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5. ReportsPorsche Club Bulgarien
First Club Meeting
The first meeting of the Porsche ClubBulgaria was held in the final quarterof last year. Porsche owners from theClub were invited to the new Hotel Expoin Sofia. A total of 20 Porsche driversturned up, mainly in a Porsche 911,Boxster or Cayenne. The host wasOrchid Sports Cars Bulgaria Ltd., thenew Porsche importer for Bulgaria,which set out to provide the Club withactive support in its initial phase.
Mike Lewkowitz, Managing Director of Orchid Sports Cars, reported onplanned activities by the importer and familiarised participants with the guidelines and possibilities of aPorsche Club. The official Club repre-sentatives were then selected. GeorgiHadjiski will take on the office of ClubPresident, Tomo Borissov was appoint-ed Vice President, while Vladislav Krumov will perform the function ofClub Secretary.
The first meeting of the Club wasreported on national television and innewspapers and car magazines.
Porsche Club BulgariaPresident: George HadjiiskyTel.: +359 (0)899 90 29 02Fax: +359 (0)298 70 16 7E-mail: [email protected]
Porsche Club Zürich
50 Years of the Porsche Club Zürich
The Porsche Club Zürich celebratedits 50th anniversary last year with avery varied two-day programme ofactivities. The most important elementof this anniversary event was a trip thathad been put together with great ded-ication and began in Chur. The numer-ous participants were divided into atotal of 17 teams and then set off intheir Porsches towards Arosa. On theway, they had to complete all kinds oftests. At various checkpoints, they hadto answer questions about the historyof the Porsche Club Zürich and demon-strate their knowledge of geographyor the highway code.
Some of the tasks made high demandson the skills of the Porsche fans. Golffreaks had the chance to shine at put-ting, while those with a steady handgot the most points in the target pistolshooting. There was also an elementof humour. For example, each teammember was required to arrive at thefinish with two live flies and one chal-lenge was to milk a cow, obtaining asmuch milk as possible in the allotted
time. Meanwhile, the task of playing aparticular song on an alpine horn pro-vided plenty of excitement. Despitetheir vivid imaginations, however, mostof the listeners could not recognisethe tunes.
The presentation ceremony was heldin the evening, which also included agala dinner, speeches and tributes to various Club members for their service in the work of the Club. VolkerSpannagel from the Club Co-ordinationbrought Porsche AG’s congratulationson the Club's anniversary.
The following day involved a cable cartrip to the top of the 2,653-metreWeisshorngipfel, but snow and coldweather meant that this was not quiteas impressive as planned. Neverthe-less, the anniversary event as a wholeprovided great enjoyment for every-one who attended.
Otto Maurer
Porsche Club ZürichPresident: Esther LongaTel.: +41 (0)52 316 26 87Fax: +41 (0)52 316 26 82E-mail: [email protected]
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The Barretstown Clinic founded in Ire-land by Paul Newman offers a uniqueprogramme of physiotherapy and sup-port for children from all over Europewho are suffering from cancer or oth-er serious diseases. During their tendays of therapy the children, agedbetween seven and 17, learn how toregain their inner strength and self-con-fidence. They are looked after individ-ually by a trained supervisor calledCara, which means friend in the Gaeliclanguage.
On their first visit to the Clinic, themembers of the Porsche Club Irelandwere deeply moved by the experienceand a close link quickly grew upbetween Barretstown and the Club,which is reflected in regular jointevents. To mark Barretstown’s tenthanniversary, on 4rd September 2004a “Special Fundraising Drive” was
organised, supported by Porsche AG,Porsche Cars Great Britain, thePorsche Club Great Britain, MartinBiranne from the Mondello Racing Circuit and the Porsche Club Ireland.The event at the Mondello Park circuit,40 kilometres from Dublin, was alsoattended by Paul Newman himself.
A huge number of donations were col-lected. Each guest or driver had to pay5,000.– Euro to participate, whichwas then donated directly to the Clinic.
