Triad Area Porsche/BMW Autocross

By Gary Bumgardner

Photos By Jeff Baggett

Sunday, April 20, 1997 was our First Annual Porsche/BMW Autocross. It was held at Groves Stadium parking lot in Winston-Salem. Our first attempt at this event, on December 1, 1996 was rained out. This second time around the weather cooperated and gave an almost perfect day for the event. The beautiful day provided an excellent turnout for the event. Thirty seven cars participated in the autocross. And although heavily out numbered, by 29 to 8, the Porsche Club made a terrific showing.

TOP 10 FASTEST TIMES OF THE DAY
Standing Classification	Name	Club	Time	Model
FTD 1	Billy Revis	BMW	1:35:364	M3	Hot 4-and 6-Cylinder
2	Gary Bumgardner	PCA	1:36:686	'72 911T	P-11
3	Marv Jensen	BMW	1:37:556	2002tii	Hot 4-and 6-Cylinder
4	Scott Ellis	PCA	1:39:731	'79 911SC	P-14
5	Carl Bennett	BMW	1:40:253	M3	Hot 4-and 6-Cylinder
6	Burke Jensen	BMW	1:40:290	2002tii	Hot 4-and 6-Cylinder
7	Cliff Hudgins	PCA	1:40:520	'96 993	P-17
8	Al Taylor	BMW	1:41:208	323	Hot 4-and 6-Cylinder
9	Truett Ray	BMW	1:42:211	M3	Hot 4-and 6-Cylinder
10	Ken Lloyd, Jr.	BMW	1:42:596	Z3	Stock 6-Cylinder

Gary Bumgardner's '72 911

As you can see from the Top 10 FTD, they had to bring out the "Hot 4- and 6-Cylinder" cars on R1 race rubber to beat up. (Hey, ya gotta have an excuse when ya lose!)

PORSCHE CLUB STANDINGS
P-8	1st Place	Chris Smith	1:45:076	'88 944 Turbo
P-11	1st Place	Gary Bumgardner	1:36:686	'72 911T
P-14	1st Place	Scott Ellis	1:39:731	'79 911SC
	2nd Place	Jeffrey Baggett	1:45:011	'80 911SC
P-16	1st Place	Tom Chan	2:07:090	'94 911RS
P-17	1st Place	Cliff Hudgins	1:40:520	'96 993
	2nd Place	John Daniels	1:44:685	'95 993
	3rd Place	Robert Darby	1:45:778	'96 993 C4

If you missed this one, you missed a good one. We had several new members participate in this their first ever autocross. If you can get the grin off their face, just ask them if they had a good time.

Our First Annual Porsche/BMW Autocross was a tremendous success. The BMW crowd is a great bunch of folks and they did a fine job setting up the Event. I would like to especially thank Burke and Marv Jensen of the BMW Club for bringing "everything" that was needed to put on the autocross. I hope we can do it again real soon.

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Last Update: 30-Apr-1997 1:30 PM ET