A Sampling* of Fan Club Members:

Vic Elford, Porsche Factory Driver

Steve Boza (Rico)

Tim Harper

Andreas Tutzer (of BMS Scuderia Italia S.p.A.)

Marco Galuppi (of BMS Scuderia Italia S.p.A.)

Marco Gadola (of BMS Scuderia Italia S.p.A.)

Grant Giere

Bob Lovelace Porsche Club Great Britain, Regional Director & PCGB LeMans Camping Organizer

John Settle

Coco Strayer trackschedule

Wendell Wilson
Past President PCA Arizona

James P Calzia

Maurice King

Reynald Hezard

Bob Weber

Dennis Bourquardez, France

Bruce Herrmann

Guillermo Godoy

Charles Swanson

Christian Garibaldi

Monte Smith, PCA Treas.

Stand Hyde

Joel George

Kurt Lessmann

David Wilson

Danny Saxton

Sean Michael Cahill, PCNA

Jay Simmons

Peter Vanginderhuysen

Bill Strecker

Tom Smith

Neil Worley PCAla Past Pres.

Andy Wallace

Kerry Morse Sport Editor, European Car Magazine

James Weaver Porsche Race Car Driver.

Jack Criswell

Alan Thacker

Kurt Jones, Alabama USA

Roland Kussmaul, WeissachPorsche AG Race Car Tester and Driver

Joel Reiser, NY, USA

Bruce Anderson, Cal.,USAPCA Technical Chair

Glynn Green, Canada

Trudy Murry

Spencer Worley

Patti Green, Canada

Derek Bell, MBE, England, Porsche Factory Driver

Alan McNish Scotland, Porsche Factory Driver

Bob Wollek, France, Porsche Factory Driver

Jim McCullers PCAla Driving Ed Chair

Bryson Bealieau  PCAla VP

Chuck Snow  PCAla Past Pres

Rick Teer  PCAla Past Pres

Don Rohar

Pete Tremper, PCA Zone Rep

Cindy Lux, Women's Global GT Champion

Prescott Kelly

Mark Stefanski

David Weber

Georgina Dever

Betty Jo Turner, Panorama Editor

Jerry Woods

Warren Hamilton, Finger Lakes Region PCA

Tom Tate

Schaeffer Criswell

Bruce Ryder

Bill Simon III, Keystone Region PCA

Susan Paszkiewicz

Bill Frey

Paul Potes

Karen Tomaselli, Porsche (PCNA) Driving Experience

Jon Felt

Richard Rhodes

Norene Howard

John H. Howard

William G. Cooper

Paul Kudra

Tony "993 & GT1" Hatter, Weissach
  Designer Style Porsche

Grant "Boxster & Carrera GT" Larson, Weissach
  Designer Style Porsche

Andras M. Nagy

H. H. Hart

Tor-Helge Ludvigsen, Oslo, Norway

Greg Martin

Thomas Skogli, Norway

Helmut Schmid, Weissach

Cara Criswell

Tim George, Florida, USA

Hugh Robinson, Weissach
    Designer Style Porsche

       A documentary about the Apollo moon project and the experimental X-planes illustrates a point about Herr Singer. He has always been at the forefront of technology and was extensively educated in aerodynamics, originally, in fact, training to be a rocket scientist.
       Near the end, after the documentary interviewed numerous test pilots and enacted their glamorous stories with great drama, the documentary's commentator then asked a NASA engineer if one of the courageous pilots made "a great quarterback" for the test team. The engineer thought for a while and said "Well, the test pilots are not the quarterback, they're the football."
      As much as we appreciate the talented Porsche drivers whose amazing skills piloted Porsches to victory, this Club is about the Quarterback.

Spontaneous Comments from Club Members, at this link 

Singer Fan Activities and News...

So what's he doing these days?

2015 to the Present...

He's been working on The Ultimate Porsche! with Singer (no relation, really?) Automotive Design (http://singervehicledesign.com/)


Herr Singer did attend Rennsport V (see below). Thank you, members of this club, for helping make that happen!
He sends this cool Christmas image that he shot for us near his home.
If you haven't read his autobiography yet (24:16), note that he's a great photographer. Many of the photos in the book were from Singer himself.

