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june 04, 2018 - Porsche Motorsport

Porsche teams fully prepared for the world’s toughest automobile race

180 drivers and 60 vehicles will fight for victory at Le Mans. With four ca. 510 hp #porsche #911rsr contesting the GTE-Pro class, #porsche fields the largest GT works contingent in the company’s history at the 13.626-kilometre Circuit des 24 Heures. Four customer squads run an additional six #911rsr in the GTE-Am class. At the #test day, fans saw the two works cars with the starting numbers 91 and 92 sporting the traditional Le Mans livery from the 1970s and 1980s for the first time on the track. With 19 overall victories and 105 class wins, #porsche is a record holder at Le Mans.

In slightly cloudy conditions and just under 28 degrees Celsius, all twelve #porsche works drivers worked on optimising various setups at the pre-test. Patrick Pilet (France), Nick Tandy (Great Britain) and the New Zealander Earl Bamber reeled off 912,942 kilometres in the #93 #porsche #911rsr, making them the fastest on the #test day. Richard Lietz (Austria), Gianmaria Bruni (Italy) and Frenchman Frédéric Makowiecki covered 1034,576 kilometres in the #91 #porsche #911rsr and clocked the second best time in the GTE-Pro category. Kévin Estre (France), Michael Christensen from Denmark and Laurens Vanthoor (Belgium) shared driving duties in the sister car with the starting number 92. In the two four-hour #test sessions, they covered a distance of 940,194 kilometres and turned the seventh best lap time. Timo Bernhard from Germany, Romain Dumas (France) and Sven Müller (Germany) completed 65 laps and 885,69 kilometres. They share the cockpit of the #94 racer from Weissach and posted the fourteenth best time.

The customer teams Dempsey Proton #racing, Proton Competition, Project 1, Gulf #racing and Ebimotors campaign six additional #porsche #911rsr in the GTE-Am class. They, too, used the pre-test to focus on the setup and tyres. The driver trio with #porsche Junior Julien Andlauer (France), Christian Ried (Germany) and #porsche Young Professional Matt Campbell (Australia) of Dempsey Proton #racing set with 3:55,970 minutes the best time in the GTE-Am class.