The PCA driver education program is the most popular program in the Club. The sporting nature of the Porsche automobile and the ability to drive it at speed attracts Porsche drivers to these type of events. These participants, as well as the Club, have expectations that the DE event will be organized and conducted with the consideration of safety for all the people at the event. It is estimated that 20,000 driver's participate in the PCA driver's education program annually. Many regions have been operating successful programs for over a quarter of a century, while other regional programs are in their infancy. The purpose of the DE Advisory Team is to help disseminate the information learned from the established programs to the organizers of beginning programs. The first item on the agenda of the DE Team was to collaborate on a set of "Minimum Standards" to be used as a basic set of rules upon which to build a regional DE program. These standards a minimum in nature, and are meant to be expanded upon as each region tailors their program for their entrants.
Pete Tremper
Schattenbaum Region
DE Advisory Committee Chair
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National Driver's Education Committee Chairman- 2002.
Zone One Representative- 1994-2001.
Scahttenbaum Region President- 3 terms.
Attending Driver's Education events since 1980 logging more 100,000 track miles on my 914-6.
Club Race License - 1993.
Instructor - Zone One and Zone Two.
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Gary Church
Potomac Region
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PCA Member since 1993. PCA Zone 2 Chief Driving Instructor since 2000. Gary
has extensive driver training and driving experience in a variety of
vehicles from PCA DE, PCA Club Race, BMW Club, Ferrari Club, Bob Bondurant,
Skip Barber, BSR, and Euro Rally. In addition, Gary developed and organized
the first of the now annual PCA Potomac and Zone 2 High Performance Driving
Clinics, initiated the first Zone 2 Instructor Training/Driver's Education
Event at VIR, and was the initial Event Chair for the PCA Zone 2 Club Race
with Grand Am at VIR in 2002.
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Ellen Beck
North Country Region
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Ellen joined PCA in late 1993 and was autocrossing her first Porsche, a 944NA, the next year, quickly followed by DE. Definitely a driving enthusiast, she currently is North Country's Chief Driving Instructor, instructs for Zone 1, CVR, NER, Metro, and Rennsport (along with 6 other car clubs), and is on a campaign to drive all the great tracks across the country. Ellen is Zone 1's Autocross Chair and autocrosses regionally and at Parades in her 1989 944S2. She is active in all of North Country's other events, and has served as Membership Chair, Vice President and President.
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Married Wife Marianne;
In 1985 in northern Ohio Marianne and Joe began participating in Porsche Club driving schools and autocross events. In 1989 Joe began instructing high speed driving education with the Porsche Club, the BMW Club and TrackTime Inc. In 1996 he began club racing in the Porsche Club Racing Program.
Joe is currently the chief instructor with the Kansas City Porsche and BMW clubs. His duties include formulation and presentation of student and instructor classroom, instructor training, one on one student instruction and assisting with the coordination of activities at DE events.
Joe has working relationships with Porsche, BMW and AUDI club members in the Midwest and other parts of the country. When asked about his activities; "I consider my volunteer DE work in the Porsche Club to be rewarding and an opportunity to share with others the experiences I have been fortunate to have".
"I look forward to the duties and responsibilities of the National Driving Committee".
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Warren Walker
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Porsche driving career started in 1992 with the purchase of a 1982
Targa. Several years of auto-cross later a 1973 911 S entered my life and
I started time trialing October of 1995. During the first few years of
time trialing I worked on the Safety Crew and eventually volunteered to be
the Safety Director. Another few years flew by and I applied to be an
instructor. Switched cars as I took the "S" off the track and replaced it
with a 1973 T RSR look with a stock 3.0 ltr. Last year the Golden Gate
Region was able to institute an instructor evaluation program and I
volunteered to be part of that team of four instructors. My wife Joan
enjoys driving our Boxster, a replacementfor the 1982 Targa which was
totaled in October 2000, but restricts her competitive spirit to the tennis
courts.
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