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05/29/2026

One of two ever built. The only one that raced for Interscope.

The Porsche-Kremer 935 K4-02 was on the floor at Air|Water Driven by Mobil 1 this year, and if you stopped in front of it for longer than a moment, you already know why.

The K4 was the Kremer Brothers’ answer to Norbert Singer’s Moby Dick, a 935-based 3.2-liter four-valve flat-six with water-cooled cylinder heads, 800 horsepower in qualifying trim and a lineage that ran directly through the most ferocious Group 5 racing of the early 1980s. Just two K4 chassis were ever constructed. K4-01 went to Bob Wollek, who won the German National Championship in it. K4-02 went to Ted Field’s Interscope Racing team, where Danny Ongais put it through its paces in IMSA’s GTX category, started 9th at Daytona in 1982 and placed 3rd at Mosport.

After decades of ownership changes, storage in California and a full mechanical rebuild at Gunnar Racing, the car found its way to Canepa Motorsport, whose restoration brought K4-02 back to exactly what it was built to be. Twin-turbo 935 powerplant from Porsche Motorsport North America. Honeycomb aluminum floor. Penske triple-adjustable shocks. MoTec dash and telemetry. The Interscope livery, as driven by Danny Ongais, wearing it the way it should.

As fast as a Group C 956 or 962. The last Porsche-based racing design you could still recognize as a production sports car. In Costa Mesa for a day.

Thank you to .cn for bringing this piece of history to Air|Water 2026.

05/19/2026

Details of Air|Water Driven by Mobil 1. 👀

05/15/2026

The Green Hell is calling.

This weekend, Dunlop Motorsport takes the number 17 Porsche 911 GT3 R to the start of the ADAC RAVENOL 24h Nürburgring for the first time under the revived Dunlop banner. Julien Andlauer, Dorian Boccolacci, Nico Menzel and Alessio Picariello will share 25 kilometers of the most unforgiving race track in the world across 24 hours starting tomorrow.

The yellow and black livery, designed by the team behind Gran Turismo and bearing the number 17 as a nod to Porsche’s legendary Group C prototypes of the 1980s, was worn by a 992 911 Turbo in Costa Mesa at Air|Water, just three weeks ago. Now it belongs to the Nordschleife.

Good luck to / and the number 17 crew. Go get it. 🏁

05/12/2026

People of Air|Water: Part II

The cars are the reason people come. The community is the reason they keep coming back.

Every year the faces at Air|Water Driven by Mobil 1 tell a story that goes beyond the show floor. The first-timer who drove four hours in their 997 and couldn’t stop smiling. The collector who brought a car they have owned for thirty years and finally found the right room for it. The builder who showed a car they finished the week before. The kid who came with their parent and left knowing exactly what kind of car they want someday.

This community is still early. Air|Water is still becoming what it is going to be. The people who are part of it now are part of building something that has a long way to run.

See you next year.

05/07/2026

Timo Bernhard. Five Supercup podiums. One very patient buyer.

The 996 GT3 Cup is unbelievably raw and also the last cup car with an H-pattern. This one ran the 2002 Porsche Supercup season with Jürgen Alzen Motorsports, piloted by Timo Bernhard across nine races and five podiums: Austria, Silverstone, Hockenheim and both rounds at Indianapolis. Marc Lieb also put it on the grid at Silverstone that year.

It later on made its way stateside through , ran a few POC events then disappeared into the collector market. SCAN Automotive in Vancouver found the car, tore it down and built it back right: original white, original livery and fresh Autometrics engine and gearbox with about 15 hours on the clock.

Marco Gerace of spotted it in a catalog, recognized what he was looking at and showed up at Air|Water 2024 to do something about it. 996 Cup cars are somewhat common. Ones with this kind of paper are not. He waited until the final lot of the day and took it home.

It sold where it should have: at the auction that shares its spirit.

#996

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05/05/2026

Some of the cars that arrived at Air|Water on April 25 had just finished one of the great drives in America.

The California Mille, a 1,000-mile journey through California’s mountain passes, coastal roads and canyon roads, ran April 19 to 23, starting in Silicon Valley and finishing in Santa Barbara. Two days later, a spread of cars from the field was on display in Costa Mesa.

The California Mille is one of the most selective events in collector car culture. Limited to 65 cars eligible to have run the original Mille Miglia, accepted on the basis of historical significance and condition, it is the kind of event where being on the entry list is its own distinction. This year’s celebrated Porsche class was the 550 and 550A Spyder, along with the 718 RSK, the mid-engine race cars that defined what Porsche was capable of at the highest levels of competition in the 1950s and early 1960s. These are not museum pieces. They are cars built to be driven, and the California Mille drives them.

Hagerty broughtthese cars directly from the road to Costa Mesa. From mountain passes to Air|Water, with a few hundred miles of California between.

Thank you for bringing these pieces of Porsche history to Air|Water 2026.

04/30/2026

You know a car has presence when the whole room shifts the moment it rolls in.

The FAT International Joest Racing 962-012 did exactly that at Air|Water. Le Mans veteran. Joest Racing pedigree. Norbert Singer fingerprints on the aero.

Parked next to its 962 brothers as a celebration of motorsport history, the amphitheatre became one of the best seats in the house.
international bringing the vibes and cheers to Gunnar Jeanette and AO Racing for sending this one to Costa Mesa. 🤝

04/29/2026

The GT3 lineage, all in one place.

Air|Water has always been about the full story of race and street, and no nameplate tells that story quite like the GT3. From the original 996 GT3 that rewrote the rules for what a road car could be, to the 997 that refined the formula, the 991 that took it to another level entirely and the 992 GT3 RS that pushed every boundary Porsche’s GT department had left standing. Each one a direct line from the race program to the road.

And at the end of that line, unveiled by Andy Preuninger and Patrick Long on the Air|Water show floor, the 911 GT3 S/C. The first GT3 cabriolet ever built. Same 9,000 rpm naturally aspirated flat-six, same six-speed manual, same no-compromise GT3 DNA. Just no roof.

Swipe through. This is what the GT3 looks like across a generation within a community like no other.

04/26/2026

Air|WaterYear four. The best one yet.

To everyone who came out today, those who brought their cars, those who traveled to be here and those who simply showed up because they wanted to be part of it. Thank you. Air|Water is nothing without this community and everything because of it.

Every car had a story. Every conversation was worth having. Every moment on that show floor was one we will not forget.

To our partners who made it possible, thank you:

See you next year.✌️

04/25/2026

With the Carrera GT being all the rage right now, we figured we’d give you a peek behind the curtain as to how it all came about, and what it could have been.

Today at 2pm at Air|Water Driven by Mobil 1, we’ll have a discussion with , member of the Carrera GT design team, in the Los Alamitos building amongst a corral of Carrera GTs.

See you there ✌️

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