Porsches at the Coronado Festival of Speed
October 20 - 22, 2000


Coronado Is., CA - Porsches had a great showing at the Chrysler Jeep Classic Speed Festival held on a temporary circuit at the US Navy Airstation on Coronado Island near San Diego. The result sheets show 21 Porsches ranging from a 1949 type 35 to a pair of 904s. The 356s were by far the most prolific and fared extremely well, Art Hebert's 1957 taking second place overall in the Group 4 race for 1956 - 1962 GT cars. In fact in Group 4, where 11 Porsches competed in a field of 34 cars, three Porsches finished in the top 5. Well done!


    Clint deWitt in a 1955 Porsche Continental leads
    #27 Bill Perrone's 1955 Porsche 550.

    Bill finished third overall in the Group 2 race
    for 1947-1955 Sports Racing Cars.
    Clint finished eighth.



   
    #76 Robert Kahn in a 1958 Porsche Speedster leads #49 Bata Mataja (1957 Porsche 356A) and
    #86 Steve Schmidt in a 1961 Porsche 356 S90. Look for the green '65 Morgan in the second photograph.


    #62 Bruce Ross (1962 Porsche 356 S90) leads
    #48 Paul Christiansen's 1956 Porsche 356A.


    Roger Ward, #34 1959 Porsche 356 TBD, leads
    Leonard Turnbeaugh, #149 1958 Porsche 356 Con.

    Leonard placed fifth in the Group 4 race on Sunday.


    Bill Perrone and Clint deWitt mixing up with a
    1952 C-Type Jaguar and a 1956 Austin Healey
    in the Group 2 qualifying race Saturday.

    On Sunday Bill placed third and Clint was eighth.


    Leonard Turnbeaugh, #149 1958 Porsche 356 Con.
    Dirk Layer's 1960 #96 Porsche Abarth and a
    third Porsche 356.

    Dirk placed fourth in the Group 4 race and Leonard was fifth.


    Robert Manschot, #35 1965 Porsche 904/6 leads a
    1963 E-type Jaguar and a group of Mustangs and
    Corvettes at the start of the Group 5 qualifying race.




    Ted Gilred's beautiful #60 1964
    Porsche 904 also ran in Group 5.



    Tom Claridge competed in Group 6, the 1965 -
    1975 Prototype & FIA Sports Car category.
    He did well in a 1965 Porsche Bergspyder.


    How pretty does it get? This is
    Steve Schmidt's 1961 Porsche 356 S90.


    And, of course, the 356 club had some fine cars
    on display throughout the weekend.


    Oh yes, there were some non-Porsches at the event!

    This Lola T70 MkII (Rug Cunningham,
    Porsche owner/driver) was awesome.


Photographs by Graham Oberem.