It's the 80s All Over Again as Porsche 935 Livery Goes on 963 at IMSA Race

Porsche to Run 80s Look at Laguna Seca Apple, Porsche If you’re a real Porsche race fan, and if you’re reading this you probably are, you recall the mighty and powerful 935 of the 1970s and '80s. Porsche is celebrating the 50 th anniversary of that car at the same time as its own 75 th anniversary of racing with a special livery at this weekend’s IMSA Weathertech Sports Car Championship. That timeframe was also the dawn of the personal computer, and since the race takes place at Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca, just a crankshaft’s throw from Apple Park, the company’s worldwide headquarters in Silicon Valley, Porsche will run vintage Apple Computer liveries on a pair of its championship-winning Porsche Penske Motorsport 963s.

The special wrap is based on the Dick Barbour Racing Porsche 935 K3, which ran in 1980, including at the 24 hours of Le Mans. Future Publishing - Getty Images A Porsche race car first carried Apple colors in that 1980 season, when the US-based Dick Barbour Racing customer team entered an appropriately liveried 935 K3. It was at that same venue – Laguna Seca - that Porsche Motorsport’s success story began in 1951 with a class victory for the 356 SL.

The fourth round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Laguna Seca Raceway will be contested over two hours and 40 minutes on May 3. In the top-tier GTP category, Porsche Penske Motorsport will field two Porsche 963 entries. The No.

6 car will be shared by France’s Kévin Estre and Belgian Laurens Vanthoor. In the sister car, No. 7, Frenchman Julien Andlauer and Brazilian Felipe Nasr will take the wheel.