I don’t know about the rest of you, but at my house January is all about locking down the “must do” calendar events for the whole year, in order to see what open slots are available for the “nice to” stuff that can be fit in between.
Now that my registration is complete for April’s Treffen Tamaya near Santa Fe, and lodging reservations have been made for the July Porsche Parade at Lake of the Ozarks, I’m focused on the third quarter of the year. So, if like me, you find September’s Treffen in Banff to be a bit too far, I would like to recommend the Rennsport VI reunion. For the uninitiated, unlike Parade or Treffen events hosted by this club, Rennsport Reunions are hosted by Porsche Cars of North America (PCNA). We say that PCA is about the Cars and the People. Well Rennsport seems to be more about the cars, and the cars. The people part is there, too. But the car element is just overwhelming. At least that’s the case during the day when all of the action happens at Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway just a few miles east of Monterey. Don’t get me wrong. You WILL run into people you know and you will probably make new friends, especially if you choose a hotel in Monterey where most of the weekend visitors will share the same weakness for the Porsche brand. But during the daylight hours the collection of new and historic Porsches that you will see racing on track is sheer overload. And your access to the paddock is essentially unlimited allowing you to be face to face with world famous drivers and toe to tire with the largest collection of priceless Porsches that you will see short of, perhaps, the Porsche museum in Stuttgart.
I’ve enclosed some photos from Rennsport Reunion V, held in the same location in 2014. Rather than share the myriad shots of multi-million dollar collectible car-art traveling inches apart at triple digit speeds, I chosen some of the more unusual photos which made Rennsport V even more memorable for me.
Rennsport VI takes place from September 27th to 30th , 2018. Registration links can be found by entering “Rennsport VI” in the search bar at PCA.org.
The ever-changing value of my license plate registration stickers.
I know that not all states are the same when it comes to vehicle registration stickers. Here in Utah, when you are issued a new license plate, you are also handed two stickers; one for the month and the other for the year. They are to be placed side by side. Each year when you renew by mail, they send you a new sticker for the upcoming year.
So how did I get so lucky as to have a September registration on a car that would live through the years 2017 through 2019? Yep, that means that over 3 years, my car will have worn a bit of disguise as a 917, a 918, and a 919. And in case this is gibberish to you, a 917 racecar from the 1970’s may be a $10 million Porsche, a 918 hybrid from 2014 a mere $1million+ (for now), and if a just retired 991 LeMans winning hybrid ever comes on the market, well…..the sky will probably be the limit. And in case you are wondering if you will ever see any of these…there were multiple examples of each, running the track at Rennsport V. And I’m thinking there will be a repeat this year.
