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Between 1962 and 1970, Piper raced frequently in many locations worldwide using his personally owned Ferraris and, later, Porsches. He was moderately successful and gained a reputation for reliability and consistency. [2] Piper crashed a Porsche 917 during the 1970 shooting of the film Le Mans and lost part of one leg. [3]
Porsche were able to construct 25 chassis of their new 917 prototype, with its 4.5-litre engine, to get it homologated for Group 4. [ 1 ] This year the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) brought the start-time forward to 2pm, to allow time for the largely French crowd to still be able to get to vote in the Presidential Elections on the Sunday ...
The Porsche 917 is a sports prototype race car developed by German manufacturer Porsche to exploit the regulations regarding the construction of 5-litre sports cars. Powered by a Type 912 flat-12 engine which was progressively enlarged from 4.5 to 5.0 litres, the 917 was introduced in 1969 and initially proved unwieldy on the race track but continuous development improved the handling and it ...
David Piper Autorace AAW Racing Team David Piper Gijs van Lennep: Porsche 917K Porsche 4.5L F12 G: 112 Accident (11hr) DNF S 5.0 16 Scuderia Filipinetti Scuderia Picchio Rosso Corrado Manfredini Gianpiero Moretti: Ferrari 512S Ferrari 5.0L V12 G: 111 Transmission (13hr) DNF S 5.0 4 Racing Team VDS: Teddy Pilette Gustave ‘Taf’ Gosselin Lola ...
The Montjuich Ferrari was fourth ahead of the Martini 917/20 "Pink Pig", the Matra and Marko's recovering Porsche. The Belgian and Piper Ferraris were next and the Ligier rounded out the top-10. The Léopard Corvette (17th) was in a tussle with the Ferrari Daytona (18th) for nominal GT honours.
On the surface, Volkswagen's resurrection of Bugatti looks like one of the many chess-like moves made in its bold quest to expand its portfolio of brands during the late 1990s. Bugatti opened its ...
Ronald Leigh-Hunt as David Townsend, the Gulf Porsche team crew chief Fred Haltiner as Johann Ritter, Delaney's teammate who drives the #21 Porsche 917, in which Delaney finishes 2nd in Luc Merenda as Claude Aurac, Stahler's teammate and driver of the #7 Ferrari 512 (English Debut by Frank Finlay )
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