Porsche 911 RSR Archives

1975 Le Mans GT Winner: The 1974 Porsche RSR 911 460 9065

John Fitzpatrick in Porsche RSR Carrera at Le Mans in 1975

Ed note: The history of specific chassis used in notable races decades ago can be hard to verify but are significant to fans of Porsche and vintage racing enthusiasts. Information presented are the thoughts, data, and opinions of the author. Enjoy! This is the story of what happened to a...

Specs & Performance

Porsche 911 RSR 4.2 (991.2) (2019-2021) – Specifications & Performance

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Porsche 911 RSR (2019-2021) – Pictures & Gallery

Porsche 911 RSR (991.2) (2019-2021) – Pictures & Gallery...

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Porsche 911 RSR 4.0 (2017-2019) – Pictures & Gallery

Porsche 911 RSR (991) (2017-2019) – Pictures & Gallery...

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Porsche 911 RSR (2013-2016) – Pictures & Gallery

Porsche 911 RSR (991) (2013-2016) – Pictures & Gallery...

Motorsport & Racing

What the 2021 WEC looks like for Round 2 Portimão

Round 1 of the 9th season of the WEC was contested at the legendary Spa circuit on 1 May 2021. The result of this race in the GTE Pro class went in Porsche’s favour with the #92 Porsche 911 RSR of Kévin Estre/Neel Jani taking a commanding win. The #91...

Motorsport & Racing

Mini-Series Porsche GT Racing Part 4

This feature, the fourth in our mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (Part 3: 2013-2016) and highlights the continued growth and success of the evergreen Porsche 911 on the UK and European motorsport scene between 2017 and 2019. 2017 Silverstone 6 Hours, 16 April 2017 The Silverstone...

WEC

24 Hours of Le Mans 2021

The Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) revealed just yesterday, Tuesday 9 March 2021, the 62-strong entry list for this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. Announced recently too was the revised date for this year’s race, this being at the later than usual start time of 16h00 on 21-22 August. What will...

Model In Depth

Porsche 911 RSR 4.2 (991.2) (2019 – 2021)

This was the fourth version of the 991 RSR - the first two came with the rear engine, then the first mid-engine version was launched (all 4.0-litre) and finally the mid-engined RSR 4.2 with the largest 911 engine ever made. The increase in the engine capacity is a question mark as on production models the capacities are decreased and turbochargers are used. The 991 RSR 4.2 didn't have anything in common with the production cars anymore. No change in terms of power-to-weight ratio.

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Rennsport Collective 2020 – the best of the best Porsches

Under normal circumstances, this year’s Rennsport Collective would have taken place at the beginning of August, when the weather was a good deal warmer and perhaps slightly more predictable. As it happens, with the onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic, many smaller and some really big international events have been summarily...

Book Reviews

Book Review: Racing Porsche with Style

Racing Porsche with Style © Stéphane Coradi This is Stéphane Coradi’s third publication, and the third of his books that I am reviewing. It must be said that Stéphane’s enthusiasm for his work is so irrepressible, it’s contagious. But that is refreshing, because he really encourages the contributors to show...

WEC

A very different Le Mans 24 Hours

The 2020 motor racing season will undoubtedly go down in history as the most unusual and disrupted year on record. Only twice has the Le Mans 24 Hour race been rescheduled from its traditional June slot, to a later date in September, the first being in 1968 when the race...

WEC

Preparations for the 88th Le Mans 24 Hours underway

Under unseasonably hot conditions for late September, the 88th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours is finally a reality. Postponed from its traditional mid-June date, the world famous endurance race fell victim to the global Corona virus pandemic, but at least we have a date for the race, and...

WEC

Le Mans 24 Hour memories from 2019

As the weekend of the original 2020 Le Mans 24 Hours approaches, 13-14 June, we take a look back at some of the events that took place during the race week in 2019. Had things been running normally in 2020, we would have been on the ground at Le Mans...

