The 1984 Porsche Parade was held in Appleton, Wisconsin with the autocross held at Road America. Quite a few Nord Sterners participated. You would think with all the track experience in Nord Stern, especially at Road America, that Nord Stern would clean up in the autocross. Well, not so much. As you can see here, the track was turned into a sea of pylons. See this track map. I believe you only got 3 runs. For those of us who had experience at Road America it was all very confusing…
I ran a 212 in my 911SC for 10th in the class of 32 cars. The winner of the SC class ran a 191! Kim Crumb in a 928 ran a 207 and won his class of 12 cars as did Hank Godfredson in a 356. Dennis Guentzel in the yellow 911 that he sold to Joel Pfister was 7th in his class but ran a 190. Bill Groschen was 4th with a 214 in a class of 53 944’s. The fast time was Ron Mistak in a modified 914 with a 170.
This was at the request of National. They normally ran the track with two sets of 5 pylon gates. One between turns 3 and 5 (almost all the way to turn 5), the second shortly after turn 11. You came out of the pits and exited the track at pit in, with the finish line shortly before turn 14. Dad had a bad day in the 75 targa and Jeff didn’t do much better. I ended up 5th in I2, out of 20 cars I think. It was a bad parade for us, I think we only took home two trophies, mine in the autocross and dads in the tech quiz.