Porsche Penske Motorsport runs a rainbow Apple Computer throwback livery on both Porsche 963 GTP cars at Laguna Seca, marking 75 years of Porsche Motorsport and 50 years of Apple.
Key Takeaways
The livery recreates the Dick Barbour Racing Porsche 935 K3 Apple-liveried car from the 1980 Le Mans season.
Both factory 963 entries (No. 6 Estre/Vanthoor, No. 7 Andlauer/Nasr) wear the design; No. 7 crew leads IMSA GTP standings after winning Daytona and Sebring.
Laguna Seca sits ~80 miles south of Apple Park, making it a deliberate geographic brand moment.
Customer team AO Racing also runs a throwback on its 911 GT3 R “Rexy,” debuting a hand-drawn concept version called “Sketchy.”
Porsche holds the top spot in both GTP driver and manufacturers’ classifications heading into round four.
Hacker News Comment Review
Commenters treat the rainbow livery primarily as a prompt to debate Apple’s current product identity, specifically whether colorful hardware like rainbow MacBook Pros would sell.
There is mild concern from vintage computing and emulator communities that renewed commercial visibility of the old Apple rainbow logo complicates its free cultural use.
A commenter flagged the press release headline as genuinely ambiguous, reading as Porsche fighting Apple’s colors rather than wearing them.
Notable Comments
@buserror: Vintage/emulator scene had assumed old Apple rainbow colors were safe to use freely; renewed commercial trendiness may change that calculus.
