I’ve posted this report on the typ901.org registry forum yesterday, but figured there maybe more Porsche-minded people interested in reading about an interesting roadtrip on the other side of the globe.
A few months ago the inaugural "RennSport Porsche Event" was announced, and within a few days, a roadtrip was already proposed for the Melbournites to drive upto Sydney for the festival. It would be identical to the RennSport events held in the US previously, only, taking into account the amount of cars in Australia is much less, on a smaller scale. (It probably still was the biggest gathering of Porsches ever in Australia I reckon).
Anyway, I've been looking forward to the RennSport weekend for months, and in the last few weeks the anticipation was slowly building;
Preparing the car, organizing the trip, reading the various topics, receiving the tickets, and finally: meeting up with fellow clubmembers last Thursday, ready to leave for Sydney.
It took me a while to relax and enjoy the fact it had finally really started; the long awaited road trip to Sydney was finally underway but after 2 or 3 hours of monotonous highway driving however, boredom started to set in;
was this it? Was this the long awaited and anticipated trip? Well, at least the weather was good…
But as the sun started to set, we passed the sign for the ‘Snowy Mountains Highway’ and had a great last 50k toward 'Tumut' where we spend the night.
After dinner, a few of us went out for a couple of cold beers whilst enjoying the local band covering – how appropriate - driving songs. Getting back to our place for the night, we found the others setting up their gadgets for the big drive ahead; unfortunately, Phil couldn’t get his GoPro to work.
Friday morning, waking up to find our cars covered in Ice, and after an initial false start, where even before leaving town we managed to break up the group, we set off toward 'Cooma'. And man, what a drive it was!
I remember Top Gear having a go at what they considered some of the best driving roads in the world, and I can only say that this epic drive definitely belongs on that list; Great scenery, good asphalt, no traffic, and a silence only being interrupted by 4 flax-sixes. Heaven!
We did stop a few times to take some pictures and allow for impromptu driver swaps.
(I drove Phil’s stunning blue car, Phil drove my yellow 2.4T and Jesse took over from Luke in the ‘Typ-901’).
Still under clear blue skies, we made it into Canberra around one o’clock, meeting a few local Porsche-friends for lunch, after which we set off for the last bit – the drive into Sydney.
Traffic increased and the weather deteriorated, (nothing as bad as fellow Queenslanders experienced on their drive south) but we managed to stay together and got to Sydney OK.
The Saturday and sunday were spend on and around the track, because I entered my car in the regularity event.
There was an abundance of nice & special cars around, and Porsche had provided an 936, a 956 and a LMPS2 RS Spyder to demonstrate.