While AO Racing ran a special Preston Henn's Swap Shop livery at the 24 Hours of Daytona back in January, commemorating the Swap Shop 935 winning the race outright in 1983, the team have retired that livery for the full season, and are instead going to be racing with a wonderfully comical T-Rex livery. The car has henceforth been dubbed "Rexy" and …
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Porsche 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 articleAO Racing debut Swap Shop 935 tribute livery forty years after an iconic Porsche victory
All the way back in 1983 a very strange-looking Porsche took to the high banks of Daytona International Speedway and stomped its way to pole position for the season-opening 24 Hour race. The ANDIAL Racing tube framed 935 chassis had been fitted with a cobbled together version of Porsche's famed "Moby Dick" long tail bodywork for the season, and boy …
Continue to the full articlePfaff is ready for 2023 with a new Porsche 911 GT3 R and a new driver lineup
The Plaid Porsche team is back at it again, trying to get its third IMSA title in as many years in 2023 with its new freshly-delivered 992-generation GT3 R. The defending GTD Pro champions are back for another round of fighting the best in the GT game, and they've got a new crew of drivers to take on the world. Last year the team made use of Matt …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s 992-generation GT3 R racer grabs podium on racing debut
After months of waiting to see just how good Porsche's new 911 GT3 R would be under racing conditions against other GT3-spec machinery, we finally know. This car has been under development since 2019, and in typical Porsche fashion was not about to be released on the world without being properly developed. After three years of pounding around …
Continue to the full articlePfaff Porsche GTD Pro podium at Road America virtually locks IMSA Championship
With the team's seventh podium placing from nine rounds of the IMSA championship GTD Pro class so far, and a string of five top-three finishes, the Pfaff Motorsports plaid Porsche is virtually guaranteed to win the drivers' and teams' championship in 2022 with two rounds remaining. As the Porsche team continues to run from strength to strength in …
Continue to the full articleA Porsche fan’s guide to the Rolex 24 at Daytona
Oh man, it's the start of a new racing season! This weekend is the 60th running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona, and there are seven Porsches racing in two different GT classes this year, and it's going to be an amazing time. Will Porsche win? Well, let's walk through which teams and drivers will be running the event in Zuffenhausen's finest, what the …
Continue to the full articleThere won’t be a 992-generation 911 RSR
Is Porsche even Porsche without a top-flight 911 race car? I guess we'll find out soon, because the current mid-engine 911 RSR will be the last of its kind for the foreseeable future. Because Porsche is shifting its focus to the LMDh prototype program, which will make its debut in 2023, it won't be developing another version of such a car. As the …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Falls Short Of Podium Dreams In Daytona Endurance Classic
The best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry. Privateer entries from multiple different Porsche-driving squads showed up to the 24 Hours of Daytona intent on winning the whole shooting match, but the cruel hands of fate had other ends in mind. From the drop of the green flag, Porsche's bad luck reared its ugly head, taking the GTLM-classified …
Continue to the full articleThirteen Entrants Bring Top-Tier Porsches to Pikes Peak
2020 brings one of the largest Porsche gatherings in recent years to the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb. Thirteen of the fifty-one entrants are driving vehicles from our favorite marque—most of which are single-purpose motorsports products. Some of those drivers are fairly large names in the racing world; long-time racer David Donohue, as well …
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