Porsche 935 lands in game
The 2019 Porsche 935 was just added to The Crew Motorfest video game, bringing a modern take on Porsche’s racing heritage into a mainstream driving sim. (x.com) For enthusiasts that’s a small cultural win — it keeps historic silhouettes alive for players who might never see those cars in person. (x.com)
The Porsche 935 is back in circulation in a place far more people will see it than a paddock: Ubisoft’s The Crew Motorfest added the 2019 car in its Season 9 rollout, with Year 3 Pass access starting April 1, 2026. (ubisoft.com) (enascar.com) This is not the old 935 from the 1970s dropped into a menu with a heritage badge on it. The in-game car is the 2019 Porsche 935, a modern track-only machine Porsche built as a tribute to the 935/78 “Moby Dick.” (newsroom.porsche.com) (petersen.org) The original link matters because the 935/78 was one of Porsche’s wildest endurance racers, with a long tail, flat nose, and stretched body built for top speed at tracks like Le Mans. The 2019 version copies that silhouette so closely that even people who do not know the chassis code usually recognize the shape. (petersen.org) (newsroom.porsche.com) Underneath, though, the 2019 car is basically a Porsche 911 GT2 RS turned into a single-seat race car. Porsche says it uses the GT2 RS as its technical base and pushes 515 kilowatts, or 700 horsepower, from a 3.8-liter twin-turbo flat-six engine. (newsroom.porsche.com) Porsche did not build it for a racing series with a rulebook and championship points. It built 77 examples for club racing and private track days, which made the car more like a factory-made collector’s toy with real race hardware than a normal homologated competition car. (newsroom.porsche.com) That rarity is part of why a game appearance lands with enthusiasts. A car limited to 77 units was always going to be seen by more people on a console or personal computer than in a garage, and The Crew Motorfest is on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Steam, and Ubisoft’s own store. (newsroom.porsche.com) (ubisoft.com) It also arrives inside one of the game’s biggest recent updates, not as a forgotten extra. Ubisoft’s Season 9 push added a NASCAR collaboration, a track-building tool called Trackforge, and 18 new vehicles across the season, which gives the 935 a much bigger stage than a niche retro pack would. (enascar.com) (traxion.gg) That mix is unusual in a useful way. NASCAR stock cars put one kind of American racing history in front of players, while the 935 puts a very different European endurance-racing shape beside them in the same game carousel. (enascar.com) (newsroom.porsche.com) Games have become one of the few places where obscure or expensive cars can stay culturally alive without needing a museum ticket or an auction catalog. The Petersen Automotive Museum’s own 935/19 spotlight makes the same point indirectly: even a museum car is still a static object, while a game car gets driven, repainted, crashed, and remembered. (petersen.org) (ubisoft.com) So the small news item is not really about one more car on a roster. It is about a 700-horsepower tribute car, built in 77 copies, getting a second life in a mainstream game where the audience is measured in players instead of owners. (newsroom.porsche.com) (ubisoft.com)
