Porsche’s director of factory racing Urs Kuratle says his team will gain valuable answers from its disappointing results in the Daytona24. Full story ⬇️
Although both of its Porsche Penske Racing 963 GTP cars led laps on its debut in the IMSA SportsCar Championship, only the #7 car finished the race, 34 laps behind the winner – after a lengthy delay to replace its energy storage system.
Porsche now has just over six weeks to analyse data from Daytona, before the Sebring 12 Hours on March 18 – when the 963 will also make its FIA World Endurance Championship debut at the double-header event. “We definitely learned a lot of lessons here and there were a lot of firsts, issues we never had before that we saw the first time on the car, even though we did 30 thousand, or whatever, kilometres before the actual race. Yeah, there is a lot to analyse.”Photo by: Michael L. Levitt /Kuratle also revealed that the #7 suffered a further delay due to a broken water pipe: “There was a water leak from the combustion engine. A water pipe broke – it was a first as well.
Despite the reliability issues, Porsche did look to be in the fight for victory in the inaugural race for LMDh cars in the GTP class, that feature a common electrical hybrid system. But a spin foron Sunday morning, after a clash with an LMP3 car, cost three laps while bodywork was repaired.
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