Porsche’s Rennsport Reunion 7 is underway, bringing 75 years of Porsche’s most vital racing automobiles to Laguna Seca for a celebration of the model’s racing historical past. That largely means per week of 917s and 962s flying across the observe, however the model’s occasional homecoming is not only for race automobiles. This yr’s occasion additionally noticed an enormous gathering of Porsche’s tractors, and with the race observe already there, why not race them?
Following up an important occasion of the 2018 Rennsport Reunion, this yr’s tractor race featured an All-Star subject of present and former Porsche manufacturing unit drivers. Former F1 driver and IMSA prototype champion Felipe Nasr, GT ace Nick Tandy, and Flying Lizard legends Patrick Long and Jorg Bergmeister dotted the sector in a race that featured a standard Le Mans begin sluggish sufficient for photographers to collect on the facet of the course.
Unlike most spec racing, the sector was removed from equal. One competitor obtained a “Pink Pig” tribute tractor fitted with a spoiler, giving an apparent benefit in downforce that may absolutely contribute to cornering potential on the speeds a classic tractor can attain. Another was burdened with a trailer carrying a payload, presumably some type of success ballast to counteract years of expertise racing tractors at Laguna Seca.
Today marks the ultimate day of the seventh Rennsport Reunion. The model has been stay streaming the occasion all through the weekend, a broadcast that may embrace a second tractor race later in the present day.
