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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 ]
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.
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 ...
Martini Racing Porsche System: Jacky Ickx Gijs van Lennep: Porsche 936: Porsche 2.1L F6 turbo: G: 349 2 Gp.6 3.0 10 Grand Touring Cars Inc. Jean-Louis Lafosse François Migault: Mirage M8 Cosworth DFV 3.0L V8 G: 338 3 Gp.6 3.0 12 A. de Cadenet (private entrant) Alain de Cadenet Chris Craft: De Cadenet-Lola T380 LM76 Cosworth DFV 3.0L V8 G: 337 ...
Formula One sponsorship liveries have been used since the 1968 season. Before the arrival of sponsorship liveries in 1968 the nationality of the team determined the colour of a car entered by the team, e.g. cars entered by Italian teams were rosso corsa red, cars entered by French teams were bleu de France blue, and cars entered by British teams (with several exceptions, such as cars entered ...
Martini, Histoire des automobiles de courses Martini, Tome 2 1974-1985, Gérard Gamand, Editions Autodiva, ISBN 978-2-9546893-6-4 A-Z of Formula Racing Cars, David Hodges, Bay View Books, ISBN 1-870979-16-8
[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 replaced by two smaller KKK-turbos that reduced the throttle-lag and lifted the ...