Simply put, Porsche’s Rennsport Reunion is one of the better single-marque celebrations we’ve attended. A combination vintage-motorsports race/concours, it’s positively crammed with impossibly rare Zuffenhausen iron. And aluminum. And carbon fiber. Previously held every three years, the gap between events has been stretched to four, with the next one scheduled for October 9–11, 2015.
First held at Lime Rock, then twice at Daytona, the last Rennsport Reunion happened in 2011 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. And it seemed as if anybody who ever half-loved a Porsche came out for it. Other than during the famed motorcycle-racing weekend back when MotoGP was on the card, we’d never seen the place so completely packed with fans.
Zuffenhausen used the event to mark the North American debut of the 991-platform 911. The 935/78 “Moby Dick” was on display. Seemingly everything Jeff Zwart has ever driven was in attendance. John Morton drove around the track in an Abarth GTL with all sorts of wires stuck to him. We wandered by Derek Bell casually sitting in a 917K. As one does.
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Speaking of the vaunted 917, the last event also marked one of the crazier, omigod-that-just-happened moments of our career as we stood between a Kurzheck model and a 917/10 Can-Am car while they both fired up. Yeah. It’s that kind of place. Can we really wait 365 more days?
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