Porsche returns to Daytona with an artistic nod to former glories.
In what we hope will become a regular feature of Porsche’s blue riband endurance races, the Motorsport team has just unveiled another retro livery for the pair of 911 RSRs competing in the Rolex 24 at Daytona.
In homage to the Brumos Racing RSRs that dominated IMSA during the Seventies in the hands of co-owner and driver Peter Gregg and his occasional teammate Hurley Haywood, both cars will sport a red and blue body stripe made up of Gregg’s favoured number 59.
The Porsche GT Team will field the current 911 RSR in the Brumos-style wrap for both Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring a few weeks later, after which the cars are expected to revert to the standard black, red and white of Porsche Motorsport.
The decision to finish two of the four RSRs competing at Le Mans last summer in both Rothmans and Pink Pig liveries was a PR coup of unprecedented proportions for Porsche’s GT department, bolstered by the fact that it was these unique cars that took top honours in their class. The team echoed this success in last year’s IMSA championship when a car finished in the design from the 911 GT1-98 that took outright victory at Le Sarthe twenty years before clinched the final race of the 2018 season.
So the team will doubtless be hoping that a bit more of that historic luck rubs off this Saturday, when the six-strong driver line up takes to the historic Florida circuit in that unmistakable Brumos war paint. It seems to have done the trick so far with our very own Nick Tandy setting the fastest qualifying lap time to secure pole position for this important first race of the year.