It has all the makings of a bad breakup. WeatherTech Racing and partner team Proton Competition are abandoning the Porsche brand for the remainder of their 2022 IMSA GTD Pro campaign, and made it a very public split with a formal press release on Tuesday afternoon. At least some of the beef seems to be in the fact that Porsche didn't lend …
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WeatherTech Racing return to IMSA with Porsche GTD Pro program
The 2022 IMSA grid continues to take shape with new announcements of racing efforts coming left, right, and center. Following the recent information that Pfaff Motorsports would enter a 911 GT3 R in the new-for-2022 GTD Pro category, the WeatherTech floormat empire announced that it would be joining them, with a twist. The 2021 GTLM class effort …
Continue to the full articlePorsche takes two awesome fuel saving victories in IMSA Road America round
Porsche has a long history of supplying racing GT-class sports cars to customer racing teams. That long history continued to pay off for the crested brand this weekend with a two-pronged customer attack on the IMSA GTLM and GTD categories with WeatherTech Racing and Pfaff Motorsports. While weather threatened to impact the two hour and forty minute …
Continue to the full articleThis 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 articleRemember Leh Keen’s Porsche 911 Safari? Well, He Built A 2nd One. It’s Awesome and There Are More To Follow!
By now, most of you know Leh Keen as both a professional race car driver as well as a budding Porsche collector with a sense of humor. You've probably even seen him hooning his 911 based Safari build across as many rivers, fields and mud puddles he can find. What you may not have known is that while it wasn't his original intent, he's now …
Continue to the full articleA Porsche Fan’s Guide To The 2016 Mobil 1 12 Hours Of Sebring
Continuing the 2016 IMSA season with another endurance race in Florida, the 12 Hours of Sebring kicks off this weekend for a once-around-the-clock sprint race at an old airfield. This is one of the best races of the year, as the course really takes its toll on the cars, the drivers, and the teams. When you roll up to the grid at Sebring, literally …
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