Porsche of the Day

Porsche Of The Day: Porsche at the 2019 Le Mans 24 Hours

This weekend is just one month short of what would have been the original 2020 Le Mans 24 Hours race weekend (initially scheduled for 13-14 June). As the United Kingdom approaches 8 weeks in lockdown as a result of the Coronavirus outbreak, we thought that we would dig into our...

Motorsport & Racing

Mini-Series Porsche GT Racing Part 3

This feature, the third in our four-part mini-series, picks up where we left off last time (Part 2: 2010-2012) and highlights the continued growth and success of the evergreen Porsche 911 on the UK and European motorsport scene between 2013 and 2016. Having benefitted from full media and photographer access...

Porsche Video

VIDEO: ENDURANCE

ENDURANCE is a look back at the two greatest endurance races that the Porsche GT Team faced on back-to-back weekends in 2019: the Le Mans 24 Hours and the 24 Hours of Nürburgring. It covers driver interviews explaining the highs and lows, including a look behind the scenes during both...

Motorsport & Racing

Behind the scenes with the Porsche GT Team at the greatest 24-hour classics

Two of the world’s greatest endurance races for GT vehicles within eight days on back-to-back weekends show how Porsche Motorsport and its customer teams faced this extraordinary challenge during the 2019 season. Endurance, a stunning Porsche documentary available on YouTube and Amazon Prime, takes the viewer behind the scenes at...

Motorsport & Racing

Finding Jörg Bergmeister…

PORSCHE ROAD & RACE caught up with the amiable Jörg Bergmeister, to ask him how he has been dealing with the Coronavirus lock-down. With all major motorsport activities on hold or cancelled, and with no end to the Coronavirus outbreak in sight, there is no way of knowing when things...

Motorsport & Racing

Finding Ben Barker…

PORSCHE ROAD & RACE has been out looking for some of the Porsche drivers and finding out what they have been up to during the Coronavirus lock-down that has affected most countries around the world. With all major motorsport activities on hold or cancelled, and with no end to the...

Motorsport & Racing

Motorsport Prospects 2020

After the music had died down, and the last of the revellers had left the party that had just a few hours earlier welcomed in a new decade, little thought was given to life much beyond the next day or perhaps the next week, at best. And yet here we...

Motorsport & Racing

Mini-Series Porsche GT Racing Part 2

Le Mans 24 Hour, 16-17 June 2012: The #55 JWA-Avila Porsche 997 GT3 RSR driven by Paul Daniels, Joël Camathias and Markus Palttala gets the full attention of the team in the pits. This car would finish 33rd overall and eighth in the GTE Am class This feature, the second...

Motorsport & Racing

Daytona 24 Hour Race 2020

This year was the 58th Running of the Daytona 24. It started in 1962 at just three hours in length, expanded to 2000 km, then 24 hours in 1966. The 1972 race was shortened to six hours, and the 1974 race was cancelled due to the fuel crisis in the...

Motorsport & Racing

2020 Roar Before the Rolex 24

The two factory Porsches approach Turn 1 which leaves the oval. The immensity of the grandstands can be seen behind. The factory cars ran well, given that they are brand new cars. Driver line-ups are slightly changed from last year: the #911 will have Nick Tandy, Fred Makowiecki and new...

Motorsport & Racing

2019 Petit Le Mans – Did IMSA leave the best for last?

Michelin is now the track sponsor. Their brand-new tower which has just opened, is 100 miles up the road from their US headquarters in South Carolina IMSA of course has several Marquee events, including the Daytona 24-hour, Sebring 12-hour, Watkins Glen 6-hour, and the Petit Le Mans. The Petit Le...

Motorsport & Racing

Laguna Seca IMSA 2019

Monterey Sportscar Championship, Laguna Seca, 15 September 2019: As usual at Laguna Seca, traffic was heavy IMSA once again came to Laguna Seca for the penultimate round in the 2019 Championship. There was a buzz of excitement in the air at Laguna this year, as the track has scheduled a...

