After two days of testing running at Sebring International this weekend ahead of the FIA WEC's season opening 1000 Miles of Sebring next weekkend, it is clear that Porsche is in the top half of the Hypercar class with its freshly-debuted 963 hybrid LMDh prototype. Toyota, which has been running a pair of GR010 Hybrid Hypercars—developed in part …
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Twelve Porsches make Le Mans 24 entry list
It's finally Le Mans Entry List Day, and we get to see just how serious Porsche is about trying to win the big race this year. As it turns out, they're taking it pretty seriously. The big news today is that Porsche will have a full three-car factory-backed entry in the Hypercar class with a trio of Penske-run Porsche 963s. Also confirmed today was …
Continue to the full articlePorsche delays 963 prototype deliveries to customer teams due to supply chain issues
It seems like Porsche enthusiasts everywhere have been waiting ages for their new cars to come in so they can take delivery of their future pride and joy. With global supply chains seemingly worse than ever, Stuttgart's finest are getting backed up pretty substantially. As it turns out, it's not just the street cars that are getting delayed. …
Continue to the full articlePorsche narrowly loses FIA WEC championship to Ferrari, finds GTE Am class victory in Bahrain
It is with a heavy heart that we must say goodbye to the Porsche 911 RSR factory squad after over a decade of incredible racing. The 991-generation 911 RSR will soldier on for one more season in the GTE Am class, but GTE Pro's time in the sun has faded to black. We will never again see the likes of Christensen, Bruni, Lietz, or Estre step behind …
Continue to the full articleProton Competition confirm dual Porsche 963 IMSA and WEC efforts
The German team founded in 1996, currently known as Proton Competition, has been a long-time customer of Porsche motorsport products. The team has been running GT 911s since the 996 era, and fields racing cars in endurance events all around the world. Over the last decade the company has also been running the European arm of actor Patrick Dempsey's …
Continue to the full articlePorsche unveils special farewell livery for the 911 RSR’s last race ever
For ten years Porsche has fielded various iterations of the 991-generation 911 RSR in FIA WEC. After sixteen class victories since 2013, and a grand total of 62 races, the 911 RSR factory racing team bows out of FIA WEC, as the GTE Pro category sees its end. Among those sixteen class wins are three victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. This is a …
Continue to the full articlePorsche 963 GTP race car exits endurance test at Sebring unscathed
Over the course of 36 hours at the world-famous Sebring International Raceway, Porsche and its driving crew managed to rack up an incredible 4,555 miles of race-pace testing. Sebring is, of course, among the toughest tracks in the world on a car; its surface consists of decades-old concrete slabs laid in the run up to World War II. The track has …
Continue to the full articlePorsche pops onto the GTE Pro podium in Japanese WEC round
After delivering a stunning performance in qualifying to start the six-hour race at Fuji from pole and third, Porsche found out quite quickly in the race that it didn't have the long-run pace to keep up with the Ferraris. A byproduct of the series' Balance of Performance, and the car's inability to keep the tires from turning to mush …
Continue to the full articlePorsche customer team Dempsey-Proton wins Monza 6 Hour race GTE Am category
This weekend's six-hour round of the FIA World Endurance Championship went down in Monza, Italy to great fanfare. It would stand to reason that a Porsche would win an endurance race, and win it the Dempsey-Proton team did. With Christian Ried, Sebastian Priaulx, and Harry Tincknell splitting the driving duties, the trio took their 911 RSR to …
Continue to the full articleHere’s everything you need to know about Porsche’s new 963 hybrid prototype race car
This weekend at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in England, Porsche took the wraps off of its new LMDh race car, set to race on both sides of the Atlantic this year in IMSA's GTP category as well as the FIA WEC's Hypercar class. Paying homage to the all-conquering 962 of the 1980s and 1990s, the new car has visual cues from that old series of …
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