SEBRING, Fla. — Porsche Carrera Cup North America Presented by the Cayman Islands will bring 43 identical Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars to its season-opening rounds this week at Sebring Int’l Raceway. In only its second season, the premier one-make series will set a world standard for entries for a single region on the Porsche Motorsport Pyramid with rounds one and two of the 16-race schedule. In a near-even distribution of entries across the three classes – Pro, Pro-Am and Am – the full field will be comprised of the newest Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race car, the type 992, at the Sebring event March 16 – 17.
The opening weekend celebrates several milestones for the Porsche Motorsport North America-managed race series. The popularity of the development series is evidenced by its growing list of partners. Deluxe Corporation, a leading business solutions company focused on finance and payroll services joins the established list of marketing partners for the season. A new three-class format introduces the “Am” category to the grid while the length of each race has been changed to 40-minutes. Accessibility also improves as each round of the Porsche Carrera Cup North America season will now appear live on the Peacock streaming service.
Deluxe Corporation and PMNA have established a long-term, multi-faceted partnership that will impact not only the Porsche Carrera Cup North America, but Porsche auto racing efforts on the continent as a whole. The relationship extends to the presenting rights of Porsche Motorsport North America TV, the dedicated PMNA YouTube Channel providing the latest Porsche content from across the region.
In addition, Deluxe has taken a key marketing partnership role with 311RS Motorsport and the No. 11 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car driven by Dimitri Dimakos. The young phenom, who turned heads in his only appearance at the 2021 season finale, is considered a top contender for the Al Holbert Cup, a special season-end recognition of the overall series champion.
This season, all Porsche Carrera Cup North America rounds will be 40-minutes in length. This is a decrease of five-minutes from the inaugural season. The shortening of the races allows 10 additional minutes to be added to other sessions each weekend, maximizes tire performance and more closely aligns the series with other one-makes around the globe.
Beginning with Round 1 at Sebring, the third class for the Porsche Carrera Cup North America will be known as “Am”. The category will be restricted to drivers 56-years-old and older. The class, which uses the type 992 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race car as do all classes in the championship, provides drivers with more life experience the opportunity to contend against equally experienced drivers for race wins, podiums and the class championship.
For the first time, the Porsche Carrera Cup North America will enjoy live race coverage on a premium streaming app: Peacock.
With 43 cars, the entry list for Sebring is the largest single-region, one-make series Porsche has ever assembled globally. It marks an increase of eight cars over the inaugural race weekend last March. Unlike the debut in 2021, all Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race cars on the grid are type 992 making the Super Sebring weekend the largest gathering of the newest generation of the rear-mounted, normally aspirated 4.0-liter Cup car.
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