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to forget that in addition to housing the Experience Center, this facility is also the Corporate Headquarters for Porsche North America. Typically, it would have over 180 staff members working in the offices on the upper floors; yet during this trip, they were all dark. This was due to a continued work at home Porsche protocol, an eerie reminder that things were not yet entirely back to normal.
Once registered, everyone was provided color coded lanyards
for the run groups and we were off to the Carrera café for some coffee and then were guided to the drivers meeting. Our head instructor, Chris, with a keen sense of humor, presented to
Upon entering the vast lobby with its towering glass views
of the track, our host and event contact, Samantha Alexander, welcomed us and directed the group to the registration desk to complete the driver’s paperwork. The lobby continues to impress
the group various aspects of
the track modules. He paid special attention to the questions stemming from the fact that
we were now going to be sans in-car instructors. Some had apprehensions, but we had faith that it would all work out, and in the end, the instructor staff and the driver students handled it with aplomb.
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Fellowship and food is a great way to start a Porsche adventure.
We took a few steps across the driveway, through security and into the underground garage that leads up into the main lobby of One Porsche Drive. It is easy
and as we would learn later in
our VIP tour, the facility has
been used for location filming for several motion pictures, including those in the Marvel Universe.
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