PCA Club Racing

The Southern Arizona Region of the Porsche Club of America is proud to have been closely involved with the inaugural Arizona Club Race held at Firebird International Raceway, near Chandler, AZ, in 2001. Members of SAR helped with the planning beforehand and with a wide variety of worker tasks during the event. This happens to have been PCA Nationals' very first night race! We had a great time working with the Arizona Region of PCA (we co-sponsored the event) and they have gone on to later incarnations of that first race. We are very happy to report that there were no serious incidents and, that we had a very, very happy group of drivers that weekend. Arizona Club Racing doesn't occur all that often because of our somewhat isolated location. However, members of our region have participated, both in the roles of driver and worker, over the years. Club racing is somewhere between full-fledged professional racing and the driver education, autocross and car control clinics that we encourage our member to try. There are lots of resources for club racing and most can be found at the PCA National site at http://pca.org/clubrace/.

Here we see the pre-grid area for one of the afternoon practice sessions. Lots of nicely painted cars and they sounded even better!   Photo Credit- Rink Reinking

A pair of Porches exit the tower turn at FIR and start down the long main straight. Look carefully and you will see a pack of four cars negotiating the early part of this corner. The pace car is in pit lane, ready to assist if needed.   Photo Credit- Rink Reinking

Before each race we found that even the staging area was exciting. Somehow, the darkness added to the beauty and of course the cool air carried the sounds that we love to hear.   Photo Credit- Rink Reinking