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[anbeck]

Hi there,

in another thread on TNF I read about a mysterious Porsche LMP car, which was tested for Le Mans 2000 by Bob Wolleck and Alan McNish, yet never raced due to the Cayenne-project.

Does anybody have any information on that one?

Thanks in advance,
a.

[René de Boer]

Oh yes, that was Porsche's LMP-2000, an open-top sports prototype which was also tested by four times' Supercup champion Patrick Huisman. There was a photo of it in Autosport, a rear-view shot IIRC, but that was about the only thing the world ever saw of it. It is still a project nobody at Porsche is allowed to talk about...

[nubenow]

This was the car that Wiet Huidekoper was involved in the design of at Porsche, he'd previous also done both varieties of the Porsche GT1.

Check out this link which has probably as much as the world at large knows of the Porsche LMP proto.........aside of Wiet.....

http://www.mulsannes...orschelmp1.html

[anbeck]

Thanks!

I would have loved to see it racing. I hope the new Porsche-VW-Audi connection will help to strike a deal so Porsche can return to LMP1....Audi can do Indy (neither really has a tradition there, although one might argue that the Porsche-TAG could be a link), but Porsche, for me, is endurance racing.

[Formula Once]

I was told by a man who should know that the thing was simply axed so that it would not push Audi, leave alone beat them (which Porsche most likely would have. Being Porsche.) Thank God they had the Cayenne to blame.

[nubenow]

Being as I do know the man who does know..........you would be correct. It was pretty much that reason.