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Porsche and motorsports. The two are virtually inseparable.  It is the most successful manufacturer by far in the history of international sports car racing.

Porsche has been successful in many branches of motorsport of which most have been in long distance races. Despite their early involvement in motorsports being limited to supplying relatively small engines to racing underdogs up until the late s.

Значение логотипа. Логотип компании Porsche представляет собой герб, на котором изображены: гарцующий конь и рога оленя, обрамленные красными полосами. Эмблема полностью посвящена родному городу концерна – Штудгарту. Полосы и рога являются символами города, а жеребец изображен в связи с тем, что изначально на месте города, в 950 году стояла конная ферма, вокруг которой постепенно и был отстроен целый город.

Porsche Motorsport — германская автогоночная команда, представляющая собой подразделение автомобильной компании Porsche. Команда постоянно участвует и побеждает во многих гонках.

The program has also gone on to win the 84th running of Le Mans in a driven by Neel Jani , Romain Dumas , and Marc Lieb. Fuel consumption calculated for vehicles with standard specification only. Penske Racing won the LMP2 championship on its first full season in and against Acura in and Circuit of the Americas.

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Over the course of the last 61 years the world-famous manufacturer from Stuttgart has tasted success in numerous areas and categories of motorsport, winning races and championships on virtually every level of the sport.

It is the most successful manufacturer by far in the history of international sports car racing. The Porsche tradition of Le Mans glory began in when French drivers Veuillet and Edmond Mouche scored class win for cars under cc in the 24 Hours of Endurance - the first German sports car victory following World War II. Porsche drivers have felt at home at Le Mans ever since, perhaps even more so than at any other track in the world. In , Porsche captured its first overall win in Le Mans with Hans Herrmann and Dick Attwood driving a Porsche short-tail, five liter, 12 cylinder hp coupe.

Porsche went on a run to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans from to , and no less than a total of 16 times up to ; no other manufacturer can even come close to that record. Porsche has more than 50 class wins at Le Mans as well. The next year, in a similar A Spyder, Edgar Barth outdistanced the single-seater Formula I cars to win the Formula II class and finish first at the German Grand Prix. To prove it could win in Formula I, Porsche built its first eight-cylinder motor and American Dan Gurney drove the Porsche F1 racer to victory in at the French Grand Prix.

In - 86, the Porsche , the AWD monster turbo, won the Pharaoh Rally in Egypt and the tough Paris-Dakar Rally from Europe to the tip of Africa.

More recently, American Jeff Zwart has taken various Porsche models to five class wins at the Pikes Peak Hill Climb in Colorado.

In North America, the two most important endurance races - the 12 Hours of Sebring and the 24 Hours of Daytona - are the standards for sports car performance and longevity.

Porsche , , , and have all taken overall victories at the 12 Hours of Sebring. In fact, in recent years, Porsches have made up almost one-half of the overall entry list at Daytona. The Porsche GT3 Cup, now the standard-bearer in the Grand-Am series, has won more Grand-Am GT Championships than anyone. It developed more than horsepower in Can Am form and won every series it was eligible to enter before being outlawed after the season by the FIA and the by the SCCA.

From the fall of to the end of , the and K had an almost perfect record in its European racing ventures, losing only the Le Mans race to Ferrari as all the cars had unrelated mechanical problems. The car would have had a short, but spectacular history - ending in with the FIA rules changes - had not the SCCA agreed to include the car in its growing Can-Am series.

Also in at Talladega, Ala. Among the many victories for this powerful production-based racecar were overall wins in the 24 Hours of Le Mans , the 24 Hours of Daytona , and the 12 Hours of Sebring What began as an engineering exercise in to meet the new FIA Group C regulations turned out to be the most successful prototype in motorsports history.

The Porsche Motorsport History