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Vic Elford, Nürburgring 1971, Porsche 908 Hippe-Car 917LH as entered in 1970 Le Mans Winner of 1971 Sebring . Martini's first sponsorship program happened at the Daytona 3 hours in 1962 with two Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ Coda Troncas, but they had no Martini stickers or logos on them, only "Martini & Rossi Racing Team" written along the front quarter panels.
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 ...
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 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]
The Solar Productions Porsche 908 during the race. Bulky camera housings are visible at front and rear. The Porsche 908/2, which McQueen had previously co-driven to a second place in the 12 Hours of Sebring, was entered in the race by McQueen's Solar Productions, complete with heavy movie cameras capturing actual racing
This year, Porsche built 13 of the 935 for general sale, at £35,000 each. [21] [22] So the Group 5 entry list was the sole preserve of Porsche. For Le Mans, the Martini-Porsche works team entered their Championship car, the 935/77 iteration. Engineer Norbert Singer had tweaked the aerodynamics and trimmed more weight. The single turbo was ...
Martini Racing Porsche System Gijs van Lennep Herbert Müller: Porsche 911 Carrera RSR Turbo Porsche 2.1L F6 Turbo: D: 332 3 S 3.0 9 Équipe Gitanes: Jean-Pierre Jabouille François Migault: Matra-Simca MS670C: Matra 3.0L V12 G: 322 4 S 3.0 11 Gulf Research Racing: Derek Bell Mike Hailwood: Gulf GR7 Cosworth DFV 3.0L V8 F: 318 5: GTS 5.0: 71 ...