1073-HP Porsche Mission R Previews the Electric Future of Customer Racing

The electric Mission R concept is about the size of the 718 Cayman but wider and lower, and it can hold its own with a 911 GT3 Cup car around the track.

Porsche has an extensive history in customer racing. The automaker’s motorsports arm has churned out more 4400 Cup cars over the past three decades, and Porsche Cup cars currently compete in 30 one-make series around the world. Today, at the IAA auto show in Munich, Porsche revealed the Mission R, a concept that hints at the all-electric direction of Porsche’s future customer racing vehicles.

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