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Racing alone in PCA

Old 11-24-2018, 11:41 PM
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According to PCA, of all the dues-paying Porsche Club members... just 1.6% are licensed racers.

Old 11-25-2018, 08:06 AM
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IMO That’s more a comment on how large PCA is vs the club racing program being small.
Old 11-25-2018, 08:28 AM
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You mean only 1.6% are driving their cars the way they are meant to be driven and the remaining 98.4% are sitting 8n their garage wiping their cars with diapers?
Old 11-25-2018, 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by LuigiVampa
You mean only 1.6% are driving their cars the way they are meant to be driven and the remaining 98.4% are sitting 8n their garage wiping their cars with diapers?
So, do the 1.6% WEAR the diapers?
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Should we get PCA to create a 1.6% patch like the outlaw bikers 1% patch? ��
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The patch should include a dollar sign.
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PCA boasts something like 96,000 members (when they account associate/family members). Based on that, it's about 1,400 club racers. If they are only counting the paying members, then it's about half that.
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Originally Posted by Coochas
So, do the 1.6% WEAR the diapers?
I'd be willing to bet that it's a much higher number.
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Originally Posted by sbelles
I'd be willing to bet that it's a much higher number.
Probably!
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Originally Posted by Matt Romanowski
PCA boasts something like 96,000 members (when they account associate/family members). Based on that, it's about 1,400 club racers. If they are only counting the paying members, then it's about half that.
it’s much higher than that...closer to 130,000. Which makes sense because there are around 2000 racers last iunderstood.
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Originally Posted by LuigiVampa
You mean only 1.6% are driving their cars the way they are meant to be driven and the remaining 98.4% are sitting 8n their garage wiping their cars with diapers?
😂
happily the Drivers Ed program has A LOT of participation from PCA members, so many more are being driven correctly...and probably not spending the exponential $$$ we do...
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Would be interesting to see percentage by region and zone.
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As of November 1 PCA has approximately 83,000 households (primary members) and 126,500 total members (primary and co-members).

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Not everybody member does the PCA races , i have a local race at Mont Tremblant the weekend before the CTMP Club Race in August and my crew chief ( girlfriend ) just can't justify two weeks of my
Summer vacation spent preparing the car and being at a race track.
I still manage to get four or five race weekends in during a season regardless.As much as i'd like to do more PCA events,i'm happy for now !
Guess that doesn't account for in the PCA percentage of members who race, although most of the people i race with are PCA members.
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I raced from 1998-2010. I ran a letter car and it was still an hefty annual expense. Can't imagine what it's like now to run a Cup car. Hope to get back into it again but for now, I enjoy auto crossing and watching other people race as well as a bunch of other stuff PCA offers. Keeps me busy in the warm weather months.

PCA was formed by a group of enthusiasts looking for other enthusiasts. That pretty much still the reason people join. Club Racing came about because members wanted it and there was a group willing to do the hard work to make it happen. Pretty incredible when you think that its the world's largest single marque series and its run predominantly by volunteers.

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