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With the departure of the Porsche GT Team at the end of last season, the IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship GTLM field may feature just three full-season entries – two of which will be fielded by Corvette Racing.
Despite the painfully small GTLM grid, Corvette Racing’s drivers are still excited at the prospect of taking to the track in the mid-engine Corvette C8.R this year. Speaking to
Sportscar365, Tommy Milner admitted that the absence of Porsche won’t go unnoticed, but acknowledged that the size of the GTLM grid has almost always changed from year-to-year.
“With this GT class, as always there are ebbs and flows,” Milner said. “Some years we have nine or 10 cars racing, and some years we have less than that. At Corvette Racing, we enjoy the extra competition that we’ve had for years.”
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“Porsche develops a car and it has to be ready six to 12 months before the start of production,” says Raeder, who is sympathetic to the plight of Andreas Preuninger, Porsche’s colossally respected GT-series chief and the man whose products Manthey, for the want of a better word, perfects. “Andy can never do everything he wants. We start one or two years later, so have other possibilities, and more knowledge,” he says, before casually dropping perhaps the definitive description of Manthey Racing’s approach. “If the customer comes to us, we can help them prepare the car as Andy would want.”
Porsche s motorsport happenings for 2021
Porsche will be well represented on major international stages of the motor racing scene in the 2021 season, with the company announcing the plans for 2021 at Porsche s first virtual Night of Champions.
In 2020 s motorsport season, Porsche had many a win, like its victory at the Spa-Francorchamps 24 Hours as well as in the final rounds of the FIA World Endurance Championship WEC and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. In his online welcome address, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Porsche AG, Dr Wolfgang Porsche, underlined the tremendous sporting spirit within the company and the pulling together when things get difficult.
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