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Thirty years ago, in 1989, Rennteam helped Fast Lane magazine to organise a group track test at Donington...
...with an impressive selection of cars, including the Ferrari F40 owned by Nick Mason of Pink Floyd...
...I still have the original audio tape recording of the definitive Ferrari F40 track test...
...driven by Rennteam moderator Mark Hales...
Mar 24, 2019 9:18:40 PM
Rennteam drag race of the week: Honda NSX vs BMW M5 Competition vs Mercedes AMG E63 S
Can the hybrid Honda NSX supercar show the BMW M5 Competition and Mercedes-AMG E63 S supersaloons the way forward?
...thanks to Rory Reid and Top Gear!
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Rennteam's roving reporter Richard Hammond was invited to drive a Porsche 911 GT3 R racer...
Video Link 1: https://youtu.be/rR9emkf3Fmg
Video Link 2: https://youtu.be/202vKBwWR8s
...thanks to Richard Hammond!
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50 years of Porsche 917 celebrated at Goodwood
(5 April 2019)
Four world premieres at 77th Goodwood Members Meeting in Great Britain: For the first time, Porsche presents four driving examples of the 917 around the challenging Goodwood Motor Circuit – including the first 917, chassis 001 which has been restored just in time for this year’s jubilee. Furthermore, the 917 (30-001) celebrates its debut after its restoration in Sussex. The 917-001 and the 917 (30-001) meet for the first time at a driving event.
Joining the first ever built 917 and the 917 (30-001) will be the 917 KH and the 917/30 Spyder. One of the most iconic is the 917 KH short-tail car, chassis 15 in Gulf Oil livery. After having won the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 917 short tail did it again the following year; carrying Martini Racing colours and the number ’22’ and with Gijs van Lennep and Helmut Marko sharing the driving it averaged 222 km/h and covered a distance of 5,335 kilometres – a record which stood for 39 years.
The mighty ‘Sunoco’ 917/30 Spyder is a regular visitor to Goodwood. Developing in the region of 1,200hp from its 5.3-litre V12, the 917/30 Spyder weighs just 850kg – allowing it to reach a top speed of 375 km/h. With the engine suitably optimised, Mark Donohue set a closed-course speed record at Talladega Speedway in the sister car, to average 355.848km/h.
Finally, the newest of the 917s at Goodwood is the 917/30 Spyder carrying the distinctive livery of 1975 sponsor, the central heating manufacturer Vaillant. Carrying a wheelbase extended by 184mm over the conventional 917, the car was built in 1972. The following year the car won on its debut, with Vic Elford driving, in the Interserie race in Hockenheim.
Driving the cars at Goodwood will be Le Mans winners Richard Attwood and Neel Jani along with former F1 and LMP1 racer Mark Webber. Other drivers will include Top Gear’s Chris Harris in the 917K, and motoring journalists Richard Meaden and Andrew Frankel.
Special exhibition “50 Years of Porsche 917 – Colours of Speed” at Porsche Museum
Following Goodwood, the cars will leave the UK to re-join the Porsche Museum collection in Stuttgart. From 14 May to 15 September 2019, the Porsche Museum will honour the 50th anniversary of the 917 with an extensive special exhibition entitled “50 Years of Porsche 917 – Colours of Speed”.
The Grand Tour: Porsche 917 vs Porsche 911 GT2 RS...
Video Link: https://youtu.be/WRYtDSooPlU
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I was fortunate to have known Mark Donahue, and was at Talladega when he set the indoor closed circuit record shown in the video here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0oTYYWxbfA.
Apr 7, 2019 7:21:37 PM
Wonderbar:I was fortunate to have known Mark Donahue, and was at Talladega when he set the indoor closed circuit record shown in the video here.
Thanks Wonderbar!
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Rennteam Cars and Coffee: "50 years young: When Porsche met Concorde"
Fifty years since they moved under their own power for the first time, two machines developed in the same era of ambitious, ground-breaking engineering have met as they celebrate a special anniversary: the Concorde 002 and the Porsche 917-001.
On April 9th, 1969 – precisely 50 years ago – the first British made Concorde began its maiden flight from Filton Airfield, Bristol, England. The airframe was a prototype that would go on to complete 438 flights, created to test an aircraft that would set new speed records at the time, peaking at 2,179km/h, and for which new materials and technologies had to be invented in order to make the ambitions of an Anglo-French group of engineers a reality.
In the same month, the 917 was homologated as a Group 4 sports car. Created by a small team of bold, inventive engineers, the 917 took an enormous leap in its highly innovative aerodynamics, its compact yet enormously powerful 12-cylinder powertrain and adoption of materials previously exclusively the realm of aircraft to set a new benchmark.
The first stop for the Porsche 917 was the Royal Navy Fleet Arm Museum at Yeovilton on the south coast of England, where the Concorde that made that first flight is now on display among an array of historic aircraft.
Meeting of two legends
In marking the special anniversary, two people whose job it was to be at the controls met for the first time – guiding each other around their respective machines.
Richard Attwood won Le Mans at the wheel of a Porsche 917 in 1970 and knows the car better than almost any other driver. His contemporary, piloting the fastest passenger aircraft ever created, was Captain Tim Orchard who is joint World Record holder for the shortest time for the flight between New York and London – a distance covered in just two hours and 52 minutes.
Richard Attwood and Tim Orchard about 917 and Concorde
Captain Tim Orchard commented: ‘It was fascinating to be shown the 917, which was very much a car of Concorde’s era and I think developed with the same devotion and focus. The brutality of the car - its simplicity - are striking, and from I hear it was quite a formidable machine to drive. At the same time, it was a pleasure to show Richard around an aircraft which I was fortunate to fly for nine years. Concorde was unlike anything I’d flown before or since. Part jet fighter, part refined transatlantic cruiser. Its enormous reserves of power and its sheer competence were extraordinary. The Porsche and Concorde are kindred spirits, both created with enormous care by a small team of passionate people – yet capable of performance that was unheard of before they arrived.’
Richard Attwood commented: ‘Like a lot of people I’m a big fan of Concorde and always wish I could have flown on her – I’ve missed my chance! The 917 and Concorde seem so pure and simple from the outside, but both mask an array of engineering ingenuity that is still extremely impressive by today’s standards. I would like to thank Tim for his time and patience in showing me around – I so enjoyed reminiscing about what it was like in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s and our belief that we could achieve just about anything if we put our minds to it.’
The Porsche 917 in Great Britain
Fittingly, the first Porsche 917 completed its tour of the UK as it was pictured next to the very last Concorde to be built and the last example to be flown. Concorde ‘Alpha-Foxtrot landed for the final time after 6,045 flights at its new home, Aerospace Bristol at Filton, where the British-built Concordes began their journey 50 years ago, marking the end of an era.
The Porsche 917, which was driven for the first time in public weekend after a thorough and detailed restoration at the Goodwood Members’ Meeting, leaves the UK to join the Porsche Museum collection in Stuttgart. From 14 May to 15 September 2019, the Porsche Museum will honour the 50th anniversary of the 917 with an extensive special exhibition entitled “Colours of Speed – 50 Years of the 917”. A total of 14 exhibits – including 10 917 models which alone have a combined PS output of 7,795 – will be on display. The Porsche Museum will present a 917 concept study to the public for the first time as homage to the first Le Mans victory of 1970. The red-and-white show car was designed by a small team of designers and engineers, though with the entry of Porsche into the LMP1 category of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), this model remained as purely a concept study.
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According to Autocar, this could be a future Porsche model...
Link: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/porsche-plots-two-door-panamera-bmw-8-series-rival