A Porsche 997, which at that time wasnot yet available in Ireland and hadbeen generously donated by PorscheCars Great Britain, completed someimpressive demonstration laps on thetrack. At an auction following the galaevening, it was sold for 175,000.–Euro. Moreover, many other gifts weredonated, for example a Gucci hand-
made electronic guitar played by PaulMcCartney that night. In total, the dayraised 440,000.– Euro for Barrets-town.
Michael Grimes
Porsche Club IrelandPresident: Ted GaffneyTel.: +353 (0)18 41 31 00E-mail: [email protected]
Information about Barretstown can befound at: www.barretstown.org
Porsche Club Ireland
Special Fundraising Drive for Barretstown
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Porsche Centre South Africa /Porsche Club of South Africa
London-Sydney in a Porsche Cayenne
It sounded great – reviving the 1968London-Sydney Marathon and follow-ing in the footsteps of some famousrally drivers.
It could work. For support, I would haveex-racing driver Mark Peters as my co-driver and his wife Noreen taking careof the logistics. And the best thingabout it would be that I would be outof my office for five weeks.
No sooner said than done. On the flightfrom Johannesburg to London I startedto have my first bad feelings about thechallenges ahead. Back in 1968, the16,000 kilometre route was called an“endurance challenge for man andmachine”. It ran from London throughFrance, Germany, Austria, Italy,Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran,Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and thenby sea to Freemantle and then on toPerth and Sydney. However, this timeit had to done in the prevailing politicalclimate of 2004. This meant a longerleg through India, from where a huge
Cayenne and therefore had completefaith that we would complete themarathon. All we took with us were twospare rims and the all-terrain tyres sug-gested by Porsche.
Our basalt black Cayenne Turbo wasdelivered one day before the eventbegan. There was not even enoughtime to get used to it, one of the resultsof which was that Noreen continuallycomplained during the rally that thevolume control on the steering wheelwas not working, as she sat pressingthe Tiptronic buttons. However, wejust about had the chance to fit theroof rack for the spare wheels and thenthe Cayenne lined up for the start ofthe journey with just 200 kilometreson the clock.
Unfortunately, we also needed to learnabout rally driving. Our navigation skills– particularly mine – left plenty to bedesired and we lost 45 seconds onspecial stages in France and were onlyin 19th place when we arrived in Italy.
Russian Antonov would fly the partici-pants to Darwin.
The big question was: Which vehicleshould we choose for this trip?
In 1968, the works teams took thisevent very seriously. Back then, theBritish Motor Corporation employedno less than 500 people in service andsupport, while the financially weakerprivate teams relied on taking half atonne of spare parts with them.
As neither Mark, nor I, nor Noreen par-ticularly relished the idea of carryingout repairs en route, we opted to drivewithout spare parts – but to make upfor that we chose a brand new vehiclewe knew we could rely on – the PorscheCayenne Turbo. Some people doubtedwhether such a complicated car withits Tiptronic gearbox and the sophisti-cated chassis was the right choice.But from my point of view, the deci-sion was easy to explain. I had close-ly followed the development of the
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Then came India. Nobody had preparedus for the chaos of Indian roads. Every-where, we met friendly, smiling peoplebut on horrendous roads, clogged upwith cars, trucks, buses, bikes andmotorbikes carrying three, four oreven five people. And that is not tomention a host of wandering animals.
The rally stages in India were amongthe most demanding of the wholemarathon, as it was raining and theroads were extremely muddy. Howev-er, this did not really slow down theCayenne, which completed the coursewith no problems. One section had nofewer than 27 tight hairpin bends fromthe valley to the plateau – but thanksto Porsche traction control, pure turbo power and Tiptronic, the car han-dled these bends with aplomb. Vehi-cles on this marathon were somewhatmistreated. However, we had to callour Porsche Centre in South Africaonce in the middle of India to ask howto clean the air filter. Oh, and we hadone puncture, but that was all.
Australia brought a welcome change.The 1,500 kilometre stage from Darwin to Alice Springs included somefantastic straights. With no speed limits to slow us down, we drove at anaverage of more than 200 km/h – per-fect conditions for this great Porsche.
have anticipated there would one daybe the Porsche Cayenne.
