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Porsche says Rennsport Reunion IV headed for Laguna Seca in October

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Porsche 917 Rennsport Reunion

Classic Porsches at the Rennsport Reunion – Click above for high-res image gallery

Porsche has announced that it will host Rennsport Reunion IV at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca from October 14-16 this year. The Rennsport Reunion is a gathering of Porsche racers from the past to celebrate the company’s tradition and future.

The festival will feature vintage Porsche racing and a concours d’elegance show for race participants. There will be a series of 911-specific events to celebrate the racing history of Porsche’s most-famous model.

Models at the event will include 550 Spyders, 917s, 956/962s, 911 GT3 RSRs and a host of 356s, 904s and 911s. Tickets are pretty steep at $400, and are available through Porsche. Feel free to read all the details in the press release after the break.

Gallery: Porsche Rennsport Reunion

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Jaguar named as featured marque for 2011 Monterey Motorsports Reunion

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Jaguar D-Type

Jaguar at the Monterey Historics – Click above for high-res image gallery

Preparations are already underway for Monterey car week this coming August, and that includes naming the featured marques for each event. Mazda Raceway is kicking things off by declaring Jaguar a the star manufacturer for the Monterey Motorsports Reunion. Jaguar has a special history with Mazda Raceway and the vintage races, with Phil Hill winning the inaugural Pebble Beach Road Races in 1950 behind the wheel of a Jaguar XK120. This will be the third time Jaguar has been selected, having previously been featured in 1976 and 1992.

The historic races will highlight the Jaguar C-Type, which will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of its 24 Hours of Le Mans victory in 1951 – the first of seven for Jaguar. The races will also feature the 50th anniversary of the elegant Jaguar E-Type. For more details visit mazdaraceway.com or read the official details in the press release after the jump.

Gallery: Jaguar at the Monterey Historics

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Video: Trans-Am race cars battle it out at the Monterey Motorsports Reunion

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1969 Ford Boss 302 Team Shelby Trans-Am Mustang – Click above to watch the video after the jump

One of our favorite events from the Monterey car week earlier this month was watching the field of 44 Trans-Am race cars tear it up at the Motorsports Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The sights and sounds of classic Mustangs, Camaros and Challengers battling it out on the track just like they did in the late ’60s and early ’70s was something we’ll never forget.

The eventual winner of that race was a 1969 Boss 302 Mustang (which is now up for sale) owned and driven by Laguna Seca veteran Bruce Canepa, who has put up a video of his victory. The video shows that the win wasn’t easy, as he traded places with a 1970 Dodge Challenger T/A and a 1970 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 multiple times. You can watch the entire race in the embedded video after the jump, and be sure to turn up your speakers.

Gallery: 1969 Ford Boss 302 Team Shelby Trans-Am Mustang

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Monterey 2010: Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion paddock walk

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2010 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion

2010 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion – Click above for high-res image gallery

We can’t exactly say that we’ve always liked the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion – mainly because this is the first year that the event, formerly informally known as the Monterey Historics, is using that title. No matter what they call it, though, we have to say that we’re glad some things never change. By that we are referring to the fact that the paddock is open to everyone and that the cars you see are some of the most amazing vehicles you’ve ever laid eyes on. Even the non-race cars that serve as basic transportation for the drivers while in town can be achingly captivating.

We just couldn’t resist walking around for a couple of hours and banging off a few hundred photos. There are race cars returning to their stalls, some heading out to the track, others just parked and still others undergoing open-heart surgery. There are display vehicles and street cars, along with a few celebrities on hand to participate or just admire them. We’ve put together a gallery of a few dozen of our favorites below.

Gallery: 2010 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion Paddock

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Monterey 2010: Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion puts vintage racers back on track

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2010 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion

2010 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion – Click above for high-res image gallery

This year’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion was actually the first one ever run, as there was a name change to go along with last year’s change in management. The former Historics are now the Reunion, but name change aside, the event was still the same old week of wheel-to-wheel racing action. Now we know that you can see that kind of action on any given Saturday or Sunday, but the players are usually much, much newer.

Classic and vintage race cars from every era of motorsports are what make this such a wonderful event. There are literally hundreds of your favorite old race cars running in the nearly twenty classes of racing action. Legendary race cars like Ferrari SWBs and Lotus 23s, Porsche 962s and Trans Am Mustangs, Cobras and Vettes as well as F1 cars, Can-Am racers, NASCAR, Indy cars, and so on and so on. The classes take you from the under 1500 cc Minis up to the 1,000-horsepower 917Ks, with almost everything imaginable in between.

We were out there for hours and hours watching, listening to, feeling, smelling and enjoying these vintage racers, and we’ve assembled a sizable gallery to help convey what that was like. Click any image below to see our massive high-res gallery.

Gallery: 2010 Monterey Motorsports Reunion

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Monterey 2010: Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion puts vintage racers back on track originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Monterey 2010: Dan Gurney honored at 2010 Motorsports Reunion

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Dan Gurney tribute

Dan Gurney Tribute at the 2010 Monterey Motorsports Reunion – Click above for high-res image gallery

Dan Gurney is one of America’s most accomplished motorsports personalities. Drawn together for this year’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion were a couple dozen examples of the cars that helped transforme Gurney into a living legend. Dan got behind the wheel of over 50 different types of cars during his 312-race driving career. His All American Racers (AAR) team was responsible for creating and campaigning some 157 more race cars piloted by 66 different drivers over a period of about 35 years. Gurney’s touch was felt in Formula 1, sports cars, NASCAR, Indy, Trans Am, Can-Am, Formula Ford and Formula 5000.

Click through the gallery and you’ll see cars like the dark blue Eagle Gurney-Weslake V-12, which is regarded as one of the most beautiful Grand Prix cars ever built. The Henry Ford Museum also shipped out the same red Ford GT40 Mk IV that Gurney and A.J. Foyt drove to victory in the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans. That win marks only All-American victory in the legendary 24-hour enduro’s storied history. When Gurney took to the winner’s podium after the race, he spontaneously shook his congratulatory magnum of champagne and used it to spray everybody within range. That victory celebration has been copied by countless racers ever since.

Other highlights from the gallery include some of the Eagles that played major roles at Indianapolis in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the Toyota GTP Eagles that defined that era of IMSA Sports car racing. There’s also his Formula 1 Porsche; his game-changing, rear-engined Indy 500 Lotus-Ford; the 1960 “Birdcage” Maserati that he and Stirling Moss drove to victory in a rainy and fog-shrouded Nürburgring 1000 km race; his 1963 NASCAR Riverside 500 winner; the Can-Am “McLeagle” and a 1970 Trans Am series AAR ‘Cuda just to name a few. Click any image below to see the whole gallery, and be sure to check out the rest of our ongoing Monterey 2010 coverage.

Gallery: Dan Gurney Tribute at the 2010 Monterey Motorsports Reunion

Photos Copyright (C)2010 Drew Phillips / AOL

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