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Autosport International has opened its doors for 2019 – and it’s been a spectacular day of unveils already, including the European debut of Porsche’s stunning 935 ‘Moby Dick’ and a number of British Touring Car Championship cars and driver line-ups. Appearing on the Porsche stand throughout the four-day event, this very special track-only car is inspired by the famous 1970s racer. Revealed a few months ago at the ‘Rennsport Reunion’ event in California, only 77 will ever be built, each packing the same 690bhp, 3.8-litre twin-turbo flat-six and chassis underpinnings of the latest 911 GT2 RS.BAC announced Pirelli as its official tyre partner, which means its Mono single-seater sports car will run on the P Zero Trofeo R tyre. The British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) announcements ramped up for the new season with Cataclean Racing unveiling its race car, a Mercedes-Benz A-Class run by Ciceley Motorsport and driven by Renault Clio UK Cup graduate, Dan Rowbottom, who will make his BTCC debut this season.AmD Tuning revealed its new livery for the team’s Honda Civics, which will be raced by Sam Tordoff and Rory Butcher in the 2019 British Touring Car Championship season, while Motorbase Performance revealed Ollie Jackson and Tom Chilton as their drivers for the upcoming season.The wraps also came off the Series Elite 2019 Jaguar XE SV Project 8 race car. This tantalising championship is a brand-new, one-make race series for over-50s, with each driver grappling with the 600hp, 200mph machine.F1 fans were in for a treat too, with the presentation of McLaren’s 2018 MCL33 F1 Car on the F1 Racing stand, alongside a full grid of cars from the summit of motorsport.
"Not so long ago I was waxing lyrical about my first proper blast in the new GT3 RS. And I seem to remember suggesting a little trip to the track might be in order. I’ve been a tad busy, as have our GT3s you may have noticed, but the planets aligned and there we were: a closed Nürburgring Grand Prix circuit, unbroken sunshine and a GT3 RS all to myself. Now this place is pretty special to me, as it’s where I won my first F1 Grand Prix back in 2009. It’s always good to be back, but it’s especially good when you have a device that’s going to the surroundings justice. Tennis star Angelique Kerber wanted to see the GT3 RS for herself, too The GT3 RS has borrowed heavily from our race car programmes, and the fact that the underpinnings are now all rose jointed, and that it’s running such massive downforce, is testament to how seriously the GT division in Weissach have approached this car. No stone has been left unturned in improving traction and handling or reducing weight. This particular car also came equipped with the Weissach pack, which swaps in carbon fibre anti-roll bars and roof, a titanium roll cage and even thinner carpets. That all saves another 18kg, and I’ll take that any day of the week. You all know how proud I was of the GT2 RS last year, and with that Nordschleife lap record now safely under its belt, you’d be forgiven for thinking there was nowhere left to go. But you’d be reckoning without my buddy Andreas Preuninger and his very busy little team. The GT3 RS lapped the Nordschleife in well under seven minutes"
A pink car on the starting line of a race? And at one of the world's most important long-distance races to boot? This has never happened before. Wait a minute... Yes, it has happened before, in 1971! Back then, Porsche brought a special 917/20 Coupé to Le Mans. The car was a cross between a short and long-tail version. The Porsche Design Studio had it painted pink, and had the car optically divided into automotive "cuts," like on a butcher's diagram. No wonder the car caused a stir. A rather special name was quickly found for the racing car: "The sow." To this day, it remains one of Porsche's most famous cars, although it did not qualify at Le Mans. And because the sports car manufacturer is celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2018, the company is once again bringing a "sow" to the starting line: the 911 RSR with the starting number 92. Even if history were to repeat itself, and this pink racing car were to drop out as well, it would not be a major drama. Rather, it would still be a self-confident appearance put in by a proud automobile manufacturer. But history did not repeat itself. On the contrary. In the Pro category, in which six manufacturers compete against each other, the "sow" finished first after 344 laps in the 86th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
After 35 years, the record has been broken. Timo Bernhard laps the Nordschleife in 5:19.546 minutes. It is May 28th, 1983. A young and talented racing driver is competing in the World Sportscar Championship of the ADAC 1000 Kilometer Race at the Nürburgring to qualify. He is driving a Porsche 956 K, chassis number 007. Nobody expected Stefan Bellof to make history that day. He drives the 20.832 kilometer track in the fabulous time of 6:11.13 minutes. A record! This record was to remain unbroken for 35 years. Until June 29th, 2018. Another special Porsche starts in the Green Hell: a 919 Hybrid Evo. At the wheel, Timo Bernhard. He completes the lap in an incredible 5:19.55 minutes, 51.58 seconds faster than Bellof.
