PORSCHE BACK WHERE IT BELONGS

Imagine world sportscar racing from your dreams. You might think of the 1980s model with Porsche 956s and 962s, the Rothmans works cars taking on a fleet of competitive privateers. Or you might think more broadly, of multiple manufacturers battling for overall victory in the great races on both sides of the Atlantic, topped by Le Mans and Daytona.

Well in 2023 it looks like we’re getting something like all of this, with LMDh regulations coming in alongside the Hypercar, and these regulations harmonised for the World Endurance Championship and IMSA in the United States.

And none other than storied Porsche has fired the starter pistol for it, at the recent Goodwood Festival of Speed becoming the first to give its LMDh car – the newly unveiled Porsche 963 – a public dynamic debut.

There will be four works Porsches next year, two each in WEC and IMSA, and they – in a call back to the 1980s heyday mentioned at the outset – will also compete against privateer