A Porsche Way of Life – October 2017 – PCA Porsche Panorama Magazine
The October 2017 issue of the Porsche Club of America’s official magazine Porsche Panorama features my article “A Porsche Way of Life” about Les Checel’s five decades of involvement with Porsches and the PCA.
My sincere thanks to Rob Sass, Editor; Amy Skogstrom, Executive Editor; Richard Baron, Creative Director; Emma Smith, Associate Managing Editor; Doug Lloyd, Copy Editor and all the other talented people who make Panorama possible. I’m a grateful contributor to such an outstanding publication.
Importantly, my heartfelt gratitude goes to Les Checel for sharing his long journey with Porsche and the PCA. Les also generously allowed me to drive his three beautiful examples of Porsche’s air-cooled history: a 1965 356SC coupe, a 1970 914-6 and a 1995 993. They were each a phenomenal education and pleasure to experience.
Tag-Turbo Engine Made By Porsche In The McLaren – Monaco Grand Prix 1985
If current speculation is correct we may see another Porsche built engine in Formula One. The possibility is very exciting!
The Race Report – Long Beach Grand Prix 1983
The way it used to be in the not so distant past. In the “luxurious” press room the race report is in progress surrounded by the tools of the trade: an open beverage, official timing reports, the personal hand written lap chart and the typewriter.
Rothmans Porsche At Dusk – Le Mans 1985
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Inside Rothmans Porsche – Manfred Jantke, Helmut Flegle and Jürgen Barth – Le Mans 1985
Jürgen Barth joins the Porsche brain trust in their Le Mans pit box. Barth, the son of former F1 and Sports Car ace Edgar Barth has been deeply involved with Porsche as an engineer and race driver. Note he is not in a team uniform and is also wearing the International Racing Press Association armband secured through his belt. I.R.P.A was an organization founded by veteran photographer and writer Bernard Cahier to identify working journalists and aid in their accreditation. It shows that while Barth was deeply embedded in the Porsche team, he was also a writer reporting on their progress. A telephone mounted on a wood panel is hanging on the back wall of the pit box. Although probably still functional it is a relic from Le Mans history. Previously, the telephone was a direct line to the signal station at the Mulsanne corner, the point furthest away on the track. Before radio communications it allowed teams to talk to their members stationed at the corner who could relay relay race information back to the main pits and also display pit boards with instructions to the drivers on track.
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