A hush had befallen the entire eight-and-a-half mile track. Everyone was tired from enduring the long French race, everyone was a little warm sitting out in the summer sun and everyone was resigned to a Toyota victory, the squad's first ever. Through some amazing pit strategy and fuel economy, they'd worked out just over a minute and a half lead …
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This Is The Crash That Took The WeatherTech 911 Out of Le Mans
The WeatherTech racing team couldn't catch a break at this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans. First, one of the their three drivers, Cooper MacNeil, became too sick to drive. Then, Cooper's backup, Gunnar Jeannette, was ruled ineligible to drive due to lack of the requisite number of night practice laps. This resulted in Leh Keen and Marc Miller deciding …
Continue to the full articleTruth in 1/32: Mark Webber Provides A Slot Car Guide to Le Mans.
Mark Webber may be larger than life in many respects, the man's motorsport career spans three decades, and he's not yet forty years old. Red Bull shrank the legendary racing driver down to 1/32nd scale to help put the enormity of Le Mans in perspective. With the help of both Richard Attwood and a Carrera slot car representation of Atwood's 1970 Le …
Continue to the full articleA Porsche Fan’s Guide To The 2016 24 Hours Of Le Mans
Porsche is running four factory-backed cars at Le Mans next weekend (2 in LMP1 and 2 in LMGTE-Pro), and they'll be joined by five additional privateer-run efforts(1 in LMGTE-Pro and 4 LMGTE-Am). Porsche fans like you or I should be excited at the prospects Porsche has this year to win the whole shooting match once again. Coming off one of the most …
Continue to the full article24 Hours of Le Mans On Twitter For Porsche Fans
Porsche won this big race overall last year, and we could not have kept astride of the goings on of the race without social media. Aside from the usual television and radio broadcasts, today we have even greater access to online streaming, live in-car video, and most importantly, Twitter. For long endurance races like this one, Twitter can be an …
Continue to the full article5 Factors That Go Into Porsche’s 24 Hours of Le Mans Racing Strategy
In less than two weeks time Porsche will be competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The team has competed continually since the early 1950s, and this is their 3rd outing in the 919 Hybrid. While every year is important, this year is especially so as Porsche are both the current title defenders and the leaders in both the manufacturers' and drivers' …
Continue to the full articleLEGO Fans Create The Coolest Porsche Films Ever In The Porsche Dream Race Contest
A few months ago, LEGO and Porsche announced a contest for builders and filmmakers to upload a video for a chance to win VIP tickets to the 2016 Le Mans 24 Hours. There were hundreds of entrants, but only one can actually win. In this short clip from the LEGO YouTube channel, they've shown us the finalists in the contest, as well as the winning …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s GT Results From The Le Mans Pre-Test
The official pre-test on Sunday marks the start of the final stage of preparations for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Porsche Motorsport factory team is campaigning two 911 RSR at the 84th running of the prestigious long distance classic with the overall Le Mans winners Earl Bamber and Nick Tandy in the GTE Pro class. The squad used this test to …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s LMP1 Results From the Le Mans “Pre-Test”
The 2016 Le Mans event has begun: The Porsche Team has used the official pre-test to set up the two Porsche 919 Hybrids for the 24-Hour marathon scheduled to begin on June 18th. Yesterday provided the only opportunity for Porsche to test on the 13.629 kilometer long Circuit de la Sarthe. The track includes 9.2 kilometers of what are normally public …
Continue to the full articleMaking sense of the numbers; the Porsche 917 film cars.
All told Porsche produced 59 917s*. Over the course of the model's run it came in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. With turbochargers, without turbochargers, short tail, long tail, with and without a roof. The 917's history is so varied, it even raced a decade after its heyday under the Kremer banner. With such a wide array of 917s built and …
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