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Martini Racing is the name under which various motor racing teams race when sponsored by the Italian company Martini & Rossi, a distillery that produces Martini vermouth in Turin. Martini's sponsorship program began in 1958 as Martini International Club, founded by Count Metello Rossi di Montelera of Martini & Rossi. [ 1 ]
From the beginning of organised motor sport events, in the early 1900s, until the late 1960s, before commercial sponsorship liveries came into common use, vehicles competing in Formula One, sports car racing, touring car racing and other international auto racing competitions customarily painted their cars in standardised racing colours that indicated the nation of origin of the car or driver.
The winning Porsche 917K of Herrmann/Attwood Martini Racing 917L in blue-green "psychedelic" livery, which placed 2nd overall driven by Larrousse/Kauhsen. This year there were 96 entries for the race, to which the ACO accepted 62 for qualifying. In the end 57 arrived for scrutineering in a very even split between the Prototypes, Sports and GT cars.
As Porsche only had small capacity road and racing cars in the 1950s and 1960s, they scored many wins in their classes, and occasionally also overall victories against bigger cars, most notably winning the Targa Florio in 1956, 1959, 1960, 1964, and every year from 1966 to 1970 in prototypes that lacked horsepower relative to the competition, but which made up for that, with reliability, low ...
The race winning Porsche 917K of Helmut Marko and Gijs van Lennep 1971 Le Mans Porsche 917LH driven by Derek Bell & Jo Siffert parked outside the Hotel de France. The ACO received 80 entries for the race, which it reduced to 63 for qualifying, though only 53 cars arrived to practice. [8]
Martini Racing Porsche System Helmut Koinigg Manfred Schurti: Porsche 911 Carrera RSR Turbo Porsche 2.1L F6 Turbo: D: 87 Engine (8hr) DNF S 3.0 14 Automobiles Ligier: Guy Chasseuil Michel Leclère: Ligier JS2: Maserati 3.0L V6 M: 82 Engine (9hr) DNF GTS 3.0 68 Samson Kremer Racing: Erwin Kremer Hans Heyer Paul Keller Porsche 911 Carrera RSR ...
Gijs van Lennep in his Porsche Carrera RSR Turbo during the 1000 km of Nürburgring in 1974. Van Lennep drove for the Porsche sportscar team beginning in 1967. He shared the number 22 Martini Racing Porsche 917K with Helmut Marko, winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1971. They set a distance record, covering 5,335 km (3,315 mi), which remained ...
Racing in the World Sportscar Championship for Martini Racing against the mighty JWA Gulf team, he was clocked at over 380 km/h in the Porsche 917LH in practice for the 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans. He went on to win the 1971 12 Hours of Sebring in a Porsche 917 K, as well as several 1000km Nürburgring races.