2015 was a bittersweet milestone. Porsche won LeMans yet again in 2015, an astounding 17 overall victories, & they deserve the credit. But they did it this time, somehow, without Herr Singer, who had been involved in every single prior overall LeMans win by Porsche.
Well, we have to assume he was not involved officially, but Singer set the pattern of victory regardless.

He was at LeMans this year, but his work with ACO has slowed down. He may attend next year, so if you can spot him, please go up to him, introduce yourself, & let him know you're in the Club, as well as how much we all appreciate his genius. Bring your copy of 24:16 for him to sign.

Meanwhile, he continues to lecture at the University of Applied Sciences at Esslingen. He's got a lot of students, hopefully none of them end up racing opposite your team.

2014 & 2015

Herr Singer is doing lectures, with more & more students. And he does analysis for ACO for WEC races.

Please help him get an invitation to attend the next Rennsport in Laguna, California, set for October 2015. That is a fantastic event (https://www.pca.org/news/2014-10-09/official-rennsport-reunion-v-be-held-laguna-seca-october-2015) & is just perfect for Herr Norbert Singer, whose brilliance, leadership & determination was behind so many of those fantastic Porsches. Let them (the Rennsport folks) know you'd like to meet him there & when you do see him, be sure to let him know you're in the Norbert Singer Fan Club. Tell him how much we all appreciate what he's done. He's a great guy. You'll like him. Ask him to show you our secret handshake. Haha.

Meanwhile, another interesting Singer article appeared in 911 & Porsche World magazine, the best source for interesting, deep & historic Porsche stories. This article traced development of the Martini RSRs, which benefited greatly from Herr Norbert Singer's out-of-the-box creativity. And to get more webtraffic, please note that one of the photos below includes some nudity.


2013

    Herr Singer is still a consultant for ACO and does analysis from the WEC and sometimes ALMS races. He will be at Spa in early May and of course at the LeMans 24 hour race.

    He is making a presentation about Porsche and LeMans in St. Pölten, Austria.

    He also conducts special tours through the Porsche Museum, telling special, personal stories, about the cars there. This is material above and beyond what you get from the official tour guides there, which is already quite good, and this comes directly from Singer, the man himself.

    This author has enjoyed a personal tour by Herr Singer of his Porsche race car creations, and has enjoyed Singer's presentations on other occasions. It is hard to describe just how fantastic it is to hear his personal stories of his thinking, engineering and leadership behind these world-conquering race cars, the teams, and the associated players and personalities. He is also a really nice guy that loves to answer your questions. Imagine the wonderful stories, such as you can read about in his book 24:16, as they come alive to you directly in person, unfiltered and unedited, by the man himself that made it all happen. You really ought to buy 24:16 and take it to one of his tours at the Porsche Museum for the time of your life. You could ask him, for example, "Why can't I remove the rain channels on my 911 to lower aerodynamic drag?" (hint: see page 60 of 24:16) His description of overcoming the amazing engineering challenges behind the braking system for a Le Mans-winning car is by itself worth the trip.
From fan club member Bourquardez, news of a Singer Figurine!  (left)


Close-Up of the Figurine here.





2012

Although the specifics are, as always, covered in secrecy, racing fans the world over can take comfort in knowing that he's still involved in racing. Now that Porsche may be competing at LeMans for 2013, could he be involved? Good luck getting anything official on that, but it would be hard to see how Porsche could not ask Herr Singer to help.
Enjoy the excellent piece by Bill Oursler about Singer's masterful navigation of the Dauer 962 through the rule book & the field of the world's top competitors to LeMans overall victory number 13, in Porsche Panorama, October 2012.

