Volkswagen Group nemesis Audi has brought three cars to Le Mans for years, and now Porsche's joining the three-car party. But who will drive it, you ask? Porsche they'll choose from their own GT driver pool, but rumors still suggest some names from F1 may have a go.
Say it with me now: I WILL HAAAAAAAAVE YOU, . YOU ARE MINE, NEMESISSSSSSSSSS.
Naturally, any mere suggestion (much less an from the team itself) that a top-level seat in motorsports is open during the silly season can lead to a boatload of rumors being floated around.
Despite guesses that this may be where possibly unemployed Formula One driver is headed, or that even may have a go in Le Mans despite heading to McLaren in F1 next year, Porsche insists that they will promote drivers internally from their GT roster instead.
Neither Jenson Button nor Kevin Magnussen know if they're really going to stick around for McLaren…
suggests that these drivers will likely be Frederic Makowiecki, Nick Tandy and Michael Christensen. Not a single name from Formula One. Nope. Stop it. Porsche asks that you please stop it. Stop it right now, per the Germans. Das haltensomething. Nein!
Of course, internal poachin' opens up spots on the GT side. Former F1 driver Giancarlo Fisichella picked up an AF Corse GT ride. I'm just throwin' that out there for maximum lulz.
The third car will only run at two races on the World Endurance Championship schedule: the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. Since most of the competitors no longer run the , Spa is the new home of Le Mans' dress rehearsals. (Not a bad choice, but it's still only a six-hour race, grumble grumble.)
The World Endurance Championship is now holding a six hour race in Austin at the Circuit of the…
Because this is Black Flag, and because I'm not required to present the news in a 100% unbiased manner, let me tell you exactly how this makes me feel. Everyone knows I'm a massive . I have a Porsche...racecar........for endurance racin', no less. And it's even painted up like a famous Porsche Le Mans car.
If you are a Porsche fan and you weren't either in Austin at Circuit of the Americas this weekend…
Let me tellllllll youuuuuu how this makes me feeeeeeel.
I want to hug everyone and everything in the universe right now. I can't because I'm quite sick from the last cold snap, but let me tell you, this 'tussin combined with this news of is making me hallucinate rainbows and unicorns made of pure love and happiness right now.
I'm going to have the greatest Porsche-919-and-cough-syrup-fueled fairytale dreams of Prince Webber Charming doing burnouts in Porsche's three LMP1-H cars, all at once, all by himself, using magic or something because that's really impossible.
Just don't break this year. I want a good, clean fight 'til the end, and now Porsche has a third car to hedge their bets against wayward Pro-Am Ferraris and/or troublesome powertrain woes.
Hugs. Hugs and kisses. And winning. Hey, someone's got to take over for VAG in case Please be Porsche?
Despite today's news that Audi isn't heading to Formula 1, somewhere nestled between the rumors and