Photo credit: Maxted-Page Simple, swooping, and covered in the logos of prominent tobacco companies, this gorgeous 956B is a picture of 1980s motorsport. The 956B represented the first major step of modifications in a decade-long career. The one-piece underbody, revised suspension improved grip and handling, and the Bosch Motronic management …
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High Speeds and Relentless Power: Onboard With Derek Bell in the 956
The Porsche 956 has always been revered for its robustness, speed, and innovation, but it isn't always mentioned how reassuring and almost sweet it was to its drivers. In these clips taken from the 1983 WSC season, Derek Bell demonstrates just why one could not only live with, but excel in this car for hours-long stints. During the the 1000km of …
Continue to the full articleDerek Bell At Lime Rock in a Jagermeister 962. What More Could You Want?
Bill Howe's Porsche 962 brings a smile to his face every time he turns its production-series key. Over his twenty years of ownership he's had to constantly pinch himself; getting to drive this 700-horsepower beauty is a privilege which he's not completely comfortable with. "We have no business being in these things; none of us are as good as we …
Continue to the full articleTake a Trip to 1982 With this Derek Bell Documentary
Few racing drivers of Derek Bell's stature and success have been so unanimously liked. Typically, the top dogs have a deep-seated ruthlessness which leaves them divisive in the public eye, but not Bell. In this documentary on his efforts at the 1982 24 Hours of Le Mans, Bell and his peers explain why this affable Brit hasn't shied from the …
Continue to the full articleThis Is What It’s Like To Drive A Le Mans Prototype In Los Angeles Traffic
"You don't lock the doors when you're driving, you don't even really close them all the way," is not something I've ever heard in a review before, but such is life in a Koenig C62. Not much about this car is like anything you've seen on a normal road car before. Unlike Groups 5 and 6 which were replaced quite rapidly by Group C in the early 1980s, …
Continue to the full articleAn Australian Racing Ace Reunites with a Special Porsche 962
Though not well known to American racing fans, Tomas Mezera is a celebrated name in Australian motorsports who's raced most major styles of car over his long and storied career. After starting in Formula Fords, he quickly moved into touring cars, V8 Supercars, and even took a stab at sportscars/prototypes. Perhaps the two greatest accolades in his …
Continue to the full articleEnjoy: Canepa Puts Coke-Liveried IMSA 962 up for Sale
Devotees of IMSA GTP: get your checkbooks open. Bruce Canepa has recently announced the sale of a classic 962—one which helped pave the way for the model in mid-eighties American road racing. As the second 962 sold to privateers, 962-102 brings plenty of history along with it. Formerly raced by Bob Akin and Hans Stuck Jr., in their hands this …
Continue to the full articleJay Leno Drives A Unique Schuppan 962CR For The First Time
"It's a 962 that you can put a license plate on," says owner Matthew Ivanhoe of his Schuppan, which was ostensibly created as a homologation special for a Le Mans effort that never transpired. We saw this car at Luftgekühlt 5 earlier this year, and the car certainly gathered a crowd. The car, at that time and as I recall it, had an odometer reading …
Continue to the full articleChris Harris Meets Norbert Singer and Tests a Le Mans-Winning 962
Decked out in the iconic Rothman's livery, possessing 650 horsepower, and capable of 240 miles an hour, this gleaming Porsche 962 should give Chris Harris plenty of reason to grin. However, between sampling this Le Mans winner and talking to the man who helped create it, it's not certain which Harris enjoys more. The affable, unassuming man sitting …
Continue to the full articlePorsche 962 Wastegate Nirvana at Laguna Seca
Skylar Robinson, son of famous American racer Chip Robinson, puts on a show in a raucous Porsche 962 making a peculiar series of noises. The 2.8-liter, twin-turbo six in the middle of his IMSA GTP racer squeaks and roars, and when the full 750 horsepower arrives in one big lump, it fires the car down Laguna Seca's straighter sections at a …
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