Graham Duxbury
Porsche Centre South AfricaTel.: +27 11 686 90 00Fax: +27 11 781 11 45E-mail:[email protected]
Porsche Club of South AfricaMr. Theo RautenbachTel.: +27 011 794 21 19Fax: +27 011 794 71 29E-mail: [email protected]
We passed Ayers Rock – accompaniedby a fabulous sunset – and continuedthrough the opal mining town of Cooper Pedy. Due to rain, which isunusual in this region, the normally dryground was adorned with millions offlowers. Even Lake Eyre – where Donald Campbell once made his worldwater speed record attempts – wasfull of water for the first time in tenyears.
After 35 days and 16,000 kilometres,we finally crossed the finish line in Sydney. Our abilities as rally driversand a navigation team had improvedalong the way. Despite this, we finishedfourth in our class, only two secondsbehind the third placed car and just aminute separated us from the victori-ous car, which coincidentally was alsoa Cayenne Turbo.
They were certainly right when theydescribed the route as an “endurancechallenge for man and machine” in1968. But back then, nobody could
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and Driver’s Cup II series met withgreat enthusiasm. From exclusivedrives with instructors to section train-ing to 30 minute tests of driving styleand time trials, everyone got their money’s worth and experienced puremotorsport feeling.
The professionals with racing licenceshad the chance to compete in variousseries. Whether it was the Driver’sChallenge, Sports Cup, Super SportsCup of the Sports Cup Endurance longdistance race – there was somethingfor everyone. Particularly in the topseries the Super Sports Cup and thelong distance race, there were someexciting battles for positions. Over 40competitors fought for points, fameand honour.
The Porsche Sports Cup, an initiativeby Porsche Deutschland in co-opera-tion with the Porsche Club Deutsch-land, fills the gap between the PorscheSports Driving School and the PorscheSports Cup. From now on, customerswill have the opportunity to apply thedriving skills gained during various
courses at the Porsche Sports DrivingSchool in the Porsche Sports Cup.
Anyone who wants to enter thePorsche Sports Cup series that requirea racing licence can complete a courseat the Porsche Sports Driving Schoolto qualify.
Motorsport greats like Altfrid Hegerand Jürgen Barth are responsible for the professional running of thePorsche Sports Cup. And in line withthe motto “After the race is before therace”, the participants are alreadyexcited about the season’s secondSports Cup. On 11th and 12th June2005 at the Hockenheim Ring, theywill once again hear those famouswords: Gentlemen, start your engines!
Information about the races can befound at: www.porsche.de, Motorsport,Racing activities, Porsche Sports Cupor www.hegersport.de.
A new element has been added toPorsche’s racing activities: The PorscheSports Cup has started in Germany!These races are ideal for drivers whoare keen on motorsport – the empha-sis is on sportiness and driving pleas-ure. The two-day events include variousclasses and are open to both Porschesports cars approved for road use andthose modified for racing. As well asdriving style tests and time trials, theprogramme includes sprint races,which require a licence, and the high-light of the weekend – a long-distancerace with compulsory pit stop tochange drivers.
The start of the Porsche Sports Cupfrom 8 th to 10 th April 2005 at theEurospeedway in Lausitz far exceededall expectations. More than 70 entrantshad the chance to prove their skills in six different series. ExperiencedPorsche instructors taught thePorsche drivers with sporting ambi-tions all about the ideal line and correct braking, steering into bendsand acceleration into and away fromcorners. The licence-free Driver’s Cup I
Porsche Deutschland GmbH
Start of the Porsche Sports Cup 2005
Norman Goodall from Australiawon the top prize – the “PorscheCamp Cayenne” worth 3,150.–Euro. Here is his report:
I sent off the questionnaire in August2003 but when I hadn’t heard anythingby Christmas I thought that was it. ButI was wrong. It was the following spring.My wife Cate checked our post box onthe way to work and as she had leftsome documents for the office athome, she came back. “There’s a let-ter here from Porsche”, she told me.Once she had gone, I looked throughthe post and noticed that the letter shementioned was postmarked Germany.I opened it and I could hardly believemy eyes: I had won the top prize – thefive day “Porsche Camp Cayenne” inSpain.
