The Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race car is the most successful in the world. Since 1998, 2,395 units of the near-line course parking lot for the sport of customers have been produced, and since 2005, Porsche star of the Rolex 24 events, capturing the GT class of this race six of the past eight years, including Farnbacher Racing ( 2005), TPC Racing (2006), Alegra Motorsports (2007), TRG (2009 and 2011), and Magnus Racing in 2012.
Porsche has won the Replica Rolex 24 in a total of 22 times, and have earned 74 class wins. The first overall win was in 1968, with recent victories in 2003 (with a GT car), and in 2009 and 2010 with Porsche-powered Daytona Prototypes. Porsche first class victory at Daytona was in 1966, with the most recent being the last year's victory Magnus. Porsche 911-based race cars have 39 wins and class, while Porsche has won 11 straight victories overall in 1977-1987 symbolic 24-hour event.
"It must be one of the strongest line-up of our customer teams have ever special group," said Porsche Motorsport North America Jens Walther, as he watched the president on the list of members during the test session before yesterday.
"Seven of our ten riders Porsche are here, plus other international racing stars to be added to our top team of American cars of the American Le Mans field during the Grand-Am Rolex season," says Walther.
Although lap times are definitely an important part of many days of testing is in progress for the teams, Walther pointed out that most of the items have specific tasks they are trying to accomplish, which is not related to speed.
"For teams that use drivers who have never ridden Daytona before - and this applies to many of the Junior Porsche Carrera and / Challenge Cup drivers from around the world - learn how to make the most of the elevated oval is a priority others. never driven at night - .. an experience that will receive this evening during the evening practice Others may have experience in the sprint, and will have to practice with a driver change and for the crews and engineers, the challenges are the same dimension. " crew swells to a 24-hour event, so coordination is crucial pit stop. New combinations of drivers require intensive set-up issues to be resolved. Just make sure everyone has adequate equipment and safety can be a priority, "says Walther.
For racing enthusiasts occasionally, the two most well-known names, which will run Porsche this weekend maybe Tony Kanaan, IndyCar star, and his teammate Rubens KV IndyCar Barrichelo, which also has 11 victories in Formula 1 during his career. Together with fellow Brazilian Nono Figueiredo and Ricardo Mauricio will IndyCar drivers must be running one of the two Porsche 911 GT3 Cup racers fielded by Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Brazil series.
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