"... if we go astray with this tool, we get so far away from the track that we need to go back to the compass." It seems that Frank Gardner, gentleman-driver of Porsche, speaking with his colleague David Piper, has judged that the 917 after trying it before the 1000 km of Nurburgring in 1969.
In the history of the car came with full rights milestones such as the Ford T, the Mini, the Lancia Lambda. Respectively, the first car built on an assembly line, the first front-wheel drive with transverse engine, the first frame.
The 917 deserves a mention, since it was built with excessive power, and for many years no car outperforms the competition: a little 'how to jump Beamon Mexico'68. Developed and designed only for racing, dominated in its class for long time. In the first version adopted a 12-cylinder boxer, 4500 cc. with 520 horses. The last, the 917/30 Can-Am used to the stable Sunoco (driver Mark Donohue) had a 5400 cc. supercharged, 1100 hp lender.
A / 20 Le Mans 1971 was painted in pink, then added a series of dotted lines to symbolize the cuts of meat harvested from pork (tenderloin, shoulder, thigh, belly and so on ...): The nickname the car had suffered, of course, was "pink pig".
To give measures of this machine are just curiosities. During testing it was impossible to ground the power to: accelerating sharply le macchine andavano in testa-coda anche in rettilineo, e le gomme si staccavano dal cerchio, saltando via a brandelli perché questo girava troppo velocemente. A Le Mans raggiungevano e superavano i 380 km all’ora, e i piloti si lamentavano delle altre vetture che intralciavano: facevano solo i 250.
In Formula Uno, nel periodo con cilindrata 1,5 litri turbo, marche come Ferrari e Brabham hanno utilizzato in prova motori che superavano i mille cavalli, ma erano usati, appunto, solo in prova: in gara le potenze erano più basse, per avere una certa affidabilità e giungere al termine della corsa. La 917 è stata costruita in versione spider, chiusa, coda lunga o corta, turbo e aspirata, in un numero che does not reach the fifty units.
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