Porsche News

Porsche reveals new 992-based RSR at Goodwood

Over the years, the Goodwood Festival of Speed has hosted hundreds of historic Porsches in its paddocks and up Lord March’s sinuous driveway, but this year the limelight was usurped by a newcomer from Weissach – the 95% new 992-based RSR for the upcoming WEC and IMSA campaigns. The fact...

WEC

Be Cool Be Fast Be First

Project 1 burst onto the World Endurance Championship (WEC) scene at the start of the 2018 Super Season. We covered their arrival on Porsche Road & Race in A New Team On The Block, and What You Need To Know About Team Project 1. While their arrival on the WEC...

Porsche News

Announcing the 2019 Porsche 911 RSR

Improving a Car That’s Already Excellent The Porsche 911 RSR is a car that has won more than 20 FIA World Endurance Championship races. Porsche hasn’t decided to rest on its laurels, though. The company didn’t even want to make evolutionary changes to its winning racecar. Instead, it replaced 95 percent...

Motorsport & Racing

Announcing the 2019 Porsche 911 RSR with 4.2-litre engine

What better way to introduce a new race car model, than to do so as the 2018/2019 Super Season World Champions? This weekend, at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Porsche launched the 2019 Porsche 911 RSR with 4.2-litre engine, the largest engine to power a 911 ever. With this car,...

WEC

Le Mans 2019 – A Show of Strength and Stamina

Endurance racing should be a test of sustained strength and stamina over a prolonged period of time. It is not a sprint, because that is a test of a race car’s high speed capability over a short distance, such as Formula 1. As a result, race cars in these two...

WEC

Le Mans 2019 starting grid

The more things change, the more they stay the same…someone famous once said. Perhaps the same can be said for the 2019 starting grid for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which will kick off tomorrow, Saturday 15 June, at 15h00. With the titles decided in the LMP1 and GTE...

WEC

Le Mans 2019 – preview of race week

Before we arrived in Le Mans for the start of the 2019 week of activities, we knew that the weather was going to be very changeable. Unfortunately we got to our administrative registration too late in the day to still make Sunday’s scrutineering session, but we made it to the...

Porsche of the Day

Porsche of the Day: 2018 Le Mans Scrutineering Ebimotors Porsche 911 RSR

Looking back to the 2018 Le Mans scrutineering of Monday 11 June, the teams, spectators and assembled media enjoyed equal quantities of bright sunshine and torrential downpours. The Ebimotors team gathered with their #80 Porsche RSR for the family snap just as another downpour descended upon all and sundry (drivers:...

Motorsport & Racing

What is your favourite Porsche Le Mans livery?

Le Mans 24 Hour, 13-14 June 2015: Lined up prior to the formation lap are (from L-R) – the #18 Porsche 919 Hybrid driven by Marc Lieb/Romain Dumas/Neel Jani (finished 5th); #17 Porsche 919 Hybrid driven by Timo Bernhard/Brendon Hartley/Mark Webber (finished 2nd); #19 Porsche 919 Hybrid driven by Earl...

WEC

Porsche prepares to defend its Le Mans title

Although the factory squad was crowned the World Manufacturers champions for the first 2018/2019 Super Season, their success in the forthcoming 24-hour race is by no means a foregone conclusion. With the Test Day just a few days away, Porsche will begin preparations to defend its Le Mans title. Porsche...

WEC

What a race – Total 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps

Spa woke to snow falling at 06h30 yesterday morning, and by the time I had made it to the circuit, the temperature was a steady zero. It looked more like a winter wonderland than a racing circuit, to be honest. There are all sorts of rules relating to whether it...

WEC

6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps Preview

Our second trip to Spa in the 2018/2019 Super Season takes place at a time when the teams, across all four classes, have built up a considerable depth of experience and momentum in the championship. This time last year we had a dry race with brilliant sunshine from beginning to...

Motorsport & Racing

If you go down to the beach today

IMSA R3 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Long Beach, 13 April 2019: The #911 Porsche GT Team Porsche 911 RSR of Patrick Pilet and Nick Tandy leads the #912 of teammates Earl Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor away from the start The week’s preparations started well for the factory Porsche team, as the...

