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:[…]
Read More »2019 Season Wrap Drivers – Our 2019 season has just concluded with two October events – a 3 day DE at Laguna Seca immediately followed by a Club Race at Sonoma. Our Sonoma weekend was cut short by wild fires and power outages, but the first day’s racing brought a lot[…]
Read More »Drivers! Where has 2019 gone? It has been speeding by like an RS (or a Kenny Park driven 914)! Our DE and club race at Thunderhill saw nearly 100 DE drivers and over 30 racers. Between your well oiled track team machine and the Thunderhill staff, our events at Thunderhill are always[…]
Read More »August’s Autocross was yet another sold out event at Alameda with 105 pre-registered. The course was on the shorter side for Alameda and aside from a few too many zigs and zags (for some) at the start it was very enjoyable, with good flow overall. I almost managed to grab[…]
Read More »Kahuna! Drivers! Your track chair once had, several decades ago, a client who was more demanding than what your track chair was accustomed to. Did your track chair like it? Heavens no. Was the client entitled to be as demanding as she was? Of course. Did your track chair change his perspective to meet the[…]
Read More »Reports have been that Jim McClelland was last seen at the bottom of the new Burlingame high school pool. Other rumors are that he will be released from captivity after the Laguna Seca club race July 18-21.
Read More »Drivers! Your track chair is so incredibly appreciative of the drivers and racers who have helped GGR’s efforts to introduce (or re-introduce, as is applicable) “new” and/or “rarely visited” courses this year. Hot on the heels of discovering the fun of driving Thunderhill’s 5 mile course in the clockwise direction (a[…]
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