Combined with a software tweak, that upped its output from 500 horsepower to 720 horsepower. 2 car finished fourth after failing to match Toyota's speed. 14 car was 0.024 seconds slower in third. [12][14] It produced approximately 500 hp (370 kW) and acted as a chassis load-bearing member. [36][41], Because of a new World Endurance Championship regulation that restricted the amount of available electrical energy and fuel by 8%,[42] Porsche's engineers redesigned the engine to be lighter and produce around 480 to 495 hp (358 to 369 kW). 1 car lost a tactical exchange of position to Toyota's No. 1 car in second. [24] Two months later, Neel Jani was drafted from the Rebellion Racing team on a multi-year contract,[25] and Red Bull Racing Formula One driver Mark Webber, whose last experience in sports car racing was the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans for AMG-Mercedes, joined the team two days later. The rear wing was liveried in black with the word 'Porsche' in red letters. 8 car and had to finish at least third to win Porsche's third World Endurance Drivers' Championship with one race to go. [165] At the season-closing 6 Hours of Bahrain, Tandy and Jani's No. [154] Bernhard and Hartley's No. The other factor was weight. In the opening laps of the race, a problem with the front left wheel bearing forced Jani to the garage before retiring with an unrelated hydraulic problem after 30 laps. 2 car in second, and Hartley and Webber's No. 1 car took the lead when the No. Over the winter, it was freed from some restrictions hitherto determined by the regulations. [34] The team stayed at the track for the official two-day pre-season test. 19 came through the field for sixth after contact with Kévin Estre's No. Although a slow puncture put the No. Like so many retired folks, the 919 is finally ready to ignore the rules and have some fun, on its terms. [75] Dumas led until his teammate Hartley passed him on the 22nd lap. 2 car was third. This also ensured that Porsche won every pole position of 2015. The car uses two energy recovery systems, generating electricity from braking and the exhaust. [101][102], In qualifying for the 6 Hours of Fuji, Porsche secured the front row with Bernhard and Webber on pole position and Dumas and Lieb in second. 14 car was second after the first session, maintaining it through the remaining two sessions as Dumas twice bettered its lap. [152] Hartley overtook José María López's No. 20 car in a gravel trap, but he, Webber and Hartley finished fifth. 1 Audi R18 e-tron quattro for third, winning the battle with assistance from Webber to claim Porsche's third podium of 2014. 1 car was issued team orders to relinquish the lead to Bernhard with eight minutes remaining, and the latter took the No. Rules laid down by overbearing governing bodies, imposing limits on weight, dimensions, power output, tire choices, aerodynamics, braking, and whatever else they can think to control. 20 Porsche's first pit stop in the second hour, Hartley sustained a puncture and fell to sixth. [37] The first pictures of the car were published online on 16 January,[39] and it was officially revealed to the press at Circuit Paul Ricard's official two-day pre-season test session on 26 March. [63][64], In the trio of qualifying sessions held to determine the grid for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Hartley's No. Der 919 Hybrid Evo basiert auf dem Le-Mans-Gesamtsiegerwagen. [156][157], Although Tandy's first qualifying lap of the 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas was deleted for a track limits transgression, he and Jani were 0.2 seconds faster than Bamber and Bernhard's No. [51] The first spy photographs of the 2017 919 Hybrid testing at the Circuit Paul Ricard were published on 27 March 2017. [72] Webber and the two Toyota cars duelled until a pit stop to replace a slow puncture lost him time by double stinting his tyres. During the lap, Jani recorded a speed trap at 359 km/h (223.1 mph) on the Kemmel Straight, with an average speed of 245.61 km/h (152.6 mph). [133], At the season's penultimate round, the 6 Hours of Shanghai in November, Hartley and Webber claimed pole position despite Hartley's first lap being nullified for a track limits violation while Lieb and Jani qualified sixth after Lieb's first lap was voided for excess fuel consumption. Turns out, when you get to ignore the rules that govern the World Endurance Championship (which includes Le Mans), there's a lot you can do to go faster. 