http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MORAWgzCBxY Here’s a coupe of videos from practice and qualifying sessions at the Nürburgring 24 hour race. The footage mostly focuses on the Mathey Racing Porsche 911 GT3 RSR and GT3 R Hybrid. This should help get you in the mood for the race which starts at midnight tonight (Australian eastern time). Check our guide […]
One of the support races for the Nürburgring 24 hour race this weekend is the Porsche Carrera World Cup event. There’s going to be more than 100 cars taking part with around 25 countries represented. One of the main attractions is Kiwi, and Australian resident, Craig Baird. It may surprise a few to learn that […]
In the build up to the 39th running of the Nürburgring 24 hour race Porsche informs us there will be 33 of their cars taking part. Back for its second year is the 911 GT3 R Hybrid, which came so close to a fairytale debut in 2010. This year, though, race organisers have handicapped the […]
The innovative Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid won the fourth round of the VLN championship at the Ring on the weekend. In doing so it becomes the first hybrid powered vehicle to claim victory on the Nordschleife. The slender winning margin of just over seven seconds can be put down to the GT3 R Hybrid’s […]
There was a six-hour VLN race at the Ring over the weekend, eventually won by the Farnbacher Ferrari. Here’s some footage showing the exit to Pflantzgarten I. All looks good, the lead cars are carrying some great speed through the turn. Off-camera a Porsche and Renault collide and we see the aftermath, luckily avoided by […]
Here is a short film compilation bringing you highlights from the last VLN race of 2010. It focuses on Chris Harris and his mates, Chris Cooper and Guy Spurr, who were guest drivers for Porsche at the four hour mini-enduro. They did alright, too, coming home fifth in class and fifteenth outright. Filmmaker Tim Hahne […]
When Porsche first launched the 918 Spyder in March they reckoned it could lap the Nürburgring Nordschleife in 7 minutes 30 seconds. That’s pretty fast; quicker than a Carrera GT anyway. The graphic above was captured from the Teamspeed forums, and if it is to be believed it makes a claim that the 918 has […]
