Porsche Club of America
Porsche People Permeate Poppy Phields
Los Angeles Region
Long Beach American LeMans Series Race From PCNA
May 2008
Inside: Poppy Field Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
By Art Yuter
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On the bright blue sunny Sunday morning of April 6, 2008, 17 Porsches filled with 35 members and their significant others gathered in a Santa Clarita mall parking lot.
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The group assembled in a mall parking lot in Santa Clarita before setting out for the poppy fields.
LONG BEACH, Calif. – April 19 – The Penske Porsche RS Spyders of Timo Bernhard (Germany) and Romain Dumas (France) maintained their LMP2 championship points lead over the American Le Mans Series with a second place finish at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach’s Tequila Patron ALMS street race, while teammates Patrick Long (USA) and Sascha Maassen (Germany) finished third in class, equaling their best finish of the season.
With the Brabham/Sharp Acura winning the LMP2 class 1.04 seconds over the Bernhard/Dumas Porsche, the Acura breaks a 13race LMP2 winning streak for the Penske Porsches which began more than a year ago at the 2007 St. Petersburg’s event. Even after the disappointing second-place finish today, Dumas/Bernhard maintain their LMP2 points lead (66 to 56) over the Acura drivers, and continued their streak of 14 races in a row of LMP2 podium Continued on Page 4. finishes.
Setting out caravan-style, we twisted and turned our way north for about an hour on 37 miles of some of Southern California’s most dramatically Porsche-perfect byways — through Bouquet, Spunky and San Francisquito canyons —to the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve State Park. The canyons’ curves catered to our Porsches’ core cravings, their terrain tempting triple-digit territory; the overall scenery was simply smashing!
In the GT2 class for production-based sports cars, the Porsche – Ferrari battle continued right where it left off two weeks ago in St. Petersburg, with the Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 RSRs (Wolf Henzler/Jorg Bermeister and Patrick Pilet/Johannes van Overbeek) running Continued on Page 5
Stanley Gold Correction
This is Stanley Gold’s 910 Porsche racing car. It was erroneously referred to as a 908 in last month’s issue. So everywhere it says 908 should say 910.