Coming just a few short weeks since Porsche announced it would no longer be supporting development of the 997 RSR Flying Lizard Motorsport announced that their chief engineer, Craig Watkins, is retiring from the team. Considered one of the top Porsche race engineers in the world, Watkins has been chief engineer at Flying Lizard since 2003 and …
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Experience What it’s Like to be Trackside During Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta
You've seen what it's like to be Trackside at Road America and VIR. Now, with this latest video from Drive, you can experience Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. Like the last two videos this version is nearly 30 minutes long and documents the race from different angles and viewing perspective. Unlike the last two videos however, Petit Le Mans is a …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s Results and Pictures from Petit Le Mans
The 15th running of the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta marks the end of the 2012 ALMS season. While it wasn't the best of races for Porsche's GT3 RSR customer teams, all did end up in the top ten GT finishing positions. In the GTC class, Leh Keen's fifth place finish was enough to clinch second place in the Driver's championship right behind his …
Continue to the full articleSee What it Was Like to Participate in the Porsche Targa Tasmania Tour
Participants in the Porsche Targa Tasmania Tour celebrate Australia's premier road rally by driving their cars (mostly Porsches) for five days on magnificent Tasmanian roads, including many of the famous closed-road Targa stages. As a prelude, participants took to Symmons Plains Raceway for hot laps in a Targa competition car, as well as their own …
Continue to the full articleDrive Along for a Lap of Bathurst in a Porsche RS Spyder
This video does a great job of showcasing the speed, sights and sounds as Jeroen Bleekemolen pilots a 2006 ALMS LMP2 winning Porsche around the world famous Bathurst track. Best known for its success in the American Le Mans Series against its more powerful LMP1 rivals, the development of the 480 hp (353 kW) RS Spyder prototype was the first new …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Motorsports Around the World: 2012 Volume 7
Maybe you’re not able to, or maybe you simply don’t have the time to read each little news blurb about Porsche Motorsports. If that’s the case, then Porsche Motorsport Newsletter here on PorschePurist is the best way to stay up to date. Filled with interesting facts and figures about past and upcoming races, along with changes to team and crew, …
Continue to the full articleBarber Motorsports Park Hosts First Porsche Young Driver Academy
Since 1997 Porsche has provided serious support, through the "Porsche Juniors" program, for young drivers in Europe looking to make a name for themselves in motorsport. Now, for the first time in North America, Porsche is extending a similar helping hand to young motorsport talent here in the US. Last week, Porsche held a program …
Continue to the full articleExperience What it’s Like to be Trackside During the 2012 ALMS at VIR
Last month we showed you a video that went a long way toward capturing what it was like to experience the ALMS race at Road America. Over the course of 27 minutes our friends at Drive walked us around the track to see what goes on before and during a race from both a spectator and a participants point of view. The video below is their next …
Continue to the full articleListen to the Incredible Sounds from These Porsche Rally Cars
Filmed in full 1080p HD these extremely loud Porsches were racing in the 2012 Rally Ronde Gomitolo di Lana (I'm assuming in Italy?). The video description identifies these Porsches as 964 Rally specials. I wonder how the Rally Porsche from "Built from Ebay" sounds in person. If it's anything like those in the video below, it only reinforces how …
Continue to the full articleVideo: ALMS Team Owners and Racers React to the News about the ALMS/Grand-Am Merger
Leo Parente on "ShakeDown" from our friends over at Drive visit the American Le Mans Series race at VIR to speak with team owners and race car drivers to get their reaction to three basic questions about the impending ALMS/Grand-Am merger. 1. What was your first reaction when you heard the news? 2. What's the best thing that could come from this …
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