It's finally Le Mans Entry List Day, and we get to see just how serious Porsche is about trying to win the big race this year. As it turns out, they're taking it pretty seriously. The big news today is that Porsche will have a full three-car factory-backed entry in the Hypercar class with a trio of Penske-run Porsche 963s. Also confirmed today was …
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Race into 2023 with this awesome Porsche 917 art timelapse
Our favorite automotive artist, Nicolas Hunziker, paints a new vintage racing-themed piece to celebrate each new year. It’s a fun and interesting automotive way to ring in the new year and show off his talents at the same time. This time he’s chosen to depict a scene of perhaps the most famous and iconic Porsche of all time, the 917K Salzburg which …
Continue to the full articlePorsche delays 963 prototype deliveries to customer teams due to supply chain issues
It seems like Porsche enthusiasts everywhere have been waiting ages for their new cars to come in so they can take delivery of their future pride and joy. With global supply chains seemingly worse than ever, Stuttgart's finest are getting backed up pretty substantially. As it turns out, it's not just the street cars that are getting delayed. …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s 992-generation GT3 R racer will take on Le Mans and more
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 …
Continue to the full articlePorsche wins the final Le Mans 24 of the GTE era
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 …
Continue to the full articlePorsche celebrates 40 years of 956 with a record-breaking gathering at Goodwood
Back in the 1980s Porsche set the world of sports car racing on its ear. Group C rules had just come into effect, and Porsche was ready to bring the fight to all comers with the new 956. Built to a regulation set dependent on fuel economy and ground effect aerodynamic performance, the 956 was the apex of speed and efficiency, and it (along with its …
Continue to the full articleThis is what it’s like to drive a Porsche 917 on the street
There is hardly a more iconic racing car than Porsche's 917. It was extremely successful in its day, and delivered the kind of speed never thought possible at tracks like La Sarthe and Daytona. Only about 50 were ever built in-period from 1968 to 1973, and only one of them was ever converted to road car specification. Obviously there's no way …
Continue to the full articlePorsche legend Vic Elford has died at 86
Sports car, rally, Formula One, and endurance racing legend Quick Vic Elford passed away on Sunday, March 13th. Aged 86, the motorsport phenom succumbed to his prostate cancer after over a year of battling with the vicious disease. Elford touched many Porsche fans' lives over the decades, as he remained a life-long ambassador for the brand with …
Continue to the full articleLe Mans winner Earl Bamber leaves Porsche squad to drive Cadillacs for Chip Ganassi
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 …
Continue to the full articleDespite strong qualifying form Porsche falls short of Le Mans 24 glory
Leading up to the 24 Hours of Le Mans this year, Porsche looked in an extremely strong position to score yet another class victory in the world's greatest endurance sports car event. In both GTE Pro and GTE Am, there were nice shiny 911 RSRs sitting on the class pole. Despite over 19 percent of the grid being powered by Porsche's four-liter …
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