Necessity is the mother of invention, and as the demands of motorsport have grown over time, the steering wheel has evolved to suit. From a simplistic, leather-bound design to today's rotating information centers, Porsche's steering wheels and their marked evolution are indications of how quickly racing pushes technology …
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Three Racing Veterans Reminisce on Their Time with the Porsche Family
Since parting company with the 919 Hybrid, Marc Lieb, Romain Dumas, and Timo Bernhard have returned to their roots in GT racing, with each of them driving for Porsche's customer teams at this year's 24 Hours of Spa. Recapping on nearly two decades of racing, much of which they shared as teammates, the three drivers have clearly lost none of the …
Continue to the full articleWill This Cayman R-GT Concept Go Into Production?
Privateers have been rallying Porsche's Cayman GT4 in FIA R-GT class racing for a couple seasons now—it was 997 GT3s before that. Now, Porsche is putting a corporate toe in the water to investigate whether the company could sell a ready-made Caymany R-GT to the buying public. Next weekend in Germany, Porsche will unveil a specially-built …
Continue to the full articleRomain Dumas Drives a Rally-Spec Cayman GT4 Past the Limit of Adhesion
Getting to see a Le Mans ace and outright record holder at Pikes Peak behind the wheel of anything is special. It's even better when those visuals are complemented by one of the most glorious exhaust notes in the world of motorsport. Romain Dumas has mastered most vehicles with four wheels, and as he's a curious, old-school kind of driver …
Continue to the full articlePorsche’s Photos And Results From The 2018 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb
Porsche, and other manufacturers, are starting to take the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb quite seriously indeed. After years of running an amalgam of privateer efforts with Jeff Zwart at the wheel, Porsche hired the man himself to mastermind a whole class of motorsport superstars in Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsports. David Donohue also entered …
Continue to the full articleWatch as Romain Dumas Scares The Crap Out Of Unsuspecting Ride Share Passengers
Have you ever used Uber or Lyft? If so, you know that part of the program is they provide you with information on your driver and their car (this is partly so you can recognize them and partly for safety). So, imagine you're off to the airport and waiting for your car to arrive expecting a well sorted Toyota Camry or maybe even a nice Mercedes …
Continue to the full articleRomain Dumas At the Monte Carlo Rally
Romain Dumas is in his element on both the tarmac and snow and ice. After winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the FIA World Endurance Championship with the Porsche 919 Hybrid, the Porsche factory driver is celebrating yet another success at the Monte Carlo Rally: At the wheel of his own Porsche 911 GT3 RS, he and co-driver Gilles de Turckheim won …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Makes Surprise Announcement About Marc Lieb And Romain Dumas
Despite having just won the FIA World Endurance Drivers' Championship, neither Romain Dumas or Marc Lieb will return as part of Porsche's LMP1 program next year. In an announcement on Friday, Porsche said, "From the end of the season, Romain Dumas and Marc Lieb leave the LMP1-Team and their seats in the over 900 hp 919 Hybrid Le Mans prototypes to …
Continue to the full articlePorsche Finishes FIA WEC Season In Style by Winning Drivers’ Title!
For the second consecutive year Porsche has taken everything the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) has to offer: victory in Le Mans, winning the manufacturers’ world championship in Shanghai and this past weekend, the drivers’ world championship at the finale in Bahrain. At the six-hour race in Bahrain the Porsche trio of Romain Dumas, …
Continue to the full articleRomain Dumas Explains What It Takes To Convert A GT3 RS To A Rallye Ready 911 RGT
In the most recent episode of Mobil 1: The Grid, famed Porsche factory driver Romain Dumas gives a quick walk-around explanation of his 997 GT3 RS 4.0 that has been modified to rally car specification for the WRC's "RGT" category. Dumas himself piloted the car at the Rallye Monte Carlo just a couple of weeks ago, where he finished second in class, …
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