Zoomy Meetings / Zoomy Schedule Drivers – Please give it up for your entire track team and its efforts to salvage an abbreviated GGR track season this year. Admittedly, it has been a bit hairy, scheduling four events within a seven week time frame. Since our last report, we have[…]
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As we approach six months (!) since the Covid pandemic and shutdown landed on us, a number of folks have asked me “Is 2020 over yet??!!” Here’s hoping you and your loved ones are well and coping as best you can. Stay safe, and stay sane. Raging wildfires and smoke[…]
Read More »Following the example set by the Porsche Club of America national office (see pages 132-135 of your latest, July Panorama), the GGR Board of Directors resolved last February to publish the club financials on an annual basis. Those financials are attached to this blog post as a PDF. As I’ve[…]
Read More »July 11th treated another set of fifty fast fingered participants to our second autocross event held at Cow Palace. Not to be outdone by the first event participants two weeks back, second autocross event participants filled up all fifty slots within two minutes of opening of the registration, a full[…]
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Following the county and then statewide shelter-in-place orders, all GGR events were canceled and all meetings conducted remotely. We had an online celebration of the 60th anniversary of the club’s charter being granted, online board meetings, etc. The question the club wrestled with—as did everyone—was what and how activity could[…]
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Here’s hoping that you and your loved ones are safely weathering this crisis. The twin forces of the pandemic and economic fallout from government reactions to the pandemic certainly beset us all. Thankfully, a six-mile wide asteroid is not heading for earth or we would be looking up what happened[…]
Read More »–by Ralf Dossmann, GGR Historian Time flies… it’s hard to believe but 10 years have passed since the 50th anniversary of GGR and since I was honored by John Celona and the board to carry the club’s “Historian” badge. At the time, I had been the proud owner of a[…]
Read More »Happy Month of May! Okay, so this may not be the happiest of times (ya think?!), but you sure wouldn’t know it from the weather. The cold spring fog is finally retreating in the Bay Area to leave clear sunny skies. My roses are in full bloom, the pear tree[…]
Read More »Dear Members, In this time of the Corona virus, our priorities are on staying safe and carrying on for when this begins to pass. In furtherance of these aims, I’ll repeat below my message to all club members, and then report on other club news. Message Sent to Club Members[…]
Read More »Current Membership – 3,604 Primary – 2431 Co-members – 1169 Lifetime Members – 4 We All Need a Chuckle! In the famous words of Oliver Hardy, “Well, this is another fine fix you’ve gotten us into!” We old folks remember Laurel and Hardy, a fabulously famous funny duo, who appeared[…]
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