New Zealander Earl Bamber joined the Porsche team in 2014 after winning the Porsche Supercup and Porsche Carrera Cup Asia championships. An early open-wheel career dovetailed into tin tops, where he absolutely killed it. Porsche took a winger on the kid at Petit Le Mans in 2014 taking over for an injured Richard Lietz in the factory Porsche …
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Porsche Sportscar Ace Earl Bamber Will Make His NASCAR Debut At The Daytona Road Course This Weekend
Affable Kiwi and factory Porsche 911 RSR driver Earl Bamber usually shares his driving duties with Laurens Vanthoor as half of the duo colloquially known as #BamThor. The pair can typically be seen racing in IMSA's GTLM class where they dominated the 2019 championship standings. You may also recognize Earl as part of the 919 Hybrid LMP1 team that …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Fell Just Short Of The Podium At The Bathurst 12 Hour
In a highly competitive 12 hour race marred by attrition, Porsche teams managed to put two cars on the lead lap at the finish, and come within inches of the podium. Having started on the pole position, Porsche was among the favorites to win the race, but with competition from all of the major GT3 manufacturers in the world it was bound to be a …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Sends Off The GT3R In Style With A Win At The Bathurst 12 Hour
This weekend marked the final race ever for factory-supported 911 GT3Rs, and the first win for Porsche at the Bathurst 12 Hour. In winning the Bathurst 12, Porsche is on track for an incredible Intercontinental GT Challenge season. Factory racer Dirk Werner partnered with a pair of Porsche Young Professionals to take the win, Aussie Matt Campbell …
Continue to the full articleResults, Pictures, And Video From WEC Round 8 At Shanghai
The penultimate round of Porsche's final season in top flight prototype racing is done and gone. This report will take you through the highs and lows, ups and downs of Porsche's time in China this weekend. The 6 hour race was not without incident, but ultimately everything shook out decently in Porsche's favor. While they didn't win any of the …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans Race Report w/ Pictures and Video
I thought the 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans was going to make me eat my words. In our Fan Guide I said "let's not mince words: The overall race winner will come from this category." When the #1 Porsche dropped out of the race at 11 AM local time, an LMP2 car lead Le Mans overall for the first time ever. Going in to the race it appeared that the 24 Hours …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s Motorsport Pyramid Explained
Like any professional team, Porsche spends a considerable amount of time, money and effort on player driver development. As you never know where the next Hurley Haywood will come from, Porsche starts early and developed a motorsport pyramid to help identify and nurture new talent. The Porsche Motorsport Pyramid Perhaps the best and …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s Results in the International GT Challenge at the 12 Hours of Sepang
Porsche brought their 2016 motorsport season to a successful end this past weekend at the 12-hour race on the Sepang International Circuit: With a spectacular charge through the field in torrential rain, Porsche works drivers Earl Bamber, Patrick Pilet and Nick Tandy secured second place with the Porsche 911 GT3 R fielded by Manthey Racing. Over a …
Continue to the full articleVideo: Audi Wins Race Sliding On Roof After Being Overtaken By Porsche
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 …
Continue to the full articleThis Is Why The Helmets of These 7 Porsche Factory Drivers Look The Way They Do
In the world of professional motorsport, drivers often have little room for personal expression. So much is corporate controlled and homologized. For the most part sponsors control the look of a car's livery and the manufacturer has a lot to say in what a driver's racing suit looks like. Often, there is usually only one place that the driver gets …
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