The Porsche thread.

[diegom6]

^^ Badass!:devil:

[LateFan]

From Excellence magazine...

1969 was a landmark year in which Porsche’s Ferdinand Piëch—at great expense and risk to the company—jumped into the metaphoric deep end of the pool and debuted the advanced 917 race car. It would also be the year Porsche would offer its lightest and what many consider its most potent production 911 to that point: the “B”-series 911S, which many enthusiasts today consider a taste of perfection. This now iconic model combined the first-generation 911’s brilliant 2.0-liter flat-six air-cooled engine with a new extended wheelbase chassis and a wonderfully responsive mechanical fuel injection system.

Lewis, an avid Porsche collector and vintage racer from Newport Beach, California, is convinced that the 1969 911S is “the most important stepping stone” from the first (1964-1965) 911 to the famed 2.7 Carrera RS of 1973 and the brilliant series of sports cars that followed.

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"Hans-Joachim Stuck, Walter Röhrl, Eberhard Mahle, Rudi Lins, Bernd Ostmann, and Herbert Linge at the Rossfeld Race 2016"

[LateFan]

A small auto shop a few miles from the circuit has been the home of the Porsche team in Le Mans for more than thirty years. It is here, in the village of Teloché, where preparations are made to win the famous endurance race.

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[JRKOUPE]

greaaaaaat pics

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I noticed that's Norbert Singer on the far right in black - he engineered most of those cars. I think he was a junior engineer on the 917, then climbed fast 'cuz he's a wizard.

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I thought there was supposed to be some 911 inside this thing, like roughly based on part of the chassis..? Where exactly do you see any 911?

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[Kershaw]

The front looks a lot like a Carerra, just flattened and widened. And it has the engine in the back.

[LateFan]

Didn't they change it to mid-engine, but based on a chunk of the 911 tub? I thought it was an aggressive evolution of the 935 / 936....? I could have that wrong.

[flyboyx]

headlights?

[2mAn]

Didn't they change it to mid-engine, but based on a chunk of the 911 tub? I thought it was an aggressive evolution of the 935 / 936....? I could have that wrong.

They finally put the engine in the right place :razz:

headlights?

They look 996 lights, though Im sure theres some variation from the OEM ones

[LateFan]

They finally put the engine in the right place :razz:

Right!

OK, I went and looked it up....They did a Smokey Yunick style reading of the rules -

"Porsche expressed interest in returning to top level sportscar racing and went about developing its competitor for the GT1 category. Cars in this category were previously heavily modified versions of road cars, usually supercars such as the McLaren F1 and Ferrari F40, but when the 911 GT1 was uneveiled in 1996 Porsche had exploited the rule book to the full and stunned the sportscar fraternity. Rather than develop a race version of one of their road going models, what they created was effectively a purpose built sports-prototype, but in order to comply with regulations a street legal version was created, 911 GT1 Straßenversion - literally a road-going racing car."

"In spite of its 911 moniker the car actually had very little in common with the 911 of the time, however its frontal chassis was shared with the then (993) 911, while the rear of the car was derived from the Porsche 962, including its water-cooled, twin-turbocharged and intercooled, four valve per cylinder flat-six engine which was arranged in a mid-mounted position, compared to the rear-engined layout of a conventional 911. The engine was making about 600 PS (441 kW; 592 hp)."

"The new vehicle was an outright success at Le Mans, winning the GT1 class at its debut race, although it lost the overall victory to Joest Racing's Porsche WSC-95 prototype, a vehicle with a Porsche powerplant."

So..this was the first 911 GT1, in 1996. It did have some 911 structure in it, and resembled one in the front and windshield....


"The '96 GT1 was clocked at a top speed of exactly 330 km/h (205 mph) on the legendary Mulsanne Straight in the practice sessions of the 1996 Le Mans 24 Hours Race (presumably on a low downforce setup)."

Then they modified it into the Evo version with headlights that previewed the 996 nose.

Another updated Evo version was called the GT1-98, which now resembled a full prototype more than anything. That's the first one I posted. They built only one street version of that car, but somehow got away with that to satisfy the rules.

They won the 1998 Le Mans due to reliability when everyone else broke.



So that sounds like what Ford is doing with the GT40 - it's a prototype, but they're selling a street version after the fact so they can enter it in GT class.

[benflagg]

stupid Porsche bubble......crushing my hopes and changes