The prospect of fielding a vehicle in both the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and the North American IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship proved to be enticing enough for Porsche AG’s executive board, who, on 16 December 2020, announced its commitment to developing an LMDh prototype for racing from January 2023.
Less than five months later, Porsche divulged its close partnership with Team Penske. The new Porsche Penske Motorsport team for international racing was born. The squad operates out of two locations: The IMSA headquarters is in the American team’s home of Mooresville, North Carolina, with the WEC operations run from Mannheim, Germany.
After an active testing phase for the new prototypes throughout 2022, the new Porsche 963 makes its official race debut at the 24 Hours of Daytona in the US state of Florida (28/29 January 2023). Prior to this, the hybrid vehicle covered more than 33,000 kilometres at tests and the so-called Roar at Daytona. Daytona: Rolex 24 at Daytona on January, 20, 2023. Credit: Juergen Tap

Chassis: LMP2 basis from Multimatic with the iconic Porsche brand identity
The regulations stipulate that all new vehicles for the LMDh category must be based on an LMP2 chassis. Four potential partners are available for such a project: Multimatic, Oreca, Dallara and Ligier. After an in-depth evaluation, Porsche made the call to work with Multimatic.
As the largest of the four LMP2 manufacturers, the automotive tec...