Rennsport Reunion 7 Is Porsche Paradise on a Plate!

There is no other marque that carries the passion of Porsche. Sure, there’s whatever car name you just blurted out in your head preceded by “Oh yeah? What about…”—BMW, Lotus, Crosley, whatever it was—but nothing else combines pure performance with the reasonable accessibility of Porsche. Throw in 75 years of racing heroics and nothing else comes close.

“But Ferraaaaaaarrreeee,” you bleat. Ferrari is far more exclusionary and no average human being with a reasonable job could ever prioritize things enough to be able to afford a Ferrari. Could they? A fairly large swath of the G7 population could afford a Porsche, especially if they could do their own maintenance. Even today you can get a 25-year-old Boxster for half the price of a loaded Camry. They won’t even let you into the Ferrari showroom for that.

All of which has endeared Porsches to generations of owners and enthusiasts like no other brand on Earth. And it was that passion, engineering precision, and racing prominence that was celebrated for four days last weekend at Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca as Rennsport Reunion 7 rolled into town.

Of the 300-something employees at Porsche Cars North America in Atlanta, 250 of them made the trek to Rennsport to work as volunteers to help make the weekend a success. Every one of them—every one I saw, at least—was smiling like they’d just won a small part of a lottery.

The celebration this time focused on a few anniversaries: the 60th of the 911, the 75th of the brand itself, and the seventh time Rennsport Reunion has taken place.

“Rennsport Reunion was conceived by racing great Brian Redman and Porsche Cars North America’s longstanding press spokesperson, Bob Carlson, in 2001 to celebrate the racing heritage of Porsche,” the company said on its dedicated Rennsport web page.

“They envisioned an event at which drivers, enthusiasts and historians could gather to celebrate racing and pay tribute to the men, women, and cars that have helped build the Porsche legacy.”