Porsche has recently announced its plans to send a works team to contest a U.S. sports car championship for the first time.
Set to compete under the banner of Porsche North America, the team will field two 911 RSRs in the new Tudor United SportsCar Championship which is a result of an amalgamation between the American Le Mans Series and the Grand-Am Series.
The company has still not announced the driver lineup and it is expected to happen at a later date but Porsche motorsport head Hartmut Kristen said that North America is Porsche’s largest market for sports cars and race vehicles and so they have decided to contest the United SportsCar Championship with a full works program, similar to their commitment in the Sports Car World Endurance Championship 2013 as Porsche AG Team Manthey.
Kristen further stated that since there was now a top-level championship in America in which they can participate, it has made it easy for the company to decide on sending a works outfit from Weissach for the first time to compete in American sports car racing.
Well it’s a good news and we hope that it makes the race and the championship more exciting and competing as well.
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