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News 03/2015 Only a Snapshot. for Eternity. Contents Porsche News 03/2015 Only a snapshot. For eternity. Contents. How do you recognise a good idea? By how long it endures. >> Mission: Future Sports Car 04 17 th overall win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Dear Porsche enthusiast, >> The new Boxster Spyder 10 Unfiltered. It was 64 years ago that we first set off for a little village in the north-west Purely and simply, we have given the 911 Carrera models and the Naturally, we would like to start with our champions. With their help, we of France, the home of an endurance race that has been capturing the Boxster something to once again heighten that sports car fascination. take another look back at the events of Le Mans. A tremendous success, >> The new Black Edition models 16 attention of audiences and racing drivers alike since its inception in the And something that will not let you go so quickly. proving once more that it really does pay to follow your own path. Object of desire. 1920s. What nobody could have foreseen was that we would leave there with our first class victory, and we would come back again and again. How much this means to us can be seen in our extensive efforts in I wish you a fascinating read! >> One Porsche Drive 22 Sometimes as challenger, sometimes as record holder – but always other areas aside from vehicle design. These include the new Porsche The new Porsche Experience Center in Atlanta. with the goal of not only winning, but also gaining knowledge for our Experience Center in Atlanta and numerous activities organised by the >> Full Stop 24 production models. Porsche Sport Driving School or Porsche Travel Club. We are delighted to present these and a whole host of other new developments from the Alexandria Senanayake Brakes that have set the standard. Since day one. In mid June it was time to make our way there again, returning once world of Porsche in this edition. Head of Marketing Communications th >> Quick connections 30 more with an overall win – our 17 in total at Le Mans, building on an Connectivity solutions from Porsche. already outstanding record. An impressive return to the upper echelons of long-distance motor racing that began just one year ago. The dual hybrid >> Porsche Classic 31 system with its innovative exhaust recovery concept in the 919 Hybrid Retro chic: the Reutter key pouch. proved that it was capable of delivering the ultimate performance. One of many insights that can help to develop our production models in the >> Porsche Driver’s Selection 32 future. Lifestyle inspired by the look of a legend. Just how closely these are derived from the racetrack is demonstrated, >> Porsche Tequipment 34 for example, by the new Boxster Spyder. A radical return to the origins of The 911 Turbo with Aerokit. the roadster and, not by chance, an homage to the 718 RSK that caused a sensation at the 24 Hours of Le Mans back in 1964. Delivering an output >> Porsche Travel Club 36 of 276 kW, the Boxster Spyder is the most powerful model in its series to On tour in Africa’s south. date. It’s openly direct, unadulterated and unconditional. Whichever way you look at it: unfiltered. >> Porsche Sport Driving School 38 Master training level in Imola. Further new arrivals designed to simply set your pulse racing: the >> Porsche Driving Experience Winter 40 911 Carrera Black Edition models and the new Boxster Black Edition. Incredible driving experiences on snow and ice. Whether it’s a coupé, roadster or cabriolet – all of the models have one thing in common: a high-quality, attractive equipment package that points to the very heart of its character. The fascinating appeal of the sports car, even more finely honed and guaranteed to keep you captivated. 2 3 >> Mission: Future Sports Car << A single snapshot. For eternity. 14 June 2015, Le Mans: two 919 Hybrid racing cars cross the finish line just a few centimetres apart from each other, this impressive one-two finish ensuring yet another overall win at the classic ‘24 Hours of Le Mans’ endurance race. This is the seventeenth overall victory to be secured here by Porsche – exactly 45 years to the day after the first overall Porsche win in this town on the River Sarthe. No other manufacturer has achieved so many successes at the world’s toughest long-distance championship and is so closely associated with the Le Mans legend. At the wheel of the winning car, number 19, sat Earl Bamber (New Zealand), Nico Hülkenberg (Germany) and Nick Tandy (Great Britain), who completed an impressive 395 laps in the 24 hour period. The 919 Hybrid sporting the number 17 took second place. The spectacular performance by the innovative Porsche 919 Hybrid was rounded off by the third vehicle with the