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Porsche Pulls The Plug On WEC

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August 02, 2017

Champ will quit LMP1 this year

Turning attention to Formula E

- Sean Carson

Porsche Pulls The Plug On WEC

PORSCHE has confirmed that it will pull out of the World Endurance

Championship’s blue riband LMP1 class at the end of this season and announced it will enter an official factory team in the Formula E championship from 2019.

The German manufacturer is the reigning World Endurance champion and has won the gruelling Le Mans 24 Hours race for the past three years in a row.

A board meeting in Germany last week to determine the fate of the firm’s LMP1 team has resulted in the programme being cancelled one year early.

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