Porsche Club of America - Upper Canada Region

At the UCR September Social at the Mimico Cruising Club, famed Automotive Journalist and fellow UCR’r Dan Proudfoot will interview Canadian Racing Legend Horst Kroll. Horst competed at the highest levels of North American motorsports, for decades. He ran with champions, and was one himself. Horst won the Gulf Canada Series race at Harewood Acres in 1970 in a Chevy powered Lola, and the Can Am Championship in 1986. The first Proudfoot/Kroll interview, at our March, 2009 Social at Artrax in Oakville, was fascinating. This one should prove to be even more so.

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Stuttgart. The American Le Mans Series race on Canada’s Mosport circuit ended with an emphatic double victory for Porsche. On the demanding circuit close to Toronto, Porsche works driver Romain Dumas (France) and Klaus Graf (Germany) clinched the second overall victory this season at the wheel of the Porsche RS Spyder. In the strongly represented GT class, victory also went to the sports car manufacturer from Zuffenhausen: Porsche factory pilots Joerg Bergmeister (Germany) and Patrick Long (USA) celebrated their fourth win this year with the Porsche 911 GT3 RSR to extend their points’ lead heading to the Road Atlanta final on 2 October. At the same time, Porsche once again reclaimed the top spot of the manufacturers’ classification.

One week ago in Elkhart Lake, Klaus Graf had missed out on overall victory by just one second. In Mosport, he planted the RS Spyder on pole position and, with his teammate Romain Dumas, secured the second overall win this season after Lime Rock for the Muscle Milk Team Cytosport squad. The winning racer from Weissach maintained the lead from start to finish, and never even relinquished it during pit stops and driver changes. After a good two hours of racing, the RS Spyder was leading by almost one-lap, when ...a safety car was deployed due to a barrier being ripped from its bolts in an accident. Only then could the pursuers catch up. Shortly afterwards, the race was red-flagged. Workmen had tried in vain to repair the guard railing for an hour, before the race organiser decided to cancel the event.

“What a great day. ...