First of all, I told Cate and then I calledPorsche AG in Germany. But nobodyanswered the phone. In my excitementI had forgotten about the time differ-ence. So I wrote an e-mail and the next day I got the confirmation from
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Porsche AG Worldwide Club Co-ordination
Winners of the Prize Draw for the Porsche Club Survey2003/2004
Some time ago now, the Club Co-ordi-nation sent questionnaires out toPorsche Club members, with the aimof optimising the co-operation betweenthe Clubs and Porsche. Everyone whocompleted the extensive questionnairewas entered into a prize draw to winsome attractive holidays.
The winners of the three top prizeshave shared their experiences with us– read them for yourself:
Germany. I planned to combine the tripwith a visit to my son in London and a factory tour in Stuttgart, and thePorsche Travel Club helped me organ-ise everything. However, I then receivedthe news that the “Porsche CampCayenne” had to be cancelled.
“What would you like to do instead?”, I was asked. “How about three days in a Cup car on the test track?” I sug-gested. There was a moment of silenceat the other end of the line. Had I over-stepped the mark? “We were thinkingof ‘Camp 4’ in Finland with a Carrera 4and Cayenne in the snow, somethingthat you can't do in Australia”, camethe counter proposal. I took a few sec-onds to conceal my childish delightand then said, as composed as possi-ble, “Yes, please”.
If you are interested in the range ofPorsche Travel Club tours, pleasecontact:E-mail: [email protected].: +49 (0)711 911 7 81 55Fax: +49 (0)711 911 7 81 58
Hervé Berthault from France wonthe second prize, a "Porsche Dis-covery Tour" worth 2,100.– Euro.He writes:
During the Porsche Club Days 2003 inFrancorchamps, I had completed a survey about the Porsche Clubs to winone of the pins celebrating the anniver-sary of the 911. To my surprise, a fewmonths later I received a letter fromPorsche AG to tell me that I had wonsecond prize in the draw: a four day“Porsche Discovery Tour” through thePorsche Travel Club.
At the beginning of April 2004, I arrivedin Ludwigsburg, the starting point forthe tour, where I met our guide HaraldBecker and the other travellers. ThenI took my place in a fantastic, midnightblue 996 Carrera 4S Cabriolet Tiptronic,which would belong to me for the nextfour days. At that moment, I thought itwas the best 911 ever and very dif-ferent from the 964 Carrera 4 that Iown myself. The first day’s destinationwas Salzburg. A drive along idylliccountry roads and German autobahnsgave me the chance to enjoy both theopen roof and the 320 BHP of the 911.
The second stage took us to Vienna,along the Danube and through beauti-ful scenery. An unbelievably large andluxurious suite awaited me at the Hotel
Sacher. Then it was time for a city tour,a champagne reception and dinner inthe hotel – with the legendary Sacher-torte chocolate cake for dessert.
The following day, we headed forMunich and got to know the BavarianAlps and the next day we returned toLudwigsburg. Then came the most dif-ficult moment of the trip: handing backthe ignition key. With plenty of memo-ries in my luggage, I set off for home.
A few months later, I became the proudowner of a beautiful black 996. Thecar had captivated me completely dur-ing the tour.
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Thomas Unterbusch from Germanywon third prize, “Porsche WinterTraining” worth 1,590.– Euro.
Originally, my father won the prize, buthe gave it to me as a present: threedays of “winter training” in Austria. Onthe Sunday, the participants in theevent met up at the Brandlhof in Saal-felden. Everyone was already excitedabout the following day’s driver train-ing, which would be held on theÖAMTC’s training track. The vehiclesavailable were the Porsche Boxsterand the Porsche 911 Type 996 and997.
I drove a 997 with Tiptronic. AlthoughI had briefly driven the car once before,it was only here that I really learned toappreciate it. Under the guidance oftwo instructors, we practiced control-ling the vehicle on snow and ice, butalso on asphalt. The site provided plen-ty of opportunities, for example a han-dling course, an ice surface and a snowcourse. It was a fascinating experienceto drive a vehicle at the very limits inthose conditions – in short it was agreat event.
Bernd Woytal, on behalf of the PorscheAG Worldwide Club Co-ordination.
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