Happy Holidays! Drivers – Still grateful for the opportunity to host an abbreviated 2020 track season, your track team is encouraged by the opportunities that lie before us for 2021. But before we zoom ahead, let us acknowledge this year’s PCA Club Racing Champions! • GT3: Alex Steele (West Coast Series and[…]
Read More »Drivers – The giantest of thank you’s to all of these great people who supported GGR’s track events this year: Doug Adams • Adam Adelson • John Ahearn • Volga Aksoy • Eric Armstrong • Tom Arter • Howard Ashcraft • Dan Aspesi • David Avelar • Michael Axelrod • Ned Bacon • Hyon Bae • John Ball • Joe Bank • Evan Beal • Chris Bellomo • Anastasia Berta • Jan Bjernfalk • Mark Bloomer • Andrew Blyholder • Ted Bonkenburg • Mark Boschert • BR Racing • Braid Wheels • Guilherme Brighenti • Sal Brogna • David Bunch • Roger Bush • John Celona • Jim[…]
Read More »GGR TRACK SERIES “SPOTLIGHT ON SPONSORS” Another of this month’s Spotlight for the 2020 GGR Track Series: Hi-Tech Automotive Deven Wailes started Hi-Tec Automotive in 1986 after working at a Porsche Dealership and he is still at the same location: 779 Anderson Dr., San Rafael. They specialize in Porsches, working[…]
Read More »SPOTLIGHT ON SPONSORS Each month we highlight some of our Golden Gate Region Track Series Sponsors: European Autotech San Ramon, CA My name is Chris MURAD, I opened European Autotech in 1984. I own the business with my wife Lisa. We work on mostly German cars, Porsches are our number[…]
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[…]
Read More »Belting In Drivers – We have used “belting in” as a blog title in the past, but now that GGE’s track series is finally underway, it applies, and what a welcome application it is! We just completed our first event – a club race at Sonoma Raceway August 22-23 as[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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