It is the end of an era. IMSA's once highly successful GTLM class built around international GTE specification grand touring race cars is now dead. As the checkered flag fell on the 24th running of the Petit Le Mans race in Georgia this weekend, with it fell a giant of international motorsport. As the class which once saw competition from Porsche, …
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Championship-leading plaid Porsche grabs last-minute victory in VIR IMSA round
The 2021 IMSA season is coming to a close, and it's looking increasingly like the Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R has what it takes to secure the GTD championship this year. With three wins from the last four races, the team of Zacharie Robichon and Laurens Vanthoor has pushed its championship bid to a huge gap with just one race remaining in …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Taycan Turbo S becomes the first electric pace car in IMSA history
This weekend's IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship round at Virginia International Raceway held something brand new for the series. A Porsche led the field, but as we all know, that's not new. This time, there was a Porsche electric sedan used as the race safety car. This is the first time IMSA has ever used an electric pace car, another first …
Continue to the full articlePorsche grabs double GTD podium in IMSA Long Beach race, Pfaff leads championship
There are few races on the IMSA calendar more iconic than the Grand Prix of Long Beach. Sharing the bill with IndyCar, the IMSA paddock races on Saturday ahead of the open wheel series' grand finale, and the spectacle was a well-received sprint for the Porsche crew. The Canadian crew of Pfaff Motorsport worked hard for the full race to …
Continue to the full articlePfaff Motorsport takes plaid Porsche to victory lane in IMSA Laguna Seca round
Our neighbors to the north, the Canadian crew of Pfaff Motorsport, managed to put together a heck of a race to take home the GT Daytona victory this weekend at Laguna Seca. The win pushed plaid Porsche drivers Zacharie Robichon and Laurens Vanthoor into second in the GTD standings, just 27 points off the lead, with three rounds remaining …
Continue to the full articlePorsche takes two awesome fuel saving victories in IMSA Road America round
Porsche has a long history of supplying racing GT-class sports cars to customer racing teams. That long history continued to pay off for the crested brand this weekend with a two-pronged customer attack on the IMSA GTLM and GTD categories with WeatherTech Racing and Pfaff Motorsports. While weather threatened to impact the two hour and forty minute …
Continue to the full articlePorsche And Penske Team Up For IMSA And WEC Effort
Team Penske has been kicking butt in racing for decades, and for a lot of that time the team has been powered by Porsche. Way back in the 1960s Roger Penske himself was racing various four-cam Porsche prototype sports racing roadsters. By the 1970s, Penske and hired driver Mark Donohue were a global force, and their Porsche 917/30 became known as …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Celebrates 50 Years of IMSA Participation
Porsche is celebrating its 50th year participating in the IMSA SportsCar Championship. Back in 1971, the first event was held and Porsche was at the forefront battling a Corvette with a flat-six-powered 914/6 GT. Piloted by racing veteran Hurley Haywood and Peter “Perfect” Gregg, the car picked up the win in the very first IMSA Grand Touring race …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Falls Short Of Podium Dreams In Daytona Endurance Classic
The best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry. Privateer entries from multiple different Porsche-driving squads showed up to the 24 Hours of Daytona intent on winning the whole shooting match, but the cruel hands of fate had other ends in mind. From the drop of the green flag, Porsche's bad luck reared its ugly head, taking the GTLM-classified …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Secures Top-3 Starting Positions In Daytona 24 Qualifying Race To Kick Off IMSA Season
It's been quite a long time since we've seen a Daytona 24 Hour entry list so short on Porsche entries. With the factory GTLM program having ended at the close of the 2020 season, Porsche was looking to be absent from GTLM for the first time since the series convergence in 2014. Thankfully the WeatherTech racing team stepped up to the plate from …
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