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Chopard and Porsche start defence of both World Endurance Championships at 6 Hr of Silverstone 2017

On 16th April 2017, Chopard started its defence of the dark arts in World Endurance Championship as the official timing partner of Porsche Motorsport LMP1 team for the fourth consecutive year.

6H of Silverstone 2017 Podium

The two new Porsche 919 Hybrid cars driven by Brendon Hartley, Earl Bamber and Timo Bernhard (#2) and Nick Tandy, Neel Jani and Andre Lotterer (#1) opened the season at the Six Hours of Silverstone 2017.

2017 Porsche 919 Hybrid cars

As defending champions in both pilots' and constructors' categories, Porsche fought for victory on the famed ancient F1 racing circuit in the British Midlands.

Timo Bernhard, Earl Bamber and Brendon Hartley in 2nd Place at Silverstone 2017

It was a solid start as the two Porsche 919 Hybrid racers achieved 2nd and 3rd place in the LMP1 race after a strong battle with Toyota.

In the constructors' championship, Porsche actually leads because Toyota could not get both cars to finish.

That's Endurance Racing for you......

Neel Jani, Andre Lotterer and Nick Tandy in 3rd Place at Silverstone 2017

Toyato driver, Sebastien Buemi was quoted saying Toyota's slender advantage over Porsche in Sunday's FIA World Endurance Championship opener at Silverstone has left the Japanese team "scared".

Buemi got P1,  late in the Silverstone race, when his Toyota #8 car passed Brendon Hartley's Porsche #2; the winning margin was only 6.17secs. That is a only 0.03% of the 21,600secs duration of the race!

The high-downforce Toyotas were quickest in qualifying but Porsche were closer at race pace. Porsche #2 was close enough to the Toyota #8 in the last stage to emerge with an eight-second advantage when it only took fuel at the last pit-stop. Alas, on fresher tyres, the Toyota #8 car forced its way through at The Loop with 12 minutes to go.

"In a way, it scares us a little bit because we were expecting to be quite a bit quicker," Buemi said. "It was one of the only opportunities I would have because they (Porsche) were quicker on the straight, and Brendon was kind enough to leave just enough room!"

Chopard Timing

Porsche team principal Andreas Seidl said to get both 919 Hybrids on the podium felt "like a race win" as the Porsche low-drag cars were ill-suited to Silverstone.

Brendon Hartley said, "We can be happy to be only finish six seconds off, because we didn't have the right aero package for this race track". 

Chopard have produced three editions of the Superfast Chrono Porsche 919 watches so far:

2014: Superfast Chrono Porsche 919 Edition
2015: Superfast Chrono Porsche 919 Jacky Ickx Edition
2016: Superfast Chrono Porsche 919 Black Edition

2014: Superfast Chrono Porsche 919 Edition




2015: Superfast Chrono Porsche 919 Jacky Ickx Edition




2016: Superfast Chrono Porsche 919 Black Edition

Karl-Friedrich Scheufele and Jacky Ickx at Le Mans

Karl-Friedrich Scheufele, co-president of Chopard said; "2016 has been amazing for the partnership between Chopard and Porsche Motorsport with incredible results. I had the chance to attend some of the WEC races and we are very proud to be part of the success of Porsche Motorsport in WEC as Official Timing Partner of the team.

Our company shares several values with Porsche such as the quest for performance, the passion for mechanical engineering and excellence. Both in car- and watch-making we all pay attention to the smallest details. We are ready to accompany Porsche Motorsport as official timing partner for a third season in WEC. We believe in the team for reiterating their outstanding series of victories in 2017."

2017 Porsche 919 Hybrid #1 car

Regards,

MTF

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