Porsche’s goal to create the world’s top performing sports cars has always come through efficiency; driven by what daring thinkers have crafted for the circuit then transferring it to the road. The first to announce its participation in the new international prototype racing platform known as LMDh (Le Mans Daytona Hybrid), Porsche was also the first to make its debut on a test track. Its testing kilometres assisted the development of the standardised hybrid technology that will be shared across all competitors, and it was the first to complete a 36-hour-long pre-season test.
Passion to perform and improve
The passion to perform and improve its roadgoing counterparts has pushed the most successful sports car racing manufacturer to create a car that will contend for a record-extending 20th 24 Hours of Le Mans overall victory in the World Endurance Championship’s (WEC) LMDh category and in the GTP class of North America’s top long-distance series, IMSA. This month Porsche hopes to extend its current record at Daytona to 23 overall race victories.
Dating back to the unanticipated 1963 Porsche 550 Coupe and continuing regularly up to and including the Porsche 919 Hybrid, which scored a Le Mans hattrick for Porsche when it scooped overall victory in 2015, 2016 and 2017, the Weissach-based Porsche Motorsport ‘brain trust’ has pushed expectations, performance and efficiency with legends such as the 907, 908, 917 K, 936, 956, 962, RS Spyder and now with the icon in the making, the 963.
This weekend Porsche will put its boundary pushing technology to the test on a global stage, when the 963 debuts at the 24 Hours of Daytona. One of the world's most accomplished endurance-racing drivers, Hurley Haywood, reflects on the sports car manufacturer’s successful history of moving forward, while staying true to its past.
It takes more than one calculated gamble during a career to reach more than 30,000 race victories. They do not come without courageous minds willing to dream bigger and drive limits further. In 2023, Porsche sets out on its newest challenge, one that will drive not only the future of the German sports car manufacturer but the automotive landscape as a whole. As it has always done, the marque will use motorsport to test its boundary pushing technology.
The Porsche 963, which makes its international competition debut on January 28/29 at the 24 Hours of Daytona, is the latest iteration of a decades-old tradition of testing its industry advancing technology on the race tracks of the world. Motorsport is a calculated gamble where every detail is dissected to maximise its return but testing and preparation only go so far. This is where the gamble begins.
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Passion to perform and improve
The passion to perform and improve its roadgoing counterparts has pushed the most successful sports car racing manufacturer to create a car that will contend for a record-extending 20th 24 Hours of Le Mans overall victory in the World Endurance Championship’s (WEC) LMDh category and in the GTP class of North America’s top long-distance series, IMSA. This month Porsche hopes to extend its current record at Daytona to 23 overall race victories.
Dating back to the unanticipated 1963 Porsche 550 Coupe and continuing regularly up to and including the Porsche 919 Hybrid, which scored a Le Mans hattrick for Porsche when it scooped overall victory in 2015, 2016 and 2017, the Weissach-based Porsche Motorsport ‘brain trust’ has pushed expectations, performance and efficiency with legends such as the 907, 908, 917 K, 936, 956, 962, RS Spyder and now with the icon in the making, the 963.
This weekend Porsche will put its boundary pushing technology to the test on a global stage, when the 963 debuts at the 24 Hours of Daytona. One of the world's most accomplished endurance-racing drivers, Hurley Haywood, reflects on the sports car manufacturer’s successful history of moving forward, while staying true to its past.
It takes more than one calculated gamble during a career to reach more than 30,000 race victories. They do not come without courageous minds willing to dream bigger and drive limits further. In 2023, Porsche sets out on its newest challenge, one that will drive not only the future of the German sports car manufacturer but the automotive landscape as a whole. As it has always done, the marque will use motorsport to test its boundary pushing technology.
The Porsche 963, which makes its international competition debut on January 28/29 at the 24 Hours of Daytona, is the latest iteration of a decades-old tradition of testing its industry advancing technology on the race tracks of the world. Motorsport is a calculated gamble where every detail is dissected to maximise its return but testing and preparation only go so far. This is where the gamble begins.
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