e-Brake News: Video: Porsche 911 GTS Club Coupe winner announced at Rennsport Reunion V

Published: Tue, 09/29/15

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September 29, 2015
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PCA—The Porsche 911 GTS Club Coupe is Porsche's 60th birthday gift to PCA, and car #1 was given away to a lucky member at Rennsport Reunion V. At least one person shed tears, though we're pretty sure they were tears of joy.
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PCA—Porsche Rennsport Reunion V has ended, and more than 57,000 Porsche-philes made the pilgrimage out to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca to take part in the largest Porsche gathering in the world. Here you can find live coverage from the event, including the PCA Club Racing Sholar-Friedman Cup race group and all sorts of Porsche Club activities. On the upper half of the page there is a live blog with some in-depth coverage, and directly under it (and on the PCA.org homepage) there’s live-update feed hosted by PCA member Roger Johnson covering a large quantity of activities, cars, and Porsche VIPs at the event. Sholar-Friedman Cup race results are also posted.
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PCA—Rennsport Reunion is such a big deal to Porsche that the automaker had its Exclusive department build a Rennsport Reunion edition of the 911 Carrera GTS, which was unveiled yesterday at the Porsche Park area. The car is only available with a manual transmission, and only 25 will be made. Additionally, the car comes as is — customers will not be able to choose additional options.

The color is called Fashion Grey — a peculiar choice for color name — and other visual enhancements to the GTS include a black-and-red strip that stretches from the Porsche crest on the hood all the way back to the rear decklid, and more.
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Autoblog—While the vast number of rumors made it seem like a foregone conclusion, Porsche boss Matthias Müller has officially been named Volkswagen Group CEO to replace the recently resigned Martin Winterkorn.
PCA—It's time for Petit Le Mans.  The Petit Le Mans (French for little Le Mans) is a sports car endurance race held annually at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia, USA. Porsche Cars North America and PCA will have a Porscheplatz and Porsche corral. Buy corral passes now!
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Motorsports.com—Competition is tight entering the final round of the 2015 TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, Saturday’s Petit Le Mans powered by Mazda at Road Atlanta.

Titles in all four classes will be decided at the 12-turn, 2.54-mile circuit, with GT Le Mans (GTLM) and GT Daytona (GTD) championships coming down to a respective three- and one-point separation between the first and second place drivers in the standings.
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Porsche—The Rennsport Reunion at the Laguna Seca Raceway in California is the fastest class reunion in the world: a fascinating journey through Porsche’s racing history. Watch this video to learn why we created Rennsport Reunion.​
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ABC Eyewitness News—The Volo Auto Museum says it has a credible tip regarding the whereabouts of James Dean's Porsche Spyder wreckage, missing since the early 1960s.
Dean died on Sept. 30, 1955, after crashing his car. The wrecked Porsche toured nationally as a highway safety exhibit after the actor's death, only to go missing while being transported from Florida to California.
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MultiBriefs—Cars and driver "connectivity" has recently become a topic of much discussion and debate. Technology content, infotainment and virtual connectivity all seem to be the metrics by which a growing portion of the driving public defines the performance or desirability of an automobile.
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Autoblog—Porsche has a ton to celebrate at its Rennsport Reunion V being held at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca this weekend. While some other luxury carmakers are hurting, Porsche sales are up. The 919 Hybrid won Le Mans in only its second year of competition, then came to America and won the World Endurance Championship race at Lone Star Le Mans in Austin, Texas the weekend before Rennsport Reunion.
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MarketWatch—Porsche Automobil Holding SE has lost over $10 billion on its investment in Volkswagen AG in a little over a week, but that hasn't kept Porsche from buying even more of the troubled German car maker's stock.
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Black Flag via Jalopnik—If there’s one great thing about Porsche’s numerous Carrera Cup series, it’s the close racing that comes from having everyone in the same car. For Joffrey De Narda at today’s Carrera Cup France race, perhaps it was a bit too close, as Jules Gounon’s 911 ramped right onto the roof of his 911.
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AutoWeek—The values of former police cars are often measured in iPhones, but we have a feeling that bidders from around the world will be yelling into phones in an effort to place the winning bid on this particular police car. It is a 1974 Porsche 911 Targa, and it'll be coming up for auction at Bonhams' Zoute sale in Belgium.
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Reuters—The supervisory board of Volkswagen's (VOWG_p.DE) Porsche business may name the sports-car maker's production chief Oliver Blume as the division's new chief executive this week, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday.
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SportsCar 365—An event record crowd of 57,531 Porsche enthusiasts were on hand at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca over the weekend to witness an unprecedented display of motor racing history and heritage during Porsche Rennsport Reunion V.
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Porsche—The Concept Study Mission E is our tribute to tomorrow. To the technological opportunities – but above all to the people who want to make use of this technology. That‘s why in Concept Study Mission E, principles come to bear which have actually been intrinsic to every Porsche since the birth of the 356 in 1948: lightness, openness, purism, clear architecture, driver-orientation and day-to-day usability.
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Fortune—The daughter of late actor Paul Walker, who died in the fiery crash of a Porsche sports car in California two years ago, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the car company in Los Angeles on Monday, court records show.

Meadow Walker claimed in the complaint that the automaker skimped on safety features for the vehicle, which could have either prevented the crash entirely or at least kept Walker alive.
Road & Track—​The Porsche 908/3 is a piece of motorsports history. Cantankerously vintage, it was built in the days when race cars only had one job: to go fast. 
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Automotive News Europe—Volkswagen Group has suspended Audi development chief Ulrich Hackenberg, VW brand r&d boss Heinz-Jakob Neusser and Porsche development head Wolfgang Hatz, Reuters reported.

Hackenberg, 65, and Hatz, 56, previously ran units at the heart of the VW diesel emissions scandal.
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Porsche of the Week
Photo submitted by Wendy Parkin. Polar Region. “This is my husband Mike Parkin's 2011 911 Carrera GTS. We belong to the Polar Region of PCA in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and have two 911s and a Cayenne. We keep this particular Porsche at our home in Rancho Mirage, California. He and his daughter Lindsey Parkin went for a run up to Joshua Tree National Park. Lindsey took this stunning picture after sunset.”

Got a stunning shot you want to share? Submit your pictures to potw@pca.org. Be sure to include your contact information, your region name, and a few sentences about your picture.
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