This past month was a month of welcoming! Not only did we all collectively welcome Spring, and with it some fantastic driving weather after a rainy winter, but we also had a handful of events that had their own welcoming theme. To start, we welcomed the newly renamed and remodeled[…]
Read More »Golden Gate Region Opens DE and West Coast Race Series Golden Gate Region opened its DE season in conjunction with the opening round of the PCA Club Race, West Coast series at Thunderhill Raceway on March 23-24th. There were over 93 drivers participating in the DE event, Drivers Education, while[…]
Read More »A beautiful sight, grey GT3’s in row before our 1stautocross at Marina (#2 overall and Zone #2) As usual, the autocross sold out with 75 drivers. We re-used the course design from the previous day (LPR#2, Zone #1), and ran the course in reverse. The course was unusually long for[…]
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Saturday, March 30th marked the Grand Re-opening of longtime GGR Platinum Sponsor and club supporter Carlsen Porsche as Porsche Redwood City. Owner Charlie Burton and Porsche Cars North America CEO Klaus Zellmer were on hand to kick off the festivities along with a Bavarian band, sumptuous food featuring dim sum[…]
Read More »Board Meeting Minutes April 18, 2018 Present: John Celona, Serena Cheng, Brian Emmett, Robert Habibi, Ed Hunter, Jim McClelland, Marianne Merritt, Michael Sherman Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 6:12 pm. The meeting was shorter than usual, as it coincided with the New Member Mixer. Call[…]
Read More »We have a wonderful Napa Drive and Gourmet Winery Lunch social event on Saturday, May 18! With the warm weather upon us, a perfect way to enjoy it is with a group drive on the beautiful Napa roads to V. Sattui Winery in St. Helena for a private tour, tasting,[…]
Read More »Capt. Mike (USN-Ret.) GGR Membership Director New Members GGR is a one-of-a-kind membership organization which depends on the influx of volunteers. One source of acquiring members is through your recommendations to those who own Porsches or who are contemplating ownership. Last month, PCA reported that 111 new members were the[…]
Read More »At the time of writing this blog, we are gearing up for two back-to-back events that fully take advantage of long stretches of HWY 1 north of Golden Gate to some amazing destinations. First, there will be the ever-so-popular three-day event to Mendocino via the backroads of Sonoma and Mendocino[…]
Read More »By: Collin Fat, Zone 7 Representative Sacramento Valley Region 916.955.7966; cfat@fatsrestaurants.com Redwood Region celebrates its 50thAnniversarythis year and what an accomplishment. I presented Redwood president, Chip Witt, an official citation presented on behalf of the Porsche Club of America at their annual Run for the Crab event which was held at the[…]
Read More »Now That Daddy Took the T-Bird Away Drivers! First, a quick report on GGR’s DE #2 and Club Race #1 at Thunderhill March 23-24. Over 120 enthusiastic drivers attended the hard kickoff of the season, kept the track dry through the few sprinkles we had on Saturday (rain came right when[…]
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