Telling Porkies

2013 seems to be the fashionable year to have a big birthday. It’s been 50 years since Bruce McLaren founded his racing team, Aston Martin is celebrating its 100th anniversary, Lamborghini is honouring the 50th year of the raging bull, the all-American icon of the Corvette is definitely not showing its age at 60, and the Porsche 911 has hit its half-century mark. It’s time to crack out the champers. Just don’t step foot in any of the aforementioned cars afterwards.

So to help celebrate the 911 launching back in 1963, we thought what better way to mark the occasion than to have a Porsche mini-theme. So whether it be a Gatebil track car…

… a tour around the workshop of the hugely successful Porsche race team, Manthey Racing…

… or perhaps something a little less conventional, we’re aiming to celebrate the anniversary of the 911 in true Speedhunters style.

We won’t be restricting ourselves to just the cars bearing the 911 badge though. No, we want to share the love around. From Dino’s Dream Drive with the Cayenne S…

… to some content which, at times, less loosely reflects Stuttgart’s original vision – we welcome all-comers. The celebration will be starting on the 11th, so make sure you tune in to satiate all of your Porsche desires.

Elsewhere on the site, Ben and Jonathan will be bringing you coverage from the ever-popular VW show, Edition 38…

… while Jonathan and myself head to Silverstone this weekend for a dose of track action at TRAX.

On the other side of the Atlantic, Larry and Mike will be heading to Sonoma Raceway this weekend to bring you full coverage from the WTCC…

… for some full-on door-to-door racing…

… as well as conducting a full #FeatureThis photoshoot at the on-site Slammed Society Showcase.

Our viking friend Egil Håskjold bravely heads back to Rudskogen for another weekend of tyre slaying at the Gatebil fall festival.

Back in the UK, we’ll have a team of Speedhunters heading to the Players Show on 15th September at North Weald.

Showcasing everything from tuned Japanese machinery to slammed VWs, we’ll be there in force to bring you coverage from the day as well as shoot the finest selection of cars as part of our second #FeatureThis program this month.

Not to mention put on a second showing of the #JoyOfMachine exhibition that we first ran at DMPD. So if you missed it then, head over to the Players show to get a glimpse.

Larry’s Formula Drift coverage will be spanning the globe, from the FD Asia event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia…

… to the penultimate FD event at Fort Worth in Texas.

In Australia, Brad will be getting up close and personal with some of wildest sport compact machines on the planet at the annual Brisbane Jamboree…

… while over in Japan, Dino will be bringing us coverage from the R’s Meeting at Fuji Speedway.

Of course, we wouldn’t reserve all of our love for the more recent models of GT-R.

Meanwhile, out in the woods of Japan, something lurks…

Mike’s come over a bit rotary this month with a visit to the Mazda museum…

… and a tour of legendary rotary tuner RE Amemiya’s premises.

As usual, we’ll be bringing you the hottest car features around, from some of the finest machinery on offer in Europe at DMPD…

… to a world exclusive feature on one of the hottest time attack machines around.

Back at Speedhunters HQ, we have something new brewing. Something secret. Something soon to be revealed. Want to know more? Then make sure you stay tuned…

Suzy Wallace
Instagram: speedhunters_suzy
suzy@speedhunters.com

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