Category: Porsche Road Trips

I’m just working out the details of a group buy on WEVO shifters with some French friends and forum members. The guys are getting a discount in exchange for saving us work on single orders.

It’s not surprising that groups of enthusiasts are lining up to buy the WEVO shifter. Most buyers – certainly everyone we have feedback from – believe it is the best money they have spent on their classic Porsche. I would agree with that entirely: my car is absolutely fantastic to drive as a result of the WEVO shifter installed.

I first got into WEVO via Pelican, where many of the big names sang the praises of this reclusive figure, Hayden Burvill and his engineering excellence. Eventually I met Hayden and we hit it off immediately.

I’m currently working on media for Race4Change.org: a really exciting Porsche project. Race4Change.org is a Canadian microfinance organisation sending a million-dollar mission to this year’s East African Safari Classic Rally. The team is racing the Safari Rally to promote the economic empowerment of women in Africa. This week, we announced the first three drivers supporting the 2011 Race4Change campaign.

Leading the Race4Change team is Björn Waldegard, motorsport’s first-ever World Rally Champion and a five-time winner of this historic event: four times on Safari and once on Safari Classic. As with Waldegard’s first Classic Safari victory in 2007, Björn’s son Mathias will navigate.

With Björn will be X-Games legend and NASCAR superhero, Travis Pastrana. “Competing [...]

Just back from an incredible trip to Germany, for the Nurburgring 24-Hour race. The event was memorable for many reasons, one big one being a victory for Porsche with a Manthey Racing GT3, and the other was the sheer speed of the 911R Hybrid.

Though the Hybrid started way down the field thanks to its air restrictor handicap, the car was soon climbing the order. The first few laps were all about the big Mercedes and Audis up front but as the laps counted up, the Hybrid just kept coming and coming. Eventually, the car took the lead, but confused reporting at the racetrack meant not that many people knew about it.

Soon there was a problem with diff flanges, and the car had to come in the pits, losing six [...]