Driver: Ian Powell
Co-driver: Eric Smith
Car: Porsche 911 Dakar “Roughroads”
Division: Targa 1
Country: USA
A Porsche built for the Dakar rally will now race the Rock
Zero Delta Racing will bring a special sports car to Targa Newfoundland this fall – a Porsche 911 Dakar.
The Porsche 911 Dakar “Roughroads” is a limited-edition, off-road-ready sports car featuring a 473-horsepower twin-turbo flat-six engine, raised suspension, and a classic rally livery. Only 2,500 units were built worldwide as a modern tribute to the 1984 Paris-Dakar Rally winner.
Zero Delta Racing TX is a real-world and sim-racing motorsports team founded by Texas-based architects and drivers Eric Smith and Ian Powell. The team competes in prominent open-road and endurance events using Porsche machinery.
This is how they describe their approach to racing and rallying:
“Speed. Precision. No margin for error — and we wouldn’t have it any other way. From the garage to the grid, we’re built on one obsession: closing the gap to zero.”
Newfoundland roads may be rough in some places but not off-road rough so this special car will have no trouble racing the Rock. We can’t wait to see it at speed this fall.
