Picking up a V10, that it had designed in 1992 for a Footwork F1 car, Porsche started work on a car for the following season, called the LMP2000. The car was called the 9R3, and was set to race in 1999.Įventually this car, with a flat-six from the road-going 911, was cancelled, as it was deemed too heavy and had numerous flaws due to the serious cooling needs of an engine not originally designed for racing. But in the background it had been building a replacement car, to the new top class LMP regulations. After Porsche won the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1998 it seemed to have quit the sport.
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