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2024 Track Season (and 2025)
Greetings Track Enthusiasts! GGR held its final track event of the 2024 season at Thunderhill Raceway over the weekend of October 12th and 13th. The weather was perfect and we were able to host over one hundred HPDE drivers, including eighteen new students, and a field of thirty-seven club racers. The Diablo Region hosted their…
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Sonoma Raceway Recap
Greetings Track Enthusiasts: GGR held its fifth track event of the season at Sonoma Raceway over the weekend of June 29th and 30th.The weather was great and we were able to host approximately one hundred twenty HPDE drivers, twenty-two new students, and a field of fifty-four club racers. The Diablo Region hosted their DE on…
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Report on 2024 Track Season
Greetings GGR Track Enthusiasts. Jim and I are happy to report that the 2024 track season is going well. Thus far, we have held our annual Instructor Training weekend in February where we had the good fortune to have professional driving coach Robert Orcutt assist us with enhancing the skills of our existing instructors. We…
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Ready to go for the 2024 track season?
Greetings GGR Drivers: We hope all of you have your cars ready to go for the 2024 track season. We are writing to remind you of our upcoming event at Thunderhill East on April 6th and 7th. We will be running our normal counterclockwise configuration and conducting time trials on Sunday afternoon. In addition to…
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Meet GGRs New Track Directors: Jim McClelland & Scott Kalkin
Greetings Track Enthusiasts. Jim McClelland and I are thrilled to be working together again as your Track Chairs for 2024/ 25, especially since we get to do so with our longtime friends and Track Team members David Bunch, Milo & Diane Dorr, Richard Last, Ken Mack, Paul Marty, Parker Merrill, Sharon and Karen Neidel, Christian…
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GGR Track in 2024 and Beyond
Dear GGR Members, As we head towards the end of 2023, I just wanted to give thanks. I’d like to thank the PCA-GGR Board Members for their leadership and support of the Track Series for the past two years. When people ask me what it’s like being the GGR Track Director, I say it’s like I have…
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2023 Track Series is Done!
Drivers! The 2023 Porsche Redwood City Track Series is officially over, as will be my two-year term as Track Director on December 31st. This position is especially challenging because it involves so many people to pull off these complex events. So thank you to all of the HPDE participants, the Club Racers, the National PCA team,…
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GGR on Track at Laguna Seca
As anticipated, Laguna Seca was a hit! Three day weekend + 105 db + newly paved surface = sold out event. But given that Laguna is the shortest track in the Bay Area (2.23 miles), there was concern of congestion on the track. The run groups sorted themselves out quickly and things were flowing pretty…
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GGR Adrenaline Rush Weekend at Sonoma Raceway
Drivers! Just coming off of the adrenaline rush of a three day weekend at Sonoma Raceway (aka Sear’s Point for the more experienced demographic…). Friday had glorious weather and things got hotter on Saturday. By the time Sunday afternoon came around, it was pretty darn hot – it was a good weekend to splurge on a…
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Time Trial Awesomeness
Drivers! We got back last month from Thunderhill for HPDE #4, Club Race #3, and Time Trial #1. The first three events of the season were under-attended, so I was digging a small financial hole for the track season. However attendance at the last event at Thunderhill was much stronger than anticipated, so we are…