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 …
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Porsche sweeps GTD class victories in Laguna Seca IMSA round
Porsche customer racing squads absolutely had the right car, drivers, crew, and strategy for the fourth round of the IMSA WeatherTech Championship this weekend at Laguna Seca. In both the GTD Pro and GTD categories, it was a 911 GT3 R that came home with the victory, sweeping everything there was to sweep, marking Porsche's 30th and 31st …
Continue to the full articlePorsche has another bad day at Long Beach in IMSA competition
It was another weekend of IMSA racing and even more bad luck for the Pfaff Motorsports Porsche team taking a potentially winning car out of contention. This issue was an absolute freak accident that could not have been predicted, and has never been seen before. The plaid Canadian team in GTD Pro was looking quite likely to be in the fight for the …
Continue to the full articleWeatherTech Racing ditches Porsche for the remainder of the IMSA season
It has all the makings of a bad breakup. WeatherTech Racing and partner team Proton Competition are abandoning the Porsche brand for the remainder of their 2022 IMSA GTD Pro campaign, and made it a very public split with a formal press release on Tuesday afternoon. At least some of the beef seems to be in the fact that Porsche didn't lend …
Continue to the full articlePorsche has Sebring 12 Hour to forget, best 911 finishes 5th in class
Porsche started off the IMSA season strong with a win at the 24 Hours of Daytona, but could not repeat the result at the 12 Hours of Sebring this weekend. The hot and humid weekend in central Florida pushed everyone to the limits, but with just seven caution flags waved over the course of the once-around-the-clock race, it was an …
Continue to the full articlePorsche wins both GT classes in amazing Daytona 24 hour race
Porsche has powered over 100 class victories at the 24 Hours of Daytona, and this weekend our favorite German sports car maker added two more to that tally in the 60th running of the twice-around-the-clock endurance classic. I just returned to my home from celebrating the win with the teams and fans in Daytona, so let's talk about what went down, …
Continue to the full articleKCMG will enter a Porsche-supported Rolex 24 Pro-class effort
The Le Mans class winning team KCMG will run a single-car Porsche 911 GT3 R for one round in the Rolex 24 at the end of this month with factory support in the new GTD Pro class. This brings the total number of Porsches in the class to three after Pfaff and Weathertech's recent announcements. The Hong Kong-based team will contest the race with a …
Continue to the full articleWeatherTech Racing return to IMSA with Porsche GTD Pro program
The 2022 IMSA grid continues to take shape with new announcements of racing efforts coming left, right, and center. Following the recent information that Pfaff Motorsports would enter a 911 GT3 R in the new-for-2022 GTD Pro category, the WeatherTech floormat empire announced that it would be joining them, with a twist. The 2021 GTLM class effort …
Continue to the full articleChampionship-leading plaid Porsche grabs last-minute victory in VIR IMSA round
The 2021 IMSA season is coming to a close, and it's looking increasingly like the Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R has what it takes to secure the GTD championship this year. With three wins from the last four races, the team of Zacharie Robichon and Laurens Vanthoor has pushed its championship bid to a huge gap with just one race remaining in …
Continue to the full articlePfaff Motorsport takes plaid Porsche to victory lane in IMSA Laguna Seca round
Our neighbors to the north, the Canadian crew of Pfaff Motorsport, managed to put together a heck of a race to take home the GT Daytona victory this weekend at Laguna Seca. The win pushed plaid Porsche drivers Zacharie Robichon and Laurens Vanthoor into second in the GTD standings, just 27 points off the lead, with three rounds remaining …
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