I was fortunate enough to attend Porsche Rennsport Reunion at Laguna Seca Raceway back in 2018. It's a huge gathering where every conceivable model of Porsche is brought to a track and displayed and raced. One of my favorite parts of the event is that nothing is roped off and people can go right up to the cars and examine them or take pictures.
As I walked by the paddock I saw a few members of Porsche's factory racing team servicing a first generation 991 RSR. At the time I took this picture the car had been recently retired as Posrche was transitioning to a new mid-engined 991 RSR platform. This particular car was about to take to the track to do some demonstration laps so I stuck around for a little while to watch the entire prep process. One of the final steps was to top off the oil. I expected to see some sort of ultra-low TBN race oil or something in an unmarked or Porsche OEM branded bottle but they were using an ordinary bottle of Mobil 1 0w-40 FS on a factory RSR. I did a double take and tried to take a few pictures of the bottle itself.
Afterwards the car took to the track with another RSR and did some very uncharacteristic burnouts. They followed that up with some hot laps that looked absolutely insane in contrast to the street legal cars that had preceded them on track. You never truly realize how much faster an actual racecar is until you see them on the same track one after another.
As I walked by the paddock I saw a few members of Porsche's factory racing team servicing a first generation 991 RSR. At the time I took this picture the car had been recently retired as Posrche was transitioning to a new mid-engined 991 RSR platform. This particular car was about to take to the track to do some demonstration laps so I stuck around for a little while to watch the entire prep process. One of the final steps was to top off the oil. I expected to see some sort of ultra-low TBN race oil or something in an unmarked or Porsche OEM branded bottle but they were using an ordinary bottle of Mobil 1 0w-40 FS on a factory RSR. I did a double take and tried to take a few pictures of the bottle itself.
Afterwards the car took to the track with another RSR and did some very uncharacteristic burnouts. They followed that up with some hot laps that looked absolutely insane in contrast to the street legal cars that had preceded them on track. You never truly realize how much faster an actual racecar is until you see them on the same track one after another.