January 30, 2008The guys over at Jalopnik found this cool video of driver Yannick Dalmas doing a backflip in a Porsche 911 GT1 at Le Mans in 1998. Luckily, Dalmas was okay, and the footage is pretty incredible. Click here to jump over to Jalopnik and see for yourself. [source: Jalopnik]
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January 3, 2008Automobile has some cool desktop wallpapers for your computer from the 2007 Rennsport Reunion. Head over to their site to Porsche-ify your desktop! [source: Automobile]
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December 19, 2007Penske Racing has announced that Patrick Long will be driving the #6 RS Spyder full time in 2008. Long co-drove the Penske RS Spyder to a class victory in the 2007 Petit Le Mans. Long is well-known to Porsche race fans, and has been a Porsche factory driver since 2003. He won the 2005 GT2 [...]
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December 19, 2007Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedeking has said that if the ALMS rules are changed in Audi’s favor, Porsche may pull out of the series. The RS Spyder, which runs in LMP2, embarrassed the LMP1 entry from Audi for much of 2007, and Audi is arguing that LMP2 has an unfair weight advantage and wants something done [...]
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December 3, 2007Porsche announced the 2008 911 GTC Cup car that will be racing in the Porsche Mobil-1 Supercup and various Porsche Carrera Cups and GT3 Cup Challenges. The new model will output 420 bhp from the improved 3.6 liter engine based on the regular GT3, up 20 hp from last year’s model. It features a sequential [...]
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October 24, 2007The RS Spyders of Team Penske didn’t take the overall win at Laguna Seca in the final race of the season, but Romain Dumas’ RS Spyder finished the race only 0.41 seconds behind Dindo Capello’s Audi R10. The Penske LMP2 RS Spyders won eight overall races — all in a row — over the supposedly [...]
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October 8, 2007Meanwhile, across the pond, Horag Racing have confirmed they will run an RS Spyder in the 2008 Le Mans series. This is the first RS Spyder entry in the LMS and will replace their Lola-Judd. In addition to the full LMS campaign, they hope to enter the car in the ALMS races at Sebring and [...]
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October 8, 2007It looks like GT2 will be the class to watch in ALMS next year as Corvettes, Vipers, and even a Ford GT are set to join the fun with Porsche and Ferrari. ALMS announced that Bill Riley and Lou Gigliotti will run two Corvette C6′s in next season’s GT2 class. They will be based on [...]
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October 8, 2007After 1,000 miles and 394 laps, Penske RS Spyder driven by Romain Dumas, Timo Bernhard, and Patrick Long finished the Petit Le Mans 0.923 seconds behind the Audi R10 of Dindo Capello and Allan McNish in the closest finish in Petit Le Mans history. The RS Spyder had a 30 second lead with 40 minutes [...]
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September 29, 20072007 Rolex Series GT driver Bryce Miller has signed with The Racer’s Group to drive the #66 911 GT3, starting with the 2008 Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona. Miller will replace Andy Lally, who is leaving for NASCAR, and will fill the lead driver’s role for TRG. [source: Crash.net]
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