Porsche completed thousands more testing miles with IMSA's common GTP hybrid system – but big rival BMW is cool with that 😎 Find out why 👇
Porsche – along with race team partners Penske and Multimatic – dovetailed its 963’s development program with being the “guinea pig”, according to its project manager Urs Kuratle, for IMSA’s hybrid system.
Leschiutta insists he was “happy” with the testing scenario – even though it was carried out by one its biggest rivals in the automotive market – as it meant his project didn’t have to encounter and overcome these stumbling blocks, so it didn’t impact his compressed timelines with its M Hybrid V8 challenger.
“I think it was an extremely valuable and sensible approach taken by governance to have this pilot program along with the hybrid suppliers.
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