Porsche's Hybrid Racing Auto Continues Its Amazing Good Daytime Tour At Brands Hatch September 2

The 919 Evo is quite fast.
This is the second-to-last chance to meet it next the Nürburgring inward May as well as the Goodwood Festival of Speed inward July.

From Ars Technica, June 30:

 In May of this year, Porsche treated the fans at the 24 Hours Nürburgring race to some exhibition laps past times the 956 

(which laid the tape inward 1983) as well as the 919 Evo.

Porsche shatters the Nürburgring tape nosotros thought was unbreakable

There must live something inward the air. On Friday, we brought yous news almost Romain Dumas as well as Volkswagen breaking records at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. Just v days afterward Dumas' made it to the move past times of the mountain, his colleagues at Porsche Motorsport—the squad alongside which he won Le Mans inward 2016—have gone as well as shattered some other tape some thought would never live broken. The rail is the 12.9-mile (20.8km) Nürburgring Nordschleife, as well as Porsche manufactory driver Timo Bernhard drove a Porsche 919 Evo to a greater extent than or less it inward merely 5:19.55.

35 years agone
Until now, the fastest human to e'er lap the Nordschleife was the tardily Stefan Bellof. By the fourth dimension of his run inward 1983, the rail was considered besides unsafe for Formula 1, but niggling else had changed since the 1920s. Nordschleife was notwithstanding workable for Group C though, which held its 1983 1000kms of Nürburgring there. During qualifying for the race, Bellof—driving a industrial plant Porsche 956—lapped the house inward 6:11.13. (There's no in-car footage of his run, but teammate Derek Bell did comport a camera for a practise lap that isn't that much slower.)

The 919 unleashed
After Porsche won Le Mans for the tertiary fourth dimension alongside the 919 Hybrid—bumping to 18 its full overall wins at the French race—the motorcar maker decided to end the 919 Hybrid racing program. But instead of merely sticking the race cars inward the museum, Porsche decided to meet how fast they could actually go. New engine management software as well as no involve to abide past times a fuel-flow restriction bumped the 919's turbocharged V4 engine output from 500hp (373kW) to 720hp (537kW). The hybrid organisation is 10-percent stronger at 440hp (328kW)....MORE

And from Brands Hatch:

Festival of Porsche

Brands Hatch (Indy)

Dominicus 02 September 2018 

Festival of Porsche returns to Brands Hatch this September for a particular celebration of Germany’s most iconic sports motorcar manufacturer, consummate alongside racing, demonstrations as well as displays.
The event’s return, for the offset fourth dimension since 2014, is ideally timed every bit it coincides alongside the 70th anniversary of the founding of Porsche.

On-track activity volition live headlined past times Porsche Club GB’s rattling ain Porsche Club Championship, starring a broad hit of the manufacturer’s race-prepared cars across a publish of classes. The Porsche Classic Restoracing Competition has launched this yr to celebrate 20 years of the Porsche Boxster. To celebrate this milestone, Porsche Centres across the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland are sourcing as well as restoring 986 Boxster south models to race inward a dedicated championship, alongside a twosome of xx v infinitesimal races. There volition also live racing activity from a alternative of 4-Cyclinder Porsche cars, together alongside a circular of the Porsche Club Speed Championship.

Significant racing cars from the manufacturer’s past times volition seem too, including the three-times Le Mans winning Porsche 919 Hybrid, taking to the rail for particular demonstration runs on the Indy circuit. The concluding Festival of Porsche featured appearances from Le Mans-winning Porsche 956s as well as 962s, as well as a whole host of other famous, mouth-watering Porsche cars volition live on display inward the garages to stance throughout the twenty-four hr menstruum - summation some volition live involved on-track for particular demonstrations (click here to stance a listing of cars that volition live attending). In add-on to the principal race twenty-four hr menstruum on the Sunday, Festival of Porsche’s activities volition include a Porsche Club member’s soiree on the Sabbatum night....MORE

*As Ars notes inward their slice above:

...You tin flame location the Evo at Rennsport Reunion at Laguna Seca hither inward the U.S. of America (September 27-30). That concluding i should live special: we've been told past times Porsche the aim is to suspension the 1-minute barrier at the Californian circuit...