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6 Porsche Race Cars F'ROMFAST T() T'URIOUS Six le€endary racing Porsches at Sebring BY BRIAN REDMAN .HOTOS BY JOIII{ LAIYIM 356 SL Goupe po..ibly becau.e *e're not going very and moving the seat and steering wheel BoDl'woRK oF ALU \4lN u M gar- ir.,r! The hrakes? Well- the car weaves (but nor the steering box:) to the cen- nered from scrap airplanes fabricated around somewhat but iittle more than rer ln rwo week', the work was done. by skilled craftsmen. Hand crafted in might be expecred. Acceleration? To Behra.hocked the racing world. win rhe tiny Ausrrian village of Cmiind. be kind, not exactly brisk. Still, rhe ning at Reims. wirh the mechanicals finiched in start of a dynasty from which would Whar a difference lrom 1c51. Thr Stutrgarr during thar extraordJnarily spring a great succestion ofever fa"ter, lovely silver 1959i60 RS 60, used as a difficu-lt rime foi Porsche immediatell ever more reliable, ever more <uccess model for the new Boxster by designer following World War II. Powered by i ful racing cars. Cranr Larson, sirs in lront ofrhe Se- modified 1100-cc Volkswagen engine bdng pits. I get in. The windshield has giving only 44 bhp. The front and rear 1959/60 type 718 an extra wiper-on the insidel The fuse wheels faired-in lor grearer aerody- RS 60 Spyder box sits readily to hand, right on the namic ef6ciency, great efforts made to ON MARCH 15, 1954, the 5000th dashboard. There's a vestigial roll weight wherever pos.ible, even to car left the Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen hoop-driver safety not being high on "ave the extent ofusins aluminum airboxeq oroduction line. Now. Porsche was rhe lisr oT prioriries in tho"e days. and inrake manifEId. Frenchmen Au- h.ml' esrahlished as a mrnufacturer of Everything from rhe controls ro the in- susre Veuillet and Edmond Mouche high lqualiry. high-performance auto- srrumentation is [ruga.l. pracrical. The i..,r.d rhe first victorv for an official mobiles. Bv 1959 it had alreadv won 1587-cc flat 4 engine gire. an ounrand- Porsche works entrv at the 1951 24 an oul<tandrng reputalron lor Pertorm- ing 160 bhp at 7800 rpm, running hard Hours of Le Mans by winning the ance and reliability with the 550, 550-4 and easily up to today's 7500 limit. The I100-cc class and 6ni'hing 20th orer and RSK models, including a class gearshift is quick and easy. For the fust all at an average speed of 73.545mph victory at the arduous Carrera time, Porsche has dropped the rear Looking at the Gmtlnd coupe at Se- Panamericana Mexico by Han. Herr swing a-rJe lnd now ha" regular wish bring, I dont think ir appears so an- mann, and or-rtright victories at the bone-su.pension. which, wirh the 4 in.- cienr -hard to believe that this grace- Targa Florio with Umberto Maglioli longer wheelbase, gives a coosiderable ful racer is almost 50 years old. and at Arers withJean Behra. improvement in handling. The ride over Cetting into the sear, J can almosr By 1a5a America was ferrile ground the bumpy Sebring surface is excellent. ''rouch" liistory. PJeriglass .ide win- lor Por.che. Driver' Roger Penske. Balance through the turns is good; mild going quite easy dows. 1es. al"o from scrap aircraft. Bob Holbert, Ken Miles, Don Sesslar understeer in, to pro- Oil-pressure and -temperature gauges and Joe Buzzetta in the Tlpe 718 RSK voke gentle oversteer with the throttle as wel1. I examine the narrow 5.25 x 16 and RS 60/61 models were prolific race coming out. What a lovely litde car. tires; Klaus says, "Yes, they are old." and class winners. Holbert would go At ihe Monterev historic races in the larger pro- on to win the SCCA E sports racing Augu.t, l'm io ,a.. the Collier This Gmiind coupe has "lared duction engine of 1488 cc, delivering championship with an RS 61 in both Museum RS 61. powered b1 rhe For 70 bhp. She 6tes immedialelv. Easing 1961 and 19b2. Americans Dan Cur mula 1,8-cylinder engine. It can't inro i.r gear. I rrundle carifully oif ney. CarrolJ Shelby, Ma.ten Cregory, come soon enough. down the track, feeling the action of Joe Buzzerta and Ed Hugus would race the rear suspension. Ever)'- the cars in Europe. The RSK was also 1970 917K "wing-a-{e rhing ha. lots of movement, and ir's a the basis for the single seat Formula 2 HELL HATH No fury like a Ford Iong wa1 acro:s the gate ro select car that would ultimatelv lead Porsche scorned and when Enzo Ferrari re: gears. A long brake-pedal travel. Gen