The nice folks at Michelin invited me down to Austin’s Circuit of The Americas for a full race weekend highlighted by the TUDOR United Sportscar Championship and the FIA World Endurance Championship. The last time I was in Austin, Texas was a September, about 20 years ago. I remember some great bars, some friendly locals and scorching temperatures. …
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Porsche Does The Texas Two-Step With TUSCC At COTA
It was the penultimate round of the TUDOR United Sports Car Championship, and Porsche was set to pull out all of the stops in order to secure a prime finish. Rather than their regular two-car entry of the 911 and 912 cars, Porsche entered a third factory-effort GTLM class 911 RSR for Fred Makowiecki and Patrick Pilet, the number 910. With a total …
Continue to the full articlePorsche To Offer Detuned Boxster and Cayman In Some European Markets
The 981 Boxster and Cayman are gaining new model lines almost as quickly as the 991 is. The defining characteristic of the different models is horsepower. The standard 'base' car has 265 horses (275 in the Cayman), there's the S we all know and love with 315 (325 in the Cayman), and the new 330 horsepower GTS (340 in the Cayman), which continues to …
Continue to the full articleOur Favorite Porsches On Ebay This Week
For all of the eccentric and eclectic Porsche collectors and enthusiasts out there, we've decided that it is about time someone aggregated the best of the best that eBay has to offer in the Porsches-for-sale department. We've tracked down five exciting Porsches for folks to purchase today, including a collector 944 (is that an oxymoron?), an SC …
Continue to the full articleWhy Porsche Added A 3rd Factory 911 RSR To The Line-up At COTA
There are just two races left in this season's Tudor United SportsCar Championship (the Lone Star Le Mans and Petit Le Mans) in which Porsche holds the narrowest of leads against their competitors (just 2 points over the Corvettes, 3 over the Vipers and 4 over the BMWs). Last week Porsche announced a driver line-up shuffle to help their cause in …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Factory Driver Profile – Who is Frédéric Makowiecki?
There is an old adage that implores "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em". In this case, I think Porsche may have been using "If you can't beat 'em, hire 'em", as that's exactly what they've done with Fred Mako. The Frenchman was inducted to the Porsche Werks team for this year after spending the 2013 season with the Aston Martin Racing team, …
Continue to the full article17 Year Old Kid Designs The GT3 Cabriolet Porsche Really Needs To Build
Think about that for a second, Porsche is missing a whole new market using an existing chassis they already have, and a 17 year old French kid saw the gap in their performance offerings and capitalized on the situation. Yeah, the GT3 is a "hardcore" version of Porsche's 911, and some may say that it has no right to be offered in an open-top model, …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Announces 911 RSR Driver Shuffle For Remainder Of WEC Season
Earlier today, Porsche announced changes to their 911 RSR driver line-up for the remainder of the Sports Car World Endurance Championship WEC season. Starting in Austin, Texas, Richard Lietz, winner of this year's Rolex 24 at Daytona, joins forces with Joerg Bergmeister in the number 91 Porsche 911 RSR. Patrick Pilet, who up until now drove with …
Continue to the full articleOur Favorite Porsches On Ebay This Week
For all of the eccentric and eclectic Porsche collectors and enthusiasts out there, we've decided that it is about time someone aggregated the best of the best that eBay has to offer in the Porsches-for-sale department. We've tracked down six exciting Porsches for folks to purchase today, including a drop-top stunner, a slow and steady cruiser, a …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Restoration Funding By Kickstarter: Bad Idea? Or The Worst Idea Ever??
In a case of Manifest Destiny, the voracity of which was generally reserved for American colonial settlers, a Montreal-based Canadian racing internet forum has apparently claimed a stricken Porsche 924 as their own after a member found it languishing in the wilderness. Without questioning who the car belonged too, whose land it was on, or what the …
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