
Porsche I.M.S.A Team #911 joins CVR PCA at Porsche of Wallingford.

What a great evening for our July members monthly meeting. Last year Porsche of Wallingford General Manager Stephen Gilligan arranged to have #912 Porsche factory drivers Earl Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor as our presenters before the weekend race at Lime Rock Park. As I started preparing for this years meeting I received a call from Steve, he had secured Porsche factory team #911 drivers Nick Tandy and Patrick Pilet to be our presenters. In addition LeMans radio favorite John Hinhaugh would be the emcee and interview the drivers. With I.M.S.A. racing at Lime Rock in 2 days I knew this would be an amazing event to help celebrate our 60th anniversary.


Steve and his entire staff at Porsche of Wallingford planned this event without a hitch. CVR members were treated to a great dinner supplied by three food trucks set up in the rear lot. The tables inside were filing up quickly, despite the approach of not so great weather we were going to have a full house.

With everyone settled and dinner completed Steve introduced our guests for the evening. Nick and Patrick came up front and pulled the cover off what was a very special Porsche 911 RSR, a gorgeous race car. John interviewed both drivers with numerous questions and some humorous insights to I.M.S.A. racing. The main focus was on the upcoming weekend race. Once the interview session was done both Nick and Patrick took questions from our CVR members, then remained on site to autograph items and take photographs for our members. We want to thank Steve, Porsche of Wallingford, Nick, Patrick and John for a great evening.