the background Photos should be of cars and background only (no people) Caveats: No photoshopping or artificially creating the car or background. Please take your photo in a responsible manner and don t disrupt traffic, damage property or put anyone in harm s way. Schonesland is not responsible for any incidents. Submit your photo in a JPEG format to SchoneslandPorsche@gmail.com by October 31, 2015 To defray the cost of prizes please submit a $5 processing fee for every 10 photo submissions. You may give the fee to board members Sue Larson, Ron Newman, Doug Hillman or Mary Alice Hill. Photos will be judged by a panel and the following prizes will be awarded: Prizes: Three finalists will receive a canvas print of their photo, with one being chosen the grand prize winner Ten additional photos will receive honorable mention A 2016 calendar will be created with the grand prize winning photo featured on the cover and the remaining twelve photos featured throughout the months. Calendars will be available for purchase. The grand prize photo will also be featured on the cover of the January SPINNER. Will it be yours? Page 7

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Have a great picture of your car and want to share it? The club website, www.schonesland.

9 Have a great picture of your car and want to share it? The club website, has a special photo gallery titled Club Member Cars and we would like to add your car to the list. Send us your best photo and we will add you to the website photo gallery. Page 9

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11 April 2015 Fri 4/10 -- Fast Friday at Raceway Park of the Midlands (RPM); 12-5PM Sat 4/11 -- Schonesland Cars & Coffee; 8 AM - Mad Warren Drive; 9:15 AM Sat 4/18 -- Porsche DIY Saturday; 10 AM -12PM Tues 4/21 -- Schonesland Drive & Dine; 6:30- Sat 4/25 -- Spring Fling DE at Mid-America Motorplex May 2015 Sat 5/ th Year Party at Tewfiks; 11-2 PM Sat 5/9 -- Tire Rack Street Survival Teen Driving School at Newton Speedway; 8-5 PM Sat 5/9 -- Schonesland Cars & Coffee; 8-10 AM Tues 5/19 -- Schonesland Drive & Dine; 6:30- Sat 5/29 -- Porsche Club Race & Advanced DE at Motorsport Park Hastings June 2015 Events Calendar July 2015 Sat 7/11 -- Schonesland Cars & Coffee; 8-10 AM Thurs 7/ th anniversary car show in Valley Junction; 4-8 PM Tues 7/21 -- Schonesland Drive & Dine; 6:30- Tues 7/25-7/26 -- Schonesland Loess Hills Drive August 2015 Sat 8/8 -- Schonesland Cars & Coffee; 8-10 AM Tues 8/18 -- Schonesland Drive & Dine; 6:30- September 2015 Sat 9/12 -- Schonesland Cars & Coffee; 8-10 AM Sun 9/13 -- Des Moines Concours d Elegance; 10-5 PM Tues 9/15 -- Schonesland Drive & Dine; 6:30- Wed 9/30 -- Porsche Escape to Black Hills Sat 6/13 -- Schonesland Cars & Coffee; 8-10 AM Sun 6/ Porsche Parade: French Lick, Indiana Tues 6/23 -- Schonesland Drive & Dine; 6:30- October 2015 Sat 10/10 -- Schonesland Cars & Coffee; 8-10 AM Tues 10/20 -- Schonesland Drive & Dine; 6:30- November 2015 Sat 11/14 -- Schonesland Cars & Coffee; 8-10 AM Tues 11/17 -- Schonesland Drive & Dine; 6:30- On Facebook? So are we. Join the Schonesland Facebook page by searching Schonesland Region of the PCA and hitting the Join button, then share your favorite Porsche photos or car related items. Page 11

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HISTORY The Porsche Club of America was founded in 1955 with the following objectives in mind: to promote the highest standards of courtesy and safety of the roads; to enjoy and share the good will

13 HISTORY The Porsche Club of America was founded in 1955 with the following objectives in mind: to promote the highest standards of courtesy and safety of the roads; to enjoy and share the good will and fellowship of owning a Porsche; to maintain the highest standards of operation and performance of the marque; to establish a mutually beneficial relationship with the Porsche factory, dealers and other service sources; to exchange ideas with other Porsche clubs throughout the world; and to establish mutually cooperative relationships with other sports car clubs. Membership in the PCA will add to your enjoyment of owning one of the finest automobiles in the world. We know the joy that Porsche ownership can provide, and we've built a community around that Your local PCA Region contact: With over 100,000 members, PCA is the largest single marque car club in the world. Social, technical or competitive - no matter your interest, the PCA has something to offer every Porsche owner. For over 55 years, the PCA has been dedicated to enhancing the Porsche ownership experience. Page 13

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SPINNER. Schönesland Region Porsche Club of America... Page 1 SPINNER Schönesland Region Porsche Club of America... Page 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Schonesland Officers & Board Members...3 President s Apex... 4 Holiday Party Recap... 5 Rallycross Nationals... 7 2017 Calendars...