The Porsche Rennsport Reunion VI at Laguna Seca (USA) has more than 60,000 fans of the brand from Stuttgart spellbound. At the four-day event in California, avid motor racing enthusiasts in legendary vehicles and unforgotten works drivers from the last five decades congregate. Around 2,500 vehicles – from the 356 Speedster to the RS Spyder, the 959 Dakar and the 919 Hybrid – thrill visitors with their fast laps in seven categories. The theme of the sixth edition of the Porsche Rennsport Reunion is “Champions”, and with over 30,000 race wins, the sports car manufacturer from Weissach is by far the most successful brand in motorsports worldwide.
Porsche defends championship lead with podium finish in Sebring.
With a typical speed of serve of more than 100 mph, Emma Raducanu is no stranger to power, speed, and agility. The Grand Slam winner and British No 1 recently took a break from her athletic training schedule to explore her other passion, when she took the wheel of a 198 mph Porsche 911 GT3 at Brands Hatch, to the southeast of London, England.
For approaching 60 years, the Porsche 911 has been pushed to extremes on both the track and on the open road. Now, a fresh chapter is being written; a unique pair of experimental 911 sports cars are being tested where there are no roads, where the air is thin, where the temperature is far below freezing and even plant life can’t survive.A team, led by endurance racer and adventurer Romain Dumas, has set out to explore the limits of the 911 and have opted for one of the toughest places on earth in which to begin the adventure – on the sheer slopes of Ojos del Salado, Chile, the highest volcano in the world. The first test of the team and the cars has taken place. And, as a consequence, a Porsche 911 became one of very few vehicles of any kind to have ever reached such an extreme altitude.Exploring up to 6,007 meters (19,708 feet), the 911, with Romain Dumas at the wheel, took on bolder strewn gradients as well as ice fields that tested the abilities of both the car and the team in temperatures hovering 30 degrees Celsius below freezing and with half the available oxygen in the air compared to at sea level. Impassable walls of seasonal snow and ice high up near the summit provided the upper limits of the test, which provided a tantalizing glimpse of what the cars are capable of in the right conditions. For now though, the test is complete – and the team elated by the experience.
The Porsche 911 Sally Special sold at the RM Sotheby’s Monterey Auction on Saturday evening for a record $3.6 million (auction hammer price). In the charged atmosphere of the packed bidding hall, the one-of-one car attracted significant interest, with the final winning offer coming from a telephone bidder. The price was a record for a new Porsche sold at auction, according to the auction house.The sale reunited members of the original Cars team who created both the car in the Disney and Pixar film and the life-size Sally Carrera, based on a 2002 Porsche 911 Carrera. That team included actress Bonnie Hunt, the voice of Sally Carrera, Jay Ward, Creative Director of Franchise at Pixar Animation Studios, and Bob Pauley, who, as Production Designer for Cars, sketched Sally for the first time 20 years ago. They were joined by Kjell Gruner, President and CEO of Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA), and key members of Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur’s Sonderwunsch team including Alexander Fabig and Boris Apenbrink.
Sally Special and Sally Carrera in the Porsche Museum.
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