Porsche Specials

Since 1951, Porsche have developed a few of the many lucrative cars inside engine racing history, largely two-seaters nevertheless surrounding Grand Prix in addition to endurance machines. During the 1950s, they were usual class winners, occasionally moreover nearing the front of the field, then they started to achieve outright victories on each continent plus have because gone on to consolidate this success. This model by model account of the development of Porsche racing cars describes each variant with a short record of successes. Many have been derived from creation cars, however, several like the 917 plus Can-Am machines were crafted within the ground up because race winners. The book furthermore looks at those that have crafted plus driven them, within the foundations laid by Professor Ferdinand Porsche inside the 1920s plus 1930s to function of designers like Dr Ernst Fuhrmann plus Ferdinand Piech, machanic Herbert Linge plus the racing prowess of motorists like Jo Siffert, Jacky Ickx plus Derek Bell.