Every year, Icons of Porsche pulls something outrageous out of Stuttgart’s hat. But for 2025, Porsche has dialled it up to “Are you actually serious?” levels. Get ready to say hello to the Porsche 963 RSP — a road-going interpretation of Porsche’s championship-winning LMDh prototype. Yes, the same LMDh prototype that tears down the Mulsanne Straight like a caffeinated dragonfly.
Originally built for Roger Penske’s private collection, the 963 RSP is a one-off engineering flex created by Porsche AG, Porsche Penske Motorsport, and Porsche Cars North America. It debuted ahead of the 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans and immediately broke the internet.
Now, the Middle East gets the privilege of seeing it in person — 22–23 November 2025, at Icons of Porsche in Dubai. Good luck keeping the crowd 10 metres away from it.
Inspired by Count Rossi’s Road-Legal 917 — The OG ‘You Did WHAT?’ Porsche
The inspiration for the 963 RSP didn’t come from a boardroom. It came from pure, unfiltered, motorsport-obsessed madness. Back in 1975, Count Rossi — yes, Martini’s Rossi — asked Porsche to make him a road-legal 917 so he could drive it from Weissach to Paris.
His car, 917 chassis 30, got tan Hermes leather seats, suede trim, extra mirrors, indicators, and even a horn! Imagine trying to homologate that today. The car became a myth, a legend, and the blueprint for what a billionaire petrolhead can get away with. The 963 RSP channels that spirit: Martini Silver paint, bespoke leather-Alcantara cabin, and modified bodywork painted — not wrapped — despite the carbon-Kevlar panels being so thin.
Lechner Racing Turns 50 And They’re Bringing Heavy Metal
Alongside the 963 RSP, Icons of Porsche 2025 will also celebrate “50 Years of Lechner Racing,” the Austrian-born, Middle East-adopted Porsche powerhouse that has shaped the region’s motorsport scene since 1975.
Expect three icons parked proudly in the ‘Raceborn’ district:
- A Porsche 962 C in full retro red-white-blue glory — the livery that dominated endurance racing in the late ’80s and ’90s.
- A limited-edition Porsche 911 GT3 R rennsport, one of just 77 worldwide, wearing a modern reinterpretation of that legendary 962 scheme.
- A Porsche 911 GT3 Cup celebrating 17 years of Porsche Carrera Cup Middle East — a championship that has basically become the region’s motorsport backbone.
If you love flat-sixes singing at 9,000 rpm and beyond, this section will feel like a religious experience.
Icons Of Porsche 2025: Porsche Culture Comes Alive
The 2025 festival returns to Dubai Design District with all the usual ingredients: classic metal, rare prototypes, art installations, car culture from all over the world, and enough food trucks to bankrupt a fitness influencer.
More importantly, the event has evolved into one of Dubai’s signature cultural weekends — a magnet for international Porsche enthusiasts who pack the city every November. It’s colourful, it’s loud, it smells like Zuffenhausen, and it unites cultures in the most petrolhead way possible. And this year, with a road-legal LMDh monster as the star attraction, Icons of Porsche is shaping up to be the most unmissable edition yet.
