{"id":460453,"date":"2005-06-01T03:07:51","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T10:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=84373"},"modified":"2024-12-26T17:35:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T17:35:53","slug":"penske-to-race-porsche-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/penske-to-race-porsche-prototype\/","title":{"rendered":"Penske to Race Porsche Prototype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Roger Penske and Porsche North America recently announced that the two companies have agreed to run an all-new Porsche prototype racecar in next year\u2019s American Le Mans Series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The joint announcement outlined plans for a new prototype sports car racing program to be run in the LMP2 class. Penske Motorsports will exclusively run the new Porsche prototype in 2006.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Penske and Porsche last worked together in the early \u201970s on the fabled Porsche 917 Can-Am program where the combination of Porsche engineering, Penske preparation and the driving skills of Mark Donohue resulted in one of the most dominant race packages of the modern era.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Porsche North America CEO Peter Schwarzenbauer, \u201cOur American racing customers have made it clear to us that they would like to move up several levels in the ALMS competition, as would we. We believe this new Porsche prototype program will provide the perfect means to do so, and will generate added enthusiasm for sports car racing in America, especially with Penske Motorsports as our partner and initial entrant.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Penske and Porsche North America recently announced that the two companies have agreed to run an all-new Porsche prototype racecar in next year\u2019s American Le Mans Series. The joint announcement outlined plans for a new prototype sports car racing program to be run in the LMP2 class. Penske Motorsports will exclusively run the new Porsche prototype in 2006. Penske and Porsche last worked together in the early \u201970s on the fabled Porsche 917 Can-Am program where the combination of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":84374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,255,16906],"tags":[548,11665,89,18151],"class_list":["post-460453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motorsport-racing","category-news","category-porsche","tag-motorsport","tag-penske","tag-porsche","tag-racing-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Penske to Race Porsche Prototype<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Penske to Race Porsche Prototype\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/penske-to-race-porsche-prototype\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Penske to Race Porsche Prototype\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Penske to Race Porsche Prototype\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/penske-to-race-porsche-prototype\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2005-06-01T10:07:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-26T17:35:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/844531.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"680\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"SportsCarDigest Staff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"SportsCarDigest Staff\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/penske-to-race-porsche-prototype\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/penske-to-race-porsche-prototype\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"SportsCarDigest Staff\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/51d193ee53f997a3f6d82ce34de31baa\"},\"headline\":\"Penske to Race Porsche Prototype\",\"datePublished\":\"2005-06-01T10:07:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-12-26T17:35:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/penske-to-race-porsche-prototype\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":178,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/penske-to-race-porsche-prototype\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/03\\\/844531.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Motorsport &amp; 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