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The new 911 GT3 R race car goes to Sebring for a final shakedown. A 30-hour endurance test on the former airfield in Florida confirms the car is ready to go for the 2016 season.
After the successful 2015 season when it took overall victory in Le Mans and won the constructors’ and drivers’ World Championship titles, Porsche finds itself in the role of the title defenders in 2016 – with new starting numbers.
Porsche has recognised outstanding achievements over the 2015 season at the Night of Champions motorsport gala in Weissach on Saturday. On this occasion, the Porsche CEO, Oliver Blume, provided the first prospects for the upcoming season.
All the six works drivers who have been competing regularly in the Porsche 919 Hybrid are going to race again in the 2016 FIA WEC. In the 24 hours of Le Mans Porsche will enter two instead of their recent three LMP1 cars.
In the last race of the FIA World Endurance Championship(WEC) in Bahrain, Porsche has won the drivers' title in the LMP1 class and three championship titles in the GTE classes.
At the FIA WEC season finale in Bahrain, Porsche has taken pole position and the second spot for the eighth consecutive time. The 911 RSR starts from the third GT grid row.
After Porsche secured its first manufacturers’ world championship since 1986 on November 1 in Shanghai, the next target is to try and take the drivers’ title at the FIA World Endurance Championship’s finale on November 21 in Bahrain.
By taking the fifth victory in a row Porsche has made itself a World Champion in the LMP1 class at the FIA World Endurance Championship in Shanghai. The Porsche 911 RSR secured the third win of the season.
