Here's The Porsche 919 Tribute Casually Cruising The Streets Of New York

Before conquering Spa-Francorchamps, Porsche's evolved 919 went for a more gentle drive in New York City

03 May 2018

The ‘Tribute’ tour of Porsche’s now semi-retired 919 doesn’t only involve smashing circuit records. Just before its outing at Spa-Francorchamps - which saw the car snatch the outright record away from Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes F1 car - Porsche sent the car around the streets of New York City for a more gentle run.

The run looks to have been done using a car without the ‘evo’ modifications used to conquer Spa - it doesn’t have the reshaped front end, lower and wider side skirts nor the larger rear wing - but it still looks pretty badass rolling around the Big Apple.

As well as the video above, Porsche has released a big gallery of photos for us to enjoy. Here are the highlights:

Here's The Porsche 919 Tribute Casually Cruising The Streets Of New York

The 919 Tribute’s next stop? That’d be the Nurburgring. Oh yes…

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

So mad I missed it :(

would like to hear the sound of the panamera and the 919 rather than the music though

It’s not the evo :x

So it’s basically this all over again, but they aren’t advertising anything

🎶Making my way downtown 🎶

Driving fast

“The run looks to have been done using a car without the ‘evo’ modifications used to conquer Spa - it doesn’t have the reshaped front end, lower and wider side skirts nor the larger rear wing…”

So it’s just a regular 2017 919. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.