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The Team Makes the Difference EDITORIAL THE TEAM MAKES THE DIFFERENCE With Porsche’s first works entry after 16 years, it is time to look Even we could realize the importance of such a well-rehearsed, ahead, but also to review the glorious past. That’s the main aim reliable and motivated team while producing this first AU- of this special edition, which also represents the No.1-issue of TOMOBILSPORT. It was there, out of nothing, and pushed the our new magazine AUTOMOBILSPORT. This magazine pursues completion of this 160-page-magazine as a matter of course. the spiritual philosophy of powerslide magazine, a philosophy We could count on people, who carried on the philosophy of that can be greatly conveyed describing the Porsche story in a five years of powerslide in a cross generational way, using big classic race. And so, here it comes: Porsche at Le Mans. The the experience of many decades of professional motorsport- great Porsche racing manager and engineer Peter Falk descri- journalism and having one thing in common: minimum 100 bed it in an interview with Herbert Linge, Egon Alber and our- octane in their blood. selves in great detail: “Our results there were of such a great Motorsport-journalism stalwarts like the famous Karl Lud- success because of our well-rehearsed team. Inside of this vigsen ( USA ), the germans Uwe Mahla and Eckhard Schimpf team everybody could fully trust the other. We grew together and from Austria Helmut Zwickl made the given theme alive and stuck together – this made the difference.” by sharing with us their memories through their articles and Porsche visited La Sarthe with its constantly growing and in- pictures. Porsche motorsport-heroes, former engineers, me- creasingly experienced team regularly every year since 1951. chanics and drivers, like Peter Falk, Norbert Singer, Wolfgang The untold efforts of mechanics, drivers, engineers and helpers Berger, Walter Näher, Jürgen Barth, Egon Alber, Herbert Linge, (Herbert Linge: “It was seldom possible to sleep longer then an Roland Kussmaul, John Fitzpatrick and many more offered us hour somewhere in between the piles of tyres.”) were again patiently their advice and cooperation. xxx and again rewarded by successes. Every Porsche win means a We would like to say ‘Thank you’ to them for that, and hope milestone in the history of Le Mans as well. the resulting magazine that covers such a special part of mo- Porsches Le Mans account looks like this: torsport history will please you, dear reader. There is one thing 16 overall wins (1970, 1971, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, that unites us: our enthusiasm for automobilsport. xxx 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1994, 1996, 1997 and 1998), among them two overall wins (1970 and 1971) in the era of the great sports- car races, beside that a first win with a rear-engined car (the Group 5 Porsche 935 K3 turbo in 1979) and the first win in Group C with the 956 (a triple success together with two 935’s, on top of that also the IMSA GTX class, even a fivefold success in 1982). Robert Weber Jochen von Osterroth 1 VORWORT FOREWORD Dear reader, For the Porsche company, the 24 Hours of Le Mans has been — and still is — a vital inspiration. After 16 years’ absence, we now return in 2014 with a prototype in the top class of this race and also the sports car WEC. It is fascinating to experience what this move has sparked off within the company itself and how it inspires oth- ers. During the fi rst two world championship races at Silverstone and Spa, our garage was almost besieged. And this edition is a product of that enthusiasm too. Thank you for that. Being the record holder at La Sarthe with 16 overall wins does not really benefi t our return in 2014. On the technical side, there was nothing more to fall back on in respect of preparations. We started from zero and within two and a half years have created everything from scratch. We have extended the development cen- tre in Weissach by adding another building, taken on around 200 new employees, more than half of whom It is entirely in line with our sports car philosophy are engineers, and developed the most complex rac- that these very sensible innovations are not at the ing car ever built by Porsche. expense of the drivers’ fun and fi ghting spirit. Our In top-class sports car racing, a new era is dawning. passion for Le Mans is undiminished. And we know Effi ciency is the order of the day. The winner is the one that the most exciting stories