The success story of the Porsche RS Spyder continues: At the Le Mans 24 Hour race, the Essex team (Denmark) celebrated a clear victory in the LMP2 class. The 440 hp sports prototype from Weissach also won the energy efficiency classification “Michelin Green X Challenge” as the car with the best overall efficiency, calculated by the ratio between …
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You Meet the Nicest People Driving a Porsche
One of the great things about writing this blog and attending various motorsport events are the people you meet. In fact, that's one of the best things about owning and driving a Porsche. Over the last year I've had the great pleasure of meeting hundreds of Porsche owners and motorsport fans. One such person is Mark White. If you're not …
Continue to the full articleGrand-Am at Watkins Glen Results of Sahlen’s Six Hours
Dirk Werner (Germany) and Leh Keen (Charleston, SC) captured their second GT class victory of the season and took over the points lead while Porsche works drivers Timo Bernhard (Germany) and Romain Dumas (France) grabbed a podium finish in Daytona Prototype competition during the Sahlen’s Six Hours at the Glen Saturday at legendary Watkins Glen …
Continue to the full articleGraffiti Tagged Porsches to $1 Billion in Profit.
Busy, busy day today in the world of all things Porsche. Rather than bombard your mailbox with multiple emails I thought I would wrap up today's events in a quick summary and provide links to full-text articles in case you want to dig deeper into any or all of the subjects. Porsche to post $1 Billion in operating profit Despite all the recent …
Continue to the full articlePorsche 997 GT3 vs Dodge Viper GT3
This is one of the better in-car racing videos I've seen in a long time. The camera placement and picture quality from the Dodge Viper are enough to make you feel like your on the track doing the driving. Fortunately, the Porsche GT3 keeps the lead for most of the race so you get a good feel for the line taken, turn-ins, speed in the straights, …
Continue to the full articleFLATSIXES.com’s Great Drivers Series: Wolf Henzler
For the 12-Hrs of Sebring weekend, the track becomes its own nation: the paddock and surrounding areas are filled to the brim with race fans in the most festive of moods. RVs and a variety of vehicles cram the parking areas full, making transit in and out of the venue a slow and laborious process. Food and alcohol are readily available, air-horns …
Continue to the full articleStop-and-Go Penalty Costly to Porsche in Rolex Grand-Am
MONTEREY, CA (May 17) – A stop-and-go penalty for jumping a restart was very costly to Porsche works driver Timo Bernhard (Germany) and his Penske Porsche Riley teammate Romain Dumas (France) Sunday during the Verizon Wireless Festival of Speed, the fourth race of the 2009 Rolex Grand-Am Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. …
Continue to the full article944Fest 2009 at Nelson Ledges
At the time of this writing, it is early April of 2009, and I am still floored from my experience from the August 2008 944Fest – but I’m even MORE excited for the upcoming ‘Fest June 5th-7th, and you should be too! Never heard of the 944Fest? I’ll elaborate on it a bit. History of the 944Fest For the past few years, the 944Fest has been a great …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Motorsport Newsletter 2009: Volume 4
A lot can happen in a month’s time. If you’re not able to keep up with each Porsche Motorsport post here on FlatSixes.com and would prefer a brief synopsis of what’s happening in the world of Porsche Motorsport, there is no better way to stay in touch than by reviewing the monthly Porsche Motorsport Newsletter. Filled with interesting facts and …
Continue to the full articlePorsche HollyWood Gossip
For a while now I was trying to figure out how to work Steve McQueen and Le Mans into another post. Now all of a sudden I have two great reasons. First, in a recent article on Examiner.com Jim Cherry reports that Brad Pitt is about to sign on to play Steve McQueen in the upcoming biopic picture based on Steve McQueen: Portrait of an American …
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