number 18, which finished the 13.6-km Circuit de la Sarthe in a magnificent fifth place. “This one-two finish at Le Mans is a major achievement that we could never have dreamt possible”, said Matthias Müller, Chairman of the Executive Board at Porsche AG. “The team has done a sterling job over the past three or four years, and it really has earned this success.” Wolfgang Hatz, the Board Member for Research and Development at Porsche AG, added: “A one-two finish at Le Mans in the second year of taking part is the reward for the courage shown by our developers – in the design of the 919 Hybrid – and for the exemplary commitment Attracted by the new efficiency regulations, Porsche only returned to During the course of this superb weekend at Le Mans, Porsche recorded of 230 employees.” top-level endurance motor racing last year. The R&D Centre in Weissach another tremendous success: in the GTE-Am class, Patrick Dempsey created the most technologically sophisticated vehicle on the starting crossed the line in second place with the 470-hp 911 RSR from Dempsey grid. With its ultramodern downsized turbo engine and two energy Proton Racing. This was his third time driving for Porsche at Le Mans. recovery systems, the Porsche 919 Hybrid delivers a total system This year, he was contesting the entire WEC for the first time alongside output of approximately 1,000 hp, acting as a fast-paced research lab team-mates, Porsche works driver Patrick Long (USA) and Marco Seefried for the maximum efficiency of future road-going sports cars. (Austria). 4 5 >> Mission: Future Sports Car << An impressive first half of the year. The one-two finish in Le Mans marked the high point of a previously very successful year in long-distance racing for the Porsche 919 Hybrid prototypes. The LMP1 prototype 919 Hybrid clinched a podium position in the very first race of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). The team around Romain Dumas (France), Neel Jani (Switzerland) and Marc Lieb (Ludwigsburg, Germany) won its first trophy with the Porsche 919 Hybrid at the British Silverstone Circuit, securing an outstanding second place. Just a few weeks later, the trio took second position again, this time in the highly exhilarating and action-packed 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. Third place in this race went to another 919 Hybrid: Timo Bernhard (Germany), Brendon Hartley (New Zealand) and Mark Webber (Australia) started in pole position, but dropped back due to a time penalty and a technical failure. Entered for the first time, the third Porsche 919 Hybrid with Earl Bamber (New Zealand), Formula One driver Nico Hülkenberg (Germany) and Nick Tandy (Great Britain) started in second, but lost ground due to an accident which was followed by a stop for repairs. They recovered after dropping to the back of the field to finish sixth. LMP1 919 Hybrid 919 Hybrid 919 Hybrid No. 17 No. 18 No. 19 Bernhard, Dumas, Bamber, Webber, Jani, Hülkenberg, Race Hartley Lieb Tandy Silverstone – 2nd place Failed to start Spa 3rd place 2nd place 6th place Le Mans 2nd place 5th place 1st place 6 7 >> Mission: Future Sports Car << GTE Pro GTE Am On the road to success. 911 RSR 911 RSR 911 RSR 911 RSR No. 88 No. 77 The 911 RSR also put in a glittering performance this season, earning No. 91 No. 92 Ried, Bachler, Dempsey, Long, several podium places even before the start of Le Mans: on the Race Al Qubais Seefried Silverstone Circuit, Porsche works drivers Michael Christensen (Denmark) Silverstone 2nd place: Christensen, Lietz 7th place: Makowiecki, Pilet 5th place 6th place and Richard Lietz (Austria) clinched second place in the GTE-Pro class in front of more than 45,000 spectators. The 470-hp GT racing car Spa 3rd place: Estre, Müller 2nd place: Makowiecki, Lietz 4th place 5th place from Weissach, which is based on the seventh generation of the iconic 911 sports car and has been specially modified in several areas for this Le Mans 5th place: Lietz, Christensen, Bergmeister – Pilet, Makowiecki, Henzler – 2nd place season, was just ten seconds shy of the leader after 172 laps. In the sister 911 RSR, their French works driver colleagues Frédéric Makowiecki and Patrick Pilet had been running in the lead at the halfway mark, but ultimately saw the flag in seventh. In the GTE-Am class, the 911 RSR came in fifth and sixth. At the 6-Hour race on the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, which is seen as a dress rehearsal for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the two 911 RSR models driven by the Porsche Team Manthey in the GTE-Pro class took second and third place. In the GTE-Am class, both 911 RSR models narrowly missed out on a podium place, coming in fourth and fifth.
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