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By now, you\u2019ve presumably seen at least some of our extensive coverage of this year\u2019s Porsche Rennsport Reunion VI, from Monterey [Click here for our coverage<\/a>]. At this point, if Rennsport is news to you, you would have to have been in an automotive coma for the past month or two, because it was a massive event and heavily, heavily promoted by Porsche.<\/p>\n

In fact, Porsche really went all in on making this their biggest event ever, reportedly investing over $7 million to bring together nearly 2,000 race and road cars, 82,000 spectators and over 50 legendary drivers for five days of activities, dinners and parties under the California sunshine. And one important component of all this was bringing in members of the media, from around the world, to share the stories and photos. Select media members from North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East were all flown in, housed, transported and wined and dined throughout the week\u2026and clearly through some egregious clerical error, I somehow got added to that list!<\/p>\n

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\nI had to marvel at the logistics that went into organizing an event of this scale and magnitude. On just one small level, the team at Porsche had to wrangle and coddle more than 100 media members and nearly as many of the company\u2019s legendary drivers for five days. This involved everything from rooms and credentials, to meals and transportation, including bringing in fleets of Suburbans and drivers from around the country just to shuttle everyone around.<\/p>\n

One of the great hallmarks of any of these \u201cpress junkets\u201d is that there is inevitably a swanky media dinner one night, where the assembled members of the fourth estate, get to enjoy a nice meal and too much wine, with a host of Public Relations reps and a handful of the honored drivers. With this being Porsche\u2019s 70th\u00a0<\/sup>anniversary and 6th\u00a0<\/sup>Rennsport, I anticipated that this one would be epic. I wasn\u2019t wrong, but it didn\u2019t go down as I envisioned it.<\/p>\n

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Due to the size of the event, the PR team at Porsche wasn\u2019t able to do quite as much hand-holding of the media as they might have wanted. As such, we were given a schedule of events and then pretty much left to our own, in terms of what we did. The big media dinner was scheduled for Saturday night and our instructions were to meet in front of the hotel, at 6:30 pm, to pick up the shuttle bus that would take us to a restaurant in Carmel. So, being the anal-retentive soul that I am, I dutifully dawned my sports coat and was standing out front at 6:25, ready to go.<\/p>\n

There were two shuttle buses out front waiting, so I asked the nearest Porsche rep, which bus for the media dinner? To which he replied, \u201cEither one, they are both going there.\u201d OK, cool.<\/p>\n

I stepped onto the second of the two buses, which was empty, and the driver told me that I might as well get on the other bus, as it would be leaving first. OK, cool. I\u2019m a good soldier, and I do what I\u2019m told.<\/p>\n

As I stepped up into the other bus, I asked the driver, \u201cIs this going to the media dinner?\u201d To which he replied, \u201cYes.\u201d Again, OK, cool.<\/p>\n

Getting up into the bus, I see there is only one passenger on board, and it is 1977 24 Hours of Le Mans winner J\u00fcrgen Barth. I\u2019ve met Barth on a couple of occasions over the years, but I\u2019m sure he\u2019s met a million journalists and judging by the vacant \u201cWho are you?\u201d expression on his face, I can see that my supposition is correct, so I smile and take a window seat a couple of rows back.<\/p>\n

A few moments later, 2-time Le Mans winner Gijs van Lennep and his wife climb on board and sit down next to Barth and immediately start chatting away. The van Lenneps are then followed by David Piper and his wife, followed by Richard Attwood and his wife, then Hans Hermann and Jochen Mass. By the time Vic Elford clamors up on the bus it is starting to get filled up. Gerrard Larousse and his wife get in next but now there are only two seats left, so Le Mans winner Larousse takes the one in the row in front of me, while his poor wife gives me a nervous a smile that says, \u201cI hope you\u2019re not an axe murderer,\u201d and takes up the last seat next to me. Now the bus is completely full and even though Brian Redman sticks his head in to taunts and laughter from the assembled crowd, there is no room for him, so he and Jacky Ickx have to find space on the second bus. As the doors to our bus close and it begins to pull away from the hotel, I take a quick look around and am struck by the sudden realization that I am the ONLY non-Le Mans winner on this bus! I then also come to the sobering epiphany that everyone else on the bus has also come to the realization that I am the only non-Le Mans winner on this bus. Hmm, perhaps not so cool.<\/p>\n

Once we arrive at the restaurant in Carmel, the awkwardness (for me at least) persists, in that not only am I the only person there who didn\u2019t race for Porsche, but the group as a whole are all also old friends, so I kind of stand to the side with my glass of wine and just observe, assuming that when the second bus arrives with the rest of the media, I\u2019ll have some other people to chat with. But as Jacky Ickx and George Follmer join the patio space that we\u2019re all milling around on, I make room for them and in so doing block the way of Elliot Forbes-Robinson and his wife as they try and pass through. I don\u2019t know if they sensed my isolation or the one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other vibe I was giving off, but they graciously started up what proved to be a genuinely enjoyable conversation.<\/p>\n

We talked for some time about Elliot\u2019s early days in racing and some mutual friends, when Bobby Rahal sidled over to say Hi to Elliot. Finally, a legend that I at least know well enough (and isn\u2019t a predominantly German speaker) that I can carry a conversation with! The three of us chatted for a few minutes before the others broke off to chat with their \u201clegend friends\u201d returning me to milling about on my own.<\/p>\n

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I made my way into the restaurant, where the Porsche PR staff were organizing place settings for where everyone would sit. I happened to spot the woman who was overseeing the operation and since I had not yet met her in person, I went up and introduced myself. I thanked her for inviting me and we made small talk for a minute or two, before I mentioned, my surreal bus trip. \u201c\u2026yeah, I looked around the bus and realized that I was the only person on the bus who was not a famous racecar driver!\u201d She dutifully laughed, then had a moment of realization and asked me, \u201cAre you supposed to be a the media dinner?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cErr\u2026Yes, I responded. Is this not it?!\u201d<\/p>\n

She smiled that smile that a mom does when her precocious 5-year-old does something cute, but inappropriate, then said, \u201cLet me walk you down to the media dinner\u2026it\u2019s just right down the street.\u201d<\/p>\n

As we walked through the streets of Carmel, I repeatedly offered how embarrassed I was and she repeatedly reassured me that I shouldn\u2019t be embarrassed, as it was their fault not mine, but I couldn\u2019t shake off the overwhelming feeling of being an interloper. Nor the profound sense of disappointment of not getting to have dinner with a restaurant full of racing legends!<\/p>\n

Taking my place at the real media dinner, I couldn\u2019t help feeling like I had been banished to the kids\u2019 table, after having a few tantalizing moments at the grown up table. But another late-comer to the media dinner soon took up the last empty chair next to me.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t recognize him at first, until he introduced himself, \u201cHi, I\u2019m Patrick Long.\u201d<\/p>\n

So in the end, I ended up having dinner with a really fascinating Le Mans winner after all…just not 50 of them!<\/p>\n

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Le Mans winner Patrick Long prepares to drive the ex- Bob Akin 935 at the Rennsport Reunion.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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