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 …
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Thirteen 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 …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Nabbed The GTD And GTLM Pole Position For The 2020 Daytona 24
Qualifying for the Rolex 24 At Daytona went very well for Porsche Thursday afternoon, as the factory-entered 911 RSR of Nick Tandy, Fred Makowiecki, and Matt Campbell will start from pole in the GTLM class with the sister car of Earl Bamber, Laurens Vanthoor, and Mathieu Jaminet starting in second place. Further proving Porsche's greatness, the …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Nets Intercontinental GT Challenge Titles With Kyalami 9 Hours Victory
This story is just Porsche all the way through. Not only did Porsche contest and win the manufacturer's and drivers' championship titles for GT cars in 2019, but it also purchased and helped revive the famous South African Kyalami race track, battlegrounds on which the final round of the championship was fought. After 9 solid hours of …
Continue to the full articleWatch This Club Racer Pass 41 Cars In One Race
Racer Cory Friedman has put his hands to the steering wheel of a number of Porsche's greatest race cars over the years, but he may have had the best drive of his life at Daytona during last month's season-ender PCA Club Racing event. He normally races a 2015 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, and in fact had already qualified quite high for this GTA3 class …
Continue to the full articleWatch This 600-HP Porsche 911 GT2 Dance in the Damp
Nicolas Werver's 997 GT2-based racer is a striking collection of parts. Though once a street car, the current car wears the bodywork of a GT3 R, and the attendant downforce helps give the man some real certainty when trying to drive this wide-hipped monster along narrow mountain roads. In addition to the racecar's hide, he's added a few custom …
Continue to the full articleWatch As This 997 GT3 R Screams Up A Portuguese Hillclimb
With his usual Ford Escort steeds in the shop for repairs, Portuguese hillclimber José Silvinho Pires had to resort to using something else for his latest trip to the Rampa da Falperra hillclimb. His replacement, a 997 GT3 R, offered him more than enough performance to temporarily forget his old Fords. With a striking livery reminiscent of the old …
Continue to the full articleThree Racing Veterans Reminisce on Their Time with the Porsche Family
Since parting company with the 919 Hybrid, Marc Lieb, Romain Dumas, and Timo Bernhard have returned to their roots in GT racing, with each of them driving for Porsche's customer teams at this year's 24 Hours of Spa. Recapping on nearly two decades of racing, much of which they shared as teammates, the three drivers have clearly lost none of the …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s Results And Photos From Laguna Seca
The IMSA season is almost over with just one more race to run, the famed Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta next month. Porsche knew going into this race that they had to keep momentum up and the team strong. This was an important race for the drivers to do well and to gain some much needed points. Porsche as a whole came out of the weekend alright, …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s Results And Photos From The 24 Hours Of Spa
Porsche rolled into the 24 Hours of Spa as potential contenders for the overall victory with a slew of brand new GT3 Rs ready to take on all comers. With competitors in the pro class fielded by quasi-factory effort Manthey Racing and KÜS Team75 Bernhard, there was a pair of good quality Porsches with stellar lineups driving them, and both fought …
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