1 car qualified fourth. [n 1][81][82] Competing with the 919 Hybrid, Porsche scored 193 points to finish third in the World Endurance Manufacturers' Championship. Each small number denotes the finishing position. [They] looked at the weight of the drivers" and "tried to equalise that across the two cars [...] to be absolutely fair to give both cars an equal chance. 7 Toyota for the lead in the second hour; the two Porsches exchanged the lead several times and controlled the pace. Find used vehcles in Clarksville Tennessee at Direct Auto of Tennessee LLC.. We have a ton of used vehicles at great prices ready for a test drive. Bernhard's No. In accordance with the 2014 regulations, the vehicle was placed in the 6 MJ (1.7 kWh) class. A damper problem while he was relieved by Webber lost him more time, giving Lieb the lead. [36] The engine was modified to be lighter and more compact, and Porsche stated that it was its most-efficient ever. Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo mit 1.160 PS. [161][162], Entering the 6 Hours of Shanghai, the No. 7 Toyota for second place two hours later, but contact with Dumas's No. [18] The car had traction control and a hydraulically-operated paddle-shift seven-speed sequential gearbox with rear-lock differential mounted inside a carbon-fibre casing with titanium inserts around its high-stress sections. The No. [77], Jani and Dumas took Porsche's third pole position of the season and their second in a row at the 6 Hours of Bahrain while Bernhard and Hartley were 1.046 seconds slower in third. [55][56], The V4 engine was retained for the Evo, producing 720 PS (530 kW; 710 hp) without fuel flow restrictions. Porsche. 1 car won its third race in a row. 17 car won its fourth race of 2015 and the World Manufacturers' Championship for Porsche with one race left in the season. Jani took over the No. [23], In April 2013, Porsche named its first two drivers. [169], During the post-season rookie test session at the Bahrain International Circuit, the day after the 6 Hours of Bahrain, a 919 Hybrid was driven by the 2017 World Series Formula V8 3.5 champion Pietro Fittipaldi, who shared it with Bernhard. Stuttgart.. Today, on April 9, an evo version of the Le Mans winning Porsche 919 Hybrid established a new track record at Spa-Francorchamps. Hydraulics. [36] This included a major redesign of the front of the 919 Hybrid with wider arches for the front wheels to make it less aerodynamically sensitive from small bits of discarded rubber from the track surface. Later, Webber was observed passing in a yellow flag zone, earning him a one-minute stop-and-go penalty and relegating the No. Approximately 60% of kinetic energy produced under braking was recovered by its front kinetic energy recovery system, and the remaining 40% was generated by the rear dual exhaust pipe system. The No. They call the result the 919 Evo. The next year, 2017, Tandy and former Audi LMP1 driver André Lotterer joined Jani in place of Dumas and Lieb, and Bamber teamed up with Bernhard and Hartley, replacing the retired Webber. Bamber, Bernhard, and Hartley recovered from a 13-lap deficit to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans and three more races for Porsche's third consecutive World Drivers' and Manufacturers' Championships at the season's penultimate round, the 2017 6 Hours of Shanghai. 2 car was slower and finished fourth after Nicolas Lapierre's No. 2 car was slower than the Toyota, but it finished second to win the World Endurance Drivers' Championship. 2 team were 6.173 seconds adrift in second. It broke the lap record of the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps with a lap time of 1 minute and 41.77 seconds, with Jani behind the wheel. [170] Afterwards, Porsche ended the 919 Hybrid programme to concentrate on the all-electric single-seater Formula E championship in the 2019–20 season but increased its commitment to its global GT programmes.[171]. "[29], The 919 Hybrid was liveried in white and incorporated the 'Porsche Intelligent Performance' slogan, with the first letters of each word emblazoned down the vehicle when viewed from the top. The Evo carries the same two-liter, turbocharged V4 engine as the Le Mans-winning car, minus the fuel flow meter that limits how much gasoline goes kaboom. 14 car started from third while Webber and Bernhard's No. 20 entry took third. [140] The day after the 6 Hours of Bahrain, 2016 LMP2 champion Gustavo Menezes and driver adviser Yannick Dalmas tested a 919 Hybrid at the post-season rookie test at the Bahrain International Circuit. The 919 Hybrid Evo is powered by a 2,000 cc V4 turbocharged petrol engine developing 720 hp, and a 440 hp MGU (Motor-Generator Unit) mounted at the front axle, forming a total system output of 1,160 hp. The Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo race car. [87] Jani, Lieb and Dumas's sister No. 18 entry; he recovered to pass the Audi cars for the lead, but Dumas spun with 1 hour and 20 minutes to go. 86 Gulf Racing Porsche 911 RSR at the exit of Farm Corner. 