WEC

Porsche Le Mans entry list for 2019

On 21 March, the Le Mans entry list for 2019 was revealed for the 24-hour race which is to be held on 15-16 June. Just as in 2018, no less than ten 911 RSRs will be in action, with the potential for that number swelling to twelve if the two...

WEC

Porsche Le Mans entry list for 2019

Motorsport & Racing

Double victory for Porsche at Sebring

There was a double victory for Porsche at Sebring, as the #91 Porsche 911 RSR of Gianmaria Bruni/Richard Lietz won round six of the WEC in Florida on Friday. Not to be outdone, Nick Tandy/Patrick Pilet/Frédéric Makowiecki also grabbed a win in the #911 Porsche 911 RSR in round two...

Motorsport & Racing

Interview with Patrick Pilet – official Porsche driver 2019

Patrick Pilet in relaxed mood during an interview prior to the 2017 Le Mans 24 Hours We met up with Patrick Pilet recently at the Carrera Cup prize giving ceremony and were able to have a word with him… Patrick, the 2019 season started one month ago at Daytona 24...

Motorsport & Racing

Counting the cost of the Rolex 24 at Daytona

Rolex 24 at Daytona, 26-27 January 2019: The #911 Porsche 911 RSR of Patrick Pilet, Nick Tandy and Frederic Makowiecki leads the GTLM class off at the start of the race The 2019 season opener at Daytona will certainly go down in history as memorable, but perhaps not for the...

Motorsport & Racing

Porsche qualifying at the Daytona 24

#911 Porsche 911 RSR driven by Patrick Pilet, Nick Tandy and Frederic Makowiecki Driving the #911 Porsche 911 RSR, Nick Tandy put together a brilliant lap in qualifying at the Daytona 24 on Thursday when he set a new qualifying record for the GTLM class at Daytona during the 15-minute...

Motorsport & Racing

Martin’s Thursday diary of Rolex 24 at Daytona

Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R, a rather striking paint scheme! Despite crewing for one of the teams at this year’s Rolex 24, our man on the ground, Martin, had some time to wander around the Daytona paddock. He sent back some impromptu shots of the goings on before work...

Motorsport & Racing

Porsche at the 2019 Rolex 24

Rolex 24 at Daytona, 26-27 January 2019: Porsche 911 RSR, Porsche GT Team (911): Patrick Pilet, Nick Tandy, Frederic Makowiecki, Porsche GT Team (912): Earl Bamber, Laurens Vanthoor, Mathieu Jaminet The 57th Rolex 24 at Daytona on the weekend of 26-27 January will kick off IMSA’s 50th anniversary season and...

Motorsport & Racing

Porsche and the Triple Crown of endurance racing

Le Mans 24 Hours, 13-14 June 1970: A jubilant Hans Herrmann and Richard Attwood are given a ride on the back of a truck as they celebrate Porsche’s first victory in the French endurance race There are three Sports Car endurance races that have been run over the past sixty-plus...

WEC

Second and third in Shanghai for Porsche after strong effort

Both the factory Porsche 911 RSRs finished on the podium at the final round in 2018 of the WEC in Shanghai. Heavy rain ensured a turbulent race that led to multiple safety car phases, red flags and many changes in position on the track. But a second and third in...

WEC

Porsche’s weekend victory haul with some drama

At the halfway point in the 2018/2019 WEC Super Season, Porsche leads the field in the GT Manufacturers title by a healthy margin. This position was undoubtedly helped by the huge points haul following the momentous 1-2 result in the Le Mans 24 Hour race back in June. But the...

Motorsport & Racing

Porsche on the podium at Laguna Seca

Laguna Seca, IMSA, 9 September 2018: A view over the track shows the morning fog receding as Laguna Seca awakes The IMSA series came once again to WeatherTech Laguna Seca Raceway in California for the penultimate round in the 2018 WeatherTech Championship. The weather was typical California coastal September weather,...

