With a sonorous spin up of its 4-liter naturally aspirated flat six, José Silvino Pires' 911 GT3 R racer blasts a small layer of rear tire rubber into smoke and blasts away from the start line of the Rampa da Falperra hillclimb. This car started life as a specially prepped race car built for the GT3 class of international sports car racing. Porsche …
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50 years of RS: Porsche celebrates its original track special 911
Back in October of 1972, nearly fifty years ago, Porsche unveiled the car that would set into motion one of the most highly revered lineups of track cars any automaker has ever built. For Porsche fanatics, the letters R and S, when combined, conjure dreams of high-rev flat six engines, high grip, more downforce, lightweight bodywork, and incredible …
Continue to the full articleHere’s your chance to hoon Ken Block’s Tuthill-built Safari Porsche 911
Earlier this year Ken Block, the Head Hoonigan, competed in the East Africa Safari Rally in a Tuthill-prepped Porsche 911. This custom competition build is based on a 1978 Porsche 911 SC 3-liter, and it carried Ken and co-driver Alex Gelsomino for nine days of competition across 5,000 kilometers. This is certainly a cool-looking machine that pays …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s run of bad luck continues with big crashes in Nürburgring 24 hour race
Going into the 24 Hours of the Nürburgring, Porsche had to have been cautiously optimistic. There were a total of eight 911 GT3 Rs taking the green flag for the endurance race from some of the most effective customer teams in the world stacked with some of the greatest driver lineups. To get to the end of the race with six of those cars failing to …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Cars North America celebrates its colorful history with new display in Atlanta headquarters
The Porsche Experience Center in Atlanta, also known as One Porsche Drive, plays the part of Porsche Cars North America's headquarters (and the Avengers compound). As part of the massive immersive Porsche, er, well, Experience, the company has a small museum with a constantly rotating cast of cars from P-car past. We've been to visit the little …
Continue to the full articlePorsche has already logged thousands of miles testing its new LMDh race car
There are several companies set to join the LMDh prototype class in IMSA and FIA WEC next year, including Porsche, Audi, Acura, BMW, and Cadillac. Alpine, Lamborghini, and McLaren are looking to follow in 2024. But Porsche is the first of those competitors to have not only unveiled its racer, but to have logged several days of testing at tracks all …
Continue to the full articlePorsche secures another solid weekend in Berlin Formula E double-header
This weekend in the shadow of Berlin's famous Tempelhof airport, the fourteenth and fifteenth Es Prix to be held there since 2015. This is, more or less, Porsche's home E Prix, and as such the team surely wanted to show up and show out in the best way possible. While the crested sports car brand didn't bring home a victory, spending two races in …
Continue to the full articlePorsche wins GTE-Am class in wet and wild FIA WEC 6 Hours of Spa
In a dark and rainy part of the world this Saturday, Porsche customer team Dempsey-Proton Racing found victory in the GTE-AM class of the FIA World Endurance Championship six-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps. The Belgian race was quite eventful for all involved, but when the checkered flag fell it was Christian Ried, Sebastian Priaulx, and Harry …
Continue to the full articlePorsche is officially joining Formula One, says VW CEO
First it was a rumor, then a maybe, then it was a no way, then a maybe again, and now it's finally officially confirmed news that Porsche will be re-joining the Formula One grid for the 2026 season. The official statement from Volkswagen Group was that the move for Porsche and sister brand Audi would come when the 2026 engine regulations were …
Continue to the full articlePorsche suffers more Formula E bad luck with a double DNF in Monaco
The Porsche Formula E team was within a sniff of its second official victory in the series this weekend in Monaco when it all went pear shaped. After qualifying second and fighting at the front for the opening stages of the race in Monaco on Saturday, Pascal Wehrlein was forced to retire from the lead of the E-Prix with some kind of technical fault …
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