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Interactive Porsche Racing Driver Events: Feb 2011

August 22, 2010

James Redman recently whizzed me a mail about the Gathering of Legends Racers Symposium being organised by Brian Redman’s Targa Sixty Six, the team behind Rennsport Reunion. The idea is to gather a bunch of old racing drivers and race fans for five days in the sun with golf, surfing, sunbathing and whatever else you [...]

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Porsche Art: Love it or Loathe it

August 9, 2010

I’ve just finished a piece for Autocar magazine: a buyers’ guide on the Jaguar S-Type R. One paragraph goes: “Such is life with Jags: every one I’ve owned has been a balti bowl of gourmet good times and e-coli lows. Pops to the shops have evolved into epic road trips, while romantic nights out have [...]

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Taking Classic Porsche from Road to Race

July 25, 2010

It’s a real buzz to see Porsches in a car park at a classic event one year, and on the grid the next. On my first visit to Classic Le Mans, 356 devotees Andy Prill and Richard Clark had just pulled off their own South American coup by tracking down and buying one of the [...]

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Classic Le Mans: Porsche Parking Hero

July 17, 2010

Classic Le Mans was HOT. Too hot! As we were so busy with shooting a Total 911 piece and sorting bits for Jamie’s uber-cool Renault 8S, I didn’t get much time to wander around the car park either. Thankfully, I can count on some stalwart Porsche pals to help me out with keeping an eye [...]

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Porsche 908 warm up at Classic Le Mans

July 14, 2010

I’ve been back from France for a couple of days but, thanks to some serious deadlines and a couple of big (ultimately successful) meetings, I’ve not yet had time to sort through the pictures and video shot with my cameras. However, here’s an iPhone vid I think some of you will like. I shot it [...]

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Le Mans Classic: All the Fun of the Fair

July 11, 2010

As I write, the 2010 Le Mans Classic is in full swing. The weather here is incredibly hot: Porsche restaurant tent temperatures hit a reported 45 degrees yesterday and Arnage lunch was taken in similar heat. Not all that comfortable, unless you went to McDonalds for the air conditioning and free wifi, like myself and [...]

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