WEC

WEC Round 3 Silverstone 6 Hour Wrap Up

During the closing stages of FP2, I was photographing at Club Corner, just as the cars entered the start/finish straight. The #91 Porsche came past me a few times and as it accelerated up the straight, the engine sounded like it was misfiring. On Saturday evening after Qualifying, in the...

WEC

Silverstone Round 3 Free Practice

The summer break is over, and it is back to business for the Silverstone Round 3 of the World Endurance Championship. With six 911 RSRs in the field, there is plenty for the Porsche enthusiast to see. The works Porsche team is well ahead on points in the tables thanks...

WEC

Silverstone WEC Round 3 Preview

After the summer break, the WEC heads to Silverstone this coming weekend for WEC Round 3 of the 2018/2019 Super Season. Having moved from its traditional slot as the WEC season opener in April, it will be the first time the Silverstone round of the WEC has been held this...

Motorsport & Racing

Road America works disappointment

IMSA Road America, 5 August 2018: A victorious Wright Motorsports after the race The IMSA race this last weekend, round 8 of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, produced rather mixed results for the Porsches. While honours deservedly went to the #58 Wright Motorsport team of Patrick Long/Christina Nielsen in the...

Porsche News

Announcing the 2018 Porsche 911 RSR

Yes, It’s For Sale…. However, the allocation for MY2018 units was already spoken for before this calendar year – all 6 of them, each costing $1.18 million USD. Even Porsche’s head of Motorsport, Dr. Frank Walliser, has been surprised by the level of public consumer demand for the car –...

WEC

Twice around the clock

A little more than twenty four hours ago, sixty cars lined up against the pit lane wall, and without exception, every driver on the grid had his/her mind set on winning the race or at the very least, their class. Now, just twenty six hours later, we know which of...

WEC

Two Days to go – Le Mans 24 Hour 2018

The Porsche #LeMans24 Class of 2018, on 12/06/2018

Qualifying 1 (Q1) for the Le Mans 24 Hour went off on Wednesday night without too much fanfare or drama. Before that Free Practice 1 (FP1) in the afternoon offered the teams the opportunity to put their cars and drivers through the paces at will and so not too much...

WEC

Porsche proves that pigs can fly

Well it’s official, pigs can fly! The #92 Porsche 911 RSR of Michael Christensen/Kevin Estre/Laurens Vanthoor/Dirk Werner may not have topped the lap charts on Sunday at the Le Mans Test day, but they were just 1.3 seconds off their team mates in the #93 Porsche who did indeed post...

WEC

What the 2018 Le Mans BoP holds for the GTE classes

This weekend sees the official Le Mans Test day on Sunday 3 June for those teams participating in the 86th running of the famous 24-hour race. The GTE field is one of the largest in several years, thanks to Porsche and Ford both running four cars each in the Pro...

Motorsport & Racing

Interview with Mathieu Jaminet – official Porsche Young Professional Driver

Dubai 24 Hours, 11/13 January 2018: The #12 Manthey Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R driven by Lars Kern, Sven Müller, Otto Klohs and Mathieu Jaminet finished second in the A6-PRO class Our contributor in France, Lucian Sonea, recently conducted an interview with Mathieu Jaminet, one of Porsche’s Young Professional Drivers....

WEC

Pascal Zurlinden speaks about the 2018 Porsche 911 RSR

The evening before the opening round of the WEC season at Spa, Porsche Road & Race had the opportunity of chatting to Pascal Zurlinden, Director GT Factory Motorsports, about the 2018 Porsche 911 RSR and the competition in the GTE Pro class. Uppermost in the minds of some journalists was the...

Book Reviews

Book Review: Hurley – From the Beginning

© Hurley – From The Beginning (cover) There are just a handful of racing drivers that can list the number and quality of achievements that Hurley Haywood can. True, there might be more than a handful in total, but within each discipline of the sport, there are just a few...

