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Porsche Teams Brings Multiple Winners to Northeast Bullring
Porsche customer teams come loaded with winners at the GT-only race on the road racing bullring known as Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Connecticut. The 2-hour, 40-minute Northeast Grand Prix, part of the 2021 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, will feature four Porsche race cars on July 17. All Porsche 911-based race cars are entered by … Continue reading
Porsche Privateer Quartet Looks to Perform on Six-Hour Stage
A quartet of Porsche privateer race teams look to continue the German marque’s success on the great stages of North American endurance racing. This upcoming weekend at one of the United States’ most historic road courses, WeatherTech Racing, Team Hardpoint EBM, Pfaff Motorsports and Wright Motorsports each bring a class-specific Porsche 911-based race car (911 … Continue reading
Porsche Privateer Carries Marque to Motor City
Since IMSA’s founding over 50 years ago, Porsche remains the sole manufacturer to enter every GT event held by North America’s premier sports car racing series. That record-extending streak will continue at the Chevrolet Sports Car Classic on the Belle Isle Street Course, June 11 – 12. The 100-minute IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race, a … Continue reading
Top Porsche Customer Teams Come to Sebring 12-Hour with High Expectations
Porsche customer teams head into round two of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with high expectations. This year marks the 69th running of the tradition-steeped Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring at the Florida race track. In 2020, Porsche racing cars won both GTLM and GTD classes at Sebring International Raceway. Now, the teams look … Continue reading
The New Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Race Car Is a Winner
Following the first of two days of open testing, the verdict on the new Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race car is back. The decision: it is fast, comfortable and ready to race. Making its international customer debut today at Sebring International Raceway, the first race car produced on the type 992 chassis, turned 420 laps … Continue reading
Legge, Nielsen to Finish IMSA Season in No. 88 Team Hardpoint EBM Porsche
In an announcement appropriate for International Women’s Day, Katherine Legge and Christina Nielsen were named Monday to complete the 2021 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season together in the No. 88 Team Hardpoint EBM Porsche 911 GT3R. Coinciding with that news is that the team is expanding to a two-car effort for the remainder of the … Continue reading
Porsche Carrera Cup North America Teams Start Announcing Plans
Two significant players in Porsche customer racing are among the first to announce their plans for the inaugural season of the Porsche Carrera Cup North America. One, Molitor Racing Systems (MRS), is a longtime entrant in international Porsche one-make racing but new to the North American market. The second, 311RS Motorsport, is a United States-based … Continue reading
Wright Motorsports’ Porsche 911 GT3 R finishes fourth at Daytona
The Porsche customer team Wright Motorsports has secured fourth place in the GTD class at the 24 Hours of Daytona. Factory driver Patrick Long from the USA shared driving duties in the No. 16 Porsche 911 GT3 R with his compatriot Trent Hindman, Jan Heylen from Belgium and Klaus Bachler from Austria. Over long stretches, … Continue reading
2021 IMSA season comes alive for Porsche customer race teams with annual pre-season Daytona test
Any sense of the familiar is a welcome sight in these “unique” times and the ROAR Before the Rolex 24 is a very familiar and welcome sight to start the new year. While the traditional first weekend of January date for the multi-day IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge open test has … Continue reading
Team Hardpoint EBM Enters IMSA with Porsche 911 GT3 R
Under the banner of the previously announced joint venture between Team Hardpoint and Earl Bamber Motorsport (EBM), Team Hardpoint will return to principal Rob Ferriol’s roots for the 2021 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GT Daytona (GTD) season. In addition to the recently unveiled 2021 Porsche Carrera Cup North America program, Team Hardpoint EBM will enter … Continue reading
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