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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 ...
Porsche pulled the wraps off of Project Gold, a resto-modded 993-generation 911 sports car to much fanfare last week. The 993-generation 911 is special to Porsche aficionados: it was the final air ...
The Porsche Vision 918 RS is a supercar concept, designed and built by Porsche in 2019, to preview what essentially could be the next generation of a trackday, street-legal Porsche 918 if it were still in production. Some of the design elements, none of which bear resemblance to the original Porsche 918, include sharp and soft creases and large ...
Porsche of Austria: Porsche 908/02: six hours 1,077.134 km (669.300 mi) Watkins Glen Six Hours World Sportscar Championship 1970: Pedro Rodríguez Leo Kinnunen: J.W. Automotive Engineering: Porsche 917K: six hours 1,140.059 km (708.400 mi) 6 Hours of the Glen World Sportscar Championship 1971 Andrea de Adamich Ronnie Peterson: Autodelta SpA ...
Porsche isn't the first sports car company to venture into the segment, Italian design house Bertone built a Lamborghini Countach-powered people mover in 1988, but it's undeniably an unusual move ...
The Porsche 917K's problems allowed all three works Ferraris to lead the field into the night. And running in 5th place was a Solar Productions/Gulf sponsored #48 Porsche 908/02 of movie star and racer Steve McQueen (whose leg was in a cast) and Peter Revson , who was battling with the #33 works Alfa Romeo T33/3 of Toine Hezemans / Masten Gregory .
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At the end it was the red and white #23 917K of Porsche Salzburg, with the standard 4.5-litre engine, carefully driven by Stuttgart's own Hans Herrmann and Englishman Richard Attwood through the pouring rain, that finally scored the first overall win at Le Mans, in a wet race that saw only 7 ranked finishers.