Porsche provides color charts for their classic models on their website. While most of the documents provide the RoW color codes, I find them very useful for determining original color combinations. It's helpful to know that Aubergine wasn't available in '75, or that 936-Silbermet took a break in the early 1980s. Of course, it's impossible to keep …
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Top 5 Air-Cooled Porsche Models with Patrick Long
There are very few Porsche Top 5s the 917 can't win. Top 5 iconic motorsport models? For many people, that's 917, though Derek Bell understandably disagreed. Top 5 wildest Porsches ever used on the road? That's also a fight between the 917 and 962, but my nod still goes to the 917 thanks to Count Rossi and Joachim Grossman's bonkers road cars. Top …
Continue to the full articleSet Your DVR: There’s a Lot of Great Porsche Content on Jay Leno’s Garage This Week
This week on Jay Leno's Garage Jay asks and answers the question, "How do you keep up with two Porsches on a race track? With another Porsche of course!". In this case the Porsches "he's trying to keep up with" are a 911R and Emory Outlaw 356 driven by Patrick Long and Rod Emory, respectively. Fortunately for Jay he has Jeff Zwart and the Porsche …
Continue to the full articleDrive Along in a Virtual Lap of Daytona with Patrick Long
Patrick Long, the man Matt Farah dubbed "The World's Fastest Ginger," raced the 24 Hours of Daytona in Wright Motorsports' 911 GT3 R. In the real race, Long was joined by Christina Nielsen, Robert Jenauer and Porsche Junior driver Mathieu Jaminet. Here, he is alone in a simulator. We expected the Wright Motorsports car to give a strong performance …
Continue to the full articlePatrick Long Will Team With Christina Nielsen For Wright Motorsport IMSA Effort
Batavia, Ohio-based Wright Motorsports has announced a return to IMSA competition in the GT Daytona category after a championship winning 2017 season in Pirelli World Challenge with Porsche's Patrick Long. For the 2018 season, Long will return for his third season in-a-row with Wright to team with two-time reigning GTD class champion Christina …
Continue to the full articlePatrick Long Can Make You Faster on the Track in just 30 Seconds. Here’s How
Contrary to what the laymen might think, there's so much more to going quickly than gusto, bravery, and a double-dosage of manhood. It's an unfortunate assumption made by too many, as reaching the edge of adhesion depends much more on finesse, an understanding of weight transfer, and—crucially—some mechanical sympathy. So much of this is due to …
Continue to the full articlePORSCHE’S Results and Pictures in the IMSA Weathertech Sports Car Challenge at LAGUNA SECA 2017
How The Race Went for Porsche in the GT Le Mans Class With their success at Lime Rock and Road America, Porsche and its drivers entered the race with their heads held high this past weekend at Laguna Seca. At the 10th round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportCar Championship, the Porsche RSRs of Patrick Pilet (#911) and Laurence Vanthoor (#912) took a …
Continue to the full articlePatrick Long Shimmies Through Laguna in a ’68 911 T/R
When you hand the keys of a narrow-tired 911 T/R to seasoned veteran like Patrick Long, you can expect fireworks. Clearly, Long is focused on wringing the classic Porsche's neck and not terribly concerned with its value, but when you've driven the variety of machinery he has, at the level he has, you can't expect him to participate in a …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s Results and Pictures in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Lime Rock
For the third time in three weeks (first Bowmanville, then the Nurburgring, and now Lime Rock) the new Porsche 911 RSR started from pole position. During qualifying for round seven of the IMSA SportsCar Championship at Lime Rock Park Gianmaria Bruni secured the best spot on the grid. For Porsche this is the second pole position in the IMSA …
Continue to the full articlePatrick Long Brings Porsches to Project Cars 2
Patrick Long's love of Porsches runs deep. He has 911s from nearly every decade of production. He's raced Porsches at Le Mans, and currently he's racing a 911 in the Pirelli World Challenge. When the time came for Project Cars 2 to bring Porsche into their game, the list of drivers to consult was probably pretty short. Not many people have both …
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