Hockenheimring Porsche Experience Center.
The world’s seventh Porsche Experience Center is currently being built directly within the confines of the Grand Prix track at Germany’s famous Hockenheimring. The foundation stone was laid on today, with the center scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of 2019. The new Hockenheimring Porsche Experience Center will cover a total area of 160,000 square meters.
The first Porsche Experience Center opened on the factory grounds in Leipzig in 2002. It was followed by Silverstone (UK, 2008), Atlanta (USA, 2015), Le Mans (France, 2015), and Los Angeles (USA, 2016). A new center in Shanghai (China) was added in April 2018.
Hockenheimring will include multiple tracks and areas for a variety of training programmers. A demanding – in Porsche’s view 2.7-kilometer handling track will give drivers the chance to experience vehicle dynamics. The track will be complemented by dynamic modules, such as water zones, a skid simulator and three roundabouts. A 5,200-square-meter off-road park containing 16 separate modules will have tricky off-road terrain, inclines of up to 70%, slopes, boulders, ditches, and tree trunks lying at different angles.
A three-story central building has “boxes” where new vehicles are handed over to customers, a restaurant, a café, conference rooms and venues for events.
About Ken Zino
Ken Zino, editor and publisher of AutoInformed, is a versatile auto industry participant with global experience spanning decades in print and broadcast journalism, as well as social media. He has automobile testing, marketing, public relations and communications experience. He is past president of The International Motor Press Assn, the Detroit Press Club, founding member and first President of the Automotive Press Assn. He is a member of APA, IMPA and the Midwest Automotive Press Assn.
He also brings an historical perspective while citing their contemporary relevance of the work of legendary auto writers such as Ken Purdy, Jim Dunne or Jerry Flint, or writers such as Red Smith, Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson – all to bring perspective to a chaotic automotive universe.
Above all, decades after he first drove a car, Zino still revels in the sound of the exhaust as the throttle is blipped during a downshift and the driver’s rush that occurs when the entry, apex and exit points of a turn are smoothly and swiftly crossed. It’s the beginning of a perfect lap.
AutoInformed has an editorial philosophy that loves transportation machines of all kinds while promoting critical thinking about the future use of cars and trucks.
Zino builds AutoInformed from his background in automotive journalism starting at Hearst Publishing in New York City on Motor and MotorTech Magazines and car testing where he reviewed hundreds of vehicles in his decade-long stint as the Detroit Bureau Chief of Road & Track magazine. Zino has also worked in Europe, and Asia – now the largest automotive market in the world with China at its center.
Foundation in at Hockenheimring Porsche Experience Center
Hockenheimring Porsche Experience Center.
The world’s seventh Porsche Experience Center is currently being built directly within the confines of the Grand Prix track at Germany’s famous Hockenheimring. The foundation stone was laid on today, with the center scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of 2019. The new Hockenheimring Porsche Experience Center will cover a total area of 160,000 square meters.
The first Porsche Experience Center opened on the factory grounds in Leipzig in 2002. It was followed by Silverstone (UK, 2008), Atlanta (USA, 2015), Le Mans (France, 2015), and Los Angeles (USA, 2016). A new center in Shanghai (China) was added in April 2018.
Hockenheimring will include multiple tracks and areas for a variety of training programmers. A demanding – in Porsche’s view 2.7-kilometer handling track will give drivers the chance to experience vehicle dynamics. The track will be complemented by dynamic modules, such as water zones, a skid simulator and three roundabouts. A 5,200-square-meter off-road park containing 16 separate modules will have tricky off-road terrain, inclines of up to 70%, slopes, boulders, ditches, and tree trunks lying at different angles.
A three-story central building has “boxes” where new vehicles are handed over to customers, a restaurant, a café, conference rooms and venues for events.
About Ken Zino
Ken Zino, editor and publisher of AutoInformed, is a versatile auto industry participant with global experience spanning decades in print and broadcast journalism, as well as social media. He has automobile testing, marketing, public relations and communications experience. He is past president of The International Motor Press Assn, the Detroit Press Club, founding member and first President of the Automotive Press Assn. He is a member of APA, IMPA and the Midwest Automotive Press Assn. He also brings an historical perspective while citing their contemporary relevance of the work of legendary auto writers such as Ken Purdy, Jim Dunne or Jerry Flint, or writers such as Red Smith, Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson – all to bring perspective to a chaotic automotive universe. Above all, decades after he first drove a car, Zino still revels in the sound of the exhaust as the throttle is blipped during a downshift and the driver’s rush that occurs when the entry, apex and exit points of a turn are smoothly and swiftly crossed. It’s the beginning of a perfect lap. AutoInformed has an editorial philosophy that loves transportation machines of all kinds while promoting critical thinking about the future use of cars and trucks. Zino builds AutoInformed from his background in automotive journalism starting at Hearst Publishing in New York City on Motor and MotorTech Magazines and car testing where he reviewed hundreds of vehicles in his decade-long stint as the Detroit Bureau Chief of Road & Track magazine. Zino has also worked in Europe, and Asia – now the largest automotive market in the world with China at its center.