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Recent Posts from: FIA WEC

Toyota fastest Hypercar in pre-Sebring FIA WEC test, Porsche neck-and-neck with Cadillac

3/12/20238:30 estFiled to: FIA World Endurance ChampionshipBy: Bradley Brownell

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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Porsche will face off against Toyota, Ferrari, Cadillac, Peugeot, Glickenhaus, and Vanwall in FIA WEC competition this season

1/11/20235:08 estFiled to: Porsche MotorsportsBy: Bradley Brownell

On Wednesday the FIA World Endurance Championship unveiled its full-season entry list, and it miraculously includes a whopping four Porsche 963 LMDh cars in the Hypercar class, plus a further six 2019-spec 911 RSRs in the GTE Am category. More than a quarter of all the cars on the grid this season will be sporting the Porsche crest. I'd say that …

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Porsche announces factory driver lineup for 2023, including the return of Nick Tandy

12/18/20227:20 estFiled to: Porsche MotorsportsBy: Bradley Brownell

Porsche has three major international factory racing programs to keep supplied with drivers across the 2023 season, including two cars in FIA WEC, two cars in IMSA, and a pair again in Formula E. While Formula E drivers keep their own cars separate, the endurance racing programs require at least three drivers per car for the 10-, 12-, and 24-hour …

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Proton Competition confirm dual Porsche 963 IMSA and WEC efforts

11/11/20227:52 estFiled to: FIA World Endurance Championship, IMSA, Porsche MotorsportsBy: Bradley Brownell

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 …

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Porsche unveils special farewell livery for the 911 RSR’s last race ever

11/7/20228:49 estFiled to: FIA World Endurance ChampionshipBy: Bradley Brownell

For ten years Porsche has fielded various iterations of the 991-generation 911 RSR in FIA WEC. After sixteen class victories since 2013, and a grand total of 62 races, the 911 RSR factory racing team bows out of FIA WEC, as the GTE Pro category sees its end. Among those sixteen class wins are three victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. This is a …

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Porsche pops onto the GTE Pro podium in Japanese WEC round

9/12/20227:45 estFiled to: FIA World Endurance ChampionshipBy: Bradley Brownell

  After delivering a stunning performance in qualifying to start the six-hour race at Fuji from pole and third, Porsche found out quite quickly in the race that it didn't have the long-run pace to keep up with the Ferraris. A byproduct of the series' Balance of Performance, and the car's inability to keep the tires from turning to mush …

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Porsche’s 992-generation GT3 R racer will take on Le Mans and more

8/2/20229:17 estFiled to: Porsche Motorsports, Porsche Race CarsBy: Bradley Brownell

The 991-generation 911 RSR has served a long life and won many awards, but from the end of the 2023 season the king is dead. Long live the king! The new 911 GT3 R will take over where the 911 RSR left off, as the GTE class is set to die off in the FIA WEC after next season and be replaced by a simplified GT3 class. Luckily the GT3 class is already …

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Porsche customer team Dempsey-Proton wins Monza 6 Hour race GTE Am category

7/11/20226:54 estFiled to: FIA World Endurance ChampionshipBy: Bradley Brownell

This weekend's six-hour round of the FIA World Endurance Championship went down in Monza, Italy to great fanfare. It would stand to reason that a Porsche would win an endurance race, and win it the Dempsey-Proton team did. With Christian Ried, Sebastian Priaulx, and Harry Tincknell splitting the driving duties, the trio took their 911 RSR to …

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Here’s everything you need to know about Porsche’s new 963 hybrid prototype race car

6/27/20227:10 estFiled to: FIA World Endurance Championship, IMSA, Porsche MotorsportsBy: Bradley Brownell

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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Porsche wins the final Le Mans 24 of the GTE era

6/13/20228:04 estFiled to: FIA World Endurance ChampionshipBy: Bradley Brownell

The 911 RSR's time on this earth is nearly at a close, and the 2022 running of the Le Mans 24 is the last time the car will ever race in modern competition at La Sarthe. So it is incredibly fitting that this amazing mid-engine 911 race car managed to trounce the competition at Le Mans one last time. The GTE regulations will die at the end of the …

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