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[…]
Read More »Scream for 103 Drivers – Time to re-energize! Your track chair will confess that it has been so long since the last track event, his own enthusiasm has been waning. Even the knowledge of the first DE at Laguna in September, at the horsepower robbing 92 dB, couldn’t provide any[…]
Read More »GGR TRACK SERIES “SPOTLIGHT ON SPONSORS” This Spotlight is on a returning SILVER sponsor for the 2020 GGR Track Series: PACIFIC POWER MOTORSPORTS is located in Walnut Creek at 1413 Carlback Avenue. The 3 owners: Eric Leman, Jeff Kost, and Wayne Van Nordsdall started the business in 2006. They are[…]
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 »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[…]
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