Just Can't Get Enough: Porsche Fever at the 2016 California Festival of Speed
Had enough Porsche lately? How could there possibly such a thing? Though we were busy covering Luftgekühlt from all possible angles, we also made our way out to the big CA Festival of Speed event, held in conjunction with the Porsche Club of America at the Auto Club Speedway in (normally) sunny Fontana.
The gritty, brawling, performance-focused response to the, well … “fairer” side of Porsche enthusiasm that is represented in the Luftgekühlt meets, the Porsche Club of America is all about enjoying Porsches in an environment for which they were designed and engineered: the track. Sure, there are parade and corral events endorsed by the organization for its members, but more importantly there are driving programs ranging from professional education to autocrossing, time trials (time attack), club races, rally and even support for Porsche racers in professional series. And all of those events were wrapped up in the three-day CA Festival of Speed.
This 15th-year anniversary event was open to qualified drivers and cars of any make or model, but you’d be hard-pressed to find anything not mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive and hailing from Deutschland manufacturing facilities. And where Luftgekühlt was a great place to find some absolutely flawless Porsches of any model and vintage, “Califest” was where you could find some of the fastest and most thoroughly enjoyed (by the looks of them) 911s spanning a wide variety of generation, modification and condition.
Click through our gallery below for more, and for complete details, head over to the official site, at:
http://www.zone8.org/events/speedfestival.php
