Tony Mcguiness San Diego, USA

Model 997.2 GT3 RS Year 2011 Acquired February 2011 Model 991.1 GT3 Year 2015 Acquired December 2014

Rennsport Reunion… the world’s largest gathering of vintage and recent Porsche race cars. There have only been six of these remarkable events, with the first one being held in 2001 at Lime Rock Park, the historic motorsport venue in Connecticut.

Hosted by Porsche Cars North America (PCNA), this incredible gathering not only brought together the widest variety of historic Porsche racing cars in the company’s 70-year history, it also featured those who designed, engineered and drove them to victory!

Rennsport Reunion Vl was again held on the beautiful Monterey Peninsula at the storied Laguna Seca race track. In fact, the past three Rennsports have been held at Laguna Seca, and I have had the fortune of attending all three since 2011.

This Rennsport was spectacular, and even bigger than ever as they expanded

the former three-day event to four days. In 2015 over 60,000 people attended. This year, according to Laguna Seca officials, over 81,000 turned out.

One can’t understate how big and incredible this Porsche event is. During Rennsport I had the pleasure to see our Editor, Lee, and meet fellow LTL contributor, Michael, from Houston.

There are so many highlights of Rennsport Reunion Vl. Too many to list them all here, but on day one when Porsche unveiled the new 935 Moby

Dick I found myself surrounded by my personal Porsche race driver heroes, including Hurley Haywood, Brian Redman and Vic Elford to name a few!

After the 935 unveiling I was fortunate to meet and chat with Andreas Preuninger or, as he is also known, Mr. GT3. He was kind enough to pose with me for a photo and sign my new Total 911: The Porsche 911 RS Book. By the way, if you haven’t bought the RS book, or downloaded it, I highly recommend you do so!

The most wonderful experience for me at Rennsport was meeting and getting a photo with one of the most amazing men in Porsche’s history. One of the best engineers the world has ever known. He was the principal contributor to all 16 of Porsche’s victories at the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans before the 919 existed and was the man who led the design of the six-cylinder 911 engine. His name… Hans Mezger. It was an honour I will treasure and never forget.