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'73 Targa Florio 911 Reborn Racing a Mini 1275GT against the monsters GOODWOOD Established 1924 THE ORIGINAL MOTOR RACING MAGAZINE World Exclusive PORSCHE FEVER The’73 most TARGA famous, mostFLORIO valuable 911 and most REBORN important 911 & its remarkable rebirth LATEST F1 CAR SECRETS And why a Ferrari breakaway could save the sport 301mph IN 1935 Extraordinary story of the Railton Blue Bird at Bonneville NASCAR’S RACE PIONEER African American driver that shocked ’60s stock car racing MAY 2018 / ISSUE 1113 £5.50 Restoration Porsche 911 RSR Star STRIPES One of the most celebrated of all racing Porsche 911s is now just as it was at the time of its most famous victory, on the 1973 Targa Florio WRITER Andrew Frankel PORSCHE ARCHIVES PORSCHE Restoration Porsche 911 RSR Müller (left) and van Lennep (below) thread their way between picnics and assorted small Fiats. Bottom, the Dutch-Swiss alliance on the podium “Imagine a new 911 winning a round of the WEC. And no mere class win, but outright victory” magine a new Porsche be asked to return R6 to exactly as it was that formidable weapon that, for the next three 911 RSR winning a day in May, 45 years ago,” says Lee Maxted- seasons and almost without exception, it round of the World Page. “Just the research phase of the project turned the GT category of the World Sports Endurance took three months to complete. But when you Car Championship into Formula RSR. Championship today. look at the result, I think you’ll agree it was But the car was not homologated in time for I And no mere class worth it.” the season-opener at Daytona, so it raced in win, but outright Before we do, however, we should look Group 5 while Peter Gregg and Hurley victory, beating two of briefly at how it got there. The RSR was a Haywood outlasted a fairly thin field of the world’s great factory teams with purpose- result of rules for 1972 limiting Group 5 cars to prototypes. It raced as intended in Group 4 at built prototypes in the process. Would it not a 3.0-litre engine capacity. That outlawed the Vallelunga and Dijon, winning the class in be an achievement unparalleled in the history 917 prototype, while the still-eligible 908 was both, but from Monza onwards the works cars of even the world’s longest-living sports car? too long of tooth and short of power to keep raced as prototypes, not just to keep the Actually, no. Back in 1973, the original RSR up with Italian and French opposition now customers happy but also to test did exactly that – and not once in a season, but putting Formula 1 engines in their sports cars. unhomologated experimental parts. twice. The first occasion was the Daytona 24 Besides, new Porsche boss Dr Ernst Fuhrmann R6’s WSC career as a factory car was brief. It Hours, on the model’s debut at the start of the was enthusiastic about racing cars that could was the car that won at Vallelunga in March 1973 season; but in May another RSR won not be sold. Which is how the RSR and the road but, with its usual driver line-up of Gijs van only the Targa Florio – the most durable of all car needed to homologate it, the 2.7 Carrera Lennep and Herbie Müller, it failed to finish the great road races – but the last Targa Florio RS, came into being. at Monza. But, as we know, it then triumphed ever to be accorded world championship I could take up the rest of this space on the Targa. At Le Mans (driven by Haldi and status. And it did so against the best that detailing all the changes required to create the Joest) it officially retired with a fuel system Ferrari and Alfa could throw at it. That alone RSR and plenty more on all the other failure, a somewhat euphemistic expression must surely make it a candidate for the most modifications that were relentlessly applied for simply running out of gas. At Zeltweg it important 911 of all time. during the 1973 season, but essentially it was again first home behind the purpose-built started life with a 2.8-litre engine, soon racers, after which it was lent to Roger Penske THAT CAR IS THIS CAR, CHASSIS 0588, swapped to a 3.0 when its magnesium for the season finale at Watkins Glen. The known in the RSR world as R6. And for the crankcase was changed for a Silumin power couple of Mark Donohue and George first time since that win in May 1973, it has (aluminium alloy) unit that was stronger and Follmer maintained its record of