Motorsport & Racing

Gianmaria Bruni talks about Porsche

WEC Spa-Francorchamps 6 Hours, 5 May 2018: Porsche works driver, Gianmaria Bruni, talks candidly to the author during the ‘Meet the Team’ session at the Spa 6 Hour race Born in Rome (you don’t get much more Italian than that!) on 30 May 1981, Gianmaria ‘Gimmi’ Bruni began his racing...

Motorsport & Racing

What you need to know about Team Project 1

Perhaps the opening race of the 2018 WEC season at Spa did not end quite the way the Project 1 team had hoped, but they came away from the Belgian race having learnt a ship load of lessons. Success in motor racing does not come easily, it is earned through...

WEC

WEC Battle in the Ardennes

The first race of the 2018 WEC season certainly didn’t disappoint. From the starter’s green lights, right up until the chequered flag, the excitement hit a high point and didn’t once wane. This was truly a WEC battle in the Ardennes. The start Under bright sunshine, the race got underway...

WEC

2018 6 Hours of Spa Pre-Race Report

The first race of the season, the 2018 6 Hours of Spa, is almost upon us. Thursday saw Free Practice 1 and 2 (FP1 and FP2) and while these sessions traditionally don’t tell you anything, it was nevertheless interesting to see the cars out for the first time in the season....

WEC

Porsche starts the new world championship season at Spa

Porsche starts the new world championship season at Spa in the six-hour race at the famous circuit in the Ardennes region of Belgium on 5 May 2018. This is the first race on the 15-month long Super Season of the FIA Sports Car World Endurance Championship WEC. The 7-kilometre circuit...

The Story

The 911 Carrera Type 964 (By Glen Smale)

Type 964 family line-up in 1990 showing the Carrera 4 range: (from front to back) Cabriolet, Targa and Coupé From a technical perspective, the 911 Carrera Type 964 represented one of the most significant steps forward for Porsche, for many years. The new Type 964 looked like a 911 that...

WEC

Porsche at the 2018 WEC Prologue

Activities have concluded for Porsche at the 2018 WEC Prologue, and by all accounts, it went very smoothly. Run over two days in the south of France at the Paul Ricard High Tech Test Track (Paul Ricard HTTT), this event gave the teams an ideal opportunity to test their cars...

WEC

A new team on the block

Project 1 may be a new team on the block in WEC, but this year, the team celebrates its 25th anniversary in motorsport. This season is certainly its biggest commitment to date as 2018 will see the team from Lohne, Germany, participating in the Carrera Cup Deutschland, the Mobil 1...

Motorsport & Racing

12 Hours of Sebring 2018

Sebring 12 Hours, 23 March 1968: #49 Porsche 907 KH driven by Jo Siffert (left) and Hans Herrmann, with Fritz Spingler (with hat behind car). Siffert and Herrmann were the winners in the #49 Porsche The 12 Hours of Sebring, the toughest and oldest sports car race in the USA,...

Motorsport & Racing

Disappointing result for Porsche at Daytona

Rolex 24 at Daytona, 27/28 January 2018: #912 Porsche 911 RSR, drivers: Earl Bamber, Laurens Vanthoor and Gianmaria Bruni Disappointing is the only way that you can describe the result for Porsche at Daytona this last weekend. Porsche and Ferrari are the only two manufacturers who can claim an unbroken...

Motorsport & Racing

Rolex 24 at Daytona race progress

Final session for 24 hour cars today. Here we see an expensive coat rack getting final prep With the Rolex 24 at Daytona already two-thirds run, we can bring you the latest Daytona race progress. Martin was out and about on Friday once again and reported some interesting pre-race activity...

Motorsport & Racing

Qualifying at Daytona – Diary 25 January 2018

This is the start/finish line and main grandstand Thursday’s qualifying at Daytona was a tense affair, with the top spot being snatched in the prototype and GTLM classes by the smallest of margins, in the closing stages of the session. Martin has sent a batch of interesting shots and we...

Motorsport & Racing

Daytona Diary 24 January 2018

Daytona paddock – 24 January 2018 Continuing with our Daytona diary, Martin has sent us the following selection of images from the Rolex 24. So catch up with the action… Wednesday’s on track activity was limited to practice for the Ferrari challenge and the IMSA Continental Challenge. The Weathertech cars...

