The Porsche Team and Porsche Newsroom ready for Le Mans
Stuttgart. The Porsche Team is set for the 84th running of the Le Mans 24-Hours race on June 18/19, 2016: Today the team came together for the official team photograph with the two Porsche 919 Hybrids and the six drivers – the reigning World Champions, Timo Bernhard (DE), Brendon Hartley (NZ) and Mark Webber (AU), alongside the current leaders of the FIA World Endurance Championship, Romain Dumas (FR), Neel Jani (CH) and Marc Lieb (DE).On Wednesday and Thursday three qualifying sessions will be held, running up to midnight on both days. On Friday at 1:00 pm there will be the Porsche press conference. In 2016, for the first time, it will be broadcast live on the digital Porsche Newsroom at: https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/lemans2016
This public news site is accessible without registration and offers live information during the race as well as the best stories, pictures, facts and background information about Porsche racing in Le Mans on the click of a mouse:
The preview: https://goo.gl/Y8L0Nb
The race strategy in Le Mans: https://goo.gl/J3wcGX
Successful test for Le Mans: https://goo.gl/SE7prg
Record in Le Mans: https://goo.gl/wn6FKB
919 Hybrid's steering wheel: https://goo.gl/ZzDjfu
Debut for Le Mans package: https://goo.gl/6by4gQ
World debut for the new 919 Hybrid: https://goo.gl/o2EoIr
Schedule for the Le Mans 24-Hours:
Wednesday, June 15:
4:00-8:00 pm Free practice
10:00 pm-midnight Qualifying
Thursday, June 16:
7:00-9:00 pm Qualifying
10:00 pm-midnight Qualifying
Friday, June 17:
1:00-2:00 pm Porsche press conference in the Porsche Experience Center
5:30-7:30 pm Drivers’ parade in the downtown area
Saturday, June 18:
09:00-09:45 Warm-up
2:22 pm Beginning of the race start ceremony
3:00 pm Start of the race
Media Service:
• Live communication from the pit on Twitter: @Porsche_Team.
• To receive press releases and photographic material automatically, to access the archives and to download video material, please register at: https://presse.porsche.de
• At https://presse.porsche.de/motorsport the new Porsche Motorsport Media Guide is available.
• Videos can be found on the Porsche channels on Vimeo and YouTube.
• www.newsroom.porsche bundles the latest press releases and background information and is accessible without registration.
• The official WEC App can be downloaded free of charge in its basic version and can be extended (not free of charge) by a live stream. Several live features, such as on-board cameras, timing and GPS tracking, are implemented in the Porsche Motorsport App (free of charge).
• On the Web current information is available from www.fiawec.com an www.24h-lemans.com. Further interesting information about Porsche Motorsport waits at Porsche.com/FutureSportscar.
Holger Eckhardt
Communications, Sustainability and Politics
Spokesperson Motorsports LMDh, GT, Customer Racing
+49 (0) 170 / 911 4982
holger.eckhardt@porsche.deEnglish (Porsche AG)
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24 Hours of Le Mans, LMP1: The Porsche Team and Porsche Newsroom ready for Le Mans