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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Patrick Long set to retire from racing after 19 seasons as a factory Porsche driver
It says perhaps more about me than it does Patrick Long that I still refer to him as a "young gun" in motorsport. He joined the Porsche factory squad in his twenties, and I've kind of always thought of him as being youthful and exuberant. Time marches on for all of us, including the incredibly talented Patrick Long, who is now in his forties. After …
Continue to the full articleThis week’s Porsche cartoon: Chores before fun
There won’t be a 992-generation 911 RSR
Is Porsche even Porsche without a top-flight 911 race car? I guess we'll find out soon, because the current mid-engine 911 RSR will be the last of its kind for the foreseeable future. Because Porsche is shifting its focus to the LMDh prototype program, which will make its debut in 2023, it won't be developing another version of such a car. As the …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Sunderwunsch program built a special GT3 for a Le Mans winner
For his 60th birthday, 1985 Le Mans winner Paolo Barilla decided to get himself a brand-new Porsche. But having won Le Mans with Porsche a few decades ago, it couldn't be a normal Porsche, it needed to be special, and built to his exact wishes. Paolo was the first customer to receive a new car from Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur's newly revamped …
Continue to the full articleFerrari pushes Porsche off track to steal the FIA WEC championship in Bahrain
This weekend's FIA WEC season finale came down to a late-race intentional shunting and a race control deciding not to penalize for the action. In my absolutely biased opinion, this is a black eye on the sport, and the Ferrari team should be ashamed of their actions. When Porsche came to Bahrain for last weekend's six-hour event, it was clearly the …
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Volkswagen Group CEO says Porsche won’t be issuing an IPO just yet
In recent years it has seemed inevitable that every automotive manufacturer would be spun off into its own stock IPO. After all, why not? If Tesla can be valued over one trillion dollars, why can't Porsche? What does Tesla have that Porsche doesn't? We've recently seen Volvo's Polestar spun off and IPO'd with a SPAC. The market has been buzzing at …
Continue to the full articlePorsche and IMSA work together to get more women on track
Fancy sports cars, and particularly those found at race tracks, have typically been the play things of men, usually wealthy men. Motorsport is an old boys club, but two-time IMSA champion Christina Nielsen is on a mission to prove that many women are into cars, and potentially racing, as well. With a relatively new program called the Accelerating …
Continue to the full articlePorsche snags 1-2 victory in FIA WEC Bahrain six-hour race
After finding success in one of the hottest events of the season — with air temps in the mid-90s all day — Porsche now leads the constructor's championship in the GTE Pro category over competition from Ferrari. The six-hour race in Bahrain was absolutely dominated by the flat six-powered crew, securing a one-two finish with the #92 car of Neel Jani …
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