Motorsport & Racing

IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship R1 Daytona 2018

Daytona 24 Hours, 3/4 February 1968: Vic Elford, Jochen Neerpasch, Rolf Stommelen, Jo Siffert and Hans Herrmann take the first overall victory for Porsche in the #54 Porsche 907LH Round 1 of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at the Daytona International Speedway will be with us this weekend. It has been fifty...

Model In Depth

Porsche 911 RSR 4.0 (991.2) (2017 – 2019)

Two decades after the different 911 GT1 cars the mid-engined 911 is back! In order to install a proper diffuser under the rear end of the 991, the engine had to make room for it and the engine/transmission unit was rotated 180 degrees. The extended rear diffuser, a top-suspended rear wing and the new side mirrors help to increase downforce with reduced drag. The FIA rules meant no turbo was needed due to power limits, so the normally aspirated 4-litre flat-6 was taken from the 991 GT3 R.

WEC

Bahrain WEC finale 2017

The curtain came down on the 2017 WEC after the Bahrain 6 Hour race this last weekend, and although the winner of the 2017 WEC LMP1 class was known beforehand, it was nevertheless a cracking race. The Bahrain WEC finale 2017 was everything the spectators and fans had hoped for,...

Motorsport & Racing

2017 North American Endurance Cup

At the ten-hour Petit Le Mans race contested on the tradition-steeped Road Atlanta racetrack last Saturday, the new 911 RSR scored its first two championship titles. There, Patrick Pilet and Dirk Werner won the prestigious North American Endurance Cup driving the new 911 RSR. The long-distance classics that count towards...

WEC

The development of the new Porsche 911 RSR

The 911 RSR, which the Porsche GT Team also campaigned in this year’s Sports Car World Endurance Championship WEC, is a completely new development. The key new feature is the positioning of the engine in front of the rear axle. Thanks to this, the weight distribution was improved and at...

WEC

WEC Fuji waterworks

Sunday 15 October 2017 saw the running of Round 7 of the WEC Fuji, in Japan. It is quite typical to encounter heavy rain, even typhoons, in Japan at this time of the year, as a quick trip back through the motorsport history books will show. The teams and the...

Motorsport & Racing

Proton Competition – steeped in Porsche race cars

Located in the town of Ummendorf, approximately 130km south east of Stuttgart, Proton Competition has been working on Porsche race cars for twenty-one years. Motor racing started in the family when Gerold Ried, father to Michael and Christian, began racing with some friends in 1994 and 1995 with a Porsche...

WEC

World Endurance Championship: Taming the Texas Heat

This last weekend saw a convincing performance by the factory Porsches, in both the LMP1 class and GTE Pro class at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Austin, Texas in round 6 of the World Endurance Championship (WEC). The 919 Hybrids romped home in first and second place and...

Porsche Historic Grand Prix Zandvoort

Porsche Historic Grand Prix Zandvoort The crowds attending the Masters Historic racing weekend at Zandvoort were treated to a festival of racing in brilliant weather. To spice up the cars on the race weekend menu, five iconic Porsche racing cars were driven around the circuit which is located in the...

WEC

2017 Mexico 6 Hour race report

The Porsche LMP1 team scored the perfect result in Mexico at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, with a 1-2 finish for the two 919 Hybrids. In the GTE Pro class, Richard Lietz and Frédéric Makowiecki (#91 911 RSR) crossed the line in third place. The #77 911 RSR of Christian Ried,...

WEC

2017 Porsche 911 RSR Explained

It was a long time in coming, or so it seemed, but when the 2017 Porsche 911 RSR was unveiled at the LA Auto Show on 16 November 2016, there were many who could not believe what they saw. A 911 with its engine turned around 180° and with the...

