Magnus Racing used a third place finish at Sunday’s Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen to stretch its lead in the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series GT class from two to six points. The No. 44 Magnus Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car driven by Andy Lally (Dacula, Ga.), John Potter (Salt Lake City, Utah) and Porsche factory driver Richard Lietz (Austria) …
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Custom 959 Speedster For Sale
Sometimes, it is possible to make the proverbial sow’s ear into the finest of silk purses. Crafting a terrible situation into a great outcome takes skill, talent, effort, and time in equal measures. Never before has this been truer than in the case of this topless 959. The only one of its kind, this 959 started life as a standard 959, if you can …
Continue to the full articleThis Porsche Powered Fiat is a Tire Roasting Apex Machine
The car shown here is what you get when you spend more than 1000 hours of work producing a Fiat powered by Porsche. No normal sane person would think of ever attempting this feat, but the evil geniuses at Oemmedi Mechanical have done just that. Of course, it may have involved a vino fueled night, and certainly a healthy dose of Italian enthusiasm …
Continue to the full articleA Porsche 911 Races Four Parkour Athletes
Hmmm, the title kind of sounds like the start of a bad joke. Turns out it's a fairly accurate description of the following video. We ran across this a couple of weeks ago and simply forgot to post it. We're not 100% at all sure what the point of the video is, but it was entertaining. More importantly, the road the 911 drives up at little more …
Continue to the full articleIt’s Official! Mark Webber to Drive for Porsche at Le Mans in 2014
Turns out all the rumors were true. Porsche announced earlier this morning that Australian Formula 1 pilot Mark Webber has signed a contract with them that extends over several years. Starting in the 2014 season Webber will compete in Porsche’s new LMP1 sports prototype at the Le Mans 24 Hours and in the sports car World Endurance Championship …
Continue to the full articleJeff Zwart Driving a New Kind of Porsche Hybrid at Pikes Peak This Year
Earlier in the week we showed you a video of Jeff Zwart testing at 12,000 feet as he prepares for the 2013 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb taking place over the next few days. What was special about that video, besides how much courage you need to drive at those speeds so close to the edge, literally, was what it revealed about Jeff's …
Continue to the full articleThe New Cayenne Handles Going Off-Road Quite Well
We receive a number of emails from readers wanting to know our opinion on the Porsche Cayenne and if it is truly an off-road capable vehicle. We tell each one of them the same two things: 1. We like the Cayenne so much we bought one for ourselves as a utility vehicle to haul our boat, travel with our dogs and as a test bed for this site. 2. The …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Announces the Next Driver to Participate in Their 2014 LMP1 Le Mans Program
At the beginning of this year Porsche found themselves having to deny rumors that Mark Webber would be leaving F1 and signing on to Porsche's LMP1 team as part of their 2014 Le Mans driver line-up. Shortly after that, in order to focus attention where it belonged, Porsche announced that Romain Dumas and Timo Bernhard were the first two "pilots" to …
Continue to the full articlePikes Peak Test Days with Jeff Zwart
When Porsche sent us our first Porsche 991. We decided we would test out its capabilities on the backroads in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Our trip culminated in a drive up the Mt. Washington Auto Road. As we got above tree line (a little past 4000 feet) and had a little more room to go a bit faster (maybe 30 to 40 mph), I remember …
Continue to the full articlePorsche 911 GT2 Nurburgring Flip and Crash Caught on Video
The "Flugplatz" is a twin apex corner about halfway around the Nurburgring. Drivers come over a blind crest and enter immediately into a hard right-hand bend. Besides coming into the corner blind, the Flugplatz is known for unsettling the suspension on even the best set-up car and many find themselves airborne as a result. The video below shows …
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