In the number 91 Porsche Team Manthey 911 RSR, Porsche works drivers Jörg Bergmeister and Richard Lietz scored fourth place in the highly competitive GTE-Pro class at the penultimate round of the season in the Kingdom of Bahrain at the Persian Gulf. Their factory pilot colleagues, and Shanghai winners, Frédéric Makowiecki and Patrick Pilet saw the …
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Porsche’s Shanghai Six Hour Success
After scoring their second LMP1 podium at last month's WEC race in Japan, the team was looking to capitalize on that momentum. Qualifying went very well, as Romain Dumas took the pole position from Toyota by the tiniest of fractions of a second. It would seem that every race that goes by, Porsche is getting just a little closer to that first …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s WEC Pictures And Results From Fuji, Japan
Porsche entered the six-hour race in Fuji, Japan hoping for better results than what they experienced in Texas last month. This was the fifth round of the WEC championship, and even though the 919 Hybrid team had led various races a number of times this year, they've only experienced the joy of driving to the podium one time. The GTE teams …
Continue to the full articleLEGO Adds Porsche 918 And 911 RSR To Their “Speed Champions” Line Of Playsets
Over the last several years, Ferrari has had a near stranglehold on the LEGO market in terms of automotive merchandising. Several Ferrari road cars and race cars have been transformed into LEGO minifig sets, but now it seems that LEGO has moved to start producing further models from McLaren, and more importantly Porsche, in their recently leaked …
Continue to the full articleCool Animated GIF Captures Factory Porsche 911 RSR During Spin At COTA
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. …
Continue to the full articlePorsche 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 Has A “Tough Day In Texas” At The Fourth Round Of The World Endurance Championship
When you think of Austin, Texas and the Circuit of the Americas, surely your first thought is torrential downpours and sheets of rain. Wait, that's not right. Usually races at the circuit are arid and hot, generally running trouble-free thanks to lots of runoff area and that wide uphill turn 1. This time, to turn a Texan phrase, the World Endurance …
Continue to the full articleSacramento Shop Burns, Destroying World’s Most Original 911 RSR
Late last Friday night into early Saturday morning, the facilities of PM Motorsports at the corner of 34th and Stockton streets in Sacramento, California suffered significant fire damage. The fire, thankfully, did not injure or kill any humans, though it did take the lives of some significant collector Porsches that were housed inside when the …
Continue to the full articleVideo: Ride Onboard With Leh Keen In A 1974 911 RSR At Le Mans Classic
Just over a week ago, Leh Keen and Cooper MacNeil stormed to a class victory in their shared 1974 911 RSR during the Le Mans Classic event. Just less than a month after MacNeil teamed with Jeroen Bleekemolen to take a fantastic 5th in class at Le Mans proper, he was back at La Sarthe, and this time brought 'Screamin' Lehman' to hot shoe along side. …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s Results And Pictures From Canadian Tire Motorsport Park
GTLM Results When three of your four factory works effort drivers have never been to a track before, it's a safe bet that your weekend is going to be a long and tough uphill battle. That was exactly what happened last weekend when Porsche's United Sports Car Championship GTLM team arrived at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (née Mosport). Of …
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