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Renowned South African Art Dealer Gavin Rooke gathered together a group of great craftsmen to design and exquisitely remanufacture a series of vintage Porsche 911/912 cars as race worthy and collectable works of art. Once built, Gavin and his Dutchmann team takes these DUTCHMANN Edition Weekend Racer Porsches to various African desert and hill climb races. Here in the opening episode, Gavin Rooke and his Dutchmann Porsche team, makes its way from Cape Town to Knysna.

In the hills outside the city of Salinas, California, sits a race course nestled in a piece of ground surrounded by a Nature Preserve. During the last week of September 2015, Porsche threw it’s gargantuan fifth get together here. About 1400 Porsche cars of all shapes and sizes gathered in one spot. This short cinematic piece is a visual observation of the people, machines and sounds captured on a Saturday morning, as tens of thousands of Porsche fans gathered to attend this massive Porsche reunion.

Recently introduced at the 2015 Shanghai Motor Show, this new Mercedes AMG GT comes with a new 4.0 lire V8 biturbo, with zero to 100km.h in 3.8 seconds and a top speed of 310 km/h. Racer Frank Mons and his son bring their rare British classic racer, the ELVA MKVI, to the Buttonwillow race track in Southern California, for the VARA race weekend. Head of the BMW Design Group, SVP Adrian van Hooydonk participates in the 40th year anniversary of BMW Motorsports and explains what the M stands for.

Scenes in Morocco while practicing for the 2015 Dakar Rally

As the Rennsport Reunion V weekend approaches, the Porsche cars get unloaded from the transport trucks and placed under the tents for the crowds to enjoy.

Racers assemble along the Las Vegas strip prior to the 2015 MINT 400. Episode 2. Qatari racer Nasser Al-Attiyah wins both the 2011 and 2015 Dakar Rally. Here he

practices for the 2105 Dakar with his well outfitted MINI.

Josh, one of the crew team leaders of the DragonSpeed team, at the 2015 Long Beach GP,  talks about the US Flag livery Mercedes Benz SLS AMG driven by Henrick Hedman. The team from Bentley Motorsport sets out to race at the grueling 2014 Spa 24 Hours with a pair of Bentley Continental GT3 cars. Darren Cox of NISMO talks about the NISMO LMP1 race car.

The Porsche factory teams with the super fast 911 RSR GT Class car and the 919 Hybrid LMP 1 class car start off the 2015 season with some runs at the Silverstone Circuit.

The Bonaldi Motorsport Finnish driver wins Race One and Two in the 2015 Monza Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo. On the no speed limit roads in Alice Springs, in the Australian Outback, this Porsche 918 Spyder is allowed to stretch its limits. Racing legend Al Lager, has been building and racing Porsche engines for the last 53 years. His first sight of the Porsche 356B Abarth Carrera GTL in 1964 captured his imagination, and 50 years later he built the 22nd Abarth from the bones of a true Porsche 356. Here he talks about the original Porsche 356B Abarth Carrera GTL.

At the 2013 LA Auto Show, Porsche debuted the new 918 Porsche Spyder Hybrid. This Porsche was enclosed within a glass booth, with highly impressed fans milling around trying to get a glimpse of this new super car. In this third and final part of the series, we see the team from Bentley Motorsport continue their efforts at achieving a finish at the grueling 2014 Spa 24 Hours with a pair of Bentley Continental GT3 cars. Chris Reinke, the head of Audi LMP program, talks about this year’s car benefiting from the efficient combination of the V6 TDI engine, e-tron quattro hybrid drive, and the new aerodynamics, as they come to SPA and then head to LE MANS.