12 August 2007

ROD MILLEN AND RICHARD KELSEY BRING AMERICANS VICTORY!


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ROD MILLEN AND RICHARD KELSEY BRING AMERICANS VICTORY
FOR PORSCHE® CAYENNE® IN MONGOLIA

ATLANTA – August 17 – Driving their Team North America Porsche Cayenne S
Transsyberia, Rod Millen and Richard Kelsey outlasted a field of 39 vehicles
over more than two weeks and 4,400 miles to score a 17-minute win in 2007
Transsyberia Rallye, one of the world's toughest off-road marathons.
After a two-week drive from Moscow to Ulan Bator, Mongolia, (the same distance
from Alaska to the Panama Canal) Rod Millen and co-driver Richard Kelsey – both
New Zealand-born rallyists now living in the United States, reached the finish
in the capital of Mongolia earlier today, and the challenge for both man and
machine impressed the veteran rallyist. Read More...
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AFTER 12 0F 14 STAGES, PORSCHE LEADS TRANSSYBERIA RALLYE

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AFTER 12 0F 14 STAGES, PORSCHE LEADS TRANSSYBERIA RALLYE;
MONGOLIAN LEGS PROVE TO BE CHALLENGING FOR MAN AND MACHINE
STUTTGART, Germany – August 16 – Only 30 of the 39 starters on the 2007
Transsyberia Rallye have made it to the Mongolian village of Bayankhor, with
Porsches in the top seven positions overall. Read More...
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TRG HEADS TO QUEBEC SEEKING SECOND STRAIGHT KONI CHALLENGE WIN

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TRG HEADS TO QUEBEC SEEKING SECOND STRAIGHT KONI CHALLENGE WIN

 
PETALUMA, Calif., (August 15, 2007) – Team TRG goes north of the border in search of their second GS-Class win when Grand-Am Koni Challenge Series competitors head to Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada to contest Round 10 of the 2007 schedule on Sunday, August 19th.
 
TRG was the class of the field in mid-July with a dominant win at Barber Motorsports Park and the northern California-based team will try for an encore performance on the tricky 2.521-mile Le Circuit du Trois-Rivieres street course.
 

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PORSCHES2OXFORD SETS NEW RECORDS

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PORSCHES2OXFORD SETS NEW RECORDS
By Chris Rieman

On Saturday July 28th, 254 shiny Porsches adorned the quaint brick streets of uptown Oxford, Ohio. Coming from thirteen states and Canada and representing twenty PCA regions, Porsches started arriving as early as 5:45 a.m. Read More...
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DUMAS/BERNHARD TAKE FOURTH OVERALL VICTORY

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DUMAS/BERNHARD TAKE FOURTH OVERALL VICTORY OVER FAVORED AUDIS IN PENSKE PORSCHE
RS SYPDER; PORSCHE EDGES TOWARD LMP2 CHAMPIONSHIP OVER ACURA RIVALS AFTER EIGHT
EVENTS

--Sascha Maassen/Ryan Briscoe’s second-place LMP2 position gives Penske Porsches
sixth one-two class finish and sixth overall win in a row, assuring at least
half the overall wins for the 2007 season--
ELKHART LAKE, Wisc.  – August 11 – Capping off an improbable week where the LMP1
Audis were more than one second a lap faster than the LMP2 Porsches, Romain
Dumas (France) and Timo Bernhard (Germany) squeezed out a 1.7-second overall win
in the American Le Mans Series’
Generac 500 at Road America. Read More...
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