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Porsche could return to Le Mans with a car capable of challenging for outright victory, according to company bosses.

Although he did not specify when a car would make its competitive debut, Porsche boss Michael Macht told Autosport the company had "big plans for the future" and promised an announcement "that will surprise you" in the spring.

He added: "Everyone in the Porsche family would be happy to go to Le Mans to challenge for victory again. When we do go we have to be prepared...Read the full article

not even a slightest chance against diesel power :)

Blimey!  It's taken you all this time to get to page 18?

orandzh:

not even a slightest chance against diesel power :)

  You did know diesel makes less powerful engines than petrol?

Anyway diesel is banned now so it doesn't matter. (As it couldn't compete on fair terms)

beachland2:

  You did know diesel makes less powerful engines than petrol?

Anyway diesel is banned now so it doesn't matter. (As it couldn't compete on fair terms)

What do you mean by saying banned? As far as I know they just made fuel tanks smaller for diesel powered vehicles. And while petrol might produce more power than equivalently sized diesel don't forget about torque and frugality diesel engines boast of.

 Torque and economy even combined pluses come nowhere near being relevant enough to be useful in motor sport compared to power, for that reason that is why the diesel manufactures would only enter the sport with engines far bigger than the petrol engines or turbocharged when the petrols were normally aspirated.

 It seems like the backlash against the diesels has been watered down, a quick look at some regulations for 2011 says they are allowed incorporated into new engine regs for the classes (v10 and v12 are now banned):

I'm devastated to be honest it's outrageous.

How can it be fair to pitch a 2.0 single turbo petrol against a  3.7 twin turbo diesel?

And to make things even worse the weight advantage that a 2.0 petrol would have is even taken away, both cars are forced to have the same weight!

Alas, diesels probably will continue to dominate le mans...

 

 

 

 

"Although he did not specify when a car would make its competitive debut, Porsche boss Michael Macht told Autosport the company had "big plans for the future" and promised an announcement "that will surprise you" in the spring."

The surprise is that it will be based on a Cayenne!!

Seriously though, hopefully it will be based on the Cayman rather than the 911.

 The entry alone cant be a suprise so it must be something to do with the car, perhaps porsche will enter a hybrid.