GGR TRACK SERIES “SPOTLIGHT ON SPONSORS” This month’s Spotlight is on another new sponsor for the 2020 GGR Track Series: TARETT ENGINEERING TareJ Engineering was established in 1995, but has been growing organically since a young Ira Ramin began his racing career building and racing slot cars. Years later, In[…]
Read More »GGR TRACK SERIES “SPOTLIGHT ON SPONSORS” This month’s Spotlight is on a current sponsor for the 2020 GGR Track Series: SP Motorsports has been a sponsor of the GGR Track Series for several years and now sponsoring at the Silver Level. SP Motorsports started in 2012 and is owned by[…]
Read More »Snell In Place Drivers – Short and sweet update: 2020 track events maintaining a heartbeat: August 22-23 Club Race 4 (w/ NASA) Sonoma Raceway September 12-13 DE 4 Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca September 26-27 DE 5 / Club Race 5 Thunderhill Raceway October 10-11 Club Race 6 (w/ NASA) Sonoma[…]
Read More »GGR TRACK SERIES “SPOTLIGHT ON SPONSORS” This month’s Spotlight is on a new sponsor for the 2020 GGR Track Series: Porboys was the sponsor of the GGR Beginner Autocross School for over 20 years, now they are supporting the GGR Track Series in 2020 at the Bronze level. Porboys is[…]
Read More »Drivers – Your track chair recently needed to replace the first gear synchro and slider in his orange car. Does he need first gear? Maybe to get it on the trailer, but hardly ever otherwise. So, several weeks ago your track chair towed the orange car to the shop of the amazing Davey[…]
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[…]
Read More »Porting Heads Our 2020 track season ain’t fitting into last year’s shoes. Let’s see if we can get 2018’s on. While 2019 provided some very different offerings, including running courses in the reverse-from-normal direction, running a rarely used course in the reverse-from-normal direction, and a 103 dB DE, the track program[…]
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GGR kicked off its 60th anniversary year by gathering at the historic USS Hornet in Alameda for our 60th Annual Awards Banquet honoring region, autocross, and track award winners. Kudos to Autocross Director Ed Hunter for finding the venue and organizing this great event. Members formed the “grid” dockside before[…]
Read More »Off-Season Tech Talk Series at BR Racing – Save the Dates Greetings GGR Drivers! To keep your motors running during the off-season, GGR is pleased to announce that our sponsor BR Racing will be holding a series of three monthly Tech Seminars at their Campbell location. Those of you who[…]
Read More »All good things must come to an end, and so it was for the 2019 Carlsen Porsche Autocross Season. We ended the season by sharing a meal together at Pacific Fine Food in Alameda, a few minutes from the Alameda autocross site after AX9, our last autocross of 2019 season:[…]
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