Volunteer Appreciation Day / Toys for Tots Benefit co-chaired by John Celona & Bubba Gong With the help of President Brad Kellett, GGR is bringing back the holiday tradition of a Volunteer Appreciation Day and Toys for Tots Benefit. This celebrates the contributions of the hard-working volunteers who labor to[…]
Read More »It’s hard to believe, but the holiday season is upon us, and our 2018 event program is wrapping up. By the time you read this, our final club race (and last event in our track program) will be complete after more than 40 PCA club racers descended on Sonoma Raceway,[…]
Read More »By Kevin Laird, tour lead The month of October took 7 GGR members in 4 cars all the way out to Albuquerque, joining the AZ PCA on their second annual tour to the Albuquerque Hot Air Balloon Festival. While most of the GGR members made their own way out to Scottsdale,[…]
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Capt. Mike (AKA) Capt. Michael Sherman, USN-Ret. Membership Director GGR Regional Summary Adventures in Italy Yes, I took a few weeks off from my heavy GGR workload (ha) to enjoy the wines, pastas and delights of driving the Italian autostradas! Ready for high speeds, great views, and really big trucks, then you[…]
Read More »Thank You, Drivers! Thank You, Track Team! Dear Reader, I will assume that each of us, from time to time, have difficulty in pulling up an off-the-beaten-path theme for a writing assignments, especially when that writing assignment was due four days ago. This morning is one of those times. I[…]
Read More »Mines Road North-to-South Mines Road is an extremely popular FunRun drive. So much so, we decided this year to run it twice: once from the North, going South toward San Jose. And a month later in September, we drove it in the reverse direction toward Livermore in the North. Here[…]
Read More »October 2018 Autocross Report The 6thAutocrossof the Carlsen Porsche Autocross Series was held on Sunday August 5 at Marina Municipal Airport and was attended by 76 drivers. We reused the course from the previous day (by LPR), but ran it in reverse. Best times ran in the 42-57 second range,[…]
Read More »Board Meeting Minutes September 14, 2018 Present: Larry Adams, Bern Beecham, Brad Kellett, Brian Emmett, Bryan Phan, Ed Hunter, John Celona, Marianne Merritt, Michael Griffin Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 12:32 pm. Call for agenda changes: None Call for calendar changes: The final two Board[…]
Read More »Every year, October brings us the GGR board of directors elections. That means that every September ahead of the election, we assemble a committee to determine the board’s nominations for the positions up for election. Before I get to the nominations though, I have an exciting change to our board[…]
Read More »In The Zone By Sandy Provasi, Zone 7 Representative Shasta Region has been devastated by the wildfires hitting so close to home this July. Many of us were just in the area for the Shasta Region Zone 7 Tour in June. The region had already decided if the tour had[…]
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