Welcome to the Porsche Club Victoria 2023 Competition Season.

from Porsche Parade - 1-2023

Modern 911 Register Run to Killara Estate

This year we started our season on a Saturday which was a little unusual!!

Due to the Moto GP, our original scheduled February start was pushed forward a couple of weeks and so we all headed off down the highway and what turned out to be a beautiful summers day for our first event of the 2023 season.

A bumper field of over 90 cars in competition and a dozen in entrée meant the club was off to a roaring start. Tony Carolan and Phil Treloar took all of our newbies under their wing and provided them with an experienced mentor for the day, giving them all something to remember and hopefully brings them all back for another try.

We also welcomed 3 of our northern comrades from Porsche Club NSW to our day.

Now to the results………

Peter Jordan continued his upward trajectory with a win in A Class, closely followed by “Porsche New Car Salesman to the Stars” Richard Catchlove and “Wild” Bill Toohey in 3rd.

A2 Class was taken out by Mark McNamara.

B Class was a tussle between Danny “the joker” Loypur and current Club Champion Daniel Reynolds, with Danny taking the honours and Andrew Lipman in 3rd

Classic Class was won by the raddish farmer Mark Chrzanowski from Troy Hungerford and Grant Stephenson.

Under sunny skies and a light zephyr of a breeze the day began with our usual briefing where all the new members were welcomed to the club by our President, then it was down to business.

With such a high number of entrants we had to weigh up the best way to maximize track time versus group size, so we ended up with 4 groups of 23 in Competition and 1 entrée group of 12. Whilst this means more cars on track, the alternative of smaller groups meant less runs over the day.

This year we used the marshalling area at the northern end of the garages to ”dummy” grid the drivers by times within their run groups. The aim of this is to make it safer out on the track by having the quickest drivers out first, rather than cutting their way through the field, thus making it safer for all of the drivers who then spend a little less times looking in their mirrors at

Modified Class was won by Greg Muller who has started the year with a bang from Daniel Laskowski who pipped his “old man” Wojtek in third.

Stefan Wojciechowski continued his winning ways taking out GT class from Michael Jerlitschka.

Andrew Smith took out Open Class from Antonio Pontonio with Jim Leckey in 3rd.

The fastest time of the day went to one of our guests from PCNSW, with Simon Goodsell strapping on a new set of boots for the last session, just edging out Stefan, posting a very fast time 1:37.689 faster cars coming through. It also encourages each driver to try and obtain a better time by keeping up, or even passing the driver in front.

The day progressed well until Competition Committee member Peter Harrison had the unfortunate situation of a rear left tyre delaminating at the end of the main straight. At this point just before the braking zone he was doing around 235 km/h!!!! With the skill and dexterity of such an experienced driver, Pete was able to semi control the spin and was able to end up on the infield with just a little cosmetic damage from the shredded tyre!!!! Apart from that highlight, the day ran smoothly with everyone driving at the highest level.

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