Laurens Vanthoor, and his Audi R8 LMS, were leading the FIA GT World Cup race at Macau after starting from pole position when a crash at Fisherman's Bend, by BMW driver Ricky Capo, brought out a safety car and a red flag while workers repaired damage to the safety fence caused by that crash. As the race restarted, with very little time remaining …
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Huge Crash During Supercup At Monza Sends Cars Flying and Marshals Fleeing For Safety
The Porsche Supercup at Monza got off to a wild start this weekend. Over the course of just a few minutes there were two major accidents, both resulting in Porsches rolling, flipping and flying across the track. In the first, Chris Bauer spun his Porsche coming into a corner collecting Eisemann and causing him to flip while Lopez was pushed …
Continue to the full articleThis Is The Crash That Took The WeatherTech 911 Out of Le Mans
The WeatherTech racing team couldn't catch a break at this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans. First, one of the their three drivers, Cooper MacNeil, became too sick to drive. Then, Cooper's backup, Gunnar Jeannette, was ruled ineligible to drive due to lack of the requisite number of night practice laps. This resulted in Leh Keen and Marc Miller deciding …
Continue to the full articleThis is What it looks and sounds like when a Porsche Race Car Crashes In front of you.
Any 24-hour sports car race is bound to have its share of accidents and incidents. However, last week's Nürburgring 24 Hour race was especially chaotic due to the rain, hail and resulting icy conditions on the track. Interestingly, the crash you're about to see happened while the track was …
Continue to the full articleWe Still Can’t Believe Brendon Hartley’s 919 LMP1 Didn’t Flip During This Crash
Crashes at any speed are scary, but a crash in a Le Mans LMP1 prototype during an overtaking maneuver is another level of scary. What's amazing to me is that the very 911 Brendon hits while trying to go by is the reason this accident wasn't worse than it was. Watch as Brendon's 919 turns onto its side. See how the 911's momentum carries it into …
Continue to the full articlePorsche 911 GT3 RS Gives New Meaning To The Term Water-Cooled
Let the jokes begin. That's not what Porsche meant when they said 'Water Cooled'! Here we see the powerful GT3 RS taking drinks from the watering hole. Lesser Porsches, like the Panamera politely wait their turn, while the predator gets its fill. Someone took 'Gulf car' too seriously. Now that that's out of the way, we can move on. …
Continue to the full articleWatch The Crash That Took The Lead Porsche and Corvette Out Of Contention At Sebring
The No. 911 Porsche of Kevin Estre and the No. 3 Corvette of Jan Magnussen were knocked out of yesterday's competition after a hard crash in turn 1. Both Porsche and Corvette were fighting for the lead coming out of turn 17 when the the pair split a GTD Audi down the main straight. Magnussen had the dry line, next to the pit wall, and Estre was on …
Continue to the full articleProject Boxster Clubsport: Part 12 – Starting Over
Last year we introduced you to our newest project car, called simply "Project Boxster Clubsport". In that first installment we found the right car, we purchased it for a song, and since then we've been slowly removing weight from it and installing a few upgrades. So far, we're really happy with what the Boxster has become, but things came to a halt …
Continue to the full articlePorsche 911 GT3 Cup Cars Make Contact At The Circuit de Navarra. What Happens After Is Just Bizarre
This must be the week for strange crashes around the world in the various Porsche Carrera Cup series. First we saw Pedro Piquet flip his GT3 Cup car 9-times. Now, comes word of one of the more unusual crashes we've seen or heard about in some time. In this instance, drivers Jules Gounon and Joffrey Narda made contact just after the start …
Continue to the full articlePorsche GT3 Cup Car Flips 9 Times During Race. Driver Escapes With Just Bruises!
Sports car racing is a dangerous pursuit. Yes, safety technology has increased to the point where we almost expect drivers to walk away from most accidents unscathed, but it's a false sense of security as witnessed by a few of motorsports' recent tragic events. The fact is, these brave drivers are piloting thousands of pounds of metal, at …
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