Twenty-five years on - Porsche brings LMP 2000 racing car to life

Twenty-five years on - Porsche brings LMP 2000 racing car to life

A journey back in time to 1999 begins with a roll-out on the Weissach Development Centre test track.

The LMP 2000 was originally designed to take victory at Le Mans.

However, midway through the development, the company decided, for budgetary reasons, to discontinue the project after the car was completed.

After only 78 kilometres of testing, a car cover was draped over it and it was parked up for more than two decades.

That is until the team from Porsche Heritage and Museum brought the LMP 2000 back to life, complete with the multitude of myths that swirl around its existence.

Twenty-five years later, many who were part of the original programme met again at the car's most recent roll-out, at which Allan McNish was at the wheel, just as he was in 1999.