If you're willing to part with a little more than $1,000,000, you can help write an abandoned chapter in Porsche's racing history. The stillborn racing project that begat the Carrera GT, dubbed the 9R3 LMP900, brought along with it a whole host of tech that might've made it a standout. The crown jewel was its screaming V10—a motor …
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Porsche’s LMP Team Has More Sponsors Than You Think
At the highest levels of racing, like F1 and the LMP class in the WEC, it's generally believed that it's the manufacturer who bears the brunt of the financial burden associated with running a team. Sure, squads like Porsche's LMP Team get some dollars from their "partners" but everything we've read leads us to to believe it's probably not even a …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s Results, Video and Pictures from the WEC Season Opener at Silverstone
This past weekend marked the season opener of the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship, the first out of nine rounds, for both Porsche's LMP Team and the GT Team. The six-hour race at Britain’s famous Silverstone Circuit marked the first contest between the reworked Porsche 919 hybrid and the latest Toyota TS050 Hybrid. Despite having won world …
Continue to the full articleIt’s Official. This is Your 2017 Porsche Factory LMP1 919 Driver Line-up
Ever since the Night of Champions when Porsche "officially" names their factory drivers for the upcoming season we had a a pretty good idea of which driver would be driving what type of car. What we couldn't be quite certain of, however, was who would end-up working together to create the three-person teams that make up each squad of LMP1 919 …
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