If your in the area of Vista, California or looking for a solid Saturday morning driven then head over to HRE Wheels for quite an Open House. The Open House includes a factory tour showing how these wheels are designed, manufactured, and finished in house right here in California.
Where:
2611 Commerce Way Suite D
Vista, CA 92081
When:
Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Time:
7:30am to 11:30am
This video features Jeff Zwart’s attack on Pikes Peak with his Porsche GT3. He easily defeated Rhys Millen who was the class holder before him. The Porsche flew up the mountain in the Time Attack class and sounded great doing it. Check out the intense steering work he puts him when the cars goes onto dirt.
A great video shot with a Canon 7D of the American LeMans race at Laguna Seca. The video features some great shots of the GT2 class including the Falken Porsche, Ferrari F-430, and the BMW teams. A well produced quick video featuring the fun and excitement of the ALMS series. If you haven’t been to an event in person, you should make a weekend out of an upcoming ALMS race.
Wolf Henzler was piloting the Falken Tire Porsche 997 GT3 when his passenger side rear wheel just shot off at turn three. It’s a crazy little video and his wheel ends up contacting one of the Corvette factory cars before flying way off track. The Falken Tire team looks much better for 2010 and even lead some of the race.
Falken Tires Porsche 2010 Sebring Winter Test
Falken Tires Porsche 2010 Sebring Winter Test
Falken Tires Porsche 2010 Sebring Winter Test
Falken Tires has decided to purchase a new Porsche for the 2010 season meaning they will get some factory drivers to boot. The car is looking good and we cannot wait until the Long Beach Grand Prix. This test was going on at Sebring when the photos were taken.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words so I’ll keep this post short. Nothing really left to say.
We tackled the third leg of the Targa Rally today which took everyone from Los Angeles to Santa Barbra. A great pack of cars and a timed/mile route lead to a great event. Sadly, our car broke down at the 50 mile mark of a 400 mile day trip like our Gumball 3000 trip earlier this year. We crammed our video guy in another car so he could Targa Scum it and produce us some great video. Our photographer stayed with me at Mt. Frazier as we waited 4 hours for Cadillac to come rescue us and get us in a loaner. It was of course an adventure so check out our trip inside.
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Global Motorsports Group (GMG) is known as one of North America’s top performance tuning facilities. The 15,000 square foot shop is located in Santa Ana, California which is nestled right in the heart of Orange County. The shop was founded in 2001 by James Sofronas and Fabryce Kutyba where they have grown from a 1,200 square foot facility. The current GMG location is located right across the street from Porsche Motorsport North America giving them some of the best access to Porsche tuning and development of race products.
GMG has grown within the exotic community with it’s Porsche racing legacy they have established. Just over the fourth of July weekend the StopTech/GMG guys took home first place in their Porsche 911 GT3. Dino Crescentini drove the Porsche to victory at the Watkins Glen event. SPEED TV has a delayed broadcast on the event so you can check it out Tuesday, July 22 at 2 p.m. (EDT). The SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge GT Championship next travels to Autobahn Country Club for Round Seven, July 24-26th if you want to see these guys in action.
GMG also stands out from most shops here in Southern California as they produce their own line of parts mainly for the Porsche segment. Above is a photo of the Porsche 997 GT3/RS WC-Sport Center Section exhaust that you can purchase. They even have an amazing sounding exhaust for the Porsche Carrera GT which you have to hear for yourself to believe.
In case your busy or don’t live anywhere near Orange County we took a whole shop tour for everyone at LuxuryVice to check out. Fabryce Kutyba was kind of enough to open all the doors to the shop for us and give you guys a full profile of what is going on over at GMG currently.
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I remember years ago back before YouTube and Streetfire the automotive scene would trade/share/post videos in .mpeg or .wmv formats on car forums and other places. Back in that area I remember the Norcal guys had one of the best street racing scenes I had ever seen. This video brings me back to those Bay Area memories as a yellow Porsche Carrera GT battles a 2009 Corvette ZR1, a Porsche 911 997 Evotech Kit, and a camera car Nissan GT-R.
A quick visit to Village Coffee Roasters we found some great machines sitting in the parking lot even though we showed up a little late. We found two Vector’s, a Tesla Roadster, and a great group of Porsche’s. Visit our gallery for some great highlights of the event and we will be attending more soon.
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