By Drew Karpinski

What a great first event of the year! If you weren’t there, you missed a good one. We had a summer-like 70 degree day with a cloudless, blue sky. Though a record-high 150 cars decided to show up, we all managed to get in eight runs each…and we still finished before 4:30! The battle for FTD was hotly contested between Steve McQueen in a Carrera GT (easily the class of S8 this season), and upstart hot shoe James Dean in a well set-up Boxster S. In the end, Dean edged out the CGT by a tenth (and in a sign of great sportsmanship, McQueen held up a lone finger to let Dean know he was #1). It was a little confusing, though, when Abe Lincoln showed up to help award the trophies…and what is with the talking beaver and the guy in the deep sea diving suit blowing the horn to hurry him up?

Please note that the correct starting time for the Summer Shine Concours Workshop III at Ray Catena Porsche on June 1, 2008 is 1 p.m.

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With 13 drivers making the trip south February 8-10, NNJR was well-represented at the first Club Race of the season, the 48 Hours of Sebring at Sebring International Raceway. Charlie Boyer’s first place finish in GTC1 and 2nd place finish overall in the first-ever night sprint race earned him the prestigious Worker’s Choice Award sponsored by Porsche Cars North America. The finishes of other NNJR racers are provided below.

The next local PCA Club Race is at Lime Rock Park, April 25-26. Come on out to Lime Rock and support the NNJR racers- hope to see you there!

By Hank Menkes and Ben Rasmussen

The 2008 Concours season is off to a great start! We have had two outstanding workshops and one competitive event, and the season has just started. All of us on the Concours Committee - and we are sure we speak for all the attendees as well - would like to extend a sincere thank you to John and Ray Paterek for once again opening their shop and hosting a great instructional workshop. NNJR is privileged to have these two talented masters of restoration as our tutors. Thanks again John and Ray.

By David Garcia, 2008 Program Chair

This year marks the centennial of one of the most remarkable motor sports events of the 20th century, the race from New York to Paris in 1908, long before today’s modern highways and fuel stations.

One hundred years ago, 17 men from 4 nations - France, Italy, Germany and the United States - participated in this race sponsored by the New York Times and La Matin (a Paris newspaper). The ultimate winner was the U.S. entry The Thomas Flyer, driven by George Schuster Sr. of Buffalo, N.Y.