The Penske Porsches Are Coming! The Penske Porsches Are Coming!

ALMS_Porsche_RS_Spyder.jpgThe Corvettes aren't the only ones heading out the paddock. With the Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix ALMS race just 45 minutes away, the Penske Racing Porsche RS Spyders have up, revved and run their 480 horsepower engines out of the paddock just the same as their yellow brethren. These are the same Penske Porsches that…

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Dyson Racing Moves to Porsche, LMP2

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The close personal American friends of Bruce in Poughkeepsie, Dyson Racing, have decided to trade in their Audi Lola for a Porsche RS Spyder, a car which was only campaigned last season by Penske. According to Porsche Motorsports honcho Hartmut Kristen, the Dyson cars will come equipped the same as the Penske models.…

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Whose House? Porsche Motorsports Opens New Center

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Porsche Motorspots has a new, four-bulding complex to house its secret cabal of engineering gnomes, their slide rules and a million gallons of Jolt Cola. The company's swank new center in Weissach is complete, with more than 30,000 square feet of racing goodness — including workshop areas for development of the RS…

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Two R10s Enter, One R10 Wins; Corvette, Lola, Panoz Round Out Sebring…

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Two of the most hotly-anticipated prototype racers of the last um, uh, real long time made their full-series ALMS debuts at Sebring with mixed results. The pole-qualifying #2 Audi R10 of Tom Kristensen, Allan McNish and Rinaldo Capello took the race, while the #1 car, driven by Marco Werner, Frank Biela and Emanuele…

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Porsche Revises LMP2 Race Debut

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Porsche has announced that the RS Spyder, their new LMP2 racer originally set to debut at Road Atlanta's Petit LeMans, will instead make its bow at the season-ending ALMS Laguna Seca event. Commissioned jointly by Porsche Motorsport North America and Porsche Cars North America, the RS Spyder needed a little more time…

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Porsche Announces RS Spyder LMP2 Drivers

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Porsche's busted out with some more details on their American LeMans Series effort, including the names of the men who will pilot the RS Spyder LMP2: Sascha Maassen and Lucas Luhr, along with Emmanuel Collard at Road Atlanta's Petit LeMans. Maassen and Luhr recently tested the car at Portugal's 13-turn Estoril track,…

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