Porsche Motorsport information live and on all channels
Stuttgart. Press releases, photographs, videos and live reporting: Porsche will inform constantly on all channels up until the start of the Le Mans 24-hour race on Saturday, June 17, at 15:00 hrs. And from then on around the clock.Porsche LMP Team photograph:
The team assembled today (Tuesday) for its annual team picture on the start/finish straight of the legendary Circuit des 24 Heures, the venue of the 85th Le Mans 24-hour race on June 17/18. The two Porsche 919 Hybrids are ready to go. The approximately 900 HP powerful prototype with the car number 1 will be driven by Neel Jani (CH), André Lotterer (DE) and Nick Tandy (GB). The sister car number 2 is in the hands of Earl Bamber (NZ), Timo Bernhard (DE) and Brendon Hartley (NZ)
Porsche Newsroom:
Newsroom.porsche.com offers current reporting as well as stories, pictures, facts and background information on Porsche’s Le Mans project. On Friday at 14:00 hrs CEST, the newsroom offers a live stream of the Porsche Le Mans press conference at https://porsche.gomexlive.com/lemans/
Porsche press database:
All press releases, images and TV footage is freely accessible at presse.porsche.de
To receive press releases from the qualifying sessions and during the race automatically, registration at presse.porsche.de is mandatory. Registration also provides access to the archives (contents including 2016).
The most current links on a mouse click:
This click leads straight to the Porsche Motorsport Media Guide (electronic press kits for all Porsche racing programmes): https://presse.porsche.de/motorsport
Le Mans 24-Hours preview LMP: https://tinyurl.com/y74foc8p
Le Mans 24-Hours preview GT: https://tinyurl.com/y8l5xn7v
Personal insights from the six LMP drivers: https://tinyurl.com/y86uh33s
36 facts around the Porsche LMP Team and Le Mans: https://tinyurl.com/yc37m2a7
LMP press kit as a PDF file (English/French/German): https://tinyurl.com/ybmf6g4l
The LMP press kit offers, for example: text portraits of the drivers and top management, team history, Porsche 919 Hybrid technology, information on regulations as well as features considering the topics of race strategy, hybrid and high voltage technology, cockpit and steering wheel, aerodynamics, logistics, Le Mans history, technology transfer and a personal report from Neel Jani on his qualifying record lap.
Live information on Twitter:
Porsche Newsroom: @PorscheNewsroom
Porsche LMP Team: @Porsche_Team
Porsche GT Teams: @Porsche_Races
Organizer ACO: @24hoursoflemans
FIA WEC: @FIAWEC
Video News:
Video news updates are available at www.vimeo.com/porschenewsroom
Porsche websites:
www.porsche.com/lemans offers a 24-hour web special with live onboard cameras from the works cars’ cockpits. Additionally, the video stream offers interesting telemetry information about the current car conditions. Furthermore the website includes a live ticker and live standings as well as images and videos from the Le Mans race action.
Facebook:
On Saturday at 3pm, the race start is broadcast live from onboard the best placed 919 Hybrid at www.facebook.com/porsche
App and live stream of the race:
The official WEC App can be downloaded free of charge with an extended (not free of charge) version available which includes full ACO live streaming and full timing of the Le Mans 24-Hours. The live stream is voiced and includes live interviews.
Schedule Le Mans 24-Hours:
Wednesday, June 14
1:30-2:00 pm “Meet the Porsche LMP Team”, paddock hospitality
4:00-8:00 pm Free practice
10:00 pm-midnight Qualifying 1
Thursday, June 15
4:00-4:30 pm “Meet the Porsche GT Team”, paddock hospitality
4:30-5:00 pm “Meet the Porsche LMP Team”, paddock hospitality
7:00-9:00 pm Qualifying 2
10:00 pm-midnight Qualifying 3
Friday, June 16
2:00-2:40 pm Porsche press conference, Porsche Experience Centre
2:40-3:30 pm “Meet the Team” (LMP and GT), Porsche Experience Centre
5:30-7:30 pm Driver parade in the downtown area
Saturday, June 17
9:00-9:45 am Warm-up
2:22 pm Beginning of race start ceremony
3:00 pm Start of race
Media contact on site:
Motorsport press LMP1: holger.eckhardt@porsche.de +49 170 911 4982
Motorsport press GT: oliver.hilger@porsche.de +49 170 911 3915
Holger Eckhardt
(GT-Sportwagen)
Communications, Sustainability and Politics
Event and Sports Communications
+491709114982
holger.eckhardt@porsche.de
Oliver Hilger
Communications, Sustainability and Politics
Spokesperson 911 and 718
+49 (0)170 911 3915
oliver.hilger@porsche.deText
English (Porsche AG)
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