DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

My name is John Dilger and I am new to the DDK site. I am on the Board of the Early 911S Registry (http://www.early911sregistry.org) and I edit, publish and take the photos for our magazine, ESSES. I am interested in seting up times to do interviews and take photos of your member's cars at Classic Lemans starting on Wednesday for the magazine. I want to devote a lot of space for stories about the member's cars and the cars in the race. If you are interested in doing an interview and can give me 30 minutes, please email me directly at johndilger@aol.com. I am in the US on the West Coast. I have a hand held recorder, all you need to do is talk about your car and I will take the photos. I will send extra magazines to each person that I do a story on.
I also need some help with locating shops that do repair/restoration and race services of early 911s. I want to do a series of articles on these shops in the UK, France and Germany. If you know of a shop where they speek English and you want to give them some press, please email the address, contact and contact information to johndilger@aol.com. We will be staying in London, Paris, Colone and Stuttgart.
The last thing I need is some help with Classic Lemans.
Is there paddock access on Wednesday and Thursday?
Are there generall admission grandstand tickets?
Can I do the track drive in a rental car?
Where is the DDK campsite located?
Anybudy have experence with the specal Dinner and drink packages?

Thsnk for your halp in advance and I look forward to meeting everyone.

John Dilger
714-235-4981
USA PST

Hi John

welcome to DDK

ref Classic LeMans :

jdilger wrote: Is there paddock access on Wednesday and Thursday?

The whole event is quite 'open' in terms of access to paddocks etc , but it doesn't officially start until Friday . The public roads are closed around Friday lunch time. DDK have a friday morning drive & meet on the public areas of the circuit early on a Friday Ref paddocks etc on the Weds & Thursday , you'll just have to blag it & see wether they'll allow you in whilst competitors are turning up / setting up etc

jdilger wrote: Are there generall admission grandstand tickets?

.. plenty of grandstand tickets still available from 1st-tickets, who DDK book through

jdilger wrote: Can I do the track drive in a rental car?

.. Not as far as I'm aware. Has to be either a classic, or one of the selected few

jdilger wrote: Where is the DDK campsite located?

... Karting Nord. You won't be able to miss us all Currently we have 50 early Porsches camping together ... this will increase as we get nearer the time Additionally there are some DDK'ers who stay in hotels etc ( but they're missing the point of CLM ) ....

Hi John

I will send a round robin email to our group regarding entry and grandstand tickets when info is released by the organisers. Looking forward to meeting you