GTLM class winners Patrick Pilet (France), Nick Tandy
(Great Britain) and Frédéric Makowiecki (France) as does
a blue line across the rocker panel on the side. The No.
912 team car of Earl Bamber (New ealand), Laurens
Vanthoor (Belgium) and Mathieu Jaminet (France) will
have a black windshield banner, rear wing and red stripe
below the doors.
The livery was a natural t for the two racing classics to
celebrate not only Brumos but also the 50th Anniversary
of IMSA. Brumos was a founding stakeholder in the
Series, winning the rst ve of six races in its inaugural
sports car season of 1971 with team/dealership owner
Peter Gregg and a young Hurley Haywood sharing
a Porsche 914/6. Since, the Brumos banner has flown
over 48 IMSA victories and 15 IMSA Championships. At
Sebring, Brumos has been associated with seven victories
in 43 entries dating back to original Brumos Porsche
owners Hubert and Ira Brundage in the rst Sebring race
in 1952. Haywood, the most successful endurance racer
in the history of the sport includes two 12-Hour titles
(1973 and 1981) among his record 10 combined wins at
Daytona, Le Mans and Sebring.
The joint IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship
and FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC)
weekend here in Sebring provides Porsche with an opportunity
to add four more class wins to its career tally
on the 3.74-mile course. In addition to the two Porsche
911 RSR entered in the WeatherTech GTLM class, three
more Porsche 911 GT3 Rs are scheduled to be on the
IMSA GTD class grid (the No. 9 PFAFF Motorsports entry,
No. 73 Park Place Motorsports car and the No. 99 Via
Italia Racing machine) on
Saturday, March 16. Friday’s
development and pays tribute to the mid-70’s prototype
Porsche that gained width, length and extreme aero
updates over the course of its North American racing
career, before the mighty Porsche 962 replaced it in Sebring
victory lane in 1985. The 962 would go on to establish
win streaks of its own.
Drawing from the current IMSA paddock, this 935 utilizes
the distinctive front-wheel arch air vents found on the
GTD class Porsche 911 GT3 R and rides on Michelin racing
tires. Many details of the exterior are a salute to winning
vehicles from the company’s motor racing history
at Sebring, Daytona and Le Mans. The aerodynamically
capped rims echo those of the 935/78, the LED lights on
the rear wing endplates are adopted from the 919 Hybrid
LMP1 race car. The side mirrors hail from the 2018
GTLM class Sebring-winning 911 RSR, while the exposed
titanium tailpipes are modeled on the 1968 Porsche 908.
A state-of-the-art 3.8-liter six-cylinder twin-turbocharged
engine powers the new 935, which is largely identical to
the high-performance powerplant in the road-legal 911
GT2 RS. Power is transferred via a seven-speed PDK
transmission with a rigidly mounted gearbox. Like in the
GT road models of the 911, the driver changes gears via
shift paddles on the steering wheel.
The 2019 Porsche 935 pays homage to the iconic 935,
while being a true interpretation of the original intention.
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The Porsche 935 dominated Sebring from 1978 to 1984.
1,000-mile WEC race
will see two more 911 RSR
“works” cars in the LMGTEPro
class (Nos. 91 and 92)
– in traditional corporate
markings – and four of
the mid-engine 911s in the
LMGTE-Am category (the
current class championship
leading No. 56 of Team
Project 1, Nos. 77 and 88
entered by Dempsey-Proton Racing and the No. 86 Gulf
Racing 911 RSR).
Any win this weekend would add to the unprecedented
history of Porsche at the legendary central Florida facility.
An IMSA victory would continue to push the brand
further ahead in every category at Sebring and add to
the record-setting tallies compiled in the 50 years of the
sanctioning body offering Porsche a tight hold on sports
car racing history.
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