20 amazing pics from Porsche's Laguna Seca celebration

Whatever you did at the weekend, we reckon it wasn’t as exciting as this. See, Porsche saw fit to gather together a load of its racing heroes – both cars and drivers – for its fifth Rennsport Reunion, held this year at California’s Laguna Seca Raceway. Yep, the one with the scary Corkscrew.

They ranged from sublime old Spyders to ridiculously large winged Le Mans racers, via all manner of pretty little 911s and priceless 917s. And the best bit about Porsche’s racing cars? With striking liveries and wild styling adornments, you don’t need to be a model code geek to gorge on their details.

Which is all the encouragement you surely need to keep clicking through some photographic highlights of a weekend that looks not only rather sunny, but brilliantly, gloriously loud too. We start with a Porsche 917/30 Can-Am Spyder, worth in excess of £3million…

One of Porsche’s more recent racing icons, the 911 GT1, which gave its maker a one-two at Le Mans in 1998. Happily, a road version was built too.

A shiny new Ford Fusion, annoyingly obscured from view by the number 23 917K which won the 1970 Le Mans 24 Hours.

Racing cars haven’t always been about blood, thunder and intimidation: just check out this little 356, with its wee wing mirrors and leather boot straps. Lovely.

The 1981 Jules Porsche 936/81, famous not only for winning Le Mans, but also for a roof scoop capable of hoovering up small children or errant pets at an alarming rate.

The Porsche 956 and its Rothmans livery, as famous a combination as the Ford GT40 in Gulf colours. It was a 956 like this in which Stefan Bellof set the 6m11s record lap of the Nürburgring which still stands today.

A presumably boisterous crowd witness a triumvirate of Porsches, led by a luridly pink 935, plunge through the bum-quivering Corkscrew curve.

An achingly pretty trio of classic Porsche racers, a couple of Spyders bookending a lovely 356.

The Porsche 962 superceded the 956, and led a long and illustrious endurance racing career. Here one scuffles with a more modern RS Spyder prototype.

The winner of the 2015 Le Mans 24 Hours, the Porsche 919 Hybrid of Earl Bamber, Nico Hulkenberg and Nick Tandy, negotiating Laguna Seca’s complex Corkscrew.

Among Porsche’s incredible, and occasionally brutal-looking endurance racers, this sweet little gaggle of classic 911s can’t help but look wonderfully dainty.

Porsche at Le Mans. Bottom to top: the weeny but beautiful 356 SL, all 46bhp of it; the red and white 917 that garnered Porsche’s first Le Mans victory in 1970; its current 919 Hybrid, which secured a win in 2015’s race.

A closer peak at that 356, because it's just fantastic.

And here is perhaps Porsche's most famous twice-round-the-clock race car, the 917 in splendorous Gulf livery.

Arguably the prettiest car on display was this Porsche RS-61 Spyder. Try telling us you disagree…

Porsche racing cars – they’re nowt if not colourful. You can’t accuse them of blending into the rest of the grid.

As the plate suggests, this Porsche 550 competed in the 1953 Carrera Panamericana in Mexico. While one 550 won its class, this one sadly retired with mechanical failure.

Spot the 917.

And now for something altogether more modern, with one behemoth-winged 911 racer chasing down another.

This isn’t a classic Porsche race car. Nor is it tackling the tricky turns of Laguna Seca. What it is, though, is a special edition Porsche 911 to commemorate the Rennsport Reunion.

Limited to 25 cars, selling for 150,000 dollars each – just shy of £100,000 – it’s based on the Carrera GTS and comes with a host of aesthetic tweaks, including stripes, 20in ‘Sport Classic’ alloys, posh sports seats and – pleasingly - just the one gearbox option, a manual.

The bad news? It’s for North America only…