Porsche Would Be In Formula 1 Right Now If Audi Had Stood In the Way Of LeMans

Porsche "would have had no other alternative" but to enter Formula 1 if its parent company had prevented it from taking on stablemate Audi at Le Mans, it has revealed.

Porsche research and development boss Wolfgang Hatz admits in this week's AUTOSPORT magazine that F1 and a return to the front of the sportscar grid in LMP1 were the only options when it was deciding how to go back to what he describes as "front-line motorsport" for the first time since the 1990s.

MorePower - 3/15/2014 7:06:45 PM

+1 Boost

F1 would have been hard for Porsche. Even with VAG's money, there are only a few teams they could partner and have a chance at being successful, even if they were only an engine supplier.