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Originally Posted by URY914
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But weren't there a few years between the GT1 and the 9R9 that Porsche was absent in the top category at Le Mans? So it's hardly a new thing. By chance it looks like I saw the last of the 9R9s run around the Sarthe this year, so at least I can be happy about that.
They are still hiring motorsport engineers, and I'm quite sure there is something other than LMP or even F-E brewing in the background.
I was part of a team at the first private test day of Formula E before season 1 began. The cars were slow, batteries were not impressive, and generally no one really knew what they were doing. But those people believe in it, and just look where the championship has come and will be in the next few years (all of the German OEM's are committed, it's not a coincidence). To be frank, people who grew up through the oil crises are not really their target audience. Same way the majority of us here who cry "Porsche lost their soul" won't actually spend any money on a new Porsche (yes I know you CAN), which is really the only meaningful way for us to interact with Porsche the company. They don't have to design the new cars for people who remember the air cooled 911's or own them second hand. As long as they are making money and spending some of it on motorsport, be it 911, Cayman or whatever, I couldn't care less what they are making and selling. They could even make tractors!
Captain, don't forget Mercedes joining F-E and quitting DTM! Now THAT is a big deal!