my experience with the local PCA chapter @ mission raceway (with couple of pics)
 

well usually the porsche club doesnt allow any cars but porsches to attend their events but they were short of ppl this time and i got a chance to go with them :o

i got placed with the advanced group since i've had quite a bit of track time @ mission raceway (in british columbia canada) however, i wasnt ready for this! in my group included 3 GT3s, 2 993 turbos, 3 996 turbos (one having 600hp), and a pretty sweet 1973 911RS! all of them were running r compounds! needless to say, i was the slowest amongst them. :( however, i did find myself faster than a few of the other (older) porsches both through the corners and the straight! .. i guess i need a lot more track time :(

overall, very happy with the car. it was my first time running my new tire setup - 18x8.5,9.5 TE37s with 225/40 and 285/30 A048s.. yes i've heard that it'd totally plow but honestly i kinda preferred this setup to my 245/45 a032s all around on the stockers. grip is much higher, but there was a balance trade off - which i had to work around.. i think i'll probably be wanting to use the 18s for street and try to sell the stockers to get some 17x9s..

oh well, that wont be for awhile.. :)

anyhow, here's the pics, taken by jeff grant - a local PCA member:

http://www.vintagerouge.com/mission/66.jpg
http://www.vintagerouge.com/mission/75.jpg
http://www.vintagerouge.com/mission/76.jpg
http://www.vintagerouge.com/mission/79.jpg
http://www.vintagerouge.com/mission/98.jpg

the red porsche in the few pics with me is my dad - never realized how much faster he is :o he was on michelin pilot sport cups..

i'll be doing seattle this coming monday for the first time, looking forward to that, hopefully can get some pics :)

thanks for reading :)
-daryll

wow...looks great. Have a great time in seattle it is a riot.

Wow, talk about father-son bonding.:grouphug:

I do events with the San Diego Chapter of the PCA. It's a fun group and they're always happy to have me. I'm leaving tomorrow for three days at Spring Mountain Raceway in Pahrump Nevada. This will be my third year in a rowing doing that event. The first year I was in the top 10 (7th overall out of 50 cars) but last year the competition was faster and I didn't make top 10. I have a better suspension setup this year so we'll see how it goes.