14 car with Jani and Lieb while Bernhard was paired with Webber and Hartley in the No. “It is definitely the fastest car I ever drove, the grip level is at a fully new dimension for me, I couldn’t imagine this amount beforehand.”. 20 vehicle's first pole position of 2014; Jani and Lieb were 0.107 seconds slower in second. 18 car took second at the season-opening 6 Hours of Silverstone. [135] It entered the season-ending 6 Hours of Bahrain 17-points ahead of Toyota's No. The No. [52] Four days later, the car was officially revealed to the press. The Porsche 919 Hybrid is a Le Mans Prototype 1 (LMP1) racing car built and used by Porsche in the 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 seasons of the FIA World Endurance Championship. Dumas, Jani and Lieb beat the mechanically-impaired Audi cars in a mid-race battle for the No. [53], On 11 April 2018, Porsche revealed an evolution of the 919 Hybrid. 20 Porsche were beaten to the pole position by Buemi and Anthony Davidson's No. Die Evo-Version des Porsche 919 Hybrid basiert auf dem Le-Mans-Gesamtsiegerwagen und WEC-Langstreckenweltmeister der Jahre 2015, 2016 und 2017. The No. On 11 April 2018, PORSCHE revealed an evolution of the 919 Hybrid. [3] Around this time, the Porsche Motorsport Centre Flacht in Weissach expanded to 200 full-time employees working on the project's design, assembly and deployment. Enzinger said both drivers had "the most prototype experience of [the] drivers, so [they] decided to split them" and that they had "two newcomers to Porsche in Neel [Jani] and Brendon [Hartley] and decided to put one in each car. [91][92][93], At Le Mans, Bernhard's No. [19] The front system utilised a 185 kW (248 hp) motor–generator (MGU) on the front axle; when braking, kinetic energy was converted into electrical energy, which was stored in water-cooled A123 Systems lithium-ion battery packs installed centrally in the passenger side,[14][17] giving the front axle better electrical energy regeneration and traction under braking,[9] and eliminating turbo lag. With its 5:19.55 lap, Porsche has absolutely crushed the course record at the 12.94-mile Nürburgring Nordschleife in its 919 Hybrid Evo endurance race car. 17 car won. The No. It broke the lap record of the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps with a lap time of 1 minute, 41.77 seconds, with Neel Jani behind the wheel. No. 19 vehicle was adorned in white, Germany and Porsche's national standard colour. 8 Toyota; the pole position was awarded to the former because they set their times first. 17 Porsche retired from the lead with a rear drivetrain failure. During the Friday night session, Hartley set the fastest overall lap time of 1 minute, 41.289 seconds in a low-downforce setup. At the end of the year, Porsche employed Alex Hitzinger—former Head of F1 Development for engine builder Cosworth and later Red Bull Racing's Head of Advanced Technologies—to oversee the car's technical design. [54][55][56][57], Through 2018, 919 Evo participated in demonstration runs as part of the "919 Tribute Tour" at the Nürburgring Nordschleife for the 2018 24 Hours of Nürburgring, at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in June, the Festival of Porsche at Brands Hatch and at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca as part of Porsche Rennsport Reunion VI. Bernhard, Hartley, and Webber won four out of eight races to claim the 2015 World Endurance Drivers' Championship and the World Manufacturers' Championship. 14 car in eleventh overall. 7 Audi for the victory in the final two hours, and finished in second. Tyre wear restricted the No. laid down by overbearing governing bodies, survive the brutalizing 24 Hours of Le Mans. [134] Hartley lost the lead to Buemi at the start but retook it soon after, and the No. 17 car to second. 17 car was adorned in red as a tribute to Porsche's first overall victory at Le Mans with the Porsche 917 in 1970. And then they took it to Belgium's Spa Francorchamps, the legendary Formula 1 track that's home to what may be the toughest corner in motorsports. The No. [46] Exhaust gases allowed the turbine to run at more than 120,000 rpm, operating a MGU that converted kinetic energy into electricity and stored it into the third-generation lithium-ion battery. [32], On 4 March 2014, the car was officially revealed at a press conference during the Geneva Motor Show. [167][168] Competing with the 919 Hybrid for the fourth successive season, Porsche won the World Endurance Manufacturers' Championship with 337 points. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Its 2013 schedule concluded at Portugal's Algarve International Circuit in December. In most motorsports, the engineer's cruelest foe isn't the rules of physics or the driver's inability to wring every crumb of power from their vehicle. Die Scheinwerfer wurden aus Gewichtsgründen eingespart. The No. 18 entry was liveried in black to showcase the close technical similarities between the 919 Hybrid and the 918 Spyder. [94] Tandy put the No. h.c. F. Porsche AG, wieder beim 24-Stunden-Rennen von Le Mans mit einem Werksteam anzutreten. Nonetheless, tyre changes in response to inclement weather allowed Bernhard to win. [99] Although Jani lacked hybrid boost on his first lap, he and Lieb won the pole position for the 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas while Hartley and Bernhard took second. Porsche 919 Hybrid review - driving one of Stuttgart's most successful racers ... > Porsche 919 Evo officially laps the 'Ring in 5:19.5 smashing the lap record. 1 car of Jani and Lotterer earned Porsche's first pole position of the season, and three Toyotas separated Hartley and Bernhard's No. Bamber and Hartley started fourth after Bamber spun. 1 car recovered from a faulty throttle sensor for third and achieved Porsche's third consecutive World Manufacturers' Championship. [147][148] At Le Mans, Jani and Bernhard set the team's best times in the second qualifying session to start from third and fourth, respectively. 18 car appeared likely to win, but a 12-volt onboard circuit issue forced him into the garage with 35 minutes left. It has a two-litre (120 cu in) 90-degree V4 mid-mounted mono-turbocharged petrol engine that produces 500 hp (370 kW) and acts as a chassis load-bearing member - and two separate energy-recovery hybrid systems to recover thermal energy from exhaust gases and convert kinetic energy into electrical energy under braking for storage into lithium-ion battery packs. [104] Once the track dried, Dumas took the lead, but his crew incurred a drive-through penalty for passing under full course yellow flag conditions. Webber immediately fell to fourth following a driver error. [27], Dumas shared the No. 1 team won to claim Porsche's second consecutive World Endurance Manufacturers' Championship despite replacing the front wing following rubber debris accumulation. 1 car required a water pump change and recovered to finish 13th overall. 2 car battled Toyota for the win. 1 car took pole position, and Bernhard and Hartley's No. To the car's side, a new channel from the monocoque to the wheel arch was made visible, along with redesigned rearward air intakes for the radiators to cool the engine. 86 Gulf Racing Porsche 911 RSR in the fourth hour, earning him a drive-through penalty, but the No. All rights reserved. So when Porsche gave its people the chance to break free and show what their machines can do, they overdelivered. To celebrate, we’re going to write this story covering the achievement in that amount of time, just to give you an idea of how brief it is. It was 0.783 seconds faster than the four-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton's qualification lap at the 2017 Belgian Grand Prix, previously posting a 1 minute and 42.553 seconds in a … Although Bernhard, Hartley, and Webber had reliability issues in the season's first three races, the trio won four of the six remaining rounds to help Porsche win its second consecutive World Manufacturers' Championship. 6 TS050 Hybrid and fell to third with an aerodynamic and car balance inefficiency. 8 Toyota passed it. Bernhard passed Alexander Wurz's No. [117] Webber passed the Audi cars of Oliver Jarvis and Lotterer in the first hour before Hartley relieved him. 7 Toyota retired with a broken clutch during the night. 20 entry. 1 car took second despite Lotterer's first lap being disallowed for a track limits violation. [38] Drivers further tested it at UAE's Yas Marina Circuit, the Bahrain International Circuit and Spain's Ciudad del Motor de Aragón from January to March. [90] Hartley led until he incurred a 15-second stop-and-go penalty for driving onto an escape road at the Bus Stop chicane, entering a gap in a tyre wall where marshals were stationed. Porsche may not be competing in the WEC’s top-flight LMP1 category this year, but that doesn’t mean it’s totally retired its Le Mans-winning 919 Hybrid.