[WEC] Porsche Prototype Discussion

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Originally Posted by Porsche917K

Also don't know if it was mentioned before, but 3 years is a long time and I don't see them slowing their GT program as it makes them so much money. So I would bet we see the Porsche factory driver stable increase in size, and maybe with some young blood.

Good point, I'm sure Porsche won't want to completely gut their GTE talent even after 2014 as the GTE teams are loyal paying customers.

Originally Posted by FordCosworthPanoz

If Porsche were to run 3 cars at Le Mans then this would be my ideal lineup. Just some suggestions including current factory/non factory drivers as well as some new hires of drivers that should be on the market. Id put Bergmeister on the list but of course there were fitting issues with the Spyder.

Car 1:

Timo Bernhard
Romain Dumas
David Brabham

Car 2:

Marc Leib
Lucas Luhr
Klaus Graf

Car 3:

Patrick Long
Joao Barbosa
Jeroen Bleekemolen

Brabham will be close to 50 by 2014. That does not necessarily mean anything, but who knows. If we are going with older drivers, Jorg Muller may be available then. Bleekemolen is a good guess I think. I'm sure some current F1 drivers will be in the mix as well. Heidfeld maybe? Trulli maybe if Toyota does not scoop him up? Heikki or whatever his name is? What about someone like Dario Franchitti? I can't imagine that he would be too excited to see how many ridiculous new gimmicks the IRL can come up with.