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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The Koenig C62 Is Quite Literally A Race Car For The Road
Race car for the road is a term that gets bandied about a bit too often these days. Often it's a moniker applied to a hot hatchback or something else quite clearly developed expressly for road use. This wild Koenig, however, is a Porsche 962 that has been modified only slightly for street legality. It's still a race car at heart, but now it has …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Secures Top-3 Starting Positions In Daytona 24 Qualifying Race To Kick Off IMSA Season
It's been quite a long time since we've seen a Daytona 24 Hour entry list so short on Porsche entries. With the factory GTLM program having ended at the close of the 2020 season, Porsche was looking to be absent from GTLM for the first time since the series convergence in 2014. Thankfully the WeatherTech racing team stepped up to the plate from …
Continue to the full articleThis One-Off Track-Spec Carrera GT-R Can be Yours for a Cool $1M
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 …
Continue to the full articleThis 80-Year-Old Just Bought His 80th Porsche, A New Boxster Spyder
It's a very happy Christmas season for Ottocar J., an 80-year-old Porsche fanatic from Vienna who just picked up his 80th model from the company's catalog. And honestly, I'm not sure he could have picked a better example to commemorate the joyous occasion, as he optioned a gorgeous Miami Blue four-liter-powered Boxster Spyder. He event went with …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Is Going Back To Le Mans With A New LMDh Race Car
For the first time since Porsche's RS Spyder LMP2 effort in the 2000s, the Stuttgart brand will be fielding an endurance sports car racer in top-flight championships on both sides of the Atlantic simultaneously. With new LMDh prototype regulations scheduled to hit in IMSA and the FIA WEC at the same time, for the 2023 season, Porsche will be …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Defends Intercontinental GT Challenge Title With Podium Finish At The 9 Hours Of Kyalami
This weekend in Africa, Porsche scored enough points with a third-placed finishing position in the 9 Hours of Kyalami to clinch its second IGTC championship in a row. Porsche's 2020 championship hinged on winning the 24 Hours of Spa, as it had a podium finish at the 12 Hours of Bathurst but placed poorly at the 8 Hours of Indianapolis. Getting top …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s 992-generation GT3 Cup Race Car Is Bigger And Faster Than Ever
There's been a new generation of 911 in town for quite some time now, and it's about time that the Stuttgart-based sports car giant finally built it into a race car. The GT3 Cup is among the best selling race cars of all time, and Porsche moves a mess of these with each subsequent generation. Not only are they eligible for major international …
Continue to the full articleA Hillclimb Porsche 906 Running Flat Out Makes One Of The Best Noises A Car Can Make
A modest shape, a good amount of suspension travel, and just enough power to spin the driven wheels is a dependable formula for hillclimbing success. This 1966 906 Carrera 6 has all three, and in the hands of hillclimber Mario Sala, we get a glimpse of how playful, accurate, and energizing a classic formula like this is on narrow Italian mountain …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Finds Surprising Pace In Pre-Season Formula E Testing
Porsche's premier season in Formula E began just one year ago, and through that tumultuous year the Porsche 99X Electric found a few moments in the sun, scoring a decent points haul across the 2019-20 season. While most of those points were found by definitive team Number One Andre Lotterer, his teammate Neel Jani managed to secure a few for …
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