Rennsport Reunion IV

After three celebrations on the East Coast at Daytona and Lime Rock, Porsche’s triennial Rennsport Reunion came to California in 2011 for a wonderful October weekend at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Rennsport Reunion IV was well-received by a large, enthusiastic crowd, and proved a fitting, though unstated, tribute to the late Porsche pr boss Bob Carlson, the California native from whose mind the original idea for such an event sprang.

Beyond its usual display of some 300 Porsche competition cars, RR IV also celebrated the North American unveiling of Porsche’s new 2012 911 Carrera. That debut was supplemented by an incredible display of significant cars from 911 history that took up weekend residency in the track’s row of permanent pit lane garages, with examples ranging from privateer Jack Ryan’s 1966 Daytona 24 Hours class-winning 911 through multiple interim iterations to the current 911 GT3 R Hybrid, and gave onlookers a potent evolutionary lesson in the permutations possible on the classic 911 theme.