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Porsche at Le Mans
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1970
197013/14 June
If one year had to be nailed to the mast by
Porsche as representing the year in which the
company reached maturity on the racetracks of
Europe, then it must certainly be the year 1970.
Just six years...
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114
Porsche at Le Mans
115
1970
197013/14 June
If one year had to be nailed to the mast by
Porsche as representing the year in which the
company reached maturity on the racetracks of
Europe, then it must certainly be the year 1970.
Just six years previously Porsche had strutted out
the 904, its latest creation powered by a variety of
4-cylinder engines.
However, there can be little
doubt that Ferdinand Piëch had a plan in the
back of his mind even then that one day he would
develop a world beater.
Introduced in 1969, the Porsche 917 took the
world by storm, but there were several crucial
aerodynamic problems that needed sorting out
before the new race car would claim the mantle of
Porsche’s, indeed one of the world’s, most revered
u Securely tucked away in
their workshop in Teloché,
11 miles from Le Mans, are
the Porsche Salzburg 917 KH
Coupé (foreground) and the
Martini-sponsored 917 LH Coupé
(background).
(Porsche-Werkfoto)
qThe day of the battle, Porsche’s
Martini International
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