Last week, during the Tour of Utah, MTN-Qhubeka cyclist Matt Brammeier suffered a massive high-speed crash. The 30-year old cyclist was working hard to catch the leaders as he came down the hill on Guardsman Pass during Stage 6 of the race. It's unclear if Brammeier lost control of his bike or if his brakes failed. Either way, he came into the …
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Video: Walter Röhrl Shunts A 918 Spyder At Sachsenring
To err is human. Even when that human is legendary driver Walter Rohrl. He's been driving at the limit of high-performance street and race cars since well before I was even born. He's won more races than should be humanly possible. Even as he gracefully ages, he always seems to be around when a German manufacturer needs to show off the speed of …
Continue to the full articleWatch As Porsche’s Two Factory 911 RSRs Crash Into Each Other At Daytona
In a 24-hour race, like the The Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona, contact between race cars is almost inevitable. When it happens, it might sting, but if no one is hurt and the machines can return to the race, well, that's racing. What no one ever expects, accept maybe in the movies, is to get taken out by their own teammate. Unfortunately, that's …
Continue to the full articleRUF 993 Turbo R Crashed During A Porsche Enthusiast Drive
RUF's 993 Turbo R is not a common car by any stretch of the imagination. So you can imagine my horror when I first saw the video of this car wrecked in the middle of the road. I've always loved the cars that RUF creates, and the Turbo R is certainly among the greats. To see one die a horrible death is painful. Not only is the Turbo R one of the …
Continue to the full articleFortunately, Mark Webber Wasn’t Hurt In This High-Speed, Fiery Crash
During the last hour of the World Endurance Championship's 6 Hours of São Paulo, Porsche's Mark Webber suffered a massive crash on the last corner of Interlagos. It appears that Webber lost control entering the high-speed section of the track, collecting the No. 90 8Start Motorsports Ferrari F458 Iltalia along the way. Webber's No. 20 Porsche 919 …
Continue to the full articleDario Franchitti – 4 Time IndyCar Series Champ and Well Known Porsche Fan – In Spectacular Crash During Houston IndyCar Race
Just yesterday we witnessed an absolutely vicious wreck at VIR where two Porsches were sent airborne after contact between Marco Holzer's and Eduardo Cisneros' Porsches. Fortunately, they both walked away from the crash. Today our friend and well known Porsche fan/owner, IndyCar driver Dario Franchitti, was involved in a horrific crash during the …
Continue to the full articleVideo: Vicious Wreck Sends Porsche Airborne At VIR
This is the second Porsche flying through the air we've seen in as little as two weeks. Eduardo Cisneros and Marco Holzer were battling through the esses at VIR when contact between the two sent them both on off-track excursions and Cisneros' Porsche airborne. The video below was captured from almost head on as the camera man watches two Porsches …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Flips Over and Catches Fire While Racing On Highway
It's happened to me more times than I can count. I'll be driving along, minding my own business when out of nowhere some moron in another sports car (generally not another Porsche) will pull up next to me and try to engage me in some sort of race while driving on the highway. I'd be lying if I said I've never given into the urge to hit the gas and …
Continue to the full articleWatch as 3 Porsche 911 GT3 RSRs are Wrecked During Start of Baltimore Grand Prix
At the beginning of the 2013 Baltimore Grand Prix weekend, the Falken Tire Porsche team was looking for a three-peat victory, but after the start of the race, have found themselves well down the order in an extraordinary green flag incident that sidelined the Paul Miller and CORE Autosport GTE Porsches as well. All three Porsche GTE competitors …
Continue to the full articleWatch as the 1987 Le Mans Winning Porsche 962C Crashes at the Goodwood Festival of Speed
The #17 Porsche 962C (Chassis 006) that Derek Bell, Hans-Joachim Stuck and Al Holbert won the 1987 24 Hours of Le Mans with crashed during the Goodwood Festival of Speed. The Porsche 962C coupé locked it’s brakes heading into Molecomb corner and ending up head on into the hay bales. Thankfully, the damage appears to be cosmetic only (the …
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