After two days of testing running at Sebring International this weekend ahead of the FIA WEC's season opening 1000 Miles of Sebring next weekkend, it is clear that Porsche is in the top half of the Hypercar class with its freshly-debuted 963 hybrid LMDh prototype. Toyota, which has been running a pair of GR010 Hybrid Hypercars—developed in part …
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Twelve Porsches make Le Mans 24 entry list
It's finally Le Mans Entry List Day, and we get to see just how serious Porsche is about trying to win the big race this year. As it turns out, they're taking it pretty seriously. The big news today is that Porsche will have a full three-car factory-backed entry in the Hypercar class with a trio of Penske-run Porsche 963s. Also confirmed today was …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s new 963 suffers failures in IMSA season-opening Daytona 24, but provides promise
Whenever Porsche launches a new race car, it is typically over prepared and over developed, if occasionally a little off the pace. That seems to have been the case with the new 992-generation GT3 R, which faced a difficult balance of performance in its first race but raced well and didn't have any major failures. The prototype 963, however, saw a …
Continue to the full articlePorsche narrowly misses out on Daytona 24 pole position in 963’s debut
The number 7 Penske-Porsche with Felipe Nasr onboard narrowly missed out on nabbing the 963 program's first pole position on Sunday during IMSA's Roar Before the 24 event, which featured Rolex 24 qualifying. Acura's Tom Blomqvist put in a stunning closing lap to pip Nasr to pole by just eight hundredths of a second when the checkered flag fell; …
Continue to the full articleThree totally new Porsche race cars set to make their competition debut in a one-week period
I don't recall a time in history when a single manufacturer introduced three all-new competition cars to the motorsport in the span of one week, but Porsche is set to do just that, starting this Friday. The brand new Gen 3 Porsche 99X Electric Formula E competitor bows to the world in Mexico City for free practice 1 on Friday the 13th before racing …
Continue to the full articlePorsche delays 963 prototype deliveries to customer teams due to supply chain issues
It seems like Porsche enthusiasts everywhere have been waiting ages for their new cars to come in so they can take delivery of their future pride and joy. With global supply chains seemingly worse than ever, Stuttgart's finest are getting backed up pretty substantially. As it turns out, it's not just the street cars that are getting delayed. …
Continue to the full articleProton Competition confirm dual Porsche 963 IMSA and WEC efforts
The German team founded in 1996, currently known as Proton Competition, has been a long-time customer of Porsche motorsport products. The team has been running GT 911s since the 996 era, and fields racing cars in endurance events all around the world. Over the last decade the company has also been running the European arm of actor Patrick Dempsey's …
Continue to the full articlePorsche 963 GTP race car exits endurance test at Sebring unscathed
Over the course of 36 hours at the world-famous Sebring International Raceway, Porsche and its driving crew managed to rack up an incredible 4,555 miles of race-pace testing. Sebring is, of course, among the toughest tracks in the world on a car; its surface consists of decades-old concrete slabs laid in the run up to World War II. The track has …
Continue to the full articleKelly-Moss Racing to enter two 911 GT3 Rs in IMSA GTD class ahead of 2025 LDMh bid
You already know who Kelly-Moss Racing is. This team has been fielding championship-winning Porsches since 1988, and every year it seems they get more and more drivers into serious machinery. While most of their business is client-based arrive-and-drive kind of stuff for PCA, SCCA, and GT3 Cup, they do some higher-level racing from time to time as …
Continue to the full articleHere’s everything you need to know about Porsche’s new 963 hybrid prototype race car
This weekend at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in England, Porsche took the wraps off of its new LMDh race car, set to race on both sides of the Atlantic this year in IMSA's GTP category as well as the FIA WEC's Hypercar class. Paying homage to the all-conquering 962 of the 1980s and 1990s, the new car has visual cues from that old series of …
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