International Trophy Cup: NASA Launches New Racing Series

NASA Pro Racing announced a new race series for 2011 centered around the Porsche Cayman platform.
The International Trophy Cup is the most ambitious effort yet from NASA, the "anti" SCCA, which has had such success with regional spec series racing like Spec e30.

Certainly the idea of a Cayman based series will have come from the existing Cayman Interseries brilliantly conceived by Florida's Napleton Porsche. If NASA is smart, they will make sure their spec for ITC is at least very close to that of interseries so they can have a fleet of ready made cars and competitiors.

ITC plans to offer a complete sponsorship, marketing and media exposure service package aiming to take that grind away from those willing to commit to the series.

The two per week end, fifty minute, standing start races will be broadcast on the internet, live and on demand via a partnership with RacefansTV.com end of post .

Of course, with AxisCG having a (ok, slightly bent at the moment, but hey...) CaymanS race car, there is a good chance you hear a lot more about ITC on Axis!

Check out the press release after the jump or visit trophycupracing.com

Audi Fly By

I'm sure that got Jim's attention... good thing no Hippie liveried Interseries Caymans were harmed in the making of this video!



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Caymans are for Hippies!

Remember, a few days back we had an article about the Porsche Caymans race cars with their historic liveries? Tough to choose a favorite there but we really like the psychedelic "hippie" Martini & Rossi colors seen at Le Mans in 1970.

For the Porsche Interseries they are on Jim Bacus' car and after the jump we get a chance to ride along with him at Sebring as he scraps with another "Martini" car. Big bonus: as the Interseries runs alongside the HSR series, there are some fantastic looking and sounding cars popping up during the video. Check out the Lola T70 and Ford GT40 at around the 10 minute mark or the tire shredding TransAm (or Camaro, I can never tell) a little later on... and yes, you knew that was going to happen to it.

Hats off to Jim and the other Cayman Interseries guys, looks like you are having a blast. Gentlemen, you are true Tracktards, cheers!
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The Hippie Cayman getting wrapped...is that a blow torch???

Porsche Cayman Interseries

When you were small you may have had toy versions of all the famous racing Porsches, now bigger boy have bigger toys and Florida dealer Napleton Porsche, together with Historic Sportscar Racing come up with a great hook: a spec Cayman S series featuring reproductions of classic Porsche liveries.

The cars are close to stock and Napleton Porsche will built to order cars starting in the $90000 range. You can find more information HERE.

As far as the decoration, Porsche has raced for so long and with so many teams and series that the choice is huge. Fun, thanks CG for forwarding it! Click HERE for a full gallery

UPDATE: Don't miss the "Hippie" car in live action --->HERE