2009
Zone 1 Tech Tactics

Herr Singer was the Tech Presenter and Dinner Speaker at the Zone 1 Tech Tactics event, held at Farnbacher Loles shop in Danbury Ct 28 February 2009.
http://zone1.pca.org/

This is already a fantastic event. I understand it to be the largest and most respected, with some of the best Porsche speakers world-wide. Consistent with that reputation, this year they're featuring Herr Singer. You can hear his address twice. He'll sign your copy of his book 24:16  They'll also have Singer Fan Club buttons (wear it to races and get pit access! OK, maybe not. But it's cool and shows you know The Man), you can take part in the "Norbert Singer Mass Fan Club Induction," and even learn the secret handshake!

2008
Porsche Parade '08 Charlotte North Carolina, USA

Herr Singer addressed a packed room, one otherwise large enough to hold a formal ballroom dance,  and that with room leftover for some Can-Am cars, all enjoying his first-hand accounts of developing Porsche's world-beating race cars. A warm, informal address, quite informative, and punctuated with genuine humor. You need to catch one of his presentations, even if you don't care about race car development, per se. It is a fascinating view of a brilliant and creative mind, ahead of its peers, much as they say it was like to listen to Beethovan discuss his thoughts at the town square.

      

He's also consulting for race teams and teaching, such as the "Technische Hochschule" at Esslingen, which also has a race team.

     


And his book (see below) has been a great hit! Singer is also a photographer and put a great number of never-before-seen photos in his book, along with the kind of behind the scenes commentary that only The Man Who Actually Did It, can add! This is not a book about someone like Singer, it's by Singer.

Fortunately for all of us, you'll frequently catch him at the more significant races worldwide. Be sure to tell him you're a Member. Even better, get his book and bring it with you for him to sign.

2006

Just in time for LeMans, The Singer Book is Out!
Singer
                      Autobiography 24:16

Details here

The official announcement is a little too subdued, like Singer himself. But Herr Singer is also known, and appreciated, for telling the whole story, without corporate embellishments which can make the official news so bland. It should be a great book! They're expecting a sellout. Get one now.


The 24:16 Book launch was, appropriately, at LeMans, which Singer owns. (OK that's a US slang phrase, don't anyone go get offended)
From the left are Martin Allerton (Managing Director of Polygon and Executive Editor of the book), Michael Cotton (author of the book), Norbert Singer and Stephane Ortelli (1998 le mans winner and current Aston Martin works-driver).

Herr Singer has retired from Porsche, but is still quite active supporting Porsche RSR customers. Recently he was testing at P. Ricard France, and Misano Italy. Then it was Istanbul for the LeMans European Series.


Fan Club member Denis Bourquardez sends us this shot above of Singer at Paul Ricard. He's helping with Porsche's RS Spyder, campaigned by Roger Penske in the American LeMans Series.

2005

Christophorous' excellent article about Herr Singer's retirement includes his comments about his favorite Porsches.here(pdf)


The Porsche Carrera GT - very much an "appearance" by Norbert Singer as we suspected all along.

Herr Singer at one of Trackschedule's Test Days


Daytona Rennsport Reunion
(and other appearances)
2004

    Photos here of Norbert Singer's visit - he was a concours judge for 956s and 962s, etc. How intimidating is that?

FIA Endurance Interview 2003

Michael Cotton's interview here

LeMans 2003

       The ACO awarded Herr Singer its "Spirit of LeMans", placing him with Derek Bell, Paul Frere and Dr. Piech.


click on photo for more, and details

NSSE Cayenne

       Porsche says Singer is working on the Cayenne windshield wipers - a new plan to win LeMan from the "Car Parts Class"? Or, something bigger, like a Moby Dick Cayenne!?!....->
   

Dixie Tech 2002
        The Heart of Dixie Region of the Porsche Club sponsored a Mass Swear-In on 23 February 2002, and learned the Singer Club Handshake! (they're shown practicing here)

 

Lime Rock Rennsport Reunion 2001

        Singer Fan Club Members Tim George and Bruce Anderson attended Brian Redmond's Porsche Reunion at Lime Rock raceway in Connecticut, and supplied some shots of Singer enjoying reunions with Jackie Ickx and Porsche's 718, shown below.

