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Friday, February 23, 2007

Porsche expects their drivers to be fast outside the car too!

More from the News Desk, Porsche is getting their drivers ready for the 2007 season with a full training regime. Guess I'm too out of shape to race for Porsche.

Porsche-drivers training at Cyprus
Friday, February 23, 2007, Cyprus
Porsche Press Release

Stuttgart. Stuttgart. Preparations for the 2007 motorsport season are in
full swing. In addition to their personal sports programme the Porsche
works drivers met up for an intensive ten-day fitness training on Cyprus.
Under the direction of sports physician Prof. Dr. Frank Mayer from the
University of Potsdam, factory drivers Timo Bernhard (26), Sascha Maassen
(37), Romain Dumas (29), Ryan Briscoe (25), Emmanuel Collard (35), Patrick
Long (25), Joerg Bergmeister (31), Marc Lieb (26) and Richard Lietz (23)
focus on strength and endurance in preparation for races in international
sportscar and GT racing series. Also taking part in the Porsche Fitness
Camp were UPS-Porsche juniors Lance David Arnold (20) and Martin Ragginger
(18).

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