Zone 7 Awards

Zone 7 Awards - Recognizing and Celebrating our Members

Recognizing and Celebrating our Members Every year we hold an Awards Banquet to recognize winners from the Zone Concours, Autocross, and Rallye competition series. This event, which has been held in January in recent years, is a fun way to recognize those people who support all of the regions in Zone 7, and who make the zone so successful.

We also have several non-competitive awards:
Rookie of the Year_____Enthusiast of the Year_____Lifetime Achievement Award_____Wall of Fame

2010 Awards
Event of the Year: Sequoia Region and Zone 7 Autocross and Octoberfest
Enthusiast of the Year: Mark Gersh
Wall of Fame Inductees: Tim Fleming
Tenacity Award: Craig Kugler
Dick Cottrell Spirit of the Concours Award: Bob Schoenherr
Autocross PAX Winner: Terry Zaccone
Autocross Ladies PAX Winner: Sharon Neidel
Rookie of the year Autocross: Scott Lines
Rookie of the Year Concours: Bob Schoenherr

2009 Awards
Event of the Year: Montery Historics
Enthusiast of the Year: Rik Larsen
Wall of Fame Inductees: Larry Sharp, Tom Sisson
Tenacity Award: La Vergne
Dick Cottrell Spirit of the Concours Award: Andy Tzelepis
Autocross PAX Winner: Larry Sharp
Autocross Ladies PAX Winner: Lisa Thomas
High Score Concours: The Gersh Family

2008 Awards
Event of the Year: Redwood Zone AX weekend (Yosemite)
Enthusiast of the Year: Paul Czopek (Yosemite)
Wall of Fame Inductees: Dean Watts (Sierra Nevada), Harvey Weidman (Shasta)
Tenacity Award: Ken Jones (Golden Gate/Diablo)
Dick Cottrell Spirit of the Concours Award: The Gersh's (Golden Gate)
Autocross PAX Winner: Terry Zaccone (Golden Gate)
Zone 7 Lifetime Achievement Award: Gene Gilpin (Sequoia)

2007 Awards

Event of the Year: Mendocino Tour (Sacramento Valley Region)
Enthusiast of the Year: Larry Adams (Golden Gate)
Wall of Fame Inductee: Paul Christensen (Sierra Nevada Region)
Tenacity Award: Terry Zaccone (Golden Gate Region)
Autocross PAX Winner: Larry Sharp (Golden Gate)
Zone 7 Lifetime Achievement Award: Terry Zaccone (Golden Gate Region)

2006 Awards

Event of the Year: Silver State Concours (Sierra Nevada Region)
Enthusiast of the Year: Louise Sousoures
Tenacity Award: Brad Zucroff
Wall of Fame Inductee: Mike "Chili" Willis
Autocross PAX Winner: Larry Sharp
Dick Cottrell Spirit of the Concours Award: Rich Wyett (Siera Nevada)

Autocross Pax Awards

2001 Jim Hayes__2002 Jim Hayes__2003 Tracey Morris__2004 Steve Nieslony__2005 Larry Sharp__2006 Larry Sharp__2007 Larry Sharp__2008 Terry ZacconeGolden Gate)__2009 Larry Sharp__2009(Ladies) Lisa Thomas__2010 Terry Zaccone__2010(Ladies) Sharon Neidel

Rookie of the Year

1984 Don Henkel__1985 Roger Fetterman__1986 Kevin Gilpin and Kurt Pressler__1987 Tom Obot__1988 Ken Mitchell and Marcella Mitchell__1989 Jesse Rhodes__1990 Sally Brown__1991 Peter Cook__1992 Tim Pendall__1993 Susan Shead__1994 Sue Hayes__1995 Louise Sousoures__1996 Bill Winkler__1997 Dan Jones__1998 Rita Chamberlain__1999 Bill Thorp__2000 Wayne Begg__2001 Ken Jones__2002 Ken Short__2003 Doris Pickering (Golden Gate)__2004 Joy Sease__2005 Laura Mercier (Golden Gate)__2006 Mark Gersh (Golden Gate)__2008 Joe Lee (Golden Gate)__2010(Autocross) Scott Lines__2010(Concours) Bob Schoenherr