Motorsport & Racing

Disappointing Virginia race results for Porsche

Laurens Vanthoor and Gianmaria Bruni finished in seventh place in the #912 Porsche 911 RSR in the IMSA race at Virginia International Raceway on 27 August 2017 Although it was expected to be a difficult race, qualifying eighth and ninth out of nine cars in the GTLM class and finishing...

Motorsport & Racing

2017 Nürburgring 6 Hour race report

What a wave of jubilation must have swept through the pit garage of the #92 Porsche RSR of Michael Christensen and Kevin Estre when they realised that they had secured pole position in the 2017 Nürburgring 6 Hour. Class pole was set by Christensen on Saturday with a time of...

Motorsport & Racing

World Endurance Championship Round 4

This weekend, the World Endurance Championship (WEC) moves to the Nürburgring in western Germany for round 4 of the series. In the LMP1 class, Porsche leads with 111 points, 24.5 points ahead of Toyota (86.5 points). [Ed – The ACO originally issued the incorrect championship points to Toyota after Le...

Porsche Video

VIDEO: Onboard #91 Porsche 911 RSR at Le Mans 24H 2017

Video: Onboard with Patrick Pilet and Frederic Makowiecki in the #91 Porsche 911 RSR at the Le Mans 24H on 18/19 June 2017...

Motorsport & Racing

Gianmaria Bruni on the 911 RSR

There was great excitement in Porsche circles around the world, when it was announced earlier this year that the Italian Ferrari driver, Gianmaria Bruni, had split from his AF Corse Ferrari team and was to join the Porsche GTE ranks. His contract precluded him from racing for an opposition team inside six...

WEC

Sunset at Le Mans 2017

The 2017 Le Mans 24 Hour race will go down in history as one of the most dramatic in years. If you thought that last year’s race ended in dramatic fashion, then this year’s event was equal to or even more gripping than in 2016. Unavoidably, it involved the same...

Motorsport & Racing

2017 Le Mans test day report

Held on the weekend of 3-4 June 2017, the test day for this year’s Le Mans was run under clear skies. It was an excellent opportunity for the teams to put their cars, drivers, personnel and systems through their paces ahead of the big day on 17-18 June. Below is...

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Porsche’s road to Le Mans

Sixty-six years ago, on 24 June 1951, the first Porsche was pushed tentatively onto the starting grid of the 1951 Le Mans 24 Hour race. The lone, diminutive 356 SL would finish in a remarkable twentieth place overall. Fifty-one years ago, on 19 June 1966, the first Porsche 911 would...

Motorsport & Racing

Porsche made a solid start

Porsche made a solid start to their 2017 WEC campaign, when the #2 LMP1 919 Hybrid (Bernhard/Bamber/Hartley) finished second in the top class followed by the #1 car in third place (Jani/Lotterer/Tandy). On the podium in the GTE Pro class, was the #91 RSR of Richard Lietz/Fred Makowiecki, when they...

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Peter Seikel – the winning Porsche privateer

The Seikel Motorsport team last raced in the 2007 Le Mans, having participated on no less than eleven occasions in the 24-hour race. The team’s highlight in la Sarthe was in 2001 when they won the GT category, finishing sixth overall. No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access...

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New 911 RSR for 2017

It’s out, the new model Porsche 911 RSR was launched this evening at the LA Auto Show. Porsche will tackle the 2017 racing season with its all-out newly developed GT racer which features an ultra-modern, flat-six unit positioned in front of the rear axle. The four-litre, extremely light aggregate features...

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World premiere of the 911 RSR

Porsche will unveil the new 911 RSR racing car at the Los Angeles Auto Show (November 18-27). The eagerly awaited and much speculated about 2017 racer will put to rest all the theories circulating on the new RSR. Absolute secrecy has prevailed as to the car’s layout and engine, but...

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2016 Porsche 911 RSR

From the very start, the vehicle was designed to be suitable for long-distance racing. A new body structure with a longer wheelbase and new intake air ducting provides a solid platform for the efficient delivery of power. The powerplant is a 4-litre version of Porsche’s water-cooled, horizontally opposed six-cylinder boxer...

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