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Race debut for the new Porsche 911 GT3 R at the Daytona 24-hour classic
Porsche will tackle the 24 Hours of Daytona on 26/27 January fielding a pair of 911 RSR. As the most successful brand in the history of this venerable race, the sports car manufacturer from Weissach now aims to write another chapter in the success story at the season opener of this year’s IMSA SportsCar Championship. … Continue reading
Porsche Holds the Record for Most Rolex 24 Victories
Porsche is the most success manufacturer since the inception of the first Daytona Continental race in 1962, and the first 24 Hours of Daytona in 1966. Overall Wins. 22 (first in 1968; most recent in 2010) (Record) – Overall wins came in: 1968, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978 – 1987, 1989, 1991, 2003, 2009, 2010 … Continue reading
Nick Boulle Joins Park Place Motorsports as Endurance Driver
Nick Boulle is turning laps in Park Place Motorsports’ new Porsche 911 GT3 R for testing at Daytona International Raceway as the official endurance driver for 2019. He brings years of experience on the world’s greatest endurance race courses including Le Mans, Spa Franchorchamp and Daytona. His greatest notoriety may be when he became the … Continue reading
Wright Motorsports Considers ‘Big Picture’
“You win some and you lose some”, but how you adapt is what builds the foundation of a championship-caliber program. The 56th running of the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona saw Wright Motorsports choose perseverance by pushing the No. 58 Porsche 911 GT3 R of Patrick Long, Christina Nielsen, Robert Renauer, and Mathieu Jaminet to … Continue reading
Nielsen, Wright Motorsports Are the Underdog Story of the 2018 Rolex 24 At Daytona
Christina Nielsen’s race at the Rolex 24 at Daytona was part of one of the most compelling stories that developed over the entire event weekend. In her first outing with Wright Motorsports, the two-time Champion and her co-drivers Patrick Long, Robert Renauer and Mathieu Jaminet fought for GTD class points harder than most during the … Continue reading
Porsche 911 RSR sixth at anniversary race in Florida
Fifty years after Porsche’s first overall victory at the 24 Hours of Daytona, the Porsche GT Team fielded two 911 RSR this weekend at the long distance classic in Florida. The 510 hp racer with the starting number 912, driven by two-time overall Le Mans winner Earl Bamber (New Zealand), Laurens Vanthoor (Belgium) and Gianmaria … Continue reading
