Say hello to Valentina, Falken Tires new GTLM Porsche.

"Fred (FreddsterExprs)" (freddsterexprs) 02/22/2014 at 08:36 • Filed to: TUSC, GT, LM, Porsche, 991, 911, GTE, Falken, Tire

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Why Valentina? Because the 991 was delivered on Valentines Day to the Falken team. This particular 991 GTE is the first customer car, before that only the 2 works teams Manthey (for WEC) and Core/Porsche Sport America (TUSC) were in possession of the brand new and blisteringly quick car. Pics are taken from Falken's twitter page, they are currently testing at Sebring.

I think they only sold one other 911 to Proton Competition, and they will race it in the World Championship.

To be fair, I can understand why the sales number is that low: the car starts at 800.000€, so at about one million dollars. For that kind of money you could buy about 2 P2 cars and fight for overall wins in TUSC, and the very capable 458 GTE costs 600k €.

Anyways, I am glad Falken invested the money, and maybe they will make the 911 look right. Both the WEC and TUSC cars look so bland and boring livery wise. The Daytona livery are the worst. Oh, and please race at Le Mans 2015.