THE INVASION IS SUBTLE AT FIRST. THE familiar rasp of a 718 Cayman GT4 as it surges past our bumbling Chevy Suburban shuttle bus. Up ahead at a stop sign sits a pair of convoying 996 Turbos; waiting to pull out of a side-road is an Outlaw-style, short-wheelbase 911 hot rod. Soon, every other car in the line of traffic is a Porsche, and those familiar front ends can be seen poking out of junctions and roadside drive-thru chains. By the time we reach Monterey itself I’m wondering if we’ve entered a strange and frankly rather appealing parallel universe, a land where you’re allowed to use the public highway only if you drive a Porsche. But no, it’s simply that Rennsport Reunion 7 is in town, an event like no other, and the passion for the sports cars from Stuttgart is palpable.
Laguna Seca Raceway is draped inside a natural bowl in the hills about 20 minutes east of Monterey. Constructed in the
