The A|W Chronicle, Part 2: Stake in the Ground After one year as a supporting act, Air|Water stepped into the spotlight on its own. What the Luft team had built over a decade, cars as art, placed in a storyline, community as the focus, carried directly into the Air|Water format. But where Luftgekühlt has always been limited and deliberate, Air|Water was designed to be expansive. A place for the full Porsche story, told by the people living it right now. For the production team and founder, the stories from the water-cooled era are just as personal, maybe more so. Patrick Long’s own career ran through it. From Monaco to Long Beach, from factory Porsches to the roads and racetracks where the modern chapters were written. Bringing in the teams, drivers, builders, and artists telling those stories gave Air|Water a creative energy that felt genuinely new. In 2024, the event made its home in Costa Mesa, and the format found its footing alongside it. A live Broad Arrow Porsche-only auctio...