You can probably write this story as well as I can, even though I was there that day and you were likely not. There are a lot of clues. 1. There’s a lot of red clay at this track; esses in the background and a hard lefthander just behind the car: got to be just past Turn 5 at Road Atlanta, early days. 2. The 904 is a later version: the …
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The Last Turn – Targa Tales
Targas have been a staple in the Porsche lineup for many years, originating in the late sixties as a flexible design with a removable hard top, a zip-out rear window, and an integrated roll bar. This four-alternative design was quickly replaced with a more practical fixed rear glass model which persisted until the advent of the 993, when the …
Continue to the full articleThe Last Turn – Beating Cubic Inches
The first major race at the then-new Road Atlanta track in 1970 found sports car fans in somewhat the same predicament that Formula 1 aficionados currently endure: the total domination of one manufacturer. McLaren cars, powered by big American V8s, had won the last 19 Can-Am races in a row. The grid at Road Atlanta listed 14 of these automotive …
Continue to the full articleThis is How Porsche Captured Those Insane Pictures of the All New 911 RSR
Have you seen the pictures of the all new mid-engine Porsche 911 RSR? Each one looks like a work of art, right? Think they were created by a computer? Think again! Sure, each shot went through lots of post processing, but each one was captured "in real life" by photographer Frank Kayser during an intensive photo shoot in Spain. Watch as Frank …
Continue to the full articleThe Last Turn – The Storm Before The Calm
There was a chance to visit an old friend—one of many, but not as familiar as some—at the original Rennsport Reunion where I made this photograph. The WSC 95 was a time-urgent project based on a carbon-fiber monocoque designed years earlier by Russ Brawn and owned by Tom Walkinshaw, extensively modified at Weissach and fitted with a turbocharged …
Continue to the full articleThe Last Turn – This Is How Those Pit Stop Action Shots Are Made
Part of the craft of putting together a package of usable images from a race is balancing the on-track action with what is going on in the pits, part cerebral, part quiet boredom, part frenzy. Some of it can be done telephoto, from across the track—I’ve got a shot that I like from the 1960s of Carroll Shelby standing on pit row, looking down …
Continue to the full articleThe Last Turn – Linge on the Gaisberg
East of Salzburg, Austria, is a mountain called the Gaisberg that is a legend in European racing. With a hillclimb racing history that goes back into the 1920s, it was the site of Porsche’s first European Hillclimb championship in 1959, when von Tripps’ RSK was the first to the top of the mountain. Mitter later won there in Porsche’s one-off …
Continue to the full articleThe Last Turn – We Wanted to See The LMP2000
The expectation of the return of Porsche to prototype racing at Le Mans in 2000 was reason enough to schedule our own return to the Sarthe, and long-term plans were made that could not easily be changed before we found that the ephemeral, unicorn-rare prototype 9R3 (also known as the LMP2000) was going to be a no-show. Not only that, Porsche would …
Continue to the full articleThe Last Turn – The Last Air Cooled Turbo
The international press launch for the 993 Turbo was in Marseilles in early 1995. We expected a win-win for Pano on this one: a full-color story on new product, a favorite topic for our readership, and a splashy cover. All at no cost to PCA, since Porsche AG picked up the bill for these events, and economy was important then. Well, we got …
Continue to the full articleThe Last Turn – It’s All Relative
Intimidation. That’s what this image is about; the monster, black and hulking, looming large over the tiny obstruction blocking its path, a scowl on its chromed face. Carnage, it implies, may ensue. Actually, it was a lot more lighthearted than all that when I put this image together 30 years ago at the 1986 Porsche Parade. I had about …
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