PCA—The Spring 2015 Member Only Raffle has begun! Enter for your chance to win a 2017 911 Carrera plus $25,000 cash! Entry Deadline: December 1, 2015. All paid entries received by the deadline will be accepted. More entries, more prizes.
PCA—Porsche announced the Cayman GT4 Clubsport today, a new racecar it is
developing for motorsport newcomers that will debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November. The Clubsport retains the road car’s 385-horsepower 3.8-liter naturally aspirated flat-six engine but eschews the manual transmission in favor of a racing version of the double-clutch PDK automatic.
PCA—The 60 Porsche 911 GTS Club Coupes that the automaker built to commemorate 60 years of Porsche Club of America are either in the hands of their respective PCA member owners or en route to them. Five members decided to take European delivery and recently embarked on a special trip hosted by Porsche to pick them up.
Autoweek—No, it didn’t go the full 10 hours, but the Petit Le Mans powered by Mazda was easily the toughest Tudor United SportsCar Championship endurance race of the 2015 season — tough on drivers, crews, officials and fans, some of whom returned to their cars in the Road Atlanta parking lots and found them axle-deep in the red Georgia mud.
PCA—Carrera 4 and Targa 4 models are getting the turbocharged treatment for model year 2017, Porsche announced today. The all-wheel-drive models will be equipped with the 3.0-liter turbocharged mills recently announced as the standard engines in the Carrera model line.
PCA—Today Porsche took the cover off of the Cayman Black Edition, a base model Cayman bunched together with a heavy handful of standard features that would otherwise cost customers more if they optioned them onto a standard Cayman.
PCA—At any given TUDOR United SportsCar Championship
(TUSC) race, you’ll find all types of machines battling on track, from prototypes to production-based sports cars including Porsche 911 RSRs and 911 GT Americas. One thing rings true on race weekends: accidents happen. And when they do, IMSA race support crews are there to help.
MultiBriefs—You're thinking about buying a new Porsche, so you head to the dealership and talk to the salesperson. You're soon behind the wheel of that new 911, taking it out for a test drive. But before you've even taken the training wheels off to find out how it really purrs, the test drive is over.
Road & Track—There's something a little off about this drag race between a Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 Pirelli Edition and a Porsche 918 Spyder.
Check out the Lamborghini driver's reaction time. Okay, well, you'll have to skip to 1:45 in the video, because the first two times these cars line
up to race, the Lambo just . . . doesn't go anywhere.
SportsCar 365—The new Porsche 911 GT3-R is set for its competition
debut later this month, with the next-generation GT3 model confirmed to take part in an upcoming VLN round on the Nürburgring Nordschleife.
Motor Trend—I landed in Frankfurt, Germany, on September 9, 2015. Purpose? To attend a deep background seminar on the new turbocharged Porsche 911 Carrera and Carrera S, codenamed 991/2.
Bloomberg—Some view these new/old hybrids as heresy, but once you get behind the wheel of a souped-up piece of history, it's hard to argue with Rod Emory's methods.
PCA—The Executive Council has appointed Ken Hold, Bluegrass Region; Jennifer Webb, Upper Canada Region;
and Tom Provasi, Loma Prieta Region as members of the 2016 Nominating Committee. The committee is carrying out its responsibilities in accordance with the Bylaws, the National Manual of Procedures, and the Region Procedures Manual. Its goal is to consider, identify, and select the best possible slate of candidates to lead the Porsche Club of America for the next two year term. As part of this process, the Committee actively seeks feedback from PCA’s regions on those talented
individuals who have the enthusiasm, dedication, and leadership to serve on National Staff. Suggestions should be made before November 30, 2015 to any member of the committee who is listed on the Nominating Committee on the National website. For further information contact Ken Hold, 2016 Nominating Committee Chairman, at 859-396-3502 or
kendellhold@twc.com.
Automotive News—Porsche has named production chief Oliver Blume to be its new CEO, and North America boss Detlev von Platen to be global sales and marketing leader as part of a VW Group management shakeup in the wake of the automaker’s diesel-emissions scandal.
Motor Trend—It's back! The
World's Greatest Drag Race returns with 10 of the world's best supercars and sports cars facing off in an epic quarter-mile sprint for glory... and ultimate bragging rights! This year's field includes all 10 contenders from Motor Trend's 2015 Best Driver's Car.
PCA—The eyes of the Porsche motorsport world were on Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca last month for Rennsport Reunion V, but PCA’s Traqgear Coolshirt West Coast series has been red hot at Laguna and other tracks throughout California and the West Coast during the entire the 2015 season.
Wall Street Journal—One day after Volkswagen AG’s
board forced Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn to resign over a massive scandal engulfing Germany’s largest company, former Chairman Ferdinand Piëch drove triumphantly through the main gates of Volkswagen’s massive plant here in his bright red Bentley, chauffeured by his wife, Ursula.
The dramatic return of Mr. Piëch,
78-years-old and one of Volkswagen’s largest shareholders, was a turnaround from his sudden resignation as chairman of the supervisory board in April.
Photo submitted by Blaine Rampulla. Pocono Region. “I took this photo at Lime
Rock Park's Memorial Day weekend 2014 GT3 Cup race on the short straight leading from "Big Bend" to the only left turn. I call it ‘A Lucky Off at Lime Rock.’ If you are not familiar with it, Lime Rock Park is a 1.5-mile bullring of a track in the northwest hills of Connecticut. Any time you go off at Lime Rock in the spring, you are very lucky if the normally wet grass doesn't send you into tire barriers or mud bogs that form at the bottom of the hill approaching ‘No-Name Straight’ near the
spectator area.”
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