California Festival of Speed April 8-10
 

This is the largest Porsche event in the southwest and drivers are coming from all over to attend. Make your plans now. Racing, Time Trials, Vendor Row, Tire Rack Street Survival, Mini AX, Lunch time parade laps on the big track, Specialty Food Trucks, and more...

The Club Racing and Time Trials are combined PCA/POC events and registration is open now. We expect this to sell out quickly so register today!

https://www.motorsportreg.com/events/time-trial-auto-club-speedway-pca-zone-8-california-festival-of-speed-002916#.VtNwSJMrLow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6bS0hQr0Ls

This is always a fantastic event! Race cars, sports cars, historic cars, vendor booths, booth girls, food trucks, and a lot more. My wife loves doing the lunch time parade laps.

I'll be there racing (already registered) so please be sure to stop by and say hi.

Maybe we can plan a 986Forum meet up...

CFOS here I come!
I'll see both you gentlemen there.
Looked like over 60 registered for TT in the first 15 min
96 registered now for TT

As a side note, volunteers are needed and you get free parking and a gift
Contact volunteer@calfestival.org for more info

80 cars are already registered for the Club races! Everything from 911 Cup cars to G-series 911's to 944's to Boxster's (and at least one 914).

I'll be racing my '99 Boxster at Festival of Speed. See you there! :)

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Last time I went was great. Have to do the parade lap this time around as well.

https://youtu.be/Czfn3tgcofM

Looking forward to meeting some more of the Forum guys.

Probably go on the Saturday.

Cool

It would be nice to put a face with a name
Find me, #990 Arctic Silver.

I'll visit racers row and find you guys.

Jay #990 and Cuda #420?

Maybe I'll wear my shocking blue SD Porsche Performance driving school shirt so you guys can recognize me and say hi, in case I wander blindly past you.

I'm sure I'll recognize Tom, Topless Dan and his brother Dave although its been a couple years.

Ray

Dave retired Little Red and now has a white Cayman

See ya there

I'll Be There
 

I'll be there!

But I'll probably drive the Jӓger4Smobile and park it in the corral.

Let's plan a meet up for 986Forum members - who's planning to attend?

Tom, I'll be there for the time trials

So we have going to CFOS so far:

JB92563
Jager
Tom Stone
Topless and his brother
Cuda911
JayG

Any moree????

JB, you will probably know a bunch of the SDR crew as you did the PDS there

I'll be there on Saturday.

I'll do the track parade but how can you resist the temptation to go fast when stuck behind a pace car?

And if someone were to shoot past the pace car :eek: does that mean there will be a chase and real race :D

Just kidding ... I think :p

RPG launch :cool:

So... Friday night 7ish there will be an informal garage band jam session with a few Porsche types. Some drankin and carrying on may be involved as well. You guys are all invited to join in the fun. Garage #2 I believe, or wherever the sound of blues guitar is emanating.

Beyond that, Dan and I will have our rig out there and lotsa folks tend to hang out after track cold. We will be instructing in the TT so our schedule gets pretty full during the day. Come by and say hi!

:cheers:

Maybe I'll get lucky and get one of the Boxster Bros (soon to be Cayman Bros) to show me the line

I am in the Blue race group. Dave and Jay - what groups are you guys in?

We get final assignments when we receive our credential packets. It's Jay's first visit to the Roval so I expect he will be Yellow. I expect to be Orange, and Danny will probably be in Red running 1:45 laps with the GT3 Cup Cars in his CC12 "It's an S" Frankencayman. :eek: HMOG

I was there last Sat for a NASCAR ride along
It was the Oval, so I guess that doesn't count :)
It's gonna be a lot more fun driving the roval
Just fitted a set of YellowStuff and bedded them today so I am ready to go

Hopefully it won't be too wet this weekend

This looks to be an amazing event... wish I was closer to be able to attend (Canada). I just got my tickets to the Canada F1 event so looking forward to that!!

Topless, what is Dannny CC12...?

Thanks!

Danny is driving a Cayman now as well?!!!

You guys must be getting the 2 for 1 deals on cars and parts. :)

FrankenCayman...Interesting.

You need team stickers.

2014 Festival of Speed Clip
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I don't know about other areas but southern Cali is a pretty active area with half a dozen great tracks within decent driving distance, auto-crosses at a re-purposed airbase, tracks and assorted other big parking lots.

You could go racing every weekend if you wanted.

Ray (Toronto immigrant)

My brother Danny ran a 986 with me in PCA Time Trials for a long time. He has now transitioned to a Cayman but "off the lot" was not an option for him. CC12 is the class he is running compared to my car in CC08. He says it's "just an S" but I know better. Closer to a well sorted GT-4 or Cayman Clubsport I'd say. Whew!

Looks like some rain is pretty certain this weekend so bring your rain tires, rain gear, and disconnect your rear sway.

Damn, now I gotta work Sat...
 

no chance now, bummer maybe next year...
BoxsterRu

Trouble on the track and heavy traffic....yikes.

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More video and stills to follow

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I saw the #85 run on Friday. Man that is a nice/fast/impressive car. I spoke to a guy in the stands, that was timing his laps. He claimed it had won the 24 hour of Spa in it's class. No pictures/no proof but what a car.

Lower turn out this year. Weather kept people away Friday and Saturday. I live 20 minutes west of the track and it hasn't rained at my house yet today.

Had A Great Time
 

I was there Friday and Saturday. There were many more cars, people, and vendors on Saturday.

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Ran into Magnus on Saturday, shook his hand and chatted for a couple of minutes.

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Who was this? Fastest car on the track (or in this picture :) )

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Pictures of more cars:


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A Sean Edwards car
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... and the Track tour ;)

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Visited with the forum guys except Tom was on the track everytime I swung by to say Hi.
Missed Jager as well.

Spent my time shooting video, Auto-Xing and track tour on Saturday.

It must be real, got a pic!

From R - L
Cuda 911, Tom Stone, JayG in front of Tom's car in the paddock at CFOS
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Was there on the Saturday - lucky that the rain stayed away (apart from a few light sprinkles).
The track tour was fun - managed 109mph on the banking just trying to stay with the car in front!:)
A suggestion to the organizers - how about some chairs and tables in the area where the food trucks were! Make it nice to sit and chat while eating.

Here is a hot lap from Saturday in the Time Trial. 2.9L Cayman PDK. Looks like Tom Stone and I were running very similar times this weekend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh7RLf08cWY&nohtml5=False

It was great hanging out with you guys this weekend!

Yep - very similar times. I think that 1:57.2 was my best time for the weekend. Of course, that was during a dry session! In Sunday afternoon's race in the rain, I was running 2:05 to avoid doing something stupid (like crashing!).

A very fun weekend overall. My brother and I kept busy instructing in Yellow and I spent time with 3 students including Mike, Jay, and Steve. They all did great in their first visit to the Auto Club Roval Super Speedway.

Cars ran great, tires worked, lap times were logged. A little rain here and there just kept it interesting out in turns 1&2.

Tom: Best lap 1:57.14 VERY close times.

:cheers:

Some highlights of CFOS2016 filmed by Walter's Porsche. Many of our cars have a cameo appearance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Z5P75T47s