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No Rennsport This Year, but Porsche Does Sportscar Together Fest.
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2021 7:47 pm
by SeaCay
https://carbuzz.com/news/new-porsche-fe ... g-displays
Strange.
Did Laguna piss off Porsche?
If they're pushing this event w/ C-19, what happened to RR VII?
Anyway, planning on going. New experience on the ground floor at a new venue for me.
Who else?
edit: edited title of thread to reflect actual event name.
Re: No Rennsport This Year, but Porsche and PCA Do This?
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 9:45 am
by fpena944
SeaCay wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 7:47 pm
https://carbuzz.com/news/new-porsche-fe ... g-displays
Strange.
Did Laguna piss off Porsche?
If they're pushing this event w/ C-19, what happened to RR VII?
Anyway, planning on going. New experience on the ground floor at a new venue for me.
Who else?
Like you said, the venue must have upset the wrong person because it does appear that events now are taking place throughout the country with very few restrictions.
Make sure to take lots of pics to share as I won't be able to attend myself.
Re: No Rennsport This Year, but Porsche and PCA Do This?
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 7:24 am
by Wade B
SeaCay wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 7:47 pm
https://carbuzz.com/news/new-porsche-fe ... g-displays
Strange.
Did Laguna piss off Porsche?
If they're pushing this event w/ C-19, what happened to RR VII?
Anyway, planning on going. New experience on the ground floor at a new venue for me.
Who else?
Heck yeah, only a couple of hours away. Gonna have to go.
Re: No Rennsport This Year, but Porsche and PCA Do This?
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 5:47 pm
by SeaCay
https://newsroom.porsche.com/en_US/2021 ... 24843.html
No schedule yet.
Luftgekühlt is happening the same day (Friday) as the opening of the Sportscar Together Festival (dumb name):
https://luftgekuhlt.com/luft-7
Luft is 12:00 to 5:00 (10:30 early entry tix avail), and is downtown in the Bottleworks District.
Re: No Rennsport This Year, but Porsche Does Sportscar Together Fest.
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:06 pm
by SeaCay
Re: No Rennsport This Year, but Porsche Does Sportscar Together Fest.
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2021 11:33 pm
by jcnesq
Rennsport is not an every year thing and even if due this year I can see with COVID why it got postponed. As for Laguna Seca, the management of the track was taken over in the last year (or two?) by local politicians (used to be run by SCCA - Sports Car Club of America), so who knows if the new management pissed Porsche off. Or maybe just time to move it for general reasons.
Re: No Rennsport This Year, but Porsche Does Sportscar Together Fest.
Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2021 7:10 am
by SeaCay
jcnesq wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 11:33 pm
Rennsport is not an every year thing and even if due this year I can see with COVID why it got postponed. As for Laguna Seca, the management of the track was taken over in the last year (or two?) by local politicians (used to be run by SCCA - Sports Car Club of America), so who knows if the new management pissed Porsche off. Or maybe just time to move it for general reasons.
No, it averages every 3 years (I've been to 4 of the 6). It's due this year. My questioning is what happened to it, and where did this new event come from? It's essentially a Rennsport type gathering, with less emphasis on historic racing vehicles. It's got backing by Porsche, and PCA. So, has RRVII been postponed a year? Have they changed intervals? Perhaps they needed more time to do the logistics for a new venue? I dunno the answer to any of these, but it would be interesting to know.
Re: No Rennsport This Year, but Porsche Does Sportscar Together Fest.
Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2021 7:44 am
by wsh
Indy ?
Me thinks Penske was involved in this....
Re: No Rennsport This Year, but Porsche Does Sportscar Together Fest.
Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2021 10:52 pm
by jcnesq
SeaCay wrote: ↑Mon Aug 02, 2021 7:10 am
jcnesq wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 11:33 pm
Rennsport is not an every year thing and even if due this year I can see with COVID why it got postponed. As for Laguna Seca, the management of the track was taken over in the last year (or two?) by local politicians (used to be run by SCCA - Sports Car Club of America), so who knows if the new management pissed Porsche off. Or maybe just time to move it for general reasons.
No, it averages every 3 years (I've been to 4 of the 6). It's due this year. My questioning is what happened to it, and where did this new event come from? It's essentially a Rennsport type gathering, with less emphasis on historic racing vehicles. It's got backing by Porsche, and PCA. So, has RRVII been postponed a year? Have they changed intervals? Perhaps they needed more time to do the logistics for a new venue? I dunno the answer to any of these, but it would be interesting to know.
Well, I was just speculating other than the management change at Laguna Seca. I went to IV, and planned to go to V and VI (even made hotel reservations 9-12 months in advance for the latter two, but circumstances prevented me from going). Laguna Seca for me is a fantastic venue, lots to do around the area and an easy and fun drive for me. Hopefully back in 2022.
Re: No Rennsport This Year, but Porsche Does Sportscar Together Fest.
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 11:38 am
by SeaCay
I would love to be a fly on the wall in the marketing events meetings this week. By my accounts this event was a disaster. It was very well put together (with exception for zero aftermarket vendor presence), but the numbers were, per my observations, pitiful. Sunday had fewer participants than Porsche employees. Racing was sparsely watched from very few vantage points. Few classes, none vintage as with RR. I know it's not meant to be RR, and I think I understand that's it's more for the new car purchaser, but those people aren't the soul of Porsche, and won't travel for something like this. At this point, I'd be quite surprised to see this again in the future, unless major changes are made.
Luftgekuhlt on Friday made the trip worthy, this thing that Porsche put together? Not so much...