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Originally Posted by MNBoxster
HI,
... because Porsche has always restricted it's Motorsports activities to venues where it clearly has advantages over other existing technology, they have rarely gone shoulder-to-shoulder with any other marque. They couldn't win in Champ, or F1, so they just decided not to play.
Happy Motoring!... Jim'99
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I guess you are referring to the "unfair advantage" philosophy espoused by Penske and Mark Donohue during the great Penske/Porsche CanAm years. Look at the rules, and the competition, then craft a device that is capable of meeting the first and beating the snot out of the second. Porsche has been good at that, but I think that is to their credit and not a criticism. I would point out, however, that the 917 won LeMans something like eight or nine times, taking on all comers for over a decade.
No question their history in open-wheel racing is less than spectacular. The early F1 cars were initially competitive, but were soon swallowed up by the Cosworth engine and the chassis-of-the-month club of the English car builders. In more recent history the TAG-Porsche and the Porsche Indy car effort both lacked development time and money. I don't think we will see Porsche entering either US open-wheel nor the F1 money-burning machine any time soon.