are not only about suc- who, with a given amount of energy, covers the great- cess but also include setbacks. This issue tells you all est distance in the specifi ed time. The rules allow the about them. And on the race track, we will be work- engineers maximum freedom to develop a drive con- ing on tomorrow’s stories. cept for this purpose. The Porsche 919 Hybrid with its Yours sportingly two recovery systems is the most daring implemen- tation of this freedom. Our car is the only one that recovers not only during braking but also under load. And all this within entirely new dimensions: Once the 919 has driven the 24 hours, it will have recovered so much energy that you could leave a 60-watt light bulb Wolfgang Hatz burning non-stop for 404 days. We see a great poten- Member of the Board tial for a future use in road vehicles, in particular in Research and Development the exhaust energy recovery. Dr. Ing. H.c.F. Porsche AG AUTOMOBILSPORT #01 AUTOMOBILSPORT 2 ISSUE #01 3 76 8 AGAINST All ODDS Porsche’s 1951 Le Mans by Karl Ludvigsen 12 THE PORSCHE HEADQUARTER IN TEloCHÉ by Robert Weber 22 HERBERT LINGE From an apprentice to the “father“ of the development centre in Weissach by Jochen von Osterroth 26 LE MANS 1969 Missed by a meters only by Helmut Zwickl 40 PORSCHE 914/6: “BEING top OF THE LADDER“ Overall sixth place at Le Mans in 1970 42 by Michael Behrndt 42 At LAST A PORSCHE VICtoRY AT LE MANS The background story of the winning series of the 917s 130 by Eckhard Schimpf 54 CoMPENSAtoRY JUSTICE... Hans Herrmann writing Porsche-history in 1970 40 by Michael Behrndt 58 WITH StEVE MCQUEEN AT LE MANS Everything but a normal movie by Erich Glavitza 62 RICHARD ATTWOOD AND THE 917 AT LE MANS by John Elwin 64 „IF You GO ON LIKE THIS, You WIll loSE YouR FIFTH GEAR SooN…“ Dr. Helmut Marko and the Le Mans-triumph in the Porsche 917 by Helmut Zwickl 68 A tuRbo CoulD SHINE IN 1974, EVEN IN THE MIDST OF MATRA 26 58 The 911 Carrera RSR Turbo by Jochen von Osterroth 70 „I AM looKING FORWARD to SEEING PORSCHE REtuRN to THE WINNERS CIRCLE AGAIN“ by John Fitzpatrick 72 300 KM/H BY THE LIGHT OF A poCKET LAMP Jürgen Barth on his Le Mans-race 1975 with the Joest-Porsche 908/03 by Robert Weber 74 TAKING StoCK OF AN IMPRESSIVE CAREER Gijs van Lennep and Porsche in Le Mans by Michael Behrndt 76 THE 936 FROM A PORSCHE ENGINEER’s vIEwpoINT Successful in Le Mans with a triple overall win by Wolfgang Berger 94 SIX OVERAll WINS, FouR WITH PORSCHE Jacky Ickx: Monsieur Le Mans by Jochen von Osterroth AUTOMOBILSPORT 4 ISSUE #01 5 98 MoRE AERODYNAMIC AND FASTER AT LE MANS The ultimate Porsche 935/78 ‘Moby Dick’ by Michael Cotton and Norbert Singer 100 PORSCHE-WIN with a hefty Prize Surprise by Uwe Mahla 109 FouRTH OVERAll IN 1979, 8 THANKS to HERBERT MÜllER by Angelo Pallavicini 110 DAWNING OF THE AGE OF AquA 12 Porsche 924 Carrera GTR and Tony Dron by John Elwin 112 PORSCHE 956 AND 962: THE GRoup C ERA by Thomas Nehlert 122 XXX LUDWIGS LUST UND FRUST IN LE MANS Die Hassliebe des Dreifachsiegers Klaus Ludwig by Jochen von Osterroth 124 XXX HANS DAMPF IN AllEN GASSEN 72 Die lange Karriere des Hans-Joachim Stuck by Jochen von Osterroth 126 DEREK BEll: LE MANs “PARTICIPANT” 22 by Jochen von Osterroth 130 A FouR-WHEEL-DRIVE-StAR AT LE MANS The short career of the Porsche 961 at Le Mans 1986 and 1987 by Robert Weber 132 GEttING BACK to BASICS The 911 Carrera RSR 3.8 in Le Mans by Norbert Franz 134 PowERFul AND RELIAblE The Porsche 993 GT2 at Le Mans by Alexander Monkowius 136 A DoublE WITH JoEST The open TWR-Joest WSC Spyder by Michael Cotton and Norbert Singer 142 PORSCHE´S LAST BIG LE MANS-VICTORY SO FAR The GT1 says goodbye with a double victory 74 54 by Harold Schwarz 146 NINE CLASS-WINS IN 14 RACES The story of the 911 GT3 in Le Mans by Michael Behrndt 148 SHORT LIVED, but SUCCESSFUL The era of Porsche RS Spyder in Le Mans by Michael Behrndt 150 WolFGANG HATZ ON THE CURRENT PROJECT — 919 HYBRID by Robert Weber 154 LE MANS-STATISTICS by Ulrich Trispel AUTOMOBILSPORT 6 ISSUE #01 7 PORSCHE HEADQUARTER TELOCHÉ BY ROBERT WEBER · PHOTOGRAPHS: HISTORIC ArCHIVES PORSCHE AG (18) FoR DECADES A REGulAR plACE to GO THE PORSCHE HEADquARTER IN TEloCHÉ — RECollECTIONS OF PETER FALK, HERBERT LINGE AND EGON AlbER Porsche travelled with just a relatively small team to Le Mans in the fifties and sixties, but it could prove season by season that they could face bigger works outfits with their well-knit squad and well-prepared, well designed technology, even in such a car-breaking 24h race.
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