As GGR closes out 2020, we’d like to extend to all our members and their families best wishes for safe and happy holidays. Clearly, these are challenging and scary times. All are stressed trying to carry on with life while worrying about prospects for disease and death. Normal routines seem[…]
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GGR annually celebrates the holidays with our Toys for Tots Benefit / Volunteer Appreciation Day. This event has two purposes: first, invitees are asked to bring a new, unwrapped toy to donate to bring a little bit of joy to an underprivileged child on Christmas. Seems like one of the[…]
Read More »This has been a scary year for all of us. Our first priority at GGR remains the same as yours: staying safe. We send our best wishes and hopes to all GGR members that you and your loved ones have stayed safe in this global pandemic. Our second priority has[…]
Read More »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[…]
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