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Audi/VW Design Studio Tour By Bruce Pollock, Photos by Bob Gordon On Saturday May 24th, we were afforded a rare opportunity to visit the Audi / VW Design Studio in Santa Monica. Not open to the public, one of our board members was able to arrange for the event and it was quite a treat.
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Second Overall Win Of The Season For Penske Porsches In Utah
June 2008
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TOOELE, Utah – May 19 – After no one on the Penske Porsche Racing team thought that the feature race could possibly match the excitement of qualifying the day before, a combination of flawless driving and incisive pit strategy gave the team’s Porsche RS Spyders a one-two overall win at Miller Motorsports Park.
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Ready to see what’s inside. Bob Gordon photo.
By Southern California standards it was a little gloomy that day, but there was sunshine in everyone’s eyes as we arrived in front of the Studio. The studio has identification, but not what one would call blaring; and by that I mean you could easily miss it, which I believe to be the intended effect.
Modest building identification. Bob Gordon photo. Continued of Page 4.
Roger Penske appreciating his drivers.
Romain Dumas (France) and Timo Bernhard (Germany) took the lead for good with 35 minutes to go in the two-hour, 45-minute event after the leading de Farran/Pagenaud Acura had to pit for fuel and tires. The #7 Dumas/Bernhard Porsche had done its normal pit stop duties with a little more than an hour to go, and was poised for a non_stop finish. The #6 Penske Porsche RS Spyder, with Sascha Maassen (Germany) and Continued of Page 5.
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