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 …
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The 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 – The Hail Mary
Porsche enjoyed an outstanding year in 2007 with its bright yellow RS Spyders; coming into this final race, Petit Le Mans, the little Spyders were punching well above their weight. Not only did they already have the LMP2 championship sewed up, they had beaten the larger and faster LMP1 Audi R10s time and again, with the big cars unable to nab an …
Continue to the full articleThe Last Turn – Plastic Porsches
The thin window of time between 1964 and 1971 provided a fantastic view of Porsche’s transition from sports racers with insufficient displacement to be consistently deadly, to the vicious, bloody-of-tooth-and-claw 917. The era of the fiberglass “plastic Porsches” began at Sebring in 1964, when one of the new 904 racers forced itself into the top …
Continue to the full articleThe Last Turn – Could Have Been A Contender
During the Panorama years, one of my recurring jobs was to produce covers for the magazine, sometimes on very short notice. We got many excellent images from generous contributors, amateur and professional, but had to pass on a lot of these because of appropriateness or formatting; many really good shots simply couldn’t be adapted from the …
Continue to the full articleThe Last Turn – Vic Elford, 28-Years Later
At the first Rennsport Reunion, I was given the assignment to “judge” the 917 class in the concours alongside Vic Elford. I use the quotes quite intentionally, as my qualifications were pretty thin compared to Vic’s, and we had no specific instructions as to what was expected of us, other than to not take it too seriously. With that in mind, we …
Continue to the full articleThe Last Turn- Panamera’s Past
The new Panamera has been very much in the news lately, and the automotive media story line seems to typically be of the “ugly duckling to beautiful swan” sort. While I might not go that far, I will say that the original Panamera didn’t make it to my most beautiful Porsches list. Perhaps the worst angle for that car was the three-quarter rear, with …
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