Stuttgart. Porsche Motorsport and Team Penske have agreed to collaborate closely in fielding the new LMDh vehicle commencing in 2023. The successful US team will work together with the experts from Weissach to run factory entries in the FIA WEC World Endurance Championship and the North American IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (IWSC). Under the name of Porsche Penske Motorsport, two of the spectacular LMDh prototypes will compete for overall victories in the top class of each of the two racing series. The contract between the sports car manufacturer from Stuttgart and the US racing team, which was founded in 1966, will run for a number of years. A statement to this effect was signed by Oliver Blume, Chairman of the Executive Board of Porsche AG, Michael Steiner, Member of the Executive Board for Research and Development and Roger Penske, Chairman of Team Penske. Beginning in 2023, the LMDh vehicles will represent the very best in endurance racing together with so-called hyper
The two teams will work together to dominate the LMDh class.
Porsche announced late last year that it would be returning to Le Mans, and would compete in the Le Mans Daytona hybrid (LMDh) class of the FIA World Endurance Championship and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. While others like Brabham and Toyota are gunning for top honors in the newly-formed Hypercar class at Le Mans, Porsche has decided that one tier down is a more cost-effective proposition for competition, and Team Penske, with which Porsche has a storied history, agrees. As a result, the two will join forces to create one team to manage competition in both of the above racing series.
Porsche Will Build Two New Le Mans Prototypes With Long-Time Race Partner Penske
The announcement of the new LMDh class at Le Mans has brought the Porsche-Penske duo back together with one goal in mind - winning overall at Le Mans.
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Back in December of 2020, Porsche announced that they will be returning to the top class at Le Mans come 2023. After the FIA WEC and ISMA championships introduced the new LMDh class, Porsche was able to plan a car that wouldn’t suck as much money out of their pockets as the 919 Hybrid did - the car that won overall at Le Mans in 2017.