Enthusiast of the Year

Enthusiast of the Year The Enthusiast of the Year is awarded to an individual who, through participation in PCA and Zone 7, show a love for the marquee and zeal for the club. Some would call these individuals “crazies”. In particular, we look for a strong supporter of the Zone activities, and through whose interest inspires other to participate as well. Enthusiasts are the lifeblood of our organization; without them we would not have the high quality events we often taken for granted.
2003: Larry Adams (Golden Gate)__2004: Kurt Fischer (Redwood)__2005: Ted French__2006: Louise Sousoures (Golden Gate)__2007: Mark Gersh (Golden Gate)__2008 Paul Czopek (Yosemite)__2009 Rik Larsen__2010 Mark Gersh

Lifetime Achievement Award

Lifetime Achievement Award The Lifetime Achievement Award was instituted in 2000. It is not an award that will be given every year and is intended to be awarded to truly special people. The criteria considered when awarding the lifetime achievement award are a demonstrated lifetime commitment to the marquee and the club, long time service to PCA-Zone 7 and its regions, demonstrated achievement in PCA activities, and distinguishing oneself at PCA-National level through service and achievements. It is our way of recognizing PCA members who have been active at the region and Zone levels, and who have distinguished themselves on a National scale. Recipients of this most prestigious award are Brian Carleton, John Clever, Gene Gilpin, Dwight Mitchell, Bud & Mary Ann Behrens, and Terry Zaccone.

Wall of Fame

Wall of Fame In January 2003, the Zone 7 Presidents approved a new award to recognize those members of PCA Zone 7 who have made a significant, lasting contribution to PCA and/or the Porsche community at large, through active participation in social, technical, or competitive events. This special award will be known as the “Zone 7 Wall of Fame”. This “wall of fame” is intended to honor those individuals showing a long-time passion towards the marque, displaying that passion and distinguishing themselves in some visible manner for a significant time. Although PCA and Zone 7 membership is a requirement of this award, the activities demonstrated by the recipients can be outside of PCA (i.e. racing in recognized competition series, etc.). This award is our way of recognizing PCA members that have distinguished themselves in the “outside world”. The recipients also should have demonstrated a recognition and appreciation for PCA and its fundamental philosophy “it's not just the cars, it's the people”.

The Wall of Fame will consist of a perpetual plaque maintained by the Zone Representative as well as an appropriate personalized plaque bearing the Zone 7 logo for each awardee.

Consideration for membership “on the Wall” will require nomination from a Zone 7 member in good standing. Nominations must be forwarded to the Zone 7 Representative no later than November 1 of each year, and should include the nominee's name as well as a brief history chronicling his or her involvement in Zone 7 or member regions, as well as his/her contributions to PCA and the Porsche community at large. The region presidents will consider all nominations. Awardees will be announced and presented by the nominating member at the annual awards banquet.

2003 Inductees
Bruce Anderson Rik Larson Tom Provasi
Bud and Mary Ann Behrens Hank Malter Bruce and Hillary Robertson
Brian Carleton Dwight Mitchell Duane Spencer
John Clever Milt Minter Hank Watts
Bob Garretson George Neidel & Family Larry Wilson
Gene Gilpin Burt Propp Terry Zaccone

2004 Inductees
Gene Babow
Tony Mazlowski
Mike Lommatzsch
Jim Pasha J Toney

2005 Inductee
Jerry Woods

2006 Inductee
Mike "Chili" Willis

2007 Inductee
Paul Christensen

2008 Inductees
Dean Watts
Harvey Weidman

2009 Inductees
Larry Sharp
Tom Sisson

2010 Inductee
Tim Fleming

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