 

Champion Racing and the Norbert Singer Fan Club

Champion's Naveen Maraj applies a club sticker to the nose of the Champion Porsche on the grid of the Daytona Rolex 24. This and several  pages of photos of the car are at this link.
 


The Mass Induction
On March 4, 2000, nearly thirty years to the day that Singer started at Porsche, he spoke at the Zone 1 Tech Tactics event in Springfield, Massachusetts. We surprised him with quit a few activities, including a Singer Fan Mass Induction. Shown here: Administering the Oath (see here for details)
 


Kidding from Weissach
H. Singer has quite the reputation, even inside Porsche, as illustrated by this cartoon smuggled from Weissach. Story here.
 

Singer and
                    club members
Herr Singer is shown here enjoying Singer Fan Club Initiation Festivities at Petit LeMans with Singer Fan Club members: Bruce Anderson (Porsche 911 Technical Chairman), Glynn and Patti Green (Porsche Club, Parade, and Driving Event Officers) Roland Kussmaul (Porsche Race Car Development Engineer and Werks Driver), and Joel Reiser (Porsche Team Owner and Driver) Photo by Georgina Dever
 


World class drivers Andy Wallace, Derek Bell, and James Weaver, shown here enjoying their membership, joined the Norbert Singer Fan Club at Mid-Ohio.

More members...

Jacqueline Buys

Alabama Charlie

Geoff Hollick

Nicholas Gomez
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Dave Kochinski

Martin James Woldinga

Paul Knighton

Lawrence Wells

Luke Bruggeman

Bob Weber

Bob Gagnon

Rick Landa

Ansel (Sonny) Meadors

Peter Schmitz

John Starkey
Author:  "From R to GT3R-The Racing Porsche 911 and 930" "R to RSR-The Racing Porsche 911"

Ron Weaver

Doug Waters

David Bishop

Mike Masterson

Oona Scheepers, Style Porsche, Weissach

Mike Lancial, 911T Registry

Jamie 'The TAG Man' Kellock, U.K.

Dale Miller

Nancy Lowe

Mike Valentine

Jim Williams

R. David Rees

Cary Collins

Jon F. Wright

Edward Spurlock

R. Wayne Broadwater

Dan Knieriemen

George Chaloupka

Jorg Meyer-Ebeling, Dipl. -Ing. Weissach

Mike Basham, Georgia USA, PCAla Past Pres.

Ian Andrew, Newcastle upon Tyne

Paul Montemayor

Nelson Perry, Kentucky, USA

Fernando Lecaros, Chile

Kaye Wilson

Ken Gunnels

Cynthia Criswell

Harvey Brown PCAla Membership

Andrew Mallion, UK

Richard F. Newton

Greg Gauder, PCNA

David Murry USA, Porsche Factory Driver

Larry G. Hoffman, Germany

Paul R Pizzo, Miami

Barry C. Stephens

Birch Bowdre

Dick Kjellsen, PCA Zone Rep.

Gary Young

Matthew Robertson

Breanna Teer

Bev Bergam

Joe Favata

Ursula Hofsaess, Weissach

George Beuselinck, NY

Gill Campbell, Campbell Promotions

Jon Lowe  PCA Technical Chair

John Corville

Ken Jensen

Bob Graham

Joe Holzer

Kim John Crumb  PCA Technical Chair

Craig Watkins

Sonny Reid

Judy Hendrickson, PCA Membership Chair (and Norbert Singer Fan Club Trivia Contest Winner!)

David Melcher

Cort Wagner, American LeMans GT Champion

Richard Strahota

David Bates

Charles Gladle

Len Cummings

Bob Kakascik

Nabie Rafie

Both von Bose

Leonard Turner, Panorama Photographer

Robert John Williams

Gerry Higgins

Denis Wheary

Ron Savenor

Luiz Fuchs, Brussels/Belgium

Dennis Mitsch

Mark Bennett, England

Gary Kamp, PCA Motor Stadt Region, MI

Stefan Huewe

Naveen Maraj

David McIntyre

Klaus Hormandinger, Weissach

Joachim Haaf, Germany

Doc Vorce, Central NY PCA

Phil Strayer trackschedule

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