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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.

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.

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.

Renowned product designer, Millie Miglia Racer and Classic Car Collector Carl Gustav Magnusson shows us his vintage watch collection and points out the stunning vintage rally stopwatch from Heuer, the HEUER CRONOGRAFO CRONOMETRO GAME MASTER STOPWATCH. First time Audi LMP factory racer Rene Rast talks about his first race experience with the Audi E-tron Quattro LMP at the Spa Circuit. The stunning Bentley Continental GT3 road car reimagined as a racing machine, as first seen running during the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed in Sussex, England.

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.

A look at the new Porsche Concept Mission E. The stunning new all electric sedan from Porsche is one of a kind and is creating endless desire from petrol heads everywhere. FIRST LOOK. FERRARI 488 SPIDER REVEALED AT THE 2015 FRANKFURT MOTOR SHOW. Ferrari continues it’s love affair with the open top with the new 488 Spyder. This new Spyder is a continuation of a story that started with the targa top 308 GTB. BROAD MUSEUM OPENS IN LOS ANGELES. We take a trip on the BMW i3 to have a first look at the just opening Broad Museum in downtown Los Angeles.

Having heard a ton of praise for the new Mustang, we find a 2015 Ford Mustang Convertible, and take a lunch break at Zuma Beach, while letting this stunning piece of American machinery soak up the rays at Point Dume. Lets just say, we did not want to let go of this understated rebirth of pure Americana. Yamaha Sport Heritage Product Manager Shun Miyazawa lets the bike building team from It Rocks Bikes recreate a Yamaha Yard Built XJR1300 into a custom modular creation, the CS06 Dissident. Scenes from the classic car auction held by RM Auctions, during the grand event of the 2015 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d'Este near Lake Como, Italy.

For the 2015 Le Mans 24Hr race, two Porsche teams took overall wins. Earl Bamber (NZ), Nico Hülkenberg (GER) and Nick Tandy (GBR) took the 17th overall victory.  Followed by the sister car of Timo Bernhard (GER), Brendon Hartley (NZ) and Mark Webber (AUS). This made it the fourth one-two result for the brand after achieving this in 1971, 1983, 1987 and 1998.

In 2013, to celebrate its centenary, Aston Martin designed and built the CC100 Speedster Concept. This is a short glimpse from their film on the design process that gave birth to this stunning master piece.

In Privateer Stories. Buttonwillow, we see glimpses of the Buttonwillow Raceway in Buttonwillow, California. Vintage car racer Chuck Kolstad talks about this racetrack and his love for it.

Surfer, designer, Brian Bent takes a Ford Model A frame and gathers together pieces from old cars, church pews seats and old airplane fittings to create his version of a California original.