National Driver Education Committee
The PCA driver education program is the most popular program in PCA. 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 drivers participate in the PCA Driver 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 National DE Committee is to help disseminate the information learned from the established programs to the organizers of beginning programs. A set of Minimum Standards is 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.
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Pete Tremper, DE Chairman
 National Driver's Education Committee Chairman - 2002-present. Zone 1 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 1 and Zone 2.
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Gary Church
 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
 Ellen joined PCA in late 1993 and was autocrossing her first Porsche, a 944, the next year, quickly followed by DE. Definitely a driving enthusiast, she has been North Country region's Chief Driving Instructor, and 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 was Zone 1's Autocross Chair and autocrosses regionally and at Parades in her 1989 944S2. She is active in her region's other events, and has served as region Membership Chair, Vice President and President. Ellen is currently the PCA National Historian.
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Scott Mann
 In the late 1990’s Scott purchase and now operates a small Porsche based business called Renegade Hybrids located in Las Vegas. He has been deeply involved with Porches for the last twenty-five years and is presently the Chief Driving Instructor for the Las Vegas Region. Scott has also instructed for numerous other professional high performance driving schools and is currently employed by Andretti Racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. His track car is a modified 928 and his street car is a 500 HP 930. Scott believes it is "an honor to meet so many PCA members in his travels with the National Instructor Training program.”
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Joe Marko
Joe is the owner of HMS Motorsport, Ltd., located outside of Boston, MA and over the past ten years has been studying safety system in motorsports applications, in particular harness belts and head and neck restraints. Joe works closely with the technical directors of NASCAR, NHRA, IRL, and USAC on harness belt issues. Joe has been involved with numerous dynamic sled bed tests of harness and HANS systems at Delphi Automotive both privately and in conjunction with NASCAR and IRL. HMS under Joe’s direction has also conducted independent tests of roll bar padding and helmet/airbag testing at Delphi to address the question of open versus full-face helmets in cars with airbags.
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