The Porsche 2708 is an open-wheel race car made by Porsche to compete in CART Indy car racing, between 1987 and 1990. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] At the beginning of the 1988 season, Porsche took part in the U.S. CART series.

May 24, 2021 · Porsche assigned engine guru Hans Mezger to oversee creation of a new powerplant. Working from a TAG-Porsche engineering base, his team developed the new Indy engine into a 2.6-liter DOHC single-turbo V8 with Motronic management. The responsibility of chassis development was handed to Norbert Singer.

May 20, 2020 · Though privateer entries had utilized non-sanctioned engines as early as 1966, Porsche did not take a serious look at American open wheel racing until the late 1970s when it developed an Indy car engine to compete in the Indianapolis …

Jul 28, 2021 · In the late 1980s, Porsche had an outlandish plan to win the Indy 500 with a factory car. But after six racing laps and suspiciously slow pace, the IndyCar was axed — due to politics, says its test driver, Jochen Mass. The year was 1986.

This American open-wheel car racing sanctioning body operated the Indy Car series from 1979. In addition to ovals and road racing tracks, the CART races were held on street tracks and even on a track formed on an airport.

Sep 26, 2024 · This fully validated Stein’s concept, which combined the high polar moment of inertia given by its widely disposed engines with a low center of gravity and four-wheel drive, a harbinger of things to come in the turbine-powered cars of 1967.

Oct 10, 2024 · Porsche secretly developed a car to enter at Indianapolis in 1980. The engine was developed off the 935 endurance racing flat-six because it wouldn’t take much tweaking to get it within CART...

May 24, 2021 · The Stein-Porsche Twin, showed up at the track to little fanfare. Albert Stein, a midget racing champion from Southern California, saw the simplicity and power available from Porsche’s flat-six, and wanted to exploit these traits in his attack on the long straights of Indy.

Mar 28, 2023 · it's a totally different concept in Indycar versus basically all other motorsport and it's why no other OEMs are interested. porsche's motorsports history is basically ALL sportscar racing, they essentially have zero history or engineering experience in open wheel

Porsche provided the powerplant and Interscope modified an existing chassis to accept the new engine. The engine for this car, with a water-cooled head and six cylinders, evolved from the Porsche 935 and 936 prototypes.