The GTS Chronicles

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blueline wrote: Sun Jul 23, 2023 11:37 pm The question now becomes, how do you part with your new additions when it's time to come home? Did you inquire about the feasibility of riding home in the RoRo with them??? :lol:
Hahahah! No, we will just anticipate the second delivery on home turf and get another round all over again!! :-)

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The first mountain twisty: Austria's Nockalmstrasse.

After a couple of days of driving southward, we finally reach the good stuff. Our first super-great mountain road experience is a stretch called the Nockalmstrasse in western Austria. Following the Preuninger break-in methodology and given our mileage at about 900km, Andrew and I are currently at a self-imposed rev limit of 5000 rpm, but even that gives us great hints of the wonderful nature and sound from this four-litre engine.

Here's the instagram post:



And on vimeo:



Enjoy!! (we are)

Luke & Andrew

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A & L

Great posts and pictures, really so glad things are going well. Really enjoyed the videos on the “twisties”.

Keep them coming….the Carmine Red was a great choice.

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Hi everyone,

Another update from the GTS Chroniclers. A bit tardy with this one but it’s worth the wait! It’s tough to get full days of driving, capturing video and photos, and then doing all the work to put together a worthy post. We can see why the pros have teams of people doing this!!!

The Italian Dolomites: massive towering walls of pale rock above green alpine meadows. For us (The GTS Chronicles), things were mostly inclement: gloom, rain, lots of thunderstorms. Fortunately, we avoided hail and any particularly bad nastiness. And in a few places, pockets of sunshine and amazing twisties (well, the amazing twisties were everywhere - the sun not so much.

Here's the instagram post:



And on vimeo:



Cheers,
Luke & Andrew

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Hello A & L,

Really glad you you found some sunshine for your drives…

How many kilometers have you accumulated during your travels so far?

Great overhead video production…..is that accomplished with your drone?

Wishing continued safe travels.

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Great video guys - very nicely produced! Beautiful mountains and scenery - great roads too! Glad you're having a good trip as it certainly looks like one that you hope never ends.

Concur with wdr911 - outstanding drone shots. Quite high up!
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wdr911 wrote: Mon Jul 31, 2023 1:55 am Hello A & L,

Really glad you you found some sunshine for your drives…

How many kilometers have you accumulated during your travels so far?

Great overhead video production…..is that accomplished with your drone?

Wishing continued safe travels.

D
Just turned 3000km today. Preuninger break in method has been completed for a while now... Meaning 7800 rpm has been explored a few times now. Wonderful.

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Us again!

Trying to catch up a bit with our GTS Chronicles posts here. In this post, we've come down out of the Dolomites and cross the plain of the Po river in Italy (one of the few places in Italy that is actually flat). There are tons of amazing cultural and scenic things and towns to visit. We pop into Venice for a quick lunchtime cafe stop, and we make time to stop and visit the memorial of Formula 1 great Ayrton Senna at the F1 track in Imola. It’s a pretty special moment, and I feel the history of F1 weighing down on me - kinda emotional really as Senna was the guy that came into the sport just as I started watching with my dad.

Next up will be some time spent in the Appenine Mountains of Italy, heading northeast in the direction of France. We imagine that there will be much less tourist traffic and still a ton of great twisties - if perhaps less dramatic mountain vistas.
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Crossing the flats…
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A quick lunchtime visit to Venice.
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Approaching a place steeped in F1 history.
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Enjoying the wonderful bench at the Aqua Minerale turn at the F1 track in Imola. What a place to watch an F1 race.
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A solemn moment at the memorial at the spot where Ayrton Senna crashed and died on May 1, 1994. I’ll never forget the day.
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Beautiful little hilltop town in the foothills at the edge of the plain of the Po.
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The beauties must be kept shiny!

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Such a beautiful area of the world. Certainly the trip of a lifetime to drive your new cars over such iconic roads.

Awesome job with the photography and videos. Enjoy your trip!

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Latest update from The GTS Chronicles:

The Appenine Mountains in Italy gave us a quiet, rural way to further explore our 718 GTS 4.0s. Has as many twisties as in the higher alps, but nearly devoid of summer tourist traffic. We also proved that the 718 is versatile - equally at home camping, crawling up to a high mountain rifugio, or bringing us to overnight at a stylishly renovated 15th-century castle.
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The GTSes At a rustic lookout in the hills near the town of Firenzuola, Italy.
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Yes, you can camp with Porsche sports cars! At a wonderful little camping area near the town of Firenzuole, Italy.
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Forest in the clouds. Spooky, nearly nighttime driving in very thick cloud near the top of a peak near the Genoa coastline in Italy. We are headed to stay at a mountain rifugio.
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Who needs a 911 Dakar? A few slightly challenging dips carefully and negotiated (scrape-free) on our way to a mountain rifugio in Italy near the border with France.
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Beautiful quiet countryside: About to descend another excellent twisty road in the uncrowded mountains of the Appenines in northeastern Italy.
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Fountains abound: There are often fountains with clear, cool water - in towns, along remote backways. Very handy.
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Exciting backway - we traverse a very remote and rather exciting backway over the Passo Teglia in extreme northeastern Italy (not far from the border with France).
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Amazing forest esses - there are some amazing little snippets of curvy roads in the Appenines. Check this example out!
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Randomly wandering around and booking at the last minute can bring to you to some amazing gems - like this beautifully restored castle - the Castello Malaspina di Gambero - from the 1500s that was amazingly ecoomical to stay at and with wonderful hosts.
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Another shot from the remote, wild (and very narrow) Passo Teglia.

The GTS Chronicles will continue…

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