The Japanese raced driver shared the vehicle with Porsche Young Professional Matteo Cairoli (Italy) and his compatriot Giorgio Roda.Spokesperson Sports Cars Model Lines 911 and 718.If you have any questions on this subject, please contact your local Porsche Centre.The 87th edition of the endurance classic 24 Hours of Le Mans at a glance.The Porsche GT Team has prepared optimally for the finale of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) Super Season.The Porsche GT Team will line up on the grid at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with race cars in special liveries.Porsche has claimed an early world championship title win in the WEC. As a result, race cars in these two very different classes of the sport are built in very different ways, for example, to satisfy the rigours of running for 24 hours and repeatedly riding kerbs or ‘baguettes’.I was once told by a seasoned endurance racing driver with many.You do, of course, have to stay out of trouble and do everything right and have perfect pit stops etcetera, but you have got to be pushing for the win right from the off. A lap of Le Mans will typically see cars running flat out for 80% of the lap, which is why the circuit is regarded as a low downforce, high speed circuit. The 2018/2019 success story at a glance.The Porsche Newsroom is a service provided by the Porsche Communication for journalists, bloggers and the online community.

Repairs to a defect exhaust system threw the winning Le Mans trio of 2018 back six laps. The No. Dempsey Proton Racing ultimately had to park the vehicle in the garage after 79 laps after Satoshi Hoshino was involved in several accidents.

The three drivers finished the season finale of the FIA WEC on fourth.In the No. The conspiracy theorists were hard at work accusing Toyota of engineering a win for #8, which is of course highly unlikely, but the negative comments didn’t help Toyota’s situation. The #94 Porsche had a steering problem but the car was otherwise running well.With a little more than four hours to run, the #91 was running in third and the #93 was in fourth position. 86 Gulf Racing vehicle over the finish line in eighth.

Both Porsche 911 RSR vehicles crossed the finish line less than 70 seconds behind the class winner. Firstly the cars are already spreading themselves out within the first few hundred yards, and even at this stage you might only get one car in the frame as they speed by. The GTE Pro class will be significantly depleted with just three manufacturers running two cars each. The Project 1 customer squad won the GTE-Am class and at the same time claimed the drivers’ and team championship titles in the FIA WEC.

The only battle in LMP1 therefore would be between the SMP and Rebellion cars. CORE regulars Nick Tandy, Earl Bamber and Patrick Pilet will again team up in one of the US squad's pair of cars entered under the Porsche GT Team banner.
On the inside of the start of the Dunlop chicane, you get all the LMP1s together, all the LMP2s together and so on, so it is a much more productive, head-on shot.There was little or even no doubt that the Toyotas would rule the roost right from the off, and that is exactly what has happened. It appeared that the #7 Toyota had two punctures in successive laps, causing the car to pit both times. By continuing to use this website, you agree to our use of cookies. You can find more information on the difference between WLTP and NEDC at.Currently, we are still obliged to provide the NEDC values, regardless of the type approval process used.

Update: Porsche customer team Project 1 declared class winners at Le Mans The Porsche customer team Project 1 has won the GTE-Am class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (France).

* Data determined in accordance with the measurement method required by law. This may lead to corresponding changes in vehicle taxation from 1 September 2018. In the GTE Am class, the #85 Ford GT pulled ahead of the hard-charging #56 Project 1 car driven by Bergmeister. 91 nine-eleven with second place. can change relevant vehicle parameters such as weight, rolling resistance and aerodynamics and, in addition to weather and traffic conditions, as well as individual handling, can affect the fuel/electricity consumption, CO₂ emissions and performance values of a car. The #77 Dempsey-Proton Porsche, an early front-runner, was running in sixth place with the #78 Proton Porsche in eighth position and the #86 Gulf Racing Porsche in tenth place.

You cannot put Le Mans in a box, you will always find a sting in the tail somewhere.This year, the two Toyotas had their own dramas between the two of them. This was also confirmed by the Porsche personnel and it has been called a ‘racing incident’ without any blame being directed at either driver. All information offered on Porsche Newsroom, including but not limited to, texts, images, audio and video documents, are subject to copyright or other legislation for the protection of intellectual property. This of course results in some spectacular racing for the many fans.When the chequered flag fell, the #8 Toyota of Alonso/Buemi/Nakajima was declared the overall winner of the 87.While this race may not be described as a ‘classic’ edition of the greatest endurance race in the world, it was memorable for number of reasons. I approached Michael Ried from last year’s winners, the #77 Dempsey-Proton Porsche, and asked him why they were running down in sixth place, and he explained that they had had some problems during the night with the underfloor, where some “bolts had come loose.”.With exactly an hour to go, the #85 Ford GT leader in Am, had to call into the pits for a stop/go penalty immediately after having carried out a regular pit stop. Since 1 September 2017 certain new cars have been type approved in accordance with the Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP), a more realistic test procedure to measure fuel/electricity consumption and CO₂ emissions.