absolutely been returned to its original Targa Florio could therefore tolerate thinner walls between best-of-the-rest behind the real prototypes. specification after a year-long and quite the cylinders. With twin plug heads, big valves And that was that. It was sold, raced in Mexico extraordinarily painstaking restoration by and a 10.5:1 compression ratio it produced until 1975 and then stored until returned to Le Porsche restorer, authority and dealer about 315bhp. Widened track, race suspension Mans configuration in 1991. It was exhibited as Maxted-Page. “It was an incredible honour to and brakes from the 917 made it such a such until the end of 2016, when its current LAT ARCHIVES, PORSCHE 60 May 2018 Restoration Porsche 911 RSR Maxted-Page’s task was eased by access to original Porsche drawings and set-up sheets. Pinstripes demanded accuracy... Much of R6 turned out to be original when it was stripped back to the bare metal. The mission was to restore it exactly to its 1973 Targa Florio trim Restoration Porsche 911 RSR Gijs van Lennep was not just the man lap quicker than us in qualifying.” His who, with the late Herbie Müller, memory is good, the Ferrari 312PB of drove R6 to victory in the last proper Arturo Merzario claiming pole some Targa Florio, he was also instrumental 3min 13sec quicker than R6’s best in developing the RSR from scratch. time. “Müller was a very good driver, Now 76, he recalls the car and his time really under-rated today, and quicker in it with undisguised affection. than me over one lap, though I was “We worked so hard with that car more consistent and probably faster at Paul Ricard to get it right. Eat, over a race distance. But we were drink, sleep and drive, that’s all we both very precise which is essential did. To test a new part I’d do three on the Targa Florio, where all you laps, then they’d take it off, I’d do need to do is hit the kerb for your three more laps, compare the times, race to be over. And the Ferrari and put the part back on, three more laps Alfa drivers made mistakes that put and if the car was still quicker, we’d them out of the race. One of the move onto the next one. It was not Ferraris didn’t even make the start.” just the quickest way to develop a car, Indeed. With just four of the 11 laps it was the best. of the race completed, R6 was out on “The great thing about its own. “We were young and the RSR is that to get the strong but it was quite tiring. most out of it you had Each 72km lap had to push like hell all something like 700 turns the time. At Le Mans and we drove in three- (in R7) Müller and I lap stints without any went flat out for 24 drinks bottle in the car. Hours, never let up It gets quite hot in a for a moment. We closed racing car in Sicily came fourth behind in May. Müller did the Last of the Targa Florios Gijs van Lennep on the pride he feels at beating the sports-prototypes in ’73 two Matras and one Ferrari prototype first and third stints, I did the second so I guess it was worth it. It’s the most and fourth, the last being two laps. I tired I’ve ever been in my life.” This don’t remember anyone telling us to from a man who two years earlier ease off once we were leading, but I won Le Mans outright in a 5-litre expect we probably didn’t go quite as Porsche 917… fast as we could have done, especially Van Lennep puts his speed behind as the other RSR (driven by Leo the wheel of the RSR down to some Kinnunen and Claude Haldi) was not very early training. “When I was 15 I in a position to challenge us.” R6 at rest in the owner commissioned Maxted-Page to ‘Mary Stuart’ rear wing, so called because it learned how to slide a car until it was And the car? “It was perfect from Österreichring turn it back to its Targa-winning had a passing resemblance to the extended on full opposite lock without start to finish. Nothing went wrong pits, complete with specification. neck collars favoured by the Queen of Scots. spinning, and then I learned how to with it at all. And when the tyres got 917 rear wheels This extension either side of the familiar correct it without it snapping the hot, using the traction coming out of and wider arches THE GOOD NEWS FOR MAXTED-PAGE ‘burzel’ ducktail spoiler was trialled by Singer other way, which was the really the tight corners, it was amazing.” permitted when difficult thing with those cars.
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