There will be four Porsche 911 GT3 R on the starting line of the world’s toughest street race, the FIA GT World Cup in Macau (China) from 15 to 18 November. The Manthey-Racing team will be fielding two of the vehicles to be driven by Earl Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor. Two more cars will be prepared by customer team Craft Bamboo Racing, for Porsche Young Professional Mathieu … [Read more...]
Porsche battle in the 2018 Spa 24 Hours
Porsche took up the battle in the 2018 Spa 24 Hours with four 911 GT3 R race cars. The Spa 24 Hours is regarded as one of Europe’s major long-distance classics alongside the 24-hour races of Le Mans and the Nürburgring. The Spa 24 Hours marks round two of the Intercontinental GT Challenge as well as the fourth race of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup. This was the the … [Read more...]
Video: Fast Lane – Porsche’s Laurens Vanthoor – A rising star
All washed up at Long Beach
The efforts of the factory Porsches over the weekend came to naught, as the two 911 RSRs finished well down the order in the third race of the 2018 IMSA season. All washed up at Long Beach may well be the way it ended for the two works 911s, but it could have been so different. The Long Beach race looked to be a promising one for the two Porsches, and especially after … [Read more...]
Video: How Porsche GT Team Prepare For The Mobil 1 12 Hours Of Sebring
KÜS Team75 Bernhard
Team75 Bernhard is located in Bruchmuhlbach-Miesau, in the district of Kaiserslautern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, about 90 miles (144km) north west from Stuttgart. The team was founded in 2010 by Timo and his father Rüdiger Bernhard. Timo’s father Rüdiger, was himself an enthusiastic racing driver, and participated in numerous events preparing his race cars himself. The team … [Read more...]
Laurens Vanthoor (BEL)
Born: 8 May 1981 Where: Hasselt, Belgium Lives: Waiblingen, Germany Height: 1.80m Career 2017 Porsche works driver 2016 Audi works driver, Winner FIA GT World Cup Macau, Winner Intercontinental GT Challenge, 1st Dubai 24 Hours, 1st Sepang 12 Hours, 3rd Blancpain GT Series 2015 Audi works driver, 1st Nürburgring 24 Hours, 1st Sepang 12 Hours, 2nd Bathurst 12 … [Read more...]
12 Hours of Sebring 2017: Pre-Race
The 65th Annual Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring fuelled by ‘Fresh from Florida’ takes the green flag at 10:40 am (local time) on Saturday, March 18th 2017. The gates opened on Wednesday, March 15, and will remain open 24 hours a day through Saturday. First run in March 1952, 12 Hours of Sebring saw some of the tightest racing over the ensuing 64 years, and this year, the … [Read more...]
