Some jobs come with "perks" and some jobs come with "PERKS!" After 8 years selling Porsches at Pioneer Centres in San Diego I've had the opportunity to run 996s at the Pomona fairgrounds, 997s at California Speedway, 987s through the Palm Desert mountains, Cayennes, GT3s and GT2s at Barber Motorsports Park and OH MY GOSH - now the Carrera GT at the best track of the all - Leipzig, Germany, home of the Porsche Cayenne and Carrera GT assembly lines!
Despite a 14 hour flight, I'm up at 5:30 in the am and excited! Looking out my 4th floor castle window at Schloss Schkopau, I have a view for miles. Total quiet - no noise at all. Nothing like the normal San Diego night sounds. The air is cool and crystal clear. I feel I'm looking at the same sunrise seen from this very same window hundreds of years ago. But their days never went as fast as mine was about to!
A quick breakfast was followed by a spirited run in 6 speed Cayennes to the Leipzig factory. Appearing on the the horizon like a spacecraft delivering aliens, the visitor center dominates the countryside. With a widest perimeter ring at the top of the building housing Porsches' newest factory museum displaying Porsches from tractors to 917s, to the 1998 Le Mans winning GT1, a narrower middle level with an auditorium and "cafeteria" er, 4 star restaurant, with a view over Porsches' Leipzig race track, and tapering to the ground floors' narrowest level of a Porsche Boutique, this is one of the most unique and distinctive peices of architecture in the world. You couldn't be anywhere but at the birthplace of arguably the finest sports car in the world - the Carrera GT!
Photos courtesty of Chris Huck and Porsche
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