to Formula 1. After wiining his class olutely refused rhe prollered hand. tly pressing a little harder on every- at Le Mans, Jean Behra persuaded the Henrv TT vowed to hit where it hurt thing reveals that rhe handling is nor Porsche factoff to convert the 2-seater and orde.ed an untimited-budget at- all thar bad; yeq, the back uill swing RSK into a siirgle-seater by modifiing tack on what is arguably the world's around but ir's quire controllable- the cockpit opening with aluminum moqt famous molor race Les Vingt- ,tx;ttsl rgrg 109 I A classic design that inspired the Buster, alumilumbodied RS 60 Spyder rvas one 0f the lirst tubeframe Porsche racing cars, unlike the unit-D0dy Gmiind 356 SL coupe that was essen- tially production{ar dedved. B an gets a pre t2 llight b efing from Klaus Bischof. And chuckles at inside-m0unted windshield y{iper. quafte Heures du Mans. r,\a. inlroduced wirh no minimum pro- the minimum number required would Predictably victorious in 1966 and duction, but r,r ith a maximum di.- be cut from 50 to 25, thus opening a 1967 with iis powerful and reliable placement of 3.0 liters. window of opp,-rrruniry completely un 7.0-l:rer CT40 Mk Il and Mk TV, Up ro this poinr. the highJy respected foreseen by this ruling body. dr:ver b1 rhe be:t d-iver. money c"uld Porsche company had produced firsr Expecting thar ir would be manufac buy. Ford could hard y hare been .ur- rate, small-engined race cars that could, rurer, like Aston Marrin, laguar, Ma nri,ed when for I9tr8 rhe Parl-be'ed with some luck, compete for overall serati, Ford, Chewoler, er al. which al- worldwide g,vrrning body ,-,1 mocor- hooors. Now, it was but a smal1 step to ready had 5.0-lirer producrion engines -porr, rhe Fcderation lnternarionJe de upgrade its 2.2-liter protoq?es to 3.0 rhrr worrld reke the initiative. rhe FIA l'Aurom,bile 1FI A1 ellecrively banned liters and be contenders for outright wa. completel] outmrneuvered -hen the mighty. machines from competi championship honor.. To add a little Por"che went into a massive der elop- tlon by lnstltutmg a maxlmum englne mu'rard ro the.auce. early in 1q68. ment program and built 25 4.5-1iter size of 5.0 liters for what they termed wirh no 5.0-lirer "oroduction car" other racinf cars. Through a slow and ''nrodrr. rion ra.c car' with a minimun, than the renerable 5.0 lirer Ford CT40 painful gestation, one ofthe greatest r'un of 50 identical m,Jel.. Ar rhe and 302-cu.-in. Chery engined Lola and most successful endurance-racing <ame lime, a ncw prorol)Pe LateSor) T70 in sight, the FIA announced that cars of all time came into being: the ATJCUST 1ee8 111 917. Unable to believe that any racing car builder could produce 25 identical cars, the FIA demanded that all the cars be shown for inspection at the same time. Thus, one cold day in April members of the FIA visited Stuttgart and were forced to accept tlat Porsche had done the seemingly impossible aod firlly met all rheir requirements. Because of the immen"e work load, there was linle time for testing and de- velopment. With crashes during test and .hort-tail open-top a08/02s, Por ing and the death of the first private sche quickJl clinched the 1969 cham owner, John Woolfe, in a fiery accident pionship-but still did not win the on the 6rst lao of the 1969 Le Mans greatest prize of all, Le Mans. In the race. the 917 quickly acquired a fear- closest flnish to date, Jaclg, Iclo<, with some reputation. a brilliant final session, partnered by One day in April, 1969, whilst Jackie Oliver driving the Cull Oil- working in the garden of my Lan- s ponsore d. John Wyer-managed, cashire, England, home, T received a CT40, gained the victori laurels by 30 call fiom Weissach to "come and test teconds from poor Hans Herrmann the new 917." Alarm bells rang. Why and G6rard Larrousse. Given the '10 me? They had would-be heroes liv- choice of a new untested 908 spyder ing within a couple ofhours ofthe fac- with a long tail, and a 917 coupe, co- torv Promisins to call back within the driver Seppi and I drove both in prac- ho,1r, I .rng .i-driuer Jo "Seppi" Sif tice and decided that our best chance fert in Switzerland. "Seppi, have you lay with the 908. tndeed, rhree hours tested the 917?" A long silence-"No, into the race we were leading-but no, Bri-on, we let ze uzzers find out alas, an hour later we were out with an what breaks first!" It turned out I had overheated gearbox.
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